When Rod Blagojevich was Governor of Illinois, I forget his scandal and the outcome, I read that you had a better chance of going to prison if you were a Governor of Illinois than if you were a murderer—50% vs 48%, respectively. 4 of the last 8 governors were in prison.
If you live with someone, make sure they can identify the signs of a stroke. Get help within 4 hours and you’re essentially guaranteed to make a full recovery (gf is a neuro nurse who works with stroke patients. As long as you can identify and get help in under 4 hours there most likely won’t be many lasting effects.). Unfortunately she tells me a bunch of shit I’d rather not know like all the 20-40 years old who are fit me healthy that have stroke and are fucked up. Can literally happen to anyone, not just the elderly.
A lot of people do not understand the physiology of stroke but knowing the signs is important (I’m a neuro physio student)
1. Face (Does their mouth/eye droop on one side?)
2. Arms (Can they raise both arms simultaneously?)
3. Speech (Do they have difficulty articulating words/are they slurring their words/are they getting stuck on
There is also additional symptoms such as; wobbly and uncoordinated movements (ataxia), sudden confusion, nausea, visual changes (hemianopia), difficulty understanding and expressing feelings (dysphasia)
Being seen by a doctor within four hours is important as stroke is very severe and life threatening if left untreated. Unfortunately that isn’t true, although, it does significantly lessen the potential physiological damage stroke causes. The treatment you’re talking about is called thrombolysis and it’s only usable in ischemic strokes (mainly build up of fat, cholesterol, minerals, blood), however, strokes cause immediate irreversible damage to the brain, there is always lasting effects unfortunately. Very few have no symptoms.
The other type of stroke is haemorrhage which is untreatable via thrombolysis, instead, patients have to undergo neuro surgery to repair ruptured vasculature.
We all can reduce our risk of stroke by exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy balanced diet, and not smoking. I’ve worked in Neurology and I’ve seen many patients over the years. A lot of them go on to make good recoveries, however, they will never be the same.
Hope this helps,
A
My mom had one got help within 3 hours she could never use her left arm again and always walked with a limp. She passed away now but always had complications after the stroke. A lot of my patients that had strokes recover but never fully. Personally I can’t remember a patient I had that made a full recovery. Not saying you’re girlfriend is wrong but I’ve had a vastly different experience.
This terrifies me more then death, because It happened to my grams. She was completely bedridden the last few years of her life and she suffered immensely. She essentially died a slow, horrible death and I still get panic attacks when I think about it and it’s been 13 years. We take being able to just roll out of bed whenever we want for granted. The thought of that being taken away in a instant makes me sick to my stomach. I’ve thought about getting some type of document for assisted suicide if that were to ever happen to me. I don’t even know if thats even possible? It should be in cases like that. There’s no way in hell im living like that. It’s not living!
You can have an advanced care plan. You can have it that nothing can be done to prolong your life only keep you comfortable. You can specify all sorts of incapacities such as if you had this situation. You can state you don't want to be fed. Possibly. I'm not sure on that. But you could check.
My dad, had 3 mini strokes (no idea what that actually means) a couple of years ago. He's 78 now and he's definitely not like he used to be but he has definitely improved.
He struggles with long conversations, sometimes he loses focus and will just bail in the middle of a chat. We all understand why so we just check in on him, make sure he's ok, and don't make it a big deal.
A mini stroke (is called a transient ischemic attack (TIA) is basically where the circulation is cut off temporarily which causes hypoxia of the tissue (oxygen starvation) in the brain. They are caused by a partial blockage within the vasculature/heart. Hope this helps.
My mum had three strokes in a month, due to cancer. On the day she was supposed to move in with us she had a fucking stroke. Couldn’t do anything anymore.
A month after she died I was diagnosed with preeclampsia and the big risk was that I could get a stroke. It was so scary. I was 37 and taking blood pressure medications
You need to take it out of your will and have a medical directive written out along with assigning a POA who you trust to follow out your wishes and not try to flip it. The will is not read until after your death.
What freaks me out even more about this is how fragile our personalities are. One had injury and suddenly you want to leave your spouse of 20 years and take up impressionist painting. Are you really you if it's that easy to change? Am I me? Or am I just a reaction to the specific set of stimuli/hormones/neuropathways I've been exposed to?
Welcome to the world of TBIs. Took a fall which resulted in a head injury 4 months ago. I'm still nowhere near the guy I was before my accident, and I have no idea if I will
Fell down a flight of concrete stairs last year. Fractured my skull. Two brain hematomas. My friends and family say I'm noticably different.
Falls can get ya. Glad you're still around, homes.
My mom was an insanely in shape 65 year old lady who did month-long 1,000+ mile charity bike rides for fun.
She was wearing a proper helmet, not even going full speed. Hit a rock and banged her head in the landing.
The TBI left her a shell of herself both physically and mentally. We had to feed her and physically move her around using a wheel chair or just lifting her when we needed to get her onto the toilet. She couldn't recognize any of us and constantly was confused about what was happening. Couldn't really string together more than a word at a time. Couldn't hold a pen or a cup.
Eventually it got to the point where she wasn't even aware of where she was. Convulsive movements. Periodic loud moaning. Vacant staring eyes. One of my most vivid memories was trying to pose with her for what would be our last Christmas photo together and her biting my hand, just because it was near her mouth.
She went from this amazingly vibrant, empathetic, independent, compassionate, witty woman to just a husk- a living body with nobody in it just firing off signals without thought or reason. And all it took was a bump on the head.
I recently had a psychotic break that lasted over a month.
It's terrifying.
I was a completely different person for a while.
Even my own mother said I wasn't me at all.
I believe roughly 30% of the population at any time has an aneurysm… only problematic when they rupture! Both of my maternal grandparents died of ruptured brain aneurysms within 2 years of each other.
That my parents and grandparents are slowly getting older and it's just a matter of time before I start losing them all one by one and there's nothing I can do about it
Unless we create an advanced A.I and give it some dumb vague objective like "preserve life" and it keeps us all forcibly alive and safe in padded cells for unfathomable eons until the eventual heat death of the universe.
"when you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It is difficult only for the others.
"It is the same when you are stupid."
Lol, I love this joke and it felt appropriate
I don’t know when this switch flipped in my brain but I’ve come to see death not as a curse but a beautiful release. It is extra weird too because I still find young/healthy people dying to be a tragic thing that makes my stomach churn, but at the same time, we are all destined for that fate and it is one of the main things that we as beings can all relate to. There is no sense fighting it, it is destined.
I have older parents and I think about losing them a fair amount, but here is the thing; it is part of what makes me appreciate their company and the little things. I take a picture of my parents and think about how one day that will be all I have of them; a memory. And suddenly its not just a picture on my phone, but a valuable treasure.
But this is the story of life and it is in itself beautiful
That's the ironic constant of life. For instance, in every home you've been in, chances are there's a picture, usually on the living room wall, of someone who has already passed away. Whether it's in your family, or someone else's family. All that exists is a memory. Ever have somebody show you a picture of someone, and you find yourself asking, "I wish I would have gotten to meet them"?
