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The world is a scary place. Beautiful, yes, but take a good look around and you'll definitely notice something that makes you feel uncomfortable. Whether we're talking about spiders, lightning, or social interaction, everyone has their own nightmare fuel.
To find the worst of the worst, Reddit user Misoalgia posted a question on the platform, asking everyone "What is a genuinely terrifying fact?" Immediately, the replies started pouring in and as of now, the post has over 9.9K comments. In order to save you, dear pandas, some time, we scrolled through the entries and hand-picked the most memorable ones.
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#1
The ten hottest years on record have all been since 2010.
We are not only going to see the catastrophic 2 degree warming this century - we're probably going to see more than that.
The absolute worst part? Even with net zero emissions by 2070 we will STILL probably see 2 degree warming. The time for action to prevent catastrophe was over maybe 20 years ago - we are living in a time of disaster management.
Saint_Zipcodus 2 years ago
No need to resignate just yet. Resignation is what the main profiteers of climate change want from us in order to keep raking in profits. Please watch the video We WILL Fix Climate Change! by channel Kurzgesagt on YT. They sum it up nicely - astonishingly much has already turned to the better, especially considering the profiteers actively try to prevent change. Plus it probbably will make you feel better ;)
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EarthGrowl 2 years ago
It took 200,000 years for the human population to reach 1 Billion around the year 1900. It's only taken 123 years for that number to leap from 1 Billion to 8 billion. Anyone else see the problem? Humans can no longer reproduce like mindless animals. A human requires 2 acres of land to produce enough food for a year. There are only 15 billion acres of land suitable for cultivation on Earth. For 8 billion people. We are already exceeding the Earth's capacity. Nature maintains a delicate equilibrium. Humans have smashed that equilibrium and it will be smashed back.
Laughing Orc 2 years ago
But hey, at least Britain has just rolled back it's environmental commitments so we can now reach our nightmare future even earlier! /S
cerinamroth 2 years ago
I am putting a lot of faith in that word "probably". But that requires even more faith in achieving zero emissions by 2070. Rishi Effing Sunak has just made it harder to believe in the future of humanity. What a monstrous, pitiful being.
HolQ 2 years ago (edited)
Maybe thats why... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-mouse-utopias-1960s-led-grim-predictions-humans-180954423/ this is very interesting and I think that can be a humanity future.... "Generally guarded by one male, the females—and few males—inside the space didn't breed or fight or do anything but eat and groom and sleep. When the population started declining the beautiful ones were spared from violence and death, but had completely lost touch with social behaviors, including having sex or caring for their young."
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Astrophile 2 years ago
No, but one UN chief recently called it that to draw attention to how big of a deal this actually is.
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sturmwesen 2 years ago
I feel like dying already every summer. Not sure how I'll make it through the next 40 years.
OneHappyPuppy 2 years ago
This hurts knowing this generation's children, mine included, are going to have to live with that disaster
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#2
That there are people in this world who have absolutely zero support, and absolutely zero people to count on.
Kangaroo Ratz 2 years ago
there are actually quite a few, id say at least 3 million people and I dont like it. everyone should have someone.
ginshun 2 years ago
if we are talking about the entire population of earth, I'd be willing to bet it's a lot more than 3 million.
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Duckie Measles 2 years ago
When my parents are gone, I'll be all alone. My anxiety doesn't allow me to build new relationships. :(
#3
That somebody is out here trafficking humans and then going back to their family while living comfortably in a much nice place than some of us are.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
The reality - every one of us reading this is leading our relatively comfortable lifestyle on the backs of the labor of children, indentured people and slaves, and trafficked people.
Pride Bean️ 2 years ago
Human trafficking is a disgusting practice that needs to stop. I mean STOP
Doodles1983 2 years ago
Yep. Which is why I get mad about people whining about “historical” slavery and removal of statues etc. That’s done and can’t be changed. Focus on what’s happening NOW!
Adam Jeff 2 years ago
Read the poem 'Vultures' by Chinua Achebe. "...Thus the Commandant at Belsen Camp going home for the day with fumes of human roast clinging rebelliously to his hairy nostrils will stop at the wayside sweet-shop and pick up a chocolate for his tender offspring waiting at home for Daddy's return..."
Orange Tabby 2 years ago
This reminded me of the movie "I spit on your grave". Bastards rape, abuse, assault and almost kill a young woman and then they get back to their homes as if nothing happened. One even has a young girl running to him, yelling daddyyy and he has the audacity to hug that little child and smile and be genuinely happy about his life.
Laura Williams 2 years ago
Some people have no respect for human lives. That person that is trafficking humans probably doesn't actually have anyone they would help. Including their family.
#4
The earth was around billions of years before we were, and is indifferent to our survival. There have been multiple mass extinctions in the past and we shouldn't feel any safer. The only difference is we've advanced far enough to the point that we'll probably know in advance when our species is going to go extinct.
Paul Richards 2 years ago
In the grand scheme of things other species would be better off without ua
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TheAmericanAmerican 2 years ago
Hey! What do you know? That's today with the climate change catastrophe 🤗 We so smart!!!
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
As George Carlin said, "The Earth will shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance".
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
Evolution isn't a direction, there is no "far enough" there is only adaptive and maladaptive. And we have existed during a brief (historically speaking) period of climate stability. We are one of the top largest animals in the world, and megafauna is always the first to go extinct when things changes. That climate stability? We're acting like we don't need it.
afia kooma 2 years ago
We are going to go extinct. And when we do we have left hundreds of timebombs aka nuclear plants all over the planet. So to call us advanced is an overstatement.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
No matter what, we have only a few billion years.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
"we'll probably know in advance when our species is going to go extinct". I wouldn't bet on that. There have been false alarms since before Noah built his ark.
hitex 2 years ago
Many of past human civilizations were also 'advanced' - didn't do them much good. I doubt we'd even be told if the powers that be knew in advance
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#5
Scurvy at advanced stages can make all of your scars reopen, because maintaining them is an active process that your body does all the time and when it can't produce collagen it stops. Maybe eat some fruit.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
It may be apocryphal, but I read that the reason we (British) were called Limeys is because we used limes to get vitamin C (that's not the apocryphal bit), and the reason we used limes instead of lemons, which contain more vitamin C, is that we were at war with everyone who grew lemons. I'd love to think that's true, but I don't know.
Load More Replies... cerinamroth 2 years ago
Jeez, after multiple abdominal surgeries, that doesn't bear thinking about!!
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Your first scar is your belly button. Yeah, that one, too.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Inhaling them might be slightly problematic.
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Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 years ago
I shall monitor my scars for signs of advanced scurry from now on. Always good to have a hobby!
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
Saw an episode of Jeopardy College tourney. One of the contestants said she and her roommates got scurvy one semester b/c they mainly ate ramen.
#6
One genuinely terrifying fact is the concept of "antibiotic resistance." Bacteria can evolve to become resistant to antibiotics, the drugs we use to treat bacterial infections. Overuse and misuse of antibiotics can speed up this process, making previously treatable diseases difficult or even impossible to cure. According to the World Health Organization, antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health today, potentially leading to a future where simple infections could once again become deadly.
DC 2 years ago
... and yet, we allow an industry to feed them to millions of animals in blanket-treatments because some of them may be sick. In order to produce cheap meat - and the buying habits of most people express their agreement to this, as none of the products resulting from this are necessary, but voluntarily bought. But then again, if we see the bodycount of that industry, can we even be stupid enough to assume they had ANY ethics at all? Obviously, they have none.
easter bunny 2 years ago
This is only in certain countries. I know in Europe and UK hormone use on animals is banned and there is no free access to antibiotics. They are prescribed and administered by a vet. The biggest issue with antibiotic resistance is the over prescription in humans and the problem with people only taking half a course and stopping when they feel better.
Load More Replies... hitex 2 years ago
This is also why you should take full round of antibiotics and not stop when you feel better & keep rest for when you get sick again. They give you the full round for a reason - to fully kill bacteria & not allow it to mutate bc residual bacteria after stopping early
David A Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
I was reading about this yesterday. The good news is the maggots have been successfully used to eat dead cells in open wounds, and eat the antibiotic-resistant bacteria along with them. Maggot therapy went out of fashion when antibiotics came in.
Daniela Lavanza 2 years ago
Also, developing new treatments is so long and expensive that most pharmaceutical companies don't want to invest. I for one understood how worried we should be when I heard a surgeon explain that simple surgeries could become a huge problem if the usual post-operation treatments no longer work. After surgery, we're feeble and any wound could easily be infected as in previous centuries without antibiotics. Frightening future...
