• Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 hours ago

    The same logic used to have nuclear drills where you get under the desks. It’s ineffective, does nothing, and will change nothing. It only serves for helicopter parents to feel better about themselves. As their kids brains rot away

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      15 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

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        14 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?