my elbow had a small itch a moment ago, so i scratched it.
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.
Yet we can’t runaway from that problem
Not enough profit in it
Not enough short term profit. The long term returns are infinitely greater.
Yeah nobody cares enough about those
There’s also tons of carbon dioxide dissolved in seawater. As the planet warms up, the warmer sea can hold less carbon dioxide, dumping even more CO² into the atmosphere and accelerating the runaway effect.
The guy who shot john Wikes Booth was once solicited by prostitutes. He was so so appalled by his boner that he decided to castrate himself with pinking shears (scissors). He then goes to church and walks it off before seeing a doctor.
The real sad part is that he was undeniably driven insane by his work as a hat maker. Fur hats were shaped and then brushed with mercury, which led to hat makers getting mercury poisoning from the fumes.
Basically the poor guy melted his brain, chopped of his balls, enlisted into the union army and was forced to march on a boken leg, killed the most infamous man in the world, and was then locked up in an asylum.
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.
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.
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…
Death isn’t synonym of end of the life.
Lack of oxygen at birth doesn’t mean low IQ.
3.14 backwards spells PIE
The word “bed” looks like a bed
These are fun.
“swims” can be rotated 180 degrees and still say swims. It’s an ambigram. “pod” would be another.
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Cats can’t taste sugar.
They still come for your sweets because they smell the fat in them, typically from butter in baked goods or chocolate.
Wife says this is a fun fact.
They can taste protein in a different way than we can though.
Khajiit in shambles
Genocides typically are never actually punished and their main perpetrators often get away with it.
If you rape someone in the U.S., your odds of going to jail for it are only 0.01% . A hundredth of a percent. 0.01 out of 100 rapists ever actually see jail or prison.
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My bad fam. It was late.
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I highly doubt that for every 10 000 rape cases reported only one is actually successfully pursued by law enforcement.
This one contradicts what he is saying but is still staggeringly low.
Although it does have a lot of assumptions and it looks like it combines female and male victims.
Conditions on the road of bones in Russia were so bad that and it was so hard for them all to be taken to a cemetery that, for every meter of road, there’s a body of an overworked road worker buried underneath the road. And the road never got to anywhere good.
It went to magadan on the kamchatka peninsula. Theres a volcano there. And an international airport.
There are physicist, respected ones, that believe the universe is deterministic. That we don’t have free will.
And psychologists that believe that feeling of consciousness is a result of the brain developing a self-supervising function for higher order thinking.
Essentially free will is just an illusion.
What difference does it make?
Well, if true, it doesn’t make any difference. Because it always was and always will be. Nothing makes any difference.
But in another way, it’s kinda neat. I guess it’s simultaneously a not fun fact, and a fun fact.
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Of the 2 compatible explanations, I really like the many worlds theory over hidden variables. Many worlds explains this unexplainable randomness, the probabilistic nature of subatomic particle movements, by saying all possible movements happen…. The probabilities just indicate the likelihood that our reality is the one that movement X happens in.
And then you throw the block universe in, and it’s just all the more beautiful.
All possible combinations of atomic interactions all happen. Well “happen” is so linear time thinking, they all just exist.
Some of the top scientists believe in a higher power god. NdGT makes the argument in one of his lectures that until that number is zero you have no right to look down on them for believing in a higher power.
Uh… ok.
I want saying you you but instead the royal you. That’s where a lot of the determinism their cones from. God doesn’t play dice with the universe and all that. Which is entirely taken out of context from Einstein and a lot of people wrongly think Einstein was religious but he wasn’t. Still the quote remains and have kept scientists religious for decades.
I like Sabine Hossenfelders way of explaining things, she disregards god altogether. It’s not necessary for these explanations.
I saw some other scientists basically throwing a hissy fit about determinism, and how they wouldn’t get credit for being so smart and making the discoveries and stuff if determinism was true. Like obviously I’m so smart, I’m making hypotheses so I’ve got free will.
It was utterly embarrassing, I was looking for a legit counter view to see what the other side said. And the first two videos I found were PhDs throwing tantrums on podcasts.