Doodles1983 2 years ago
And shouldn’t prescribe for mild infection that should self resolve. And not for sniffles and colds. Antibiotics do nothing for viruses!
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afia kooma 2 years ago (edited)
Dont know why they use the word "can" so much, when "have" would be much more exactly.
Alif Zakaria 1 year ago
Don’t worry, they sacrifice immunity to bacteriophages for this. And if they want to be immune to those? Well, boy do I have good news…
Sara Wilson 2 years ago
What's crazy, is that at one point, the "common cold" was so deadly it killed people. We have just developed enough of an immunity to it, that it doesn't kill is anymore. That's also why when Columbus and other landed, their diseases killed the native peoples. They had no immunity. All viruses r that way
#7
That we need to work for 11 months to get one month off in a whole year. That most of people need to work at a s****y job until they retire and then struggle to survive on a small retirement. I mean, a bunch of s**t that is terrifying. Billionaires don't pay taxes etc.
Vir 2 years ago
In Argentina you normally get 2 weeks off a year for the first 5 years you work at the same company (and if you switch jobs you have to start counting those 5 years again). Last year worked in a restaurant in Switzerland and had 6 weeks without seniority!
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Barry Fruitman 2 years ago
It should be illegal to be a billionaire while others are living in the streets.
Sand Ers 2 years ago
It should be illegal to be a billionaire. No extraordinary circumstances needed. No sane society would allow hoarding at that scale, and no society which tolerates it remains stable for long.
Load More Replies... cartoon ghosts 2 years ago
SERIOUSLY. money is f****d and the fact that we aren't doing socialism or a type of socialist govt. is even worse
similarly 2 years ago
People always told me when I was young that I should get a job doing something I love. That's hard to find! There was a song back in the 70s with the lyrics "If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with." That's my work philosophy. It's not always about finding a job that's "important" or "meaningful", but rather about finding meaning in the work you do. If I'm a janitor, I can take pride in the fact that when people come to an office and it's clean and the lights work and the trash can is empty, they feel better, they're happier, they do better work. If I sell hot dogs in the park, I can take pride in the moment of joy a smile and a hot dog can bring. It's all attitude. But like Alan Watts says, if you go into your job thinking it's "work", and you're just doing it for the money, it will be hell. I don't do my job for the money. I do it because it's meaningful to me. We spend a lot of time at work. The right attitude can make it not so bad.
Timbob 2 years ago
Well, if you’re not happy with that, just become a billionaire . Problem solved !
Max Fox 2 years ago
Better than it was. Until the early 20th century, most people had 1/2 a day off a week, three days vacation (unpaid) a year, maybe, and only could retire if they managed somehow to save a bit, otherwise they either lived off their children or starved. One of the reasons that Jews in Eastern Europe lived longer, had more surviving children, and were generally healthier than the people around them, despite being poverty-stricken was the fact that they would take 1.5 days a week off, as well as have fours weeks or so of holidays a year during which labor was prohibited by religious law.
Sara Wilson 2 years ago
Most people have to rely on SS (in the US) that won't even b around, most likely, in 20 years when I retire.
Panda Cat 1 week ago
The GOP aka Rethuglicans love to complain about entitlements but we *are* entitled to social security because we paid into it! They intentionally contaminate the meaning of whatever bothers them, especially when they want to smash the poor, or middle class, into the ground. Another word they deliberately misunderstand is “woke” because they wanted to turn awareness into something awful. I hate those people who are intentionally ruining, not just the US but so many other places we helped, which helped us and the rest of the world. The only way Dumpty Trumpty want to hand out aid is by giving $2 billion to Argentina.
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#8
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow) can lie dormant for more than 50 years, is universally fatal, and is inheritable. There is no cure.
MrDarksCarnival:
My mom passed from this.
Took a healthy energetic 60-year old woman that MAYBE looked 50, and turned her into a semi-vegetative shell of her former self.
It’s destructive. And I have no idea if it’s dormant in me.
LazyPanda 2 years ago
I learbed about this disease in college. It's a deadly disease that is mostly transfered to humans by eating meat from cows and sometimes sheep that have it in them. It can also be transfered by transfusion or other transplants done from human to human and by placenta from a mother to her unborn child.
George Costanza 2 years ago
Mad cow is almost exclusively due to eating infected neural tissue from an infected cow, not technically the "meat". Whole cuts like steak are generally safe. However, industrially ground beef would be at risk because there could be neural tissue (brain, spine, large peripheral nerves) mixed in due to cost-cutting. Mad cow was spread from cow to cow due to feeding cows processed feed containing infected cow parts, essentially forced cow cannibalism.
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Kelly H 2 years ago
There is a fantastic documentary available on YouTube on Kuru - a prion disease akin to mad cow and the doctor who lived with an isolated Papua New Guinean tribe who were affected. Absolutely fascinating and terrifying at the same time
Tamra 2 years ago
This post is only partially true. Yes, there is hereditary CJD, but is found in only a small percentage of cases. The bulk of CJD is called "sporadic" rather than inherited, and makes up for 85% of all known cases. My husband's aunt died from this, and it was horrific.
Carrie Laughs 2 years ago (edited)
People are muddling CJD with Variant CJD (vCJD). The latter is from 'mad cow' disease. You are right that there are other types - Sporadic, familial or inherited and latrogenic (spread by surgical or medical treatment).
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Upstaged75 2 years ago
Anyone else remember the X Files episode called Our Town? People in a small creepy town in Arkansas start developing this disease. And it's not from eating animals. :)
Coffeetime2 2 years ago
Learning about it was enough to stop me from eating beef, particularly ground beef.
DelvianBlue 2 years ago
I remember reading a scientific study a few years back that absolutely floored me. It seems some scientists studying Alzheimers disease found large plaques of prions in the victims' brain tissue - the same kind prions found in CJD. They have no idea why those prions were there or if there's any causation, but it's interesting to think there could be a potential relationship.
Midoribird Aoi 2 years ago
Mad cow is a VARIANT of the disease and cannot be inherited! Get your facts correct! The variant is the tainted cow meat version. The standard version is the kind that can be inherited.
afia kooma 2 years ago
We made this disease by feeding cow to cows. We feed chicken to chickens still, so who knows what we get next.
Ren Karlej 2 years ago
Humans made variant CJD (vCJD) by feeding sheep and other meat derived products (likely cow) to cows. The disease already existed in sporadic forms with no known cause. It can also be inherited.
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Alyssa Brown 2 years ago
My uncle died from this, it was really hard to watch him deteriorate and it happened so quickly. Still not sure how he got it.
Alex Bailey 2 years ago
There are sporadic forms with no currently known cause unfortunately. You can inherit or get it from medical treatment as well. The post is a bit misleading as it talks as if CJD is just from cows by referring to it as mad cow disease. It's not. That version is known as vCJD and then there are the other types as I mentioned.
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That mankind is the single biggest threat to our own extinction.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
Two planets meet and one asks the other... »You're not looking well. Are you suffering from a disease?« ••• »Yeah, its a severe parasitic infestation.« ••• »What kind?« ••• »Homo sapiens, unfortunately.«
Saint_Zipcodus 2 years ago
Says the other planet: Don't worry, I had that too. It'll pass.
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Bill Swallow 2 years ago
Worded badly. Mankind is not a 'threat TO our extinction', it is the most likely cause OF our extinction.
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
We have the ability drive ourselves to extinction but also the ability to keep it from happening at our own hands. Which is why we should more carefully select our leaders and be more thoughtful about our values.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
There are two horrifying possibilities. One is the extinction of mankind. The other is the non-extinction of mankind.
Living Example 2 years ago
Mankind is a cancer of the earth. The earth is constantly trying to neutralize
steven 2 years ago
“There was one field in which man was unsurpassed; he showed unlimited ingenuity in devising bigger and more efficient ways to kill off, enslave, harass, and in all ways make an unbearable nuisance of himself to himself. Man was his own grimmest joke on himself.” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
#10
That brain aneurysms usually does not have symptoms and it can kill you if it ruptures.
Jaaawn 2 years ago
You can be dead before you even hit the ground so considering the horrific deaths some people have had to suffer I'd say a fatal brain rupture would be one of the better ways to go.
Betty Boom 2 years ago
My sister grabbed her head howled in pain when hers erupted and killed her. She rolled on the floor screaming for minutes. I do not wish for this.
