Submitted 3 weeks 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.
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.
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 or not.
US nuclear deterrence in 2024 doesn’t rely on launch-on-warning, but on the expectation that no hostile power has the ability to locate and destroy the US ballistic missile fleet prior to them performing their counterlaunches.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_strike
In nuclear strategy, a retaliatory strike or second-strike capability is a country’s assured ability to respond to a nuclear attack with powerful nuclear retaliation against the attacker. To have such an ability (and to convince an opponent of its viability) is considered vital in nuclear deterrence, as otherwise the other side might attempt to try to win a nuclear war in one massive first strike against its opponent’s own nuclear forces.
Submarine-launched ballistic missiles are the traditional, but very expensive, method of providing a second strike capability, though they need to be supported by a reliable method of identifying who the attacker is.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_on_warning
Launch on warning (LOW), or fire on warning, is a strategy of nuclear weapon retaliation where a retaliatory strike is launched upon warning of enemy nuclear attack and while its missiles are still in the air, before detonation occurs.
In 1997, a US official stated that the US had the technical capability for launch on warning but did not intend to use a launch on warning posture and that the position had not changed in the 1997 presidential decision directive on nuclear weapon doctrine.
"Put yourself under the command of the United States, if it is still there"
JFC nuclear weapons are horrifying
There’s an anecdote about a U2 naming a song “One Minute Warning” if I recall correctly: many years ago, when a UK prime minister learned the US got 6 minutes, they asked how long the UK would have. The response: “I suppose we’d have about a minute.”
Basically why it’s called MAD (mutually assured destruction). You’ll either get the first shot for free, or everyone kills everyone.
Did you listen to that hardcore history episode? It was crazy
Yeah I did! I’m hoping my library get the book. Hell I might buy it, read it and donate it after
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.
A man’s penis is generally cleaner than his hands, because his dick is kept behind two sets of fabric.
I always wash my hands before I pee, don’t want to get my penis dirty…
I’ve heard this but I’ve also never heard of hand smegma, so…
If you managed to hold your hand closed 24/7, you’d get it too. Same thing happens when you get a cast off.
You must have circumcised nails then
I literally dry heave when Asian porn is like, “mmm delicious smegma!”
🤢🤮
There are about 20 supervolcanoes on earth which each have the capacity to kill billions should they erupt.
I know about the Yellowstone Caldera but I didn’t realize there were that many more
I found this article interesting on Caldera systems…
And suppress global warming for a long time in the process. Yeah, bring it on!
Blocking out the sun is good for us only in very specific doses.
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
Your body generates around 600.000 new cells every second.
Crazy IMO.
Gross I don’t want ‘em
I’ll take 'em if I can choose where they grow! Lol
That’s a lot of significant digits.
Let’s just call it six hundred
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?
Really well done. Creative and informed. Yes, we have tweezer-washing stations and very few men use them. Good question.
and very few men use them.
Brave of them to behave like they have modern healthcare rights lol
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
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.
I claim ownership of the microorganisms in and on my body. I am not merely human; I am a glorious amalgamation of trillions of distinct beings, working in harmony to bring you shitposts!
Meanwhile here I am washing before and after, just because I saw it on House.
(Despite the fact that he makes a big deal about it in the first episode and in the numerous times we see him go to the bathroom following that he never once does it again. (Yes. I checked.))
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.
My marriage is up after exactly 7 years. Granted we were together for more like 11-12, but the marriage 7
9 years going strong I’m in the clear
Hey, congratulations! We just made nine years over here too
Most doesn’t mean all
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 ;-)
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.
On average, there are more fecal bacteria on your phone screen than on a public toilet seat.
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.
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.
Here’s one more:
Dark Forest Theory as a solution to the Fermi Paradox.
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.
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
Would this be a good time to bring up prions?
Earwigs can fly…
*anecdote
You gotta fight the dick stuff with dick stuff. At least I know where my dick stuff has been
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
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!
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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???
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
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.
Zahtu@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
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
BobTheDestroyer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Chloramines are disinfectants used to treat drinking water. Chloramines are most commonly formed when ammonia is added to chlorine to treat drinking water.
source
pseudonym@monyet.cc 3 weeks ago
🤢🤮 oh god why did I read this
scarabic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
What do you think all the fishes do when they need a crap?
FeeshyFish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is the reason why I don’t want to go to pools anymore.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Fun video from Mark Rober about the topic. How to measure how much pee is in your pool