Submitted 1 year ago by aaron@lemm.ee to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
At least half of men don’t wash their hands before leaving a public restroom. Source: 30+ years of using public restrooms as a male.
Your tongue knows how something feels even if you’ve never licked it. Most people have never licked a tire but you know exactly how it’d feel if you did.
Where are you that has no silverfish?
We get those in the UK. They’ll eat anything!
If I lived in the UK, I would also eat anything but British food.
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On average, there are more fecal bacteria on your phone screen than on a public toilet seat.
That’s why I keep my toothbrush wrapped in paper.
It doesn’t help that people don’t tend to clean their phones like they do their toilet, but will take their phone into the water closet anyhow.
People don’t clean their phones? I clean mine every time I clean my glasses. If the glasses are dirty, it’s a safe bet the phone could use a rub down with some isopropyl on a Kimwipe.
Unrelated, if you wear glasses and haven’t used Kimwipes to clean them you are missing out. Soap and water, isopropyl on Kimwipe, dry Kimwipe.
So does that mean people who don’t close the lid before flushing prefer the taste of shit in their mouth?
Closing the lid apparently doesn’t do as much as one might like
There’s a Mythbusters episode about this.
Earwigs can fly…
How else would they get in your ear?
You’ve never seen your neighbors carrying groceries inside.
I’m going to assume that you either don’t have windows, or you don’t go outside.
I see multiple neighbours, multiple times a month, bringing groceries into their house.
Quite a few times this happens while I’m also outside, in passing.
But now I’m super curious how you don’t see your neighbours doing the same! 😂
I never see it but my neighbors have garages lmao.
Sure thing buddy
Here’s one more:
Dark Forest Theory as a solution to the Fermi Paradox.
This theory was around long before Lee Cuixin and done much better. Saberhagen’s Berserker series is a much better example, and has the added bonus of believable character development in his books.
Hell, Battlestar Galactica was the same thing done 5 years before TBP came out, and way more interestingly.
I’d read that David Brin reviewed something similar in '83, but I didn’t chase it down to Saberhagen.
In following the links provided in the Wiki article, for the Berserker Hypothesis, there is the following:
The Berserker hypothesis is distinct from the dark forest hypothesis in that under the latter, many alien civilizations could still exist provided they keep silent. The dark forest hypothesis can be viewed as a special case of the Berserker hypothesis, if the ‘deadly Berserker probes’ are (e.g. due to resource scarcity) only sent to star systems that show signs of intelligent life.
So, silence is survival in the Dark Forest. The Berserker Hypothesis seeks and destroys.
And, for my part, Cixin Liu’s second book was a really solid read. The first book, Three Body Problem, suffered all of the hallmarks of the pains taken to establish a story and a world. The last book, Death’s End, while mostly good, also suffered in needing to bring the grand story to a close.
live smallpox cultures still exist in american and russian labs.
most people born after 1980 are not vaccinated against smallpox and do not possess the natural immunity boost that would come from environmental exposure to the disease.
the introduction of smallpox into the similarly unprotected americas caused an apocalyptic population collapse.
True, but we do have the vaccine and the means to mass-produce and administer. That’s why I’m not worried about smallpox.
Yeah: because getting people to get a vaccine during a pandemic that’s killing millions isn’t going to be difficult.
I’m concerned that enough people might refuse a vaccine to cause our herd immunity to fail, resulting in many more deaths than expected.
Thanks to Ed Jenner
A man’s penis is generally cleaner than his hands, because his dick is kept behind two sets of fabric.
I’ve heard this but I’ve also never heard of hand smegma, so…
I literally dry heave when Asian porn is like, “mmm delicious smegma!”
🤢🤮
You must have circumcised nails then
If you managed to hold your hand closed 24/7, you’d get it too. Same thing happens when you get a cast off.
I always wash my hands before I pee, don’t want to get my penis dirty…
Here’s a fun one
You know how you go to the public pool and you smell the chlorine keeping the water clean? That’s not chlorine you’re smelling.
Chlorine is a great sanitizer but when dissolved in water it has almost no smell. However, chlorine binds to organic substances like dead skin cells and especially strongly to urea (aka pee), forming chloramine. Chloramine has significantly less sanitizing capability than chlorine, but it has a very strong chloriney smell.
You can get rid of chloramine by ‘shocking’ the pool- adding an oxidizer or increasing the chlorine level very high to what’s called breakpoint chlorination. Shock powder is expensive though so it’s not always used as often as it should be.
So when you go to the public pool and you get that strong chlorine smell, all that means is either the pool water is dirty and hasn’t been shocked in a while, or someone peed in the pool recently.
Enjoy your swim!
If you pay attention at the beach you will totally notice people wading in to take a piss and then wading back out of the water. I know the ocean is big and all but there’s something… uncivilized about it.
What do you think all the fishes do when they need a crap?
This is the reason why I don’t want to go to pools anymore.
Fun video from Mark Rober about the topic. How to measure how much pee is in your pool
You didn’t mention the important part - sweat does that too. So it might not be pee, just sweaty people getting washed off. Which is better, to be fair.
nah no way because my town heavily chlorinates the tap water and that shit reeks like a swimming pool… or is someone pissing in the tap???