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
The worst part is that it doesn't always kill you. A friend of my parents suffered an aneurysm. He was a brilliant physicist. The aneurysm reduced his intellect to the level of a 5yo. He and his wife had two children, both younger than 10yo.
Carla Beck 2 years ago
Absolutely. My father had an aneurysm when I was 16, about 18 years ago now. He went from being a father to being a dependent in a minute. Has been hospitalized ever since. It would have been better for him and our family if he had died.
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My father had weeks of agonizing head aches before he died of a brain aneurism.. His doctor told him it was just stress. The doctor didn't conduct any of the relevant tests because he was leaving the next day for a fishing trip.
Valerie Lessard 2 years ago
This sounds like misconduct. Can you pursue this legally because that's horrible
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Twinsmomplus3 2 years ago
I have one "fixed" brain anuersym and an active one they are "watching" I go to sleep everyday with a strong possibility of never waking again.
Steve Robert 2 years ago
I lost my true love to a brain aneurysm. Went to bed and never woke up. Happened over twenty years ago but I still miss her everyday 😭
Tamra 2 years ago
I get to have a MRI next week to see if I have an aneurysm, tumor, or cerebrospinal fluid leak. Fun times.
Cassidy Moore 2 years ago (edited)
My biggest fear about this isnt dying, its if it happened while I was home alone with my 2 kids, locked in an apartment or driving with them
Imreallyjustaghost 2 years ago
SAME. I'm home alone a lot w mine, and I have said to myself when going out or when I have my husband home "well at least if I die right now my kids won't be the ones to find me"
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g90814 2 years ago
This is what happened to my Mom. I had an MRI to be sure I didn't have the same issue.
Doodles1983 2 years ago
Just because you didn’t at the time of the mri, they can still develop. So please be mindful of them still.
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Carla Phillips 2 years ago
It's especially sad when it happens to your 11 year old best friend when you're in the 6th grade. She was supposed to spend the night with me that night but decided to go to another friend's house instead. It may sound awful, but I'm glad she changed her mind because I wouldn't want the image in my mind of her dying
#11
There are hundreds of unidentified serial killers in America.
Oleksandr Miliukov 2 years ago
How do you know there are hundreds if they are unidentified? Can be one, but very active.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
If two people are stabbed at the same time, one in New Yprk and the other in Los Angeles, you are dealing with two murderers. Like in real estate, location, location, location.
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Mint Sauce 2 years ago
Big pharma and the American healthcare system are two that spring to mind.
Nitka Tsar 2 years ago
The US is a very big place. Of course smaller countries will have less. Then there are of course different kinds of societies. Some will be more violent and others less. So many variables.
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
I'd like to add a caution on this: THere's thousands of them worldwide. Some get away with it b/c the region is wartorn, so nobody notices. And "serial" starts at 3 killings. So 3 dead, it counts. There may never be a fourth. It's surreal, but there it is.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Off topic. Hi. Haven’t seen you here in awhile. Hope things are well wth you.
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Years ago, when I lived in Dallas, I came home to visit my parents who lived up by Lake Simcoe Ontario. My mom would fill up her car with gas at a tiny place called Brownhill. Someone would pump your gas, check your oil and wash your windshield. One afternoon she and I were going out, so we went to that gas station. I distinctly remember the young man who was pumping our gas. White T shirt, white baseball cap worn a bit back so I could see he had blond curly hair. Who wears a white t shirt when they’re going to be checking oil? That, and the blond curly hair stuck in my memory of him. I don’t recall how many months after that, , this young man was arrested for multiple murders, and had been a prolific rapist for years in a place called Scarborough Ontario. The same young man I was sitting in the car where he was washing the windshield, 3 feet away from me. It was Paul Bernardo. Google the name. He and his ex wife were monsters.
Max Fox 2 years ago
I wish that people would stop this click-bait s**t. There are also millions and millions of people who go out of their way to help others, tens of thousands who spend hours and hours helping others for no pay, and thousands who are serial supporters of others. Few people actually know a serial killer, but most people know at east a few others who will always be there for their friends, who sends hours every week helping others, etc.
#12
The US military has lost several nuclear weapons and not all of them have been recovered.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Yes, the Russians have lost several nuclear weapons, too. But it's not so much the lost ones that are the danger, it's the ones that aren't lost yet.
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Theodor 2 years ago
A Part comes from sunken boats/u-boats there Are estimated 44 nucleae bombs in the oceans
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3 Trash Pandas in a Trenchcoat 2 years ago
Didn’t we also just lose a stealth jet near South Carolina? That may or may not still be flying
Rostit. . 2 years ago
to be fair, they know about where they are and if they cant find them, no one else will. plus they are super heavy and at this point pretty corroded. now missing F35s on the other hand?
Surenu 2 years ago
To be fair, that does speak volumes about that plane's stealth capabilities!
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SquiddoDiddo 2 years ago
Dang I’m sooooooo clumsy and messy but losing a nuclear missilery is just WOW
Jaybird3939 2 years ago
I live within 2 miles of a decommissioned Nuclear Power Plant (they built it on an earthquake fault so, oops). Anyway, they lost quite a few of the nuclear rods and haven't been able to find them. Oops again.
#13
50-70% of people don't have an internal monologue. I can't even imagine that. I can barely turn mine off to sleep. Comments seems split but there are a lot saying they don't experience internal monologue. I read it as monologue. I think some people are confusing it with dialogue. But maybe some experience that too?
Imreallyjustaghost 2 years ago
I *hate* when I'm talking to myself in my head, corresponding facial expressions and all, and someone walks in mid- chit chat. Like please go, I have company 😭
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I have both dialogue and monologue and can’t conceive of an existence otherwise
hitex 2 years ago
Sometimes I wish I didn't so I could be more restful tho!
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Remi Flynne 2 years ago
Yes, always music and our own inner voice blethering on!!
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cdubaya 2 years ago
I can't shut it off either...therapy has helped but I often sleep with the TV on so I can focus on something else while my head doesn't want to shut the eff up.
Mia Black 2 years ago
And then the sleep therapists all say to not play TV or any other device minimum an hour before sleep.... White noise doesn't help me, nor meditation, teas (then I have to go to the bathroom far to often during the night) or lavender. Just some old sitcoms on low volume and a wordsearch riddle as a ritual every night before that seem to help me to shift away from my thoughts for the first hour or so
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Walter Brameld 2 years ago
I don't have an internal monologue. My stream of consciousness is made of concepts, not words.
Astrophile 2 years ago
I have both! My inner monologue is a mishmash of words, concepts, images, feelings, and I’m also a synesthete so it’s pretty busy in this noggin.
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Joshua David 2 years ago
I live within all the ogues inside. Some days it's fine, and others it's not.
Tomato Froggo 2 years ago
I don’t have either. It’s really weird to try to imagine what you guys are talking about to be honest. I’ve never had a voice in my head or anything like that, it’s mostly just images and concepts. It’s hard to describe lol
RabidChild 2 years ago (edited)
How does someone with no internal monologue THINK? Monologue, dialogue, panel discussion, doesn't matter - I cannot wrap my head around not constantly having my brain prattling on about one thing or another.
#14
There is a species of caterpillar, big blue out of great Britain I believe, that tricks ants into thinking it's an ant queen in distress. The ants take this caterpillar back to the nest where the caterpillar continues acting like a queen but devouring all the ant larvae. This destroys the ant colony from the inside. There are some studies that can point to this species actively finding which larvae will eventually become the next queen and devour those larvae first.
Mint Sauce 2 years ago
She's a Killer Queen Gunpowder, gelatine Dynamite with a laser beam Guaranteed to blow your mind Anytime
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Recommended at the price, insatiable an appetite, wanta try?
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Radha Gopinath Mandir 2 years ago
There is one bug which can pretend to be a very tasty yummy smelly bug-corpse. It does it so well that the ants take him directly to the larvae. After that the process is basically same...
Lavern Defazio 2 years ago
" Out of Great Britain I believe" ??? Couldnt Google before writing this segment?
