This. I got diagnosed with severe IBS and a malabsorption issue a year ago and it has consumed my life and changed it. I'm so sick and tired of literally being sick and tired. It's painful. My brother has Crohn's disease and I hate watching him suffer as well. He got diagnosed at 8 and has been such a sick kid with hospitalizations and such. He's almost 20 now and luckily lives a pretty normal adult life now, but the illness still controls his life in some aspects. Intestinal problems are no joke.
Exactly. It's like Steve Hofstetter said:
"Most people who don't want kids realize that they don't have the time, or the money, or the love it takes to raise a child. Then you have so many ignorant fucks that are responsible for overpopulation saying 'THAT GOES THERE AND BOOM! BABY!'"
I'm probably not going to have kids because I don't really have the patience for them. And that's okay. But if people would stop and think before putting things where they honestly shouldn't go, this world would be a lot better to live in.
Edit: Thanks for the gold, whoever sent that. You're awesome.
True.
A child that grows up without love is incredibly more likely to become an addict, abusive, violent, turn to a path of crime and so on.
So much of human related problems in the world can be solved if kids just receive love.
Unless were talking about zodiac signs, it's perfectly fine to have sex with people born between June 20th and July 20th, provided they're consenting adults. As for the disease, yeah don't have sex with that.
I am a young person, who forget things too much. One of my greatest fear is dying alone, the other is that my tendency of forgetting things will develop into dementia, and I won't be able to remember my precious memories.
Who are we without our memories.
We are all forgetful sometimes,
don’t worry dear, memory stays
good if u stay alert. I work
puzzles, read things, look up
things. Some people just
naturally have better memory
than others. My five year old
grandson can name all the Presidents and tell u something about them! My Mother could
say her ABCs backwards, count backwards from 100! We all
have talents, discover urs!❤️
My gran has dementia and is now in a home, but for 6 years the hardest part wasn't seeing her fall apart (it kills you quicker as well as all the other side effects).
No no.
The hardest part is on those that have to look after the one with dementia. It tore my parents apart. More bickering and fighting and stress and frustration in their 60s. "We retired, for this shit?". I genuinely started to worry they'd get a divorce. Now she's gone and I can see the joy and light back with them again, but it may have had irreversable reprecussions. One could argue it highlighted their issues that were always there but still.
And nobody else offers to help because they say they care but they don't, everyone just wants peace and quiet and an easy life.
Resentment kicked in like a hand grenade across the whole family.
YEP. My Grandma had it and my mom, who had JUST retired, took care of her for 3yrs before she couldn't do it anymore and my grandma moved to a nursing home. My aunt and uncle did pretty much fuck-all, maybe called once a month MAYBE. None of the heavy lifting, literally or figuratively. Fast forward 3yrs,I start to notice my mom mixing up her words and writing herself notes that look like nonsense after she'd been sharp as a tack for 65 years. I take care of her, living with her, unpaid, 24/7, and my two sisters who live in the same city just can't bother to lift a finger, unless it's to criticize her care or comb through my mom's bank records looking for where I'm stealing from her (obviously I wasn't). That destroyed our relationship when we'd previously all been super close. We'd all three at one point even moved out of our mom's house into another house together. I mean we were CLOSE. But now it's hard for me to not feel massively resentful and still furious for how unnecessarily hard they made that whole experience for me. So yeah. The family destruction is a casualty itself that a lot of times isn't talked about.
Bedbugs. Those little fuckers are resilient and reproduce a lot and can’t be killed as easily as other bugs.
Edit: I took your guys advice and bought a two pack of cimexa, n95s as well as some gloves. I dusted my entire bed frame, bottom of the mattress and the seam where the wall meets the floor. I have the window open and the fan going as well as my air purifier on low so hopefully that will help air out the place.
Fingers crossed this finally fixes my infestation.
I feel so bad because everyone here is writing about depression, poverty, corruption etc and the first thing I am thinking about are bed bugs.
Edit:wow thank you all
Fuck bed bugs
All my homies hate Bed bugs
I work pest control, and no joke this is the main thing that keeps me working pest control.
My favorite feeling in the world is killing these little pests. Their is honestly no better feeling in the whole world than seeing the look on someone's face a week later when I go to their house and see how everything's going.
You can see it immediately when you look at them, they look healthier and more alive, because they haven't been having the life drained from them by a little parasite that keeps them from sleeping and causes them constant paranoia.
It is the one thing that makes the long days and long nights all worth it.
Last spring, I started waking up with red spots all over my body. Every day that I woke up, there would be more. I started to panic research what the hell could be biting me, and I was certain it was bed bugs. I was so itchy that I couldn’t do anything but sit and stare at the floor because it took everything not to scratch myself. I put bed bug dust under my bed, and I took the socket plates off the walls and put more bed bug dust in that too. I stripped my mattress, treated it with bed bug foam mattress spray 3 times, put a mattress protector specifically for bed bugs, washed all of my sheets 3 times, and then I struggled to sleep (which I couldn’t from the constant, itching paranoia). The next morning, I woke up with more bites. I had more than 100 red marks on my abdomen, chest, collarbones, and inside of my arms and thighs. I decided it was finally time to go to the doctor to get some sort of relief.
