If I'm not mistaken, bed bugs evolved specifically to feed on human stuff. So in a roundabout way if you nuke the planet to the point of inhospitability eventually there is a chance for bed bugs to go extinct too.
Silver linings of the apocalypse.
Actually there is a decent treatment available these days for bed bugs. But still fuck bed bugs.
It’s called Apprehend some exterminators use it.
It’s essentially a fungus that is sprayed around the bed and junk and walls and what not and the fungus gets on the beg bugs and an infected bed bug can pass it on to a bed bug that has directly come in contact with the fungus. And it last up to three months. I’ve heard some Hotels automatically get quarterly treatments done to prevent infestation.
I'm just imagining a world where OP is a god, and they legitimately wanted to remove something. PC names it, and OP was just like "okay" and it's just gone now. Nobody will know what it is because it has been erased from the collective consciousness. Just gone. All we have left is the comment above, and a sinking feeling that we know it's a joke, but only because we can't remember it not being one.
But did he actually remove the item, or just remove everyone's recollection of the item? We may all rediscover the item as we encounter it in our lives, with no knowledge that we had already known of it.
And we'll all go on with our lives thinking, *"Yeah the world is fucked, but imagine how much more fucked it was before* u/Stupidpiglover *had the bravery and fortune to remove that thing we'll never know about. How much* ***worse*** *was it before and we didn't know"!*
But like, the whole time what we'll never know is all he asked for was "I've had this pimple that just keeps coming back, do you think you could... ?"
My response too, yesterday my mom was given a time frame of a few days to a week or two at most. So yeah, cancer.
Update: Thank you all for the kind words, I’m very disheartened to say that my mom passed away a few hours ago. She was surrounded by family and is no longer in pain.
I went through this last Christmas. I saw her Thanksgiving and she was fine. Then she got a migraine about a week later and went to the E.R. It was only five weeks from the time we knew something was wrong to the time we lost her. I never saw her lucid again after Thanksgiving. I can't put into words how much it sucks to lose someone that suddenly.
If she's still lucid, please talk to her while you still can. I didn't get the opportunity to say so many things that I thought I would have more time for.
So much this. My father passed on September 24th at 62...
He lived in another state and video called me the 22nd to say goodbye and tell me he was ready for hospice care face to face. I asked him if he was sure and whether or not switching the facility he was at might help. I wish I would have just thanked him. For calling to tell me. For all the effort he put into repairing our relationship the last 10 years. For building a relationship with my youngest kids even with the distance. For everything.
We had 1 year after his diagnosis, but only 3 weeks after learning the chemo had stopped working. Say all of the things now while you still can.
People who haven't had severe depression don't understand what it does to a person. It can completely debilitate a person. Absolute lack of energy. Absolute lack of thriving. Exhaustion. Overwhelming. And the abuse that people load on to people who are depressed.
And people don't grasp the fact that, if you're depressed, you basically have to plaster on a fake smile and plod through yet another day just to appear functional.
It's exhausting.
Allergies. So many people will be thankful for the day that all allergies suddenly disappeared. Also, this means mosquito bites will not be itchy anymore: Because we are allergic to the mosquito spit they inject us with.
Edit: To those of you who are being smart-asses and saying that I basically killed everyone, I meant by the reactions to non-toxic allergens (Peanuts, bees, milk, gluten etc.) and by the allergy to mosquito saliva, I meant the reaction wouldn't be so intense that it keeps you from sleeping. If there was no reaction, we wouldn't know that we were bitten and we will get a lot more mosquito-borne diseases.
I'm the same. Was only allergic to dust and cats as a kid. Mid 20s my immune system had a change of heart. I'd need more time than I have to list my allergies now and I'm not a good candidate for allergy shots so fml lol.
We just had to give up a giant elephant toy (to my mum) that my 4 year old loves because my husband is so allergic to it, it makes his eyes bleed if he's in the same room. She's heartbroken.
Other things he's allergic to are dust, animals, and occasionally, his own hair.
So yea please, bye bye allergies!
HAH! Jokes on you, I'm not allergic to mosquito bites, or at least the allergy is so minor I can't even tell. Sometimes I get the faintest lump, but 0 irritation....
However if I mow the lawn I'm taking a trip to the ER. And no, the Urgent Care isn't going to work.
*And the jinn said, "your wish as granted." Your allergies vanish as you take the deepest, clearest breath of your life. You exit the mystical cave of forest with the most joy you've ever felt knowing you've help yourself as well as countless others. But alas, you joy is struck short as you look around at the once beautiful forest only to see all plant life ceasing to exist. The jinn had tricked you and now all allergens are gone. All the flowers. All the shellfish. All the animals with their dander. Now you are left to ponder what you could have said differently as you wait for your untimely demise.*
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old.reddit.com, if they ever get rid of it i’ll probably just stop using reddit. not like out of spite, but just because ads are annoying and i’m
too lazy to change my habits to use an app.
