What is a piece of information that you wish you never new?

Lanky_Pomegranate530@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 56 points –
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How animals that are grown for food are treated on a large scale.

It's truly horrific. Once you've seen pigs clambering over each other and screaming in terror as they're lowered into a pit of carbon dioxide, or live chicks being dumped into an industrial macerator, or chickens dying on the floor in their own waste, unable to move due to their size, or newborn calfs being cut out of their mothers and killed in the slaughterhouse, it's impossible to unsee. At the end of the day, I'm glad I have seen it, because I'd rather know what happens than live in ignorance and continue to support these practices.

It is so important that more people not only know what is happening there but see it. The dominion movie on YouTube is great for that. It was live altering.

That all things eventually die. I have an ongoing existential crisis ever since I found out that I would die one day. Earth would one day be inhabitable, the Solar System would eventually become a cold dark place lacking the sun's energy, humanity would one day be extinct, the universe would one day end. There would be no record of our existence.

But what's worse is that we may never settle on another planet. We're already running out of time. Climate change is going to kill us all.

That’s why I occasionally relent that nihilism is the only reasonable way to approach day to day life. Just have to accept that everything is temporary and someday we all burn. It makes life easier and everyday problems seem much more trivial once you accept that nothing matters. Or maybe I’m just crazy, who cares, right?

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I've had this same crisis for the last few years. I mean, any time I've thought of death in my life, it would give me that dread and sadness for a few days, but ultimately it would pass and I'd continue living in blissful ignorance. However, in the last few years -- mostly since my first kid was born -- it's been this lingering sadness that I can't escape. Life just seems so pointless. If there's nothing after death, no purpose, no reason for existence, then why does anything matter at all? As you say, one day we'll all cease to exist and if there are other beings, they will never know we were here -- and even if they find traces of us, does it even matter? We're gone and our reason for existing is to just live and die and be done. That's infuriating to me.

And so far, all the things people have said to me to try to help means nothing to me. "When you die, you won't care, because you'll be dead." Yeah, exactly. But I'm alive now and that fucking sucks knowing that I'll just drift into nothingness. "You cause ripples in your life, like a lake, and you will live on through that, through your kids, your friends, etc.." Cool. But one day, they'll all be dead, too. And even ripples in a lake eventually dissipate. "Yes, we'll eventually all go, but that's why life is so special! The fact that you exist is so extremely unlikely. It's a gift." Yes, I will try to enjoy life and make the most of my team because if I have to be here, I don't want to make myself and others around me miserable, but it still won't matter in the end how good of a life I lead because eventually it will all end.

Lately I've been saying, I've given up on life, but not in a suicidal way. I've just sort of accepted that it's all pointless, and that makes that sadness just linger. So I'll just go along, trying to enjoy life, with the cloud of death looming on the horizon.

What's worse is that we shouldn't settle on another planet. We are running out of time here for a reason and without learning something from it we'd only do the same to another planet. And then another. And another. We'd never end and we'd never learn.

Climate change is nature's payback.

Now that's a misconception, climate change won't kill us, it will only kill most of us. If you think there is any chance for it to literally wipe out all of humanity, you

  1. are doompilled
  2. severely underestimate how durable the human race, as a whole is. We are literally worse than cockroaches. But hey guys, don't get too calm either. You, as a person, will still most likely suffer, in the event of shit getting seriously out of control (which it probably will at one point).

Climate change will definitely kill me. Climate change cause instability, there will be rioting. I live in the US and people are very xenophobic especially if there's chaos, they'll first target immigrants like me. All minorities will be at risk There are armed racists that will just start murdering anyone they don't like.

Don't be too stressed. They've demonstrated that time arises from matter. From "outside," our universe is like a giant book, and time is like pages. Everything that ever was or will be is there. We just can't can't perceive it that way since we're trapped inside.

Block universe means that forgetting my Bitwarden password was always meant to be? 😥

Btw this isn't my "main" account, I got locked out of my main because the password is inside my Bitwarden vault, which I don't have the password to. 😬 What a shitty universe, such a shitty fate.

After a grey out in the weight room, I lost my fear of death when, I realized that when I die, I'll be the last person to know about it.

It's unfortunate what our descendants will have to endure but we can do our best to prepare them for it!

universe would one day end.

On the bright (heh) side, it is possible to "harvest" black hole energy. That gives life more time to.. well be around. Kinda cured my terror in that regard.

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Human centipede. Very NSFL. Don’t look it up unless you know a technique that allows you to selectively forget what you saw there. If you do, please let me know how to erase that thing from my mind.

after you watch the Human Centipede movie, watch the South Park Human CentiPad episode.

Someone reading this comment is about to find their new fetish

To know this basically for sure, is much worse than anything in the movie itself.

Most nsfl film I've watched was Irreversible

I’m not sure if I should even ask….

French film that takes place in reverse... You find out at the end of the film the reason for all the violence... Whole film is brutal

Sounds like the kind of thing that makes you watch a Saw film as a visual palate cleanser.

The movie was kinda meh, but interesting idea really.

According to my wife: Basically everything is covered in tiny bugs. Skin, carpet, clothing, the lot.

I mean, depending how small you're talking it's kinda right

I'm just here to say I refuse to read any of these comments lmao

McNutty. Don't Google it. Man shoots himself on stream and you see everything. For as much shock porn I ingested in the late 00s, none of that fucked me up like that.

So, nothing to do with The Wire, then? Got it.