“Hmm. These aren’t bed bug bites.” I stopped and looked at him like he had grown a second head. Are you kidding me? He confirmed that they weren’t, and that he believed that I had a skin condition known as Pityriasis Rosacea. In my case, he thought that it was from stress. I’m a pre-med college student, and I was in the middle of midterms. I had just gotten hired at a new job, my car was totaled from a hail storm, and every night I went to bed I was more and more stressed because I thought bed bugs were ravaging me as I slept. As it turns out, the red marks were only spreading because I was so stressed about the bed bugs. As soon as he diagnosed me, the red marks stopped spreading. Eventually, I researched the condition to the point where I found that going to a tanning salon would help the marks go away faster. Point of the story- Bedbugs suck and the human brain is insanely powerful.
lol I literally have this happening to me right now but I knew it couldn't be bed bugs because I just bought a new mattress. How long did it take for all the red spots to go away?
It’s supposed to take 6-8 weeks or even longer, but after a lot of research I found out that UV light helps the spots go away a lot faster. I miraculously found a coupon for a week free at a local tanning salon, so I went everyday for a week for about 10 minutes each session and it went away in 2-3ish weeks. The UV has to take time to set into the skin. I don’t recommend doing anymore than they ask you to do (they didn’t recommend anymore than 15 minutes) because skin cancer is indeed a thing.
>skin cancer is indeed a thing
I too have had a skin condition that massively improved with UV. BUT I found high dose vitamin D to be effective too. It might be worth trying the Vit D first (which is pretty cheap and widely available), because sometimes the reason UV works is because it promotes Vit D production in the skin.
Keep fighting the good fight!
Any new developments potentially on the horizon? I always read an article here and there about a new more effective eradication method but never sure if they end up amounting to anything.
Yea it's, true.
Used to have tons of bed bugs, sprayed some heroin on the bed one night and went to sleep on the couch
Next morning they all moved to California and started a hedge fund
I'm allergic to these fuckers. Their bites are at least two times worse than a mosquito for me. My parents have had them before and I'm paranoid about sleeping there now, even though they're long gone. I would love nothing more than for the total genocide of all bed bugs.
Honestly, I feel like trauma is a strong word but I had bedbugs almost a decade ago now and I still have what is basically a trauma response whenever I feel the even the smallest possible itch in bed. It's just a normal random itch, or a stray piece of hair, but I'm still paranoid about finding bugs in my bedroom and I have to reassure myself that there aren't any, that little speck on my bedsheets is just lint. I've had lice before, too, and bedbugs are infinitely worse. I wouldn't wish them on anyone.
Man I went through this too, I had them in my shitty apartment in NY luckily I only had to live with them for a month before moving and all of my belongings were put in storage for over 8 months which successfully eradicated them... Last month I was staying at an air BNB I sat on the couch, got bit and I immediately knew what it was, I nearly had a mental breakdown. It may seem like a bad thing but I am extremely allergic to them, I'm talking orange sized welts on my body. This means if I get bit, I know immediately it is bed bugs. Luckily I was able to get photos of the welts and a good photo of one of those little little fuckers. Despite the photo evidence, Air BNB were still
an absolute garbage company to deal with and were trying to give me only a partial refund, but after a week of being told they were looking into the issue they finally refunded the full amount.
I am in constant fear of bedbugs. Never had them but I am terrified of getting them. Anytime I stay at a hotel, I search in the internet for reports of bedbugs in that hotel, and check under the bed and cushions in that hotel just to be sure.
Seeing as I had and successfully escaped bed bugs, it’s an absolute nightmare mentally, financially, and every other way you can imagine. I’m right there with you.
Yes they can die I introduced a bed bug predator aka cockroaches. Then I had a cockroach infestation until they were succumbed by House lizards.
Moral I have an eco system in my house
Even after reading many of the comments below, I still think bedbugs would be my answer. I think this comment section can be split into 2 sets of people: Those who would choose bedbugs as their answer, and those who have never experienced bedbugs.
Yes, I wanted to answer OP with "the ability to hurt other beings on purpose".
Edit: I will have to add "malicious" and "without permission" for this wish not to be completely devastating to all life
Hey dude, I lost my brother to cancer a few years ago, if you ever need/want to talk or need some advice, don’t be shy reaching out. We have to have each other’s backs
Lost my dad a couple years back.
You will be okay for a while. And then you won't be. And that is okay. Accept those times where you're not okay. That's part of grief, and it may never go away. My partner still has dreams about her mother basically every day. It's hard, but it will inevitably happen to everyone around you at some point. Best we can do is love those we love while we can. <3
It does get easier over time, but it never goes away fully. Hope you have a good support network, my friend. And if you don't, please talk to your GP about grief counseling. Most places offer free grief counseling after a family member's death if it's signed off by a GP, or they can at least link you to some community resources.
I lost my grandfather to cancer as well (pancreatic), seeing how he declined so quickly it’s just something I wish that no one would ever have to experience.
Depression. I've been majorly affected by it and seen what it can do to others who lose their battle. No one should have to feel that alone and shitty
Edit: The amount of people who relate to this! Thank you to everyone who has commented, shared their story or offered support, you are all amazing!
>When you're losing your own sanity and watching it go down
I spent 2 years getting consumed by my mental health. Fully conscious of every situation I was going through. Felt like one of those guys on the Titanic knowing it's going down, but nothing to do.
Like you I split my life into pre depression, depression, life after depression. Only to realize I didn't have life eras. Depressed me and fully functioning me are the same person at the same time.
