I think I’ve finally reached old, everyone.
This meme has never been funny to me.
Damn!
I’d like to direct you to someone who can help, who can explain what’s funny about it.
But maybe despite their expertise they won’t provide the context you need.
And you’ll still be at a loss.
It’s not a funny meme, it’s making fun of something that happens to countless people around the world. Dude made a more serious comic one time and everyone went crazy and parodied something that probably was very personal to the author. You kinda don"t have empathy if you actually thought “I should meme on a comic about a miscarriage”.
The meme is not about the miscarriage but about how tone deaf it was. So your point is actually why the meme started being a thing, mocking the comic itself. That’s the context of it as far as I’m aware
God dammit.
I don’t get it.
… and the text is a proposed text to warn future civilizations of our nuclear waste that’s supposed to transcend cultural changes until then.
The song is even better: https://youtu.be/amn3kn0XPLQ
And the text is riffing on long-term nuclear waste warning messages (or, rather, Sandia’s wording for what the non-verbal warnings should try to convey)
People hide this pattern called “loss” in unrelated context to confuse people. And people who recognize it feel smart, or angry, or disappointed. It’s a form of mild trolling, there is not much more to it. The meme originates from a comic but this is completely irrelevant.
It’s like the nerds that came up with those nuclear warnings have never consumed a piece of fantasy or sci-fi media. “Oh, this ancient civilisation had immense power and locked it away in a concrete vault underground surrounded by harrowing warnings? Fuck yes I’m digging that shit up or settling my town on the ancient site of power. Blessings of the glowing soil! My son has been born with 6 fingers on each hand! Surely a wonderful portent!”
I read a really interesting book which dealt, in part, with how to let people in the far future know about a nuclear waste dump from one of the people who helped design it (sci-fi author Gregory Benford). And one of the suggestions was not to let anyone know about it at all because if you do tell them, they’ll go dig it up. But then they also have to contend with ideas like mining robots that just tunnel through the soil looking for useful materials that might accidentally tunnel into the waste dump.
There were a lot of ideas including things like a landscape of nasty-looking concrete spikes and buried radio warnings. The final design was more modest and I don’t think would have deterred me, but I also don’t remember the details well enough because I read it decades ago.
Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia
Looks to be available to read on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/deeptimehowhuman0000benf/page/n5/mode/2up
Is this loss?
