Have you ever heard or seen something that initially seemed to be totally fine, until you saw just how truly dangerous it actually is?

What is a much bigger threat than initially presented?

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 days ago

    Stress, mental/emotional stress. When my biologist kid was talking about how harmful stress is, I was just thinking it’s normal, right? Like how the fuck am I supposed to avoid stress? No person could, we have to be made to handle it, or even benefit from it? Like how stressing my muscles makes them healthier?

    No. Early life stress, damaging. Midlife stress, damaging. Old age stress, damaging. Mental stress causes physical damage.

  • MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    I was walking the Cornish coastal path past some cliffs and saw a side path that the map showed led to a cave. It was really a narrow ledge, cut in the cliff side. I walked along it, stepping over a gap and spent a bit of time looking at the cave.

    Heading back to the main path, I had the sudden realisation that the gap I’d stepped over earlier was where a section of the ledge had broken off. Which meant that the bit I was standing on was also at risk of breaking off. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced fear like it. I got a shot of adrenaline that left me shaking. The sea was a long way down, big waves pounding jagged rocks. I had to hug the cliff and wait for my heart rate to settle before I could step over the gap again.

  • finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    Hippos. In Fantasia, they’re delicate ballet-dancing animals. In reality, they’re ravenous maws, obliterating everything they become aware of.

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      1·
      6 days ago

      I wish that was a problem exclusive to the USA :(

      Pretty much the entirety of America (the continent) is suffering with that shit, too

      • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        7 days ago

        In the UK at least, most gambling adverts are showing off how easy it is to stop when you use their platform. Just a solid minute of “stay in control of your gambling” etc.

        I dont know what fallacy or whatever it is, but it makes me queasy.

  • 1984@lemmy.today
    441·
    8 days ago

    Social media. Every person is now inside a filter bubble that is not reality but they think it is.

    Affects how they think about absolutely everything. Thats why its the most dangerous threat to humanity as a whole, with big tech algorithms pushing content to people.

  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca
    27·
    8 days ago

    Digital age verification. It is not “to protect the children”. I saw it for what it was right away but literally everyone I talked to about it thought it sounded really positive.

    • 87Six@lemmy.zip
      1·
      6 days ago

      The masses are SO easily manipulated by just saying something is for the childlren.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
    25·
    8 days ago

    you know when you see one of those dashcam videos where some idiot has run over a sign or a bollard or whatever and just kept driving with the thing stuck to the car, throwing sparks everywhere and making a big rip in the asphalt behind them?

    100 horsepower is a lot.

  • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
    22·
    8 days ago

    Before the AI craze, LLMs were a neat niche academic tool. Then the cults started forming…

      • Not a newt@piefed.caEnglish
        7·
        8 days ago

        By cults I refer to the CEOs and influencers proclaiming things like “if you’re not using AI for everything right now then you’re making yourself obsolete.” Then they go and show a few personal anecdotes to support their claim, while at the same time dismissing any and all criticism of LLMs and their products.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        3·
        8 days ago

        no the cults are the people building the things. most of the openai leadership seem to be afraid of roko’s basilisk.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    21·
    8 days ago

    Cat.

    Yes, hello, I am here having my third ER visit.

    This was my hand on Saturday, one day after cat bites (I counted 8 punctures), and after two doses of antibiotics.

    In case you are like me, and have no sense of medical emergency, that is a serious infection.

    I have had two butt shots, an X-ray, five days out of ten of courses of two different antibiotics, and I just had a CT scan.

    Edit: Btw, it looks a lot better now. Most of the swelling is gone, and almost all of the redness. CT scan results came back, the knuckle is good, no deeper infection. :)