ok i'd seen posts about and references to the tiktok tunnel girl but today i finally saw one of her videos and it is SO much crazier than i imagined???
she has actual mining equipment? people made it sound like she was just digging holes but no this is a legit mine??? what the fuck???? so many questions
i vaguely remember seeing a post about the woman on tiktok illegally digging a tunnel under her house to make a storm shelter, but i did not realise that 1) she has 0 qualifications and works in IT, 2) she got into her areas watertable and started pumping groundwater out into her yard, 3) when a fire broke out, she recorded herself putting it out with a fire extinguisher in one hand and her phone in the other, 4) she hit a radon gas bubble, 5) shes located somewhere with big sulphur pockets and as she got into the waterline, she might have produced sulphuric acid which leaks into the aquifer, aka she could be poisoning the local drinking water, 6) she lives on a CUL-DE-SAC, 7) shes just been releasing silica dust whilst not using respiratory gear herself, let alone warning her neighbours, and 8) her neighbours have said the ground would randomly shake sometimes but many of them felt they couldnt report it to local authorities for fear of deportation.
she has now been stopped and seems to think that since shes only tunneling under her property, itll be easy to get permits to continue. she also drives a tesla which... yeah, that sounds about right.
saw tiktok comments that were like "so heartbreaking to realise tunnel girl is a trump supporter" and thats so interesting to me because of course she is. I wonder much power an internet echo chamber gets just by people assuming the default is in accordance with their views. Literally try to tell me something more libertarian than digging a mine in your backyard. Of course shes a trump supporter??? But yeah, i was also a little surprised. Because she's younger? because she's a woman? i dont know, but it really put into light an interesting part of internet-discourse-echo-chamber-itis
In which Lucifer starts getting comfortable, forgets social boundaries, and Alastor kind of does so too. Nifty takes 1 interaction and makes it a whole plot.