• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    7 hours ago

    I mean in a situation where you truly can do nothing, giving the masses something to do at least makes them feel slightly less powerless

    Also duck and cover would have been effective for some of the earliest nuclear bombs, just not the ones developed a few years later

    • Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      Yes, and when there’s no downside, that’s fine. There’s plenty of downsides to allowing kids to use smartphones. If the actual and serious concern was for their children, they could give their children dumb phones instead.

      Also no, it wouldn’t’ve been effective for any nuclear weapons?