• DasFaultier@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    On the smaller scale it’s probably my wife and dog dying, in the larger scheme of things it’s the rise of fascism here in Germany and Europe.

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    Getting falsely accused of something that requires me to interface/deal with, and potentially be incarcerated within, the US justice system. Fuck all that with a bundle of rusty rebar.

    The worst is that it can possibly happen at any given moment. You could look at a redcap Karen in a store, they take it the wrong way, and bam, your life is a loving hell for the next decade or more. Nope.com

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    Cancer. Everyone has a bunch of fucked up cells at all times, but your body keeps you healthy by repairing or killing them, time after time after time… until one of those cells says “fuck the system” and goes rogue. No one is safe.

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      Yup. My SO got mouth cancer a couple years back in their early 30’s, even though the operation was succesful and chemo & radiation worked and they’ll be considered cancer-free in about 9 months, the fact that it happened so early means it’s quite likely they’ll get it again. How does one live with that information? And as a partner how do I build my life around it? Of course it’s possible they’ll never get that shit again, but it would be foolish to not prepare ourselves mentally for the worst. If it’s around the head they can’t get more radiation. If it’s in the same place than the previous one they’d would probably lose their ability speak, eat properly etc. The chemo probably made them infertile so if we’d like to have biological childer we have just a couple years to make the decision, and I have restrictions about that so we’d have to look for other opportunities anyways, and we should start looking for them now but we * can’t *. If we move elsewhere, as we’d like to, the chances are they won’t get as good treatment as here. I don’t feel like I’m ready to consider all this in my mid 30’s while I’m still trying to find my place in the world. So yeah, fuck cancer.

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        16 days ago

        also HPV has been implicated in mouth cancers, which are typically rare diseases, although alot them seems to stem from smoking, tobacco,etc. the one scary mouth cancer is the one that forms from your gums(ameloblastoma, or the carcinoma variant)

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          There are various factors that increase the risk of course, but according to the doctors for a person this young the exposure is not the reason for getting sick. Epigenetics could be the reason for the increase in young people’s mouth cancers as epigenetic changes in genes can transmit across generations, meaning it’s possible that, for example, environmental exposure that occurred in one generation, could be transmitted even further beyond their children and grandchildren.

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    17 days ago

    That we may be living in a world where the super-rich and powerful from all countries have conspired to establish a kind of global absolutist monarchy of the utterly unscrupulous, in which fabricated conflicts between countries serve mostly to distract from the fact that those pulling the strings behind the scenes have already undermined every political system and are simply pitting people against each other in order to secure even more power for themselves through war, mass surveillance, propaganda, the rationing of essential goods, and blatant destruction.

    Please note: This is a conspiracy theory with no solid evidence, not a fact, but a dystopia that unfortunately seems increasingly realistic these days.

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      As a counter point, when I see the super rich, they sll have huge egos. So while they may sceme together occasionslly when it suits them, I can’t see them all conspiring together because they all seem to think they know what’s best.

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        Yes, that’s true, of course, and it’s the reason why no clear patterns can be found here. However, as is often the case with conspiracy theories, this could also be dismissed as a distraction from the conspiracy.

        But you are absolutely right: we should stick to the facts—this idea is just a nightmare scenario for me because even in democratic systems it would make freedom, self-determination, and above all the hope for better times almost completely impossible.

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    Some form of torture. The thing about torture is you can always add “and then…”

    Psychological and physical

    Imagine being forced to rip off your significant other’s fingernail.

    And you might say “There’s no way I’d do that”

    Sadly you will. Either to save yourself or them from more torture.

    You will do it, we all would. That’s scary.

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    A lot already mentioned, so those too, but also:

    Rogue black holes. Just thinking about them makes my guts queasy.

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      Would it be one of those things where if we get hit by a rogue black hole we wouldn’t have enough time to worry about it before we were gonners or would we know years in advance?

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    Imagine every day, your muscles get just a little bit weaker. Maybe you can’t open a container you used to be able to. Or you find you can’t lift your arms high enough to shampoo your hair anymore. No matter how much you try to exercise, it never helps. Pain sets in due to incredible stiffness. Your fingers start to curl up until they are nigh unusable. Entire limbs become gnarled.

    Eventually you lose the ability to walk. Then speak. Then eat. And finally, even your breathing muscles become so weak and paralyzed that you constantly aspirate due to your inability to cough. Recurrent infections set in. Then you die of respiratory failure.

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      17 days ago

      I watched my father go through that. MND is horrible for the person and everyone around them.

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    If enough psychologists and civil servants wanted to, they could have you declared insane, and then nothing you say can come to your defense as you are now deemed too insane to be listened to. I know this isnt as straight forward as the average person thinks, but the possibility of it even happening once to someone is terrifying.

    Oh that and trigeminal nueralgia, the worst pain possible forever.

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      the worst one is FFI, which you dont sleep til you die. and there other variants of CJVD, thats just as strange. prions are also found in FUNGI, although it does the opposite rather than a disease state, its an evolutionary benefit rather than a disease. also the “so called protocol to put someone in a coma” on treating rabies, is largely been criticized and debunked as a various dangerous procedur, they could not replicate the same effect.

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        Only once you have symptoms is it too late.

        You can have it for years before symptoms appear, though the average is two months. If you get vaccinated before then, you’re good.

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          some people have reported getting numbess around the bite wound like days after, which is a sign of the rabies already infecting the nerves around the bite area. there was a house episode like this.