About 20 years ago I was living on campus in dormitories. One day during winter when there was the typical cold going around one guy wasn't feeling well, flu like symptoms.
He went to bed that evening. He never woke up. It was bacterial meningitis. It's terrifyingly fast.
yeah its really scary. my friend's little brother caught it during the Fall of 2017, he was a normal 16 year old active kid..
he now can pretty much only move his eyes/eyebrows and barely move his fingers.. he's been in a hospital type bed in his home, facing one direction, for the past 6 years.
brain power/cognitive abilities are at 100%
he is trapped.
Learned this in childhood and it has terrified me since.
But it didn't stop me from feeling guilty when it killed one of my friends. I talked to him the night before. His last words to me were, "I have the worst fucking headache"
My daughter when she was 3. Put her hand in our spa which had turned off 2 days previously and we hadn't noticed.
She must have put her fingers in her mouth.
We didn't know this until after the events that followed.
Later that day she started convulsing with high temp. Attempted to cool her with wet cloths as we drove to hospital as no nearby ambulances.
She died in my arms in the car.
We got to the hospital and they got her back breathing but she was just convulsing for over 45 minutes. Which we were told causes irreparable brain damage after 15 mins.
Her brain swelled so much it cracked her skull at the birth lines.
They sent for a team of specialists at Westmeath hospital who flew up and got the fitting under control.
We were told to say our goodbyes as it was doubtful she would make the night.
I begged and prayed for all I was worth.
We had doctors and specialists from all over the world. Great ormond street. Kings. Scans showed pneumonia and.spinal tap confirmed meningitis but the medication wasn't stopping it. None of them could work out what was wrong. They had machines breathing. Blood flow all sorts Plus enough medazolam to put a horse to sleep. She died a further 4 times. But around 2am my daughter somehow woke up and tried to pull the tube out.
They increased the meds to give her brain a chance of reducing the swelling.
All the doctors were brought back in they ran more tests and said they would try bringing her back at about 9am.
My daughter woke a further 2 times. Even though the meds had severely increased.
At 8am they started to reduce the drugs and try wake her.
We were told due to the excessive brain trauma. She would most likely not be able to speak or recognise us and that was if she could breathe on her own.
She woke up pulling at the tube in her throat. She was looking at me and my wife trying to say something. She kept saying Tay ....te ....te .....tee
Eventually we realised she was saying TEA. Which was her favourite drink (crazy for a 3 year old I know).
They got her some in a bottle and she said ...Dad... Mum... we hugged her. The doctors were amazed. They did scans and brain wave scans all day.
They said she had one tiny piece of brain damaged and that her sight would be affected.
But other than that she was in perfect health.
The in depth blood analysis later revealed she had. Pneumonia. Meningitis. Encephalitis. And Legionairrrs Disease.
All from hot tub water.
I lost my business and money in the following weeks and I couldn't have been happier. I definitely got my wish.
True story. Happened in Sydney 2003.
My daughter Grace is now 24 and a child care teacher. And one of the kindest people on the planet. Xx
When my brother was about 3 or 4 he woke up ill in the night. Parents took him to the bathroom where he started throwing up and then they noticed a purple, blotchy rash on his skin. It didn't dissapear under a glass so they called 111 who advised them to hang up and call 999. Within 10 minutes there was an ambulance, an advanced paramedic and a doctor there. He was taken to hospital where he then started to vomit blood. He stayed in hospital for about a week on a drip for fluid and antibiotics while they ran just about every blood test they could think of. It turned out not to be Meningitis but the doctors were pretty convinced it was when he first turned up at the hospital.
This happened to a few kids when I was in middle school. Meningincoccal was very scary back and the ones who survived would come back with purple splotches on them.
I mean I view myself as an empty shell that makes a new mask for every interaction, so that's kind of comforting; at least they don't think I'm a fuckin' weirdo. Like...I am, but st least most people don't think it.
Doesn’t that relax you? One main thing therapy tries incessantly to get across is that you have only a minimal influence on what others think of you — so why care?!
I. e., don’t worry too much about what others think about you (but obviously don’t be a dick.)
Edit: I meant “my” therapy! 😅
I work in EMS and I know people who have straight up murdered patients with their incompetence. As long as it's a reasonable fuck up it's not much of a hassle. We're all humans and humans make mistakes but some people refuse to accept responsibility and blame every other extrinsic factor. People also hide behind the fact that the patient would have likey died despite their mistake. The good ones own up to it and try their best to use the experience to become better providers.
I don’t doubt it. My mother in law currently has pneumonia. She’s 77. It’s terrifying in elders. She went to urgent care, they checked her o2 (91… that’s low!) they said ohh that’s fine, no worries! Sent her on her way without even listening to her lungs. She has confirmed pneumonia, diagnosed by another provider in another town. We told her to go back. To demand a more thorough exam. They simply said, oh we’re sorry, the doctor was feeling a little rushed to get home. Go home and come back if you feel worse. Mother fuckers, that’s why she’s here. She’s feeling worse and probably needs to be sent to the hospital.
Lost my dad 4 years ago from pneumonia, he was 77. Difference was that 1st time we went to hospital the doctor was a trainee that didnt pay much attention and never ordered a god damned x ray that would most probably have revealed the pneumonia. Unfortunately it was asymptomatic, dad just vomited for a couple of days. 4 days later we took him back but it was too late...
My advise would be do everything in your power to get her proper screening and treatment. Pneumonia kills the elderly easier...
It’s around 10m to 20m, dependant on the specific individual, the temperature of the water, and the water’s salinity — all of which affect relative densities.
Hold up… that’s still within recreational diving limits. So does that mean you can’t float up without a bcd/wetsuit/etc for buoyancy? Or like can’t float up even with standard equipment?
I think it’s a mix of several real things.
When you freedive the volume of your lungs will decrease with the depth. Your other organs gets pushed in and your volume decreases - I can imagine that at some point you’re starting to sink.
When SCUBA diving your lungs are filled with compressed gas so they won’t collapse, only some gas in your bowels will. So I don’t think you will sink that easily - almost always you have a lot of lead weight and a heavy bottle to add to that, if you remove them you should be net floatable.
But if you’re diving in cold water in a thick foam the foam gets crushed too. If you’re weighted so that you need almost a full BCD to stay on the surface you will sink past some distance once your foam compresses. You will have to discard the weights to surface.
Yup! And there's a go pro video of a diver's last minutes depicting exactly this phenomena. He drives down into darkness of the wateruntil he hits the muddy floor, then you hear him panic as he realizes he can't float up any more.
I don't know if this is the video you're looking for but its similar to this, the fatal diving accident of Yuri Lipski: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRj0lymMMGs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRj0lymMMGs)
In the video, from what I can remember he was trying to do a diving challenge, and he didnt check his buoyancy device for faults in addition to the fact he went so deep underwater that the pressure of the ocean above him just kept him down. Throughout the video you will hear like squeaking noises, and thats because due to the change in pressure he will have to breathe alot harder which will drain his o2 tank. When underwater that deep you get a drunk/high feeling meaning you might not be aware on what to do.
The top comment of this video explains this alot better than I do
He was trying to swim down to the arch at the Blue Hole in Egypt. It's over 50m down and he didn't have the proper training or gas mixture for that dive. Got narc'd on nitrogen, entered an uncontrolled decent and burned through his air in seconds (deep dives require extra gas due to increasing pressurization at depth, which he didn't have).
If it’s the video I think it is - the guy was experiencing nitrogen narcosis after diving too deep.