The chlorine does its job, and whatever shit it kills becomes chloramine. Chlorine does have a smaller smell of its own so maybe they just put a shit ton of it in also.
Your Tap water being dirty is Not an Option? When they chlorine it, there’s certainly a need to get it Clean from e.g. the Pipes or other contaminants
My wife was so mad at me when I explained this to her. She said the chlorine smell would give her nostalgia and I ruined it.
🤢🤮 oh god why did I read this
The article below this is
Donald Trump says that if wins the White House, he’ll fire special counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds” of taking office.
Imagine a criminal openly admitting he’ll use his power to evade justice, and somehow half the country is still voting for him
It’s the “people are still voting for him” part that terrifies me. Because we can defeat Trump, but you can’t do a whole lot with a rotten electorate.
At birth there are usually more males than females. Around adulthood age they are roughly equal, and around our death there are way more females than males.
Another one, kinda romantic as well. Most life long couples, when one of them dies due to old age, the other one follows soon. Despite women having a longer life span than men.
Another interesting one, most relationships end within 7 years. Once the 7 year period has passed, the likelihood of that relationship lasting till death increases significantly. It’s called 7 year ick.
9 years going strong I’m in the clear
Most doesn’t mean all
Hey, congratulations! We just made nine years over here too
My marriage is up after exactly 7 years. Granted we were together for more like 11-12, but the marriage 7
Your body generates around 600.000 new cells every second.
Crazy IMO.
That’s a lot of significant digits.
Let’s just call it six hundred
Gross I don’t want ‘em
I’ll take 'em if I can choose where they grow! Lol
I wash my hands before I piss because my dick is the cleanest surface in that bathroom. Touch nothing afterward without a paper towel barrier
‘Was there anything else on the dinner menu?’
‘Vole-au-vents and Cream of Rat,’ said Gimlet. ‘All hygienically prepared.’
‘How do you mean, “hygienically prepared”?’ said Carrot.
‘The chef is under strict orders to wash his hands afterwards.’
The assembled dwarfs nodded. This was certainly pretty hygienic. You didn’t want people going around with ratty hands.
I have bad news, most (?) paper towels, toilet paper, and even the toilet seat covers are microscopically transparent, meaning there are plenty of gaps for microbes to get through.
Paper towels folded over on themselves absolutely create a barrier between my hand and the door handle. I’m not talking about flushable paper or toilet seat covers
You have fewer male ancestors than females ones. Think about it for a moment… there it is. Yes. Now you know.
I was going to argue that it could go the other way, but then I remembered Ghengis Khan.
It never could go the other way, you can’t make a baby using two dads’ sperm. You can get twins (which is incredibly rare). But that just means two people with different fathers and doesn’t matter when you look at a specific one. At best, if there wasn’t any incest, you’d get equal male and female ancestors.
Maybe you have ;-)
Would this be a good time to bring up prions?
So you know how you have dna? Well dna converts into amino acids and long chains of amino acids are called proteins. Proteins are the real workers in our body.
But you might think, if you knew the dna sequence, you know it all, correct? Not really. You see, dna is only 1 dimensional data. A lot of the information about the functions of a protein comes from its structure.
So really, if you have a correct dna converted into amino acid chain (a protein), it still needs to be in the correct shape or folding in order for it to function.
Prions are incorrect foldings of amino acid which obviously do not work. But whats more is that, when these folded structures come in contact with other functioning proteins, they can turn them into incorrect folding as well.
Since these proteins are still your own (ie they still came from your dna) the immune system doesn’t quite work on them like it would on a foreign substance like bacteria or virus.
To add to how scary prions are, you can’t really cure them, and when the prions get on a surface, it’s extremely difficult to sanitize that surface in a way that will destroy the prions. A lot of techniques that kill bacteria or even viruses like alcohol won’t work on them. Heat works but you have to make it extremely hot, much hotter than what’s needed to kill something like a bacteria.
I’m glad someone put the prions in here. As a biology student, there was only one thing more terrifying than retroviruses — prions.
I actually read it as “priSons” and I read all the answer wondering how it would get to prisons lol
What if proteins were jerks? Prions.
At least half of men don’t wash their hands before leaving a public restroom.
How does this work in the US? I’m assuming with the amount of gigantic pickup trucks and guns, they require tweezers and magnifying glasses to find their dicks
Do they wash the tweezers?
Heres two:
The ratio between cells of your body that belong to you vs. cells on or in your body that are microorganisms is about 1:1 — slightly favouring the bacteria.
If the Sun were destroyed, we would not know about it until more than 8 minutes after it happened.
The McKelvey–Schofield chaos theorem proves that, if an electorate is presented with a series of proposed policy changes and everyone votes according to their honest preference, the proposals can be fashioned and ordered in such a way that any policy can be made to win—even one that no voter prefers to the original.
If a nuclear missile is launched at the United States the President has just 6 minutes to come to terms with that and decide to launch a counter attack.
If that counter attack is headed to North Korea, any land based missiles will head over the arctic circle, over Russian airspace where similar shoot/no shoot decisions will have to be made.
There are about 20 supervolcanoes on earth which each have the capacity to kill billions should they erupt.
LordGimp@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You gotta fight the dick stuff with dick stuff. At least I know where my dick stuff has been