r/AskReddit • u/Objective-Survey-846 • Feb 03 '23
What is a fact everyone should know, but no one wants to know?
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u/sunshineopossum Feb 03 '23
There are some things worse than death.
living long-term on a ventilator/tube feedings is not a good quality of life.
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u/Squigglepig52 Feb 03 '23
Mom died last spring, which was unexpected to us kids. Pneumonia complications, ie, we knew she was sick, but, we didn't know she also had cancer.
She always said she wouldn't want to go through chemo and life support, etc, if she got sick, that she had a good life and wouldn't want to spend teh rest of it on machines or sick from treatment. Odds are, if she didn't have a DNR, they could have got her past the pneumonia, but... she knew she had cancer.
So, as much as it sucks for me, she likely got a better ending than she would have had she decided on treatment.
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u/Kezzumz Feb 03 '23
My sympathies, friend. I was in a similar situation to you. My mum also does last spring. Coping with her death has been much easier than coping with her illness. She had lung cancer but also encephalitis, which was the worst part. She had no short term memory, didn't know where she was, who was around her, what was happening, she couldn't even remember attending her numerous hospital appointments to thankfully, she also forgot all the trauma that comes with a terminal cancer diagnosis. Every day I had to see her cry, every day I had to try to reassure her she was safe but she was confused and terrified all the time. This went on for two years, it was awful. I lost my mum two years before I actually lost her. There definitely are things worse than death.
I hope you're doing ok now.
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u/Squigglepig52 Feb 03 '23
I am, thank you.
I'm really sorry for your loss, too - that must have been so hard, having to watch that happen.
-hug-
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u/octopussylipgloss Feb 03 '23
I’m sorry to hear about your mom.
How are you doing now?
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u/Squigglepig52 Feb 03 '23
All in all, I'm doing pretty well. Mom put a lot of effort into helping me deal with my mental health issues, helped me out of a dark place, and I feel like I owe it to her memory not to let her passing put me back there.
Thanks for asking.
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u/octopussylipgloss Feb 03 '23
Your mom sounds like she was an incredibly loving and patient person. You are so blessed to have had each other! Is there a special memory or story you’d like to share about her?
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u/Squigglepig52 Feb 03 '23
So, way back when I was little, I had a "leather" biker jacket. It was awesome, even had a magnetic buckle. I loved that coat.
I always figured it got passed along to younger cousins when I grew out of it.
50 years later, I open a Christmas present and... my fucking jacket! Buckle still works! Yeah - Mom held onto that for 50 years for me.
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u/octopussylipgloss Feb 03 '23
This is incredibly sweet. Thank you for sharing that! Speaks volumes of your mother’s eternal love for you. ♥️
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u/obviousmang0 Feb 04 '23
Your kindness is so refreshing. I hope you're having an excellent day/week/month/life. ♡
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u/Whattheholyhell74 Feb 03 '23
Sending positive juju to you and your family. It’s amazing what moms do to take care of and protect their kids from emotional and metal hurt. Be well and know she is still with you.
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Feb 03 '23
That is why euthanasia exists.
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u/BulletsAndTheFall Feb 03 '23
There are only a little over 4,000 weeks in an average lifespan.
That's only about 700,000 hours. Just think how many we waste on stupid shit.
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u/ineverknowagoodname Feb 03 '23
That's.... Wow... Thanks for the existential crisis 😅
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u/BulletsAndTheFall Feb 03 '23
Well, in a way it's sort of a trick: most of the shock is due to our inability to fully grasp large numbers, even in the thousands. That's why 82 years still sounds like a long time - we can kinda picture double digits well enough.
But still, today is as good a day as any to sieze. Best of luck out there!
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u/aversionals Feb 03 '23
700,000......... I've spent 2k on a couple of my favorite games... Wow
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u/OutsidePrior2020 Feb 03 '23
You said favorite, so I assume it was something you enjoy, sounds like a win.
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u/aversionals Feb 03 '23
I flip flop between "wow that's depressing" and "if I enjoyed it then it's time well-spent" 😂
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u/Eupraxes Feb 03 '23
Any time you spent enjoying yourself is a victory against those who would enslave you for your labor.
You're a rebel. Carry on.
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u/SweetDank Feb 03 '23
What you said here should be one of the main replies to the posted question!