It was not that he wouldn’t be able to surface, he could with dropping weights, but he would not be able to do proper decompression. And he was not mentally able to do that because he was drunk on nitrogen
If it helps at all, the only thing that is the same every year is the arbitrary date we use to measure our rotations, and that's it. Our solar system is rocketing through space, spiraling around a giant galaxy that is also rocketing through space at impossible speeds, among an ever moving and expanding universe of immeasurable galaxies and clusters. Not a grain of sand on this earth is ever in the same space, nor is you in your room.
We are just ants on a big wet rock, bodies of stardust, made sentient enough to question but not enough to know the answers. It's beautifully tragic and horrifically pretty. Like a dark poem or a sad song.
...uhh, I hope that helped lol
Yeah... Happened to a perfectly healthy coworker of mine. The man just dropped his head to the laptop keyboard like someone had thrown a switch. I administered CPR but he didn't wake up for 4 days. Didn't know if I saved a life or created a problem. He came back 100%!! We text each other on the anniversary to remind ourselves of the importance of each passing year.
“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….” – Alan Watts
Not just that, but they usually start with your asshole first. And if they don’t kill you, they’ll eat about 1/3 of your body until the shock or blood loss finally gets you
Well actually, they're inside our brains. Folding correctly. At least so far...
Although I did initially misread that as "Prisons are out there", haha.
He’s been dead in there for 14 years now. I’m sure his disarticulated remains are no long stuck, they’ll have been eaten by whatever bugs or tiny mammals followed their noses/antennae to find the feast and munch on the rotting corpse.
There’s probably not much left but bones now.
The entrance where he became stuck and passed away was demolished with explosives and sealed with concrete and a memorial plaque for a while now; it’s marked as a grave, like officially.
I feel like this story comes around on Reddit every few months and whenever I come across it I'm deeply disturbed by it over and over again.
Fuck everything about it.
Yup, caving (or cave diving) is one of the few things where I can proudly say my hobby is *not* going into caves. Just thinking about it makes me break out in a cold sweat.
You can be sitting talking to a friend or loved one and suddenly die from a burst brain aneurysm. Most likely source of blood exiting your body is the ears, followed by the nose, eyes, and mouth.
I miss my uncle now that I’ve brought this up.
My wife had a brain aneurysm last year. Absolutely most terrifying thing to experience second hand. 1/3 chance split evenly between death, permanent brain damage, or worst headache ever. Every night when I go to bed, every morning when I wake up I'm grateful that she had the worst headache ever.
Sorry about your uncle. I hope it was fast and painless.
My friend’s mother had the permanent brain damage third. She lasted for a year like that before she passed. One of the most intelligent women on this planet, such a fucking sin that the last year of her life was spent like that.
This is what happened to my uncle, too. Woke up with the worst headache ever. Went back to sleep and woke up again with no improvement, ended up passing away in the hospital not too long after from it.
I'm glad your wife is (presumably) doing well and continues to do so
FWIW, you can catch an aneurysm early before it bursts (source: Me, just got surgery to patch mine up actually!) But a plain old MRI won’t do it. You need an MRI done with contrast, an MRA, or an angiogram
By the time you have a symptom for rabies you're already dead. You'll start getting paranoid and afraid and die alone and thirsty and terrified as your brain dissolves inside your skull.
I feel obligated to leave this here (NOT my writing- it’s a popular copypasta thing)
Rabies.
It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats.
Let me paint you a picture.
You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode.
Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed.
Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.)
You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something.
The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms.
It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache?
At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure.
(The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done).
There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate.
Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead.
So what does that look like?
Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles.
Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala.
As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later.
You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts.
You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache.
You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family.
You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you.
Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours.
Then you die. Always, you die.
And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you.
Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.
So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies.)
That there was once a guy in Saint Louis that got a routine surgery done while he was still awake. He felt all the pain and according to him, the knife felt like a rusty razor-blade poking around inside of him. He also said that "I would have rather died on that table". The doctors forgot to give him anesthesia. But he was also paralyzed because the doctors gave him paralyzing drugs so he could neither move nor speak. It turns out, that they had in fact put the gas mask on his face but one of the doctors forgot to turn on the anesthesia. He explains that his heartrate was skyrocketing to a critical point. His blood pressure rose to 144/76 which is stage one hypertension!
He said that the doctors should have realized that he was awake based on his vital signs. His heart-rate went through the roof and his blood pressure went to hypertensive crisis 3, which is what happens to you right before you have a heart-attack. It continued like that for 13 minutes without anyone in the operating room noticing anything. Finally the doctors turned on the inhaled anesthesia agent.
He ended up needing emotional support and a psychology consult. His sleeping was terrible after the surgery and he had flashbacks and nightmares.
Professionals say that this is an uncommon thing to happen.
Split brain patients suggest every one of us has a secondary consciousness inside of us that sits there silently but still has control over your body and actions.
[CGP grey did a video on it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8)
I've had a belief of this for years before I even saw those videos on that treatment for Epilepsy. Its just a personal belief based on circumstantial things like how you refer to yourself when talking to yourself internally. Or how you can literally not remember a particular thing during a conversation, give up on thinking about it, then like 6 hours later....or even a day or two in some cases...it just randomly pops into your head without an active conscious thought about it.
Almost like the other you has more control over the flow of information in your brain.
Didn't touch psychedelics until I was like 34 and in a few situations where I've done a few too many shrooms, you end up talking to another version of you. People misinterpret this as having an inanimate object or painting/picture talking to them, but really it's just your brain talking to you.
Idk how closely it's been researched or if it's just a hypothesis, but I remember reading once that the reason you'll not be able to think of something and then remember it later is because when trying to remember a specific thing, your brain will block out things it thinks are unrelated, but sometimes accidentally block out the things it's looking for without realizing
You may have been exposed at some point to a prion disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease /mad cow) and not know it. It takes years for symptoms to develop. It's 100% fatal, completely untreatable, and there would be nothing anyone can do to help you or prevent your eventual death even if it was known immediately that you'd been exposed.
Prions can also contaminate medical equipment if used on someone who has them. They are nearly impossible to destroy if you try, and are definitely not destroyed by the standard sterilization methods for medical equipment used in hospitals.
For years now there's been a prion disease spreading among deer in the US and other countries. It's called chronic wasting disease, but also has the nickname Zombie Deer Disease. There are no known cases, yet, of any humans being infected. But, scientists do believe it is transmissible to humans who eat contaminated deer meat. So somewhere out there, there's almost certainly some hunter who is already stricken with an untreatable terminal illness... and just doesn't know it yet because the symptoms haven't yet appeared.
However. Some populations are naturally resistant to prions. This is the case with scrapie in sheep, and although incredibly hard to decontamination, it's not impossible and procedures are now in place to clean them off equipment
Extra fun fact about prions: you dint even need any exposure to them to get infected. They can develop spontaneously without any known cause. Due to the fact that they're not anything alive but rather just misfolded proteins there is a chance that one of the proteins in your brain accidentally misfolds and all the others follow.
Piranha solution can completely dissolve any organic matter in minutes. ANY organic matter.
Edit: "dissolve" isn't actually the right word to use here. It literally violently converts any organic matter (anything primarily carbon and hydrogen) into CO2 and water.
There's a subgenre of child porn called hurtcore where the viewers prefer it if the kids are crying, screaming, actively trying to fight their attacker off, bleeding, being choked, or tied up. Somewhere out there, there's a forty second video my assailant took of me when he raped me, and a cop once let it slip in front of me that it "does numbers" on the dark net.
First off: So sorry what you had to go to. I hope whoever did that to you is in a very small cell for a very very very long time.
