What a human body looks like after being dead for 5 days in the July heat in an apartment with no air conditioning. The smell is also something I wouldn't wish on anyone either. Even worse, actually knowing and liking the deceased.
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My brother works at a funeral home and I hear stories about stuff like that all the time. Not much specific about the appearance (because we make him shut up, but even just the general bits are usually gruesome enough.
A single tick bite can lead to you becoming allergic to meat for the rest of your life.
One of my mentors in a trade got a tick bite in 82', and for years couldn't stand or walk, or fully close his hands. Never again could he fully close his hands, having to hold hammers and chisels with his thumbs only, making them extremely exhausting to use.
The nerve damage is still getting worse, and now his only goal is to wrap up all his final projects before he physically can't use his hands at all anymore.
They scare the shit outta me
The scary part about this is that he likely has zero actual support from any kinds of disability, because chronic Lyme disease isnβt officially recognized in the medical world. Or rather, they recognize that there is a correlation between Lyme and long-term impairment, but they have no treatment nor palliatives for it. So they just sort of say βdeal with it. Most people can return to work after a few weeks, so you can too.β
Sort of like how long COVID affected (and still continues to affect) a sizable part of the population, but government disability in America didnβt recognize it as official so patients with long COVID had to keep going to work even when they were dealing with debilitating long-term symptoms.
I have several friends with this syndrome. Has led to them introducing me to some fine vegan cheeses!
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So about this basilisk...
I've legitimately had people use Pascal's wager and then say that the basilisk is nonsense. So I guess you could include Christianity in this too.
Man, in the showerthoughts community I saw someone independently invent Roko's Basilisk from the AI data center craze. They're inventing the fucking verification can torment nexus.
βTo know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely.β
- Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
The easiest primary explosive to synthesise at home is HMDT (Hexamethylene triperoxide diamine) The second easiest is TATP (Acetone Peroxide).
Knowing what organic mercury does to the body and brain, and how miniscule an amount is required, and how easily it gets into the body
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There are some atrocious actions people have done to other people and themselves that I wish I could unlearn. Not just the genocides, slavery, and mass rapes across history and currently but the individual stuff like what happened to Furuta Junko (nsfl). I used to think learning about the more morbid nature of humanity would be helpful to understand but it's hard not to become cynical or misanthropic after learning about some of the worst stuff.
Mm hmm
1 guy 1 jar (nsfl)
The jar doesn't make it.
Doooo NOT watch it.
My brother-in-law sent it to me maybe 20 years ago now and every horrible moment of it is still there making me flinch and pain.
The code for the nuclear weapon is 3144
Kinks are hereditary.
Interesting. Do you have a source?
Your mum, apparently.
Duck penises.
If you know, you know.
If you dont, it's probably better off.
Unfortunately I do T_T
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