#15
Sun eruptions happened before and lead to blackouts across several continents. All fun and games in the 19th century. Today it could easily kill millions. And it could happen any hour.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Just one of a hundred or so scientifically approved apocalypses. Now that we understand it we can counter it. Expect a death toll easily counted in hundreds.
hitex 2 years ago
If anyone doubts this, they should check out Suspicious Observer! 2 back to back eruptions can send us into new ice age. 1st one takes out atmospheric protection & if 2nd one comes within short time thereafter, we are toast (or frozen)
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Panda Promise 2 years ago
Here you go: The magnetic field lines near sunspots often tangle, cross, and reorganize. This can cause a sudden explosion of energy called a solar flare. When flares hit the atmosphere, increased levels of X-ray and UV radiation ionize the lower levels of the ionosphere on the Sun-facing side of the planet. If a flare is powerful enough, it can punch into even lower levels of the ionosphere and interfere with radio waves carrying information
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Ozymandias73 2 years ago
Today (Sept. 21) and tomorrow, there are supposed to be solar emissions that could be levels 6 and 7 respectively. Those would/could can damage small satellites, impact mobile networks, and GPS, and even pose a threat to ground-based electronics and power grids.
Doodles1983 2 years ago
Reliance on tech and digital which can be wiped out pretty easily, is not conducive to survival.
#16
That Richard Sackler is a free billionare in 2023.
clemenza2821:
CEO of Purdue Pharma, singularly responsible for the opioid epedemic.
Bill Swallow 2 years ago
If you mean 'Locked into a sack and dropped into the Marianas Trench', I concur.
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James S 2 years ago
Richard Sackler should be forced feed oxycontin for a month then denied anymore or any help
David A Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
The horror is the exact opposite. At any given moment, about 5% of Earth's population is in permanent pain or severe pain. That's more than 200 million people. And the reason those people are in pain is the general unavailability of effective painkillers for strong pain. I can tell you several horror stories of people in severe pain who were denied painkillers.There are people who want to take existing over the counter painkillers off the market, in order that the whole world suffers more pain. They deserve to be in prison.
Cat Chat 2 years ago
The damage that the cdc and Dea have caused due to their misguided reaction to the opioid crises is unimaginable, punishing patients and doctors alike.
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Sara Wilson 2 years ago
And it's the pharmacists and pharmacies that r really being blamed for it all. Not the Dr's that didn't to their due diligence and just trusted the drug company, or the drug company that cared for nothing but making money. It's great there was a class action lawsuit, but want to guess how many of their "victims" that ACTUALLY went to help?
#17
The Permian Extinction was the greatest extinction event in history, the atmosphere was full of CO2 and the oceans warmed so much they held too little oxygen to support most of the life that lived in it. We are currently recreating these events through climate change.
Bookworm 2 years ago
Also known as The Great Dying; probably the closest Earth has ever come to losing life completely up to this point.
Persephone 2 years ago
Yes! Let's turn ourselves into Venus instead of learning anything! /s
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
Fingers crossed. The last living things to go will be the bacteria surviving over a kilometre underground in oil wells.
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Remi Flynne 2 years ago
Not so much recovering as 'being in'. They have always come and gone with life on the planet dealing with or dying out. We're just doing a lot to hasten this one out!
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Maureen Matthew 2 years ago
Today's CO2 levels are miniscule compared to past levels. CO2 is a needed for plants to grow and produce
David A Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
No. It's worse than that. The Permian extinction was caused by the Siberian Traps. The sudden eruption of more than a hundred thousand cubic kilometers of highly fluid lava, releasing an enormous amount of deadly sulfur gases. You breathe, you die. It could happen again at any time.
Michelle K 2 years ago
Did you know that "climate change" was once called "global warming"? Before that, "Greenhouse effect". And on it goes...
Hiram's Friend 2 years ago
And before that Global Cooling in the 70s, 50 years ago.
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Dementia has no age limit.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Retts Syndrome and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder are examples of types of dementia that affect children.
Michael Sauerwein 2 years ago
Another concern is urinary tract infection (UTI)-induced delirium in older persons. If the person has a sudden and unexplained change in their behavior, such as increased confusion, agitation, or withdrawal, it could be because of an UTI. The delirium is sudden onset and can be quite dramatic. In a manner of a couple of days, the affected person can see and interact with people who are not there, invent bizarre but engrossing fantasies and paranoias, and not consider that anything out of the ordinary is happening other than why these people are in their house. How does an infection down there result in mental confusion and hallucinations? I am not a doctor, but the way I understand it is that as a person ages, their immune system declines and the blood-brain barrier degrades. Infection and inflammation produces toxic by-products than seep from the bloodstream into the brain and cause damage to nerves and brain cells. Treatment for the UTI can clear up symptoms.
LittleWombat 2 years ago
When I worked in a nursing home, it was standard to check for UTIs anytime there were symptoms as described above. Good to know they were on top of that at the time!
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This one js really scary to me, I've got s**t memory and have gotten minor auditory hallucinations regularly for my whole life. It's not that big of a deal cause I'll be dead before it gets bad but it's still scary
Far Cough Khan 2 years ago
so true. my cousin living in weipa, got diagnosed wgen he was 14yo. he is 43yo now. aunty and uncle had been his carer until now.
Serial Kitten 1 year ago (edited)
My grandpa died from dementia :( He kept hallucinating, he thought there were birds sitting on him and that he was being experimented on. My grandma told him he was okay, but he said she was only saying that because she was being held at gunpoint by spies. So weird
#19
The fact that we know more about outer space than our planet's deep oceans is unsettling. There are countless mysteries and potentially terrifying discoveries awaiting beneath the ocean's depths.
hitex 2 years ago
But let's make sure our submersibles are safely capable of reaching such depths in discovery *cough, Oceangate*
Karma Black 2 years ago
Hey, they're a great company. They offered the Titanic experience, and they delivered.
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Katherine Forest 2 years ago
Why would a discovery be terrifying? I am so over the villianization of nature.
Gandalf the Pink 2 years ago
✋ Me too! Ignorance is far more terrifying to me
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setsuriseikou 2 years ago
I struggle to imagine a discovery more terrifying than what people sometimes do to the planet and each other
Whiskey Tango Delicious 2 years ago
Well hop in the sub! I got an Xbox controller, what's the worst that could happen?
Scott Rackley 2 years ago
The fact that air is a lot easier to look through than water explains a lot
Floeckchen 2 years ago
That's a misunderstanding. The famous saying "we only discovered about 7% of the ocean" is because ocean scans are on a grid based matrix. On any scetch the paper is also only covered in less than 10% ink and you can still see the full picture.
MaximumKarmaSaint 2 years ago
I would honestly rather we discovered terrifying things in the sea than in space, keep exploring the sea.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Never gonna happen. Scientists did a DNA sampling of Loch Ness a few years ago. They found quite a few surprising species, but nothing that could even vaguely be attributed to Nessie.
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Siberia’s permafrost melting and unleashing a disease humanity isn’t prepared for.
Srinivasan Somasundaram 2 years ago
The scientists have found a very old virus in the permafrost. It doesn't mean that it has the ability to affect humans. This is too much "Resident Evil" kind of thinking.
Just Me (Rob) 2 years ago
In 2016 an ancient form of anthrax released from melted permafrost killed a child in Siberia. Ancient viruses, bacteria and fungus can and will pose a direct threat to mankind.
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There is a russian scientist trying to save permafrost by introducing mammals that basically stomp it to it's former strength. Google Sergey and Nikita Zimov.
sturmwesen 2 years ago
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/born-rewild-father-and-son-seek-transform-arctic-and-save-world
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Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
Is no one going to mention the Elder Things being freed in Antarctica? If they rise up many a shoggoth will have it's bloodlust sated.
Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Actually, that's not true. It's capable of melting and us finding something, true, but methane releases from melting permafrost are far more dangerous due to the effect of methane on atmospheric temperatures.
Rostit. . 2 years ago
most of these are half truths or hyperbole. yes these things exist to a degree but its not knocking at your door.
featherytoad 2 years ago (edited)
No one thought global warming was real back in the 80s and 90s or they thought it was exaggerated but, look how fast it came knocking on our door.
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Either we're the only sentient species in the whole universe or we are not. Both is equaly terrifying.
Tim Fawcett 2 years ago
Looking at the media I struggle to see how most of us can be described as sentient
SCamp 2 years ago (edited)
Weeeeelll, we aren’t even the only sentient species on this planet… so there’s that
Walter Brameld 2 years ago
You mean sapient. Sentient just means able to perceive things. Basically every animal alive qualifies.
Excited Panda 2 years ago
It's more accurate to say that we're likely not the first and won't be the last. So, what's the plan for when we come in contact with one of the other ones? There IS a plan, right?
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 years ago
The plan is already in use… well, allegedly…. Can I hum the theme of Encounters of the Third Kind now?
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Tom Hardeveld 2 years ago
the fact that they never visited us it the biggest proof there is intelligent life out there
#22
It is physically possible to be so constipated that your stool will back all the way up your digestive tract and you can vomit feces. You're welcome.
