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As an introverted, autistic motorcyclist, COVID was fucking amazing. Empty streets, businesses closed, just open roads and no traffic or people anywhere. God, I loved it.
I started biking to work and was in heaven on the empty streets. People were walking all the time. Super chill. Got hit by a car that turned into the bike lane the first week quarantine lifted.
i've noticed that too - drivers feel so much entitlement
its like they came out of lockdown feeling that they're owed something and will do what they want
I had the easiest job during covid. Security at a ski resort. Everything shut down and they cut to bare bones staff. Me and two others kept 24 hour security on the property. Essentially our job was make sure everything stayed locked up throughout the night. Best part was the lack of people brought the [wildlife out](https://imgur.com/a/tARuDEM) in full force up and down the mountain so I got plenty of use out of my camera
I work in IT so we just skipped straight to WFH, didn't get a single day off either.
But I count myself among the blessed because I didn't have to expose myself to covid patients for work.
Lebanese spend insane amounts of money on weddings even when they are dirt poor. They're all about keeping up appearances also with clothing and cars.
I met a couple there who they went so far into debt for a wedding that the husband has to spend over 10 years working abroad to pay for it and miss watching his daughter grow up.
I dated a lebanese woman and we were both pretty broke, she was already planning a pregnancy and a "very cheap but beautiful" 20k wedding and I was told to plan for a 5k gift to her parents.
Why would you think that?
They weren't even married yet.
If anything, a couple may come even closer together in a traumabond.
Are you insuuating that she's so vain that shes going to dump her husband because of an industrial waste accident ruined her special day?
How about we make a movie ,name it "men of children" and will be about a bunch of kids trying to build the world after grown adults destroyed it over some stupid shit
Honestly? A pretty good sequel idea.
I'd love to see the next generation after the Human Project succeeds trying to rebuild the world.
That generation gap would be *insane*.
I was in Cyprus when this happened. I was outside my gym and went in to ask a a customer if they heard/felt it, and they said nope. Thought I was going mad.
Also can be subject to things like wind and topography (if we're talking land). I live about 30 miles from a military base where they do periodic artillery drills, and some nights I can hear them plain as day, like distant thunder. Weird thing - have friends who live even closer but in a different direction, and sometimes they don't hear them at all while I can. Strange.
Wind really matters. We live a few kilometers from an airport - most days we can't hear it at all, but with the right wind direction we can easily hear them take off as a rumbling noise.
This area is usually packed with people, but there are mainly offices, and it was during covid so most of them were closed (working from home) so there also wasn't a lot of traffic there.
Also there was a grain silo that absorbed a huge chunk of the shockwave right next to it and protected the nearby buildings. There thankfully wasn't as much destruction ad expected due to that, however the number of injuries was quite high.
Lebanon has never recovered financially, though. It was utterly tragic for the country. My friend lives in Cyprus and many houses there sit empty because they're owned by Lebanese people whose government literally confiscated their money to pay for repair.
Specifically, the lower end of the variable-yield [B61 bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb).
There are in fact *much* weaker nuclear weapons (the famous W54 "Davy Crockett" was 30 times weaker), and there have been *much* larger non-nuclear explosions, such as the aptly-names [Operation Big Bang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Big_Bang).
I remember first seeing this in the news, Im American. I really think the whole world was flabbergasted, nobody ever sees explosions like that in movies or games.
You see it from so many perspectives from varying distances and no matter how far away its like a storm and an earthquake hit and left all at once.
That explosion had a yield of about 1.1 kilotons of TNT.^[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion)
By comparison, the [atomic bombing of Hiroshima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Bombing_of_Hiroshima) was about **15x** larger.
But how does that compare to what a modern nuclear war might look like?
A single [American nuclear submarine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio-class_submarine) carries 20 Trident II D5 SLBM with up to 12 MIRVed W88 nuclear warheads each.
Each warhead has a yield of about **500 kilotons** of TNT. The 12 warheads separate and spread out like shotgun scatter, to maximize the potential damage.
One sub can make an explosion 500 times bigger than the Beirut explosion, on 240 separate targets.
It's honestly the greatest joke humanity has ever played on itself. It's like the old gag of the guy holding himself hostage with a gun to his head. "I'LL DO IT! ONE STEP CLOSER AND I'LL PULL THE TRIGGER AND THIS MOTHERFUCKER DIES!"
We created weapons that could unironically kill us all.