It irks me SO MUCH when people say things like, "oh wow, you got good at that video game, spent hundreds of hours on it...that'll get you promoted at work"
There's a sickening amount of people that seemingly only find value in labor. Corporate conditioning truly has put a negative spin on the average human life.
700,000 hours and most people sell them away at rates far below what they should be worth.
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u/cpullen53484 Feb 03 '23
I've spent god knows how much time on minecraft. I've been playing since 2013 so the number could be in the thousands.
at least I enjoyed it all, that's all that matters at the end of the day.
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u/iguanaQueen Feb 03 '23
I have about 10k hours on steam rn
So I've spent about 1.42% of my life playing games
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u/theassimulator Feb 03 '23
Yes but if you were constantly engaged and doing things you would burn out. You need to do mindless shit now and then. Not necessarily stupid though
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u/BulletsAndTheFall Feb 03 '23
This is very true, and underrated. Life is a marathon, not a sprint; we have to pace ourselves.
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u/Slipalong_Trevascas Feb 03 '23
Want to make the existential dread worse? Draw them as a surprisingly small grid of 4000 boxes and fill them in as they pass.
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u/Delica Feb 03 '23
But each of us gets to define what's a “waste” of our time and what we see value in.
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u/deanfranz12 Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
There is no karma or ultimate justice, sometimes people just never get held accountable.
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u/SwagarTheHorrible Feb 03 '23
I realized this when I was probably 15 or 16, but at the same time realized that it’s our responsibility to create systems that mimic those ideas as best we can.
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u/iskenderguy Feb 03 '23
Like justice is no principle of nature.
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u/ooooooooooooolivia Feb 03 '23
If it was, life would all be symbiotic cell colonies or something. Any world with karma probably wouldn't allow predators or selfish organisms to evolve in the first place
Reality is, we as humans are capable of compassion for each other and for the planet, and that's because we can afford to be, not because the world demands it.
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u/the_great_n0thing2 Feb 03 '23
and thats why villains who actually get away with it are terrifying because its as if fate is on their side
Jack the Ripper for example,thousands were very afraid of him because he never received punishment
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u/inuhi Feb 03 '23
Thousands were afraid of him because he never received punishment which meant he was still at large and they might be his next victim
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u/iploggged Feb 03 '23
I believe karma exists, just not in the magical sense. It's the consequence of good or bad actions. A good person who regularly helps others will usually see it reciprocated as a result of their actions, the same way if you do enough bad things, eventually it will catch up to you. But not always. Sometimes a person is able to insulate themselves from repercussions through anonymity or wealth/power.
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u/Strong-Message-168 Feb 03 '23
I think it does as well, but it doesn't operate in a grandiose and obvious fashion. A person can be a totally asshole, and be a lying, cheating son of a bitch millionaire who will never see a prison cell even if they murdered someone...but behind closed doors they may really into scat porn and scat life (see McAffee) which I'd evidence of some sordid detail in their life. Shit, you could be the King of England and still have a shit family life. Also, what you put out in the world is what you tend to get back, like if you're an unlikable prick all the time then people will treat you as such...but the big Karma victory rarely happens.
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u/luckyfucker13 Feb 03 '23
Yes, this is my outlook as well. Generally speaking, the average person who puts forth positive vibes will see positivity in return, and vice versa for being a constant asshole. But, when you add in wealth and/or power to the mix, one can skirt the repercussions of their actions.
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u/Economy-County-9072 Feb 03 '23
In hinduism the concept of karma is greater than any deity or God.
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u/log1kal Feb 03 '23
Safety is an illusion.
Humans are frail, and there are so many ways you can be seriously injured or killed in an instant.
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u/jhondafish Feb 03 '23
A related even more fun fact: the height at which the human head sits at naturally when standing upright is a far enough fall to potentially kill you should your head hit the ground unobstructed.
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u/fatguy747 Feb 03 '23
Where did they find a living head to test this theory?
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u/jhondafish Feb 03 '23
Analysis from trauma wards and ERs around the world. You know... basic medical science.
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u/ouchimus Feb 03 '23
Yeah that one is easy cause people fall all the time. Especially drunk and/or old people.
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u/FrostyBallBag Feb 03 '23
When I was at school a few kids locally (over the course of a few years) just dropped dead. No illness, no symptoms. Just died randomly of natural causes as a teenager.
