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On the smaller scale it’s probably my wife and dog dying, in the larger scheme of things it’s the rise of fascism here in Germany and Europe.
Long live your wife and dog
And America, and Asia, and etcetera… :( maybe Antarctica is still chill though?
What kind of dog do you have?
A Bernese Mountain Dog girl. I don’t think I have to mention that she is, indeed, a very good dog.
Dog tax:
Awwww she’s adorable!
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The fact that you’re quoting Goebbels pretty much explains your entire comment.
ad hominem
If their is anyone who knows how to radicalise people its gerbals. If people are doing as he says that’s what u need to worry about.
Gerbals is a famous jazz musician. I think the word you’re looking for is Gerbils.
No, no, we do don’t this here. This is bait and it is intentionally misleading. If you want rational discussions, don’t present arguments in bad faith.
Getting falsely accused of something that requires me to interface/deal with, and potentially be incarcerated within, the US justice system. Fuck all that with a bundle of rusty rebar.
The worst is that it can possibly happen at any given moment. You could look at a redcap Karen in a store, they take it the wrong way, and bam, your life is a loving hell for the next decade or more. Nope.com
Cancer. Everyone has a bunch of fucked up cells at all times, but your body keeps you healthy by repairing or killing them, time after time after time… until one of those cells says “fuck the system” and goes rogue. No one is safe.
Yup. My SO got mouth cancer a couple years back in their early 30’s, even though the operation was succesful and chemo & radiation worked and they’ll be considered cancer-free in about 9 months, the fact that it happened so early means it’s quite likely they’ll get it again. How does one live with that information? And as a partner how do I build my life around it? Of course it’s possible they’ll never get that shit again, but it would be foolish to not prepare ourselves mentally for the worst. If it’s around the head they can’t get more radiation. If it’s in the same place than the previous one they’d would probably lose their ability speak, eat properly etc. The chemo probably made them infertile so if we’d like to have biological childer we have just a couple years to make the decision, and I have restrictions about that so we’d have to look for other opportunities anyways, and we should start looking for them now but we * can’t *. If we move elsewhere, as we’d like to, the chances are they won’t get as good treatment as here. I don’t feel like I’m ready to consider all this in my mid 30’s while I’m still trying to find my place in the world. So yeah, fuck cancer.
also HPV has been implicated in mouth cancers, which are typically rare diseases, although alot them seems to stem from smoking, tobacco,etc. the one scary mouth cancer is the one that forms from your gums(ameloblastoma, or the carcinoma variant)
There are various factors that increase the risk of course, but according to the doctors for a person this young the exposure is not the reason for getting sick. Epigenetics could be the reason for the increase in young people’s mouth cancers as epigenetic changes in genes can transmit across generations, meaning it’s possible that, for example, environmental exposure that occurred in one generation, could be transmitted even further beyond their children and grandchildren.
Prions - Actually nightmarish.
Except in developed countries. There it’s more an inconvenience
What do you mean?
Usually only the case if you are rich (in any country)
Imagine every day, your muscles get just a little bit weaker. Maybe you can’t open a container you used to be able to. Or you find you can’t lift your arms high enough to shampoo your hair anymore. No matter how much you try to exercise, it never helps. Pain sets in due to incredible stiffness. Your fingers start to curl up until they are nigh unusable. Entire limbs become gnarled.
Eventually you lose the ability to walk. Then speak. Then eat. And finally, even your breathing muscles become so weak and paralyzed that you constantly aspirate due to your inability to cough. Recurrent infections set in. Then you die of respiratory failure.
I watched my father go through that. MND is horrible for the person and everyone around them.
And the entire time, people shame you for being lazy and not exercising. They blame your diet, your screen-time, and gleerfuly take joy in your “just” suffering.
EDIT: You then find an actual cure, and are desperately using it. You can barely keep up, then someone yanks it out of your hand “stop using that! It’s making you worse!”.
Having no other choice, you slowly wither alive.
Being given an anesthetic that should put you out for an operation but only immobilizes you and you remain cognizant thru out the operation feeling everything being done.
Kinda happened to me in middle school when I broke my arm and they gave me anesthetics to knock me out so they could re-set my ulna and radius but half way thru i wake up to my arm in 5 Chinese finger trap-like device to hold my arm up and a strap across my bicep with weights on it weighing my arm down and 2 doctor’s trying to push my bones back in line.
I woke up getting my wisdom teeth out. They were at the “hammer and chisel to break them down into chunks” part. I could see, I could smell, and I could feel the thud, thud, thud, and the little bits of tooth land on my tongue. They’re was NO pain whatsoever, but it was an extremely freaky experience.
I thought I had dreamt it before realizing 1. you don’t dream on anesthesia and 2. They showed me my chiseled out teeth
Damn. I’m deathly scared of the opposite. General anesthetic. I have the worst memory of being put to sleep forcefully, like I was dying. I’d rather stay awake
I only had one operation in my life and had to get a general anesthetic. It was pretty funny to count down from 10 and not even making it to 7. Probably the closest thing to dying i guess. Now you’re here, now you’re gone. But i woke up too early, but thankfully they were done. I spooked them because i was talking gibberish while still in the operation room.
lmao what did you say ?
Having rabies and not knowing it until it’s too late
Having it at all is already too late.
Only once you have symptoms is it too late.
You can have it for years before symptoms appear, though the average is two months. If you get vaccinated before then, you’re good.
some people have reported getting numbess around the bite wound like days after, which is a sign of the rabies already infecting the nerves around the bite area. there was a house episode like this, where foreman dint realize house has stabbed his bite wound with a needle.