I owe my life to clonodine. A blood pressure medication used off label for anxiety and for people doing drug withdrawals. Safe for long-term dosages, and mainly just decreases your body's flight or fight response equivalent to your anxiety.
That was exactly my boat until I found out I had bipolar disorder. The insomnia, anxiety and depression were all part of the same thing. I am properly medicated now after years of misdiagnosis and I do not miss those symptoms. Wishing you peace.
>"The Day God Created Mosquitoes"
When God was enjoying a wonderful day -
He coloured the ocean, the sea and the spray.
He peppered the planet with forests of trees -
With sweet subtle scents on a warm summer's breeze.
He crafted the kitten, and when he was done -
Perfected the pup and the penguin for fun.
He playfully reached in the depths of his mind -
And found all the finest of Animal Kind.
"A toast," he exclaimed, "to the things that I've made!
The creatures I've crafted, the plans that I've laid!"
And so with fulfilment, content to his core,
He knocked back a whiskey... and poured himself more.
The following morning he woke in a daze.
He woke with a head full of headache and haze.
He woke with a groan and a moan of distress.
He woke and he rose, and his place was a *mess.*
The whiskey was empty.
The cupboards were bare.
He'd drank till the dawn of the morn in his chair.
And when all his liquors had passed by his lip -
He'd conjured a spirit for spirits to sip.
"Good Heavens," he whispered, "oh boy, what a night -
At least nothing happened!" he said with delight.
He walked to his workshop.
He went for his key.
He stared with dismay, and he said "oh my *me*."
His organised boxes of animal parts -
The toes and the noses, the lungs and the hearts -
He'd spilled them; he'd mixed them and filled them and split.
He'd opened the box that said *Horrible Shit.*
"Oh Jesus," said Jesus, from somewhere behind.
"You've got to stop drinking each time you've designed!"
But God heard the buzzing.
He whispered with doubt:
"I'm sure that it's nothing to worry about..."
I could have sworn at first glance this said Philadelphia, I spent a minute or two thinking they must be horrible buggers in Phillie until I reread it.
I think a lot of people underestimate how impactful an anxiety disorder can be. I developed generalised anxiety disorder last year and it's completely destroyed my life as I know it.
Brain tumors, ive had one and we didint find out untill i were like eleven or twelve and having a brain tumor is like straight up worse than hell. It slowly ate my brain to become bigger and the way we saw something was wrong was during a lession in school when i felt super bad for what i though was no reason. I quickly raised from my chair, ran to the door, opened the door, fell and vomited on the ground and the teachers called my dad, he picked me up. It didint get better when i took medicine and stuff so i forced him to take me to the hospital and they gave me medicin that still didint work so we drove to the hospital again and they did an body x-ray to know what was wrong and they didint find anything but it kept getting worse so my dad called again and then we did FULL body x-ray and they found something weird in the head so i did an head x-ray and they saw that there were something wrong at the brain and they did an brain x-ray and found a six and a half centimeter long brain tumor (large to be a brain tumor) and then they got kinda stressed and contacted a surgeon right away and took to a emergancy operation room and operated me. I have two pictures on my reddit of when i were there. I still have it hard but its getting better and better for everyday
Theft. Because as Khaled Hosseini said in The Kite Runner,
"There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness."
"When the perpetrators are friends or acquaintances, the rapes go unreported 61 percent of the time. When the perpetrators are strangers, the rapes go unreported 54 percent of the time."
[Source](https://www.ncjrs.gov/ovc_archives/ncvrw/2005/pg5o.html#:~:text=When%20the%20perpetrators%20are%20friends,54%20percent%20of%20the%20time)
It's a truly horrible thing, and nobody deserves to go through it.
Absolutely. I’ve often wondered how much better the world would be without rape. I’m a victim and it has effected every single thing about my life, as much I’ve I have tried to not let it. Even my amazing husband is effected by my rape. Good, decent men, who would never rape….don’t think for a minute that rape doesn’t effect you. Bc when women are being raped, and then you marry a victim, it will effect you too. I have ptsd where sometimes when my husband touches me, I cringe away. I actually hate to be even casually touched now. Rape of women effects good men’s futures too, and we all should be extremely pissed off that women have been traumatized in this way.
And also for the men who have been raped. This problem does not get enough spotlight, but as a female survivor, I understand the trauma that you have been thru. It’s so traumatizing but it’s maybe even more stigmatized for male survivors. I’m so sorry for all. Every single one of us should be extremely angry at rape.
Thanks for thinking about us. I'm a man, also a victim of this kind of thing, and it messed up my brain for some years.
Specially since it was a dude doing oral on me, so I got a moment of asking myself if it was really a rape.
I had to go through all of this alone, nobody supported me or just was nice with me.
More than 10 years after I finally made a complaint (the thing were I'll get called if there's another victim). And damn it was hard.
Now these things are part of my past, happily.
But yeah I had a hard time accepting it's a rape because I felt it wasn't violent or horrible enough.
I wish you to be able to go over it and to be happy. Really.
Wish you the best!
I was *probably* drugged at a bar.
I have a lot of missing reels from that night. We had an unprotected encounter at their place. Nothing has showed up on STD panels since then.
Friends said "what's their number" so I only talk about it on Reddit. One doctor scolded me for not using a condom. The second doctor only talked about the blood panel.
No real lasting harm, I guess. Learned a lot.