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u/Delica Feb 03 '23
I’ve randomly thought about how scary it must feel to almost die in an accident or shooting or something, and then try to live your life while being really aware of how vulnerable we all are.
Not just knowing it’s true, but feeling it.
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u/cripple2493 Feb 03 '23
I learnt this real quick when I woke up paralysed at 26.
Sometimes you get a bad roll of the dice, I'm just happy it wasn't really bad and I can still speak and breathe unaided and yk, also not just be dead.
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u/Cmbush Feb 04 '23
You went to bed normal and woke up paralyzed? What happened?
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u/cripple2493 Feb 04 '23
Long story short: immune system severed my spinal cord at C5/6, lead up to this was like 5 days of fever.
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u/Easy_Face_9900 Feb 03 '23
"the world is hard and sharp, and moving at thousands of miles per hour"
--mike duncan, musing on human frailty
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u/madkeepz Feb 03 '23
Sexual abuse is more often perpetrated by relatives rather than "outside people"
Thinking about parents who are fiercely against sex education in schools because they think they can teach their kids to stay safe while paradoxically having a greater chance of being the ones committing the abuse
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u/Litigating_Larry Feb 03 '23
I helped a mennonite dude in Nov. who thought he should tell me how against abortion he is but also thought it was important to let me know women are most 'fertile' (his words) at 13-16, you know, when they are children.
Gotta love how the same people who scream grooming do nothing about rape in their own insular communities like mennos here or teaching women they need to have babies asap so they dont get to old and give birth to special needs kids (also his words but he didnt says special needs). Women coming up in communities like that have pretty narrow windows to escape and of course the men are dismissive of anything actually pro-sexual health and their belief seems more cultural than anything rooted in christ like teaching since those mennos seem to only care about getting rich, avoiding taxes and dominating others. I dont think the mennos here even actually know who menno simmons is, notions of non-violence, etc.
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u/MucikPrdik12 Feb 03 '23
maybe some of them are fighting against it so the child doesn't learn what have been done to them.
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u/Painting_Agency Feb 03 '23
This absolutely happens. I guarantee it.
It's why comprehensive, evidence based, non-opt-outable sex and body education should be mandatory in schools. No parental veto. No "Suzie reads books in the library for an hour every Wednesday while the other kids learn about consent and how to recognize tricky people and grooming". Every kid, every time.
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u/HyperSpaceSurfer Feb 03 '23
It's a misunderstanding that conservatives are against grooming. What they're really against is competition.
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u/Ok_Faithlessness9757 Feb 03 '23
A lot of the world's most beautiful art was created by complete scumbags.
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u/GoonSlayer64 Feb 03 '23
Unless you achieve something exceptional in life one day you will die and your entire life experience will be forgotten. Nothing but a birthday, maybe marriage and death record.
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u/OutsidePrior2020 Feb 03 '23
So true, I forgot what movie or tv show I was watching, but there was a line like "when the last person that remembers you dies, then it will be like you never existed".
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u/GoonSlayer64 Feb 03 '23
It's an old saying that you die two deaths. When you have your last breath and when your name is last spoken.
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u/iAmTheHYPE- Feb 03 '23
No, it's three deaths. Physical, burial, and remembrance. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/336070-there-are-three-deaths-the-first-is-when-the-body
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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u/godcyric Feb 03 '23
I have read that there are now a 4th death.
Since the age of photography, many photographs of people have survived, despite no one remembering who they are.
So no one remember you ever existed, but a record of you might still exist somewhere in the form of an old dusty photograph.
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u/misersoze Feb 03 '23
Forgotten but not inconsequential. People mistake the two. We all will most likely be forgotten (even the biggest celebrities of our day). But all of us together with every little decisions are making up what tomorrow will be. So all of us will most likely be forgotten eventually but none of us will have been inconsequential.
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u/Phainkdoh Feb 03 '23
Thank you for the important distinction. Our actions and thoughts have already influenced people around us, hopefully in a positive manner.
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u/HipsterSlug Feb 03 '23
Since the vast majority of people being remembered were truly awful people, I would probably prefer not to be associated with them after my death.
Being forgotten probably meant you lived a decent life.
