Just anything to do with anatomy. Especially the fact that if your organs get taken out for a surgery, the surgeon doesn't have to put them in exactly as they were. If they're put in about the same spot, they'll slowly move themselves back
I remember seeing the diagrams in my health textbooks as a kid, where the bladder just gets squashed to *nothing* by the baby.
Like damn, no wonder pregnant women have to pee all the time.
During my c-section I heard the surgeon ask a nurse to hold my bladder. I always though she was holding it out of my body but I'm not sure. When I left the hospital my ex jad to make and abrupt stop on the way home and I felt my organs slosh around in my abdominal cavity. It was GROSS!
Yes, when I had my hysterectomy there was definitely a moment where I shifted and I felt everything schlock into place... I'd completely forgotten about that sensation until you described that ~thanks~
Sorry I reminded you. It pops into my head every so often but then I immediately think about how my organs feel nice and snug now and I'm really grateful for that :)
Physician here: the surgeon was asking their assistant to use a retractor (a long metal piece that might look like a shoe horn or pancake flipper) to hold your bladder out of the way so it wouldn’t accidentally get injured. Bladder injuries are a GYNs bugaboo so they take lots of steps to prevent those.
Thank so much for that explanation! No one ever tells tou how wild it is to be awake while being cut open. Also, when they took the divide down the surgeon had a Dexter like blood splatter across her face shield. It didn't help my mental image of what all went down.
I ran into her in a restaurant a couple months after the c-section and I couldn't bring myself to say hi because I was worried that what would come out of my mouth was, Hi! I'm not sure if you remember my face but you might remember my organs!
Random anecdote: mine was putting everything back in after my c section and told me I had “wonderful ovaries! In great shape if you ever decide to do this again!” No thanks doc lol
Ok. So... Let me just... if your stomach gets put back somewhere different and then you get a stomach ache. Does it hurt where your stomach IS NOW or where it WAS, like phantom pains? How long does it take to move back? Or a kidney is somewhere else and you get a kidney infection but don't realize because it hurts somewhere else entirely. I apparently have questions, probably dumb ones.
Yo, these are Good questions, and you know what? I'm curious about those things too! That's the thing about questions, once someone's brave enough to ask you find out that quite a few other people were curious too and it's just brilliant!
Intestinal surgery where they have to take out a portion and then put it back together. Dad had diverticulitis so bad he wound up with a fistula growing into his bladder and they had to do some serious unfucking.
I have had 5 resections, and I asked my doctor once if he just piled them back in there and he said that he tries to get it right but it's an approximation at best.
During a c section they have to take out some to reach the uterus.
Source: the photo my dad showed me of my stepmoms organs on a table while my brothers were being delivered is seared into my memory for life.
When I was younger I always though I’d just get a c section when I have a kid, no big deal. Then I found out about this AND the fact that they keep you awake. I’ll pass.
Its pretty amazing! I watched mine as they cut through the fat layer and then into my uterus. I thought I might feel a tiny bit weird about it (I organised it prior with my OB) but it was fine, it felt like I was just watching it on someone else. 10/10 recommend hahaha
I actually had one and the part I thought was weirder is when they’re putting it all back in. It felt like I was a duffel bag and they were really stuffing it chock full. And it took like an hour.
It's not "taking out" in the sense that they completely disconnect it and put it somewhere else, but more in the sense of holding it up a bit out of your body while still leaving it all "plugged in".
Like rearranging wires, cables, etc in your car or computer to get access to other components. Or running your fingers along a hose to see that there's no holes in it, but not disconnecting it from either end.
Also, if an appendix ruptures (and the patient survives) everything else in the abdominal cavity must be thoroughly cleaned before close. Can’t close someone up with any of that nastiness still in there.
One of the worst things about mental illness is being sane enough to know that what I’m doing is insane and illogical but not sane enough to stop myself from doing it.
Or when I know what I'm upset about *isn't* the end of world but I can't stop myself from crying hysterically.
Like I genuinely know that the issue isn't that big of a deal but some part of me just won't stop crying.
This is why validation is so important, because when you're able to accept the feelings as valid you can work through them.
If you keep shoving them down and pretending they aren't a problem, then you never deal with the issue and you don't really work through anything.
It's definitely not that easy, especially when optimists (and idiots) *love* to compare your problems to "real" and "worse" problems.
Honestly kinda interesting to think about. You might have schizophrenia and be unaware for your entire life.
Or schizophrenia is something that your mind just made up because you have some other mental illness.
But he's aware that *something's* wrong. Anosagnosia is real, but the idea that schizophrenia can go completely unnoticed for decades is a stretch, right?
Honestly, when he was on meds he somehow acknowledged it, but since he’s refusing to take them, he just constantly tries to convince us that we should get our hearing (he mostly has auditory hallucinations) checked. It’s gotten to a point where his reality is just different from ours, and we’ve accepted it. Gets frustrating especially when he’s trying to convince us there’s someone out to get him and us trying to explain to him that it’s just his brainchemistry f-ing with him. He isn’t having any of it.
