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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

Half of us wouldn't react at all... ;)

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some would deny it happened

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You mean they would deny that their disappeared relatives were alway missing?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, they'd do the whole antivaxx/climate denier/"don't look up" routine

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

That is some pretty effed up shit

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Some would think they'd been left behind. Some would cheer the easing of the population crisis. Some would say It was only a matter of time before a pandemic caused it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure I'd volunteer... Someone else probably has plans where as I'm just coasting

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh, the paperwork that would cause... Easy to snap your fingers, but is he going to help fill out all the forms? Lazy purple good-for-nothing.

Hm, probably the first thing that would happen is that insurance companies would classify it an "Act of God", terrorist attack, or act of war to avoid paying out (depending on policy wording) -- forming a new record for "fastest paperwork filed by an insurance company".

Then next, that's a lot of people gone with no will. Estate law is going to be a mess, and we've got half the lawyers to deal with it. That is going to be a proper mess to untangle. If alive, I'll start a business process outsourcing company to pre-process the paperwork in Vietnam, assuming the Internet hold up.