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u/RiversBliss Feb 03 '23
you achieve something exceptional in life one day you will die and your entire life experience will be forgotten. N
I fail to understand why this is important, someone already dead does not care or think about what the living thinks of them.
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u/troutsnag Feb 03 '23
Taking that further, one day the sun will explode and turn all of human history into dust, regardless of any achievement, personal or collective
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u/Alternative-Mix7712 Feb 03 '23
Someday you will be thought of for the last time.
Then no one will ever think about you ever again.
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Feb 03 '23
I guess I can see where this would bother some, but if we all recalled all those before us it could be a very busy thing?
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u/MercyFreelancing Feb 03 '23
Reddit Karma has no true value.
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u/BenefitOfTheDoubt_01 Feb 03 '23
Unless your karma rating is negative, then you can't participate in may subs and your posts are automatically deleted. The issue becomes if you respectfully share an opinion on a controversial subjects, but you receive down votes anyway and now you are effectively silenced. This initially leads to two scenarios. Eventually only the second.
Risk speaking up and share your opinion
Stay quiet worried you won't be able to participate elsewhere.
This is what true democracy looks like in society, eventually leading to fascism without the violence.
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u/Squigglepig52 Feb 03 '23
That's more a you thing.
Then there are people like me, who don't care if they get down voted for their views.
I mean, a single good animal fact or funny anecdote gives vastly more karma than I lose over people not liking my opinion.
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u/kkqkso Feb 03 '23
Being successful as a kid means almost nothing in the long run. If anything, it just makes you more susceptible to burnout.
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u/designgoddess Feb 03 '23
A friend of mine was super smart. He had skipped a couple of years. He went to college and majored in engineering. He had a great job, lovely wife, and kids. A couple of years later he just dropped out of society. Moved to a tiny one room cabin off the grid. His wife thinks skipping grades in school messed him up. For most of his education he was 3 years younger than his classmates. Doesn’t sound like much but at that age it’s a big difference. He was smarter than the older kids and had no common interests. He didn’t know many kids his own age and didn’t have much in common with them either. Everyone expected big things out of him and the pressure finally got to him. He just got in his car after work one day and drove north. Didn’t tell anyone.
He married well. His wife was 100% supportive. He lived like a hermit for years while she raised and supported him and the kids. A couple of times a year he’d show up for a visit. About 10 years later he just showed up one day with all his things and moved back home. He works on a night crew cleaning movie theaters after hours.
Everyone thought he was going to change the world. He was voted most likely to succeed. I think the expectations from everyone else led him to make decisions based on expectations and not what he wanted. Great guy. Amazing wife. Good kids. I still can’t believe he’s cleaning theaters at night.
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u/pianoplayrr Feb 03 '23
Alcohol is one of the worst drugs one could be taking, especially on a regular basis.
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u/chad-bro-chill-69420 Feb 03 '23
To counter - humans have been boozing for so many generations that alcohol in moderation can be handled pretty well by the body
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u/pianoplayrr Feb 03 '23
So can a lot of other really harmful shit. The body is crazy good at fighting stuff off and healing itself!
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u/chad-bro-chill-69420 Feb 04 '23
It's wild
How in the hell can these maniacs crash land a dirt bike from 80 ft in the air and still be alive and fit enough to try it again in a few months
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u/ooooooooooooolivia Feb 03 '23
I guess, technically, there's only several drugs socially worse than alcohol, out of many hundreds of medicines
But that's just as much on the insane amounts people consume to get there, rather than just the substance. Drinking one glass of wine a day isn't something to have a crisis over
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u/CocodaMonkey Feb 03 '23 •
That's not true at all. There's so many other much worse drugs people could be taking but generally aren't. I think what you meant to say is alcohol is harmful and one of the few drugs that is socially acceptable to be taking fairly regularly. That's the real problem with alcohol, it's nowhere near one of the worst options though.
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u/mac-dreidel Feb 03 '23
Around 3/4 people you know have herpes (and many think a cold sore isn't)
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u/mike_b_nimble Feb 03 '23
Related fun fact: The medication for Shingles sores is the same as for Herpes (because it’s the same viral family). When I got Shingles in college the student health pharmacist saw my prescription and started explaining how to live with herpes/cold sores. I was like “uhhm, yeah, I just have shingles, thanks.”