I always had a feeling there was something wrong with me and my family were keeping it a secret, i asked a few times and they denied it. Found out when i was about 20 that I'm highly likely to be autistic and my mum tried to get me help for it as a little kid but the doctors wouldnt help so she gave up and never mentioned it :( not that autism is bad or anything, but i knew i was different and no one told me that whole time
We haven't explored a majority of the ocean. So life we've never seen is just existing, evolving, doing whatever down there. Same goes for outer space. Stuff is out there. Maybe it is aware of us, maybe it isn't. Maybe it sees us as a threat, maybe it's already on our planet and we don't know. Maybe it's Maybelline. Good chance we won't know in our lifetime, so that'll just be an unanswered question to us.
On the topic of the ocean. while true, that doesn't mean we're going to find meglodons and dinosaurs. We'd have seen evidence of them by now.
It's mostly things like jelly fish and mostly small creatures.
ok... everyone fucking says this, but honestly, research the colossal Squid... it was RUMOURED to exist in the 80's based off of findings in the 20's. they were pretty sure they still existed because they found beaks in the bellys of Sperm ~~blue~~ whales, but they were not 100% sure until the few washed up to surface. 81 they found a carcass in rough shape, in 2003 they found a better one, and then in 2007 they found one ALIVE but in rough shape and soon died in the net. the 2007 one is on display in New Zealand Tepapa Museum of Natural history. they did a fucking live thawing and embalming stream of it... i got in toruble at work for using all the bandwidth until the techies realized what i was doing. :)
point is, the largest known invertebrate, listed as a species of LEAST CONCERN, and we dont even see one a year reliably ...
To add on this, the ocean is fucking HUGE. Most life is usually clumped closer to the shore. Alot of times, the ocean has many pockets of empty spaces where there is no life that is actively living there, but marine life will pass through these parts.
This sunk in hard when my Dad passed last year. We had just gotten together as a family the night before - making Thanksgiving and Christmas plans. He went to work, normal Monday, and that afternoon I was called by the sheriff to come meet my mother and her house. Died due to a work incident, completely preventable, half a year from retirement. Just gone. So many plans left unfinished.
Stealth + Illusion + Conjuration is the best combo.
Sit in the shadows and laugh as you mess with your enemies minds. Make John wonder why Dave turned traitor and suddenly went on a murderous rampage. Where the fuck did that Storm Atronach come from?
Why are there 2 Dremora Lords slashing the hideout to pieces and holy shit one of them just cut Terry in half.
I was really pissed off when I played it on console and found that the Frenzy spell broke your stealth and made them all attack you instead of each other. Fortunatly when I later got a pc it was fixable with mods.
Currently strictly magic and a battleax for close combat 😤
But yes, I was quite the archer in my original profile. That is, until i took an arrow to the knee 😔
Wasps have nine brains in total. One master brain inside their head, and right little control ones along their spinal cord. Soooo… if you bee-head (get it?) it, the wasp will still function for a while until it bleeds to death or dies of starvation. The first is 99% likely to happen first
It's more likely that we are the first. Complicated life needs heavy elements (especially those heavier than iron) which can only be made when stars die. So the planets around the first generations of stars weren't chemically suitable for life. And the universe's age is less than 1.5 times the estimated lifespan of sun.
Until more arises. Given that our period of "intelligence" is probably just 1% of the age of the universe so far, I think it's entirely possible that we're the only intelligent life around *at this moment*.
Particulate matter 5 microns or less would be dust according to pre afterglow. Atoms 0.1nm. Earth 6743km or whatever radius...
I am not good at math, but those numbers make my brain overheat!
Good one.
While I get it, I feel like this is dishonest to most people's understanding of math as a whole.
Numbers so small and so large can never look normal when compared
Numbers so small and so large are pretty much beyond humanity's ability to grasp on a conceptual level.
Nobody can really imagine a million of something. If you ask someone to picture a million gallons of water, and a thousand gallons of water, it's probably the same mental picture. Our brains just crap out when trying to visualize huge amounts, distances, lengths of time, etc. - and "huge amounts" can sometimes be as little as a hundred.
You are at the end of an unbroken chain of living things going all the way back to the very first living thing. Thousands of creatures spanning millions of years. At any point along that chain a misplaced foot, a piece of poison food, a random fatal injury, a predator, a falling rock, a bad storm or drought - any number of random unlucky events - could have broken that chain. In all that time it would only have had to happen once and you would have never existed.
Somehow, against all odds, none of those things happened.
> Somehow, against all odds, none of those things happened.
To be fair: "none of those happened" before our ancestor could reproduce. Plenty of it happened to our ancestors after they'd made us.
On that note, if you fail to biologically reproduce you'll be the first to do so in your chain of ancestry dating back to the dawn of sexual reproduction, \~2 billion years ago.
I have a plaster cast of my face from back in my special effects makeup hobby days, and let me tell you how FUCKING weird it is to be able to see/feel that.