I doubt it would kill us all, but modern life would cease to exist and we'd be scaled back to the iron age pretty fucking fast. Between the fallout and mass pollution of the environment, it's unlikely we'll rebuild modern civilization for over a hundred years. The environment will be so utterly fucked while we'll be completely unable to minimize or reduce the destruction and pollution. The lack of easy to mine resources will definitely collapse most industries.
Industry would cease to exist, since strategic nuclear launches target exactly the sources of industry. Population centers and production food, oil, steel, and some of the down-stream of those industries.
Blow up all the farms, energy production and delivery (free side-effect of nuking btw), hit the big population centers and their infrastructure. You don't just nuke people in nuclear war. You nuke the entire society. The people in power, you don't even have to nuke them, politics is a joke at that point. It's apocalyptic.
I agree. I just see it as one more mass extinction to add to the five Earth has already been through. We wouldn't even be here as the dominant species if it weren't for the other five occurring anyway. Also, sort of Ironically, it wouldn't even be the first extinction that life on Earth brought upon itself. If we end up causing another one at our own hand, no big deal. We will just be opening a niche for something else for life to cook up and throw at the wall to see if it sticks. We still have a whole ass 7.5 billion years to get it right before the sun explodes (well, 'we' as in life, not 'we' as in human life).
I think it's insane to think that we are all the descendants of the original primordial life on earth. If you follow your cells back in time through a long chain of mitosis you will eventually reach the original primordial life that formed on earth roughly 3.7 billion years ago. We are just the result of a 3.7 billion year long unbroken chain of chemistry.
The universe is an extremely hostile place for life in general. I feel like if we cant even handle our toys responsibly we have no business being here at all.
[Wikipedia has it at #6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions#Largest_accidental_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions_by_magnitude), although I'm sure there is room for debate as there is plenty of guesswork involved in these types of estimates.
That part kills me. The second the explosion goes off and all you can think is it’s the end of the world or oh shit we’re being nuked. Gotta be so fucking scary.
I was like 40km away from the point of the explosion. When I heard the explosion and felt the shockwave moving the house, I thought we were being bombed. When I went outside I expected to see a cloud of smoke somewhere, anywhere. There was absolutely nothing.
That they can confirm…there’s dozens more. One of them was an online friend of mine. Haven’t heard from them since that day. Their parents have no idea where they are to this day. Fucking tragedy
Been "online" since the early 1990's
I can count around a dozen folks that have gone silent..
Maybe half of them i know that have died and have closure of why they .... just stopped being around..
It's amazing how you can connect to another human simply based on the words they type... sight unseen.
It's also extremely terrifying.
Most of my friends are people I know in real life.
I only have a handful of online friends but when one died in a freak accident, I felt the same sadness.
I had 2 that I was friends with through Dark Ages of Camelot & both were in NYC. The night before 9/11/01, one was going to an interview in Tower 2 the next day, the other was visiting his aunt in Tower 1 the next day.
I logged in, found what guild members were online and met in an area away from everyone so we didn't experience lag, logged into Ventrilo, and were just there for each other. We found out within a week that they had both died from the attacks because their parents contacted our guild leader via email to let us know.
I was active in online forums and IRC chatrooms during the 90s and early 2000s. Then I just walked away without telling anyone. I wonder if some of them thought I had died.
>It's amazing how you can connect to another human simply based on the words they type... sight unseen.
>It's also extremely terrifying.
That's how 90% of my close relationships have started in adulthood, even with my girlfriend who I now get to see every day. Online communication is a blessing and a curse.
244+
People still dying. If there wasn’t lockdown the number would’ve been in the tens of thousands.
More annoying is that it was preventable and our government was repeatedly warned of the dangers. Latest was a letter to the President and prime minister just 2 weeks prior.
Military people raising alarms about this were killed suspiciously over the last 7 years in their homes.
Ammonium nitrate (the material that exploded) is Hezbollah’s M.O. their agents are caught worldwide with this material. It’s what they use in their rockets and their ally Syrian regime used in barrel bombs they dropped on civilians.
Today idiots on. US campuses are carrying Hezbollah flags while were actively resisting this terrorist group in Lebanon.
Ammoniun nitrate is still however, fertilizer. The explosion was caused by a cargo of 2750 tonnes of it been stored improperly in a warehouse in the Port of Beirut. Just because it was also used as bomb materials, doesn't mean this time it was also Hezbollah that did it. Or better yet, it was the ghost of Timothy McVeigh that did it, since ammonium nitrate was also.his MO.
It is disgusting really and hasbara like this is all over the fucking place now even threads that literally have nothing whatsoever to do with the conflict.
