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if they see you it is already too late what is a horrifying fact that shouldn't be true a lone pilot was flying in australia in 1978. he reported to air traffic control that he was accompanied by an aircraft above him when asked to identify the aircraft he replied it is in an aircraft his plane disappeared and was never to be found again the uncanny valley the mere existence of us having this got aversion to things that aren't quite human it means there may have been something that existed alongside early humans that looked much like us but were incredibly dangerous we don't know what they were or if they're really gone or if they really existed at all and we just inherited some form of psychosis in just one kiss over 80 million bacteria are exchanged i've tried to use this as a pick-up line before it does not work if you get water between your contact lens and your eye and don't clean it for a long period of time there's a chance some form of bacteria can get into your eye and will eat away your vision until it's gone apparently doctors won't know if it's there until it's too late as well always use solution folks testicular torsion can happen at any time while standing sleeping exercising or sitting and with no apparent trigger it occurs when a testicle rotates twisting the spermatic cord that brings blood to the scrotum the reduced blood flow causes sudden and often severe pain and swelling if treated either manually or surgically within six hours there is a high chance approximately 90 percent of saving the testicle the majority of parasitic infections or at least a substantial minority depending on the type of parasite are asymptomatic meaning that you could have worms in your body right now and have no clue now for the good news your body is actually pretty good at getting rid of parasitic infections on its own additionally you can cure most infestations with coconut i successfully got rid of giardia using nothing but a tablespoon of coconut oil in a cup of hot chocolate every morning for a few weeks the amount of greenhouse gases necessary to push earth's temperature over survivable limits is already in the atmosphere and the chemical plus thermal reactions just haven't completed themselves yet at this point we need to be removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere but as it gets warmer more permafrost melts causing more warming releasing more permafrost causing more warming the amount of greenhouse gases trapped in the permafrost is three to four times as much as humanity has ever produced since 1978 in the us the average ceo's pay has increased 937 percent while that of the average worker has increased 5.7 the reason is ronald reagan he appointed a former investment banker to lead the sec the sec which had banned stock buybacks in 1934 promptly unbanned the practice in 1982. thus instead of paying employees or making capital investments company profits were instead used to pay executives via stock buybacks there's a type of parasitic worm a lot of people have without realizing it that crawls out of your butthole at night to lay eggs and then crawls back inside you this causes itching and when people scratch it the eggs get caught under their nails thus spreading them the human race will never overcome its sense of tribalism and inherent selfishness to the point of destroying ourselves and it's not entirely our fault we simply did not evolve with the means to cope with how many different people are on the planet the way our society has come to be will never allow us to band together to stop our self-destructive behavior before we either all end each other's lives in war or make our planet uninhabitable for us the largest threat to humanity isn't some cosmic event it's ourselves but we mostly all turn a blind eye to it no one talks about the human condition being the problem for humanity itself everyone's reality is their own i'm the villain in someone else's story but i certainly don't view myself that way i try to be a good person in general as most people do however not all truths are the same for everyone the low-hanging fruit would be to point the finger at religion but that's not entirely fair think about how many different cultures are out there think about how each of those cultures hold different values on certain things morality customs traditions etc try to think of yourself being raised in the most opposite culture you can think of take your current moral compass and try to think about it from their perspective if you're a u.s leftist really try to put yourself in a right-winger shoes you likely can't without getting angry or at least upset sure i know they were raised around that but why can't they see that x isn't okay the same reason you can't see it as ever being okay we've allowed our comfortable convenient life take president and pretty much control us we like the lives we have we love the convenience of it no matter the cost because we really don't like to think about the human cost of our new phones cheap clothes cheap food easily accessible anything etc it's uncomfortable for us and because of that nothing will change in a meaningful way anytime soon and it's likely already too late boomer parents everywhere who claim to love and care for their kids and grandkids continue to vote in conservative governments who destroy the environment their kids are going to inherit for short-term gains from high-debt college degrees to unaffordable housing and healthcare to weak unions and stagnant wage growth you can blame boomers for your kids lack of a bright future google fired two of their leaders in the ai ethics team for publishing articles about the dangers of an ai google liked same reason why big mining companies hire environmental consultants we don't want you to tell us what we're doing wrong we just need you to sign this legal document saying what we're doing isn't causing severe acute harm in surrounding residents please and thank you here's a million dollars we will probably never do something about climate change or our concerning behavior towards consumerism there's no economic value or better profit so why bother people need a reason to develop more with profit giving money pumping time and effort in it with little to no payback isn't valuable to them and why would we cut off china because otherwise everything would be expensive even though you're supporting the ccp and the oppressors of hong kong we care about the environment but as long as it doesn't affect the economic flow and hurt companies like fast fashion or the oil lobby or our friendly winnie the pooh neighbor in china and those are a few of the big guys we need to hit if we ever want to change for the better when you have scurvy all your old scars and wounds open up due to the vitamin needed to maintain scar tissue so for me for example i had my jaw dislocated and my gums cut open from check to check to remove wisdom teeth if i got scurvy i would bleed uncontrollably from the inside of my mouth out what would be your most horrifying scar snails have thousands of teeth as a kid i loved playing with snails slugs toads etc after it rained i'd go outside and wait for them to emerge i once felt something sharp underneath one of the nails i was playing with and