“I remember talking on the playground with kids in the fourth grade about how we hoped we died quickly when we were nuked, as who would want to live after that? That’s not a normal thing for nine-year-olds to talk about, don’t you think?” technologyasnature.com/2024/08

// basically my experience as well. i had a persistent “fear-tasy” in which my whole family would be huddled in the basement before we would be transformed into a silhouette on the wall. at least we would be together.