But to those that believe in a god generally, sure, with our current knowledge anything is a possibility… just some theories have more standing than others… but some also are nicer to believe in, and just make sense for a being to want to believe.
There are physicist, respected ones, that believe the universe is deterministic.
Quantum mechanics involves true randomness, so it is already proven that the universe is not deterministic.
That doesn’t mean we have free will, though. Random actions are no more free than predetermined ones.
Of the 2 compatible explanations, I really like the many worlds theory over hidden variables. Many worlds explains this unexplainable randomness, the probabilistic nature of subatomic particle movements, by saying all possible movements happen…. The probabilities just indicate the likelihood that our reality is the one that movement X happens in.
I think the argument they make is that quantum randomness doesn’t have any way of influencing our choices, the scales are too different. I disagree, I think quantum randomness is free will, and there’s some sort of quantum amplifier, for lack of a better word, that bridges the gap between particle interactions and consciousness. But since there is no way to prove or disprove such a thing, since it is by definition indistinguishable from chance, it’s basically naval gazing…
Statistically speaking, 30 of the dalmatians in the movie 101 Dalmatians were deaf.
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.
Kissinger received a fucking Nobel Peace Prize.
It was one of the defining moments of my childhood that turned me into a radical.
And I bet Alfred Nobel is still rolling in his grave for that considering the whole reason he proposed the Nobel Prizes.
Jason Steele (of Charlie the Unicorn fame) used to do a show called Vulo Lives which has a recurring game called Guess That War Criminal. The hint was always that they were also a Nobel Peace Prize winner. There were… quite a few of them.
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Kissinger was on the board of Theranos, which feels a little anachronistic to me.
That our memories are all we really know and have. They’re also volatile, and are usually changed to support a narrative.
Be careful.
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!
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oh FUCK
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.
“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?"
I once, out of curiosity, mounted an expedition to the darkest regions of the internet, aka The Dark Web.
There’s some shit there that can scar you for life. Don’t ever go there, seriously.
LMAO what a bullshit, why does this dumb answer has 20 upvotes?
There are some useful websites out there if by darknet you mean the Tor network. BBC, Debian, Reddit, and Z-Library (an eBook download site that had its content availability reduced after legal pressure) for example have onion domains.
No need to go to the dark web, videos of children being skinned alive get posted on the normal internet all the time. They get remove quickly, but there’s always someone who’s the first to notice and report that crap.
Meanwhile I use the dark web to access archive.today because they sabotage your computer if you use Cloudflares’s DNS servers.
I highly doubt it, my mind was s very strong and I have seen many thing in my life, gruesome death, abuse you name it. Nothing disturbs me. In comparison, the average person is too sensitive
Thinking of it a bit differently, have you considered you might not be sensitive enough? There’s some real benefits to living with a healthy dose of sensitivity; for one, it is part of a healthy response to situations that could be physically harmful to you. Best of luck out there :)
I’m actively avoiding growing insensitive to stuff like this
My sense of normalcy kinda depends on not being apathetic to abuse
I was on the Internet in the wild west period when you could just as easily stumble upon the kind of stuff you can only find on the dark web just making a Yahoo search.
Ahh the days of orgish, rotten, thisisacryforhelp, stile project, theync
Why, when I saw.my first decapitation video I was merely a boy!
Yeah, the internet used to be fucked. There were noooo rules. It was kinda like paradise but with landmines. Lots of landmines.
It still is very fucked especially sites like reddit sometimes
Edit: maybe i underestimated the internet a bit
Oh you sweet summer child. Reddit has moderation, administration, …rules? Policies, terms of use?
Reddit is the Disney Channel.
The moderation took way too long but I understand that it could be even worse but the internet is still a fucked up place maybe less than before but still bad
It’s not “oops, I accidentally stumbled upon a cache of child porn” fucked, like back in the early days of the WWW.
You’ll run into fucked up people; but the content is like Sesame Street levels of fucked by comparison.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
