The piece about possibly coming across killers as they buried a body feels like quite the buried lede…
Chernobyl's 'stalker' subculture
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#12Website seems to be down: https://archive.is/vGC6C Anecdotally, I've visited Chernobyl and I remember seeing somewhere a few empty cans and an empty vodka bottle. Both looked pretty recent. I've also seen the bus that's photographed. There was something inside, the thing with a cardboard cover and metal rings where you can put pages inside (It's called a "classeur" in French, but I can't find how it's called in Engli…
"Three ring binder" maybe? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_binder
Curious that there are two replies here calling it a three ring binder explicitly, while if I think about it I have only seen them with two or four rings.
According to the wiki article: "A few years later three-ring binders became the standard in the United States"
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#13See, some people think our current culture/civilization/capitalism will not survive climate change, but clearly there is no wasteland too blasted and dangerous for it to eventually become a money-making tourist attraction. Our culture will live on in its perversity. I fully expect people to be huffing recreational Covid in 30 years’ time.
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#15Intersting article! I always like this kind of story though I'd never do it myself.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Three ring binder" maybe? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_binder
Curious that there are two replies here calling it a three ring binder explicitly, while if I think about it I have only seen them with two or four rings. According to the wiki article: "A few years later three-ring binders became the standard in the United States"
It's just a ring binder in Britain, which like most of the world has ISO paper sizes and either 2 or 4 rings on binders.
(4 rings for durability, 2 for convenience.)
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#17I'm surprised nowhere in the article does it mention the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.)
They are loosely based on the novel, however perhaps more well known (in the US at least) than the book or movie.
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#19I'm surprised nowhere in the article does it mention the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game series (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R .) They are loosely based on the novel, however perhaps more well known (in the US at least) than the book or movie.
I wonder still if much of the popularity of said stalking above is directly related to this game.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Three ring binder" maybe? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_binder
Curious that there are two replies here calling it a three ring binder explicitly, while if I think about it I have only seen them with two or four rings. According to the wiki article: "A few years later three-ring binders became the standard in the United States"
In US school, we were generally required to have a three ring binder every year for class. Like with #2 pencils, we're vaguely aware other types exist but virtually never encounter them.