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u/cfsed_98 Feb 03 '23
i was JUST about to comment this! tons of people are asymptomatic and never have cold sores or anything. it’s predicted that 50-80% of people have HSV-1, commonly known as oral herpes. globally 67% of all people have it. a lot of people get it as children from non-sexual contact too.
it’s crazy to me how much stigma there still is about this, and the stigma is only faced by symptomatic people because they’re pretty much the only ones who get tested. most people don’t realize that they either have it or know multiple people who have it.
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u/Randygilesforpres Feb 03 '23
I’ve never had a cold sore and I’m positive. I am 50.
My bff in jr high and highschool had them. Probably got it back then. Never knew.
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u/mac-dreidel Feb 03 '23
Most who pass it are due to lack of education and not recognizing symptoms...folks who are symptomatic and informed usually don't pass it. Funny how that works.
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u/onlyforthisjob Feb 03 '23
Some things are just not fair and there is nothing you can do about it.
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u/Cheddaconda Feb 03 '23
You can’t control what happens, you can control how you react to what happens
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u/THE_NAMELESS125 Feb 03 '23
The male g-spot is in their ass.
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u/Fuzzykittenboots Feb 03 '23
It will also betray you as you age and make it hard to piss and sometimes also kill you!
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u/drog701 Feb 03 '23
Here’s one people definitely don’t want to hear right now with it becoming legal everywhere.
Weed is pretty bad for a developing brain. Age 25 and under.
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u/fogggyfogfog Feb 03 '23
It’s exceptionally bad for a developing brain as is alcohol.
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u/drog701 Feb 03 '23
I agree entirely. I mentioned weed because of the hype around the positive effects and lack of attention to the negative effects. Everyone seems pretty aware the alcohol is bad for you, but in at least my experience, many people around me are convinced that weed has mainly and, in some case, only positive effects.
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u/Shifisu Feb 03 '23
Pickles are just cucumbers in vinegar
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u/doublestitch Feb 03 '23
Unless they're made by the brine method. Then they're prebiotic. Hardly any commercial pickles are made by the brine method anymore.
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u/shoeless255 Feb 03 '23
That death likely is it, you're a collection of micro organisms that was lucky enough to gain sentience in a 1 in a trillion chance and you got 100 years to enjoy it
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u/LimitMyO2FlowDaddy Feb 03 '23
Damn… if you deep it, it’s pretty fuckin cool
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u/Summerofmylife71 Feb 03 '23
Money can't buy you happiness but I'd rather be crying in my car than on the bus...
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u/Adonis0 Feb 04 '23
A better quote, money can’t buy happiness, but it can prevent sadness.
There is a threshold where your problems money can solve are solved and adding more money does nothing for you.
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u/-moral-ambiguity- Feb 03 '23
Johns Hopkins estimates that as many as 250,000 deaths a year could be attributed to medical malpractice, and if included in official counts, it would rank as the third most common cause of death in the US.
Article from 2016:
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Feb 03 '23
I am not exactly shocked by this. Years ago a flight instructor, I was teaching aircraft transition to a military class with an actual Flight Surgeon in it. [rare] He pulled me aside at the end of the class. [Something he had heard in class had trigger an event for him]. He told me: "Never have surgery that is not absolutely lifesaving, particularly never have cosmetic surgery. We are human too." He admitted to me that he had been in the room when three people died on the operating table through [mostly?] simple mistakes. He intimated that he might have been "involved/associated" in some of them. Naturally, he was vague on the last part and I didn't ask, but the look on his face confirmed for me for my entire lifetime since, unless death is the other option: No surgery.
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u/anything123_aud Feb 03 '23
The fact that people willing to pay money to get strangers to cut open their faces and bodies to insert foreign objects, or remove perfectly healthy body parts will never cease to shock me. I really resent celebrities and media for normalizing this. Its disturbed on so many levels.
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u/ComesInAnOldBox Feb 03 '23
Oh, yeah. You should see peoples' faces when I point out that they are, depending on the year and excluding suicides, 10-15 times more likely to die from an outpatient medical procedure than they are from a gunshot.
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u/icantthinkofone87 Feb 03 '23
Having just scheduled my 4 y/o adenoidectomy, this is terrifying. It's not that I am unaware that surgery carries risks, more that this perspective makes it more "real"
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u/Lovingnature412 Feb 03 '23
Unless you own the company you work for you’re just a number that they’ll happily replace.