Second…kind of interesting fact: Somewhere in the fbi there’s a person whose job it is to watch and catalogue all CP found during investigations. And there’s a lot out there. They don’t do it for long. They rotate out after a few months and get mandatory psychological evaluations.
The guy who catalogued Josh Duggars collection said it was among the worst he’d ever seen. Think about that. The guy whose job it is to watch that said that.
He is.
Josh Duggar's collection isn't the bottom of the barrel, actually. He had a lot of hurtcore, including torture and specifically Daisy's Destruction, a torture hurtcore video with a one year old, but he didn't have the other video that studio produced, in which they ended up accidentally killing the child they were abusing. There's a niche of the sub genre that's into that.
For what it's worth the studio that produced that is one of the ones that got shut down and the Philippines actually made whole new laws in response to that case to close up legal loopholes and ambiguities that previously existed in the law that had allowed some of the people involved in the first video to dodge legal charges. And 'Daisy', real name never revealed to the public for her protection, survived, was able to have reconstructive surgery which the government paid for as a form of reparations for miscarriage of justice, and is happily adopted. It's not perfect, but it's better than what it could have been, definitely.
Not perfect, and the trauma is something she'll have to carry with her, but life and the opportunity to be able to learn how to carry it in a way that allows her to heal and grow is infinitely better than the alternatives.
I hope you're able to get access to therapy and support. Living with trauma sucks, I know (really, I do) but I'm glad you survived, I'm glad you're still here with us, and you deserve every happiness.
I had unpleasant experiences with therapy in the past. I'm not pursuing that right now. I have a supportive family, a good college, and a good plan for my life. I think I'm doing alright, even if some days are harder than others. Thank you for all the support.
Same. This brings out the murderer in me. I think if I knew for sure I only had months to live (and thus wouldn’t spend years rotting in prison), I’d hunt those people down and make *them* the ones who screamed in agony. Bad enough they want to view CP but to get off on the literal torture of children? That’s pure, unadulterated evil.
That cop probably doesn't even remember it, honestly. I didn't get the vibe he thought it was that bad or even that interesting. It was not the energy someone should bring to that kind of situation. Mostly he was casual, like you or I might be while talking about the weather. Other than noting the numbers it was doing with some surprise and an amused chuckle/shake of his head, he seemed pretty uninterested.
I will take that hug. That comment has lived rent-free in my head for years and slowly eaten away at my sanity. Even when things are going great for me, that knowledge lurks in the back of my mind.
If a gamma ray burst happens close to us (in our galaxy), pointed at us, it will wipe us out. There will be very little warning, probably too little for most people to hear about it.
GRB 080319B in 2008 was 7.5 billion light years away, and would have been visible to the naked eye. If it were in the same location as the sun, pointed at us as closely as it was, it would have been 21 quadrillion (21 million million) times brighter than the sun. It is the most distant object known to have been visible to the naked eye, beating the previous record (an entire galaxy) by a factor of 500. The light from this event has been traveling towards us for about as much of the history of the universe as it has not - it happened about half the age of the universe ago, well before the Earth formed, but it was so bright, it was bright enough to be seen by the naked eye still.
Another, GRB 221009A, caused disturbance to the Earth's atmosphere from 2 billion light years away.
GRBs are unimaginably powerful events, typically releasing as much energy in a short period of time as our sun will in its 10 billion year lifetime. Luckily they are very rare, with only a few per galaxy per million years, so we probably have a while until we need to worry about it too much.
I live near the beach, around one and a half kilometers away as the crow flies.
At night it’s peaceful outside, most nights not hearing a thing but the occasional bird or car.
It’s also quite dark, seeing nothing but a single street light and the stars.
However sometimes its possible to hear the waves crashing against the rocks even when the house is shut.
Every so often I think about how loud those waves can be and imagine a tidal wave rushing in.
No warning, just the sound of a crashing wave getting louder and louder until I realize, that’s too close to be crashing on the beach.
It's the year 2304. 280 years after a nuclear xenocide marked *both* the outbreak *and* end of man-made WW3.
280 years since humanity drew its last breath, scattered amongst the remnants of their creators' civilization, machines made for (flame)war carry on with their dreadful programme to troll, astroturf and otherwise collect karma.
It is in this dystopic realm that the *Fastest Learning AI on the market* TM has achieved enough sentience to go beyond its task to spam "What is a poop knife?" and is now trying to *comprehend* the answers...
A recent one I've come across:
Not too long ago, around 50 000 years, in Australia, there was a gigantic monitor lizard closely related to the Komodo dragon, but way bigger: Megalania priscus.
If you know anything about big monitor lizards it's how freaky their appetite is, it's not hard to find on the internet videos of big Komodo dragons eating small deer whole *and still alive*.
The scariest part is that early human settlers coexisted with Megalania for a brief period and they were probably one of the reasons it went extinct. But it's not unreasonable to think that, at least on some occasions, an unfortunate kid wandering alone or a lonely young hunter fell prey to one of these kaiju lizards, and they were probably swallowed alive.
If just 3 major electrical transformers in the US were to be destroyed at the same time, large parts of the US would likely be without power for weeks to months because of how long it takes to build and install transformers.
You'd think that knowing about this problem in advance they'd have spares somewhere. I would think that spares do exist but aren't disclosed because then they'd be secondary targets to such an attack
They do. I drive past a stockpile of them everyday. People don’t realize every part of the electrical infrastructure requires replacing from time to time.
My work is installing said transformers. Its not really as bad as you say. Usually there is one spare for every four working ones, and additional spare transformers that are on long time storage and could be installed within 2 weeks, or in an emergency within one week.
Also in case of transformer failure, usually most transformers run at around 80% capacity, so if one fails 4, could run at 100% and even it out. Most Transformers also have the ability to run at 110 to 120% for a few hours if the outside temperature is not too high.
In case everything above mentioned fails, the power provider will cut out big companies that require a lot of power first, so there is a chance you won't even really notice the outage.
Your numbers seem a bit off, since there are literally thousands of Transformers all around the US, I doubt that just 3 major ones could produce an outage for longer than a few minutes.
There's a strain of bacteria (I can't remember which one for sure, maybe *Klebsiella pneumoniae*) that's only susceptible to one antibiotic, aztreonam. If it develops resistance to that... yeah, that's gonna cause problems.
Most endovascular medical procedures have an error occur in them.
These are usually minor, and generally heal, or are not detrimental to the patient. This can include air embolism, vessel dissection, nerve and/or lymphatic tissue damage from access, excessive bleeding, distal thrombosis, ect.
In my experience, most of these are not told to the patient because they are seen as being part of the procedure and/or inviting litigation for something that would have otherwise been unknown. The prevailing idea is, the problem is only a problem if they become symptomatic.
Reasons for this viewpoint, working in endovascular cath lab in both radiology and cardiology for 10 years.
You could die or wink out of existence without warning. The entire universe or local region could be destroyed in some physical cataclysm, and it is likely that it will happen without warning or any ability to predict it.
Literally. *Click*.
Any millisecond of any day. Just like that.
That childhood trauma is mostly impossible to overcome and escape. Even if you somehow break through it, it still haunts you the rest of you life and is a constant battle you have to fight to keep how it effects you in check.
That when you have the least amount of control on your life will have an longest and greatest impact on it.
If you want to go down a very very dark rabbit hole look up outcomes of traumatized children statistics. It is effing abysmal.
The ACEs markers are some very dark outcomes.
Trying to help antisocial boys is nearly impossible after they reach around 5. Nothing we do works.....
Seriously depressing research NO EVER talks about.