Six sighs per hour 2 years ago
Ditto. And I'm the only one who looks up the resident bowel patterns at work.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
I've heard any number of political speeches where the candidate was doing this.
Cassidy Moore 2 years ago
I would rather physically pull it out than have it come out the other way
not your average weirdo 2 years ago
Reminds me of that South Park episode where cartman discovers that you can c**p out your mouth
Jennifer Gilmore 2 years ago
Ah yes, I still have the vision of the Martha Stewart bit from that episode burned into my brain!
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#23
It's a great day. You go for a swim, and then Naegleri fowleri hits you hard. "Naegleri fowleri is an amoeba (brain eating amoeba) that can cause a serious central nervous system infection. The amoeba is found in warm and still fresh water bodies of water and enters a human body through the nose."
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
I think I've met quite a number of people who have clearly contracted this but not yet been diagnosed...
Prince of Darkness 2 years ago
There's a word for those people: "politicians"
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Bookworm 2 years ago
It's not exclusively tropical, if that's what you mean. In the U.S, it's pretty typical for one or two people to contract it and die every summer, typically at lakes or water parks, because the thing about N. fowleri is that it doesn't *want* to infect people. It's not a parasite, it's a microorganism that eats bacteria. So it's not out there looking for an opportunity to go up your nose. To get sick from it, you have to seriously *inhale* that sucker, all the way into your sinus cavities. This typically happens when people jump/fall into the water and suck a bunch of it up their nose, during activities like water slides and diving, or watersports like wakeboarding. If you're worried about it, the best preventive measure is to wear nose plugs if you're in a warm body of water, doing something that might involve accidentally inhaling said water.
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Leo Domitrix 2 years ago
Never seen it, hope never to do so. Median time of death after infection is five days. We get briefings every summer on it, and every time, I shudder.
Rainwing_Demigod 2 years ago
This one is scary. I watched a video on it while back, and it essentially attacks the brain tissue and causes an infection called primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). PAM is almost always fatal.
Karma Black 2 years ago
Also, while extremely rare, you can be infected if you use a neti pot or sinus rinse with tap water that isn't boiled first.
#24
SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome, a baby will just die and we don't know why.
Bookworm 2 years ago
They have pretty good guesses, though. A lot of older cases were probably suffocation, before 'Back To Sleep' caught on. Recently, there's been research suggesting that some genetic mutations can inhibit the ability of a baby's brain to wake them up if they stop breathing in their sleep, putting those babies at high risk of SIDS.
Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 2 years ago
SIDS cases in Norway dropped by 90% when it was recommended not to let the baby lie on its belly.
hitex 2 years ago
I spent too much money on an alarm that I strapped to my child when she was newborn - it would alert me if it detected breathing stopped. I was so paranoid about this happening that I wasn't able to sleep at all until I got it bc I was afraid she would just randomly stop breathing bc of SIDS
digitalin 2 years ago
I would have loved this. It was so hard to get the baby to sleep and then I'd be paranoid that they'd stop breathing. I'd be almost asleep and think "WAIT IS THE BABY BREATHING??!?!?" and have to check.
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Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Scarier how many parents have been charged with murder of their baby that died from SIDS
Escapist Panda 2 years ago
"A landmark study...found that 26 infants who died of SIDS had relatively low levels of an enzyme called butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) in their blood at birth compared to infants who died of other causes or survived past age 1 year, which is considered the end of the SIDS risk window." It's not a definitive cause and a solution hasn't been found yet, but it's encouraging that research is still moving forward!
Hans Georg 2 years ago
They suspect in a study that a missing enzyme might be the cause for SIDS.
Walter Brameld 2 years ago
It might be *a* cause. There is almost certainly no single cause. There are lots of ways for babies to spontaneously die.
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Has anyone ruled out anaphylaxis by cat yet? My cat tried to kill me while I was sick in bed by covering itself in pollen and then waiting for the psychologically correct moment to shake itself in front of my face, so my throat immediately swelled up and I couldn't breathe. If I'd been stuck in a cot I would have died.
#25
You can just go to sleep and... never wake up. You might never get to say goodbye, or tell your family you love them.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Quote from a comedian. "I want to die peacefully like my uncle in his sleep. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car".
Skip Reynolds 2 years ago
I'm not afraid of dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens. (Woody Allen, back when he was funny.)
Michael None 2 years ago (edited)
There's a philosophical concept called "Memento Mori" or remember death. The concept is that death is going to happen and could happen unexpectedly so you must always remember death and constantly remind yourself of it because if we might die at any moment then we will make sure to say the things we might otherwise wait to say. I remind myself of it every time I put my daughter to bed and never forget to say "I love you".
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
“I love you” we’re the last words my BFF of 52 years and I said to each other at the end of our regular Sunday call. On Wednesday afternoon she would have, without any warning, a massive heart attack. Dead before she hit the floor. No cardiac issues previously. I keep thinking of her getting up and getting ready for her day. Shower, breakfast, kiss her husband goodbye when he left for work, got organized for some errands and left for her final physio appointment. No inkling this is her last day. Her last morning. Walked into physio and said hi to everyone. 15 minutes later she was dead. Just any other day except it wasn’t. It was her last. That hits me sometimes.
Load More Replies... SCamp 2 years ago
Same with an aneurysm - a friend died of one in the shower. 50s, otherwise healthy, no warning, zero. Awful.
featherytoad 2 years ago (edited)
Damn, I live alone. It's going to be a hell of a water bill if that happens to me. I'm sorry about your friend.
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shankShaw deReemer 2 years ago
My brother passed in his sleep unexpectedly at 48. I want to go like that, except I don't want my mom to be the one to find me like she did my brother.
Doodles1983 2 years ago
It’s why I try to never go to sleep on bad feeling. And I always tell my partner I love him, before sleep. Mad at him or not.
Lydsylou 2 years ago
A 19yr old guy I know went to take a nap before dinner because he wasn't feeling great and 15 minutes later is mum came up stairs to find him dead on the floor. He seemed perfectly healthy and just spent the day at work but he had an underlying heart condition they only discovered after his death
#26
There is a good to fair chance you’ve met at least 1 murder in your life already.
SCamp 2 years ago
Murderer? Yep, I have wondered how many major criminals I walk past or have met and had no idea
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago (edited)
MAGAs go to rallies to support a major criminal
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I've met quite a few. Prison is a great place to meet them.
hitex 2 years ago
While I'm family/custody lawyer, I did some criminal when I started...one of my colleagues got appointed to represent 'the hooded falcon' - a prisoner who spit on ppl in court & thus had to wear a hood (looked like falcon hood 😂). Murdered cellmate bc cellmate was gay & didn't want to be hit on 🙄 - met more than a few others but he was most memorable
cartoon ghosts 2 years ago
And people still say that we have gender/sexuality equality and homophobia is over
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Mark Howell 2 years ago
Went to school with one. He argued with his mum and dad, then buried them in the garden
Upstaged75 2 years ago
I worked for a university and one of the students in my program chopped up his wife and dumped her body in a suitcase, which was found in a field. I freaked out when I saw his picture on the news. Yes, he's in jail now. He seemed like a nice guy.....
MontanaMariner 2 years ago
Hell, I dated one. We were 22-23. She got married years later to an abusive turd. 2 kids later and she's in prison for mitigated homicide. Instigated a fight with her husband so she'd have a reason to shoot him in self defense. Too bad she had called the cops multiple times to say she needed help, then called to say she didn't. She didn't call when she shot him. Got 15 years.
Miss Frankfurter 2 years ago
Yes. I cared for a woman who murdered her 3 children, one about 2 months old. Overwhelming post partum depression and stuck in a culture that treats women like they are lower than dirt. Absolutely no way of escape. She would never get her kids, and no matter what, oh yes, they would hunt her down and kill her. I can’t adequately describe her and her children’s lives. Especially what her daughter’s lives would be when they grew up. All that and crushing post partum depression she would never be able to get help with. I remember a line from the end of the movie “Monster”. It can apply to so many things in our lives, and certainly hers. “ Sometimes people don’t understand about circumstances”. Yes, she killed her kids and tried to kill herself. My heart broke for all of it.
Cassidy Moore 2 years ago
One time my family lived in some duplexes and there was a maintenance guy that worked for the units. He would let my sisters and I help out with cleaning the yards or even doing his dishes for cash. Years later he was on the news for killing his girl friends baby by throwing it against a wall.
