@matigo Yes, but I am still in a cubicle for a yet-to-be-determined amount of time and have a typical southern California Friday afternoon commute ahead of me. <sigh>
The Facebook app on my phone has gotten very crashy lately. I'm choosing to consider this a feature.
@thrrgilag That 2025 quake was nothing compared to the one in 2047. That one shifted the time travel lab we had at UCSB back 30 years. Don't ask me how I know. ?
/@matigo
@hazardwarning It's worth mentioning that most of southern California was a potential target, with missile facilities, naval ports, aircraft manufacturing plants, strategic airfields, and so forth. Pretty much everything from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County to the Mexican border would have been glowing radioactively in the aftermath of a nuclear exchange.
// @jmreekes @peemee @nitinkhanna @kdfrawg
@nitinkhanna Yes, I remember having duck-and-cover exercises in kindergarten, when I lived within the Los Angeles school district boundaries.
// @hazardwarning @jmreekes @peemee @kdfrawg
@hazardwarning Those of us who remember the not-so-cold parts of the Cold War also have a different perspective. In my case, I grew up within the potential blast radius of a missile launch facility.
// @jmreekes @peemee @nitinkhanna @kdfrawg
@hazardwarning It's even worse here. There are vast stretches of America where the rest of the world may as well not exist, since it's so distant. When you've lived your whole life never having seen another country, xenophobia finds its way in.
// @jmreekes @peemee @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg Seems to be the only reasonable course of action.
// @hazardwarning @jmreekes @peemee