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.
A chill guy on a Citi bike
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.
Japanese kids grow up learning about what they did in WW2
No, they dont
Agreed with you until you said Japanese kids learn more critical things about their past than Americans. That’s absolutely not the case.
Dying. If it’s so scary, then why does everybody do it?
There is a strong tradition of feeling against it :)
I plan on skipping, so you might want to change it to almost everybody.
I’ve died zero times thus far and don’t see why it should change.
!remindme 10 years
Thanks to denial, I’m immortal
Thanks to denial I’m so many other things, you wouldn’t even believe!
Hey, more than 6% of people haven’t died. Not everybody does it.
Give em time. They’ll come around.
Spiders (USA).
Most spiders are harmless to humans and even beneficial to have around.
Giggles in Aussie
I rationally understand that spiders are mostly beneficial but they’re just so alien. Too many legs, too many eyes, move too fast. Also there are a few that will kill you. Here in SoCal black widows are in every dark spot in my garage.
Cities
Chicago especially
However, entering or exiting cities is a legit nightmare.
Clowns. Like, why? You don’t even hear about a fear of clowns in ancient documents/literature.
John Wayne gacy…
What about him?
He was a clown that raped and killed boys.
Most clowns would have protected those boys.
Yeah, and most raw chicken won’t give me salmonella
There is a difference between the exception and the rule. Which I can’t believe I have to explain when it comes to clowns.
It’s alright homie, you can have all the clowns to yourself
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.
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.
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.
You really think that the only ones against ending capitalism are a handful of wealthy people?
Have a day off.
Skydiving
Yes, the first few times are intimidating. Hence why most students do their first few jumps tandem and then with a Jump Master after that.
After that though, you’ll be looking out the window of the plane and seeing just how much air there is to play in. As you gain experience, you will internalize the fact you’re safer in free fall, than you are on the airplane.
Needles.
You’ve never had someone miss before, have you?
I have those veins that makes the nurse go all happy asking if the trainee can have a go (they are big and juicy).
So yeah I have had some fat blues 😋
Inconvenient? Sure, it even hurts sometimes, but I wouldn’t say scary.
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Totally normal reaction, I mean it isn’t normal to let someone else put metal inside your own body, I get that little sweat too sometimes when the needle goes in. But I wouldn’t say scary.
Math, Haskell, and software engineering in general.
Haskell isn’t scary, it’s just redundant.
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.
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.
Doesn’t it expand into a red giant and envelop the earth first? Make them even more uneasy with that!
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.
Living in the Matrix. If you do what they want, you get to taste steak.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