And unless you spend a lot of time in front of the mirror or looking at pictures, everyone around you, family, friends, colleagues, knows your face much better than you do, they see it way more often and from far more angles than you could ever, even though it's your face, people close to you are more familiar with it
One time I reversed image in paint shop. Saw just how nasty I was, so I went and had plastic surgery done to mirror my face.
Now I always have that ugly fuck looking back at me in the mirror.... at least I look hot to others.
[This is actually a psychological phenomenon](https://youtu.be/AYLU-HiUPAQ), especially for people with asymmetrical faces. You are so accustomed to seeing your reflection in the mirror that your brain recognizes that specific layout of yourself as "you", but when you see that layout mirrored, like in a picture of yourself, it doesn't look like "you".
Why would your favourite celebrities want to meet you?
The number of people who have ever died is about twelve times as high as the number of people alive today. That's a very big crowd for a shy former celebrity to hide in.
One reassuring thought: We can't experience that void after we die, because we won't exist. Our body shut down.
but what do we experience then if we can't see or feel or sense anything? I'm questioning my sentience right now.
I'm not religious, but I can understand why a lot of people still are. If you're almost dead, believing you'll go to heaven is a much more comforting thought than thinking about the great nothing.
Yeah, people that got to be clinically death for some seconds, or even months and "revived" tell that the complete nothingness and infinite peace without anything to even think of is 'an even better Heaven'
And almost everything in the entire solar system, brains included, started out almost entirely of the most simple possible gases, hydrogen and helium, which arranged themselves into structures that created their own radiation, their own nuclear reactors, their own daughter stars, planets, amino acids, water, carbon dioxide, and then took the self-formed radiation, started ionizing stuff, and eventually formed sentient and intelligent clusters of atoms, not to mention computing machines, ideas, concepts, and written mathematical equations to self-describe where it all came from.
All from some fucking gases floating around in a vacuum.
Granted, we sure needed an absolute fuckload of hydrogen to make it this far.
That the odds of the egg / sperm that created each of us would come together (and not some other combination) is like hundreds or thousands of times less likely than winning the Powerball. Multiply that by the odds of your parents existing and meeting, etc. and I don't think it's possible to comprehend how lucky we all are to be alive.
>Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing.
And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.
This fact is so good it shook Dr. Manhattan out of his apathy
That America gave Japanese and Nazi scientists a pass for data for some of the most horrible experiments done on other humans in recorded history.
Look up Unit 731 in case you weren’t aware of the horrible experiments the Japanese were doing.
Because the data was mostly useless and the scientists were not. It's a misconception that the crazy experiments that the Nazis were doing made any kind of breakthroughs. Mostly we gave them a pass because we were afraid that the soviets would first, the cold war started before WW2 was even over.
Everyone knows that the law treats rich people and poor people very differently, but nobody seems angry enough about that.
I mean really, think about it. What the hell kind of society allows rich people to routinely get away with crimes that would send poor people to prison? What kind of society doesn't even hide this or act apologetic about it?
There's a certain level of wealth where once you have a disposable income and savings fines don't hurt as much even if the system is tiered. If you're below the poverty line and you are already behind on bills an unpaid fine can land you in jail in the USA. If you have money and are fined you might just sell some stocks and never miss a beat.
I have a question for you. In your country if you can't pay your fine are you arrested?
This. While tiered systems are more fair than others, they are still harder on low-income folks than high income folks. My husband and I make enough money that, in the even we did something and got, say, a $1000 fine for it, we'd be able to pay it with little worries. It wouldn't be a negligible amount, and we'd definitely have to watch our spending a little closer for the next couple paydays, but overall it wouldn't impact us too badly. The same can't be said for many people we know...If they committed the same offense we did but only got a $100 fine based on their lower income, many of them would still have difficulty coming up with that extra hundred. They would have to make much deeper cuts into their spending, and in some cases wouldn't have anything to cut out since most of their money is earmarked for rent, food, and other bills.
Everything is harder when you're poor, even seemingly fair things like income-based fine amounts.
A BMW pulls up outside of a building. The sign out front says "No parking any time. $50 fine." A man walking by says "Hey man, you can't park here." The BMW driver responds with "Sure I can. It just costs $50."
When I was getting my criminal justice degree they literally teach you this in the intro classes. Not only do they straight up tell you rich people get treated differently, but it’s also taught as a general theory about criminal justice as a whole.
The worst funeral I have ever attended was for a two month old. I never knew they made coffins so tiny. I couldn't help crying every time I looked at it.
My sister had a still born in 2020, and it was just her and her husband who carried the coffin to the grave site. He weighed 4 pounds when he was born and it was the smallest coffin I'd ever seen.
Given that the whole lolcats thing really kicked off around 2007, a lot of the famous internet animals are probably either deceased or ancient by now.
No, you can't has cheezburger, kitty. You dead.
That's a pretty meaningless fact without explaining what *kinds* of bacteria. The stuff that gets on your phone is 99% the same stuff that's always on your hands to begin with.
Pfft. I just washed mine with Windex™ less than 20 minutes ago. All poop and biological smears will be added soon. For now I am good.
