What is the scariest shit you can think of?
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The Head by Bora Chung
Looks awesome, great recommendation!
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Emerging evidence of abrupt changes in the Antarctic environment
...evidence is emerging for rapid, interacting and sometimes self-perpetuating changes in the Antarctic environment. A regime shift has reduced Antarctic sea-ice extent far below its natural variability of past centuries, and in some respects is more abrupt, non-linear and potentially irreversible than Arctic sea-ice loss. A marked slowdown in Antarctic Overturning Circulation is expected to intensify this century and may be faster than the anticipated Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation slowdown. The tipping point for unstoppable ice loss from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could be exceeded even under best-case CO2 emission reduction pathways, potentially initiating global tipping cascades...
This is just an example from today, but overall the climate news from recent years scares me more than anything else. Insect counts are plummeting globally, wildfires are getting noticeably worse everywhere, all of the ice is receding, ocean currents are destabilizing as the temperature patterns in the air and the water shift, and crop growing seasons are changing. I get the impression that the predicted climate changes are not only happening now, but are accelerating noticeably.
Unpredictable food production is bad bad bad. If you watch the series Fall of Civilizations, one of the most common elements of collapsing societies is destablised food production (not necessarily no production, just irregular). If this happens globally, everything stops and people start dying in large numbers.
Personally, this is the only political issue that really matters. Every other thing that people argue about is just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Glacier collapse causing sea levels to rise.
Global ocean currents failing.
A meteor hitting the earth.
The next pandemic
Locust
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Having it at all is already too late.
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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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.
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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Glacier collapse causing sea levels to rise.
Global ocean currents failing.
A meteor hitting the earth.
The next pandemic
Locust
Super VolcanoesLocust Super Volcanoes
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What I'm living with right now.
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]And the entire time, people shame you for being lazy and not exercising. They blame your diet, your screen-time, and gleerfuly take joy in your "just" suffering.
EDIT: You then find an actual cure, and are desperately using it. You can barely keep up, then someone yanks it out of your hand "stop using that! It's making you worse!".
Having no other choice, you slowly wither alive.
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Time dilation.
Imagine you go to prison for a year. That’s one year you’re without your family and friends, and a year they’re without you. 1:1 time.
Now imagine you’re put to sleep and kept in a coma like state, fed by tubes. A computer or similar machine induces a dreamlike state that is indistinguishable from reality in which you will be imprisoned for 100 years. You never sleep. You never eat or drink. You never need to. And you can’t relax, you’re constantly being hunted or otherwise threatened. In the real world your family never left your side because in the real world, you’re only under for an hour.
Something similar happened to a guy on Star Trek (O’Brien on Deep Space Nine). Black Mirror did it a few times. And the fourth season of Sword Art Online (an anime) did it as well. Probably some others. Oh yeah, Interstellar. So you may have seen it.
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Death is the only correct answer. We've been singularly focused on avoiding it since we were single-cellular. Any other fear presented here represents a "what if" hypothesis about what's on the other side of it.
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Non-existence.
Just thinking about not existing at all gives me this gnarly feeling of primeval fear.
Glad to know I'm not alone. Surely there's something behind the veil, right? Right?
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dick falls off
note: not a universal scare
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People who enjoy breaking down and hurting other people.
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Death is the only correct answer. We've been singularly focused on avoiding it since we were single-cellular. Any other fear presented here represents a "what if" hypothesis about what's on the other side of it.
How would a society of immortal beings work, though, considering the already existing inequalities and rampant amoral antisocial nature of those currently in power? We kinda just have to make peace with death, right? I'm religious, and what I'm gonna say here might sound a tad heretical, but one life does feel like "enough" (of a gift, if you're religious) and I don't see a working alternative... but perhaps I'm not creative enough?
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Being given an anesthetic that should put you out for an operation but only immobilizes you and you remain cognizant thru out the operation feeling everything being done.
Kinda happened to me in middle school when I broke my arm and they gave me anesthetics to knock me out so they could re-set my ulna and radius but half way thru i wake up to my arm in 5 Chinese finger trap-like device to hold my arm up and a strap across my bicep with weights on it weighing my arm down and 2 doctor's trying to push my bones back in line.
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Glad to know I'm not alone. Surely there's something behind the veil, right? Right?
Maybe (I believe so, ofc, peep the username
), but you can't "know" (and yes, I understand epistemologically "objective truths" are at least somewhat unreachable but if I don't hold the apple whilst on Earth it will inevitably fall), you just have to take it on faith. -
The normalisation of genocide, pantopicon surveillance, neoliberal fascism.
The moral framework of the West turning out to be meaningless propaganda.
The silver lining to this is that at least more and more people can see it for what it is, and the possibility for change increases, right? Right?!
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Being given an anesthetic that should put you out for an operation but only immobilizes you and you remain cognizant thru out the operation feeling everything being done.
Kinda happened to me in middle school when I broke my arm and they gave me anesthetics to knock me out so they could re-set my ulna and radius but half way thru i wake up to my arm in 5 Chinese finger trap-like device to hold my arm up and a strap across my bicep with weights on it weighing my arm down and 2 doctor's trying to push my bones back in line.
Damn. I'm deathly scared of the opposite. General anesthetic. I have the worst memory of being put to sleep forcefully, like I was dying. I'd rather stay awake
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Burying my kids.
