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In the event of an imminent nuclear apocalypse, we suspect that many people who have access to private jets will immediately take to the skies and escape city centers. This site tracks this indicator in realtime. The current emergency level is reported on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being an indicator of a likely imminent apocalypse.

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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 56 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think it’s pretty neat, but amusing that it’s an “early warning system”, but the last update was an hour ago. Call my crazy, but I don’t think that’s early enough.

[–] homoludens@feddit.org 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And it only triggers if enough other people are already on their way to safer places.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 weeks ago

I think the assumption is that the ultra-wealthy will hear about it before us peasants, so when oligarchs all flee in their private jets it gives the rest of us a warning.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I‘m assuming by the time it rings the alarm my connection to the service will long be severed.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

If the site is down, that's a 5. Bingo!

[–] Paragone@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago

There seems to be automatic contempt for the idea..

but everybody ought know about that Pentagon-pizza-index, identifying whether there's about to be a war, based on how much pizza's been ordered by people at the Pentagon who aren't going to be eating supper at home, today..

& that's definitely an early-warning-system.

After I found-out that oligarch-types have a stock-market-code, where specific trade-amounts are actually not intended as trades, but rather as "please manipulate the market in this, or that, particular way" signals..

< sigh >

( no, no establishment's ever going to allow accountability to touch its ruling-caste )

then it became clearer just how everything-is-rigged this world is.

Epstein was only a difference-in-degree, not a category-difference, in establishment's gaslighting ( I'm saying that knowing about the "Christian" pedophile-protection-operations, both protestant & catholic, that have been entrenched for decades, if not centuries, though )

That James Cameron was informed of the idiotic-submarine's implosion .. what, a week before the search was called-off .. yes, the elites get different rules.

Yes, I expect that this early-warning-system may well give useful signal about things about to turn into hell-for-the-masses.

I'd expect the elites to vamoose, while shutting-off our ability to leave.

That'd fit the paradigm that this world really works in.

Sabotaging our ability to leave would actually only take a few carefully-placed-rumors, to wipe-out fuel-supplies, & that'd be the end of it: maximal-destruction, therefore maximal "entertainment" for ruling-privilege.

and yes, that degree of cynicism looks justified, now.

"Cheers."

.. there was a TV News guy, long ago..

he signed-off, after the "kicker" story, at the end.. ?Peter Truman? was his name?

"That may not be news, but that too is reality."

Our world requires actual-journalism, actual-justice, actual-accountability, & actual gutting-of-corruption..

but political-systems ALWAYS prevent that from becoming too significant..

& nobody's got the spine to replace politics with correctness, exactly as that political-meme somebody posted today showed.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Why would the private jet owners know precisely when the imminent apocalypse is about to happen? 🤔

Unless of course… the apocalypse is coming from inside the house! Ahhhhh!

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They have access to insider information allowing them to capitalize on pointless wars on polymarket. You think they won't have more warning than the rest of us?

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Polymarket accepts bottle caps for predictions now?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

In Fallout the currency is bottle caps. Post apocalyptic polymarket would in turn be in bottle caps. Not as funny now, thanks. 😕

[–] Coconut1233@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

War, war never changes

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Good luck flying jets while nukes are going off, it's a surefire way to die. Actually, please do. If you own. A private jew, and Armageddon is upon us, please take off in your jet.

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 weeks ago

It hasn't been legal to privately own jews for quite a while now.

[–] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's extremely frowned upon to own those privately.

[–] brendansimms@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

the old testament clearly says its okay to own them, but that they must be freed during jubilee

What did it go to before the war in Ukraine? Didn't every wealthy person with a jet flee from Russia and Ukraine the day before the war?

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Your manipulation of government with billionaire money has paid off in an inconvenient way. The crazy MF who you thought you could control and give you all the tax breaks and power to manipulate the market has gone rogue battling the billionaire authoritarians of other countries for nothing more than ego.

Congrats. You have survived the initial catastrophe. Thank goodness you somehow knew to be prepared for such a situation. Hmm, how did that happen?

As the world is plunged into nuclear winter, chaos, starvation, and warring with whatever weapons are left, you will watch it all happen from the comfort of your bunker as your supplies and fuel dwindle only to die just the same from starvation, some infection, or most likely painfully and slowly from a radiation induced illness thanks to the now completely poisoned world. “King of the hellscape” would be on your tombstone, except there’s nobody left to make one. #winning.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Only supports the US so ¯\(ツ)

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

You'll be fine. You probably get free healthcare and lots of vacation.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 7 points 2 weeks ago

Should also probably add polymarket monitoring

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

What annoys me is Im far enough from city center to survive in agony and im just helisure that the one targeted for the airport will come much later than the city center one. I dunno maybe I will be lucky and the airport would get hit first. That should be pretty instantaneous.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 1 points 2 weeks ago

we suspect that many people who have access to private jets

Those who knew about the system also, all rich Im guessing... they should be the firsts to go.