70% of the worlds surface is covered in water. None of that water is fizzy. Therefore the earth is technically flat…
I’ll be my coat, no need to send the pitchforks.
You’re so wrong!
Only 70% of the Earth is flat.
I’m on part of the remaining 30% and feel flat everyday. Explain that, mainstream media!
If the world is round, why are my tits flat? Checkmate libtards!
I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but…
Prove it?
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Good news, ocean acidification is literally the result of the ocean absorbing more CO2, and thus becoming less flat. Bad news, it’s kinda causing a shit ton of animals to die, especially coral.
Don’t worry. The water might be flat, but we’ve been working on carbonating the air for some time now.
There are natural mineral springs that make water fizzy. Just saying
Many people who die “of old age” have an utterly miserable time of it at the end, sometimes for months or years. Medical treatment to keep a person alive when they’ve already lost their faculties irrecoverably can be incredibly cruel.
There’s a reason that longevity research focuses on prolonging healthy life, not just prolonging life processes.
There’s no such thing as dying of old age. Just dying of something where you’re old enough where people go “yeah that tracks” instead of “oh no! so young!”.
Movies lied to me.
“Stranger Danger” is largely a myth as the most likely place for a child to be abused is in their own home and the most likely culprit is a trusted family member.
That’s why I don’t trust family members that would abuse my kids.
I don’t trust myself with my kids either since I’m a close relative, I exclusively only entrust my kids to totally random strangers off the Internet.
The number of transgender people that have been credibly accused of molesting children is minuscule. There are nearly 10,000 Catholic priests and church employees that have been credibly accused of child molestation. Catholic priests and Catholic church employees are more likely to assault children than school teachers (more priests etc. have been credibly accused than school teachers, and there are fa, far more school teachers than priests et al.)
And that’s not even getting into the “youth pastor that rapes teen girls” trope.
My daughter used to say “that’s not fair” all the time. I would tell her “Life isn’t fair. If you expect it to be, you will only set yourself up for failure and disappointment.”
She never listened to me, though.
Oh no.that’s disappointing.
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Your eyes have “immune privilege” meaning your immune system effectively does not know they exist as it would attack them and make you go blind if it did.
Additional unfun fact, in case the implication goes by anyone; some few folks have discovered exactly how much it sucks when your immune system discovers your eyes and have, indeed, gone blind because of it :(
Meaning, if you ever get a cut in your eye, go to the doctor, or else you’ll lose the eye.
My dog scratched his eye to the point of having an ulcer. Went to the emergency room ASAP 💸
I was in the Army, and stabbed myself in the eye with so. Many. Branches. So much damage.
That was decades ago, and I’m not blind yet… what’s the point at which it becomes a danger?
Actual penetration. When the outside touches anything inside the eye. Something poking the outside really really hard isn’t going to introduce your antibodies to the inside of the eye.
What makes your immune system hate your eyes
The same applies to the testicles.
If your immune system discovers your testicles you’ll go blind? Is that what happens if you masturbate too much?
That explains why I started going blind in high school!
There’s tons of carbon frozen in Arctic permafrost. As the planet warms up, the ice melts, dumping more CO2 into the atmosphere and causing a runaway effect.
Yet we can’t runaway from that problem
Not enough profit in it
Not enough short term profit. The long term returns are infinitely greater.
Yeah nobody cares enough about those
There’s also tons of carbon dioxide dissolved in seawater. As the planet warms up, the warmer sea can hold less carbon dioxide, dumping even more CO² into the atmosphere and accelerating the runaway effect.
There is an athropod that will replace a fish’s tongue.
There’s also a woman that will replace my will to live. I call her my ex-wife.
I know this is boomer humor but this got an audible laugh out of me.
I feel like it would be even more boomer if it was about their wife and not their ex-wife.
You should read the John Dies at the End series
Or the Laundry Files series.
spoiler
There’s an eldritch cult that uses mutant cymothoans for mind control. Some of them replace other body parts instead of the tongue.
There are more Panda Express restaurants than there are pandas.
Damn, that’s depressing. But considering the pandas sense of self preservation, it makes total sense.
Statistically speaking, 30 of the dalmatians in the movie 101 Dalmatians were deaf.
That our memories are all we really know and have. They’re also volatile, and are usually changed to support a narrative.
Be careful.
