How will it be on September 11, 2024

I don't know what this means, exactly, but I know that I fundamentally disagree with it.

There's probably some folks in Washington DC who'd take GREAT exception to that comment too.

She really needs to fuckin' relax. I'd also bet she's not even a native New Yorker. Am I right?

oh, real New Yorkers aren't the 'real' New Yorkers, duh

My grandmother, my sister, and my old college roomy. Put your number up here (HA) and I'll call you for free, too.

this is so fantabulously wrong on every level, that i don't even know where to begin. and that this was said by a NEW YORKER ...

My mom will turn 73!

Yeah, she didn't get a chance to bitch about her 50th, as it would have been in extremely poor taste that day.

The sushi is on a conveyor belt because that is how you order: you take it off the belt and eat it.

It obviates the need to do taxing things like open a menu, or order food from a human being. Behold the future!

bump

What's a 9/11?

Sage Telecom was sold to a hedge fund, I have unlimited long-distance calling now anyway, and Grandma died in 2009.

To answer the OP.

Just the fact that everyone under the age of 25 has no personal memory of the 9/11 attacks and the great majority of those who can recall it have lived 23 years of life, family deaths, and newer traumas, means that the societal trauma of that day has inevitably faded. But there are still many hundreds of thousands of people for whom that trauma will always be fresh and they will appreciate the commemorations.

I love that this thread was just lurking, waiting for its moment... like godzilla resting at the bottom of the sea, waiting to be awoken when the time was right

bump of the decade

my partner's good friend is passing away soon because of a rare cancer she acquired in manhattan that day. the effects run long. that said, i'm not sure if commemorations are appreciated in this context. she was a child then

god that's awful... I've heard anecdotally that plenty of first responders ended up with chronic illnesses from everything they were exposed to in the aftermath

more on that

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240911-911s-long-legacy-how-the-dust-and-smoke-from-the-twin-towers-attacks-is-still-claiming-lives

I love that this thread was just lurking, waiting for its moment... like godzilla resting at the bottom of the sea, waiting to be awoken when the time was right

I actually stumbled upon this thread a couple of months ago and made a mental note to revive it on the relevant day ... and then forgot lol

the onion's subtember 11 ad is my only yearly reminder of 9/11 and i lol every time.

I fucking love that ad

https://www.espn.com/page2/s/thompson/010918.html

more on that

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240911-911s-long-legacy-how-the-dust-and-smoke-from-the-twin-towers-attacks-is-still-claiming-lives🕸🕸

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/9-11-meme-gen-z-1235097749/

This was an interestingly grim read

Gen Z son bought two souvenirs from NYC as we were leaving — a cheap Empire State license plate replica with his name on it and a 12-inch plastic replica of the Twin Towers.

"Why are you getting that one?" I asked.

He replied, "I dunno. 9/11."

I actually stumbled upon this thread a couple of months ago and made a mental note to revive it on the relevant day ... and then forgot lol

same. I was gonna wish Anthony's mom a happy birthday.

first thing i saw on Insta yesterday morning was the photo of “The Falling Man” and i was really angry & upset about it

like, it’s become the Kim Phuc photo from Vietnam in the same way i guess maybe

for everyone else i mean

not for me

but even now that the coverage is minimal the heaviness just stays in the air like thunderstorm static

alright 2004 ilxors. the 9/11 memorial was yesterday. the former President of the United States, who you may know as the host of the Celebrity Apprentice...look, its a long story...anyway, he's there along with one of his top advisors, an insane Nazi who thinks 9/11 was an inside job. he's also currently running for President and just the day before did a debate where he bragged about his ability to work with the Taliban. people didn't really notice though since he also claimed that immigrants were going to eat your pets. which was an idea fed to him by the insane Nazi. it's a real problem for him if he doesn't win again because he was hit with 34 felonies and has 3 more criminal trials including attempting to overthrow the US government and stealing a bunch of classified documents to store in his private bathroom, for reasons nobody's figured out yet, though I will mention it's pretty well-accepted that Russia is actively trying to help him win. I guess we really did lose our minds after 9/11 LOL

Oh yeah and the guys you hate in the Bush White House are endorsing the Democrat in the race

My friend who was a middle-aged computer programmer/consultant who had never smoked got throat cancer after being forced by her employer to go back to work downtown after 9/11. Later after her chemo, radiation, and surgery, she said it was a type of cancer that only smokers get (per her doctors). She survives to this day <3