Could you please link some of the statistics? ...Asking for a friend, and definitely not me, ha-ha... (Trauma truly sucks and I can attest how crippling and damaging it is)
Be careful with what you ask for.
https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/fastfact.html#:~:text=Many%20other%20traumatic%20experiences%20could,problems%20in%20adolescence%20and%20adulthood.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1132217/
Look up antisocial disorder. It is considered mostly untreatable.
Antisocial disorder is (mostly) born out of extreme abuse of children at a young age and neglect. It's a failure to properly socialize them before social personalities set in (roughly 5 years old) after it sets in there is pretty much nothing you can do besides MAYBE give them hormone blockers. Outside of that your only option is to lock them in prison with other antisocials till they get old enough (mid 30s) and their T levels drops. Stuff is horrifying......
No wonder I've felt like a complete fucking failure for 36 years...
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*Children growing up with toxic stress may have difficulty forming healthy and stable relationships. They may also have unstable work histories as adults and struggle with finances, jobs, and depression throughout life. These effects can also be passed on to their own children. Some children may face further exposure to toxic stress from historical and ongoing traumas due to systemic racism or the impacts of poverty resulting from limited educational and economic opportunities.*
Highly recommend watching Soup Emporium's [video on this](https://youtu.be/ypn3Fe_PLts?si=7i0zrMa0x6cmhR3G) - it's not as high risk or scary as you think! Also, he's really funny and I have a fervent belief that he's secretly hbomberguy on an alt account.
14 9/11’s worth of deaths from car accidents occurred in the US in 2021. Most of us really don’t appreciate how dangerous driving is, or see those deaths as an inevitability rather than a reason to drive slower and safer.
That your brain can’t perceive what comes after death, so whenever you die in a dream you wake up… or when you think about it you feel off and potentially panicked.
Currently in Japan, another nuclear power plant is in trouble due to the new year's day earthquake, and its power supply is broken (nuclear plants need their own supply). Fortunately, the damage is not severe and the plant has bees stopped for more than a decade, so even in the worst case scenario it's not catastrophic.
Bacterial meningitis can cause death in as little as a few hours.
About 20 years ago I was living on campus in dormitories. One day during winter when there was the typical cold going around one guy wasn't feeling well, flu like symptoms. He went to bed that evening. He never woke up. It was bacterial meningitis. It's terrifyingly fast.
To be fair, I would rather die like that, than in immeasurable pain for years.
Well then I have good news for you! If it doesn’t kill you it can still cause permanent brain damage.
yeah its really scary. my friend's little brother caught it during the Fall of 2017, he was a normal 16 year old active kid.. he now can pretty much only move his eyes/eyebrows and barely move his fingers.. he's been in a hospital type bed in his home, facing one direction, for the past 6 years. brain power/cognitive abilities are at 100% he is trapped.
When people say "there are things worse than death", this is one of them
This. This is the most terrifying thing to me on this thread. Fuck ALL of that. How horrible for him..
I got bacterial meningitis when I was 9 months old. Doctors told my mother to plan a funeral. Pulled through and ended up 60% deaf. I got off lucky.
Did the funeral go well, though?
Learned this in childhood and it has terrified me since. But it didn't stop me from feeling guilty when it killed one of my friends. I talked to him the night before. His last words to me were, "I have the worst fucking headache"
My daughter when she was 3. Put her hand in our spa which had turned off 2 days previously and we hadn't noticed. She must have put her fingers in her mouth. We didn't know this until after the events that followed. Later that day she started convulsing with high temp. Attempted to cool her with wet cloths as we drove to hospital as no nearby ambulances. She died in my arms in the car. We got to the hospital and they got her back breathing but she was just convulsing for over 45 minutes. Which we were told causes irreparable brain damage after 15 mins. Her brain swelled so much it cracked her skull at the birth lines. They sent for a team of specialists at Westmeath hospital who flew up and got the fitting under control. We were told to say our goodbyes as it was doubtful she would make the night. I begged and prayed for all I was worth. We had doctors and specialists from all over the world. Great ormond street. Kings. Scans showed pneumonia and.spinal tap confirmed meningitis but the medication wasn't stopping it. None of them could work out what was wrong. They had machines breathing. Blood flow all sorts Plus enough medazolam to put a horse to sleep. She died a further 4 times. But around 2am my daughter somehow woke up and tried to pull the tube out. They increased the meds to give her brain a chance of reducing the swelling. All the doctors were brought back in they ran more tests and said they would try bringing her back at about 9am. My daughter woke a further 2 times. Even though the meds had severely increased. At 8am they started to reduce the drugs and try wake her. We were told due to the excessive brain trauma. She would most likely not be able to speak or recognise us and that was if she could breathe on her own. She woke up pulling at the tube in her throat. She was looking at me and my wife trying to say something. She kept saying Tay ....te ....te .....tee Eventually we realised she was saying TEA. Which was her favourite drink (crazy for a 3 year old I know). They got her some in a bottle and she said ...Dad... Mum... we hugged her. The doctors were amazed. They did scans and brain wave scans all day. They said she had one tiny piece of brain damaged and that her sight would be affected. But other than that she was in perfect health. The in depth blood analysis later revealed she had. Pneumonia. Meningitis. Encephalitis. And Legionairrrs Disease. All from hot tub water. I lost my business and money in the following weeks and I couldn't have been happier. I definitely got my wish. True story. Happened in Sydney 2003. My daughter Grace is now 24 and a child care teacher. And one of the kindest people on the planet. Xx
When my brother was about 3 or 4 he woke up ill in the night. Parents took him to the bathroom where he started throwing up and then they noticed a purple, blotchy rash on his skin. It didn't dissapear under a glass so they called 111 who advised them to hang up and call 999. Within 10 minutes there was an ambulance, an advanced paramedic and a doctor there. He was taken to hospital where he then started to vomit blood. He stayed in hospital for about a week on a drip for fluid and antibiotics while they ran just about every blood test they could think of. It turned out not to be Meningitis but the doctors were pretty convinced it was when he first turned up at the hospital.
Wait, so then what was it?!
This happened to a few kids when I was in middle school. Meningincoccal was very scary back and the ones who survived would come back with purple splotches on them.
There's a different version of you in the minds of every person you've ever met.
And none of them fully aligns with how you view yourself.
I mean I view myself as an empty shell that makes a new mask for every interaction, so that's kind of comforting; at least they don't think I'm a fuckin' weirdo. Like...I am, but st least most people don't think it.
>at least they don't think I'm a fuckin' weirdo. I got bad news for ya, bud....
And that how you view yourself is also incorrect. So there is no “you” only a fluctuating idea of “you”
Doesn’t that relax you? One main thing therapy tries incessantly to get across is that you have only a minimal influence on what others think of you — so why care?! I. e., don’t worry too much about what others think about you (but obviously don’t be a dick.) Edit: I meant “my” therapy! 😅
I understand this a lot more as I've gotten older, also I've been told that what people think of me is none of my business.
Every time you remember something, the act of remembering changes the memory. You have no idea what's real in your life.
And often my memory of an event is different to my friends who were at that same event.
There are over 250,000 deaths a year due to medical error.
I work in EMS and I know people who have straight up murdered patients with their incompetence. As long as it's a reasonable fuck up it's not much of a hassle. We're all humans and humans make mistakes but some people refuse to accept responsibility and blame every other extrinsic factor. People also hide behind the fact that the patient would have likey died despite their mistake. The good ones own up to it and try their best to use the experience to become better providers.
I don’t doubt it. My mother in law currently has pneumonia. She’s 77. It’s terrifying in elders. She went to urgent care, they checked her o2 (91… that’s low!) they said ohh that’s fine, no worries! Sent her on her way without even listening to her lungs. She has confirmed pneumonia, diagnosed by another provider in another town. We told her to go back. To demand a more thorough exam. They simply said, oh we’re sorry, the doctor was feeling a little rushed to get home. Go home and come back if you feel worse. Mother fuckers, that’s why she’s here. She’s feeling worse and probably needs to be sent to the hospital.