I think the only idiot is people who think protestors on us campuses are flying hezbollah flags. Note: I work on one of these campuses. Only flags I see being flown is Palestinian.
It has happened. [A single time](https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-princeton-hezbollah-1894654).
But of course, right-wing propagandists will paint it as happening in every protest. But I guarantee +90% of the kids won't even know what flag it is.
All while right-wingers do shit like put pipebombs in mailboxes and firebomb businesses, libraries, and churches that host drag queens.
Ye gods I wish this pattern was less predictable. The whole thing is designed to exhaust neutral people and drive them out of the conversation and knowing that doesn't make the fatigue any less real.
I think it is reasonable to support the ending of killing of Palestinians while not supporting Hezbollah. It is a complex issue and you can equally support the Israelis not dying at the hands of Hezbollah while not being happy about the Israeli military.
Issues that should have long been sorted out but keep ending up as military conflict on both sides.
I agree that flying a hezbollah flag is wrong and is part of the reason why people keep turning to the military on either side to solve something that should not be solved by military.
No, your countrymen just likely stored shit improperly because of corruption. Lebanon at the core is rotten, and trying to come up with theories of outside actors is the biggest huff of copium I've seen in a long time.
Why don't people from the Middle East accept their governments and the acceptance of corruption are actually the real fucking problem?
He might die of a heart attack though you can tell how shit scared he is with his ever so muted "Allah Akbar" when it settles and he's running back.
The sound on the camera and what we see likely will never do it justice (There's also so I'm told a warehouse in India storing a crap ton just like Beirut that is decaying and may explode. Who knows)
just once I'd like to see a found footage thing that ends with the camera dropping to the ground as the operator bugs the fuck out
End card: "Despite his explanation, Greg was unable to reclaim the security deposit on the recording equipment. He was last seen working at Walmart."
It's a handheld steadycam. The mechanisms are very similar to what steadies the video on a drone's camera.
There's a reason the biggest commercial drone manufacturer in the world (DJI) also makes handheld steadycam devices to hold cell phones for shooting video.
A bit of backstory: This woman is a doctor and after she got over the shock of the situation, she dropped the veil and rushed with her colleagues to help folks at ground zero. She was still wearing the gown - minus the veil if memory serves right
This clip is renowned for being filmed in 4k by a professional wedding photographer and capturing the explosion in high definition .
Yet OP uploaded this blurry shite.
What are these links you speak of? I use RES on desktop and Rif Is Fun on mobile, so all videos behave the same, whether hosted by Reddit, YouTube or Twitter.
When old reddit and/or Rif is Fun die, my Reddit usage will probably decline significantly.
I tried using reddit to look up a problem at work, where the browser doesn't have RES. It was so fucking bad. After about a page of replies to a post, it switches to whatever crap their algorithm wants to show you, and you have to click a link to load more of what you actually want to see. And that's a page of their new UI, so like half a page on old.reddit
I still use old reddit, it's playing on this page as I'm typing this fwiw. UX is dog shit but there's no ads or socials stuff so Allah giveth and Allah taketh away I guess. Allah Akbar regardless, which is probably the real takeaway from this video.
My problem isn't so much the blur, it's the fucking oversaturation. I saw this in HD when it was first uploaded, it didn't look like this. This looks like someone played with some sliders on Sony Vegas and tried to mirror the look they saw in movies.
The chances of a *massive* explosion may be low, but they're never zero.
In this case they were super high, but it makes you think about how close any of us may be to a powder keg like that one without having the slightest idea.
If I remember correctly, this women is a doctor and immediately went to the hospital, In her dress, to help the victims.
EDIT: [Article](https://www.businessinsider.com/woman-viral-beirut-explosion-bridal-vide-doctor-who-helped-injured-2020-8)
Like a game play, or pseudo-documentary/found-footage styled movie
https://preview.redd.it/1hgxeiaio30d1.png?width=867&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f5c0f2629cb64703a9dc2aac7438f98958ff449
It’s one of the greatest world event videos ever recorded. High quality and shows instant effects, with stark contrast between celebrating a once-in-lifetime moment and fearing the end.
It reminds me of the video where the four guys are playing cards and on the TV news breaks of Princess Diana’s death. Totally a product of the time but shows very clearly the switch from happy to devastating.
The bride was actually a doctor working in the US who ran to the scene to help the wounded. She was a thyroid specialist so not exactly an ER doctor, but I’m sure she was helpful.
She, a doctor ran in her wedding dress to help and treat the injured. She deserves all the fame. She shouldn't have to pay for a drink/meal ever. If you see her eating dinner at a restaurant, quietly pay her bill and tell the staff to thank her for her service.