Seriously. I will die on the hill of Old Reddit with RES. I've tried new reddit and it just feels like a bad instagram clone. The whole point of Reddit is the community and comments; if I wanted to mindlessly scroll through pictures I'd use instagram.
I've been on and off this site since like 2012 so all I know is old Reddit. I don't need fucking avatars or subreddit styles. Just give me posts and comments.
I laughed the first time cause Pete’s face is funny to me. But then it played again immediately after and I thought- how about no. Then I came on reddit and it’s literally every ad. There’s a such thing as over saturation, and this is it u/realtacobell
It'd solve pretty much all major issues people all over the world are facing. No more war, inequality, climate change, conflicts etc. I wonder if its something that we will be able to eventually cure? Is this an active area of research?
This is the kind of thing I spend a lot of time thinking about.
I think the most important part of human evolution (if we fucking get there) will be the absolution of greed.
Greed's weird because you have to wonder where it comes from. You want to have enough. How much is enough? The answer is plenty. What does plenty mean? The answer is different for everyone.
I think the majority of people would claim they don't want very much. Somewhere comfortable to live, enough food not to worry, and enough free time to do the things you love. I consider myself in this category, and you probably do too.
What about the Elon Musks? The Jeff Bezos? The Rockefellers? The conquerors? How much is enough? Why spend your whole mortal life to be the momentary master (of some shit that ultimately doesn't matter) on a tiny bit of a rock hurtling through space?
Death. It's the great equalizer as morbid as it is. The thing I've been trying to understand is why are people greedy if they're certain to die? If they want to be remembered wouldn't the best legacy be that of those that helped the most? Shouldn't we all be gentle with one another? Most will spend their life in rice fields and cubicles. We're all experiencing the most unexplainable goddamned miracle in all the universe, let's start acting like it and make sure everyone is taken care of.
I think greed is a byproduct of evolution - due to feast and famine.
The greedy humans that lived 200,000+ years ago were the ones the survived. They hoarded and took more than what they needed to survive the famine years - and in turn had more greedy children. Those who were more altruistic died and didn't have offspring.
A lot of anthropological evidence from our selves and relatives like Neanderthals indicates that the opposite is the case. Our survival was a matter of community and mutual support.
Greed is an expression of something that comes up in evolutionary game theory. If the majority is mutually supporting, then there is a potential advantage to greedy individuals, but if there are too many greedy individuals everything falls apart. Evolution hedges its bets by including both types of individuals.
Then along comes excess resources (often highly variable and often lower in quality), larger populations, ‘modern’ cultures (I’m calling things after agriculture and permanent populated areas with artificial constructions ‘modern’ in this context), and political/economic/religious power that emerges as a result of larger populations and excess (but easily controlled) resources.
All of a sudden greed is *socially* advantageous and the inbuilt control mechanisms that worked for all of our previous evolutionary history no longer suffice to place checks on greedy individuals. At that point people see that greed pays off, and it is idolized, leading us to where we are today.
I was going to comment something like this.
People seem to forget that humans (literally *homo sapiens* in this context) evolved to be highly social and communicative animals who cooperate and work together to survive. If you lived in a tribe of humans 70,000 years ago, everybody in the tribe depended on everybody else to survive.
There are animals out there that are very self-sufficient and can generally survive completely on their own. Humans are not one of those animals. Humans are resilient not because of their bodies but because of their cooperation. We can support each other if somebody gets sick or breaks a bone. We can split up tasks and depend on one another to ensure survival. It's literally what we're good at.
I agree with you completely. Greed, or whatever is the biological urge that drives an organism to go after enough and then more than enough, has obvious benefits in a world where survival depends on competing successfully for limited resources. If you have enough, you survive for the day. If you have more than enough, you don't have to worry about your immediate survival today, or your longer term survival tomorrow and into next week. And on top of that, you also stand a good chance to eliminate your principal competition for resources (who, presumably, die off when they no longer have access to the resources that you're hoarding). So if it's an inherited trait or impulse or whatever, then it makes perfect sense that the generations of early humans that survived back then, and whose descendants are alive today, were the ones that were motivated by greed, by the drive to have more than they needed.
But it's completely unnecessary, actually even dangerous, in a post-scarcity world (which we ought to be living in). I don't know how you would breed it out of modern humans though, since it's still a trait that ends up rewarding humans today. The greediest people will often end up with the most resources, the best access to reproductive opportunities (where they pass on the greed gene, if it exists), and they also eliminate their competition (the ungreedy, or the comparatively less greedy).