Hey remember when you promised to give me that $100? Don’t tell me your memory has changed to support the narrative that you’ve forgotten!
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oh FUCK
“There are a group of people who believe that each day, when they sleep, they die,” the old man continued. “They believe that consciousness doesn’t continue—that if it is interrupted, a new soul is born when the body awakes.” The old man continued…
“The thing about this philosophy is how difficult it is to disprove,” the old man said. “How do you know that you are the same you as yesterday? You would never know if a new soul came to inhabit your body, so long as it had the same memories. But then … if it acts the same, and thinks it is you, why would it matter? What is it to be you?"
We forget things but we remember people. As long as you take one life lesson from every person you meet you’ll never forget the important stuff.
The guy who shot john Wikes Booth was once solicited by prostitutes. He was so so appalled by his boner that he decided to castrate himself with pinking shears (scissors). He then goes to church and walks it off before seeing a doctor.
The real sad part is that he was undeniably driven insane by his work as a hat maker. Fur hats were shaped and then brushed with mercury, which led to hat makers getting mercury poisoning from the fumes.
Basically the poor guy melted his brain, chopped of his balls, enlisted into the union army and was forced to march on a boken leg, killed the most infamous man in the world, and was then locked up in an asylum.
Fanta’s creation was a result of American companies cutting off business with Germany during WWII. Coca Cola stopped sending ingredients to the local bottling plant in Germany but the ones there still wanted to work and make money. They took the ingredients they still had access to and made a new drink, Fanta! Once the war was over and Coca Cola made contact with them again they liked the new drink and just made it part of their brand.
I had to stop telling this normally as it tends to make people hate me for making them feel bad about drinking Fanta. I tell them it’s fine. I drive a Volkswagen. But they still feel gross about it so I stopped telling people or at least tell them that they may not want to drink Fanta anymore and give them the choice.
Coca-Cola never gave up thier german subsidiary Coca-Cola GmbH and they never willingly stopped sending syrup.
Syrup was stopped by the allied blockades. They ran out of stockpiles in 1943 and so the owner created Fanta with apple cider scraps.
The Dutch Coca-Cola plant had similar supply issues and they sent the Fanta branding up there as well but used elderberry.
After the war Coca-Cola regained their subsidiaries and the Fanta branding.
Fanta would be discontinued in 1949.
The current Fanta we know today was created in Italy in 1955 to complete with an unknown Italian PepsiCo product.
This makes me want to drink Fanta more than Cola though.
I don’t blame the workers for wanting to continue earning their money. I wonder whether they provided the new drink freely to Coke once the contact came back, or if Coke just took it…
According to quantum physics, it’s possible that the Higgs field, which gives matter its mass, isn’t as stable as it seems and could be in a false vacuum. In theory it could collapse to a lower energy state releasing massive amounts of energy while turning surrounding matter into a different kind of matter with theoretically completely different laws of physics… If just one particle manages to reach this true vacuum state (through quantum tunneling fore example), the effect will be a collapse of the universe around it, expanding at light speed.
Some interpretations state that stars and even life will survive such an event. Others state that nothing most people think of as “matter” will survive. Either way, unless we can prove that our current understanding of physics is wrong, devastation at a universal scale could happen any time, anywhere.
The universe could be collapsing as we speak and we have no way to predict it, no way to prevent it and no way to even be sure this is it isn’t already happening. All it would take is a single particle in the entire universe to fuck up and we’d be doomed. What we know as the universe could disappear into nothingness at any point in time, leaving not even bones or a planet for theoretical future civilisations to find.
Luckily, vacuum decay is limited by the speed of light, so it could take billions of years before the bubble of death hits us. It could also hit in five seconds.
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Either way, unless we can prove that our current understanding of physics is wrong, devastation at a universal scale could happen any time, anywhere.
This is a disingenuous way to phrase this. Our current understanding of physics leads us to hypothesize that our universe could be metastable, there is no proof that we actually exist in such a state.
Correction, it should be the entire observable universe not the entire universe since light outside the observable universe cannot reach us due to expansion thus anything that travels at speed of light can also not reach us.
Of all the big scary things in the universe, this one scares me the least. Even if it does happen and is the worst-case scenario you just cease to exist at the speed of light before you even know something is happening. No pain, no dread at your inevitable demise, you just are living your life normally and in a nanosecond you are gone. Not a bad way to go, imo.