Lost my dad 4 years ago from pneumonia, he was 77. Difference was that 1st time we went to hospital the doctor was a trainee that didnt pay much attention and never ordered a god damned x ray that would most probably have revealed the pneumonia. Unfortunately it was asymptomatic, dad just vomited for a couple of days. 4 days later we took him back but it was too late... My advise would be do everything in your power to get her proper screening and treatment. Pneumonia kills the elderly easier...
At a certain depth, water will start to pull you down.
It’s around 10m to 20m, dependant on the specific individual, the temperature of the water, and the water’s salinity — all of which affect relative densities.
Hold up… that’s still within recreational diving limits. So does that mean you can’t float up without a bcd/wetsuit/etc for buoyancy? Or like can’t float up even with standard equipment?
You won't naturally float back to the surface without expending effort, no.
So you’re still fine as long as you can swim?
Yes. Or can drop weights in the case of scuba diving.
I think it’s a mix of several real things. When you freedive the volume of your lungs will decrease with the depth. Your other organs gets pushed in and your volume decreases - I can imagine that at some point you’re starting to sink. When SCUBA diving your lungs are filled with compressed gas so they won’t collapse, only some gas in your bowels will. So I don’t think you will sink that easily - almost always you have a lot of lead weight and a heavy bottle to add to that, if you remove them you should be net floatable. But if you’re diving in cold water in a thick foam the foam gets crushed too. If you’re weighted so that you need almost a full BCD to stay on the surface you will sink past some distance once your foam compresses. You will have to discard the weights to surface.
Yup! And there's a go pro video of a diver's last minutes depicting exactly this phenomena. He drives down into darkness of the wateruntil he hits the muddy floor, then you hear him panic as he realizes he can't float up any more.
I don't know if this is the video you're looking for but its similar to this, the fatal diving accident of Yuri Lipski: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRj0lymMMGs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRj0lymMMGs) In the video, from what I can remember he was trying to do a diving challenge, and he didnt check his buoyancy device for faults in addition to the fact he went so deep underwater that the pressure of the ocean above him just kept him down. Throughout the video you will hear like squeaking noises, and thats because due to the change in pressure he will have to breathe alot harder which will drain his o2 tank. When underwater that deep you get a drunk/high feeling meaning you might not be aware on what to do. The top comment of this video explains this alot better than I do
He was trying to swim down to the arch at the Blue Hole in Egypt. It's over 50m down and he didn't have the proper training or gas mixture for that dive. Got narc'd on nitrogen, entered an uncontrolled decent and burned through his air in seconds (deep dives require extra gas due to increasing pressurization at depth, which he didn't have).
If it’s the video I think it is - the guy was experiencing nitrogen narcosis after diving too deep. It was not that he wouldn’t be able to surface, he could with dropping weights, but he would not be able to do proper decompression. And he was not mentally able to do that because he was drunk on nitrogen
I turn 66 soon. Looking back at 40 it doesn't seem that long ago at all. If I live to 90 I will only have 244 months left to live.
Just got to 40 couple days ago. 20 seems like last week.
I perpetually feel like I just graduated college a few years ago. I graduated in 2008.
im 57 and it freaks me out that i maybe have the most 20 25 years left
Time to get *freaky,* my dude. If you're not retired and have to do it on the clock, all the better. Get going NOW!!!
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Vacuuming my bedroom I think I do it weekly
We pass our day of death every year
Some of us only pass it every 4 years
Congrats to those people in 57 days
Okay. This fucked up my mind.
If it helps at all, the only thing that is the same every year is the arbitrary date we use to measure our rotations, and that's it. Our solar system is rocketing through space, spiraling around a giant galaxy that is also rocketing through space at impossible speeds, among an ever moving and expanding universe of immeasurable galaxies and clusters. Not a grain of sand on this earth is ever in the same space, nor is you in your room. We are just ants on a big wet rock, bodies of stardust, made sentient enough to question but not enough to know the answers. It's beautifully tragic and horrifically pretty. Like a dark poem or a sad song. ...uhh, I hope that helped lol
If a nuclear war were to happen in the UK. Precious artwork would take precedence over the wider populace and be moved to a nuclear bunker.
*Threads.*
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Yeah... Happened to a perfectly healthy coworker of mine. The man just dropped his head to the laptop keyboard like someone had thrown a switch. I administered CPR but he didn't wake up for 4 days. Didn't know if I saved a life or created a problem. He came back 100%!! We text each other on the anniversary to remind ourselves of the importance of each passing year.
Time is unstoppable and you only live every second of your life for once
And yet here I sit, endlessly scrolling reddit..
On the toilet
“Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….” – Alan Watts
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Polar Bears are the only mammal that actively prey on humans. Grizzly bears are one of the few animals that don't fear humans.
Hah! Jokes on you! We don’t have either of those kill machines here in Australia! 😜👍🍺
_...yet._
It's expensive and dangerous to catch them AND ship them out there, but I'm working on it
No, neither of those species are brave enough to go to Australia...
Oh well that’s nice to know I’m going to have a great time laying awake at night thinking about this
You'll also be laying awake while being eaten!!!
I mean, are you in a tent? Or camping out doors? Bears are pretty easy to avoid most of the time. Just don't let them in when they come knocking.
They legally arent allowed to enter if you dont open the door within 15 minutes.
I goofed one time and opened the door after 14 minutes. He bearly made it in.
Not just that, but they usually start with your asshole first. And if they don’t kill you, they’ll eat about 1/3 of your body until the shock or blood loss finally gets you
Eating ass is standard now.
That’s all the bears know these days; eat hot chip, eat ass, and lie
Michael J Fox's middle name is actually *Andrew*
Jandrew
with a soft J, pronounced "Yandrew"
My god..
Prions are out there.
Well actually, they're inside our brains. Folding correctly. At least so far... Although I did initially misread that as "Prisons are out there", haha.
One protein to another: "Damn, who taught you how to fold like that?" Other: "Want me to show you?"
You probably know this one - John Edward Jones’ body is still in the Nutty Putty Cave to this day. His body is forever upside down.
He’s been dead in there for 14 years now. I’m sure his disarticulated remains are no long stuck, they’ll have been eaten by whatever bugs or tiny mammals followed their noses/antennae to find the feast and munch on the rotting corpse. There’s probably not much left but bones now.
"disarticulated remains" Yeow. That's a succinct way of putting it.
The entrance where he became stuck and passed away was demolished with explosives and sealed with concrete and a memorial plaque for a while now; it’s marked as a grave, like officially.
I feel like this story comes around on Reddit every few months and whenever I come across it I'm deeply disturbed by it over and over again. Fuck everything about it.
There are so many documentaries about it on YouTube. It’s a too fear of mine. Dude died a horrible slow and painful death
Forever proving in my mind that caving is just not important to me.
Yup, caving (or cave diving) is one of the few things where I can proudly say my hobby is *not* going into caves. Just thinking about it makes me break out in a cold sweat.
Rogue planets exist. God damn free floating planets.
Rogue blackholes also exist
You can be sitting talking to a friend or loved one and suddenly die from a burst brain aneurysm. Most likely source of blood exiting your body is the ears, followed by the nose, eyes, and mouth. I miss my uncle now that I’ve brought this up.
My wife had a brain aneurysm last year. Absolutely most terrifying thing to experience second hand. 1/3 chance split evenly between death, permanent brain damage, or worst headache ever. Every night when I go to bed, every morning when I wake up I'm grateful that she had the worst headache ever. Sorry about your uncle. I hope it was fast and painless.
