I think I've finally reached old, everyone.
This meme has never been funny to me.
Damn!
I'd like to direct you to someone who can help, who can explain what's funny about it.
But maybe despite their expertise they won't provide the context you need.
And you'll still be at a loss.
I don't even understand it.
God dammit.
I don't get it.
And the text is riffing on long-term nuclear waste warning messages (or, rather, Sandia's wording for what the non-verbal warnings should try to convey)
It’s like the nerds that came up with those nuclear warnings have never consumed a piece of fantasy or sci-fi media. “Oh, this ancient civilisation had immense power and locked it away in a concrete vault underground surrounded by harrowing warnings? Fuck yes I’m digging that shit up or settling my town on the ancient site of power. Blessings of the glowing soil! My son has been born with 6 fingers on each hand! Surely a wonderful portent!”
If I'm finding a dungeon in the wild, I'm delving, and I have the education to know better. The post apocalyptic grunts stand no chance.
I read a really interesting book which dealt, in part, with how to let people in the far future know about a nuclear waste dump from one of the people who helped design it (sci-fi author Gregory Benford). And one of the suggestions was not to let anyone know about it at all because if you do tell them, they'll go dig it up. But then they also have to contend with ideas like mining robots that just tunnel through the soil looking for useful materials that might accidentally tunnel into the waste dump.
There were a lot of ideas including things like a landscape of nasty-looking concrete spikes and buried radio warnings. The final design was more modest and I don't think would have deterred me, but I also don't remember the details well enough because I read it decades ago.
Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia
Looks to be available to read on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/deeptimehowhuman0000benf/page/n5/mode/2up
Children of the Atom!
The best one is genetically modified cats that change colors around nuclear waste, no one would ever want color changing cats.
Reminds me of Strugansky's Roadside Picnic.
Is this loss?
I'm at a loss for words.
Is this loss?
That's half of it. The other half sounds like the project to warn a future civilization 10k years from now about buried radioactive waste.
Nothing valued is here.
What in the name of diarrhea is this? Someone please just explain like I'm a complete idiot
In addition to what others have said about Loss, the text of the tweet is referring to the Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning message from the early 90s
This place is a message…and part of a system of messages…pay attention to it!
Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be powerful culture.
This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here…nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location…it increases towards a center…the center of danger is here…of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.
The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited
I am at a loss for words that I could recognize it almost immediately.
A mash-up of the (overdone) "loss" meme and the Long Term Nuclear Waste Warning Messaging
If there weren't a very occasional funny post in this community I would block it so fast due to the majority of posts which are like this. Intentionally obtuse and not entertaining, typically even when I get them.
This is funny.
Ah yes, a stale meme from 15 years ago, I pissed myself laughing
The culture was no great loss
I briefly thought this was mocking our language or communication or something by showing a sentence diagram, but after the comments revealed it to be loss, I found myself disappointed.
You son of a bitch!
