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    Quote Originally Posted by bruhnaldo View Post
    I don't reckon there's anything wrong with a little humor to get passed some of the sad stuff in life.

    Surely we're all sad that the little brats were lead astray by an adult they trusted and will now pay for it with their lives, but just like in school shootings "thoughts and prayers" are gonna do just about fuck all.
    I don't think anyone's debating that. Panda essentially said "you shouldn't be sad because it's far from you".

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    Oh carry on then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adramelch View Post
    I don't think anyone's debating that. Panda essentially said "you shouldn't be sad because it's far from you".
    Spend your energy where you can make a difference.

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    Also, it's okay to be a massive hypocrite. #palestine

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    #fuckpalestine

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    I'm still baffled none of them considered staying at the entrance until the rain passed. "Hey, the entrance of the cave is flooding ... let's go deeper in."

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    Surely they were already deeper in when it started flooding.

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    Five hours to get out?

    They're fucked, there's no chance they can dive themselves.

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    At least they'll have the current with them...

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    Well I reckon they will get them out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Well I reckon they will get them out.
    Well you can break it to Panda if they do.

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    Lewis and #TeamEngineer to invent some kind of extraction chamber.

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    I'm not sure how broadband is going to help.

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    It would be nice if they got out.

    I just don't see the point in actively worrying about the situation. Experience it passively.

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    Google ‘Empathy’.

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    July 6, 2018

    Three children have been killed and seven others wounded when two roadside mines exploded in residential areas in Afghanistan’s southern Ghazni Province.

    Arif Noori, spokesman for the governor of Ghazi, said on July 6 that the two separate incidents occurred on the same day in the remote Gilan district.

    Children were playing when an explosive device went off, killing three and wounding four children around midday in Gilan’s Shinkai area, district chief Mohammad Karim Gilanwal said.

    https://www.rferl.org/a/roadside-min.../29347620.html

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    If you're going to give a shit about people across the world in peril let alone dying every single day, you're just going to wear yourself out emotionally.

    If you're being selective about it, i.e. only caring about news stories that have sensational or exceptional qualities to them as opposed to incidents that seem common place (e.g. mines killing kids in Afghanistan, school shootings in the USA, sex trafficking in Thailand), then you're inconsistent and purposefully ignorant.

    You can understand that a situation is sad. You don't need to actively feel sad to acknowledge it.

    Save your emotional energy for people and situations where you can actually make a difference be it through direct participation (e.g. taking care of your family, volunteering somewhere) or advocating to change something that's a systemic issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    It would be nice if they got out.

    I just don't see the point in actively worrying about the situation. Experience it passively.
    What you are missing is that no one actually worries. It is entertainment. An unusual situation has arisen and people are interested to see how it will pan out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe;
    What you are missing is that no one actually worries. It is entertainment. An unusual situation has arisen and people are interested to see how it will pan out.
    Yeah. It's a novelty. If this were a common occurrence, none of us would have even heard the story on international news.

    And to segue, this is an interesting story that will likely have a sad ending, but it doesn't call for strangers to be sad. It's something you should treat as abstract/distant so that you can reserve your energy for something concrete/near (like your own family and then community).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    Lewis and #TeamEngineer to invent some kind of extraction chamber.
    If only I hadn't moved to sales I could have innovated here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    Yeah. It's a novelty. If this were a common occurrence, none of us would have even heard the story on international news.

    And to segue, this is an interesting story that will likely have a sad ending, but it doesn't call for strangers to be sad. It's something you should treat as abstract/distant so that you can reserve your energy for something concrete/near (like your own family and then community).
    I think you're probably putting too much emphasis on the "being sad" part. Let's use a different term, shall we? I feel bad for those kids for as long as this situation will drag on. It's not costing me much emotionally. You went the exact opposite way though by saying "forget about them". That's what I took issue with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Magic View Post
    If only I hadn't moved to sales I could have innovated here.
    Why did they demote you anyway?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    If you're going to give a shit about people across the world in peril let alone dying every single day, you're just going to wear yourself out emotionally.

    If you're being selective about it, i.e. only caring about news stories that have sensational or exceptional qualities to them as opposed to incidents that seem common place (e.g. mines killing kids in Afghanistan, school shootings in the USA, sex trafficking in Thailand), then you're inconsistent and purposefully ignorant.