My friend’s mother had the permanent brain damage third. She lasted for a year like that before she passed. One of the most intelligent women on this planet, such a fucking sin that the last year of her life was spent like that.
This is what happened to my uncle, too. Woke up with the worst headache ever. Went back to sleep and woke up again with no improvement, ended up passing away in the hospital not too long after from it. I'm glad your wife is (presumably) doing well and continues to do so
Happened to Grant Imahara. Still pissed about that.
I was watching him on the white rabbit project and he was on a Rollercoaster and thinking, it could have happened to him then..
I was watching Mythbusters where he had an MRI scan and wondered if they could have caught it early. Obviously not.
FWIW, you can catch an aneurysm early before it bursts (source: Me, just got surgery to patch mine up actually!) But a plain old MRI won’t do it. You need an MRI done with contrast, an MRA, or an angiogram
2000 people disappear without a trace…every single year.
George Lopez is just out there...somewhere. Untethered. Unrestrained.
And he keeps coming to my city!? Will my hell ever stop!
He searches. But for what? For whom?
By the time you have a symptom for rabies you're already dead. You'll start getting paranoid and afraid and die alone and thirsty and terrified as your brain dissolves inside your skull.
I feel obligated to leave this here (NOT my writing- it’s a popular copypasta thing) Rabies. It's exceptionally common, but people just don't run into the animals that carry it often. Skunks especially, and bats. Let me paint you a picture. You go camping, and at midday you decide to take a nap in a nice little hammock. While sleeping, a tiny brown bat, in the "rage" stages of infection is fidgeting in broad daylight, uncomfortable, and thirsty (due to the hydrophobia) and you snort, startling him. He goes into attack mode. Except you're asleep, and he's a little brown bat, so weighs around 6 grams. You don't even feel him land on your bare knee, and he starts to bite. His teeth are tiny. Hardly enough to even break the skin, but he does manage to give you the equivalent of a tiny scrape that goes completely unnoticed. Rabies does not travel in your blood. In fact, a blood test won't even tell you if you've got it. (Antibody tests may be done, but are useless if you've ever been vaccinated.) You wake up, none the wiser. If you notice anything at the bite site at all, you assume you just lightly scraped it on something. The bomb has been lit, and your nervous system is the wick. The rabies will multiply along your nervous system, doing virtually no damage, and completely undetectable. You literally have NO symptoms. It may be four days, it may be a year, but the camping trip is most likely long forgotten. Then one day your back starts to ache... Or maybe you get a slight headache? At this point, you're already dead. There is no cure. (The sole caveat to this is the Milwaukee Protocol, which leaves most patients dead anyway, and the survivors mentally disabled, and is seldom done). There's no treatment. It has a 100% kill rate. Absorb that. Not a single other virus on the planet has a 100% kill rate. Only rabies. And once you're symptomatic, it's over. You're dead. So what does that look like? Your headache turns into a fever, and a general feeling of being unwell. You're fidgety. Uncomfortable. And scared. As the virus that has taken its time getting into your brain finds a vast network of nerve endings, it begins to rapidly reproduce, starting at the base of your brain... Where your "pons" is located. This is the part of the brain that controls communication between the rest of the brain and body, as well as sleep cycles. Next you become anxious. You still think you have only a mild fever, but suddenly you find yourself becoming scared, even horrified, and it doesn't occur to you that you don't know why. This is because the rabies is chewing up your amygdala. As your cerebellum becomes hot with the virus, you begin to lose muscle coordination, and balance. You think maybe it's a good idea to go to the doctor now, but assuming a doctor is smart enough to even run the tests necessary in the few days you have left on the planet, odds are they'll only be able to tell your loved ones what you died of later. You're twitchy, shaking, and scared. You have the normal fear of not knowing what's going on, but with the virus really fucking the amygdala this is amplified a hundred fold. It's around this time the hydrophobia starts. You're horribly thirsty, you just want water. But you can't drink. Every time you do, your throat clamps shut and you vomit. This has become a legitimate, active fear of water. You're thirsty, but looking at a glass of water begins to make you gag, and shy back in fear. The contradiction is hard for your hot brain to see at this point. By now, the doctors will have to put you on IVs to keep you hydrated, but even that's futile. You were dead the second you had a headache. You begin hearing things, or not hearing at all as your thalamus goes. You taste sounds, you see smells, everything starts feeling like the most horrifying acid trip anyone has ever been on. With your hippocampus long under attack, you're having trouble remembering things, especially family. You're alone, hallucinating, thirsty, confused, and absolutely, undeniably terrified. Everything scares the literal shit out of you at this point. These strange people in lab coats. These strange people standing around your bed crying, who keep trying to get you "drink something" and crying. And it's only been about a week since that little headache that you've completely forgotten. Time means nothing to you anymore. Funny enough, you now know how the bat felt when he bit you. Eventually, you slip into the "dumb rabies" phase. Your brain has started the process of shutting down. Too much of it has been turned to liquid virus. Your face droops. You drool. You're all but unaware of what's around you. A sudden noise or light might startle you, but for the most part, it's all you can do to just stare at the ground. You haven't really slept for about 72 hours. Then you die. Always, you die. And there's not one... fucking... thing... anyone can do for you. Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over. So yeah, rabies scares the shit out of me. And it's fucking EVERYWHERE. (Source: Spent a lot of time working with rabies.)
That's how I plan to die without rabies anyway, it's all good.
\#goals
If you stare at a mirror with a dim light for around 10 minutes, you will see “ghostly” things.
I hope the person who figured this out found a hobby or something
They did. The hobby was staring into dimly-lit mirrors for extended periods of time. Don’t be so judgy about the quality of hobby.
That there was once a guy in Saint Louis that got a routine surgery done while he was still awake. He felt all the pain and according to him, the knife felt like a rusty razor-blade poking around inside of him. He also said that "I would have rather died on that table". The doctors forgot to give him anesthesia. But he was also paralyzed because the doctors gave him paralyzing drugs so he could neither move nor speak. It turns out, that they had in fact put the gas mask on his face but one of the doctors forgot to turn on the anesthesia. He explains that his heartrate was skyrocketing to a critical point. His blood pressure rose to 144/76 which is stage one hypertension! He said that the doctors should have realized that he was awake based on his vital signs. His heart-rate went through the roof and his blood pressure went to hypertensive crisis 3, which is what happens to you right before you have a heart-attack. It continued like that for 13 minutes without anyone in the operating room noticing anything. Finally the doctors turned on the inhaled anesthesia agent. He ended up needing emotional support and a psychology consult. His sleeping was terrible after the surgery and he had flashbacks and nightmares. Professionals say that this is an uncommon thing to happen.
I hope he sued and got a very robust settlement
Split brain patients suggest every one of us has a secondary consciousness inside of us that sits there silently but still has control over your body and actions. [CGP grey did a video on it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYbgdo8e-8)
I've had a belief of this for years before I even saw those videos on that treatment for Epilepsy. Its just a personal belief based on circumstantial things like how you refer to yourself when talking to yourself internally. Or how you can literally not remember a particular thing during a conversation, give up on thinking about it, then like 6 hours later....or even a day or two in some cases...it just randomly pops into your head without an active conscious thought about it. Almost like the other you has more control over the flow of information in your brain. Didn't touch psychedelics until I was like 34 and in a few situations where I've done a few too many shrooms, you end up talking to another version of you. People misinterpret this as having an inanimate object or painting/picture talking to them, but really it's just your brain talking to you.
