Have you ever heard or seen something that initially seemed to be totally fine, until you saw just how truly dangerous it actually is?
What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?
Compressed air
Cars.
Digital age verification. It is not “to protect the children”. I saw it for what it was right away but literally everyone I talked to about it thought it sounded really positive.
The Republicans
Social media. Every person is now inside a filter bubble that is not reality but they think it is.
Affects how they think about absolutely everything. Thats why its the most dangerous threat to humanity as a whole, with big tech algorithms pushing content to people.
Reading
Cheap, easy to get, abundant and hyper palatable calories.
Ur mom
I dont know, a train was much smaller treth until it came closer :O
If you do nitrous oxide excessively & often it depletes your B-12 and deteriorates the lining of your spinal column and you can lose feeling or reduce motion and become paralyzed in worst case
Cat.
Yes, hello, I am here having my third ER visit.
This was my hand on Saturday, one day after cat bites (I counted 8 punctures), and after two doses of antibiotics.
In case you are like me, and have no sense of medical emergency, that is a serious infection.
I have had two butt shots, an X-ray, five days out of ten of courses of two different antibiotics, and I just had a CT scan.
Edit: Btw, it looks a lot better now. Most of the swelling is gone, and almost all of the redness. CT scan results came back, the knuckle is good, no deeper infection. :)
Did you never attempt to wash it out after getting bitten? Any time you puncture skin you should wash it.
I always give it a good slathering of hand sanitizer too after washing it. Yes it burns a bit, but it isn’t so bad.
I’m sure there’s some reason this is a bad idea, but I haven’t had issues with it.
I washed it thoroughly, cleaned it with hydrogen peroxide, applied Neosporin, bandaged it, then went to urgent care, where they washed it again and prescribed me Augmentin. And even after all that, that’s how my hand looked the next day!
What the fuck. Thats one infected ass cat.
Cat mouths are super dirty. Very nasty bites. :(
Claws are bad news too
Alcohol
iirc it’s a confirmed, 100% proven carcinogen and is a poison with zero net benefits.
and addictive
No net benefits today.
Various alcoholic drinks of the past were a benefit in helping to provide hydration and calories in an unclean environment.
Some of the best times of my life in my 20s were enabled through alcohol. I traveled the world using my own money, met countless interesting people in pubs and at festivals.
As I sit, fully sober at my workstation in the office some 20 years later, I can think back to those times and can only smile when someone claims it has zero net benefits.
yeah. people drink it because its a damn good social lubricant.
keyword is “net” – you made friends, but the health risks involved may considerably offset that benefit.
i’m sober and have made countless friends sans alcohol, many of them drink themselves; and if alcohol was a contingent on them being my friend, I’m not sure I’d want to be friends with them.
Hard disagree, but that might have a lot to do with me being Scottish.
I mean nobody drinks it because it’s healthy.
But but but muh 1 glass of red wine a day study!
Zero net benefits my ass! 🖕🏻
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Little addictions.
Addiction is a real problem and incredibly hard to diagnose. I’m not talking about drugs, I’m talking about those little additions that subtly sublimely control nearly every decision in your life. Addiction to caffeine, sugar, social media, TV, driving too fast, being an asshole, being a complainer, etc.
There’s a lot of reasons why we do what we do or why we think we do them but for the most part it’s about chasing those bits of dopamine. But chasing them can lead to some very destructive behaviors.
Population decline is going to be a massive problem in the not too far future yet hardly anyone is talking about it.
hardly anyone is talking about it
What? Governments all across the world are crying about it.
I don’t know, guys like Elon Musk can’t seem to shut up about it.
