Suspicious rule

now do population centers
- https://xkcd.com/1138
  
  There is still always an xkcd.
- I'd say the correlation is pretty good even when accounting for population densities.
- Have you seen a map of population centers? That's not what they look like.
  
  Nah, most cities are built specifically to conceal and exploit massive cave systems

funny how in the top map you can see the state borders as massive walls of missing person reports
- Squints
  Maybe, but it needs some more jpg to be sure

wait, so people vanishing creates a vacuum explosion that only leaves behind a cave as evidence?

Well what the fuck is happening in California?
- Southern California is the main homeless destination in the country. The Los Angeles basin is unusual. It is a bowl of surrounding mountains against a rare deep ocean upwelling current. We actually have fewer really hot Summer days near the coast than you might think. There needs to be a pattern that pulls the desert out over the cold ocean to make the signature SoCal beach days. The rest of the time, within a few miles of the ocean, the temperatures stay quite mild. San Diego gets hot, and just north of LA it gets cold enough to freeze in winter, but not within the basin. It also only rains for a few weeks total every year, and all of that will pretty much happen a week at a time. Up near the center, Sierra mountains are the likely cause.
  No joke there are 100k homeless people in the LA basin right now.
  
  Ok, but this has pretty much nothing to do with unexplained disappearances, especially given the large homeless populations in other cities that are not showing on here. But really, this map cannot be relied on since we have no idea where the data is derived from, and we can barely even see it due to the poor resolution
  
  Super interesting! As someone that was born and lived the vast majority of their life in Florida, LA is odd to me. I've been a few times. The main things we have in common are similar economic models, language (almost a different dialect tho), and are in the same federation. Mostly everything else is different. It's almost a different country.
  Here are some differences that stick out to me:
  Mountains and hills vs nearly 100% flat
  Deserts vs swamps
  Dry vs humid
  Sparse vegetation vs tropical rain forest
  Clay sand vs dirt sand
  Cold beaches w/ major waves vs warm beaches w/ flat water
  Barely rains vs daily storms
  Earthquakes vs hurricanes
  Mexicans vs Puerto Ricans, Cubans, & Dominicans
  Spanish names vs indigenous names
  Cowboys vs Southerners
  
  they should seize Wyoming
- More people, so more chances to go missing
  
  People ~~live in cities~~ die in caves
- Bigfoot
- Pretty sure that big one is Yosemite.

The people yearn for the caves
- This is my hole...
  Reference
  Link for the uninitiated
  
  Stop trying to show me your hole, Landless
  
  Such a good one, I love junji's style of body horror. So eerie & unnerving.
- Ever seen "the descent"? group of women friends go spelunking in a Virginia cave system and get absolutely destroyed by blind cave people that move around by echo location
  No thanks

I really wish politicians took the cave monster threat seriously.
- I seriously wish the cave monster threat really took politicians.

Ohh no

Which ones are near Amigara Fault?
- of course it's a Junji Ito....nah I'm good I still think about those holes too much....

Now do it per capita

Nutty Putty...
- You might also want to read about the Devils Hole incident. Imagine getting sucked into an underground river that is impossible to swim against, while you get sucked deeper and deeper into the void as your oxygen tank starts to run out.
  Between Nutty Putty and that story, I've decided that I never want to go anywhere near a cave, regardless of ~~whether it's underwater or above ground~~ where it's located.
  
  Thank goodness there aren't many above ground caves

Okay okay okay, I got it. They're in the caves, guys!
You're welcome! Tips can be deposited in the guitar case please.
- In the future, the lazy Eloi will be living above ground. But underground, there will be cave monsters that use the above ground people for food. Dean, they eat them.

That’s part of the plot of the movie

Edit: it sucks that I can’t say the movie without ruining its surprise, what a useless spoiler tag 😭
For anyone who doesn’t want to ruin the surprise: it’s one of these movies: 10 cloverfield lane, cloverfield, and descent
There, now you won’t know which one exactly (if you haven’t seen all three) but you’ll get a ballpark sense of which movie to watch
- I think they might figure out which movie when they start it and it's immediately about caves lmao
  
  Haha, they’re all related to caves in some way, descent is about cave exploring, cloverfield is about subterranean dwelling stuff and 10 cloverfield place is about basement dwelling, at least that was my logic 😊
- What... What even is this comment. Why even pick these totally inconspicuous movies to fill your triplet?
  I understand nothing.
  
  Such are my mysterious ways

West coast caves are safer apparently. /s

Cave aliens, obviously.