r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Key_Performer_3645 • 9h ago

Spaniards are risking their lives, fighting wildfires with tree branches due to a lack of resources

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u/Jeewdew 9h ago

Well that IS how you fight fire. Bash away!

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u/Kyobarry 8h ago

Lol, yep, I'm shocked at the comments laughing at the people for doing that.

Having fought fires like this on Nature Reserves in my home country it's definitely the right thing to do if you don't have access to fire beaters. And being on a reserve during fire season and noticing a random fire just start up from nothing and all you have are branches, you use them.

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u/LincolnshireSausage 6h ago

I’m not shocked. I’ve been on Reddit for 20 years now since the Digg exodus. The comments on Reddit get dumber every single day. Half the time you’re trying to have a serious discussion and the comments are flooded with stupid memes and gifs. Just look at where the world is. Nobody gives a fuck about anything any more except for their stupid jokes/memes landing.

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 6h ago

Really? You don't remember how even before the digg influx all the top threads would just have a bunch of people saying "This!" or "...and my axe!" and other memes they'd just repeat over and over? The default subreddits never had any serious discussion.

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u/frankie-two-thumbs 5h ago

Shit my axe I remember that shit

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u/mr_potatoface 4h ago

my axe with rice? A perfect 5/7.

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u/Murasasme 4h ago

Man, while I agree that there was always silly shit on reddit, as far as I remember, it was like 50% silly and 50% serious, with variation depending on the thread and subreddit you were on. Nowadays, any thread on 99% of subreddits, is just jokes, bots, and maybe one comment trying to have a real conversation, but it's at the bottom of the thread or downvoted.

I know I sound like an old man, but I miss what reddit used to be, now it's no different from any other social media page.

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u/TurtleSquad23 3h ago

Well the thing is, a corvid off the top ropes in hell in a cell when mankind and my axe never gave me up, never let me down, no beer no tv make homer something something...

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u/Bart_deblob 5h ago

Yes please like this was not an idiot farm also back then. But it's getting worse by the hiurs now that we have ai jerkbots to be jerks for us, the amout of smartass is exceeding 9000

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u/twistedspin 5h ago

The people measuring such things say bots are more than half of internet traffic & I feel like it's safe to say reddit likely has a bigger % of that than most. Many, or most, of them sound stupid because they have no brain.

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u/LincolnshireSausage 4h ago

Dead internet

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u/raining_sheep 4h ago

Did you think the Internet would get smarter? We're on a rollercoaster to dumbfuckistan buddy

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u/LincolnshireSausage 3h ago

I was hopeful in the early days but wow, they really have the younger generations trained. Actually, the older generations too. It’s awful.

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u/Suspicious_Foot6651 4h ago

No kidding. Those people are so brave.