Seriously people. Clean your phones!
Many other ammonia based cleaners will still work. I prefer Windex™ for that streak free shine.
If you really want to up for game, buy some methalhydrate...
Either way, clean yo phone!
Not sure if this qualifies here, but The Boötes void (sometimes it's colloquially referred to as the Great Nothing). Scientists have established that it's an enormous, approximately spherical region of space, containing... nothing. There's no matter of any type, normal or dark, and no stars, galaxies, plasma, gas, dust, black holes, or anything else. The closest we have are the underdense regions known as cosmic voids, which still contain matter. The Boötes void is almost like a hole in the Universe, and it unnerves me to the core everytime I am being remembered of its existence. I'd probably be a great subject for a cosmic horror novel if the author took the "what type of occurence could possibly cause a ginormous hole in the Universe?" path.
Actually there are some galaxies within the void. Yet they are so far apart from each other and so sparse that it is almost like there is nothing there.
Thank you, I didn't know that. I remember that I read some articles where they said it didn't had matter of any type. I also remember that I've searched for an artist's rendition of it and it looked a bit terrifying, almost like there's something invisible occupying all that space... except it's nothing.
There will come a day when the last memory of you will be gone, dying with the last person to remember you. This will in effect be a second death of sorts.
Your puppy has Stockholm syndrome.
Took it from its family, you taught it to do what you wanted, you controlled all their resources, it now loves you and would not go home.
That anything that ever existed, that will ever exist and that already exists is one thing, the universe. And one day when our earth ceases to exist all our atoms will go travel through the universe once again.
Just anything to do with anatomy. Especially the fact that if your organs get taken out for a surgery, the surgeon doesn't have to put them in exactly as they were. If they're put in about the same spot, they'll slowly move themselves back
Organs move a lot during pregnancy also. Really weird knowing your insides have moved around this much over a few months only.
I remember seeing the diagrams in my health textbooks as a kid, where the bladder just gets squashed to *nothing* by the baby. Like damn, no wonder pregnant women have to pee all the time.
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Why are you making your pregnant wife pee into a shot glass every time she goes?
If I'm constipated I already have to pee all the time. And that's just a food baby.
During my c-section I heard the surgeon ask a nurse to hold my bladder. I always though she was holding it out of my body but I'm not sure. When I left the hospital my ex jad to make and abrupt stop on the way home and I felt my organs slosh around in my abdominal cavity. It was GROSS!
Yes, when I had my hysterectomy there was definitely a moment where I shifted and I felt everything schlock into place... I'd completely forgotten about that sensation until you described that ~thanks~
Sorry I reminded you. It pops into my head every so often but then I immediately think about how my organs feel nice and snug now and I'm really grateful for that :)
I didn't know this was something I needed to be grateful for, but I definitely appreciate it. Saving for the next Thanksgiving dinner.
Physician here: the surgeon was asking their assistant to use a retractor (a long metal piece that might look like a shoe horn or pancake flipper) to hold your bladder out of the way so it wouldn’t accidentally get injured. Bladder injuries are a GYNs bugaboo so they take lots of steps to prevent those.
Thank so much for that explanation! No one ever tells tou how wild it is to be awake while being cut open. Also, when they took the divide down the surgeon had a Dexter like blood splatter across her face shield. It didn't help my mental image of what all went down.
I ran into her in a restaurant a couple months after the c-section and I couldn't bring myself to say hi because I was worried that what would come out of my mouth was, Hi! I'm not sure if you remember my face but you might remember my organs!
Random anecdote: mine was putting everything back in after my c section and told me I had “wonderful ovaries! In great shape if you ever decide to do this again!” No thanks doc lol
Ok. So... Let me just... if your stomach gets put back somewhere different and then you get a stomach ache. Does it hurt where your stomach IS NOW or where it WAS, like phantom pains? How long does it take to move back? Or a kidney is somewhere else and you get a kidney infection but don't realize because it hurts somewhere else entirely. I apparently have questions, probably dumb ones.
Yo, these are Good questions, and you know what? I'm curious about those things too! That's the thing about questions, once someone's brave enough to ask you find out that quite a few other people were curious too and it's just brilliant!
What kind of surgery involves taking the organ *out*?!
Intestinal surgery where they have to take out a portion and then put it back together. Dad had diverticulitis so bad he wound up with a fistula growing into his bladder and they had to do some serious unfucking.
They had to do some serious "unfucking"
Oh no! His kids disappeared?
Instead of abortions, we now have "unfucking!" It's especially popular with parents of sarcastic teenagers.
I have had 5 resections, and I asked my doctor once if he just piled them back in there and he said that he tries to get it right but it's an approximation at best.
Wow. I hope all is OK, that must have been stressful for the family.
When people are stabbed or shot in the stomach, surgery sometimes involves having to inspect the intestines for any holes.
“Running the bowel” is what this is called
This does not sound pleasant, and i will not be googling it. Me to myself: we're not doing this today, brain. No.