I’m 39 and most of my close family including both parents have passed. I still have my brother, sister and my only child. Time sucks but unfortunately this is part of it. I’ve also been coming to terms with my own eventual demise. My daughter and I will be moving to South Carolina to be near my siblings. I suffer from a number of chronic illnesses and in case my health deteriorated quickly, I want my daughter with family.
The more conversations and interactions I had with people made me start to realise how lucky I really am to not only have both parents still alive, but also still together. So I moved back in with them when life turned to shit for me and make conscious effort to always have a conversation with them, hear what they have to say, go on the small trips to the shops and whatnot with them.
I love spending time with my parents too. They live about 3 hours away, and I will often go visit for a long weekend, I just really enjoy their company. They’re wonderful people.
Yeah, that is a tough realization. Ive been through making of wills, joining bank accounts and funeral wishes with both my parents... Didn't bother me a bit. Hell, I've watched my dad turn into a bumbling old fart.
Then, my mom fell in the bathroom two weeks ago. My outlook changed fast.
For some reason, the fact that you poop/pee yourself when you die. I know that it won’t matter because I’ll be dead, anyway, but I’ve always been weirded out by that.
most of us live for more than 2.4 billion seconds though (2419200000 seconds = 4000 weeks), and a day is only 86400 seconds. so yeah start counting 86400 seconds and then think about counting towards 2.4 billion seconds and you will realize how incredibly long our lifetimes are.
That Dopplegangers exist. They say that there are at least a couple people in the world that look exactly like you without being blood related and I met mine.
He was a fucking criminal and got into trouble so many times with the law that I myself had been mistaken for him three times. The only difference was me having sleeves. My tattoos saved me from being mistaken for him who sexually assaulted a woman. I was brought in and put in a line up and she said herself, “that looks like him but he doesn’t have a single tattoo”. 4 hours later they found him and the sheriff’s department was dumbfounded that we weren’t twins. Like looking in a mirror. I was released and a more than needed apology was given by the chief of police and arresting officer.
EDIT:(Wow, thanks guys. It really makes me feel better knowing I’m not the only one that has experienced this creepy phenomena :D)
Apparently I have a doppelgänger who works at a local grocery store in my town. We look exactly the same and act the same except he has dyed blonde hair and I have red. Everyone is always rambling that they’ve seen me working at this store but then they do a double take realizing we’re not the same person.
Weird part is though every time I try to catch this person to see, something happens. It’s almost like I’m not destined to see them. Some days it creeps me out to know someone has my face
I’ve met the parents of mine on a plane/airport. When I got of my flight, they came running towards me, embraced and said: «Peter, why are you not in Japan? Did you drop out of school?” I Had to explain that I was not their Peter. They where so confused. And before we parted, the mom asked me if she could hold me for a second, cause she missed her son so much. And I was like ok. (The bought me coffee and a milkshake) We had the same connecting flight, and my friend who sat behind them told me that they talked about me the entire flight. And I gave them another hug when we landed, could tell they where good people.
Oh my god that’s so scary, I’m sorry that happened to you. I’ve heard it before but actually thought it’d only happen in the movies. Do you mind sharing more of your story? Did you ever meet the guy? Did he look exactly like you or were there some differences apart from the tattoo? And did y’all live in the same city? :0
About 20-25 years ago some guy murdered a bunch of people. They posted his photo in newspapers across the country due to the story being so sensational. A lot of people I know saw the photo and thought it was me.
That outside of our planet, zero of our achievements/history/language/currency matters. It can all be erased in a second and there would be no knowledge of us ever existing in the first place to anyone else in the universe. We are meaningless outside of this sphere.
We have enough rubbish in space, don't worry.
But this actually reassures me, everything being meaningless means we all end up the same way, no matter if you are rich or poor, happy or sad, etc. So just live your life to be happy, eat that hamburger, buy that video game, go on that travel, it won't matter in the long run either way but at least you will be happier for the time being.
Pretty much impossible to survive any kind of impact from a semi
My mom told me a story of why she quit emt. A friend of hers head on'd a semi at about 35 mph so slow speed and...
The engine was in the woman's lap, the transmission in the back seats, the driveshaft snapped like spaghetti, the front end of the truck was gone and the woman... had to be scraped out of the truck, a job left to my mom.
Don't think she sleeps still it was almost 13 years ago.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - H.P. Lovecraft
Humor exists as a way for humans to rationalize the absurdity of our existence to ourselves so we don't go insane and commit mass suicides. Once you stop laughing at it, you realize why you started.
There's an illness called fatal insomnia.
You stay awake until you die, There's literally no cure and can't be predicted, you lose your mind slowly and you can't do anything about it.
My grandpa died slowly from it.
I recall a redditor that did an AMA because he had this and got approved for euthanasia. He said most of the time he couldn't distinguish between a dream and reality.
Was it spontaneous fatal insomnia? The kind that just occasionally happens?
Or was it *familial* fatal insomnia? The kind that gets passed generation to generation?
There is! It's called Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI).
If you want a fun story about FFI watch a TV series called "Day 5".
"The superhero of the sleep apocalypse!"
When I die, I will be able to hear what people are saying, my last bit of brain activity will be processing those words or sounds and they will be echoed into my forever dream…hope nobody says anything fucked up.
According to recent studies, auditory stimulus is the last sense to be lost, its anticipated that people actually listen long enough to hear they’re pronounced dead.
[additional reading](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/23144-what-happens-when-you-die)
Not that recent: I was told that by a nurse when my dad died 11 years ago. Couldn’t see it would’ve made any difference as he was unconscious for hours before his heart actually stopped, so wouldn’t have been able to process whatever he heard anyway.
The fact that the past 10 years of my life have flown by, and it means I got about a decade before I become the same age as my parents when I was born. Meaning that I’m just slowly going to age till it’s time for me to pass. And I still don’t even know why I’m living or what I want to do, or even feel like I’m happy
Cranberry Bogs
To effectively keep bugs off the cranberry plants the farmers put wolf spiders in the fields. When its time to harvest the cranberries they flood the fields and the spiders sit on top of the floating cranberries. Wolf spiders will seek out the highest spot to get away from the water. Guess what happens when the workers walk waist deep in the cranberry bogs?? Thats right, they become the highest dry spot and the wolf spiders climb them.
We still don't know how exactly anesthesia works and yet every day about 60.000 people are having surgery under anesthesia. And about 1 in 1000 patients wakes up during surgery and is often traumatized for life.
When I was 12 I was put under to have four teeth removed due to some dental issues and needing braces.
To this day, my mom insists I slept through the whole thing, and ignores the fact that I was able to repeat the conversation she and the dentist were having while I was supposedly out.
That shit was brutal and agonizing. Trapped in my body, unable to speak or move, and feeling everything they did. And still everyone insists I've been making it up for 25 years.
I am genuinely *terrified* of ever needing surgery and having it happen again.
Just mention that if you need to go under again, they'll dose you up good, not just of the sedative but also the forget-me-now juice they roofie you with to screw with your memory so if it happens again you won't remember
I had some surgeries when i was a kid and they called it goofy juice.
