• the_boxhead
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    1481 year ago

    70% of the worlds surface is covered in water. None of that water is fizzy. Therefore the earth is technically flat…

    I’ll be my coat, no need to send the pitchforks.

  • @fubo@lemmy.world
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    Many people who die “of old age” have an utterly miserable time of it at the end, sometimes for months or years. Medical treatment to keep a person alive when they’ve already lost their faculties irrecoverably can be incredibly cruel.

    There’s a reason that longevity research focuses on prolonging healthy life, not just prolonging life processes.

    • @Doxin
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      151 year ago

      There’s no such thing as dying of old age. Just dying of something where you’re old enough where people go “yeah that tracks” instead of “oh no! so young!”.

  • NickwithaC
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    821 year ago

    “Stranger Danger” is largely a myth as the most likely place for a child to be abused is in their own home and the most likely culprit is a trusted family member.

      • @ludwig@reddthat.com
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        I don’t trust myself with my kids either since I’m a close relative, I exclusively only entrust my kids to totally random strangers off the Internet.

    • @HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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      131 year ago

      The number of transgender people that have been credibly accused of molesting children is minuscule. There are nearly 10,000 Catholic priests and church employees that have been credibly accused of child molestation. Catholic priests and Catholic church employees are more likely to assault children than school teachers (more priests etc. have been credibly accused than school teachers, and there are fa, far more school teachers than priests et al.)

      And that’s not even getting into the “youth pastor that rapes teen girls” trope.

  • gabe [he/him]
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    791 year ago

    Your eyes have “immune privilege” meaning your immune system effectively does not know they exist as it would attack them and make you go blind if it did.

    • Sunstream
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      371 year ago

      Additional unfun fact, in case the implication goes by anyone; some few folks have discovered exactly how much it sucks when your immune system discovers your eyes and have, indeed, gone blind because of it :(

      • m-p{3}
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        My dog scratched his eye to the point of having an ulcer. Went to the emergency room ASAP 💸

      • I was in the Army, and stabbed myself in the eye with so. Many. Branches. So much damage.

        That was decades ago, and I’m not blind yet… what’s the point at which it becomes a danger?

        • @Mambert@beehaw.org
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          71 year ago

          Actual penetration. When the outside touches anything inside the eye. Something poking the outside really really hard isn’t going to introduce your antibodies to the inside of the eye.

  • @ArcheTelos@lemmy.world
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    711 year ago

    There’s tons of carbon frozen in Arctic permafrost. As the planet warms up, the ice melts, dumping more CO2 into the atmosphere and causing a runaway effect.

  • Skull giver
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    531 year ago

    According to quantum physics, it’s possible that the Higgs field, which gives matter its mass, isn’t as stable as it seems and could be in a false vacuum. In theory it could collapse to a lower energy state releasing massive amounts of energy while turning surrounding matter into a different kind of matter with theoretically completely different laws of physics… If just one particle manages to reach this true vacuum state (through quantum tunneling fore example), the effect will be a collapse of the universe around it, expanding at light speed.

    Some interpretations state that stars and even life will survive such an event. Others state that nothing most people think of as “matter” will survive. Either way, unless we can prove that our current understanding of physics is wrong, devastation at a universal scale could happen any time, anywhere.

    The universe could be collapsing as we speak and we have no way to predict it, no way to prevent it and no way to even be sure this is it isn’t already happening. All it would take is a single particle in the entire universe to fuck up and we’d be doomed. What we know as the universe could disappear into nothingness at any point in time, leaving not even bones or a planet for theoretical future civilisations to find.

    Luckily, vacuum decay is limited by the speed of light, so it could take billions of years before the bubble of death hits us. It could also hit in five seconds.

    • Either way, unless we can prove that our current understanding of physics is wrong, devastation at a universal scale could happen any time, anywhere.

      This is a disingenuous way to phrase this. Our current understanding of physics leads us to hypothesize that our universe could be metastable, there is no proof that we actually exist in such a state.

    • @k110111@feddit.de
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      41 year ago

      Correction, it should be the entire observable universe not the entire universe since light outside the observable universe cannot reach us due to expansion thus anything that travels at speed of light can also not reach us.

    • TipRing
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      Of all the big scary things in the universe, this one scares me the least. Even if it does happen and is the worst-case scenario you just cease to exist at the speed of light before you even know something is happening. No pain, no dread at your inevitable demise, you just are living your life normally and in a nanosecond you are gone. Not a bad way to go, imo.

    • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      Once the expansion of the universe has accelerated enough we should be safe from this, right? My thinking is that if some galaxy starts collapsing as you described, but all surrounding galaxies are moving away at FTL speeds, it would never reach them.

      • @Feathercrown@lemmy.world
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        91 year ago

        That would reduce the chances, but this could happen to literally any particle. Kind of hard to avoid it when it’s in one of your spleen molecules.

      • Skull giver
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        If expansion does come close to or exceeds the speed of light we should be safe from far away galaxies, for sure. At the speed of light, it’ll take ages for such an event to ever reach us in the first place, so the only realistic danger is that vacuum decay has already happened and is coming right for us.

        However, if it can occur at all, it can occur a second time, closer to our home.

  • Rin
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    That there’s notorious war criminals still alive such as Henry Kissinger that probably won’t face any repercussions for their atrocities in their lifetimes.

    Also there are billionaires and politicians in power that could easily at least start switching to clean energy and plastic alternatives but choose not to.

  • @Clipper152@lemm.ee
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    451 year ago

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

    Be careful.

    • @Artaca@lemdro.id
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      251 year ago

      Hey remember when you promised to give me that $100? Don’t tell me your memory has changed to support the narrative that you’ve forgotten!

    • “There are a group of people who believe that each day, when they sleep, they die,” the old man continued. “They believe that consciousness doesn’t continue—that if it is interrupted, a new soul is born when the body awakes.” The old man continued…

      “The thing about this philosophy is how difficult it is to disprove,” the old man said. “How do you know that you are the same you as yesterday? You would never know if a new soul came to inhabit your body, so long as it had the same memories. But then … if it acts the same, and thinks it is you, why would it matter? What is it to be you?"

    • @slinkyninja@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      We forget things but we remember people. As long as you take one life lesson from every person you meet you’ll never forget the important stuff.

  • Fanta’s creation was a result of American companies cutting off business with Germany during WWII. Coca Cola stopped sending ingredients to the local bottling plant in Germany but the ones there still wanted to work and make money. They took the ingredients they still had access to and made a new drink, Fanta! Once the war was over and Coca Cola made contact with them again they liked the new drink and just made it part of their brand.

    I had to stop telling this normally as it tends to make people hate me for making them feel bad about drinking Fanta. I tell them it’s fine. I drive a Volkswagen. But they still feel gross about it so I stopped telling people or at least tell them that they may not want to drink Fanta anymore and give them the choice.

    • @Hyperi0n@lemmy.film
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      Coca-Cola never gave up thier german subsidiary Coca-Cola GmbH and they never willingly stopped sending syrup.

      Syrup was stopped by the allied blockades. They ran out of stockpiles in 1943 and so the owner created Fanta with apple cider scraps.

      The Dutch Coca-Cola plant had similar supply issues and they sent the Fanta branding up there as well but used elderberry.

      After the war Coca-Cola regained their subsidiaries and the Fanta branding.

      Fanta would be discontinued in 1949.

      The current Fanta we know today was created in Italy in 1955 to complete with an unknown Italian PepsiCo product.

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      This makes me want to drink Fanta more than Cola though.

      I don’t blame the workers for wanting to continue earning their money. I wonder whether they provided the new drink freely to Coke once the contact came back, or if Coke just took it…

      • @ominouslemon@lemm.ee
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        21 year ago

        Interestingly, here’s what Merriam Webster says about the origin of the word:

        We can thank Norman Mailer for factoid: he used the word in his 1973 book Marilyn (about Marilyn Monroe), and he is believed to be the coiner of the word. In the book, he explains that factoids are “facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority.” Mailer’s use of the -oid suffix (which traces back to the ancient Greek word eidos, meaning “appearance” or “form”) follows in the pattern of humanoid: just as a humanoid appears to be human but is not, a factoid appears to be factual but is not. The word has since evolved so that now it most often refers to things that decidedly are facts, just not ones that are significant.

  • Dolphinfucker420
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    There was once a study to test the amount of “poop particles” (feces based bacteria) on everyday objects. The study consisted of putting objects in places that would be more or less likely to have feces and a control group which was isolated from any source of feces based bacteria to the best of their ability. The microbiologists running the study were unable to tell which group was the control.

    This is written to the best of my memory and some details may be wrong but the meaning is the same