And spontaneous human combustion....

I don't get it. I just don't. I don't need to get it. All I need to do is accept people and love them for who they are. Whether I get it or not is irrelevant. If calling someone "they" or having gender-neutral toilets or whatever makes them feel accepted and loved, so be it. It's not my place to judge.

In England, the survival rate for out of hospital cardiac arrest is about 8%... https://cks.nice.org.uk/topics/cardiac-arrest-out-of-hospital-care/background-information/prognosis/#:~:text=Fewer%20than%201%20in%2010,attempted%20survive%20to%20hospital%20discharge.

My little sister is trans, I really hope people don't think of her like this

You need to be more worried about a crazy relative abducting you than a crazy stranger. That said, as a child walking home from elementary school one day, I was followed by a strange car. I did what my mom taught me: ran away screaming and it peeled off, never to be seen again. I was either very lucky or just paranoid.

Same for musicians. Friends of mine are only famous in their area, but live honestly, enough to raise a Family. The only one I know earning quite a lot ( 4000€ a month) is another friend who is in the shadow as a studio musician, playing music for jingles, ads, TV shows or for singers who sing under their name only with anonymous band. It's the most lucrative job

The old trope of a broken necklace spilling pearls all over the floor will never happen - each pearl is knotted in place

Senior citizen: Decades of vaccines - 0 reactions. I love 'em!

Nice. I'm actually under the impression that about 5% of dogs actually obey this command

Absolutely a myth about easy money. Big business and the insurance industry have spent untold millions demonizing plaintiffs and their lawyers. The truth is quite the opposite. For every so-called frivolous suit that gets a windfall, there are dozens that either were lost lost or settled for less value because they couldn't afford to fight against the superior resources of the defense. The table is stacked against the injured or aggrieved "little guy " in favor of the haves.

We’re -way- past the point where throwing it away for party balloons should be banned. And don’t get me started on mass balloon releases.

Vending machines kill more than sharks.

This is such a neat fact, thank you.

Let's remember who they caught on "To Catch A Predator." Public figures, church member, etc.

If you want to be rich, choose your parents wisely.

my company made like $6000 or something and the IRS tried penalizing us $3200 for filing a tax return late for the previous year. The company existed for 14 days in 2022 and didnt' make a dime. Yet....$3200 in penalization.

No, self made millionaires are extremely common. If you include home equity, around 20% of all people in the USA have a net worth of over a million dollars by the time they retire. That is around how much a person with an income in the top 20% can having in savings and mortgage. A fairly large number of people in the bottom 50% who get an education can end up with that net worth. More than 1/2 of all millionaires are people with less than $2 million whose money comes from their own savings and things like 401ks. These millionaires are also mostly over 65, and are living exclusively from that $1 million. If a person lives for another 20 years, to the age of 85, that is $50,000 a year. A nice addition to Social Security, but hardly wallowing in riches. There are at least 6 million "self-made" millionaires in the USA, but $1,000,000 in net worth is not really that much these days, especially if you can no longer work.

Nobody EVER counts the failures

"self-made", discounting all the work other people have done, discounting that money they get from governments, discounting the use of public facilities, ...

"I'm a self-made man. But the job is still under construction."

or Father Trump

Green eyes here

No problem chasing a dream, but have a back-up. I always tell kids "do the math..tell me your odds of success".

I got amnesia when I was 17 from a head blow, the past is only linked by stories and some vignettes, very few memories. It has continued to today, I remember things for a few days. The longer term, where I remember things with stories and touchstones(that happened in such and such year, the year I started that job)and only a few visual memories, like pictures. It helps when something really bad happens, I don't really remember the emotions, the story remains, the memory doesn't. I keep a journal and pictures for important memories, and only remember the good. I magically remember facts, don't know where it comes from, so I can study information. This means I am a very happy person.

When you find any, appreciate them and act accordingly.

It happened exactly once. And it was the father himself who tried to poison his child and blame it on a stranger poisoning Halloween candies. But he behaved so suspiciously that the parents of the other kids became suspicious and he got caught without anyone being harmed

Good manners seem to have gone out of style …

While in prison, I sold a painting for a bag of jalapeno poppers. Monet never once sold a painting for a bag of jalapeno poppers. I win!

You are far, far, far more likely to meet an untimely demise on the drive to the airport than aboard an aircraft. People often assume that if anything goes wrong on a plane , it is boom, game over. People forget that airplanes can glide and even helicopters can autorotate.

I saw him once and had the great privilege of asking him one question (he visited my school). What I remember most was wondering whether he could consent to being a performer. It seemed sad, not because of his incredible mind but because of little things like his handler (a family member I think) explaining away every small non relevant comment like his conversation was an embarrassing problem if his mind wandered off topic. It made me depressed in a way I couldn't express at 12 or 13. Such a wildly unique perspective being used to amuse a bunch of kids who mostly said rude things about him later.

I'm more worried about not waking up at all.

And they’re a huge risk, because to make the plea you pretty much have to admit that you did what you’re on trial for.

My mom says this, and what's way more likely is small town fraud. There's been a few examples of dentists lying and giving a lot of root canals to maximize the amount of money they make. Once my mom moved when she was in her 20s from her home town all of her teeth issues stopped.

Businesses can creep along for a very long time, getting indebted but not quite drowning for years upon years of incompetent management. If a business is well managed they shut down quickly when management realises it's not working out due to outside factors. Competent people will then cut their losses before it gets to bad. But incompetent people don't see the writing on the wall and often drag the dying horse along until it's truly dead and the stinking cadaver poisons everything.

It's not been a Goodyear for them...

Methane gas building up in the area from the Everglades run off has reduced greatly. Used to get huge explosions of methane that could be ignited.

1-2% of world population.

Happiness isn't a feeling made to last. It's a short outburst of feeling. If you have a happy day, that's precious. But not being happy doesn't automatically mean being unhappy. But you shouldn't make happiness your main goal. Aim for contentment and peace of mind because both are feelings that are sustainable and stable if you can find them. Then you'll find moments of happiness and joy every day. But if you're chasing happiness, you'll rarely be satisfied. And experiencing life without any pain and suffering would mean you're a sociopath who cares for nobody but yourself. As soon as you love anyone it's impossible.

I’ve never seen triplets presented as anything but so rare that it alone is the basis for a novelty act.

If with good parenting skills you mean perfection, you are right. A perfect parent doesn't exist. Every parent makes mistakes. You learn the job as you go. But there are more parents striving to do their best than parents that are doing their worst. And when you are doing your best, you just hope that it's enough and that your mistakes aren't so big to ruin your children or your relationship with them.