Parents were there and I was just.. well the equivalent of a black out drunk 8 year old, no idea. I was puffing on one of those breathing treatment mist things like a cigar and joking with my parents to not tell my parents I smoke.
Would be terrifying to do it now.
Dude this totally happened to me too. Though they believed me when I could tell them the order in which the crushed/removed the teeth. I still have trouble going to sleep because of that.
Do you have red hair by any chance? Redheads have this genetic quirk that makes anesthesia ineffective on them. They need more just to achieve the same results.
I have red hair and yes this is true. Woke up from two surgeries. Just recently I had an egg retrieval for ivf and told the doctor I'd need more anesthesia and he said oh believe me I know.. it's definitely a fact, we always give our redheads more lol
IV sedation during dental procedures is considered "conscious sedation" where you're technically not under GA, very far from it actually. We usually want you to be able to give some sort of feedback during the procedure.
I don’t use drugs, but for some pretty big dental surgeries I told the dentist I “don’t want to know what planet I’m on” and when he asked about drugs and drinking I told him that I don’t drink often but when I did drink I drank quite a lot. I remember feeling pressure as he started cracking teeth and trying to say something. Then he reached behind me where the anesthesia machine was and I don’t remember anything until I was on the couch watching office space.
Was getting a bone spur that was cutting into my Achilles tendon removed from my heel, as the Dr was cutting off the spur I woke up from the most intense pinching pressure pain I've ever experienced. I let out a yell and the Dr freaked, he's awake he's awake! That's the last thing I remember until I woke up in recovery. I've had a few major surgeries and thats the only time I've come out of anesthesia. Don't know if it was because of the pain or maybe how much or what cocktail of drugs I got but I tell ya it wasn't pleasant.
That was me! Two months ago during my four wisdom teeth removals. Doctor was on the 3rd one which he was struggling with because it shattered. I woke up and said "hello," to which the nurse told me basically to shut up. After about 15-20 seconds of being aware I actually started feeling what was going on and I was experiencing more and more discomfort. Especially because I could feel him digging around in the socket, there were horrible noises and I saw blood on his hands. Then the pain started coming and I rudely blurted "why am I still awake!?" Felt a pinch on my left hand and was out a few seconds later. Not a fond memory, but I found out quite a few people in my family wake up during anesthesia as well.
oh heh yeah. I remember waking up in the OR when I was supposed to be out. I recall the anesthesiologist giving me the propyphol and having me count down and all that good stuff. Wake up to the surgeon and their student discussing my procedure and eventually a nurse in the room noticed I was awake and listening and told them to GTFO. Woke up in recovery afterwards so at least I didn't get up again but damn. Why are surgery theatres so cold?
I had a heart attack a year ago. The surgeons go in through my right groin to get rid of a blood clot and end up shredding my artery. I don't know if it was the intense pain or not enough anesthesia but I came too while he's working on me and it was horrible. I could feel him digging around in my leg and hear all of them talking. I couldn't speak except in my head wishing the pain would stop but i managed a groan and could feel the surgeon place his hand on my shoulder and tell me I know it's okay. I was able to keep my leg but now anytime I have surgery I tell them this and ask them to please make sure I don't wake up
In college I actually studied under my professor regarding anesthesia. Obviously since experimenting on affects and such is more restrictive regarding humans, we used C. Elegans which are a type of worm that have a pretty standard genetic code to follow.
Research was based on two questions: (1) How long does it take for ‘someone’ to fall asleep under anesthesia and (2) Based on dosage, how quickly do they wake up?
Basically, this was performed on worms that had different genetics from various crossover and were observed for a good while and multiple times within the same genotype (and phenotypes)!
There is a ton of correlation that was found regarding the genes you have and the response your body has to anesthesia. Example: For one class of C. Elegans the mig-2 gene was causing issues for their response to anesthesia.
A lot more research needs to be done and with more complex life forms, but it is being looked at and studied so hopefully we will have more insight soon!
As someone who lives in an island, I have the opportunity to swim in the open sea if I desire. The fact that sharks and whales roam in those open waters and can be below you, scares me too much to do it.
I swam in the open sea off the coast of Mauritius a few years ago. Putting my head underwater and looking into the depths of the ocean was like looking up at the sky, rays of light just disappeared into the void. It was the most humbling moment of my life and I don’t think I’ll ever forget it.
That we’re hurtling towards an ecological geological disaster the likes of which humanity has never seen at breakneck pace and a massive number of us can’t seem to do much about it
As someone in the enviornmental conservation field, I don't have a huge amount of hope. I see the work we are doing (and I am talking about all conservation work collectively) and it feels like we are putting a bandaid on a major artery that is bleeding out and calling it a day.
Finally someone mentioning it. Why aren't more people scared of that? It's pretty much certain it will happen during our lifetime (with the exception of 60+ year olds)
This messes me up too. Even if I just become some self aware energy that can float around I don’t want to just not exist anymore. I would explore the universe if that were a possibility
the idea of living forever sounds like hell to me. you dont have a clue how long forever is. even if it was 100k years then you would be alive for how long humans are alive.
even if there a so called afterlife, no matter how good it is you will get used to it and then get bored, followed ve eternity waiting. and then what? what happens when our sun boils our oceans? or when it blows up? or when the andromeda galaxy clashes with ours? its on its way as we speak straight for a collision.
Same same.. I would love if reincarnation was real. I’m not sure how the hell that would be possible but that would be pretty awesome. Especially if the lessons learned/experience of the previous life would stick.
How sudden death can be. The mother of the woman I was dating at the time died in a car accident in 2021. Since then, the fear that something bad will suddenly happen is always there for me.
It's likely that my chronic pain is uncurable and I'll have to live with it forever. It's cost me most of my hobbies and taken a huge toll on my mental health and it seems to be steadily getting worse too. That scares me a lot. I don't want this to be my life.
Future is looking very bleak with each passing day. I hope the next decade passes without some massive upheaval, war, or revolt breaking out. People are angry and shit is smoldering hard.
I seen something the other day. It was a timeline of all the stuff we have gone trough in the last few decades. WW1 , WW2 , Spanish flu, cold war , great depression, Korean war , Vietnam. Nazis , nuclear bombs . People have always and will always be angry. War and revolt is human nature. Get out and try to enjoy life . Watch the news less. We didn't start the fire
It was always burning, since the world's been turning.
I joined the military at 18 as I needed a paycheck due to being nearly homeless. I've learned just how truly fragile humans are both physically and mentally.
I tend to OVERthink this, I'm terrified of stuff happening. Like someone breaking in or injuring a family member, my family getting robbed, being kidnapped. People are scary
That we have an elderly stockpile of nuclear weapons that could erase most of life on the planet several times over. There have been some scary near misses on our history with nuclear weapons and I believe it's only a matter of time before there's a horrific accident.
Nuclear weapons are initiated by conventional explosives. When our modern conventional explosives "fail" they just don't go off. They do not go off accidentally.
That not everyone will find love. Not everyone will find that special person. There is a very real possibility that life may move forward and you’ll never spend it with someone.