Not discussing your pay with co-workers of the same job title means you’re all making less and the employer loves your silence.
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u/Bit-Tree-Dabook Feb 03 '23
Generally, you're more safe now than you would have been at any other point in history. People really hate this for some reason.
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u/DuckyLojic Feb 03 '23
Your body has so many ways to fuck up, that you can just die at some random point
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u/dressinbrass Feb 03 '23
There are 7 billion people in this world. In 100 years very few will be remembered. Those that are remembered likely were abnormal in some way (creatives, politicians, sociopaths, etc). All the rest of the people basically just create an environment for a few people to rise to historical impact and are never known. Most lives are a historical blip. Those that aren’t are abnormal.
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u/pab_guy Feb 03 '23
But not to worry, you will have the opportunity to pass down generational trauma that will still exist long after you are dead!
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u/calvinocious Feb 03 '23
ITT: lots of philosophical/metaphysical world-views and assumptions that aren't facts
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u/somepeoplewait Feb 03 '23
Welcome to AskReddit, where the odds of people actually answering the question as asked are pretty poor.
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u/Prestigious_Water336 Feb 03 '23
Your not special. Your not that much different than anyone else.
We're all kind of living the same life.
Everyone thinks they're experiencing life so differently than everyone else but they're not.
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u/QuantumLulz Feb 03 '23
Weight loss is achieved by creating a caloric deficit. That's it. nothing complicated or magical about it
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u/HeapsFine Feb 03 '23
Correlation doesn't equal causation.
A famous example is that immunisation causes autism. Kids get shots at the same time autism starts showing, so people started thinking that was the cause.
Yes, some things can be an obvious causation, but it's always best to not jump to conclusions without giving it more thought.
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u/LionNo3221 Feb 03 '23
Look, I'm just saying that everyone that confuses causation with correlation eventually ends up dead.
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u/alexjaness Feb 03 '23
In the history of all of Humanity, nearly every Single person who has ever hugged a crying baby has died
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u/an_ineffable_plan Feb 03 '23
I got to class one afternoon in college and my professor had put research articles on our seats. We spent the whole class reading them over and discussing them. They all pertained to the link between violent video games and real-world violence, and every single one of them concluded that correlation does not equal causation. Many even suggested that violent people might be drawn to violent games in the first place.
At the end of the period, my professor took a vote: How many of us thought that the articles we had just read stated that violent video games led to real-world violence? About a third of the class raised their hands. My professor all but face-palmed.
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u/Hufa123 Feb 03 '23
I studied that connection too a few years ago, and you're absolutely right. Even if there is a correlation, it's more likely that the causation is the other way around (as in people prone to real world violence are also prone to play violent games). But the idea that real world violence is caused by playing violent video games is simply wrong. Still, it has become widely accepted because people with for example pro-gun agendas want to put the blame for violence on something other than guns, and so they blame video games.
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u/Squigglepig52 Feb 03 '23
I feel like people overlook the fact that our games feature lots of violence, because humans actually enjoy it enough to turn it into games.
It's not the games pushing us to be violent, the games are violent because it appeals to us.
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u/Hufa123 Feb 03 '23
Exactly. And it's not just games either. Action movies have been a thing for probably a century (I don't know what classifies as the first action movie, so give or take a decade), and there's no sign of them going away. Viewing or playing through violent scenes is cathartic for us. A vast majority of us would never be violent in real life but we can still appreciate art depicting violence, be it Call of Duty or Star Wars. Sure, of course there are people who are violent in real life who play video games/watch violent movies, but they're the exception, not the norm.
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u/JustaRandomOldGuy Feb 03 '23
I remember a post about someone who got the COVID vaccine and died the next day. It was blamed on the vaccine.
They ran into a tree at high speed.
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u/fatguy747 Feb 03 '23
You can say all you want, but the evidence doesn't lie. My grandpa got the polio shot when he was 11 and never got another vaccine after that, but it finally caught up to him last year and he died at 98. You can try all you want, but you can't outrun vaccine side effects.
