• meep_launcher@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Seattlite turned Chicagoan checking in:

    When the sirens go off, we don’t give AF. Nothing enters the city.

    When I moved here, I remember working on a highrise in the loop when all these air raid sirens went off. I looked around and no one seemed to even acknowledge it. I said “is anyone… Hearing this? Shouldn’t we like… Do something?” And then someone said “oh yea those just do that. First Tuesday of the month or when there’s a tornado that we also don’t care about.”

    I was floored, then went back to cold calling.