• the_boxhead
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    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

  • gabe [he/him]
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    582 years ago

    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.

    • Sunstream
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      192 years ago

      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 :(

      • m-p{3}
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        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?

        • @[email protected]
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          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.

      • Dandroid
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        112 years ago

        If your immune system discovers your testicles you’ll go blind? Is that what happens if you masturbate too much?

  • NickwithaC
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    502 years ago

    “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.

  • @[email protected]
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    452 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    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

    • @[email protected]
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      142 years ago

      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.

    • BarqsHasBite
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      142 years ago

      That can also mean we’re doing pretty damn well just with toilets.

  • @[email protected]
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    222 years ago

    That our memories are all we really know and have. They’re also volatile, and are usually changed to support a narrative.

    Be careful.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 years ago

      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!

  • @[email protected]
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    212 years ago

    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.

      • @[email protected]
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        172 years ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          It still is very fucked especially sites like reddit sometimes

          Edit: maybe i underestimated the internet a bit

          • @[email protected]
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            Oh you sweet summer child. Reddit has moderation, administration, …rules? Policies, terms of use?

            Reddit is the Disney Channel.

            • @[email protected]
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              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

          • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆
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            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.

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      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.

    • Skull giver
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      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      -242 years ago

      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

      • AstralWeekends
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        182 years ago

        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 :)

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m actively avoiding growing insensitive to stuff like this

        My sense of normalcy kinda depends on not being apathetic to abuse

  • Rin
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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.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      Kissinger received a fucking Nobel Peace Prize.

      It was one of the defining moments of my childhood that turned me into a radical.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni
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    172 years ago

    Conditions on the road of bones in Russia were so bad that and it was so hard for them all to be taken to a cemetery that, for every meter of road, there’s a body of an overworked road worker buried underneath the road. And the road never got to anywhere good.

  • essell
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    162 years ago

    That fairness doesn’t exist, everyone has their own idea of it based on their background, experience and belief system.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      I was thinking about this recently. You know the MLK quote about the universe bending toward justice? The eventual heat death of the universe is the only way everything will be equal.

  • magnetosphere
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    Several (if not all) of the astronauts who died in the Challenger explosion probably didn’t die immediately. They likely remained conscious and aware for at least several seconds, and died on impact with the ocean surface.