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Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)

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Post by RocksTaoMounta »

hammyhavoc wrote: post #54
cypherpunks01 wrote: post #32

Was anyone else bothered by how Oppenheimer declined to show even a single scene of the devastation that was caused by dropping nuclear weapons on Japan? I otherwise liked the film, but I thought it was wrong to hide it from viewers. The bombing was the central plot point of the whole film. It would have been different if it was a new director, or surprise hit or something, but Nolan knew it would be seen by many mil…

I've yet to see Oppenheimer—but if what I've heard about the little effort put into attempting to speak Dutch is true, I can't say it surprises me. Apparently there's also a lot of other factual inaccuracies—this admittedly put me right off. There comes a point where a director has to ask themselves if they're making entertainment for cash or poignant art. If the language was handled that sloppily, maybe that's the a…

Nolan's paymasters wanted some apologetic revisionism, that's all there is to it.

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Post by nerdponx »

ithkuil wrote: post #72
mensetmanusman wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure why the downvotes, there have been many fake survivor stories from WW2.

Also bear in mind that I literally say that I feel bad to even contemplate that possibility. It just feels wrong to doubt a person who tells you such tragedy. But perhaps that's how everybody felt and might be the reason why one could actually pull off such a fake story

Pulling off a completely fake story is one thing.

An elderly survivor of one bomb carrying out identity theft in order to claim to have survived both bombs is another thing entirely.

Re: Tsutomu Yamaguchi – A man who survived both atomic bombings (2023)

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Post by _yb2s »

_xnmw wrote: post #69

Reminds me of when the full-scale invasion started in Ukraine, I was in Kharkiv, and I met several people for whom "this was not their first war". The neighbour's family was from Nagorno-Karabakh, and had just fled the Armenia-Azerbaijan war that started a year earlier, the taxi driver was a Syrian refugee, and Kharkiv has many people from the Donbass region where the war started years before. People who have experie…

That isn’t true, and isn’t what poisson clumping is caused by. Totally random independent events clump together entirely by chance: having experienced one doesn’t increase or reduce the probability of it occurring again.

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Post by pjc50 »

dukeofdoom wrote: post #60
defrost wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Besides, Japan might ask for reparations one day. For the 72 other Japanese cities thoroughly levelled just as Hiroshima and Nagasaki were, or just for the two cities each destroyed by a single bomb? Regardless of what the film showed or not there's no shortage of public domain material showing the destruction in Japan and side by side comparisons of the firebombing of Tokyo against the ruins of Hiroshima. It's har…

The claim rests on the simple to understand principle that purposely targeting civilians (entire cities of civilians) for destruction is a war crime. Should the American Empire falter one day, the claim will be made with just cause. Just because things are one way today, does not meant forever will be.

> purposely targeting civilians (entire cities of civilians) for destruction is a war crime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Chongqing

Few parties ended up with really clean hands in WW2.

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Post by pjc50 »

jebarker wrote: post #13
frozenbit wrote: post #7

It’s been posted on HN before, but if this topic interests you, John Hersey’s famous reporting on the aftermath at Hiroshima (entitled “Hiroshima”) is worth reading. It’s essentially a short book, but the accounts laid out in the story make the impersonal tragedy into something that’s tangible. It should be required reading.

In a similar vein, going to Hiroshima and the Peace Memorial Museum there was a life changing experience for me.

Just don't go to the Yasukuni shrine.

(Why not? It's Japan's memorial to its war dead. All of them. Including the convicted war criminals. Visiting the shrine is seen, especially by Chinese and Koreans, as an endorsement of the war crimes. Every now and again a Japanese celebrity gets "cancelled" over this.)

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Post by hammyhavoc »

spike021 wrote: post #68
hammyhavoc wrote: post #53

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Would you mind talking about it a little? What you saw, how you felt, how you feel now—anything. Like with the Holocaust memorial and the Berlin Wall, these are things that have deeply affected me to see in person and comprehend what they represent, but I came away from a better person for it in the long-term—even if it broke me mentally at the time to be there and face it. Nuclear weapons really disturb me on a whol…

Not GP but what made me empathize the most was they didn't just have like architectural artifacts with the damage. They had written things like letters or journals. They had extremely personal accounts, some with photos, of what happened to people. The stories of extremely young children (8 years old or younger) trying to care for their parents before the parents succumbed to injuries. Kids becoming orphaned. Parents…

Thanks so much for this. This is now definitely where I want to visit next.

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Post by _xnmw »

_yb2s wrote: post #83
_xnmw wrote: post #69

Reminds me of when the full-scale invasion started in Ukraine, I was in Kharkiv, and I met several people for whom "this was not their first war". The neighbour's family was from Nagorno-Karabakh, and had just fled the Armenia-Azerbaijan war that started a year earlier, the taxi driver was a Syrian refugee, and Kharkiv has many people from the Donbass region where the war started years before. People who have experie…

That isn’t true, and isn’t what poisson clumping is caused by. Totally random independent events clump together entirely by chance: having experienced one doesn’t increase or reduce the probability of it occurring again.

I've had this discussion with a professional mathematician. As unintuitive as it does sound, actually random independent events are more likely to follow after it has happened.

https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/411018/poisson-dis...

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Post by _yb2s »

_xnmw wrote: post #88
_yb2s wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That isn’t true, and isn’t what poisson clumping is caused by. Totally random independent events clump together entirely by chance: having experienced one doesn’t increase or reduce the probability of it occurring again.

I've had this discussion with a professional mathematician. As unintuitive as it does sound, actually random independent events are more likely to follow after it has happened. https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/411018/poisson-dis...

You as misinterpreting their reply. The fact that the Poisson distribution falls off exponentially is because the longer you wait, the more likely that the very next event has already happened. Once an event happens, that specific event cannot happen again so the probability is low after long distances and/or time intervals.

This effect only shows up when you are looking at the probabilities of individual events- when you look at the aggregate results after a long time, they are totally random, and no more likely to occur next to one another. The exponential nature of the Poisson distribution does not cause any clumping.

If you survive a plane crash, you are still no more likely to survive another plane crash than a regular person, unless you do something else that makes it no longer independent, and therefore no longer following the same Poisson distribution as everyone else (e.g. you fly a lot).

However, assuming standard behavior, if you do get in a plane crash, you are more likely to get in your very next plane crash in the next year, than in year 10. However, a person never in a plane crash is also equally more likely to get in their first plane crash in the next year than 10 years out. And you are still just as likely to get in a plane crash in year 10, just not your next one.

Poisson clumping is just a result of human bias-sort of like an optical illusion. We incorrectly expect random things to be evenly spaced. Music players with random shuffle for example, will often seem to play the same song over and over, and will only feel 'random' when they are modified to be non-random such that they avoid playing the same song within some time interval.

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Post by ElFitz »

HeatrayEnjoyer wrote: post #79
ElFitz wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GDPR doesn’t apply to New Zealand. Although I’d gladly welcome our Kiwi friends into the EU.

GDPR is specifically applicable to EU citizens globally.

Yes, I simplified.

But that still wouldn’t explain why the webpage isn’t available in New Zealand.

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