#27
Some spiders eat snakes.
Vic 2 years ago
Australia doesn't have a food pyramid, it has a food mobius strip.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
From internet, "Tangle web spiders, a group that includes North American widow spiders and redbacks, are the most successful snake slayers".
SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
Wait, black widows eat snakes? Damn. I mean, they can get pretty huge... think I'm taking my can of spider spray upstairs with me tonight.
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It is interesting that some kinds of daddy longlegs pray an angle spiders and they are not really small.
#28
There is a white dwarf about 130 light years away from us, and it could explode any time. If it explodes, then it will be a big cosmic firework - and very close, possibly close enough to cause problems. Even it if turns into a neutron star without an explosion, that phenomenon could cause a nasty EMP effect, possibly killing a lot of satellites.
Morten Jul Lægaard 2 years ago
It could have happend 129 years, 11 months and 30 days ago 😉
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Dr Robert Neville 2 years ago
I think you're putting a lot of faith in humanity surviving the current extinction course we've put ourselves on.
Lori Fleetwood 2 years ago
Actually the nearest white dwarf star is Sirius B and it is 8.6 light years from us. It is a stable white dwarf though, and not prone to type 1a supernova events.
Michelle K 2 years ago
Well...well...well... We sure do spend a lot of our time and energy on worrying about things that have NOT happened and may NEVER happen. The Past is gone. The Future hasn't arrived yet. Only each Present moment is real.
Nice Beast Ludo 2 years ago
Maybe it will take out the internet and everyone will have to start over.
#29
Hisashi Ouchi Was kept alive (by any means necessary) for 83 days after exposure to fatal levels of radiation.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Poor guy was suffering so much. He needed skin grafts, multiple blood transfusions and he was resuscitated so many times. He was crying blood and at one point his intestine ruptured
Scotira 2 years ago
The single most important thing when working with radiation is to KNOW what you are doing! That this company let their staff work without giving them the safety they required and the knowledge they needed... I have no words.
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Richard Michael 2 years ago
You mean he was tortured for 83 days while he begged the doctors to let him die.
Cthulette R'lyeh 2 years ago
Not exactly. Highly recommend the Wendigoon video on this gentleman and what he went through on YouTube.
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Hisashi was one of three gentlemen who was fatally exposed to radiation. He got the worst of it, and the fact he walked out of the facility at all was nothing short of a miracle. Both Hisashi and his family wanted the doctors to save him, which is what they were trying to do. They were not 'experimenting' on him, nor torturing him. Though what the man went through was indeed torture, it wasn't at the hands of another person. Over the 83 days, there were several points in which Hisashi looked like he might recover, but sadly, the thing with radiation is that you need to essentially 'ride it out', and there was just too much for too long for Hisashi. The fact he lived as long as he did was something nobody thought would happen... but they did everything they could to save him. Not torture him. I highly recommend a video by Wendigoon on Hisashi, on YouTube, which is what initially sparked my own interest in this gentleman and what he suffered through.
Omima mimi miki 2 years ago
the right thing to do would have been to let him pass away without pain
Cthulette R'lyeh 2 years ago
Sadly that's not a thing with these levels of radiation poisoning... :(
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Poppy 2 years ago
He went into cardiac arrest several times but was brought back, he begged to be allowed to die but they kept him alive. What happened to him was horrific and the photos are just gruesome.
Cthulette R'lyeh 2 years ago
That's false. After a certain point he was unable to communicate due to requiring a machine to breathe for him, but his family asked for the continued treatment. At several points throughout the treatment, it genuinely looked like he might pull through with nothing short of miracles occuring before more complications. Those at the hospital also described him as kind, gentlemanly, and respectful, as well as his family.
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D-m Keilman 2 years ago
And most of the photos online that claim to be him are actually not him.
#30
A person eats, on average, “two pounds of flies, maggots and other bugs each year," according to Scientific American.
-A cup of raisins can have up to 33 fruit fly eggs.
-Fig paste is allowed to have up to 13 insect heads in 100 grams.
-Up to five fruit flies is allowed in an 8-ounce cup of canned fruit juice.
+One maggot is allowed in every 250 milliliters of fruit.
+Up to 2,500 aphids are allowed in every 10 grams of hops.
-Spinach can have up to 50 aphids, thrips or mites per 100 grams.
-Broccoli can contain insects fragments and even whole insects.
-Up to a kilogram of insect parts is allowed in 100 kilograms of chocolate.
-Up to 19 maggots and 74 mites are allowed in a 3.5-ounce can of mushrooms.
-Up to 15 fruit fly eggs are allowed in 100 grams of tomato sauce
Alewa 2 years ago
I think it's more terrifying that people are unaware of critters liking the same food as us, and are consequently terrified by this fact.
Em 2 years ago
But the terrifying fact isn't "insects exist," it's "insects are allowed by law to be in processed food which one might reasonably expect to be insect-free." Personally as long as I can't see them, I'm calling it extra protein.
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Annik Perrot 2 years ago
What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Besides, those things aren't poison. Yucky to think of, mostly.
shanila.pheonix_ 2 years ago (edited)
they are actually a great source of protein. if you're lost in the wild, you will have to eat such bugs and critters to survive. i know, nasty, but not rlly bad for you. unless ofc, poisonous critters.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
Also in flour and nuts. An insect called the "carpet beetle" infests flour. And I have bought unshelled nuts at supermarket with more than 20 insect eggs per nut, and by expiry date that's more than a few caterpillars in each nut. I did find a worm I'm my restaurant Fettuccine once, I think it came from the greens.
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 2 years ago
This is all American stuff. Our system is a little more strict.
#31
Your hearing is probably the last sense that you lose when you die. Imagine hearing all the people around you…
The Shadow of Darbows 2 years ago
I just googled and it is actually the last sense you lose. Tragic and terrifying.
Walter Brameld 2 years ago (edited)
As his awareness faded, the last thing he sensed of the world in which he had lived was, "Dibs on his PS5!"
RandomPanda (She/Her) 2 years ago
Imagine dying and the last thing you hear is your children saying "So, who gets the money?"
#32
Getting less than 7 or 8 hours of sleep a night f***s up your body much more thoroughly than anyone assumes. It increases the risk of just about any health problem you can imagine, from obesity to Alzheimer’s to heart disease, significantly, and impairs basically everything your brain does. Also, your brain is physically incapable of realizing the extent of sleep deprivation, so if you’re one of those people who can manage on 4 or 5 hours a night, you’re probably not actually.
Koko 2 years ago
Actually, they say it's not really the amount of sleep you get, and as long as you are getting atleast 6 hours and at a CONSISTENT time every night, it's okay. The brain just need regular maintenance to shut down and it needs it a regular time. You don't need 7 to 8 hours of sleep if you don't have a stressful life and don't have a physically demanding job.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Lack of sleep will kill you as fast as lack of food. But some very few people can survive happily on very little sleep. One person who claimed never to sleep was studied by researchers and found to sleep without being aware of it, but only for half an hour every week.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
What isn't mentioned here and deserves to be much better known is that messed up sleep is very strongly linked to obesity. Even eating exactly the same amount of calories and doing the same amount of exercise, if you're not sleeping enouh or getting good quality sleep then you will put on weight.
Valerie Lessard 2 years ago
This entirely depends on the person. Some people can get by perfectly fine on 5-6 hours
#33
The CIA's Operation Northwoods proposed that CIA operatives should commit acts of terrorism upon the US to blame Fidel Castro for justifying a war against Cuba. This was rejected by JFK. We know about this because this got declassified.
Rostit. . 2 years ago
they will just be reformed under another branch. There will always be government boogie men.
Load More Replies... MaximumKarmaSaint 2 years ago
They've also tried to create drugs that brainwash people into confessing. The CIA is literally the secret villain society from movies and we allow them to exist.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
So that's why JFK was killed? I had thought it was because he stopped World War 3.
#34
The last official government execution by GUILLOTINE was 10 September 1977 at 4:40am in Marseille France. That's . . . during my lifetime.
Annik Perrot 2 years ago
It's not the way of execution that's awful. It's death penalty. It still exists in too many countries, some of them callin themselves "democratic" and "civilized".
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
The same year as the original Star Wars, and Christopher Lee (Count Dooku) saw the execution.
Caroline Nagel 2 years ago (edited)
He saw the execution of Eugen Weidmann, a German serial killer, in June 1939, the last public execution in France. After that the executions where no longer public. Christopher Lee was seventeen at the time.