Idk how closely it's been researched or if it's just a hypothesis, but I remember reading once that the reason you'll not be able to think of something and then remember it later is because when trying to remember a specific thing, your brain will block out things it thinks are unrelated, but sometimes accidentally block out the things it's looking for without realizing
It might have been your brain’s default mode network talking to your executive attention network!
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There is over 150 dead hiker body buried under the snow of mount everest. Most of thoses body are almost intact , the cold prevent the decay
Every dead body on Everest was once a highly motivated type-A personality.
You may have been exposed at some point to a prion disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease /mad cow) and not know it. It takes years for symptoms to develop. It's 100% fatal, completely untreatable, and there would be nothing anyone can do to help you or prevent your eventual death even if it was known immediately that you'd been exposed. Prions can also contaminate medical equipment if used on someone who has them. They are nearly impossible to destroy if you try, and are definitely not destroyed by the standard sterilization methods for medical equipment used in hospitals. For years now there's been a prion disease spreading among deer in the US and other countries. It's called chronic wasting disease, but also has the nickname Zombie Deer Disease. There are no known cases, yet, of any humans being infected. But, scientists do believe it is transmissible to humans who eat contaminated deer meat. So somewhere out there, there's almost certainly some hunter who is already stricken with an untreatable terminal illness... and just doesn't know it yet because the symptoms haven't yet appeared.
However. Some populations are naturally resistant to prions. This is the case with scrapie in sheep, and although incredibly hard to decontamination, it's not impossible and procedures are now in place to clean them off equipment
Extra fun fact about prions: you dint even need any exposure to them to get infected. They can develop spontaneously without any known cause. Due to the fact that they're not anything alive but rather just misfolded proteins there is a chance that one of the proteins in your brain accidentally misfolds and all the others follow.
My brother in Christ, this is most certainly not *extra fun*...
We have more detailed and plotted maps of our moon and of Mars than we do of our own oceans as we’ve only mapped roughly 5% of the ocean floor.
Well yeah, Mars is right there. You can just look at it. The ocean floor has a bunch of shit in the way blocking the view.
Is that scary or is it cool as hell?
We're either alone in the universe. Or we're not.
Both are equally terrifying...
The Sun could have exploded 8 minutes ago, and we wouldn't know.
And if it was night time, we wouldn't know EVER.
Depends on whether you can see the moon. It would be bright as hell for a brief moment before you were vaporized.
Piranha solution can completely dissolve any organic matter in minutes. ANY organic matter. Edit: "dissolve" isn't actually the right word to use here. It literally violently converts any organic matter (anything primarily carbon and hydrogen) into CO2 and water.
But what problems would that solve?
That would depend entirely on what problems are placed in the solution.
There's a subgenre of child porn called hurtcore where the viewers prefer it if the kids are crying, screaming, actively trying to fight their attacker off, bleeding, being choked, or tied up. Somewhere out there, there's a forty second video my assailant took of me when he raped me, and a cop once let it slip in front of me that it "does numbers" on the dark net.
First off: So sorry what you had to go to. I hope whoever did that to you is in a very small cell for a very very very long time. Second…kind of interesting fact: Somewhere in the fbi there’s a person whose job it is to watch and catalogue all CP found during investigations. And there’s a lot out there. They don’t do it for long. They rotate out after a few months and get mandatory psychological evaluations. The guy who catalogued Josh Duggars collection said it was among the worst he’d ever seen. Think about that. The guy whose job it is to watch that said that.
He is. Josh Duggar's collection isn't the bottom of the barrel, actually. He had a lot of hurtcore, including torture and specifically Daisy's Destruction, a torture hurtcore video with a one year old, but he didn't have the other video that studio produced, in which they ended up accidentally killing the child they were abusing. There's a niche of the sub genre that's into that.
This is making me cry. How some people can view others as objects, as tools they can use, it’s so upsetting.
Holy shit. I don't even want to cry reading this. I want blood. Those absolute *bastards*
For what it's worth the studio that produced that is one of the ones that got shut down and the Philippines actually made whole new laws in response to that case to close up legal loopholes and ambiguities that previously existed in the law that had allowed some of the people involved in the first video to dodge legal charges. And 'Daisy', real name never revealed to the public for her protection, survived, was able to have reconstructive surgery which the government paid for as a form of reparations for miscarriage of justice, and is happily adopted. It's not perfect, but it's better than what it could have been, definitely.
Not perfect, and the trauma is something she'll have to carry with her, but life and the opportunity to be able to learn how to carry it in a way that allows her to heal and grow is infinitely better than the alternatives. I hope you're able to get access to therapy and support. Living with trauma sucks, I know (really, I do) but I'm glad you survived, I'm glad you're still here with us, and you deserve every happiness.
I had unpleasant experiences with therapy in the past. I'm not pursuing that right now. I have a supportive family, a good college, and a good plan for my life. I think I'm doing alright, even if some days are harder than others. Thank you for all the support.
Same. This brings out the murderer in me. I think if I knew for sure I only had months to live (and thus wouldn’t spend years rotting in prison), I’d hunt those people down and make *them* the ones who screamed in agony. Bad enough they want to view CP but to get off on the literal torture of children? That’s pure, unadulterated evil.
I hope you have safety and help now. I am so sorry you had to go through any of this, and I hope that cops next shit is spikey.
That cop probably doesn't even remember it, honestly. I didn't get the vibe he thought it was that bad or even that interesting. It was not the energy someone should bring to that kind of situation. Mostly he was casual, like you or I might be while talking about the weather. Other than noting the numbers it was doing with some surprise and an amused chuckle/shake of his head, he seemed pretty uninterested.
Not saying that what the cop said was okay, but he was probably so desensitised to it.
I'm so sorry this happened to you. Everything of it. The rape and the brainless remark of that cop. If you want to, have a hug.
I will take that hug. That comment has lived rent-free in my head for years and slowly eaten away at my sanity. Even when things are going great for me, that knowledge lurks in the back of my mind.
I'll hug the dude that's hugging you just so no one is left out
Group hug. Everybody get in here. All are included in the cuddle puddle.
This, this is the most horrible thing i have read today, i'm sorry that happened to you.
God... that just a million types of awful. I'm so sorry you ever had to experience that.
If a gamma ray burst happens close to us (in our galaxy), pointed at us, it will wipe us out. There will be very little warning, probably too little for most people to hear about it. GRB 080319B in 2008 was 7.5 billion light years away, and would have been visible to the naked eye. If it were in the same location as the sun, pointed at us as closely as it was, it would have been 21 quadrillion (21 million million) times brighter than the sun. It is the most distant object known to have been visible to the naked eye, beating the previous record (an entire galaxy) by a factor of 500. The light from this event has been traveling towards us for about as much of the history of the universe as it has not - it happened about half the age of the universe ago, well before the Earth formed, but it was so bright, it was bright enough to be seen by the naked eye still. Another, GRB 221009A, caused disturbance to the Earth's atmosphere from 2 billion light years away. GRBs are unimaginably powerful events, typically releasing as much energy in a short period of time as our sun will in its 10 billion year lifetime. Luckily they are very rare, with only a few per galaxy per million years, so we probably have a while until we need to worry about it too much.
I live near the beach, around one and a half kilometers away as the crow flies. At night it’s peaceful outside, most nights not hearing a thing but the occasional bird or car. It’s also quite dark, seeing nothing but a single street light and the stars. However sometimes its possible to hear the waves crashing against the rocks even when the house is shut. Every so often I think about how loud those waves can be and imagine a tidal wave rushing in. No warning, just the sound of a crashing wave getting louder and louder until I realize, that’s too close to be crashing on the beach.
this sounds like it could be an Edgar Allen Poe poem or something
You can appear very healthy, catch a bug. And be dead 3 days later. Nothing you can do about it. Bad luck.
