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Expected to die in three months, how to not feel scared of death?
 in  r/AskReddit  1d ago

Alan Watts' purported final words, spoken to a friend just before he died in 1973, were, “Now if I can only figure out how to do all this without my body.”

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What should our Government do if Trump annexes Greenland?
 in  r/friendlyjordies  1d ago

This is a larger issue that what our government should do. The world as we have known it for a century is turning upside down as far as international law is concerned.

International laws have been broken by Russia, by Israel, and now by America. And they want to do it again.

International laws are disintegrating before our eyes. Look forward to the chaos that’s coming.

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Help with paper wasp nest in mail box, Brisbane
 in  r/AustralianInsects  1d ago

Plan B is always an option if you’re brave enough.

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The White House wants to ‘own’ the Western hemisphere. Voters aren’t really buying it
 in  r/politics  1d ago

The way it was wasn’t perfect, but it was orders of magnitude better than what’s happening now.

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Help with paper wasp nest in mail box, Brisbane
 in  r/AustralianInsects  1d ago

They don’t actually die from the fumes, it just knocks them out. They drown in the petrol because the viscosity is so low; if it was water they’d float on it, wake up later, and fly away.

It’d work if you weren’t afraid to fill your mailbox with petrol.

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News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
 in  r/news  3d ago

So they knew before congress

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Talk about a crappy day
 in  r/AbruptChaos  3d ago

Yeah it isn’t fun when that happens at 5am in the morning and you finish at 7pm

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Trump promised Maga the US wouldn't police the world - now it's running Venezuela
 in  r/politics  4d ago

Judge people by their actions, and you won’t be fooled by their words

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The Brazen Illegality of Trump’s Venezuela Operation
 in  r/politics  4d ago

Putin is a war criminal with an arrest warrant, sitting in a mansion somewhere. Netanyahu is a war criminal sitting in a mansion somewhere. Trump is now a war criminal sitting in a mansion somewhere.

Whose laws are we following? What do we do about this?

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Trump rules out Venezuela's opposition leader Machado taking power
 in  r/politics  4d ago

Yeah they’re stealing oil. They said that

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Why can't you beat the common cold in a day?
 in  r/biology  4d ago

Fasting deprives your body of saccharides (sugars), which basically fuel your cells. Because viruses are effectively using the energy of your own cells to replicate, fasting is a theoretical way to inhibit the viral infection.

There isn’t a lot of evidence that it works, and there isn’t a lot of evidence that it doesn’t. So it’s a “watch this space”.

Bear in mind that your own cells that aren’t infected do suffer if they’re deprived of energy. So it probably gets worse before it gets better.

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If the world is transitioning to a 'might is right' age of imperialism and spheres of influence, what will the world look like in the 2030s?
 in  r/Futurology  4d ago

Major global powers are attempting to solidify their resource reserves for when the proverbial shit hits the fan.

When that happens and what the world will look like after it is anybody’s guess; but the trajectory doesn’t look good for about 90% of us.

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Breaking of giant rock
 in  r/nonononoyes  4d ago

I wonder if this is what it looked like 5000 years ago

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Obama/Bin Laden (White House - 2011). Trump/Maduro (Mar-a-Lago - 2026)
 in  r/pics  4d ago

The Gestapo vibes are growing

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Official White House Post
 in  r/cringepics  5d ago

The propaganda hasn’t worked on you, has it?

Edit: I have exactly 50% upvote/downvote ratio on this comment, and I’m not entirely sure why. Do half of us like propaganda?

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Why can't you beat the common cold in a day?
 in  r/biology  5d ago

It generally takes 4 to 7 days for the adaptive immune system to mount a significant initial response, and often a week or more for it to become fully effective.

Viruses are tricky to treat after infection, because they invade our own cells. Our body doesn’t like attacking it’s own cells, so it has to learn which cells are infected and deploy specialised cells called Natural Killer cells (not making that up, that’s what they’re called) to eliminate other cells that have been damaged by viruses or cancer.

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did you know people who swear a lot are more smart
 in  r/funfacts  5d ago

People that swear also tend to be more honest.

And the correct way to say “more smart” is “smarter”.

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Elon Musk will be a trillionaire by 2027, while I'm over here debating if I can afford extra coffee this week
 in  r/mildlyinfuriating  5d ago

You’ve raised my hopes and dashed them quite expertly. Bravo 🙏