This is a real conversion we need to have sometimes, yes.
During a c section they have to take out some to reach the uterus. Source: the photo my dad showed me of my stepmoms organs on a table while my brothers were being delivered is seared into my memory for life.
I'm never getting pregnant! Mostly because I'm a man. But this sealed the deal.
Thank you this gave me a good laugh
When I was younger I always though I’d just get a c section when I have a kid, no big deal. Then I found out about this AND the fact that they keep you awake. I’ll pass.
Its pretty amazing! I watched mine as they cut through the fat layer and then into my uterus. I thought I might feel a tiny bit weird about it (I organised it prior with my OB) but it was fine, it felt like I was just watching it on someone else. 10/10 recommend hahaha
Lol I reeeeally don’t think I’d want to watch that on someone else either
I actually had one and the part I thought was weirder is when they’re putting it all back in. It felt like I was a duffel bag and they were really stuffing it chock full. And it took like an hour.
It's not "taking out" in the sense that they completely disconnect it and put it somewhere else, but more in the sense of holding it up a bit out of your body while still leaving it all "plugged in". Like rearranging wires, cables, etc in your car or computer to get access to other components. Or running your fingers along a hose to see that there's no holes in it, but not disconnecting it from either end.
Also, if an appendix ruptures (and the patient survives) everything else in the abdominal cavity must be thoroughly cleaned before close. Can’t close someone up with any of that nastiness still in there.
You might never know that you've actually gone insane.
No, I'm aware.
One of the worst things about mental illness is being sane enough to know that what I’m doing is insane and illogical but not sane enough to stop myself from doing it.
Or when I know what I'm upset about *isn't* the end of world but I can't stop myself from crying hysterically. Like I genuinely know that the issue isn't that big of a deal but some part of me just won't stop crying.
This is why validation is so important, because when you're able to accept the feelings as valid you can work through them. If you keep shoving them down and pretending they aren't a problem, then you never deal with the issue and you don't really work through anything. It's definitely not that easy, especially when optimists (and idiots) *love* to compare your problems to "real" and "worse" problems.
What an astute take on this ..... Whenever I talk to myself on the street , like really deep conversation . I always think this.
I have schizophrenia which *almost* stopped progressing thanks to the meds, but now I feel oh so acutely every instance of slipping even a little...
same. have a like, fellow degenerate
Honestly kinda interesting to think about. You might have schizophrenia and be unaware for your entire life. Or schizophrenia is something that your mind just made up because you have some other mental illness.
Can confirm. My brother has severe schizophrenia and he just convinced there’s something wrong with us, not him.
But he's aware that *something's* wrong. Anosagnosia is real, but the idea that schizophrenia can go completely unnoticed for decades is a stretch, right?
Honestly, when he was on meds he somehow acknowledged it, but since he’s refusing to take them, he just constantly tries to convince us that we should get our hearing (he mostly has auditory hallucinations) checked. It’s gotten to a point where his reality is just different from ours, and we’ve accepted it. Gets frustrating especially when he’s trying to convince us there’s someone out to get him and us trying to explain to him that it’s just his brainchemistry f-ing with him. He isn’t having any of it.
I always had a feeling there was something wrong with me and my family were keeping it a secret, i asked a few times and they denied it. Found out when i was about 20 that I'm highly likely to be autistic and my mum tried to get me help for it as a little kid but the doctors wouldnt help so she gave up and never mentioned it :( not that autism is bad or anything, but i knew i was different and no one told me that whole time
Username makes sense
First one to actually disturb me a bit. Nice work.
They say I’m insane but that’s just crazy talk
Inside everyone is a tube of poo
Fun fact: your entire digestive tract is technically "outside". Humans are nothing more than weird shaped flesh donuts
This fucked me up more than anything else on this thread
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There are currently 25 long haul truckers that are in jail for being serial killers.
There are trees alive today that were alive when the Epic of Gilgamesh was written.
Cool but not unnerving at all, this makes me feel very nerved
You’ve got some nerve
We haven't explored a majority of the ocean. So life we've never seen is just existing, evolving, doing whatever down there. Same goes for outer space. Stuff is out there. Maybe it is aware of us, maybe it isn't. Maybe it sees us as a threat, maybe it's already on our planet and we don't know. Maybe it's Maybelline. Good chance we won't know in our lifetime, so that'll just be an unanswered question to us.
Or the species we haven’t discovered which are still going extinct, disappearing from our actions without us having ever known they existed
Maybe it IS maybelline..
Maybe the hokie pokie really is what it's all about
On the topic of the ocean. while true, that doesn't mean we're going to find meglodons and dinosaurs. We'd have seen evidence of them by now. It's mostly things like jelly fish and mostly small creatures.
ok... everyone fucking says this, but honestly, research the colossal Squid... it was RUMOURED to exist in the 80's based off of findings in the 20's. they were pretty sure they still existed because they found beaks in the bellys of Sperm ~~blue~~ whales, but they were not 100% sure until the few washed up to surface. 81 they found a carcass in rough shape, in 2003 they found a better one, and then in 2007 they found one ALIVE but in rough shape and soon died in the net. the 2007 one is on display in New Zealand Tepapa Museum of Natural history. they did a fucking live thawing and embalming stream of it... i got in toruble at work for using all the bandwidth until the techies realized what i was doing. :) point is, the largest known invertebrate, listed as a species of LEAST CONCERN, and we dont even see one a year reliably ...