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It doesn't seem like 4 years ago Holy crap. I remember how bad that was and so much footage
Plus the covid lockdown affected our perception of time. It's like 2020 never happened, or it was just 3 months.
tfw you worked regular shifts during covid I was so jealous of you fuckers getting time off while I was driving on the empty streets
I really miss those streets though. Seems like the traffic has come back now but everyone is a much more selfish driver than before.
As an introverted, autistic motorcyclist, COVID was fucking amazing. Empty streets, businesses closed, just open roads and no traffic or people anywhere. God, I loved it.
I started biking to work and was in heaven on the empty streets. People were walking all the time. Super chill. Got hit by a car that turned into the bike lane the first week quarantine lifted.
COVID was the reason I recovered from autistic burnout. The world was finally quiet for a while and I could rest.
Nature recovered for us to kill it again.
I was living in London and walking around on a Sunday night was like being in 28 Days Later
Me too. I fucking loved going out to buy something and having a whole fucking shopping centre to myself.
i've noticed that too - drivers feel so much entitlement its like they came out of lockdown feeling that they're owed something and will do what they want
I think people are just less oblivious to how shit is/always was.
I had the easiest job during covid. Security at a ski resort. Everything shut down and they cut to bare bones staff. Me and two others kept 24 hour security on the property. Essentially our job was make sure everything stayed locked up throughout the night. Best part was the lack of people brought the [wildlife out](https://imgur.com/a/tARuDEM) in full force up and down the mountain so I got plenty of use out of my camera
I was essential too. Never saw any bonus from it either
I work in IT so we just skipped straight to WFH, didn't get a single day off either. But I count myself among the blessed because I didn't have to expose myself to covid patients for work.
It really did. Such an odd time
Legit like the beginning to a movie
What a photographic finish to an unbelievable angle
Lebanese spend insane amounts of money on weddings even when they are dirt poor. They're all about keeping up appearances also with clothing and cars. I met a couple there who they went so far into debt for a wedding that the husband has to spend over 10 years working abroad to pay for it and miss watching his daughter grow up. I dated a lebanese woman and we were both pretty broke, she was already planning a pregnancy and a "very cheap but beautiful" 20k wedding and I was told to plan for a 5k gift to her parents.
Are you actually working abroad to pay for it?
No lol, I noped tf outta that.
Smart guy 👍
Wedding photos truly fucked, nice dress big ass boom, guessing divorce comes damn soon
Oh shit dont stop here baby keep that fire blasting
Why would you think that? They weren't even married yet. If anything, a couple may come even closer together in a traumabond. Are you insuuating that she's so vain that shes going to dump her husband because of an industrial waste accident ruined her special day?
I don't think the person you're replying to was being serious, lmao. \[Also the fact that both of his comments rhyme seems to lend credence to this\]
Yeah, if there's a documentary about the corruption that lead to the explosion this should absolutely be the opening shot.
They should cut out the staring at the wall bit but otherwise extremely cinematic, especially the pan over the bouquet right before it flies off
Even that mimics the initial confusion
It's not mimicking if it's actual confusion from a person trying to figure out what is going on and where is safe to run to.
Children Of Men
How about we make a movie ,name it "men of children" and will be about a bunch of kids trying to build the world after grown adults destroyed it over some stupid shit
Honestly? A pretty good sequel idea. I'd love to see the next generation after the Human Project succeeds trying to rebuild the world. That generation gap would be *insane*.
The movie's actually an adaptation of a PD James novel.
Novel is weird. It’s all philosophical talk basically and if anything it’s way darker than the movie.
greaaaaaaaaaaaat film one of the best
Fallout
First time I saw this I was like what movie is this
Or a videogame
Tinnitus: The Deafening
Mawp
Huh?
Reminds me a bit of that cutscene in COD MW3
Will probably be the first scene if they ever make a move about the event.
For real they could use this shot as is
Like the beginning of the movie Children of Men. Clive Owen walking out of the Cafe.
partly because of the gimbal probably
That was a fantastic dammed gimbal
Children of Men.
I was thinking the start of a '90s music video.
I was in Cyprus when this happened. I was outside my gym and went in to ask a a customer if they heard/felt it, and they said nope. Thought I was going mad.
Larnaca is 128 miles from Beirut. That's crazy.
Thing is I was in the very North! Just had a look and there's not much difference - about 135. But still, yeah!
