Erinnerung

[matrixmann]

Originally posted by matrixmann at Erinnerung

1986: Pripyat, Ukraine. During an excercise of a complete blackout in the nuclear power plant "Chernobyl" an explosion in one of the reactors happened. First kept under the rug for days what truly has happened, later the whole town and surrounding area was evacuated.
During the following months, a sarcophagus as a means to stop the worst was built above the reactor to prevent the meltdown to soak into the ground and the radioactive dust to escape into the air.
Still until today it remains not absolutely sure what were the true origins of the fallout, if either purely human error or the addition of an earthquake directly under the reactor which it didn't suit for.

2002: Erfurt, Germany. A former student of an academic high school comes up to his school in the midmorning during the yearly period of the exams and kills 16 people as well as himself in a killing spree.

Comments

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

Schit happens... ;(

[matrixmann]

Why "shit happens"?

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

I thought this is the idiom which means something like... this is bad but could be worse...

Why? It is difficult to answer... Because we couldn't control everything...

How are you doing after all?

[matrixmann]

Okay, then I get what you had in mind here.

I don't know if the phrase has that sort of meaning in English, I can only say that I don't and won't ever think like a native speaker of it because it simply isn't my native.

How I'm doing...?
Well... Could probably be much worse, but could probably also be better. But this is not within the range of my powers anymore for a long time to change it in general to a "I'm doing fine and there's nothing to complain or worry about". As it simply can't be changed to such a state anymore. Biology stands in the way for that.
- Just as it is if you're chronically ill on the brain...

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

"Well... Could probably be much worse, but could probably also be better. "

Okay friend... It is maybe not that bad to be ill or simply too old nowadays at Europe in the way of upcoming war...

[matrixmann]

Ts, if my host body was that old... I strongly guess, I'm younger than you.

[maadmike.livejournal.com]

"I strongly guess, I'm younger than you."

I am speaking in the way of what west bastards did with Ukraine... Ukrainian men do everything there to not get on the war — getting abroad, getting into prison, everything. So today its Ukraine, tomorrow Europe, so no matter what — old or ill, if you are not hurrying to die...

Here in Russia the situation with mobilization is not that critical but, I think, not for long... If USA will throw Turkey and EU after against Russia it will be meat grinder and I am certainly will get my vacation to hell... )))

[matrixmann]

What I was trying to point at through that is: If someone turns the continent into hell on earth, I'll likely have to put up with it for quite a long time still because dying from natural causes (as long as I have access to my meds and proper health care) is not really close to me yet.
(And by the way, I quite cling to life.)