That we may be living in a world where the super-rich and powerful from all countries have conspired to establish a kind of global absolutist monarchy of the utterly unscrupulous, in which fabricated conflicts between countries serve mostly to distract from the fact that those pulling the strings behind the scenes have already undermined every political system and are simply pitting people against each other in order to secure even more power for themselves through war, mass surveillance, propaganda, the rationing of essential goods, and blatant destruction.
Please note: This is a conspiracy theory with no solid evidence, not a fact, but a dystopia that unfortunately seems increasingly realistic these days.
As a counter point, when I see the super rich, they sll have huge egos. So while they may sceme together occasionslly when it suits them, I can’t see them all conspiring together because they all seem to think they know what’s best.
Yes, that’s true, of course, and it’s the reason why no clear patterns can be found here. However, as is often the case with conspiracy theories, this could also be dismissed as a distraction from the conspiracy.
But you are absolutely right: we should stick to the facts—this idea is just a nightmare scenario for me because even in democratic systems it would make freedom, self-determination, and above all the hope for better times almost completely impossible.
The morning after entirely way too much beer and spicy food
Username checks out.
Surviving my children.
Non-existence.
Just thinking about not existing at all gives me this gnarly feeling of primeval fear.
Glad to know I’m not alone. Surely there’s something behind the veil, right? Right?
Maybe (I believe so, ofc, peep the username 😅), but you can’t “know” (and yes, I understand epistemologically “objective truths” are at least somewhat unreachable but if I don’t hold the apple whilst on Earth it will inevitably fall), you just have to take it on faith.
Here’s a question Id like to know the answer too. Where does consciousness come from? I guess everyone has the same question but more specifically. Is it just like the testing and probing of systems in-between the movement of data or ‘matter’?
Say consciousness has an echo. Like if the system was removed but the energy remains and is still experiencing entropy. As it dissipates into infinity could it maybe persist by finding a new system that is similar to the one it use to inhabit? Doesn’t it do that constantly. Like the synapses that make up your consciousness arent the same synapses they were before. Consciousness latches on to itself, a continuum of processes that make it a whole. As the energy that makes up consciousness fades into nothing it travels through infinite amounts of states before we can no longer observe it and even after. If it were layered onto a ‘new dimension’ that was similar enough to the previous one, would it latch?
I don’t know if this is a question that can be answered, and certainly not a question I have an answer to (or at least not a satisfactory one besides “everything comes from the Creator”, like, duh, ofc). I can tell you, from personal experience, that consciousness is not the mind, which is shaped by experience and ideology, but is behind it. A consciousness watching a mind watching a body, that’s the human experience. Recent studies (with some experimental backing!) talk about ‘tubules’ in the structure of the neurons and quantum physics which, to me, sound promising, if you’re interested (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction). And that’s all the insight I can provide on the matter, sorry! 😅
Sorry, probably was just dumping on you but its a thought that I wanted to write down. Seize the moment, as they say.
No need to apologise! It’s good to ask questions, maybe next time someone more capable will answer. 😅👍
I did appreciate your link!
I don’t really believe in an afterlife, as such, but I do hold on to the possibility that conciousness is less about our physical meat and something more quantum mechanical, and thus is a chance that none of the information that makes up our experiences and thoughts is ever just “deleted” it just becomes part of the universe.
Quantum mechanics does not have much to do with consciousness.
If existence were lacking, there would be no me to percieve the lack of existence.
Hm, whole being j conscious or sleeping (without dreams), what do you experience?
Nothing.
Meh, something that doesnt exsist doesnt feel… well… anything. Not so bad if you ask me. I get it would suck if youve been gifted with capitalism compatible dopamine receptors.
Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
…evidence is emerging for rapid, interacting and sometimes self-perpetuating changes in the Antarctic environment. A regime shift has reduced Antarctic sea-ice extent far below its natural variability of past centuries, and in some respects is more abrupt, non-linear and potentially irreversible than Arctic sea-ice loss. A marked slowdown in Antarctic Overturning Circulation is expected to intensify this century and may be faster than the anticipated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown. The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2 emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades…
This is just an example from today, but overall the climate news from recent years scares me more than anything else. Insect counts are plummeting globally, wildfires are getting noticeably worse everywhere, all of the ice is receding, ocean currents are destabilizing as the temperature patterns in the air and the water shift, and crop growing seasons are changing. I get the impression that the predicted climate changes are not only happening now, but are accelerating noticeably.
Unpredictable food production is bad bad bad. If you watch the series Fall of Civilizations, one of the most common elements of collapsing societies is destablised food production (not necessarily no production, just irregular). If this happens globally, everything stops and people start dying in large numbers.
Personally, this is the only political issue that really matters. Every other thing that people argue about is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Glacier collapse causing sea levels to rise. Global ocean currents failing. A meteor hitting the earth. The next pandemic Locust Super Volcanoes
Locust Super Volcanoes
Time dilation.
Imagine you go to prison for a year. That’s one year you’re without your family and friends, and a year they’re without you. 1:1 time.
Now imagine you’re put to sleep and kept in a coma like state, fed by tubes. A computer or similar machine induces a dreamlike state that is indistinguishable from reality in which you will be imprisoned for 100 years. You never sleep. You never eat or drink. You never need to. And you can’t relax, you’re constantly being hunted or otherwise threatened. In the real world your family never left your side because in the real world, you’re only under for an hour.
Something similar happened to a guy on Star Trek (O’Brien on Deep Space Nine). Black Mirror did it a few times. And the fourth season of Sword Art Online (an anime) did it as well. Probably some others. Oh yeah, Interstellar. So you may have seen it.
Your nightmares may come true soon, I won’t be able to find it, but I’m pretty sure I saw an article of company or whatever testing tech to let people serve a 10,000 year sentence in an hour or something.
Warning: i might be spreading misinformation i never clicked into the article im a HEADLINE READER!!!
Like that short story about a cube
Simpsons did a parody of the concept as well.
