Alright thank you.
Most can see I have some issues holding in my emotions but this is a particularly notable case.
When most people see those images on the news they're seeing just pics of destroyed and damaged buildings. I don't see that. These are very recognizable places, that I see weekly and have much experience in. It's not the same thing as seeing a damaged building in a Wikipedia article. I don't think anyone can really grasp this until such a thing happens to them in somewhere they have a direct connection to.
I hope people can consider this when they post.
Perhaps relevant insight from X in another thread (that I connected to this dispute back when he posted it yesterday):
On a more serious note, I'd argue that the biggest Atlas blindspot is that folks here [all of us, myself included] sometimes forget when we're mad or just even annoyed with another poster forget that we're talking with another human being and not just an emotionless bot. That's always been a problem with the internet tbh: b/c folks know they'll probably never meet, it's easier to depersonalize contentious exchanges and fall into the trap of forgetting that sometimes glib one-liners or low energy attempts to be edgy can be genuinely and legitimately hurtful to other posters in a way the person who made the offending post may not have truly intended.
