Horrifying. Once again, humans suck.

The "Housing Crisis" is 100% manufactured scarcity. There are enough homes to house everyone in the USA but they are held vacant to drive up the rent prices. Unoccupied homes require little maintenance so it makes financial sense to keep them vacant rather than risk lowering the renters market.

The idea of pooping dead worms for three days is already making me not fine.

don't they also get high on pufferfish

When I had my first cancer surgery they had to open me up from my sternum to my groin, which I have a hellacious keloid scar. I had to wear a really strange compression brace that wrapped around my sternum and abdomen for 8 weeks while my body healed. The only time I could take it off was when I was showering, which was a whole other ball of fun trying to keep my staples dry. The f****d up part is that it was a whole lot more comfortable wearing the brace while I healed vs taking it off when I would shower. It basically held my insides in place while I healed and as soon as I would take it off my abdomen/stomach area would become distended because everything would shift around. Cancer f*****g sucks kids!

That’s not scary, that’s pretty cool!

If one says "I'm not dead yet." please believe them!

I had a stroke four years ago and heard a lot of stroke horror stories! One was a 19 year old who had had a massive stroke around the same time I did. (Birth control pills were suspected! They can cause high blood pressure in some women!) Another, young woman, like early twenties, paramedic. She was performing CPR on another person when SHE had a massive stroke and died! AVM was suspected. Other person died too, the one she was giving CPR to, in case you were wondering.

Huh. Interesting and kind of hilarious.

I will have nightmares tonight. So many nightmares.

I’m glad the kid’s father was honest about what he had experienced and I hope all of the tour guide’s victims saw justice!

And so you decided to share, thanks.

That's cartilage and it protects the mother from sharp edges of the baby's hooves.

New fear *unlocked*

Crows are the best example of holding grudges. Birds, not spiders that is.

I've been involved in many caesars and never seen this

... i have so many questions. What? Why? How?

Could be the other way too; depending on the type of forest and the noise. Some birds and monkeys make noises (alarm calls) when big predators such as a tiger or a bear is around.

Lots of predators don't wait til you're dead. Casual Geographic will tell you all of them lol

Sure, obviously, when the babies are crying it means there excited, not shouting out in fear or shock. Wow, some people are so dumb.

1/2 This always gets mentioned and is treated as some terrible evidence to the cruelty of humanity, which is dumb. Being a doctor, even more so a surgeon means you have to weigh the risks of everything. anesthesia has been around since 1846, and medical science still doesn't understand WHY it works, they just know that it does. They also know that every medical intervention carries risk, including anesthesia. Healthy adults, can and do die as a result of anesthesia, all the time, due to a "bad" reaction, or just miscalculating the dose (natural red heads for instance, need 20% more anesthesia than anyone else) babies...are considerably more delicate! But babies, (for the most part) don't begin to form long term memories until they're 18 months old. So, in the event that an infant requires life saving surgery.....what do you really think should have happened?

2/2Tell already stressed out parents "hey, we're gonna have to torture your kid for a bit, otherwise they're totes going to die" or tell them "while we can't administer anesthesia, it's cool because babies don't feel pain"? The former would require a doctor, to explain again to the grieving parents, that "while we can't knock them out, and they're absolutely going to feel everything, it doesn't matter because they're never, ever going to remember it....and if we don't do it, you're going to have to buy a itty bitty widdle coffin" That's the reality, and logically, it's a very easy choice to make....but emotionally, people are often dumb.

I read that most doctors didn't really believe it - they just had no safe means to anesthetize infants, so they told the parents this lie to lessen anxiety or reluctance.

Wasn't this debunked already a few times and then some? The dose of the anaesthesia would be most difficult to observe and maintain and, therefore, only local was used, as far as possible, or something along those lines. It was not, and for sure not up to the time mentioned, believed that they "don't feel anything anyway". Who comes up with that sort of BS? And why? Is there anything above your usual anti-scientism, or the desire to not feel dumb in comparison? It resembles all those made up claims about some random person who is considered outstandingly intelligent, like Albert Einstein or so, doing some random weirdity, considerably stubborn in doing so, like wearing green socks whenever they eat potatoes, or ... so. Nah. Wasn't true then, isn't true now, and degrading the entire medical field by this, at least, justifies to, at least, imply that "they're dumb anyway, so when they claim masks or vaccinations work, just think about it - they thought that babies don't feel pain until after you were born." - seriously, can we end this?

There is one caveat to this which should make you feel a touch better. It takes about two years for an infant's brain to develop to the point it can form memories based on experience. What are called "Explicit" memories. So... those children (now adults) aren't able to remember the surgeries that were performed on them.

Shows how stupid humans really are.

They're born with nerves and pain receptors, right? So, which dumbass MAN decided they don't feel pain?

It was known they could feel pain, but it was thought that they could not remember trauma. Also back then they did not know how to aestheticize infants and were afraid of poisoning/overdosing them.

Heartbreaking! And I hear so many people say that circumcision doesn't hurt a baby. Maybe the same mentality.

They used to believe this about puppies in some veterinary practices, too. I hate thinking about that every time I see a dog with no tail. That's literally part of their spine that's lopped off... Last I recall seeing it done it was six days after a litter of rotties were born. Just...literally...hard snip. Granted, that was ten years ago--but still. (Source: I was a veterinary assistant.)

though it is fascinating that they can operate on a fetus while its in the womb

How evil and ignorant!

That's idiotic, of course they feel pain.

Ok so I know I’ll probably be downvoted, but I would like to respectfully suggest that if babies can feel pain after they’re born, they can probably feel pain before they’re born, AKA when people are aborting them and saying that they are just clumps of cells. Please someone tell me if I’m mistaken.

Surely this can't be true! It makes no sense--the baby would be screaming in pain!

Anyone who has ever said that giving birth is a beautiful experience has obviously never given birth.

My soul dog lost her fight with life last week. Our vet told us to communicate and keep talking to her until her heart officially stopped because her hearing would be the last to go.

Hmm. I had to Google it, so just leaving this here for others “Is oral sex illegal in Michigan? Sodomy laws generally prohibit oral and a**l sex, even between consenting adults. While most of these laws apply to both straight and gay people, they are primarily used against lesbians and gay men.”

Recently in Russia they've taken to digging up the freshly buried corpses of soldiers and eating them.

I don't care. It isn't hurting you. Consider - the reason it is all over your house is it is tiny molecules floating in the air. Therefore, you are breathing them. They didn't kill you when you didn't know that and they won't kill you now.