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      Careful, friend. Once you start giving a shit about people who don’t have much money it’s a slippery slope

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        The government providing a baseline existence for it’s people is like super fucking dangerous.

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          There are already programs. Run by a government that obviously can’t help. We don’t need to share our wealth, if we were provided wealth through real jobs. With a paycheck to buy whatever it is you need and be able to save. Less taxes, less inflation. It’s the government chopping your wealth at your knees too “feed” other people will only make it harder to become financially well set for your chosen life style.

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    For my country (Germany): Catching a draft. Basically people believe that a light breeze from an open window will make you ill.

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      We have a similar one here in the US. People think if you go outside when it’s too cold, you’ll get sick.

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        It’s not completely baseless. You can’t get sick from the cold itself, but lower core body temp does weaken your immune system until you warm up, making it easier for you to get sick if you do get exposed to something.

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          The cold, dry air during the winter can also dry out the mucus membranes in the sinuses which can make it easier for pathogens to enter the body. Again, doesn’t make you sick directly but does interfere with your body’s defense mechanisms.

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        In the US, I hear this more when your hair is wet: “Don’t go outside, it’s cold and your hair’s wet, you’ll get sick!”

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      Also Russia and probably most eastern European countries. One of my kids will catch a cold and the first thing my mother or grandmother will ask is if they were somewhere drafty.

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        There have been three accidents related to nuclear power generation, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukashima. There were a total of 33 deaths attributed to those three incidents (32 from Chernobyl and 1 from Fukashima.)

        There are 58 deaths per terawatt-hour attributed to coal alone, mostly due to air pollution.

        I’d say that nuclear power is very close to completely harmless in comparison. Certainly in contrast to its perception among the general public.

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      It’s just the radioactive waste we don’t know what to do with and becoming a military or terrorist target parts that are dangerous.

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        No, we’ve known what to do with the waste for decades. Put it in cans, fill the can with cement, coat the can in cement, put the cans in a facility that is protected from geological events like earthquakes, and periodically check the cans/facility. In the US for example, The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was being made before political pressure shut it down.

        The waste issue is and always will be one of political pressure and ignorance by the masses, not an actual logistical issue

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    In South Korea most fans have timers so they’re not left on overnight, because people think it’ll kill you if you do leave it on.
    This belief wasn’t helped by medical examiners putting “death by fan” on the death certificates of suicide victims to help the dead save face and spare the families the embarrassment of a “cowardly death” for a few decades.

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    Sharks.

    More people die due to things like selfies, falling out of your bed, tipped vending machines and heck, even balloons, then to a shark.

    Just because something can kill you doesnt mean it will, more often than not, it actually wont.

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      Here there might be a confusion between danger, and statistics.

      all those examples are about events or things that are far more frequent than be near a shark

      if the average person could be close to a shark as many time in life than leaving a bed, be close to something that can flip, or to people taking selfies, statistics might be very different

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    Many people think sharks are dangerous, but shark attacks are accidents in which sharks mistake humans for seals. Sharks are actually in more danger from us.

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    Living near a nuclear plant.

    Little do they know, that they get more than 50x more radiation effect from the natural surroundings and the rocks in earth than from the nuclear plant 🤭 And our body is really capable of dealing with that since the beginning of our evolution (DNA repairs and co).

    https://pages.vassar.edu/ltt/files/2011/04/Screen-shot-2011-04-21-at-1.18.09-AM1.png

    here is a chart showing radiation intensities for various sources of radiation

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      it’s not the background radiation that worries people, it’s the risk of a Fukushima-type incident.

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        And even then, despite the catastrophe it was, it only had 1 death attributed to it.

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          TIL. That’s a good point. 20k deaths due to the earthquake but only 1 due to the power plant itself.

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    People who are dependent on opiates and opioids.

    Some people who are in a lot of pain legitimately need the medicine in order to have a normal life. It doesn’t make us high, it makes us ‘normal’ because we actually require the medicine to bring us to normal levels of activity.

    Just because someone is physically dependent on the medicine, does not make them an addict too

    Most of us would rather never take another pill in our lives if we were suddenly healed.

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      If you’re dependent on the drug that’s an addiction. You may feel that your addiction is more justified than others, and that’s ok. Humans have been using drugs for thousands of years both recreationally and medicinally.

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        That’s not true. There’s a difference between addiction and dependence medically.

        You don’t say that a person on insulin is an addict. You don’t say that a person on heart medicine is an addict. We shouldn’t say that a person on opiates are addicts.

        Addicts take the medicine without a medical need. Dependent people need to take the medicine in order to live a normal life.

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    I’m not sure I’d say it’s completely harmless, but isn’t pumping gas while the car is running generally not a huge risk?

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      I saw my high school chemistry teacher do it and right then, I knew it had to be safe.

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      According to myth busters, smoking in and of itself is also not a problem when pumping gas. Cigarettes don’t burn hot enough to light gasoline. A lighter CAN light gasoline tho (obviously).

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        Situations where you can’t really turn your engine off. Like I once had my car battery die and after a friend jumpstarted it, I was gonna go drive around for a bit to charge the battery but then I realized my gas tank was completely empty. So I had to fill it up while it was running.

        A rare situation for sure, but it’s at least one reason.