M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan • Hacker News Board

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by mghackerlady » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC

whaleofatw2022 wrote: post #122

Der_Einzige wrote: post #67

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Lain is 10/10. Akira/Ghost in the Shell are great too. Evangelion is a weak 7/10 in comparison to them in every aspect imaginable. I also realized that Evangelion is Japan's version of assigning weird mysticism to religions they don't understand (much how westerners depict shinto/daoism/buddhism with tons of mysticism). Evangelion is a disgusting anime to consider part of your national personification. Drop it and pi…

> Lain is 10/10. Caught the BeOS fan ;) (I kid, mostly but remember Lain fans rabidly trying and espousing it)

I was more impressed with the obscure NeXT and apple references, BeOS only crossed my mind because I recognised the end card

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by mghackerlady » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 1:20 PM UTC

mikestorrent wrote: post #115

mghackerlady wrote: post #102

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the emotions of the story are the point, not the story itself. Also, shinji is a coward. That's literally the whole point of the show, showing a cowards reaction to being forced into a situation that isn't avoidable in the most drastic way possible

Luckily, the show does a good enough job at explaining itself to those who care to learn the message. I watched it in my teens but only now in my 40s on my fourth view through does it actually finally make sense the way it should. Sometimes things take a while to click.

I feel like the easiest way to distinguish between those that get it and those that don't are asking their thoughts on the ending. If they prefer the original, they get it, and if they prefer the end of evangelion movie they don't totally get it. If they prefer the rebuild films they're in it for the yaoi and mecha which tbf I don't blame them kaworu is hot

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by fennecbutt » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

strangegecko wrote: post #42

fennecbutt wrote: post #38

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Standing underneath a doorframe is also advisable.

I'm pretty sure that is advice from the last millennium that is no longer taught.

I suppose it must be dependent on country.

I'm a kiwi and that's what I was taught. We're also ring of fire dwellers.

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by mikestorrent » Tue, Apr 21, 2026, 7:28 PM UTC

mghackerlady wrote: post #142

mikestorrent wrote: post #115

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Luckily, the show does a good enough job at explaining itself to those who care to learn the message. I watched it in my teens but only now in my 40s on my fourth view through does it actually finally make sense the way it should. Sometimes things take a while to click.

I feel like the easiest way to distinguish between those that get it and those that don't are asking their thoughts on the ending. If they prefer the original, they get it, and if they prefer the end of evangelion movie they don't totally get it. If they prefer the rebuild films they're in it for the yaoi and mecha which tbf I don't blame them kaworu is hot

I actually really like all of the above, is the thing; the idea that there are multiple ways the story goes broadens things. The Congratulations ending is still pretty brilliant though. You're making me want to go watch it again.

Re: M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan

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Post by floxy » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 12:45 AM UTC

eigenform wrote: post #134

floxy wrote: post #111

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Is there a disproportionate frequency of earthquakes in Japan? My mental model is that there would be a uniformish distribution of earthquakes all around the Pacific ring-of-fire. But even living in a U.S. state with a Pacific Ocean border (and tsunami warning signs all along the coastal towns), it still seems like Japanese earthquakes outnumber local ones by a wide margin (especially for bigger ones like M7.0+). Thi…

No reason that the rate of subduction has to be the same everywhere. Some of the plate boundaries might be moving into each other in different directions too, the coupling between plates is not necessarily the same everywhere. Anyway, in the case of Cascadia, remember that the lack of big earthquakes over the past 100 years is probably telling you that we just happen to live in a time where strain is accumulating (D:…

Yes, I guess we should hope for a lot of M6 quakes in the near term. Or hope that in 100 years the infrastructure will be much more quake resilient than today.