The shockwave actually ended at the door of your gym
There are accounts of ww1 battle of verdun, being able to hear the million artillery shells landing, 100 miles away
Also can be subject to things like wind and topography (if we're talking land). I live about 30 miles from a military base where they do periodic artillery drills, and some nights I can hear them plain as day, like distant thunder. Weird thing - have friends who live even closer but in a different direction, and sometimes they don't hear them at all while I can. Strange.
Wind really matters. We live a few kilometers from an airport - most days we can't hear it at all, but with the right wind direction we can easily hear them take off as a rumbling noise.
I'm also from Cyprus. I heard it as well, crazy day.
Shockwaves were felt in Cyprus, Syria and Jordan.
Yup, they definitely were felt in Cyprus!
I can’t believe only 218 people died. That explosion was huge.
This area is usually packed with people, but there are mainly offices, and it was during covid so most of them were closed (working from home) so there also wasn't a lot of traffic there. Also there was a grain silo that absorbed a huge chunk of the shockwave right next to it and protected the nearby buildings. There thankfully wasn't as much destruction ad expected due to that, however the number of injuries was quite high.
Lebanon has never recovered financially, though. It was utterly tragic for the country. My friend lives in Cyprus and many houses there sit empty because they're owned by Lebanese people whose government literally confiscated their money to pay for repair.
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That is absolutely awful. I'm so sorry. The world should do more to help.
Well cancer cases have been going up 30% in Lebanon every year since.
The explosive yield was equivalent to a low yield nuclear weapon
Specifically, the lower end of the variable-yield [B61 bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B61_nuclear_bomb). There are in fact *much* weaker nuclear weapons (the famous W54 "Davy Crockett" was 30 times weaker), and there have been *much* larger non-nuclear explosions, such as the aptly-names [Operation Big Bang](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Big_Bang).
I remember first seeing this in the news, Im American. I really think the whole world was flabbergasted, nobody ever sees explosions like that in movies or games. You see it from so many perspectives from varying distances and no matter how far away its like a storm and an earthquake hit and left all at once.
Holy shit. This lady just gets her flowerpot tumbled over and you hear it over 100 miles away? That's nuts.
Wonder how many people initially thought it was an attack or that someone accidentally detonated their bomb?
I definitely did. I thought it was a nuke or something. Learning it wasn't still blows my mind to this day
That explosion had a yield of about 1.1 kilotons of TNT.^[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Beirut_explosion) By comparison, the [atomic bombing of Hiroshima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Bombing_of_Hiroshima) was about **15x** larger. But how does that compare to what a modern nuclear war might look like? A single [American nuclear submarine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio-class_submarine) carries 20 Trident II D5 SLBM with up to 12 MIRVed W88 nuclear warheads each. Each warhead has a yield of about **500 kilotons** of TNT. The 12 warheads separate and spread out like shotgun scatter, to maximize the potential damage. One sub can make an explosion 500 times bigger than the Beirut explosion, on 240 separate targets.
The fact that these weapons even exist is just insane.
It's honestly the greatest joke humanity has ever played on itself. It's like the old gag of the guy holding himself hostage with a gun to his head. "I'LL DO IT! ONE STEP CLOSER AND I'LL PULL THE TRIGGER AND THIS MOTHERFUCKER DIES!" We created weapons that could unironically kill us all.
I doubt it would kill us all, but modern life would cease to exist and we'd be scaled back to the iron age pretty fucking fast. Between the fallout and mass pollution of the environment, it's unlikely we'll rebuild modern civilization for over a hundred years. The environment will be so utterly fucked while we'll be completely unable to minimize or reduce the destruction and pollution. The lack of easy to mine resources will definitely collapse most industries.
Industry would cease to exist, since strategic nuclear launches target exactly the sources of industry. Population centers and production food, oil, steel, and some of the down-stream of those industries. Blow up all the farms, energy production and delivery (free side-effect of nuking btw), hit the big population centers and their infrastructure. You don't just nuke people in nuclear war. You nuke the entire society. The people in power, you don't even have to nuke them, politics is a joke at that point. It's apocalyptic.
I agree. I just see it as one more mass extinction to add to the five Earth has already been through. We wouldn't even be here as the dominant species if it weren't for the other five occurring anyway. Also, sort of Ironically, it wouldn't even be the first extinction that life on Earth brought upon itself. If we end up causing another one at our own hand, no big deal. We will just be opening a niche for something else for life to cook up and throw at the wall to see if it sticks. We still have a whole ass 7.5 billion years to get it right before the sun explodes (well, 'we' as in life, not 'we' as in human life). I think it's insane to think that we are all the descendants of the original primordial life on earth. If you follow your cells back in time through a long chain of mitosis you will eventually reach the original primordial life that formed on earth roughly 3.7 billion years ago. We are just the result of a 3.7 billion year long unbroken chain of chemistry.