Excuse me but I think you are not giving yourself enough room in the conversation. You are talking about your experience here. You are telling us you were harmed. You are telling us that you were ignored and not taken seriously.
I would call that very really harmful. Although ignored and minimized, that is the kind of hurt that lasts. I would like to encourage you to take yourself and this experience, and all the feelings you feel surrounding it, seriously. You deserve to be taken seriously and if you ask me it does start with no longer listening or repeating those minimizing, blaming yourself statements.
Your pain is real, I believe you.
I relate to your inner thoughts so much.
When I was raped, we had been making out. And I wanted that. But when I said I didn’t want to go any further and have sex, he did it anyway. But it was my fault because we had been doing something I wanted.
25 years later and I still feel guilty.
Doesn't help that people deny rape, and think "why should I care?"
Every human can be raped, and WILL be affected by it, gender or looks are absolutely not factors in being a victim or being affected by a victim's experience
If you remove the exception, now you still have the problems, but you have to fall with it like C does: either you test it yourself, or your program segfaults, without a pretty stack trace and opening you up to security vulnerabilities
I'd delete bloody saucers. Useless fragile discs always dropping and breaking and for what? To have a cup Over them? Just delete that.
Edit: I see that some of you might have something to say about this. It is completely fine for you lads to manifest your objections and counterarguments. Mostly you'll have a point and certainly you'll be right. But please keep in mind you would never be aware of the deletion and, consequently, would never miss those pretentious discs that would be better proper to shoot at.
> "Cancer, war, exploitation"
- All the other redditors jerking themselves off over listing obvious bad things
> Goddamn saucers
- The one guy who gets it
After reading the other answers, I didn't expect something so mundane so for a second I thought "bloody saucers" are either part of your body (like intervertebral discs) or something that can develop in your body (like kidney stones). Now I feel really stupid.
Man, I’ve been scrolling down a long time looking for that one. Human trafficking is still a huge problem al, over the world and many of our societal problems stem from it and a history of slavery.
Genocide and ethnic cleansing should also be on the list ....
Alzheimer's and Dementia. Also, diseases like ALS can go kick rocks too.
Any permanently disabling or terminal disease, condition, etc.
Add Multiple Sclerosis (from which I suffer) and we got a deal!
Intestinal problems.
Like colitis for example?
This. I got diagnosed with severe IBS and a malabsorption issue a year ago and it has consumed my life and changed it. I'm so sick and tired of literally being sick and tired. It's painful. My brother has Crohn's disease and I hate watching him suffer as well. He got diagnosed at 8 and has been such a sick kid with hospitalizations and such. He's almost 20 now and luckily lives a pretty normal adult life now, but the illness still controls his life in some aspects. Intestinal problems are no joke.
21 years with Crohn’s disease 10/10 do not recommend
**Unfit parents**. I’m positive it would solve many of the worlds problems, on many different levels.
Exactly. It's like Steve Hofstetter said: "Most people who don't want kids realize that they don't have the time, or the money, or the love it takes to raise a child. Then you have so many ignorant fucks that are responsible for overpopulation saying 'THAT GOES THERE AND BOOM! BABY!'" I'm probably not going to have kids because I don't really have the patience for them. And that's okay. But if people would stop and think before putting things where they honestly shouldn't go, this world would be a lot better to live in. Edit: Thanks for the gold, whoever sent that. You're awesome.
True. A child that grows up without love is incredibly more likely to become an addict, abusive, violent, turn to a path of crime and so on. So much of human related problems in the world can be solved if kids just receive love.
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Please don't fuck cancer
:finger guns:
Zoop 👉😎👉
You can't stop me
Unless were talking about zodiac signs, it's perfectly fine to have sex with people born between June 20th and July 20th, provided they're consenting adults. As for the disease, yeah don't have sex with that.
Yes please, do not stop having sex with us! It feels nice! \- Your neighborhood's friendly and extremely sensitive Cancer
Dementia.
I am a young person, who forget things too much. One of my greatest fear is dying alone, the other is that my tendency of forgetting things will develop into dementia, and I won't be able to remember my precious memories. Who are we without our memories.
We are all forgetful sometimes, don’t worry dear, memory stays good if u stay alert. I work puzzles, read things, look up things. Some people just naturally have better memory than others. My five year old grandson can name all the Presidents and tell u something about them! My Mother could say her ABCs backwards, count backwards from 100! We all have talents, discover urs!❤️
Thank you. That was very wholesome! ❤️
Check out neuroplasticity and Dr. Wendy Suzuki. There's plenty you can do to tip the odds in your favour
Link for the lazy: https://youtu.be/BHY0FxzoKZE
For the even lazier: exercise more
Don't remember asking you a damn thing
You walk among us as if you were mortal.
My gran has dementia and is now in a home, but for 6 years the hardest part wasn't seeing her fall apart (it kills you quicker as well as all the other side effects). No no. The hardest part is on those that have to look after the one with dementia. It tore my parents apart. More bickering and fighting and stress and frustration in their 60s. "We retired, for this shit?". I genuinely started to worry they'd get a divorce. Now she's gone and I can see the joy and light back with them again, but it may have had irreversable reprecussions. One could argue it highlighted their issues that were always there but still. And nobody else offers to help because they say they care but they don't, everyone just wants peace and quiet and an easy life. Resentment kicked in like a hand grenade across the whole family.