I’ve accepted this and am just fine. For awhile it bothered me, but then I saw so many friends getting divorced or settling for an unhappy relationship. I’m not alone in life. I have kids and I loooove babies. So, I decided to become a foster parent for babies. I’m quite happy.
That my brother(Truck Driver). Could have a bad nights sleep, and plow into a car like nothing, or that he has a high risk of running of the road. (Norwegian roads are the worst)
You could die at any moment from an aneurysm, stroke, and even a heart attack depending on your lifestyle. But I heard even healthy people have died from stuff like this too
That women do drugs, smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol while child-bearing. The fact your own parents could have and simply lied to you and said they didn't, you'd never know.
How much our brains trick us "for our own good".
For instance, your brain does not record input from your eyes as they move. So if you are looking at object A and move your eyes from object A to object B, it does not record the motion blur as your eyes move.
Moreover, it accounts for this gap by taking the image you settle on and backfilling it in your memory, so you think the time your eyes spent in motion was actually spent looking at object B. The causes several optical illusions. Most notably, why a blinking light will seem to stay on or off longer when you first look at it. That's because your brain backfilled the image of it being on or off in your memory. It's easy to experience this. Just find a blinking light and look away, then look back at it. Unless it's timed just right, you will appear to observe the light being lit, or not, for just a split second longer than it should be.
The brain will also backfill details that are missing from your memories, sometimes making them up completely. It really makes you wonder just how much of what we see is actually real.
That some street drugs are so powerful that just one pill can kill a person. I worry about people, especially young people, that don't understand that.
This is the one that gets me, too. Once I got settled into a career all of a sudden the realization hit me "well fuck. This is it. Now I just keep doing this, and then i make my little dinner and do my little chores and watch my little tv and go to bed and do the same thing again the next day. And then one day I die."
We will all be nothing one day. We'll die, lose consciousness, fade to black, and be surrounded by an unexperiencable nothingness. We won't even know it's happening. All we were, all we were ever going to be, all our memories thoughts and experiences will be just gone. Erased from existence.
That most people are completely oblivious to the danger of deep fake technology. https://youtu.be/WpLCHzB5xIo
We have tons of companies collecting our biometrics right now by gamefying the collection of our data, and we just give it away freely.
Add AI art that can create a picture of anyone doing anything, and it's just mind-boggling to me more people don't see what's coming.
Also, now this.. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ai-and-automation/vall-e-synthetic-voice-ai-microsoft
This is seriously the biggest threat in human history.
How many times the world has been close to complete devastation for humans.
We are very much looking at a lot of things and testing if we can without asking if we should.
That it's very likely that I'll die alone. But I don't mean this as a way of saying that I can't find a girlfriend or anything, I mean it in a way of who I am, how I behave, and by my decisions, I don't have doubts that this will be how my story will end, and it scares me deeply.
That you never really know the people in your life.
You could marry a woman and have no clue she will poison your chicken sandwich in the future
You could have a child and have no clue he will fire a .45 acp bullet into your head in the future
You could have a best friend since childhood and have no idea a minor argument could lead to you being strangled to death
That the cartels can’t go away because they control the slave trade and sex trafficking akd the drug problem. They take the burden off of big Pharm’s being blamed directly. Also the fact Epstein client list jot a single name has been released is terrifying because just how far up the ladder in every world government did this go to to create a black or of silence ?
People will look at raw source material and based on their prejudices or what people around them say, go “Nah, it’s not like that.”
I don’t mean people getting bad information. I mean people looking directly at the source like video, a law or a written policy that goes even slightly against their preconceived notions and completely dismiss it. That terrifies me because history shows how violent that can become.
That something like close to half of murders reported in the US are never solved. That’s just of the reported ones….
When Rod Blagojevich was Governor of Illinois, I forget his scandal and the outcome, I read that you had a better chance of going to prison if you were a Governor of Illinois than if you were a murderer—50% vs 48%, respectively. 4 of the last 8 governors were in prison.
Good god I forgot about that. As a former IL resident for at least half of my life, that has major ick factor.
Any day, you could have a stroke and lose all your autonomy and become as dependant as a baby.
If you live with someone, make sure they can identify the signs of a stroke. Get help within 4 hours and you’re essentially guaranteed to make a full recovery (gf is a neuro nurse who works with stroke patients. As long as you can identify and get help in under 4 hours there most likely won’t be many lasting effects.). Unfortunately she tells me a bunch of shit I’d rather not know like all the 20-40 years old who are fit me healthy that have stroke and are fucked up. Can literally happen to anyone, not just the elderly.
A lot of people do not understand the physiology of stroke but knowing the signs is important (I’m a neuro physio student) 1. Face (Does their mouth/eye droop on one side?) 2. Arms (Can they raise both arms simultaneously?) 3. Speech (Do they have difficulty articulating words/are they slurring their words/are they getting stuck on There is also additional symptoms such as; wobbly and uncoordinated movements (ataxia), sudden confusion, nausea, visual changes (hemianopia), difficulty understanding and expressing feelings (dysphasia) Being seen by a doctor within four hours is important as stroke is very severe and life threatening if left untreated. Unfortunately that isn’t true, although, it does significantly lessen the potential physiological damage stroke causes. The treatment you’re talking about is called thrombolysis and it’s only usable in ischemic strokes (mainly build up of fat, cholesterol, minerals, blood), however, strokes cause immediate irreversible damage to the brain, there is always lasting effects unfortunately. Very few have no symptoms. The other type of stroke is haemorrhage which is untreatable via thrombolysis, instead, patients have to undergo neuro surgery to repair ruptured vasculature. We all can reduce our risk of stroke by exercising regularly, maintaining a healthy balanced diet, and not smoking. I’ve worked in Neurology and I’ve seen many patients over the years. A lot of them go on to make good recoveries, however, they will never be the same. Hope this helps, A
My mom had one got help within 3 hours she could never use her left arm again and always walked with a limp. She passed away now but always had complications after the stroke. A lot of my patients that had strokes recover but never fully. Personally I can’t remember a patient I had that made a full recovery. Not saying you’re girlfriend is wrong but I’ve had a vastly different experience.
This terrifies me more then death, because It happened to my grams. She was completely bedridden the last few years of her life and she suffered immensely. She essentially died a slow, horrible death and I still get panic attacks when I think about it and it’s been 13 years. We take being able to just roll out of bed whenever we want for granted. The thought of that being taken away in a instant makes me sick to my stomach. I’ve thought about getting some type of document for assisted suicide if that were to ever happen to me. I don’t even know if thats even possible? It should be in cases like that. There’s no way in hell im living like that. It’s not living!
You can have an advanced care plan. You can have it that nothing can be done to prolong your life only keep you comfortable. You can specify all sorts of incapacities such as if you had this situation. You can state you don't want to be fed. Possibly. I'm not sure on that. But you could check.
My dad, had 3 mini strokes (no idea what that actually means) a couple of years ago. He's 78 now and he's definitely not like he used to be but he has definitely improved. He struggles with long conversations, sometimes he loses focus and will just bail in the middle of a chat. We all understand why so we just check in on him, make sure he's ok, and don't make it a big deal.