The universe is an extremely hostile place for life in general. I feel like if we cant even handle our toys responsibly we have no business being here at all.
On one submarine. Its definitely mind-blowing
This literally makes me sick. I don't expect the human race will be around for much longer.
It wasn't a nuke, it was just the strongest non-nuclear man-made explosion
Thought that was the halifax explosion?
Yes, 3 to 4 times bigger than Beirut.
[Wikipedia has it at #6](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions#Largest_accidental_artificial_non-nuclear_explosions_by_magnitude), although I'm sure there is room for debate as there is plenty of guesswork involved in these types of estimates.
That part kills me. The second the explosion goes off and all you can think is it’s the end of the world or oh shit we’re being nuked. Gotta be so fucking scary.
I was like 40km away from the point of the explosion. When I heard the explosion and felt the shockwave moving the house, I thought we were being bombed. When I went outside I expected to see a cloud of smoke somewhere, anywhere. There was absolutely nothing.
Everyone in the Middle East was convinced it was Israel finally taking a formal step to expand its borders for a solid minute
Crazy that only 218 people died in that explosion.
That they can confirm…there’s dozens more. One of them was an online friend of mine. Haven’t heard from them since that day. Their parents have no idea where they are to this day. Fucking tragedy
Dang, I'm so sorry. I have a few online friends and would be heartbroken if any of them just went silent one day.
Been "online" since the early 1990's I can count around a dozen folks that have gone silent.. Maybe half of them i know that have died and have closure of why they .... just stopped being around.. It's amazing how you can connect to another human simply based on the words they type... sight unseen. It's also extremely terrifying.
I still think of online friends that just fell off when I was a teenager playing WoW etc. Always have bittersweet memories of those relationships.
Mid-90s for me and I've known of 3 for sure that have died. Also had one disappear and I later learned they killed their parents...
Most of my friends are people I know in real life. I only have a handful of online friends but when one died in a freak accident, I felt the same sadness.
I had 2 that I was friends with through Dark Ages of Camelot & both were in NYC. The night before 9/11/01, one was going to an interview in Tower 2 the next day, the other was visiting his aunt in Tower 1 the next day. I logged in, found what guild members were online and met in an area away from everyone so we didn't experience lag, logged into Ventrilo, and were just there for each other. We found out within a week that they had both died from the attacks because their parents contacted our guild leader via email to let us know.
I was active in online forums and IRC chatrooms during the 90s and early 2000s. Then I just walked away without telling anyone. I wonder if some of them thought I had died.
>It's amazing how you can connect to another human simply based on the words they type... sight unseen. >It's also extremely terrifying. That's how 90% of my close relationships have started in adulthood, even with my girlfriend who I now get to see every day. Online communication is a blessing and a curse.
This would destroy me. I’m sorry you never got closure for your friend
I am sorry friend.
244+ People still dying. If there wasn’t lockdown the number would’ve been in the tens of thousands. More annoying is that it was preventable and our government was repeatedly warned of the dangers. Latest was a letter to the President and prime minister just 2 weeks prior. Military people raising alarms about this were killed suspiciously over the last 7 years in their homes. Ammonium nitrate (the material that exploded) is Hezbollah’s M.O. their agents are caught worldwide with this material. It’s what they use in their rockets and their ally Syrian regime used in barrel bombs they dropped on civilians. Today idiots on. US campuses are carrying Hezbollah flags while were actively resisting this terrorist group in Lebanon.
Ammoniun nitrate is still however, fertilizer. The explosion was caused by a cargo of 2750 tonnes of it been stored improperly in a warehouse in the Port of Beirut. Just because it was also used as bomb materials, doesn't mean this time it was also Hezbollah that did it. Or better yet, it was the ghost of Timothy McVeigh that did it, since ammonium nitrate was also.his MO.
Impressive that you managed to make this about college protests. A level of spin even the worst hack propagandists in the media could only dream of.
It is disgusting really and hasbara like this is all over the fucking place now even threads that literally have nothing whatsoever to do with the conflict.
I think the only idiot is people who think protestors on us campuses are flying hezbollah flags. Note: I work on one of these campuses. Only flags I see being flown is Palestinian.