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Can we bring it back? Just for America's own traitor. The Orange Chimp.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
So what? There are still plenty of executions happening every few minutes. Some by governments, most not.
#35
Assuming you live in a structure that can burn, a fault in your electrical system can burn your house down at any moment. I grew up in a neighborhood of older houses, several of which burned to the ground (usually during the overnight hours). The cause of almost all of them was electrical.
Daniela Lavanza 2 years ago
A tip to tell everyone: if it smells like fish somewhere for no reason, it can be an electrical fire.
shanila.pheonix_ 2 years ago
and don't touch any of the switches! turning them on/off is dangerous. i think correct me if im wrong.
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Ole Peder Amrud Hagen 2 years ago
Obviously. But if you live in a well developed country this is not a major issue.
Geoffrey Scott 2 years ago
Kids were visiting, daughter, SIL, both grandsons. Daughter was laying crosswise on the bed and her hand brushed the wall. VERY hot, tore into the outlet and it was half melted. Changing all the rest out too.
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
It happened in the block of flats right next to ours. Let's say it was a very interesting day. The fortune in misfortune was the fact it was on the topmost floor, so "only" the surrounding flats and the roof burned.
#36
There are such things as Rogue Planets just flying through space and not orbiting any star. If one were to pass through our solar system it could easily nudge the Earth out of its orbit and we’d either fry or freeze and there’s nothing we could do about it.
Srinivasan Somasundaram 2 years ago
That's why we have the Sun and Jupiter, the biggest magnets to deflect these objects. You're welcome
Bill Swallow 2 years ago
I refer you to the novel, "When Worlds Collide", by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Plenty of rogue planets, and rogue brown dwarfs. Hundreds within 10 light years of us. But on passing through this system it couldn't nudge the Earth's orbit. Instead it would perturb the large objects in the Oort Cloud, sending some hurtling into the inner solar system.
#37
You could have rabies right now, you won’t know until you start showing symptoms. Then, it’s too late.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Even more frightening, rabies was once voted the rarest of the once common diseases. Since then it's made a dramatic comeback, first in eastern Europe, now in the USA. It's becoming much more prevalent.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
I couldn't possibly have rabies right now, since I've never been bitten or otherwise exposed to wild animal saliva from a rabies-prone species.
martymcmatrix 2 years ago
I think it is more likely the opposite though. Animals or urban wildlife that usually keep their distance from humans, but suddenly show unusually little tendency to flee, but rather on the contrary appear to be trusting, are much more likely to be rabid. However, this refers only to ground-dwelling mammals e.g.rabies is widely common for bats. Birds can in principle also fall ill with rabies but this happens rather rarely.
Load More Replies... Saint_Zipcodus 2 years ago
The story of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch's race for the first rabies vaccine is fascinating though.
#38
You and everything you know is located on a rock going impossibly fast through a void that you can't traverse without specialized equipment. You are trapped, and you have no idea why you are here or why you even exist. The only true escape is death. The most terrifying part is that you are aware and reflective (unlike every other animal) and have no tools to answer, not only why but how.
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
I like to think that after we die, we transcend to some higher form of consciousness and understand some of these mysteries. It seems nonsensical to me that everything just happens for no reason, by some coincidence. (And no, atheists, I don't care if you don't believe in afterlife or higher purpose.)
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
No coincidences, just reality. Nothing out there 'cares' about us. No 'karma' for bad people. No rewards for being good. No eternal life in some dull heavenly plane. One life, make the most of it.
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
We are here to pounce things and bat them under the sofa. Silly soft can-openers getting all existential.
Bored Trash Panda 2 years ago
Thanks, I needed the existential crisis today on top of my other stress....
Bill Swallow 2 years ago
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned A sun that is the source of all our power The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour Of the galaxy we call the 'milky way' Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars It's a hundred thousand light years side to side It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point We go 'round every two hundred million years And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, the speed of light, you know Twelve million miles a minute and that's the...
Bored Trash Panda 2 years ago (edited)
"fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth; And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!" I think the person that down voted you didn't get the reference.. so here's an upvote for Monty Python! Now I need to watch this again.
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That blue whales can weigh half a million pounds and can speak to each other from thousands of miles away.
Oleksandr Miliukov 2 years ago
How can you know they are not plotting against humanity?
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Grace De La Torre 2 years ago
Neato whoever did 44 (this one) knew that we seen some stuff and need a cool fact for once
Persephone 2 years ago
What's more terrifying is what we are doing to our oceans to cause the demise of so many different cetaceans.
Mario Strada 2 years ago
And what they are saying to each other is "does this make me look fat?"
Bill Swallow 2 years ago
Part of me wants to see whales sneak into Naval Admirals' bedrooms while they're asleep and blast white noise at 2,000 decibels.
#40
Some scientists consider flies the most dangerous of all animals because of how easily they spread illnesses.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Mosquitoes are generally consided to be more dangerous than flies. But there are plenty of fly-borne diseases such as sleeping sickness and trachoma. Flies are more likely than mosquitoes to cause famine through crop diseases.
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
Like... all eight billion humans, or a handful of sociopathic CEOs who destroy everything they touch by the virtue of their bank accounts?
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I know its basic as f**k but death and the very likely chance that everything just ends keeps me up at night. Also the fact that no matter what everyone you love will die. Your parents will die. Your cousins. Your uncles. Your aunties. Idk it's almost comforting that at the end of the day I don't have to worry too much because eventually none of it matters, but idk it scares me.
Nat of Clan P 2 years ago
I lost my Mum when I was 31 and my Dad last year (I'm now 45) and it was the most horrendous thing I've ever had to cope with. I miss them both so much but losing them has reminded me that I am strong and I will survive. My Mum always used to say that Life goes on and I always thought it seemed cold but she was right. The world keeps turning, even when you're going through the darkest times of your life. Yes death comes to us all but you have to make the most of every minute while you can.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Fear "horrors without end" more than the end.
Load More Replies... Jaaawn 2 years ago
I'm just so sorry I'm never gonna see all the incredible discoveries waiting to be found in space. As the saying goes- 'Born too late to explore the world, born too early to explore the universe.'
David A Paterson 2 years ago
I'm exactly the right age to see all the incredible discoveries in space. Born within a year of Sputnik, I've lived to see Pluto visited, exoplanet discoveries, quasars and pulsars, out to the CMB on the border of the visible universe.
Load More Replies... Rostit. . 2 years ago
Im over it. I have no desire to leave anytime soon but I ahve lost so many people that I'm numb to it. I get sad for a little while and then go on with my day. I still miss them but the whole fear and shock of death no longer affects me. I don't see this as a positive or negative. But more of a "reality".
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
That's completely okay with me. My only fears of dying are 1. being tortured by doctors the way my mom was tortured, and 2. worry that my cats won't be loved and taken care of.
Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
Nah. I'm Catholic and have faith. I'm dying, yes, but also going home. I'll be back in God's glorious fields, with my loved ones.
Walter Brameld 2 years ago
I find great comfort in realizing that all of my experiences, ever, will be of being alive. You will never experience being dead. So just relax and enjoy life. It's all you will ever know.
#42
Space is expanding at a rate faster than the speed of light. One day only our local group of galaxies and celestial bodies will be visible and then one day our galaxy will be all alone in a pitch black void. Any new intelligent life will believe that their own galaxy and all that it encompasses, is the only celestial body to exist is in the vast universe.
Walter Brameld 2 years ago
You'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
That works because of the inflationary epoch of cosmology. Before there were any particles in the universe, before even subatomic particles, an enormous release of energy accelerated the expansion of the universe to enormous speeds. This is possible because, although the speed of light cannot be exceeded locally, over great distances it can be exceeded (in scientific terms because the metric isn't Minkowskian). Which means that we can never see the edge of the universe, and we talk about the "visible universe" as the part we can see. As we look further out in space, the redshifts mean that we look further back in time, so at the edge of the visible universe we see the start of the universe, the cosmic microwave background.
Load More Replies... Stardust she/her 2 years ago
This is why I’m glad we exist in a time where we can still see and maybe reach the billions of galaxies in the observable universe at least
Christof Irran 2 years ago (edited)
Three things: 1) a great many things can travel faster than the speed of light even if only for short distances, but nothing can travel faster than the speed of light IN VACUUM (a purely theoretical situation). 2) The expansion of the universe is not caused by celestial bodies travelling away, but the space the universe occupies increases. - Picture a partially inflated balloon, paint some spots on it with a Sharpy, and then inflate the balloon the rest of the way: the painted-on spots don't move, and yet the distance between them increases. And 3) OP's first sentence is not particularly accurate.