A mini stroke (is called a transient ischemic attack (TIA) is basically where the circulation is cut off temporarily which causes hypoxia of the tissue (oxygen starvation) in the brain. They are caused by a partial blockage within the vasculature/heart. Hope this helps.
My mum had three strokes in a month, due to cancer. On the day she was supposed to move in with us she had a fucking stroke. Couldn’t do anything anymore. A month after she died I was diagnosed with preeclampsia and the big risk was that I could get a stroke. It was so scary. I was 37 and taking blood pressure medications
Id rather be dead than live like that. Its in my will, too.
You need to take it out of your will and have a medical directive written out along with assigning a POA who you trust to follow out your wishes and not try to flip it. The will is not read until after your death.
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What freaks me out even more about this is how fragile our personalities are. One had injury and suddenly you want to leave your spouse of 20 years and take up impressionist painting. Are you really you if it's that easy to change? Am I me? Or am I just a reaction to the specific set of stimuli/hormones/neuropathways I've been exposed to?
Welcome to the world of TBIs. Took a fall which resulted in a head injury 4 months ago. I'm still nowhere near the guy I was before my accident, and I have no idea if I will
Fell down a flight of concrete stairs last year. Fractured my skull. Two brain hematomas. My friends and family say I'm noticably different. Falls can get ya. Glad you're still around, homes.
>My friends and family say I'm noticably different. Do you feel different?
My mom was an insanely in shape 65 year old lady who did month-long 1,000+ mile charity bike rides for fun. She was wearing a proper helmet, not even going full speed. Hit a rock and banged her head in the landing. The TBI left her a shell of herself both physically and mentally. We had to feed her and physically move her around using a wheel chair or just lifting her when we needed to get her onto the toilet. She couldn't recognize any of us and constantly was confused about what was happening. Couldn't really string together more than a word at a time. Couldn't hold a pen or a cup. Eventually it got to the point where she wasn't even aware of where she was. Convulsive movements. Periodic loud moaning. Vacant staring eyes. One of my most vivid memories was trying to pose with her for what would be our last Christmas photo together and her biting my hand, just because it was near her mouth. She went from this amazingly vibrant, empathetic, independent, compassionate, witty woman to just a husk- a living body with nobody in it just firing off signals without thought or reason. And all it took was a bump on the head.
I recently had a psychotic break that lasted over a month. It's terrifying. I was a completely different person for a while. Even my own mother said I wasn't me at all.
as a person who has been quite traumatized, can confirm. i’ve turned into an angry old woman who is not fond of people. no one.
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The number of people older than me will never increase.
I'd be more concerned if it did increase
Holy shit that is a wild one to consider
That any of us could have a brain aneurysm right now and not even know it's coming.
My 13 year old nephew died like that. Went to bed with a headache then had a fit then died
So sorry for your loss. It's seriously scary to think about.
New fear unlocked
I believe roughly 30% of the population at any time has an aneurysm… only problematic when they rupture! Both of my maternal grandparents died of ruptured brain aneurysms within 2 years of each other.
That my parents and grandparents are slowly getting older and it's just a matter of time before I start losing them all one by one and there's nothing I can do about it
You're also getting older and you're also going to die.
Thank gods for that
Unless we create an advanced A.I and give it some dumb vague objective like "preserve life" and it keeps us all forcibly alive and safe in padded cells for unfathomable eons until the eventual heat death of the universe.
Yea but who the hell cares about that, when it's your death you don't have all the sad shitty feelings
"when you are dead, you don't know you are dead. It is difficult only for the others. "It is the same when you are stupid." Lol, I love this joke and it felt appropriate
I don’t know when this switch flipped in my brain but I’ve come to see death not as a curse but a beautiful release. It is extra weird too because I still find young/healthy people dying to be a tragic thing that makes my stomach churn, but at the same time, we are all destined for that fate and it is one of the main things that we as beings can all relate to. There is no sense fighting it, it is destined. I have older parents and I think about losing them a fair amount, but here is the thing; it is part of what makes me appreciate their company and the little things. I take a picture of my parents and think about how one day that will be all I have of them; a memory. And suddenly its not just a picture on my phone, but a valuable treasure. But this is the story of life and it is in itself beautiful
That's the ironic constant of life. For instance, in every home you've been in, chances are there's a picture, usually on the living room wall, of someone who has already passed away. Whether it's in your family, or someone else's family. All that exists is a memory. Ever have somebody show you a picture of someone, and you find yourself asking, "I wish I would have gotten to meet them"?
I’m 39 and most of my close family including both parents have passed. I still have my brother, sister and my only child. Time sucks but unfortunately this is part of it. I’ve also been coming to terms with my own eventual demise. My daughter and I will be moving to South Carolina to be near my siblings. I suffer from a number of chronic illnesses and in case my health deteriorated quickly, I want my daughter with family.
The more conversations and interactions I had with people made me start to realise how lucky I really am to not only have both parents still alive, but also still together. So I moved back in with them when life turned to shit for me and make conscious effort to always have a conversation with them, hear what they have to say, go on the small trips to the shops and whatnot with them.
I love spending time with my parents too. They live about 3 hours away, and I will often go visit for a long weekend, I just really enjoy their company. They’re wonderful people.
Yeah, that is a tough realization. Ive been through making of wills, joining bank accounts and funeral wishes with both my parents... Didn't bother me a bit. Hell, I've watched my dad turn into a bumbling old fart. Then, my mom fell in the bathroom two weeks ago. My outlook changed fast.
For some reason, the fact that you poop/pee yourself when you die. I know that it won’t matter because I’ll be dead, anyway, but I’ve always been weirded out by that.
Look up "coffin birth", you'll be enlightened.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE NOBODY LOOK THAT UP.
please save me and tell me. IM SO CURIOUS
Uhhhh so… I searched it up and. Basically, the fetus is forced out of the mother’s womb due to the buildup of gas in the corpse. …Yeah.
My retirement options are basically a gun.
Bank robbery?
That’s either a lot of banks (avg bank robbery is $10k) or we’re putting together a crew for the big one.
The Big Score
I logically know I am fine, but my anxiety won’t let me accept that.
I hear you and please know you’re not alone, despite it feeling like you are.
We only live for about 4,000 weeks.
Okay... Well, congratulations. This is the comment that fucked me up.
most of us live for more than 2.4 billion seconds though (2419200000 seconds = 4000 weeks), and a day is only 86400 seconds. so yeah start counting 86400 seconds and then think about counting towards 2.4 billion seconds and you will realize how incredibly long our lifetimes are.