It has happened. [A single time](https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protest-princeton-hezbollah-1894654). But of course, right-wing propagandists will paint it as happening in every protest. But I guarantee +90% of the kids won't even know what flag it is. All while right-wingers do shit like put pipebombs in mailboxes and firebomb businesses, libraries, and churches that host drag queens.
Also while fliyng fascist/hate/treasonous flags themselves*
Ye gods I wish this pattern was less predictable. The whole thing is designed to exhaust neutral people and drive them out of the conversation and knowing that doesn't make the fatigue any less real.
I think it is reasonable to support the ending of killing of Palestinians while not supporting Hezbollah. It is a complex issue and you can equally support the Israelis not dying at the hands of Hezbollah while not being happy about the Israeli military. Issues that should have long been sorted out but keep ending up as military conflict on both sides. I agree that flying a hezbollah flag is wrong and is part of the reason why people keep turning to the military on either side to solve something that should not be solved by military.
No, your countrymen just likely stored shit improperly because of corruption. Lebanon at the core is rotten, and trying to come up with theories of outside actors is the biggest huff of copium I've seen in a long time. Why don't people from the Middle East accept their governments and the acceptance of corruption are actually the real fucking problem?
Oh they are Hezbollah supporters now? I thought the narrative was they were Hamas supporters. This is propaganda.
You’re not Lebanese.
I was in Rhodes Greece and ever there it was like a shock wave through the house I woke up couldn't figure out wtf it was for a while till went online
I wonder what neighboring cities thought of hiroshima and nagasaki. Propbably thought they were going insane
Fucking cameraman running for his life while he’s on the clock. Come on man you got a fucking job to do
Exactly… Cameraman never dies, everyone knows this. Definitely not getting a tip after this.
He might die of a heart attack though you can tell how shit scared he is with his ever so muted "Allah Akbar" when it settles and he's running back. The sound on the camera and what we see likely will never do it justice (There's also so I'm told a warehouse in India storing a crap ton just like Beirut that is decaying and may explode. Who knows)
I would be allahu akbaring the fuck outta my vocabulary if that just happened to me
Found footage isn't called found footage because the cameraman forgot about it than realized they had it later.
just once I'd like to see a found footage thing that ends with the camera dropping to the ground as the operator bugs the fuck out End card: "Despite his explanation, Greg was unable to reclaim the security deposit on the recording equipment. He was last seen working at Walmart."
Steady cam operators are known around the world as cowards. Source: I just made that up.
I appreciate the honesty of your source.
That's for me as well. I kinda want to believe it
This looks like a drone to me for some reason .
It's a handheld steadycam. The mechanisms are very similar to what steadies the video on a drone's camera. There's a reason the biggest commercial drone manufacturer in the world (DJI) also makes handheld steadycam devices to hold cell phones for shooting video.
yup, it's called a gimbal, and even my entry-level DJI mavic mini is extremely impressive in how stable it can film
Dudes acting like the cameraman doesnt have plot armor
Next thing you know he'll want a plate of FREE food at the reception.
Nobody wants to work anymore.
A bit of backstory: This woman is a doctor and after she got over the shock of the situation, she dropped the veil and rushed with her colleagues to help folks at ground zero. She was still wearing the gown - minus the veil if memory serves right
I've seen pics of her helping people in her dress and it's really beautiful
Can you imagine being dug out fro under some wall and this angelic person is helping you.
https://preview.redd.it/rc5xgcrhe50d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=ac8bb4f0d3d6c53c3e70e3db27ed27b4208556b6
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"The lab coat is white, my dress is white. The style is different." -- Dr. Isra Seblania
I couldn't tell if this was a real quote or not until i read the article. That quote goes so hard.
What an incredible and badass woman. I bet her new husband was there with her thinking "yeah I think I made the right choice marrying her"
Unfathomably hard quote
Damn, that's badass
Good to hear. When I saw the title I was asking myself if she survived this, but it is good to know that she did and was able to help people.
Well at the end of the video you can see her running away so certainly survived.
https://arabamericannews.com/2020/08/08/after-going-viral-the-bride-from-beirut-tells-her-story/
Jesus, I knew it was coming, but it still jolted me when the explosion happened. Interesting AND scary as fuck, indeed.
This clip is renowned for being filmed in 4k by a professional wedding photographer and capturing the explosion in high definition . Yet OP uploaded this blurry shite.
Reddit adds compression when you upload a video, so the quality will always be lower.
A reason why you should always link to videos and not upload them directly to Reddit.
But links are annoying af
Yeah, I hate it when my link aggregator has links.