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That there’s notorious war criminals still alive such as Henry Kissinger that probably won’t face any repercussions for their atrocities in their lifetimes.
Also there are billionaires and politicians in power that could easily at least start switching to clean energy and plastic alternatives but choose not to.
Kissinger received a fucking Nobel Peace Prize.
It was one of the defining moments of my childhood that turned me into a radical.
And I bet Alfred Nobel is still rolling in his grave for that considering the whole reason he proposed the Nobel Prizes.
Jason Steele (of Charlie the Unicorn fame) used to do a show called Vulo Lives which has a recurring game called Guess That War Criminal. The hint was always that they were also a Nobel Peace Prize winner. There were… quite a few of them.
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Kissinger was on the board of Theranos, which feels a little anachronistic to me.
There was once a study to test the amount of “poop particles” (feces based bacteria) on everyday objects. The study consisted of putting objects in places that would be more or less likely to have feces and a control group which was isolated from any source of feces based bacteria to the best of their ability. The microbiologists running the study were unable to tell which group was the control.
This is written to the best of my memory and some details may be wrong but the meaning is the same
In graduate school I swabbed a public toilet seat and wiped the specimen in a Petri dish. My cohort swabbed the bottom of their shoe and did the same. The public toilet specimen grew virtually nothing. The shoe specimen grew the equivalent of a rainforest in bacteria.
I can’t believe Americans wear shoes inside.
You expect us to step on our bathroom carpet in our bare feet?
LMAO, I was like what the fuck is bathroom carpet, then I got the joke. It’s a joke right? Please.
Unfortunately not, some areas of the US have nasty ass carpet all the way up to the toilet.
Hey! You leave my extensive-rug-of-back-hair out of this!
2 of the rentals I’ve lived in had bathroom carpet.
Rentals.
Student accommodation…
They were probably 40% vomit, 25% filth, 25% jizz and 10% actual carpet.
Some do. Most don’t (in my experience).
I live in California. The only people I know who wear shoes in the house are those with neurological damage making it painful for them to walk around in socks, slippers, or barefoot. CRPS sucks.
Americans also don’t eat off the floor.
Toilet seats are naturally smooth and bacteria have a hard time staying on the surface. Most public toilet seats have an additional antimicrobial coating.
That can also mean we’re doing pretty damn well just with toilets.
I once, out of curiosity, mounted an expedition to the darkest regions of the internet, aka The Dark Web.
There’s some shit there that can scar you for life. Don’t ever go there, seriously.
I was on the Internet in the wild west period when you could just as easily stumble upon the kind of stuff you can only find on the dark web just making a Yahoo search.
Ahh the days of orgish, rotten, thisisacryforhelp, stile project, theync
Why, when I saw.my first decapitation video I was merely a boy!
Yeah, the internet used to be fucked. There were noooo rules. It was kinda like paradise but with landmines. Lots of landmines.
It still is very fucked especially sites like reddit sometimes
Edit: maybe i underestimated the internet a bit
Oh you sweet summer child. Reddit has moderation, administration, …rules? Policies, terms of use?
Reddit is the Disney Channel.
The moderation took way too long but I understand that it could be even worse but the internet is still a fucked up place maybe less than before but still bad
It’s not “oops, I accidentally stumbled upon a cache of child porn” fucked, like back in the early days of the WWW.
You’ll run into fucked up people; but the content is like Sesame Street levels of fucked by comparison.
LMAO what a bullshit, why does this dumb answer has 20 upvotes?
No need to go to the dark web, videos of children being skinned alive get posted on the normal internet all the time. They get remove quickly, but there’s always someone who’s the first to notice and report that crap.
Meanwhile I use the dark web to access archive.today because they sabotage your computer if you use Cloudflares’s DNS servers.
There are some useful websites out there if by darknet you mean the Tor network. BBC, Debian, Reddit, and Z-Library (an eBook download site that had its content availability reduced after legal pressure) for example have onion domains.
I highly doubt it, my mind was s very strong and I have seen many thing in my life, gruesome death, abuse you name it. Nothing disturbs me. In comparison, the average person is too sensitive
Thinking of it a bit differently, have you considered you might not be sensitive enough? There’s some real benefits to living with a healthy dose of sensitivity; for one, it is part of a healthy response to situations that could be physically harmful to you. Best of luck out there :)
