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A lot already mentioned, so those too, but also:
Rogue black holes. Just thinking about them makes my guts queasy.
Would it be one of those things where if we get hit by a rogue black hole we wouldn’t have enough time to worry about it before we were gonners or would we know years in advance?
getting spahgettified is hard to imagine. since time dilation is in effect it would take years to notice.
True but I’m imagining more of an indirect hit. An atmospheric hoovering or something crazy.
If enough psychologists and civil servants wanted to, they could have you declared insane, and then nothing you say can come to your defense as you are now deemed too insane to be listened to. I know this isnt as straight forward as the average person thinks, but the possibility of it even happening once to someone is terrifying.
Oh that and trigeminal nueralgia, the worst pain possible forever.
Sarah Connor, that you?
My wife got a light headed dizziness this morning. The kids freaked out and ran downstairs trying to get me. As I approached the kitchen one of my kids, super scared points towards the kitchen area. I can’t see yet. My mind naturally goes… "She’s dead isn’t she? Oh yeah, she’s a gonner…WTF! Who’s gonna do the taxes? Who’s gonna feed the kids and get them to school? Who’s… I’m totally screwed! No! K love her and need her too much! Why is she just quitting on me like that! Bitch! WTF! Where is she!
Oh she’s fine! I finally make the turn into the kitchen. Its just another bout of high blood pressure. But I’m the crazy one for not eating all her ethnically correct lard cooked everything. Ooh! You gotta try the chocolate! Its traditional! Here, let me just add more lard and triple fry it for you…no way hose lady! She will just not listen. The good thing is she’s not that big in case I need to carry her around the house one day. I’m going to have to change her diapers and everything. That’s the scariest.
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.
transmissible cancer, some surgeons had got cancers from thier patients by accidentally pricking themselves with a contaminiated instrument, although it was treatable and non issue once the tumor was removed. other forms like transplant patients is another source. rare t-cell cancers like mycosis fungoides, you go from patches, to “plaques” to tumors.
and there has only one case of animal to human cancer, the guy had AIDS and got tapeworm cancer from it, which is the most unusual situations out there.
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
Snake clowns!
Prions - Actually nightmarish.
Except in developed countries. There it’s more an inconvenience
Usually only the case if you are rich (in any country)
What do you mean?
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.
Some form of torture. The thing about torture is you can always add “and then…”
Psychological and physical
Imagine being forced to rip off your significant other’s fingernail.
And you might say “There’s no way I’d do that”
Sadly you will. Either to save yourself or them from more torture.
You will do it, we all would. That’s scary.
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 ?
Mondays
Fuck man you gotta chill
😆 I am chill. I just do not like Mondays at all.
Nice try, sleep paralysis demon
unit 731 (seriously, genuinely, don’t look it up if you’re unfamiliar, it’s beyond nightmare fuel the kinds of torture imperial japan committed and got away with)
Well that was an interesting wiki read.
I told you not to! I haven’t even read most of it. I once read part of someone’s really horrific account and at some point BAM, instant mental block.