Walter Brameld 2 years ago (edited)
The local group of galaxies will never fly apart since they're already gravitationally bound together. They will, however, all merge into a single large elliptical galaxy eventually, and that will be the only thing in the universe as far as any intelligent beings in it could ever know.
#43
Yellowstone National Park is actually a massive caldera volcano which, if an eruption occurs, would cause an extinction level event. We're in its time frame for eruption and it's still growing. Some interesting things about this, are scientists are able to track growth by tracking lake movement. Because the land is bubbling up at the center of the volcano dome, the lakes are slowly moving away from the center point. It's also not possible to drill in and slowly relieve pressure as the rock gets too hot and squishy the closer you get as well as the drill hearing up and becoming squishy itself. There is literally nothing we can do to prevent this. We just have to sit and wait for nature to take its course.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
This is just wrong. Yellowstone is not "overdue" for anything and the likelihood of it erupting in the next milennium is very low.
ginshun 2 years ago
not necessarily overdue, but the last three large eruptions were 2.08, 1.3, and 0.631 million years ago. So we right in that area where it could happen again, give or take a few hundred thousand years.
Load More Replies... Rostit. . 2 years ago
When this happens I heard the earth will turn inside out and Mcdonalds ice cream machines will start working.
PolymathNecromancer 2 years ago
Cats and dogs, living together, mass hysteria!
Load More Replies... Christof Irran 2 years ago
I saw this program where this volcanologist was saying that her favorite thing to do is listening to people tell her the kinda c**p that OP posted above. Especially if the people spouting off that kind of nonsense don't know that she is a volcanologist who deals with these issue professionally. She said she really loves being corrected by google-educated louts.
#44
The Appalachian mountains are older than bones.
Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
I live at the foot of the Berkshires, the section of the Appalachians that runs through Massachusetts. The highest point is Mount Greylock, which tops out at 1064 meters. These mountains are OLD. However, there's nothing terrifying about this, and it's quite lovely here.
#45
After a full nuclear exchange, some landmasses will become devoid of life. The British Isles would depopulate as famine, disease and radiation would kill the remaining survivors.
Tim Fawcett 2 years ago
See the film "Threads" from 1984 (IIRC) - but watch it in daytime! And not when the kids are about
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
My thought exactly. It's incredibly difficult to watch.
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Becky Samuel 2 years ago
Nothing will be devoid of life. Even the Permian extinction event didn't remove all life. Even Snowball Earth, when the entire planet was covered in ice from pole to pole didn't wipe out life. Large vertebrate animals and large plants would probably all go, but these are very far from all the life forms on Earth.
Jods 2 years ago
At least those of us in the UK will die knowing that it wasn’t one of ours that pressed the button first.
Rostit. . 2 years ago
here is a more scary thought. You dont know and it definitely might be the UK who launches first.
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One genuinely terrifying fact is that there are more bacteria living in and on our bodies than there are human cells.
Mrs. Ginger McSarcasm 2 years ago (edited)
And most of that bacteria is needed for healthy survival
WindySwede 2 years ago
That's why they talking about "transplanting" fekal matter, from persons with healthy gut bacteria, to persons with worse. 👍
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
This is genuinely true, the number of bacterial cells in and on you right now is about the same as the number of human cells in you. Luckily for us, bacterial cells are smaller.
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If we don't find an optimal way to travel through space, we'll become extinct.
Mint Sauce 2 years ago
We can't sustain ourselves on a huge planet so how are we going to manage on a spaceship.
Karma Black 2 years ago
Considering nothing is forever, including the universe, there will be a time when EVERYTHING is extinct.
Saint_Zipcodus 2 years ago
I do not find the thought of the human race going extinct terrifying. The human race is the only entity with interest in the survival of the human race. And in the grand scheme of things, everything else than the human race is the vast majority.
setsuriseikou 2 years ago
Okay, I don't mind. Better that than going somewhere else and do to that new place what we're now doing here
#48
It would take months to years for the power grid to recover from a sufficiently strong solar storm.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
This is just false. Most countries would have their grids fully operational within a week.
WindySwede 2 years ago
hoping that you are joking? Just replacing the transformers, manufacturing them. etc...
Load More Replies... Rebelliousslug 2 years ago
This actually scares me living in Florida. I don’t think people realize how dependent we’ve become on air conditioning. I know we can survive without it but it would be quite an uncomfortable adjustment period and I think society would have a hard time adjusting.
Mrs S 2 years ago
People would die. It's happened before, largely elderly and shut ins by the hundreds. In major us cities.
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Shannon Matthews 2 years ago
I've had two shoulder surgeries for torn rotators; one in July of 2022 and one in January of 2023. I went to get my pre-op last week and my ecg showed that sometime in past, I'd had a heart attack. But I never knew that. Now in past week I've seen a cardiologist and had a NM stress test to ensure that another shoulder surgery will be safe for me. I have no answers yet and my surgery is scheduled for next Wednesday. It's stressful not knowing that I'd had a heart attack because if I didn't know it before then how would I know it next time. I also don't know if my heart is ok; with or without surgery.
Remi Flynne 2 years ago
I'm so sorry you're going through that! I hope you get answers soon.
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Linda Lee 2 years ago
The fastest growing segment of the homeless population are people over 50 years old. These are people who did work, but one car accident, natural disaster, or some other event and they ended up homeless. This is especially scary if you're an adult orphan over age 50.
Poindexter 2 years ago
And I'm willing to gamble that most, if not all of them have no one to advocate for them. We really need to be more supportive of one another – though there are some people who are just unpleasant, don't want to be helped and/or refuse any help …
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Rostit. . 2 years ago
dont know why you were downvoted. That is true. Most abuse it not reported.
Load More Replies... Doodles1983 2 years ago
That there is no such thing as the present. By the time we process something and have awareness of it. The thing has been and gone.
The Shadow of Darbows 2 years ago (edited)
Holy s**t. I'm 100% more worried about life now. (Edit: spelling)
Rostit. . 2 years ago (edited)
You could get hit by a frozen chunk of s**t falling out of an airplane tomorrow. don't worry about any of these. Just live a good life and work towards fixing our affects on the enviroment and you will okay. also stay out of bodies of water with brain munching amoebas
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LastButNotLeast 2 years ago (edited)
In a Southern Region of Italy(Basilicata) there's a motto: when you're destined to take it in the a*s, the skirt rises by itself... That Is tò Say that if it's Destiny that we have to die, we Will die..
Shannon Matthews 2 years ago
I've had two shoulder surgeries for torn rotators; one in July of 2022 and one in January of 2023. I went to get my pre-op last week and my ecg showed that sometime in past, I'd had a heart attack. But I never knew that. Now in past week I've seen a cardiologist and had a NM stress test to ensure that another shoulder surgery will be safe for me. I have no answers yet and my surgery is scheduled for next Wednesday. It's stressful not knowing that I'd had a heart attack because if I didn't know it before then how would I know it next time. I also don't know if my heart is ok; with or without surgery.
Remi Flynne 2 years ago
I'm so sorry you're going through that! I hope you get answers soon.
Load More Replies... Linda Lee 2 years ago
The fastest growing segment of the homeless population are people over 50 years old. These are people who did work, but one car accident, natural disaster, or some other event and they ended up homeless. This is especially scary if you're an adult orphan over age 50.
Poindexter 2 years ago
And I'm willing to gamble that most, if not all of them have no one to advocate for them. We really need to be more supportive of one another – though there are some people who are just unpleasant, don't want to be helped and/or refuse any help …
Load More Replies... Rostit. . 2 years ago
dont know why you were downvoted. That is true. Most abuse it not reported.
Load More Replies... Doodles1983 2 years ago
That there is no such thing as the present. By the time we process something and have awareness of it. The thing has been and gone.
The Shadow of Darbows 2 years ago (edited)
Holy s**t. I'm 100% more worried about life now. (Edit: spelling)
Rostit. . 2 years ago (edited)
You could get hit by a frozen chunk of s**t falling out of an airplane tomorrow. don't worry about any of these. Just live a good life and work towards fixing our affects on the enviroment and you will okay. also stay out of bodies of water with brain munching amoebas
Load More Replies... LastButNotLeast 2 years ago (edited)
In a Southern Region of Italy(Basilicata) there's a motto: when you're destined to take it in the a*s, the skirt rises by itself... That Is tò Say that if it's Destiny that we have to die, we Will die..
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