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  • Every day, your body will probably generate at least one cell that would be cancerous if it wasn't for your immune system. If that probability goes up slightly as a result of mildly increased radiation that day, it likely won't overload the immune system's capacity to deal with it. If it is overexposed to radiation, eventually the greater probability of cancerous mutations exceeds the immune system's capacity.

  • Reminds me of a tweet I saw once:

    Unlike you jaded pessimists I still have the ability to feel optimistic about something even after a lifetime of disappointment. And you know why? Because I’m stupid.

  • Is that JC Denton? Deus Ex (original flavor) was an excellent game when it came out (despite the best efforts of modders, it did not age well). I wish it was remade. Cyberpunk 2077 kind of scratches the itch, but there's no replacing that story.

  • You're thinking of CO, increased CO2 in the blood (which when dissolved becomes CO3+) causes increased anxiety and too much triggers suffocation panic. That's why you can breathe in basically any other gas and just shut down calmly, but CO2 will have you scrambling.

  • The views of the Jedi were written from one interpretation of Buddhism's views on attachment, in that attachments inevitably lead to suffering. Though that's probably more a mistranslation and I think it's more "dependence" instead of attachment: it's ok to have relationships and to love and care about other people, it's just when your happiness or well-being is dependent on others or on some thing that suffering is the result. Though that's just one view, and there are of course many, many interpretations.

  • The only other fast way to fight it is with violence, but without clear national unity and already decent leadership it usually results in some form of autocracy, making the situation worse.

    Edit: violent revolution* usually doesn't work, but violence itself can be rather effective

  • Sure, but I don't think increased deficit spending necessarily implies "financial collapse" as long as it's reinvested in infrastructure/research projects or allows people the financial freedom to spend more, if anything it'd be the opposite. The thing really hastening a collapse would be pooling all the money in very few places where it doesn't get spent. You know, like some sort of oligarchical wealth transfer.

  • They all have that same weird mouthfeel after you're done where you swear part of it is still on the roof of your mouth or between your teeth but you can't seem to reach it or get rid of it, feels pretty gross.

  • It's $193M in stock, which can only be cashed out once Reddit IPOs, thus the drive to do so. Aside from that he gets a "mere" $600k/yr. He can probably borrow against that to a certain point, but I'm not sure a bank would value assets that can't be liquidated.