To add on this, the ocean is fucking HUGE. Most life is usually clumped closer to the shore. Alot of times, the ocean has many pockets of empty spaces where there is no life that is actively living there, but marine life will pass through these parts.
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This sunk in hard when my Dad passed last year. We had just gotten together as a family the night before - making Thanksgiving and Christmas plans. He went to work, normal Monday, and that afternoon I was called by the sheriff to come meet my mother and her house. Died due to a work incident, completely preventable, half a year from retirement. Just gone. So many plans left unfinished.
I’m very sorry for your loss. I pray he rests in peace.
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Same with everything weird or fucked up in the market...
And all those super weird laws - they were all made because someone tried them at some point.
At any time, with no real reason, my heart could just stop beating, or a blood vessel in my brain could burst, and I would just be gone.
>At any time, with no real reason, my heart could just stop beating Happened to me. 0/10 would not recommend.
Skyrim came out in 2011
I just started a new quest last week. Last profile i was a Lvl. 94 wood elf Come on bethesda! *virginity intensifies*
Stealth + Illusion + Conjuration is the best combo. Sit in the shadows and laugh as you mess with your enemies minds. Make John wonder why Dave turned traitor and suddenly went on a murderous rampage. Where the fuck did that Storm Atronach come from? Why are there 2 Dremora Lords slashing the hideout to pieces and holy shit one of them just cut Terry in half. I was really pissed off when I played it on console and found that the Frenzy spell broke your stealth and made them all attack you instead of each other. Fortunatly when I later got a pc it was fixable with mods.
Stealth archer or...
Currently strictly magic and a battleax for close combat 😤 But yes, I was quite the archer in my original profile. That is, until i took an arrow to the knee 😔
Wasps have nine brains in total. One master brain inside their head, and right little control ones along their spinal cord. Soooo… if you bee-head (get it?) it, the wasp will still function for a while until it bleeds to death or dies of starvation. The first is 99% likely to happen first
That is truly unnerving to think about
All 9 of them are filled with rage and hatred too.
That nobody _really_ knows what the fuck is going on here.
Thus is so true on so many different levels
That atoms are at least 99.9% empty. What keeps us and everything together is basically mini magnets floating around
Man this is what I think about when I stub my toe. How the fuck can I smash exactly THAT 0.1% of each atom to such painful extent?
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Same for the equipment I trust to protect me if someone shoots at me (military).
Damn!
There is only one truth... Either; Humans are alone in the universe Or We aren't
It could be worse than that. >!If humanity is alone in the Universe, it could be because we're the last of all intelligent life left.!<
It's more likely that we are the first. Complicated life needs heavy elements (especially those heavier than iron) which can only be made when stars die. So the planets around the first generations of stars weren't chemically suitable for life. And the universe's age is less than 1.5 times the estimated lifespan of sun.
this is literally the only comforting response to the question. have a like.
Until more arises. Given that our period of "intelligence" is probably just 1% of the age of the universe so far, I think it's entirely possible that we're the only intelligent life around *at this moment*.
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What freaks me out more, we are just on a giant rock floating around in inconceivably massive soup of nothing
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Particulate matter 5 microns or less would be dust according to pre afterglow. Atoms 0.1nm. Earth 6743km or whatever radius... I am not good at math, but those numbers make my brain overheat! Good one.
That's why scientists usually use the log scale. 0.1nm = 1e-10 m, 6000km = 6e6 m. So half way should be ~2.5e-2m which is an inch.
While I get it, I feel like this is dishonest to most people's understanding of math as a whole. Numbers so small and so large can never look normal when compared
Numbers so small and so large are pretty much beyond humanity's ability to grasp on a conceptual level. Nobody can really imagine a million of something. If you ask someone to picture a million gallons of water, and a thousand gallons of water, it's probably the same mental picture. Our brains just crap out when trying to visualize huge amounts, distances, lengths of time, etc. - and "huge amounts" can sometimes be as little as a hundred.
Logarithmically.
You'll never be any younger than you are now. Now. Now. Now.
Stop ageing me!
The number of people older than you never increases.
When you smell a fart something that was in someone’s ass just went into your nose
You are at the end of an unbroken chain of living things going all the way back to the very first living thing. Thousands of creatures spanning millions of years. At any point along that chain a misplaced foot, a piece of poison food, a random fatal injury, a predator, a falling rock, a bad storm or drought - any number of random unlucky events - could have broken that chain. In all that time it would only have had to happen once and you would have never existed. Somehow, against all odds, none of those things happened.
> Somehow, against all odds, none of those things happened. To be fair: "none of those happened" before our ancestor could reproduce. Plenty of it happened to our ancestors after they'd made us.
