Hang Gliding! It’s really chill. So many students are on edge when they’re about to do their first flight, but I always hear happy sounds as they fly off and they’re in a great mood when they finally land.
I wonder if their great mood is as much about the (successful) landing as much as it is about the glide?
That is definitely a factor, but we gopro everyone’s flights and nearly everyone giggling and smiling the whole time
Asking someone out on a date.
I had social anxiety for years, so I probably struggled with this more than most. But it’s surprisingly easy. And more often than not, if your instincts are that that person likes you, you’re usually right.
if your instincts are that that person likes you, you’re usually right.
They’re not talking about you and i, dear reader.
Ending capitalism to embrace a system where we end poverty, consumerism and discriminations.
I’ve always suspected people conflate communism with dictators, which is the main cause of distrust for anything anti-capitalism.
Are there any examples of a nation successfully transitioning out of capitalism without ending up in a dictatorship? I want to believe it can be done, but I have no idea what it would look like.
Have a day off.
The only people who are truly afraid of this are the few wealthy who stand to lose 80% of their enormous wealth that they will never use in their lifetime.
You really think that the only ones against ending capitalism are a handful of wealthy people?
If only. You forgot how people are afraid to help others who came from an other country. Most of people want equality but only with their superiors. And people are afraid to change their lifestyle to a more ecological one.
Cities
Chicago especially
However, entering or exiting cities is a legit nightmare.
Children in horror movies, like when they say creepy things or sometimes smile when something horrible is happening.
Dude, just kick that kid like a football.
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B-but you see, the kid was CURSED!
Oh, never mind then!
I used to be so scared of Chucky. Now I wonder what the max distance I could punt his ass is
The sun imploding in the next few billions years. I’ve had conversations about that that I could see in the person’s eyes that they were getting really scared about it.
The eventual annihilation of our species casts a shadow over everything we do. Because we’re ultimately working for something temporary, which will be followed by ultimate death and infinite silence.
There’s absolutely no way we make it the next billion years without either dying out or spreading past the solar system.
Yep. Our destiny is space or annihilation.
Doesn’t it expand into a red giant and envelop the earth first? Make them even more uneasy with that!
Dying. If it’s so scary, then why does everybody do it?
I plan on skipping, so you might want to change it to almost everybody.
Thanks to denial, I’m immortal
Thanks to denial I’m so many other things, you wouldn’t even believe!
I’ve died zero times thus far and don’t see why it should change.
!remindme 10 years
There is a strong tradition of feeling against it :)
Hey, more than 6% of people haven’t died. Not everybody does it.
Give em time. They’ll come around.
Universal healthcare. So scary only 33 of the world’s 34 most modernized countries have managed to make it work.
I should mention that only South Korea and Canada have TRUE Single Payer (which is, IMO, what the US should be working toward).
Any other type of “universal healthcare” has the effect of creating a premium lane alongside the regular one. However, if all of society has to use the same healthcare system, they will have no choice but to collectively fight tooth and nail to improve healthcare for everyone. This is the only way, IMO.
In a truly just society, the homeless man sleeping on the bench would have the same healthcare as Jeffrey motherfucking Bezos.
Australian animals.
Americans are the absolute worst at it and it’s just so stupid. Yes we have poisonous snakes and spiders, so does America.
We have more of them than America, yes.
You know what we don’t have? Large predators. You can go walking in the bush in Australia and you might see one of the most dangerous snakes in the world. You know what you do? You don’t fuck with it and continue on with your business.
You’re walking in America and oh, you’ve just stumbled across one of the multiple species of bears, coyotes, wolves, cougars etc. Animals that may chase you down and maul you. It’s not even a competition.
And you, as an American, might say ‘oh but you pretty much never see them’. Yeah same with dangerous snakes etc in Australia.
America doesn’t have Gympie Gympie trees.
Root canals. The procedure has come a long way since the 90s and is relatively smooth and painless now. Obviously having a good and skillful edodontist also helps, but it’s no longer excruciating like decades ago.
Can confirm. The pain kept me awake the night before my appointment, so I was quite tired while having my canals filled. As soon as the dentist had given me a couple of anesthetic shots, I had to struggle to stay awake. I felt nothing during the procedure, and the only pain after was in my wallet.
Currently having to deal with finding an endodontist that does retreats, so finding a good one in the first place is the pain.
The procedure itself is whatever.
But I am on Xanax when they do they, otherwise I’m not allowed inside a dentist office.
hunger.
I don’t mean starvation I mean there are people that cannot sit with a slight uncomfortable feeling of hunger. If you have eaten enough to fuel your body in a healthy way then being slightly hungry will not harm you.
Living in the Matrix. If you do what they want, you get to taste steak.
Maybe we could give the ‘everyone is happy’ setting another spin? Having lived this timeline, I feel we might have given up on that one a bit too soon…
The Matrix posits that the late 90s were the peak of human civilization. Given what’s happened in this millennium so far, I think I’m inclined to agree.
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99.9% of every horror movie, which should be renamed jump annoyances, tada
Or the other category of horror, “that’s gross”
War atrocities. There’s a lot of terrible shit that happened in America, and instead, we teach kids that the Indians gave the pilgrims corn.
German kids grow up learning about the Holocaust. Japanese kids grow up learning about what they did in WW2.
Americans are scared to learn about these things that we have book banning and fucktards rewriting history books. It’s not scary, it’s history.
Agreed with you until you said Japanese kids learn more critical things about their past than Americans. That’s absolutely not the case.
Japanese kids grow up learning about what they did in WW2
No, they dont
Math, Haskell, and software engineering in general.
Haskell isn’t scary, it’s just redundant.