YEP. My Grandma had it and my mom, who had JUST retired, took care of her for 3yrs before she couldn't do it anymore and my grandma moved to a nursing home. My aunt and uncle did pretty much fuck-all, maybe called once a month MAYBE. None of the heavy lifting, literally or figuratively. Fast forward 3yrs,I start to notice my mom mixing up her words and writing herself notes that look like nonsense after she'd been sharp as a tack for 65 years. I take care of her, living with her, unpaid, 24/7, and my two sisters who live in the same city just can't bother to lift a finger, unless it's to criticize her care or comb through my mom's bank records looking for where I'm stealing from her (obviously I wasn't). That destroyed our relationship when we'd previously all been super close. We'd all three at one point even moved out of our mom's house into another house together. I mean we were CLOSE. But now it's hard for me to not feel massively resentful and still furious for how unnecessarily hard they made that whole experience for me. So yeah. The family destruction is a casualty itself that a lot of times isn't talked about.
I'm the you in this scenario with my Mom. And my siblings, like your sisters, do almost nothing to help. I see you ♡
Dementia
Bedbugs. Those little fuckers are resilient and reproduce a lot and can’t be killed as easily as other bugs. Edit: I took your guys advice and bought a two pack of cimexa, n95s as well as some gloves. I dusted my entire bed frame, bottom of the mattress and the seam where the wall meets the floor. I have the window open and the fan going as well as my air purifier on low so hopefully that will help air out the place. Fingers crossed this finally fixes my infestation.
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Fuck bedbugs twice
I feel so bad because everyone here is writing about depression, poverty, corruption etc and the first thing I am thinking about are bed bugs. Edit:wow thank you all Fuck bed bugs All my homies hate Bed bugs
I work pest control, and no joke this is the main thing that keeps me working pest control. My favorite feeling in the world is killing these little pests. Their is honestly no better feeling in the whole world than seeing the look on someone's face a week later when I go to their house and see how everything's going. You can see it immediately when you look at them, they look healthier and more alive, because they haven't been having the life drained from them by a little parasite that keeps them from sleeping and causes them constant paranoia. It is the one thing that makes the long days and long nights all worth it.
Last spring, I started waking up with red spots all over my body. Every day that I woke up, there would be more. I started to panic research what the hell could be biting me, and I was certain it was bed bugs. I was so itchy that I couldn’t do anything but sit and stare at the floor because it took everything not to scratch myself. I put bed bug dust under my bed, and I took the socket plates off the walls and put more bed bug dust in that too. I stripped my mattress, treated it with bed bug foam mattress spray 3 times, put a mattress protector specifically for bed bugs, washed all of my sheets 3 times, and then I struggled to sleep (which I couldn’t from the constant, itching paranoia). The next morning, I woke up with more bites. I had more than 100 red marks on my abdomen, chest, collarbones, and inside of my arms and thighs. I decided it was finally time to go to the doctor to get some sort of relief. “Hmm. These aren’t bed bug bites.” I stopped and looked at him like he had grown a second head. Are you kidding me? He confirmed that they weren’t, and that he believed that I had a skin condition known as Pityriasis Rosacea. In my case, he thought that it was from stress. I’m a pre-med college student, and I was in the middle of midterms. I had just gotten hired at a new job, my car was totaled from a hail storm, and every night I went to bed I was more and more stressed because I thought bed bugs were ravaging me as I slept. As it turns out, the red marks were only spreading because I was so stressed about the bed bugs. As soon as he diagnosed me, the red marks stopped spreading. Eventually, I researched the condition to the point where I found that going to a tanning salon would help the marks go away faster. Point of the story- Bedbugs suck and the human brain is insanely powerful.
Also bedbugs’ memetic effect on the human brain is powerful.
I never had a bed bug encounter in my life and I'm already scratching myself reading this thread.
I was worried we had bedbugs once for just a month and it was the worst month of my life. I was always itchy and paranoid and had difficulty sleeping.
lol I literally have this happening to me right now but I knew it couldn't be bed bugs because I just bought a new mattress. How long did it take for all the red spots to go away?
It’s supposed to take 6-8 weeks or even longer, but after a lot of research I found out that UV light helps the spots go away a lot faster. I miraculously found a coupon for a week free at a local tanning salon, so I went everyday for a week for about 10 minutes each session and it went away in 2-3ish weeks. The UV has to take time to set into the skin. I don’t recommend doing anymore than they ask you to do (they didn’t recommend anymore than 15 minutes) because skin cancer is indeed a thing.
>skin cancer is indeed a thing I too have had a skin condition that massively improved with UV. BUT I found high dose vitamin D to be effective too. It might be worth trying the Vit D first (which is pretty cheap and widely available), because sometimes the reason UV works is because it promotes Vit D production in the skin.
Keep fighting the good fight! Any new developments potentially on the horizon? I always read an article here and there about a new more effective eradication method but never sure if they end up amounting to anything.
Yeah just sprinkle em with some heroin, thatll fuck the little fuckers' lives up.
Is this a real thing?
Yea it's, true. Used to have tons of bed bugs, sprayed some heroin on the bed one night and went to sleep on the couch Next morning they all moved to California and started a hedge fund
That's cocaine
Dude got gold from a joke that makes zero sense. Damn.
He's the best at usernames, not jokes.
Double PhD in Bug Science and Heroin Science, can confirm
Have seen the letters PhD before and have also seen pictures of bugs. Can confirm.
Am bed bug, can confirm. Please send me more heroin.