    You can understand that a situation is sad. You don't need to actively feel sad to acknowledge it.

    Save your emotional energy for people and situations where you can actually make a difference be it through direct participation (e.g. taking care of your family, volunteering somewhere) or advocating to change something that's a systemic issue.
    It can't come as a surprise to you that these children, who are alive and trapped and smiling and whose almost certainly deadly predicament we can see footage of, are drawing a greater emotional response than some children who died immediately in an offscreen bomb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    It can't come as a surprise to you that these children, who are alive and trapped and smiling and whose almost certainly deadly predicament we can see footage of, are drawing a greater emotional response than some children who died immediately in an offscreen bomb.
    Of course it doesn't surprise me.

    But it also doesn't mean that the lives of the Thai kids are more important.

    It just means that media warp people's sphere of care, which I find distasteful when there are tragedies all over the world that deserve recognition but get none because they aren't sensational or intriguing.

    So instead of having a bleeding heart for every tragedy across the world because my sphere of care knows no bounds, I'd rather actively care about people on a local or regional level where their lives can actually resonate in a knowable manner within my community. For example, the Humboldt, Canada bus crash that killed sixteen young hockey players is within my sphere of care. This means that I'd rather not care about a group of Thai kids (which gets harder the more you hear about the story due to how empathy works) because there's effectively no connectivity from their lives and community to my life and my community.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Panda Bear View Post
    If you're going to give a shit about people across the world in peril let alone dying every single day, you're just going to wear yourself out emotionally.

    If you're being selective about it, i.e. only caring about news stories that have sensational or exceptional qualities to them as opposed to incidents that seem common place (e.g. mines killing kids in Afghanistan, school shootings in the USA, sex trafficking in Thailand), then you're inconsistent and purposefully ignorant.

    You can understand that a situation is sad. You don't need to actively feel sad to acknowledge it.

    Save your emotional energy for people and situations where you can actually make a difference be it through direct participation (e.g. taking care of your family, volunteering somewhere) or advocating to change something that's a systemic issue.
    It’s possible to care without being wounded as if you knew them, you know? You can also care about lots and lots of things, to different extents. It’s really pretty easy for a functioning human being. If you’re not empathising towards a school shooting because it’s ‘commonplace’ then I don’t really know what to tell you.

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    I posted in the work WhatsApp that being stuck in a flooded cave in Thailand would have been l preferable to being at work yesterday. Two laughed, one did the rolleyes emoji and the other 9 probably seethed in the “Workmates (no Baz)” group.

    I’m honestly disappointed it’s such big news. Sir Harry will be dedicating his golden boot to them next.
    I'm a twit

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    Let's be honest, if this hadn't happened, news outlets would still be going on about the weather.

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    Bad Panda.

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    My recommendation. Same principles apply in the water with the currentnt.


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    All these engineers and it’s Sincere that comes up with the solution. Overpaid mongs.

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    Good job it's not Barry Bennell with them lol.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baz View Post
    “Workmates (no Baz)” group

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-44755452

    They’re trying to get them out. I just don’t see how this can work.

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    Two of them are out.

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    That's actually awesome.

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    Unbelievable.

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    Stop caring ffs.

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    If they manage to get them all out it’ll be a properly good effort.

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    Up to 6 now apparently.

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    #pray4panda.

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    So what was all the fuss about?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Browning View Post
    Up to 6 now apparently.


    Did something change from a couple days ago when someone died trying to go in, or did they just go for it?

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    I think they just went for it because if they didn't do it today the rain would have made it impossible/

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    Two British blokes calling the shots as well. They deserve some sort of honour when they get back, and possibly even the same weekly wage as Raheem Sterling.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Two British blokes calling the shots as well. They deserve some sort of honour when they get back, and possibly even the same weekly wage as Raheem Sterling.
    Did they win as many corners as Sterling? I don't think so.

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    What about the bloke that took them in there? I don't fancy his chances if he makes it out, he'd be better off staying behind.

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    He’s getting praised more than anything from what I can see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Adramelch View Post
    Did they win as many corners as Sterling? I don't think so.
    I use Sterling as simply the most undeserving example, but really it could be anyone getting thousand a week just to kick a ball around.

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    Footballers deserve their wage smh

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    They kick a bag of air around. When you think about what nurses get it's a joke.

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