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[This was unfamiliar technology to Lin, so before she tried making a post, she read the manual from start to finish. This "smartphone" was MUCH more complicated than the ham radio in the interceptor, but she eventually figured it out.]

Hi, I'm Bai Lin. I have a question. I've got that most of us are from different worlds. It's weird, but any time I talk to someone it becomes more and more obvious.

But I'm noticing a trend from talking to you all.

How many people here DON'T come from places where a nuclear war destroyed most of the world's population before you were born?

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I can say with 100 percent confidence that that never happened

Edited 2018-05-02 08:21 (UTC)

So everything is more or less A-Okay back home for you?

kinda?

I mean

I assume shit like world hunger and horrible diseases still existed

but it wasn't EVERYONE DYING ALL THE TIME

I wouldn't have guessed hunger would be a problem in a world like that...

it's not THE ENTIRE world though, just... parts of it

i am by no means an expert in geography

Edited 2018-05-07 16:21 (UTC)

What happened to those parts? Must have been pretty terrible.

famine

apparently

[ Thank you, Lieutenant Obvious. You've been promoted to Captain. ]

[No response for a minute.]

I always imagined the world didn't have any problems before the war. I guess that was a bit naive, huh?

yeah, I guess

but I mean, fuckin nukes are hard to top as far as problems go

It's not a contest. My problems don't make your problems be not a thing.

that's true

i'm still kind of trying to figure that out for myself

Your problems, or the contest thing?

both

fuck my existence

Well if nothing else, now you have some time to figure stuff out.

maybe

it's been like this for a while idk

Has it? I'm trying to be optimistic but...Basically it comes down to us just being stuck with not a lot to do.

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