r/interestingasfuck • u/Red_Lotus_Alchemist • 2d ago

/r/all A Chinese earthquake rescue team deployed drones to light up the night and aid search and rescue operations after the devastating 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar.

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u/lizzieassist 2d ago

It's so good that technology is advancing and helping people

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u/Fallen_Walrus 2d ago

But but they're supposed to charge people to save them! NOT FAIR! STOP THEM DADDY TRUMP

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u/MoistStub 2d ago

If we are lucky the fire dept might even become a subscription service to maximize America's freedom! /s

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u/TazBaz 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean to be fair, that’s literally how fire departments started.

Of course we as a society realized that it was to the best interest of society as a whole if we had some system for dealing with fires before they burned down entire cities.

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u/Any_Conflict_5092 1d ago

And, we moved away from that version of fire dept for good reason.

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u/TazBaz 1d ago

Oh, yeah, sorry, I didn’t really explain that. Edited.

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u/Shabolt_ 1d ago

Good old Crassus of Rome

Mythologised accounts state that he died after being captured and forced to “drink” molten gold. Wild stuff

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u/midnightsmith 1d ago

Don't worry, you're talking to people who don't know history, and if Trump and fElon have their way, no one will be around to remember it, and the books will all be re written