While the Wikipedia page lists food poisonings from sea turtles as rare, it still feels like a Russian Roulette kind of meal.
Would you eat something knowing that there is a nonzero chance it might kill you (as in really off you, not just give you a bad night at the bathroom)?
I suppose the answer is a lot of people would, since the article itself mentioned another recent poisoning.
It reminds me of the blowfish which is also lethally poisonous if not handled by someone who's certified to do so.
I suppose everything in life has a risk and I've done my share of reckless things, but rolling the dice on food never appealed to me.
Off topic but related: you guys just broke the whole super hero concept for me. Now I can't go back to reading comics or watching movies ignoring all of these things. I suppose I am happy to be my normal me (though perhaps super strength isn't so bad)!
You're right about Sci-Hub because of their Indian lawsuit which is very important to them, but I didn't know that Anna's Archive was a repository of scientific journals. Is it? I know Library Genesis (or LibGen) has a lot of scientific textbooks, but I didn't know it had papers. Does it?
Anyhow, Anna's Archive and LibGen are super awesome too!
Of course, we shouldn't care about what people on Reddit think (and I noticed this post by chance since I log on there very rarely now), but some users in the thread genuinely ask about joining Lemmy and so I guess it's useful to know about possible obstacles to trying it that they may perceive.
I suppose guillotines help in a variety of situations, though I would have not imagined them as an extreme way of filtering the lack of actions by politicians and corporations towards the environment 🤔
Ah, interesting. I should hope not all pollutants dissolve into water, but I wonder: wouldn't they still be bad when ingested even if not dissolved into water?
Thanks! You're right that I wasn't thinking about chlorine which does get added to the water where I live. I suppose that doesn't entirely kill all germs and pollution going into the water, but it helps getting rid of it.
Also, yeah. When I am out breathing pollution, it feels really bad for me
I logged out and then back in and all looked normal except I couldn't see my total up votes. I can see each comment and post up vote, but no sum total (0 across the board)
Chill out RobotZap1000 (though, I suppose your alias suggests you're a fierce robot punishing earthlings 😄)!
I was just making a joke about the fact that normally we're constantly receiving feedback to do/not do so something and we're never entirely free to decide on our own
(1) If I watch it, it's on YouTube (a form of social media) so I'll be influenced and manipulated.
(2) If I don't watch it, it's because I've read its title on Lemmy (another form of social media), so I'll have been influenced and manipulated anyway.
Bottom line: being influenced and manipulated is everyone's destiny, yay!
A person once told me that in life you need to learn to be lucky. When I asked him how to learn that he replied that you need to want to be lucky. And that's it.
He was very serious and, to some extent, I think he wasn't saying something crazy (and in fact he's been very successful in his life, without resorting to help from others).
I think he meant we make our own luck: we work as hard as possible to create several occasions and maybe we screw lots of them but, if we try, try again, we can seize some of them.
I suppose the message really was: you need to be persistent. If you're so dedicated, you end up grabbing some opportunities you didn't even know existed (but you kind of created)
Are you me?