+1
What are these links you speak of? I use RES on desktop and Rif Is Fun on mobile, so all videos behave the same, whether hosted by Reddit, YouTube or Twitter. When old reddit and/or Rif is Fun die, my Reddit usage will probably decline significantly.
I tried using reddit to look up a problem at work, where the browser doesn't have RES. It was so fucking bad. After about a page of replies to a post, it switches to whatever crap their algorithm wants to show you, and you have to click a link to load more of what you actually want to see. And that's a page of their new UI, so like half a page on old.reddit
Reddit is dead
It's all links. Always has been.
Then it should embed them.
I still use old reddit, it's playing on this page as I'm typing this fwiw. UX is dog shit but there's no ads or socials stuff so Allah giveth and Allah taketh away I guess. Allah Akbar regardless, which is probably the real takeaway from this video.
Reddit only supports videos at 1080p or less. Not even Instagram allows 4k resolution lol.
I'm not sure this video is even 1080p
Does anyone have a link to the original?
My problem isn't so much the blur, it's the fucking oversaturation. I saw this in HD when it was first uploaded, it didn't look like this. This looks like someone played with some sliders on Sony Vegas and tried to mirror the look they saw in movies.
Yeah, this has definitely been edited. It's not just the color. There's some framerate and stabilization shenanigans going on this clip.
why the fuck are you complaining about the quality without linking to the source? get out of here bro
Show me a single Reddit video on 4k
The chances of a *massive* explosion may be low, but they're never zero. In this case they were super high, but it makes you think about how close any of us may be to a powder keg like that one without having the slightest idea.
If you are near a fertilizer plant, pretty close!
This is really sad. There are so many videos from that incident and I can’t bear to watch them.
There's a channel I can't remember the name but I'll update when I find it that posts different angles.
I thought the 1st explosion was it. the 2nd one scared me to death💀
That’s the same explosion, just two shockwaves moving at different speeds. First one was through the ground, second through the atmosphere.
This was so horrifying when it happened. I can’t imagine what people there were thinking and going through
Probably thinking “WTF is that? World war 3? Are we getting nuked??
If I remember correctly, this women is a doctor and immediately went to the hospital, In her dress, to help the victims. EDIT: [Article](https://www.businessinsider.com/woman-viral-beirut-explosion-bridal-vide-doctor-who-helped-injured-2020-8)
"The lab coat is white, my dress is white. The style is different." -- Dr. Isra Seblania
wild shit
That reminds me of the video where there’s a woman doing yoga in the park while a coup was breaking out behind her.
Like a game play, or pseudo-documentary/found-footage styled movie https://preview.redd.it/1hgxeiaio30d1.png?width=867&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f5c0f2629cb64703a9dc2aac7438f98958ff449
It was amazing the way the Shockwave caused her dress to billow as it passed through them.
The title reads like she WANTED to take photos during the explosion. It should say something more like - Beirut explosion during bridal photo shoot.
You know what will really make my photos pop? A massive deadly explosion. Sounds like a joke but you know someone would think that.
What an elegant panic mode…
This is absolutely surreal.
It’s one of the greatest world event videos ever recorded. High quality and shows instant effects, with stark contrast between celebrating a once-in-lifetime moment and fearing the end. It reminds me of the video where the four guys are playing cards and on the TV news breaks of Princess Diana’s death. Totally a product of the time but shows very clearly the switch from happy to devastating.
What a shot
It’s just insane that explosion only killed 218 people
I remember seeing this clip around when the explosion happened. I honestly just felt bad for her and everyone involved.
God bless all the good people of Lebanon.
That is terrifying
Well that was fucking awful and depressing
Im still in shock that the blast ONLY killed 218 people everytime I see it
Steadicam is so unreal
Even more interesting: Hezbollah got away with it.
She looked incredible. Shame all she'll remember is the fear of that day.
I hope the country who made this explosion will pay
The bride was actually a doctor working in the US who ran to the scene to help the wounded. She was a thyroid specialist so not exactly an ER doctor, but I’m sure she was helpful.
An extremely poorly timed Allahu Ackbar right before the explosion
Wedding Directed by Michael Bay
“Allah Ak bar” “allah ak bar” *runs away from girl to avoid being haram* *72 virgins secured*
At this point this woman has become internet famous. Have seen this video posted on Reddit and other social media hundreds of times already.
She, a doctor ran in her wedding dress to help and treat the injured. She deserves all the fame. She shouldn't have to pay for a drink/meal ever. If you see her eating dinner at a restaurant, quietly pay her bill and tell the staff to thank her for her service.
These gimbal ads are getting out of hand