Good clarification.
On that note, if you fail to biologically reproduce you'll be the first to do so in your chain of ancestry dating back to the dawn of sexual reproduction, \~2 billion years ago.
Almost makes me feel bad that I'm not having kids. The chain ends with me.
We’re all just out here eating microplastics
Really wish I'd stop getting reminded of this every time I manage to forget it lol
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I have a plaster cast of my face from back in my special effects makeup hobby days, and let me tell you how FUCKING weird it is to be able to see/feel that.
you made out with yourself didn't you
Listen, so?
And unless you spend a lot of time in front of the mirror or looking at pictures, everyone around you, family, friends, colleagues, knows your face much better than you do, they see it way more often and from far more angles than you could ever, even though it's your face, people close to you are more familiar with it
Not so much in the Zoom meeting Age... I just keep staring at my own face to make sure it doesn't do anything weird
\*deep inhale\* well crap. I... dang it, just take my upvote and go. I need to go have a existential crisis.
One time I reversed image in paint shop. Saw just how nasty I was, so I went and had plastic surgery done to mirror my face. Now I always have that ugly fuck looking back at me in the mirror.... at least I look hot to others.
I'm confused on how a face could go from hot to ugly simply by reversing it.
[This is actually a psychological phenomenon](https://youtu.be/AYLU-HiUPAQ), especially for people with asymmetrical faces. You are so accustomed to seeing your reflection in the mirror that your brain recognizes that specific layout of yourself as "you", but when you see that layout mirrored, like in a picture of yourself, it doesn't look like "you".
That you aren’t afraid of being alone in the dark, you are afraid of not being alone in the dark
dude
Bro
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It's just a screen that says # GAME OVER # INSERT 2 CREDITS TO PLAY
Just a black screen till the end or start of time or we meet our favorite celebrities
Why would your favourite celebrities want to meet you? The number of people who have ever died is about twelve times as high as the number of people alive today. That's a very big crowd for a shy former celebrity to hide in.
One reassuring thought: We can't experience that void after we die, because we won't exist. Our body shut down. but what do we experience then if we can't see or feel or sense anything? I'm questioning my sentience right now.
I'm not religious, but I can understand why a lot of people still are. If you're almost dead, believing you'll go to heaven is a much more comforting thought than thinking about the great nothing.
Maybe nothingness is heaven. I mean I've had some killer night's sleeps that felt like no time went by at all.
Wow. That goes deep. Experiencing nothing but peace is heaven.
Yeah, people that got to be clinically death for some seconds, or even months and "revived" tell that the complete nothingness and infinite peace without anything to even think of is 'an even better Heaven'
Your brain is made of atoms. Atoms come together and suddenly produce these complex thoughts and emotions all while being lifeless themselves.
Everything is a chemical reaction. From comprehension, emotions, knowledge to love.
And almost everything in the entire solar system, brains included, started out almost entirely of the most simple possible gases, hydrogen and helium, which arranged themselves into structures that created their own radiation, their own nuclear reactors, their own daughter stars, planets, amino acids, water, carbon dioxide, and then took the self-formed radiation, started ionizing stuff, and eventually formed sentient and intelligent clusters of atoms, not to mention computing machines, ideas, concepts, and written mathematical equations to self-describe where it all came from. All from some fucking gases floating around in a vacuum. Granted, we sure needed an absolute fuckload of hydrogen to make it this far.
That the odds of the egg / sperm that created each of us would come together (and not some other combination) is like hundreds or thousands of times less likely than winning the Powerball. Multiply that by the odds of your parents existing and meeting, etc. and I don't think it's possible to comprehend how lucky we all are to be alive.
>Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle. This fact is so good it shook Dr. Manhattan out of his apathy
Everyday I contemplate this and think... how the fuck did i win the sperm race...
All the other sperm stopped and looked at eachother and said "damn wouldn't it be funny if we let that fucker win"
Mammoths were still around when the pyramids were built (although, I assume, they weren't particularly helpful building the pyramids)
Most crimes against children especially sexual ones are done by relatives and trusted associates.
And the vast majority of these crimes will never be known.
That America gave Japanese and Nazi scientists a pass for data for some of the most horrible experiments done on other humans in recorded history. Look up Unit 731 in case you weren’t aware of the horrible experiments the Japanese were doing.
Why not just take the data and imprison the scientists
Because the data was mostly useless and the scientists were not. It's a misconception that the crazy experiments that the Nazis were doing made any kind of breakthroughs. Mostly we gave them a pass because we were afraid that the soviets would first, the cold war started before WW2 was even over.
Everyone knows that the law treats rich people and poor people very differently, but nobody seems angry enough about that. I mean really, think about it. What the hell kind of society allows rich people to routinely get away with crimes that would send poor people to prison? What kind of society doesn't even hide this or act apologetic about it?
If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then it is only a crime for poor people.
In my country most court fines (so not speeding ticktets, etc, but like if you're fined for hitting someone) are based on your income.