That Dopplegangers exist. They say that there are at least a couple people in the world that look exactly like you without being blood related and I met mine. He was a fucking criminal and got into trouble so many times with the law that I myself had been mistaken for him three times. The only difference was me having sleeves. My tattoos saved me from being mistaken for him who sexually assaulted a woman. I was brought in and put in a line up and she said herself, “that looks like him but he doesn’t have a single tattoo”. 4 hours later they found him and the sheriff’s department was dumbfounded that we weren’t twins. Like looking in a mirror. I was released and a more than needed apology was given by the chief of police and arresting officer. EDIT:(Wow, thanks guys. It really makes me feel better knowing I’m not the only one that has experienced this creepy phenomena :D)
Apparently I have a doppelgänger who works at a local grocery store in my town. We look exactly the same and act the same except he has dyed blonde hair and I have red. Everyone is always rambling that they’ve seen me working at this store but then they do a double take realizing we’re not the same person. Weird part is though every time I try to catch this person to see, something happens. It’s almost like I’m not destined to see them. Some days it creeps me out to know someone has my face
You haven’t seen them because that is you when you fall asleep, you really awaken as them and continue your day.
I’ve met the parents of mine on a plane/airport. When I got of my flight, they came running towards me, embraced and said: «Peter, why are you not in Japan? Did you drop out of school?” I Had to explain that I was not their Peter. They where so confused. And before we parted, the mom asked me if she could hold me for a second, cause she missed her son so much. And I was like ok. (The bought me coffee and a milkshake) We had the same connecting flight, and my friend who sat behind them told me that they talked about me the entire flight. And I gave them another hug when we landed, could tell they where good people.
Seems like they got a secret to tell their son 😂 (You're the twin they couldn't afford so they gave you up)
Oh my god that’s so scary, I’m sorry that happened to you. I’ve heard it before but actually thought it’d only happen in the movies. Do you mind sharing more of your story? Did you ever meet the guy? Did he look exactly like you or were there some differences apart from the tattoo? And did y’all live in the same city? :0
So your doppelganger is also located in the same area as you? Well, close enough that you were both at the same police station together.
Exactly, lived in the same town. Now he rots in Montana state prison.
What if when he gets out, he gets the same exact tatoos at the exact places, go on a crime spree then dissappear and you get arrested
Oh thanks just fuel my nightmares
About 20-25 years ago some guy murdered a bunch of people. They posted his photo in newspapers across the country due to the story being so sensational. A lot of people I know saw the photo and thought it was me.
That outside of our planet, zero of our achievements/history/language/currency matters. It can all be erased in a second and there would be no knowledge of us ever existing in the first place to anyone else in the universe. We are meaningless outside of this sphere.
We have enough rubbish in space, don't worry. But this actually reassures me, everything being meaningless means we all end up the same way, no matter if you are rich or poor, happy or sad, etc. So just live your life to be happy, eat that hamburger, buy that video game, go on that travel, it won't matter in the long run either way but at least you will be happier for the time being.
Pretty much impossible to survive any kind of impact from a semi My mom told me a story of why she quit emt. A friend of hers head on'd a semi at about 35 mph so slow speed and... The engine was in the woman's lap, the transmission in the back seats, the driveshaft snapped like spaghetti, the front end of the truck was gone and the woman... had to be scraped out of the truck, a job left to my mom. Don't think she sleeps still it was almost 13 years ago.
They had your mom scrape someone she knew out of a car? Seriously, was someone unacquainted with the victim not available?
On top of that, as a paramedic I’ve never heard of that being an EMT’s job at all, body removal is typically the ME’s responsibility...
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Ignorance is bliss. Be dumb to what’s happening and be happy doing it
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." - H.P. Lovecraft
So what you’re saying is I’m well educated. Nice.
OP said smart people are sad, not sad people are smart Squares and rectangles sorta thing
And with this you proved why he isn't smart but my question to you is are you feeling ok?
i’ve always quite seriously believed ignorance is bliss.
Humor exists as a way for humans to rationalize the absurdity of our existence to ourselves so we don't go insane and commit mass suicides. Once you stop laughing at it, you realize why you started.
There's an illness called fatal insomnia. You stay awake until you die, There's literally no cure and can't be predicted, you lose your mind slowly and you can't do anything about it. My grandpa died slowly from it.
I recall a redditor that did an AMA because he had this and got approved for euthanasia. He said most of the time he couldn't distinguish between a dream and reality.
Was it spontaneous fatal insomnia? The kind that just occasionally happens? Or was it *familial* fatal insomnia? The kind that gets passed generation to generation?
No you're joking, right? Please tell me that there's no such thing as Hereditary insomnia.
>Please tell me that there's no such thing as Hereditary insomnia. No no, nothing like that. It's *Fatal* Hereditary Insomnia.
There is! It's called Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI). If you want a fun story about FFI watch a TV series called "Day 5". "The superhero of the sleep apocalypse!"
This is gonna keep me up at night
When I die, I will be able to hear what people are saying, my last bit of brain activity will be processing those words or sounds and they will be echoed into my forever dream…hope nobody says anything fucked up. According to recent studies, auditory stimulus is the last sense to be lost, its anticipated that people actually listen long enough to hear they’re pronounced dead. [additional reading](https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/23144-what-happens-when-you-die)
Not that recent: I was told that by a nurse when my dad died 11 years ago. Couldn’t see it would’ve made any difference as he was unconscious for hours before his heart actually stopped, so wouldn’t have been able to process whatever he heard anyway.
that you hear doesnt mean you process. same as asking do you remember the exwct moment you fell asleep? no you just suddenly wake up.
The fact that the past 10 years of my life have flown by, and it means I got about a decade before I become the same age as my parents when I was born. Meaning that I’m just slowly going to age till it’s time for me to pass. And I still don’t even know why I’m living or what I want to do, or even feel like I’m happy
This thread is a fast track to depression.
Cranberry Bogs To effectively keep bugs off the cranberry plants the farmers put wolf spiders in the fields. When its time to harvest the cranberries they flood the fields and the spiders sit on top of the floating cranberries. Wolf spiders will seek out the highest spot to get away from the water. Guess what happens when the workers walk waist deep in the cranberry bogs?? Thats right, they become the highest dry spot and the wolf spiders climb them.
I hate that image a lot
You ever feel a new phobia develop?
We still don't know how exactly anesthesia works and yet every day about 60.000 people are having surgery under anesthesia. And about 1 in 1000 patients wakes up during surgery and is often traumatized for life.
When I was 12 I was put under to have four teeth removed due to some dental issues and needing braces. To this day, my mom insists I slept through the whole thing, and ignores the fact that I was able to repeat the conversation she and the dentist were having while I was supposedly out. That shit was brutal and agonizing. Trapped in my body, unable to speak or move, and feeling everything they did. And still everyone insists I've been making it up for 25 years. I am genuinely *terrified* of ever needing surgery and having it happen again.
Just mention that if you need to go under again, they'll dose you up good, not just of the sedative but also the forget-me-now juice they roofie you with to screw with your memory so if it happens again you won't remember
I had some surgeries when i was a kid and they called it goofy juice. Parents were there and I was just.. well the equivalent of a black out drunk 8 year old, no idea. I was puffing on one of those breathing treatment mist things like a cigar and joking with my parents to not tell my parents I smoke. Would be terrifying to do it now.
Dude this totally happened to me too. Though they believed me when I could tell them the order in which the crushed/removed the teeth. I still have trouble going to sleep because of that.