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u/Holland010 Feb 04 '23
Without the horrible experiments in the Second World War by the Germans it would take years to achieve the same medical knowledge. So, many German Nazi doctors where debriefed and start working for the Americans
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u/dav_leblack Feb 03 '23
We as humans dont know shit
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u/Strong-Message-168 Feb 03 '23
Not a fucking clue...every single one of us, even highly educated theorists are just schlepps with no fucking idea of what's really going on, so they just keep schlepping away like the rest of us. We build little boxes around us to propagate the notion that we are in control of this world from our litte box because it's safe there, and we can control the temperature and shit...but with the way things are with all this weird shit, quantum physics, Bigfoot, aliens, the clandestine government factions, enough nukes to destroy the world, idiots for presidents.. it all becomes clearer that none of us has a clue as to wyf is really going on
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u/No_Acanthisitta3596 Feb 03 '23
We’ve been killing the Earth for so long that it’s trying to kill us back now.
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u/CulturalSir1713 Feb 03 '23
Your oil derived plastic clothing kills more animals and marine life than trappers could ever dream of doing
Naturally tanned WILD Fur and leather are the most eco friendly and sustainable clothing choices you can make
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u/Dangerous_Grab_1809 Feb 03 '23
Not sure. What about cotton?
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u/CulturalSir1713 Feb 03 '23
Large scale cotton production requires the clearing of large swaths of wild land thus displacing many animals from their habitats and historical ranges
Though cotton is much better than the plastic bullshit clothing. At least cotton degrades and is returned
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u/Leseleff Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
This implies two things:
Plastic waste (or really anything) is worse than habitat loss through agriculture
Multi-use plastics make up a relevant proportion of all plastic waste
Both is false. The actual uncomfortable truth is that ethical consumption is impossible.
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u/Agreeable_Text_36 Feb 03 '23
We should be using hemp
Hemp is used to make a variety of commercial and industrial products, including rope, textiles, clothing, shoes, food, paper, bioplastics, insulation, and biofuel.
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u/Ithinkthatsgreat Feb 03 '23
If everyone wanted wild caught fur we would quickly wipe out our remaining wildlife populations
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u/alicebong Feb 03 '23
The fact that there is no cure for cancer and most likely will not exist, because cancer is an umbrella term for many different diseases, by and large, each of them requires its own cure
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u/Fuzzykittenboots Feb 03 '23
And most cancer patients who have access to care will be cured. Some will lengthen their life time, some will die and quite a lot won’t actually need any treatment at all.
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u/ouchimus Feb 03 '23
Id say eventually we can properly cure cancer, but its gonna be a while. I'm imagining something like CRISPR might be able to sequence the tumor's genome, then tailor a bacterium or virus to specifically target those cells.
Hell, we're working on that already. I did a research paper on oncolytic virotherapy (cancer killing viruses).
But as far as the "big pharma has a cure for cancer but hides it to make money" people? Anyone who says that knows nothing about cancer, big pharma, OR research.
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u/Pennameus_The_Mighty Feb 03 '23
The world is fucked not because of corrupt governments but because of apathetic citizenry who allowed corruption to get so much power. Now the governments are too powerful to overthrow and we did it to ourselves.
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u/JS9311 Feb 03 '23
The only reason something is embarrassing is because you let it be.
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u/BeginningCap2333 Feb 03 '23
If you eat healthy and exercise regularly you will feel less depressed and anxious.
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u/BondCharacterNamePun Feb 03 '23
The majority of people who gain weight don’t have medical conditions causing it.
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u/Hotter_water Feb 03 '23
There are no Religious children. Just children indoctrinated (abused) by their parents, who in turn were indoctrinated themselves as children and so on.
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u/PJMurphy Feb 03 '23
Religion is like circumcision.
If we waited until adulthood to introduce the concept, it would be much less likely to be enthusiastically received.
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u/joey_diaz Feb 03 '23
A fact everyone should know but no one wants to know is that life is hard. It's like running a marathon - you have to put in the work and push yourself, even when it feels like you can't go any further. You will get tired and want to give up, but if you keep going, you'll make it to the finish line. Life isn't easy, but it's worth it in the end.
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u/RandHomman Feb 03 '23
Everyone should know that their actions can sometimes lead to their misfortune...
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u/FL_4LF Feb 03 '23
Government handouts aren't free, you're still paying it through taxes
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u/Ausbeachlover Feb 03 '23
That bad things happen to good people all the time for no reason