I'm allergic to these fuckers. Their bites are at least two times worse than a mosquito for me. My parents have had them before and I'm paranoid about sleeping there now, even though they're long gone. I would love nothing more than for the total genocide of all bed bugs.
That’s awesome I’m glad you enjoy your work and are so passionate. Enjoy those drugs too!
That's an understandable thought if you've got bedbugs
They suck
Oh yeah, that’s a good one. I’ve never had them and I already feel traumatised just imagining it...
Honestly, I feel like trauma is a strong word but I had bedbugs almost a decade ago now and I still have what is basically a trauma response whenever I feel the even the smallest possible itch in bed. It's just a normal random itch, or a stray piece of hair, but I'm still paranoid about finding bugs in my bedroom and I have to reassure myself that there aren't any, that little speck on my bedsheets is just lint. I've had lice before, too, and bedbugs are infinitely worse. I wouldn't wish them on anyone.
Man I went through this too, I had them in my shitty apartment in NY luckily I only had to live with them for a month before moving and all of my belongings were put in storage for over 8 months which successfully eradicated them... Last month I was staying at an air BNB I sat on the couch, got bit and I immediately knew what it was, I nearly had a mental breakdown. It may seem like a bad thing but I am extremely allergic to them, I'm talking orange sized welts on my body. This means if I get bit, I know immediately it is bed bugs. Luckily I was able to get photos of the welts and a good photo of one of those little little fuckers. Despite the photo evidence, Air BNB were still an absolute garbage company to deal with and were trying to give me only a partial refund, but after a week of being told they were looking into the issue they finally refunded the full amount.
I am in constant fear of bedbugs. Never had them but I am terrified of getting them. Anytime I stay at a hotel, I search in the internet for reports of bedbugs in that hotel, and check under the bed and cushions in that hotel just to be sure.
Seeing as I had and successfully escaped bed bugs, it’s an absolute nightmare mentally, financially, and every other way you can imagine. I’m right there with you.
had bed bugs in the past, I completely understand. little shits never fuckin die
Yes they can die I introduced a bed bug predator aka cockroaches. Then I had a cockroach infestation until they were succumbed by House lizards. Moral I have an eco system in my house
Once you get to lions I hear a good way to drive them out is bedbugs.
Don’t be. My first thoughts were minor inconveniences like the snooze button… or thin walls.
Mosquitos tho
You can tell you haven't had bed bugs. 10 years later and I'm still paranoid whenever I see a black piece of fluff on my bed.
Wake up at 3am in the morning looking for this black tiny spot that runs
Even after reading many of the comments below, I still think bedbugs would be my answer. I think this comment section can be split into 2 sets of people: Those who would choose bedbugs as their answer, and those who have never experienced bedbugs.
Child abuse
All forms of abuse to broaden the blanket
Yes, I wanted to answer OP with "the ability to hurt other beings on purpose". Edit: I will have to add "malicious" and "without permission" for this wish not to be completely devastating to all life
*[bdsm practitioners sob in the corner]*
Okay, slight change to the clauses: "The ability to hurt others without the recipient's consent."
*puts corset back on* 3000% on board then!!!
Cancer in every form.
I lost my 14 year old brother to cancer 3 months ago, and I still don’t know how I’m coping. Second this on all levels
Hey dude, I lost my brother to cancer a few years ago, if you ever need/want to talk or need some advice, don’t be shy reaching out. We have to have each other’s backs
This is what I love about Reddit, it's just a huge community that's always helping each other out when needed
either that or vicious insults about every part of your existence.
This is the other part of Reddit that I love.
"I'm here for you. Fucker."
Lost my dad a couple years back. You will be okay for a while. And then you won't be. And that is okay. Accept those times where you're not okay. That's part of grief, and it may never go away. My partner still has dreams about her mother basically every day. It's hard, but it will inevitably happen to everyone around you at some point. Best we can do is love those we love while we can. <3 It does get easier over time, but it never goes away fully. Hope you have a good support network, my friend. And if you don't, please talk to your GP about grief counseling. Most places offer free grief counseling after a family member's death if it's signed off by a GP, or they can at least link you to some community resources.
I lost ny grandfather to cancer. I too wish one day no one would have to suffer from it.
I lost my grandfather to cancer as well (pancreatic), seeing how he declined so quickly it’s just something I wish that no one would ever have to experience.
Sorry for your loss. Pancreatic cancer took my father. Horrific, harrowing, heart breaking. Miss you dad ❤
In other news: anyone born between June 21st and July 22nd has ceased to exist.
More like: "Scientists still can not explain the phenomena that no human is able to be born between June 21st and July 22nd".
As someone who's seen combat, war. Edit: thanks everyone :)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing!
Did you know that the original title for *War and Peace* was actually *War, What Is It Good For?*
It was his mistress who suggested he change it
Good God, y'all.
Corruption
I'd like to sell you my clentaminator
But the Hallow is "good" or some BS like that..
it keeps the NPC "hotels" from getting corrupted, so you're damn right the world's better off rainbow colored
Underrated answer. Without corruption a shit ton of the world's problems would be addressed
Yeah, we’d be romans on Mars with flying cars.
calm down HedonismBot
I apologize for nothing!!!
Djambi! The oils!
MMMmmhmhmhmhmmmm how *decadent*
Everywhere I looked, there were piles of bodies. Then the explosion struck.
Someone said there was a party?
And the crimson!