assumed it was a sharp object i picked up along with a snail it didn't hurt it was just noticeable pick the snail up by the shell to peer underneath it no sharp object looked at the mouth and saw tiny rows of teeth the uk government is about to pass a bill allowing protesters to be sentenced for up to 10 years for causing an annoyance meanwhile the average sentence for a crime that cannot be named on youtube is eight to nine years and ending someone's life through dangerous driving will give you an average of four to five years the government covered up a lot of crimes just ask the nixon administration we knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily we could disrupt those communities we could arrest their leaders raid their homes break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news did we know we were lying about the drugs of course we did anyone can have a child we have tests for driving cars you have to have certain qualifications for multiple professions and yet there are absolutely no tests checks exams nothing to make sure you're suitable to raise a human being before you bring a thinking feeling person into the world of course i don't know what the hell such a test would look like but the existence of children who grow up into messed up people who may or may not perpetuate their parents way of life is just sad there are creatures in this world that possess hemo-toxic venom bursting red blood cells causing organ damage and hemorrhaging as well as necrotizing the area surrounding the bite that's right animals that possess venom that causes the bite site to die in mississippi and some parts of florida there is a bacteria in the water at the coast that will literally eat your flesh off of you florida is much safer than mississippi though at least in that aspect there is a mosquito in florida that when it bites you can make your brain swell inside your skull and can possibly end you the lake near my house says you only have 10 minutes of meaningful movement if you jump in without thermal protection it's quite impressive how fast your body shuts down when immersed in cold water we went sailing across the baltic when i was younger and off the coast of finland decided to have a swim off the side of the boat the water wasn't that cold six or seven degrees celsius but it really didn't take long for mussels to start getting too cold to work and cramp up and i can easily believe you might end up in a state unable to climb back up the ladder on the boat and drown an estimated 1.5 billion disposable masks entered the oceans last year and that's on top of a dramatic increase in other single-use plastics people starve every day while we produce more than enough food to feed them all the issue is distribution but also the fact that we feed much if not most of the food we produce to animals we are producing food in poor countries feeding that food to animals who only convert a small portion of the calories they eat into meat and then killing those animals and shipping their meat to rich countries it's a net loss in the northern territory australia i remember seeing a government warning that crocodiles inhabit the area among the few bullet points of advice on the sign the last one read if they see you it is already too late if a crocodile is in the water and you can see it it's because he wants you to those things can be just below the surface and you would never have the faintest idea what's more they are highly territorial they don't need to be hungry to harm you they'll do it because you're there and they don't like it every single year there are thousands of people in the u.s alone who disappear most of them show up again usually the next day but sometimes a few days a few weeks or even a few months later however out of these thousands of people there are roughly 150 people every single year who disappear and simply never appear again nobody knows what has happened to those people they might be dead they might not be we simply don't know fatal insomnia a condition where people one day can no longer fall asleep and eventually die due to this lack of sleep i read about a guy who documented the whole process every time he tried to go to sleep he would jolt himself awake and voluntarily and he would slowly go insane making several videos mumbling crazy theories and stuff before eventually passing away the idea of slowly going insane because of the lack of sleep is so terrifying to me the troposphere is the layer closest to earth's surface it is four to twelve miles seven to twenty kilometers thick and contains half of earth's atmosphere that is where our oxygen is that is where we live it is like we live in an aquarium but we keep pooping in it all the time and there is no one to clean the filters society has big issues with accepting scientific facts we still have a long way to go before most of these self-confirmed truths are debunked and replaced with actual scientifically proven facts as someone studying and working at university i really only understood this with the recent pandemic the scientific method is so far from what society does normally that a lot of people can't really deal with it especially once politics become involved in everyday life and i can understand that feeling people want facts to hold true the whole time in science new information might lead to new facts we had a moment here in germany early on where our domestic expert on the handling of the pandemic didn't have enough facts to scientifically say we should do x so he said what's best with the current facts available one or two days later new facts got involved and he had to reevaluate what he said now the opposite was taken as truth a lot of politicians were vocal about that being a problem you can't say one thing and two days later you just go and say we should do the other thing instead politics and society as a whole want a decision and stick to that while science is constantly re-evaluating and ready to change it's basically a clash of principles versus societal reality something is eating the milky way galaxy no it isn't the plot for a star trek episode it's really happening in 2009 researchers found a cluster of galaxies moving at an extraordinary speed towards a small patch of sky between the constellations of centaurus and vela some unknown force is tearing away chunks of the galaxy and astronomers still have no clue what exactly is causing it it's been named dark flow there is something big out there far bigger than anything in our known universe such a behemoth would impose a kind of tilt on the universe causing matter to move in one particular direction as observations of the dark flow suggest could be anything up to and including another universe that everyone has a dark side and all the people you talk to every day have something they're not comfortable with inside them that they don't want you to know doesn't affect me personally but something i realized look up carl jung the shadow or alan watts talking about the sly man thanks for listening to radio tts hit the subscribe button and activate the notification bell for your daily dose of existential crisis click the right box for the related playlist let us know in the comments what you think about these facts you

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