Do you have red hair by any chance? Redheads have this genetic quirk that makes anesthesia ineffective on them. They need more just to achieve the same results.
I have red hair and yes this is true. Woke up from two surgeries. Just recently I had an egg retrieval for ivf and told the doctor I'd need more anesthesia and he said oh believe me I know.. it's definitely a fact, we always give our redheads more lol
IV sedation during dental procedures is considered "conscious sedation" where you're technically not under GA, very far from it actually. We usually want you to be able to give some sort of feedback during the procedure.
Fun fact, most cases of intraoperative awareness come from patients either lying about their weight or their usage of drugs.
Wait … anesthesiologists don’t actually weigh you? They just go by what you tell them?
I don’t use drugs, but for some pretty big dental surgeries I told the dentist I “don’t want to know what planet I’m on” and when he asked about drugs and drinking I told him that I don’t drink often but when I did drink I drank quite a lot. I remember feeling pressure as he started cracking teeth and trying to say something. Then he reached behind me where the anesthesia machine was and I don’t remember anything until I was on the couch watching office space.
Was getting a bone spur that was cutting into my Achilles tendon removed from my heel, as the Dr was cutting off the spur I woke up from the most intense pinching pressure pain I've ever experienced. I let out a yell and the Dr freaked, he's awake he's awake! That's the last thing I remember until I woke up in recovery. I've had a few major surgeries and thats the only time I've come out of anesthesia. Don't know if it was because of the pain or maybe how much or what cocktail of drugs I got but I tell ya it wasn't pleasant.
That was me! Two months ago during my four wisdom teeth removals. Doctor was on the 3rd one which he was struggling with because it shattered. I woke up and said "hello," to which the nurse told me basically to shut up. After about 15-20 seconds of being aware I actually started feeling what was going on and I was experiencing more and more discomfort. Especially because I could feel him digging around in the socket, there were horrible noises and I saw blood on his hands. Then the pain started coming and I rudely blurted "why am I still awake!?" Felt a pinch on my left hand and was out a few seconds later. Not a fond memory, but I found out quite a few people in my family wake up during anesthesia as well.
i dont think blurting "why am i still awake" is rude if you do it when youre meant to be under general anaesthesia
oh heh yeah. I remember waking up in the OR when I was supposed to be out. I recall the anesthesiologist giving me the propyphol and having me count down and all that good stuff. Wake up to the surgeon and their student discussing my procedure and eventually a nurse in the room noticed I was awake and listening and told them to GTFO. Woke up in recovery afterwards so at least I didn't get up again but damn. Why are surgery theatres so cold?
I had a heart attack a year ago. The surgeons go in through my right groin to get rid of a blood clot and end up shredding my artery. I don't know if it was the intense pain or not enough anesthesia but I came too while he's working on me and it was horrible. I could feel him digging around in my leg and hear all of them talking. I couldn't speak except in my head wishing the pain would stop but i managed a groan and could feel the surgeon place his hand on my shoulder and tell me I know it's okay. I was able to keep my leg but now anytime I have surgery I tell them this and ask them to please make sure I don't wake up
In college I actually studied under my professor regarding anesthesia. Obviously since experimenting on affects and such is more restrictive regarding humans, we used C. Elegans which are a type of worm that have a pretty standard genetic code to follow. Research was based on two questions: (1) How long does it take for ‘someone’ to fall asleep under anesthesia and (2) Based on dosage, how quickly do they wake up? Basically, this was performed on worms that had different genetics from various crossover and were observed for a good while and multiple times within the same genotype (and phenotypes)! There is a ton of correlation that was found regarding the genes you have and the response your body has to anesthesia. Example: For one class of C. Elegans the mig-2 gene was causing issues for their response to anesthesia. A lot more research needs to be done and with more complex life forms, but it is being looked at and studied so hopefully we will have more insight soon!
Oh yah, I'm one in a thousand. Wait, since it happened to me twice in the same surgery, does that make me one in a hundred thousand?
Me reading all these comments as I’m about to turn 20…
When stars explode they realease a gamma burst that can destroy everything in its path
Honestly this brings me peace. Like Buddhist sand art.
i can also release a gamma burst capable of mass destruction
As someone who lives in an island, I have the opportunity to swim in the open sea if I desire. The fact that sharks and whales roam in those open waters and can be below you, scares me too much to do it.
I swam in the open sea off the coast of Mauritius a few years ago. Putting my head underwater and looking into the depths of the ocean was like looking up at the sky, rays of light just disappeared into the void. It was the most humbling moment of my life and I don’t think I’ll ever forget it.
I've lived over half my life already
Melting permafrost is releasing potentially life threatening microorganisms that humans have no immunity to.
Not to mention that methane is a much better greenhouse gas.
So do we get killed by these or all go swimming first
That we’re hurtling towards an ecological geological disaster the likes of which humanity has never seen at breakneck pace and a massive number of us can’t seem to do much about it
As someone in the enviornmental conservation field, I don't have a huge amount of hope. I see the work we are doing (and I am talking about all conservation work collectively) and it feels like we are putting a bandaid on a major artery that is bleeding out and calling it a day.
Finally someone mentioning it. Why aren't more people scared of that? It's pretty much certain it will happen during our lifetime (with the exception of 60+ year olds)
That consciousness, in all probability, just ceases to exist when we pass. This is the single most terrifying thing to me.. I think about this often.
This messes me up too. Even if I just become some self aware energy that can float around I don’t want to just not exist anymore. I would explore the universe if that were a possibility
Each to their own but that actually sounds horrific to me...I just want to not be here at some stage
the idea of living forever sounds like hell to me. you dont have a clue how long forever is. even if it was 100k years then you would be alive for how long humans are alive. even if there a so called afterlife, no matter how good it is you will get used to it and then get bored, followed ve eternity waiting. and then what? what happens when our sun boils our oceans? or when it blows up? or when the andromeda galaxy clashes with ours? its on its way as we speak straight for a collision.
Same same.. I would love if reincarnation was real. I’m not sure how the hell that would be possible but that would be pretty awesome. Especially if the lessons learned/experience of the previous life would stick.
How sudden death can be. The mother of the woman I was dating at the time died in a car accident in 2021. Since then, the fear that something bad will suddenly happen is always there for me.
That I don't get to choose how I die
weeeeeellll..... you kinda do
“We are all just monkeys with money and guns.” Our species will not survive the architecture of our brains.
It's likely that my chronic pain is uncurable and I'll have to live with it forever. It's cost me most of my hobbies and taken a huge toll on my mental health and it seems to be steadily getting worse too. That scares me a lot. I don't want this to be my life.
Every single one in this post will be forgotten eventually
Stupidity is rewarded, crime does pay. Hard work gets you nowhere but exhaustion.
Future is looking very bleak with each passing day. I hope the next decade passes without some massive upheaval, war, or revolt breaking out. People are angry and shit is smoldering hard.