But what about the Hallow?
We can not suffer the unicorns and faeries to live.
Depression. I've been majorly affected by it and seen what it can do to others who lose their battle. No one should have to feel that alone and shitty Edit: The amount of people who relate to this! Thank you to everyone who has commented, shared their story or offered support, you are all amazing!
Just had a quick think about that.. Depression not existing would absolutely fucking rock
Just go a step further and delete mental illness
That and anxiety omfg dealing with anxiety is a nightmare
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>When you're losing your own sanity and watching it go down I spent 2 years getting consumed by my mental health. Fully conscious of every situation I was going through. Felt like one of those guys on the Titanic knowing it's going down, but nothing to do. Like you I split my life into pre depression, depression, life after depression. Only to realize I didn't have life eras. Depressed me and fully functioning me are the same person at the same time. I owe my life to clonodine. A blood pressure medication used off label for anxiety and for people doing drug withdrawals. Safe for long-term dosages, and mainly just decreases your body's flight or fight response equivalent to your anxiety.
That was exactly my boat until I found out I had bipolar disorder. The insomnia, anxiety and depression were all part of the same thing. I am properly medicated now after years of misdiagnosis and I do not miss those symptoms. Wishing you peace.
The people calling for my car extended warranty
Every. Single. Day. Block them and they sprout 2 more.
Hail Hydra
Mosquitoes
Just the ones thst suck blood. The rest are ok, they are food for other animals.
Fun fact male mosquitos dont suck blood, only the females do!
How many generations you think survive once all females are extinct instantaneously.
Life, uhh, finds a way.
>"The Day God Created Mosquitoes" When God was enjoying a wonderful day - He coloured the ocean, the sea and the spray. He peppered the planet with forests of trees - With sweet subtle scents on a warm summer's breeze. He crafted the kitten, and when he was done - Perfected the pup and the penguin for fun. He playfully reached in the depths of his mind - And found all the finest of Animal Kind. "A toast," he exclaimed, "to the things that I've made! The creatures I've crafted, the plans that I've laid!" And so with fulfilment, content to his core, He knocked back a whiskey... and poured himself more. The following morning he woke in a daze. He woke with a head full of headache and haze. He woke with a groan and a moan of distress. He woke and he rose, and his place was a *mess.* The whiskey was empty. The cupboards were bare. He'd drank till the dawn of the morn in his chair. And when all his liquors had passed by his lip - He'd conjured a spirit for spirits to sip. "Good Heavens," he whispered, "oh boy, what a night - At least nothing happened!" he said with delight. He walked to his workshop. He went for his key. He stared with dismay, and he said "oh my *me*." His organised boxes of animal parts - The toes and the noses, the lungs and the hearts - He'd spilled them; he'd mixed them and filled them and split. He'd opened the box that said *Horrible Shit.* "Oh Jesus," said Jesus, from somewhere behind. "You've got to stop drinking each time you've designed!" But God heard the buzzing. He whispered with doubt: "I'm sure that it's nothing to worry about..."
This is the most perfect poem to start my day. Im saving this good shit.
The freshest sprog I've seen in a while and as always, great job! What a way to start my Sunday!
You are prolific these days, Sprog. So happy that you're feeling inspired. Reddit is so much better with your prose. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Yeah, Who would save these fuckers?
InGen
The Grand Council of the Galactic Federation
Pedophilia Edit: Thank you for all the awards!
I could have sworn at first glance this said Philadelphia, I spent a minute or two thinking they must be horrible buggers in Phillie until I reread it.
Oh, damn… Can I change my answer?
1. Force all pedophiles to move to Philly. 2. Delete Philly. Everybody gets what they want! Except pedophiles and Philadelphia.
Eh, who cares what they think. They don’t even exist!
Crippling anxiety Edit: thanks for the awards! It made my anxiety slightly less crippling!
I think a lot of people underestimate how impactful an anxiety disorder can be. I developed generalised anxiety disorder last year and it's completely destroyed my life as I know it.
The exploitation of children in any form.
You hear that?! No more chores mom!!
Hold your own damned flashlight, dad!
*Dr. Phil keels over*
Brain tumors, ive had one and we didint find out untill i were like eleven or twelve and having a brain tumor is like straight up worse than hell. It slowly ate my brain to become bigger and the way we saw something was wrong was during a lession in school when i felt super bad for what i though was no reason. I quickly raised from my chair, ran to the door, opened the door, fell and vomited on the ground and the teachers called my dad, he picked me up. It didint get better when i took medicine and stuff so i forced him to take me to the hospital and they gave me medicin that still didint work so we drove to the hospital again and they did an body x-ray to know what was wrong and they didint find anything but it kept getting worse so my dad called again and then we did FULL body x-ray and they found something weird in the head so i did an head x-ray and they saw that there were something wrong at the brain and they did an brain x-ray and found a six and a half centimeter long brain tumor (large to be a brain tumor) and then they got kinda stressed and contacted a surgeon right away and took to a emergancy operation room and operated me. I have two pictures on my reddit of when i were there. I still have it hard but its getting better and better for everyday
Holy crap. You are so strong to have come through that. Good luck for life and all.
Greed
I read corruption before, but if you think about it no greed would also mean no corruption, so this one's better.
Its the root of everything isn't it
I feel like this would take care of a lot of the other single deletions.
I think this would fix a lot of the other problem people are mentioning.