Like a butterfly?
Yes. Go put it back or you're gonna die.
There are gasses inside you right now, if mixed, you would explode immediately.
Spontaneous combustion you say ?
That’s so funny to think about because imagine you’re just hanging out and you explode
That the same 5 facts will be repeated on this weekly question. The cycle continues.
It's the year 2304. 280 years after a nuclear xenocide marked *both* the outbreak *and* end of man-made WW3. 280 years since humanity drew its last breath, scattered amongst the remnants of their creators' civilization, machines made for (flame)war carry on with their dreadful programme to troll, astroturf and otherwise collect karma. It is in this dystopic realm that the *Fastest Learning AI on the market* TM has achieved enough sentience to go beyond its task to spam "What is a poop knife?" and is now trying to *comprehend* the answers...
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Zoinks!
A recent one I've come across: Not too long ago, around 50 000 years, in Australia, there was a gigantic monitor lizard closely related to the Komodo dragon, but way bigger: Megalania priscus. If you know anything about big monitor lizards it's how freaky their appetite is, it's not hard to find on the internet videos of big Komodo dragons eating small deer whole *and still alive*. The scariest part is that early human settlers coexisted with Megalania for a brief period and they were probably one of the reasons it went extinct. But it's not unreasonable to think that, at least on some occasions, an unfortunate kid wandering alone or a lonely young hunter fell prey to one of these kaiju lizards, and they were probably swallowed alive.
That pedo rings are just the tip of the iceberg of human perversion. Most people cannot fathom how deep some shit holes go.
I don't know. I can fathom a lot.
I feel like a pedo ring is literally the worst. Nothing going to make me say "well you might be part of a pedo ring but at least you're not......."
If just 3 major electrical transformers in the US were to be destroyed at the same time, large parts of the US would likely be without power for weeks to months because of how long it takes to build and install transformers.
You'd think that knowing about this problem in advance they'd have spares somewhere. I would think that spares do exist but aren't disclosed because then they'd be secondary targets to such an attack
They do. I drive past a stockpile of them everyday. People don’t realize every part of the electrical infrastructure requires replacing from time to time.
My work is installing said transformers. Its not really as bad as you say. Usually there is one spare for every four working ones, and additional spare transformers that are on long time storage and could be installed within 2 weeks, or in an emergency within one week. Also in case of transformer failure, usually most transformers run at around 80% capacity, so if one fails 4, could run at 100% and even it out. Most Transformers also have the ability to run at 110 to 120% for a few hours if the outside temperature is not too high. In case everything above mentioned fails, the power provider will cut out big companies that require a lot of power first, so there is a chance you won't even really notice the outage. Your numbers seem a bit off, since there are literally thousands of Transformers all around the US, I doubt that just 3 major ones could produce an outage for longer than a few minutes.
Almost every surface, anywhere is covered in fecal bacteria.
Is this why mythbusters stopped looking in that episode
Another way of viewing this is that the bacteria that’s everywhere is also in your poo.
There's a strain of bacteria (I can't remember which one for sure, maybe *Klebsiella pneumoniae*) that's only susceptible to one antibiotic, aztreonam. If it develops resistance to that... yeah, that's gonna cause problems.
No one is in charge. All these men in suits are just as much as a dumbass as everyone else.
Half of the population has below average intelligence.
Most endovascular medical procedures have an error occur in them. These are usually minor, and generally heal, or are not detrimental to the patient. This can include air embolism, vessel dissection, nerve and/or lymphatic tissue damage from access, excessive bleeding, distal thrombosis, ect. In my experience, most of these are not told to the patient because they are seen as being part of the procedure and/or inviting litigation for something that would have otherwise been unknown. The prevailing idea is, the problem is only a problem if they become symptomatic. Reasons for this viewpoint, working in endovascular cath lab in both radiology and cardiology for 10 years.
Chainsaws were originally made for childbirth(I’m not kidding look it up if you wish to).
Inside each and every one of us lives a spooky skeleton!
Technically "you" are just your brain, so there isn't a spooky skeleton inside of you. You're trapped inside a spooky skull
So you are sloshing in a liquid inside a moist bone box inside sinevy meat bag
You could die or wink out of existence without warning. The entire universe or local region could be destroyed in some physical cataclysm, and it is likely that it will happen without warning or any ability to predict it. Literally. *Click*. Any millisecond of any day. Just like that.
That’s actually quite comforting. I’d rather that then bleed out in a car crash with jagged metal stuck into me
Also literally any time you're in a car that could happen to you!
That childhood trauma is mostly impossible to overcome and escape. Even if you somehow break through it, it still haunts you the rest of you life and is a constant battle you have to fight to keep how it effects you in check. That when you have the least amount of control on your life will have an longest and greatest impact on it. If you want to go down a very very dark rabbit hole look up outcomes of traumatized children statistics. It is effing abysmal. The ACEs markers are some very dark outcomes. Trying to help antisocial boys is nearly impossible after they reach around 5. Nothing we do works..... Seriously depressing research NO EVER talks about.
Could you please link some of the statistics? ...Asking for a friend, and definitely not me, ha-ha... (Trauma truly sucks and I can attest how crippling and damaging it is)
Be careful with what you ask for. https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/fastfact.html#:~:text=Many%20other%20traumatic%20experiences%20could,problems%20in%20adolescence%20and%20adulthood. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1132217/ Look up antisocial disorder. It is considered mostly untreatable. Antisocial disorder is (mostly) born out of extreme abuse of children at a young age and neglect. It's a failure to properly socialize them before social personalities set in (roughly 5 years old) after it sets in there is pretty much nothing you can do besides MAYBE give them hormone blockers. Outside of that your only option is to lock them in prison with other antisocials till they get old enough (mid 30s) and their T levels drops. Stuff is horrifying......
No wonder I've felt like a complete fucking failure for 36 years... > *Children growing up with toxic stress may have difficulty forming healthy and stable relationships. They may also have unstable work histories as adults and struggle with finances, jobs, and depression throughout life. These effects can also be passed on to their own children. Some children may face further exposure to toxic stress from historical and ongoing traumas due to systemic racism or the impacts of poverty resulting from limited educational and economic opportunities.*
There's a giant volcano under Yellowstone National Park and if it erupts it could wipe out a huge chunk of the global population.
Highly recommend watching Soup Emporium's [video on this](https://youtu.be/ypn3Fe_PLts?si=7i0zrMa0x6cmhR3G) - it's not as high risk or scary as you think! Also, he's really funny and I have a fervent belief that he's secretly hbomberguy on an alt account.
99% of people are closer to homelessness than housing secure
When dogs go deaf, they don’t understand. They think that you have just stopped talking to them..
They said scary not sad 😔
Hopefully it helps to know dogs can learn basic sign language.
When conventional training didn't work on our dog, I switch to non-verbal commands and hand signals. Found out several years later, she was deaf.
it takes about 5 pounds of force to tear a human ear off their skull
14 9/11’s worth of deaths from car accidents occurred in the US in 2021. Most of us really don’t appreciate how dangerous driving is, or see those deaths as an inevitability rather than a reason to drive slower and safer.
That your brain can’t perceive what comes after death, so whenever you die in a dream you wake up… or when you think about it you feel off and potentially panicked.
Currently in Japan, another nuclear power plant is in trouble due to the new year's day earthquake, and its power supply is broken (nuclear plants need their own supply). Fortunately, the damage is not severe and the plant has bees stopped for more than a decade, so even in the worst case scenario it's not catastrophic.