Your eyes have “immune privilege” meaning your immune system effectively does not know they exist as it would attack them and make you go blind if it did.
Meaning, if you ever get a cut in your eye, go to the doctor, or else you’ll lose the eye.
My dog scratched his eye to the point of having an ulcer. Went to the emergency room ASAP 💸
I was in the Army, and stabbed myself in the eye with so. Many. Branches. So much damage.
That was decades ago, and I’m not blind yet… what’s the point at which it becomes a danger?
Actual penetration. When the outside touches anything inside the eye. Something poking the outside really really hard isn’t going to introduce your antibodies to the inside of the eye.
What makes your immune system hate your eyes
The same applies to the testicles.
If your immune system discovers your testicles you’ll go blind? Is that what happens if you masturbate too much?
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.
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.
Honestly, they’re all brilliant but the Grimace and Picachu episodes in particular are amazing:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI6HmVcz0NXoYFk41DycPJX3vttujU2G1
And I bet Alfred Nobel is still rolling in his grave for that considering the whole reason he proposed the Nobel Prizes.
Kissinger was on the board of Theranos, which feels a little anachronistic to me.
Statistically speaking, 30 of the dalmatians in the movie 101 Dalmatians were deaf.
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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.
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.
There is an athropod that will replace a fish’s tongue.
There’s also a woman that will replace my will to live. I call her my ex-wife.
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!
No, you owe me a million dollars! Remember that small loan I gave you?
oh FUCK
“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?"
A factoid is something that looks like a fact, but is not
The universally accepted meaning is:
a brief or trivial item of news or information
Interestingly, here’s what Merriam Webster says about the origin of the word:
We can thank Norman Mailer for factoid: he used the word in his 1973 book Marilyn (about Marilyn Monroe), and he is believed to be the coiner of the word. In the book, he explains that factoids are “facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority.” Mailer’s use of the -oid suffix (which traces back to the ancient Greek word eidos, meaning “appearance” or “form”) follows in the pattern of humanoid: just as a humanoid appears to be human but is not, a factoid appears to be factual but is not. The word has since evolved so that now it most often refers to things that decidedly are facts, just not ones that are significant.
So you decided to ignore the last sentence?
No, I’ve just looked it up after reading your comment
Several (if not all) of the astronauts who died in the Challenger explosion probably didn’t die immediately. They likely remained conscious and aware for at least several seconds, and died on impact with the ocean surface.
That fairness doesn’t exist, everyone has their own idea of it based on their background, experience and belief system.
I was thinking about this recently. You know the MLK quote about the universe bending toward justice? The eventual heat death of the universe is the only way everything will be equal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question
Asimov has a short story I just read while backpacking in the mountains this past weekend. It’s about humanity attempting to reverse entropy. The Last Question is probably my favorite short story ever.
It’s among my favorites as well. It’s a 28 minute listen on youtube, for anyone who doesn’t have access to the book.
Also called values if I’m not mistaken
The universal definition of “fair” is “everything is bent very slightly in my favor”.
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.
[citation needed]
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.
The age of consent in Germany is 14.
Also applies to other countries in Europe iirc, but I can’t confirm that because that’s not something I’m willing to put in my search history again.
Edit: It’s more complex than that, read the replies by @Mrs_deWinter@feddit.de and @Turun@feddit.de.
Age of consent in Germany is a staggered system. With 14 you’re able to consent under specific conditions (them being there’s no exploitative element to the relationship), but still could file charge against the older person if they’re over 16. With 16 the first rule still applies; from 18 on you’re able to consent, period.
So for example when I was 14 I had a boyfriend, also 14, and neither of us committed any crime under this ruling. The law acknowledges that teenagers are allowed to have relationships with each other while putting every borderline case through a case-by-case hearing at court.
It’s actually a really good idea, so it kinda is a fun fact.
Oh damn, I didn’t know it was that deep.
Only for kids in the same age range. And quite frankly, I think that’s the right way to do it. As if a law would make horny teenagers not have sex.
Setting the age of consent to 18 years just technically makes them pedophiles if you actually enforce it. And I’m of the opinion that laws should be enforced or removed entirely. Having a law and usually not enforcing it gives rise to a dangerous middle ground where persecution depends on other arbitrary factors. Like income, race or how well the cop likes you.
(If you are interested in German law, just reply and I can explain/translate the relevant parts of the law for you)
Edit: translation is also available here: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html relevant are sections 176 and 182, which combine to give the often cited 14 years. Even though it never says anything about being above 14 years makes something legal! It is phrased in such a way that kids can have sex legally, while also preventing exploitation of minors.
9 in Yemen? 9?!? Even in Germany they would say “nein!”
Lol Tunisia at 20
And yet Europe seemingly has less child predators than the US.
The Europeans must be asleep seeing that this is still upvoted and the US hasn’t been mentioned yet.
edit: nvm they’ve arrived
And you can start drinking beer at 15 if at least one parent is around and agrees.
You can do that at 14 actually.
- demystify ( @demystify@lemmy.ml ) English19•1 year ago
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.
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.
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.
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LMAO what a bullshit, why does this dumb answer has 20 upvotes?
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 :)
As I get older I see more unfair aspects of the world
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.