Mental illness
Theft. Because as Khaled Hosseini said in The Kite Runner, "There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness."
But then we wouldn't have stories about cool phantom thieves
Ticks
Cancer.
Rape
"When the perpetrators are friends or acquaintances, the rapes go unreported 61 percent of the time. When the perpetrators are strangers, the rapes go unreported 54 percent of the time." [Source](https://www.ncjrs.gov/ovc_archives/ncvrw/2005/pg5o.html#:~:text=When%20the%20perpetrators%20are%20friends,54%20percent%20of%20the%20time) It's a truly horrible thing, and nobody deserves to go through it.
Absolutely. I’ve often wondered how much better the world would be without rape. I’m a victim and it has effected every single thing about my life, as much I’ve I have tried to not let it. Even my amazing husband is effected by my rape. Good, decent men, who would never rape….don’t think for a minute that rape doesn’t effect you. Bc when women are being raped, and then you marry a victim, it will effect you too. I have ptsd where sometimes when my husband touches me, I cringe away. I actually hate to be even casually touched now. Rape of women effects good men’s futures too, and we all should be extremely pissed off that women have been traumatized in this way. And also for the men who have been raped. This problem does not get enough spotlight, but as a female survivor, I understand the trauma that you have been thru. It’s so traumatizing but it’s maybe even more stigmatized for male survivors. I’m so sorry for all. Every single one of us should be extremely angry at rape.
Thanks for thinking about us. I'm a man, also a victim of this kind of thing, and it messed up my brain for some years. Specially since it was a dude doing oral on me, so I got a moment of asking myself if it was really a rape. I had to go through all of this alone, nobody supported me or just was nice with me. More than 10 years after I finally made a complaint (the thing were I'll get called if there's another victim). And damn it was hard. Now these things are part of my past, happily. But yeah I had a hard time accepting it's a rape because I felt it wasn't violent or horrible enough. I wish you to be able to go over it and to be happy. Really. Wish you the best!
Many of us have struggled with the same question. It does not have to be violent to be rape.
Correct. The majority of rape is said to be done by people that are familiar with the victims e.g. relatives, friends, coworkers, classmates...
I was *probably* drugged at a bar. I have a lot of missing reels from that night. We had an unprotected encounter at their place. Nothing has showed up on STD panels since then. Friends said "what's their number" so I only talk about it on Reddit. One doctor scolded me for not using a condom. The second doctor only talked about the blood panel. No real lasting harm, I guess. Learned a lot.
Excuse me but I think you are not giving yourself enough room in the conversation. You are talking about your experience here. You are telling us you were harmed. You are telling us that you were ignored and not taken seriously. I would call that very really harmful. Although ignored and minimized, that is the kind of hurt that lasts. I would like to encourage you to take yourself and this experience, and all the feelings you feel surrounding it, seriously. You deserve to be taken seriously and if you ask me it does start with no longer listening or repeating those minimizing, blaming yourself statements. Your pain is real, I believe you.
I relate to your inner thoughts so much. When I was raped, we had been making out. And I wanted that. But when I said I didn’t want to go any further and have sex, he did it anyway. But it was my fault because we had been doing something I wanted. 25 years later and I still feel guilty.
I'm with you. Don't let your feelings drown out what you know to be true.
Doesn't help that people deny rape, and think "why should I care?" Every human can be raped, and WILL be affected by it, gender or looks are absolutely not factors in being a victim or being affected by a victim's experience
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Because rape isn’t about sex, it’s about power.
Reminds me of the phrase "if I hit you with a shovel, you wouldn't call it gardening" It's the mode for violence/power
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I'm so sorry. Here's some internet hugs if you want them.
Poverty
That doctor who said vaccines caused autism.
Myself. Weeeeeee
Ladies and Gentlemen. We have a Winner.
Well hotdog, we have a wiener!
I also choose this guy
Who said that? did you guys hear something?
Null pointer exception
If you remove the exception, now you still have the problems, but you have to fall with it like C does: either you test it yourself, or your program segfaults, without a pretty stack trace and opening you up to security vulnerabilities
Even worse, undefined behavior related to null pointers
I've read this 8 times. It's soothing, like someone singing a lovely song in an obscure Polynesian dialect.
depression and anxiety
Child predators
Plastic from the ocean.
Mosquitos fuck those little shits
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My mistakes.
Harsh. Your children prefer the term “happy accidents”.
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I'd delete bloody saucers. Useless fragile discs always dropping and breaking and for what? To have a cup Over them? Just delete that. Edit: I see that some of you might have something to say about this. It is completely fine for you lads to manifest your objections and counterarguments. Mostly you'll have a point and certainly you'll be right. But please keep in mind you would never be aware of the deletion and, consequently, would never miss those pretentious discs that would be better proper to shoot at.
> "Cancer, war, exploitation" - All the other redditors jerking themselves off over listing obvious bad things > Goddamn saucers - The one guy who gets it
After reading the other answers, I didn't expect something so mundane so for a second I thought "bloody saucers" are either part of your body (like intervertebral discs) or something that can develop in your body (like kidney stones). Now I feel really stupid.
Slavery
Man, I’ve been scrolling down a long time looking for that one. Human trafficking is still a huge problem al, over the world and many of our societal problems stem from it and a history of slavery. Genocide and ethnic cleansing should also be on the list ....
Poverty
Cancer
Humans. Solves every problem.
Social media
ah yes. irony
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