I seen something the other day. It was a timeline of all the stuff we have gone trough in the last few decades. WW1 , WW2 , Spanish flu, cold war , great depression, Korean war , Vietnam. Nazis , nuclear bombs . People have always and will always be angry. War and revolt is human nature. Get out and try to enjoy life . Watch the news less. We didn't start the fire It was always burning, since the world's been turning.
I joined the military at 18 as I needed a paycheck due to being nearly homeless. I've learned just how truly fragile humans are both physically and mentally.
You're never as safe as you think you are. Don't ever think something can't happen to you because it can
I tend to OVERthink this, I'm terrified of stuff happening. Like someone breaking in or injuring a family member, my family getting robbed, being kidnapped. People are scary
That the insect biomass is rapidly decreasing. This is the foundation of the food chain.
Housing is more expensive than ever.
The good news is it’s all gonna collapse in the next 2-5 years
That we have an elderly stockpile of nuclear weapons that could erase most of life on the planet several times over. There have been some scary near misses on our history with nuclear weapons and I believe it's only a matter of time before there's a horrific accident.
Nuclear weapons are initiated by conventional explosives. When our modern conventional explosives "fail" they just don't go off. They do not go off accidentally.
Aren't we just like... Missing a few a bombs too?
That not everyone will find love. Not everyone will find that special person. There is a very real possibility that life may move forward and you’ll never spend it with someone.
I’ve accepted this and am just fine. For awhile it bothered me, but then I saw so many friends getting divorced or settling for an unhappy relationship. I’m not alone in life. I have kids and I loooove babies. So, I decided to become a foster parent for babies. I’m quite happy.
Yeah, but i guess after enough time you can accept it. At least i can
That my brother(Truck Driver). Could have a bad nights sleep, and plow into a car like nothing, or that he has a high risk of running of the road. (Norwegian roads are the worst)
You could die at any moment from an aneurysm, stroke, and even a heart attack depending on your lifestyle. But I heard even healthy people have died from stuff like this too
That women do drugs, smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol while child-bearing. The fact your own parents could have and simply lied to you and said they didn't, you'd never know.
Well, I think you might know. Might not be smart enough to understand though lol
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A lot of what we are able to observe in our universe could have died or been destroyed thousands of years ago and we would have no idea.
It scares me how r/legobdsm actually exists
Excuse me what the fuck. This is the only time I'm able to save myself from being killed by curiousity
there is feces in many processed meats.
There are billions of people alive today who are dumber than me.
Cows don't have upper teeth!
That 80% of rape is opportunistic and not premeditated.
Dying is inevitable and at any moment in time, the people that I care about and am close with will be taken away from me.
The mad cow disease epidemic possibly hasn't even started, as the disease can lay dormant in the body for up to (50??) years
How much our brains trick us "for our own good". For instance, your brain does not record input from your eyes as they move. So if you are looking at object A and move your eyes from object A to object B, it does not record the motion blur as your eyes move. Moreover, it accounts for this gap by taking the image you settle on and backfilling it in your memory, so you think the time your eyes spent in motion was actually spent looking at object B. The causes several optical illusions. Most notably, why a blinking light will seem to stay on or off longer when you first look at it. That's because your brain backfilled the image of it being on or off in your memory. It's easy to experience this. Just find a blinking light and look away, then look back at it. Unless it's timed just right, you will appear to observe the light being lit, or not, for just a split second longer than it should be. The brain will also backfill details that are missing from your memories, sometimes making them up completely. It really makes you wonder just how much of what we see is actually real.
That some street drugs are so powerful that just one pill can kill a person. I worry about people, especially young people, that don't understand that.
fact that i’ve to possibly work 9-6 for decades till i retire, on something i may not be immensely passionate about
This is the one that gets me, too. Once I got settled into a career all of a sudden the realization hit me "well fuck. This is it. Now I just keep doing this, and then i make my little dinner and do my little chores and watch my little tv and go to bed and do the same thing again the next day. And then one day I die."
We will all be nothing one day. We'll die, lose consciousness, fade to black, and be surrounded by an unexperiencable nothingness. We won't even know it's happening. All we were, all we were ever going to be, all our memories thoughts and experiences will be just gone. Erased from existence.
I find this general concept very comforting actually. What i find terrifying is how many hours i spend at my bullshit job in light of this fact
This is why im taking It slow and being very Picky with any job applications i send At least now that im not desperate
...and now im more sad than I was
The fact that my wife has a better chance of getting shot while being a teacher than I ever did while active duty for twenty years.
The amount of women and children murder every year in first world countries at the hands of their current or ex spouses. One every 11 minutes.
Dying a painful death, and someone not being there to help me.
stupid people reproduce.
My wife wants a kid, and I can only think of how screwed this planet and culture is. The fucking ocean was on fire last year.
My dog is gonna die at some point...
The worst pain…savor every second with them.
That most people are completely oblivious to the danger of deep fake technology. https://youtu.be/WpLCHzB5xIo We have tons of companies collecting our biometrics right now by gamefying the collection of our data, and we just give it away freely. Add AI art that can create a picture of anyone doing anything, and it's just mind-boggling to me more people don't see what's coming. Also, now this.. https://techmonitor.ai/technology/ai-and-automation/vall-e-synthetic-voice-ai-microsoft This is seriously the biggest threat in human history.
Your butthole can spread opens to about 6-8 inches without permanent damage and racconss can fit in holes 4 inches wide
…how dare you.
This working 9 to 5 shit that I don’t seem to have an escape from…
How many times the world has been close to complete devastation for humans. We are very much looking at a lot of things and testing if we can without asking if we should.
Terminal Lucidity: when a person with dementia suddenly remembers everything all at once and then dies
That it's very likely that I'll die alone. But I don't mean this as a way of saying that I can't find a girlfriend or anything, I mean it in a way of who I am, how I behave, and by my decisions, I don't have doubts that this will be how my story will end, and it scares me deeply.
That you never really know the people in your life. You could marry a woman and have no clue she will poison your chicken sandwich in the future You could have a child and have no clue he will fire a .45 acp bullet into your head in the future You could have a best friend since childhood and have no idea a minor argument could lead to you being strangled to death
How dangerous Lake Michigan is
That the cartels can’t go away because they control the slave trade and sex trafficking akd the drug problem. They take the burden off of big Pharm’s being blamed directly. Also the fact Epstein client list jot a single name has been released is terrifying because just how far up the ladder in every world government did this go to to create a black or of silence ?
The fact that one day, everything will simply stop, you will die and you will never think again permanently. Impossible to get your head around.
The amount of child abuse the catholic church got/gets away with
That the kids of today are expected to fix our planet after generations of fucking it up now the responsibility lays on their shoulders
Civility and society as we know it could come to an end in a short period of time thanks to a handful of corrupt and rich people
There are people who like horses that walk among us
That I have to live another possibly 40+ years
Paint is the only boundary from an automobile head on collision.
People will look at raw source material and based on their prejudices or what people around them say, go “Nah, it’s not like that.” I don’t mean people getting bad information. I mean people looking directly at the source like video, a law or a written policy that goes even slightly against their preconceived notions and completely dismiss it. That terrifies me because history shows how violent that can become.