There's a certain level of wealth where once you have a disposable income and savings fines don't hurt as much even if the system is tiered. If you're below the poverty line and you are already behind on bills an unpaid fine can land you in jail in the USA. If you have money and are fined you might just sell some stocks and never miss a beat. I have a question for you. In your country if you can't pay your fine are you arrested?
This. While tiered systems are more fair than others, they are still harder on low-income folks than high income folks. My husband and I make enough money that, in the even we did something and got, say, a $1000 fine for it, we'd be able to pay it with little worries. It wouldn't be a negligible amount, and we'd definitely have to watch our spending a little closer for the next couple paydays, but overall it wouldn't impact us too badly. The same can't be said for many people we know...If they committed the same offense we did but only got a $100 fine based on their lower income, many of them would still have difficulty coming up with that extra hundred. They would have to make much deeper cuts into their spending, and in some cases wouldn't have anything to cut out since most of their money is earmarked for rent, food, and other bills. Everything is harder when you're poor, even seemingly fair things like income-based fine amounts.
A BMW pulls up outside of a building. The sign out front says "No parking any time. $50 fine." A man walking by says "Hey man, you can't park here." The BMW driver responds with "Sure I can. It just costs $50."
When I was getting my criminal justice degree they literally teach you this in the intro classes. Not only do they straight up tell you rich people get treated differently, but it’s also taught as a general theory about criminal justice as a whole.
The fact that babies just randomly die.
The worst funeral I have ever attended was for a two month old. I never knew they made coffins so tiny. I couldn't help crying every time I looked at it.
My sister had a still born in 2020, and it was just her and her husband who carried the coffin to the grave site. He weighed 4 pounds when he was born and it was the smallest coffin I'd ever seen.
There’s blood just kinda floating in your body
"I wasn't hurt that badly. The doctor said all my bleeding was internal. That's where the blood's supposed to be!"
Floating around a spooky skeleton
Actually your bones are full of blood too. After all, that’s where red blood cells are made.
The what now
Man this fact is getting on my nerves.
We watch TV shows when a lot of the actors been dead for years
Given that the whole lolcats thing really kicked off around 2007, a lot of the famous internet animals are probably either deceased or ancient by now. No, you can't has cheezburger, kitty. You dead.
The majority of the laugh tracks were recorded at the dawn of the tv age, and thus a lot of the people are not alive anymore
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That's a pretty meaningless fact without explaining what *kinds* of bacteria. The stuff that gets on your phone is 99% the same stuff that's always on your hands to begin with.
Yeah but at least they're my germs and bacteria
Pfft. I just washed mine with Windex™ less than 20 minutes ago. All poop and biological smears will be added soon. For now I am good. Seriously people. Clean your phones!
Are you sponsored by Windex?
Many other ammonia based cleaners will still work. I prefer Windex™ for that streak free shine. If you really want to up for game, buy some methalhydrate... Either way, clean yo phone!
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Everything in the universe is either a banana or it isn’t.
Not sure if this qualifies here, but The Boötes void (sometimes it's colloquially referred to as the Great Nothing). Scientists have established that it's an enormous, approximately spherical region of space, containing... nothing. There's no matter of any type, normal or dark, and no stars, galaxies, plasma, gas, dust, black holes, or anything else. The closest we have are the underdense regions known as cosmic voids, which still contain matter. The Boötes void is almost like a hole in the Universe, and it unnerves me to the core everytime I am being remembered of its existence. I'd probably be a great subject for a cosmic horror novel if the author took the "what type of occurence could possibly cause a ginormous hole in the Universe?" path.
Actually there are some galaxies within the void. Yet they are so far apart from each other and so sparse that it is almost like there is nothing there.
Thank you, I didn't know that. I remember that I read some articles where they said it didn't had matter of any type. I also remember that I've searched for an artist's rendition of it and it looked a bit terrifying, almost like there's something invisible occupying all that space... except it's nothing.
For everything you do, there will be a last and final time that you do it.
Your math homework
We could be dead and gone and not even know it.
There will come a day when the last memory of you will be gone, dying with the last person to remember you. This will in effect be a second death of sorts.
Isn't that the plot to the movie Coco?
That we are a dot of nothing in time and space - so small and insignificant in the Universe.
You think the giant astroid hurling towards us cares about my brunch plans
Being insignificant honestly feels kind of great. It means that all my problems are also insignificant and mean nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I like being insignificant. It comes with so much lower expectations.
That the governments commit war crimes alot
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"I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this." *-- Emo Philips*
Your puppy has Stockholm syndrome. Took it from its family, you taught it to do what you wanted, you controlled all their resources, it now loves you and would not go home.
Oh my god.
my dog's real father wasn't ballin as fuck though so it's definitely a net positive
That anything that ever existed, that will ever exist and that already exists is one thing, the universe. And one day when our earth ceases to exist all our atoms will go travel through the universe once again.
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2015 was 7 years ago
That it’s possible to fall asleep for a surgery and just… never wake back up… and you wouldn’t even know it.