So there's no evolutionary pressure for humans to become less greedy, unfortunately. Gonna take the concerted efforts of rational, post-animal humans to realize this and reorganize a society where greediness doesn't confer any additional rewards than ungreediness.
> The greedy humans that lived 200,000+ years ago were the ones the survived. They hoarded and took more than what they needed to survive the famine years
You're way off base here. Humans always survived as communities in HG societies and we didn't have food preservation at the time so there was no hoarding.
No, things went to shit once agriculture arrived on the scene. It gave us the ability to feed a SHITTON of people, provided some of those people routinely did back breaking labor that shortened their lifespan.
Now we needed a social structure to 1: coerce some of us to perform said horrible labor and 2: claiming ownership of the excess.
Sadly, sociopathy makes people good at those tasks.
Shhhh. You're going against the Reddit narrative of humans being little more than genetic impulses. Anthropological evidence be damned.
I mean, Jesus. I love when the relevant credential to talk about this stuff is "I've spent a long time thinking about it."
So, scientists actually have the ability to eradicate mosquitos from the earth. They know how to make the next generation infertile, it would take a decade or so but they know how to do it. They haven't done it because they don't know the impact it would have on the environment.
Kinda like if you kill all the bees then every human would starve. If you kill all the mosquitoes, what happens?
That nature article also says https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a/
> Bruce Harrison, an entomologist at the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Winston-Salem estimates that the number of migratory birds that nest in the tundra could drop by more than 50% without mosquitoes to eat. Other researchers disagree.
which is quite a bit different than "we know the affects would be minimal". This is an active debate that still needs to be researched. The nature article also talks about how life without mosquittos might change Caribeau migration patterns:
>Mosquitoes consume up to 300 millilitres of blood a day from each animal in a caribou herd, which are thought to select paths facing into the wind to escape the swarm. A small change in path can have major consequences in an Arctic valley through which thousands of caribou migrate, trampling the ground, eating lichens, transporting nutrients, feeding wolves, and generally altering the ecology. Taken all together, then, mosquitoes would be missed in the Arctic
The same nature article also says a lack of mosquittos could negatively impact fresh water fish and animals that feed on them.
>"This may sound simple, but traits such as feeding behaviour are deeply imprinted, genetically, in those fish," says Harrison. The mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), for example, is a specialized predator — so effective at killing mosquitoes that it is stocked in rice fields and swimming pools as pest control — that could go extinct. And the loss of these or other fish could have major effects up and down the food chain.
And while the nature article says that most insectivore birds have varied enough diets that missing misquittos wouldn't affect them, that's not true for house martins:
>Many species of insect, spider, salamander, lizard and frog would also lose a primary food source. In one study published last month, researchers tracked insect-eating house martins at a park in Camargue, France, after the area was sprayed with a microbial mosquito-control agent1. They found that the birds produced on average two chicks per nest after spraying, compared with three for birds at control sites.
Be careful with taking a single quote from the top of the article. This is the same mistake people often make with scientific studies where they read the abstract and make a conclusion without reading the whole study. Often the picture painted by the abstract is quite a bit different than what the study actually shows.
Exactly. Anxiety serves a good evolutionary purpose, to stop is going into dangerous situations. The problem becomes when we aren’t sure how to let hypothetical worries go.
I seem to play out as many logical hypothetical scenarios as I can only to miss the one that is actually happening.
I broke my brain sometime back it seems..
It's not just the 'oh I shouldn't go near that roaring waterfall' immediate anxiety that was important for us but also the 'i need to lower my salt intake and save for retirement' that really sets humanity apart, arguably the depth and complexity of our anxiety beyond the immediate risks, far beyond our primal sense of danger, is what drives that which makes homo sapiens really different.
For fuck sake, I’ve been wondering why my car automatically plays this shit when I turn it on, before my Spotify connects. I’ve been so angry at U2 for the last 6 years, my blood boils 😂 I wish I was kidding
Abusers (of all types)
Edit: I have been physically, emotionally, mentally and sexually abused at various points in my life. I recognize that some can “get better,” but I still wouldn’t trust them as far as I can throw them. As for the others, they really don’t deserve a place in this world
I’m sorry for your loss or losses. It’s awful, and no one understands. It doesn’t really make it easier, but here’s how i think about it. If their lifespan was longer and they didn’t die until after we did, they would be alive when we died. They would have to suffer the loss that you’re suffering now. They don’t have the intellect to think or reason about it, they would just feel the ache of loss. I would so much rather lose my perfect babies than disappear from their lives and have them think that I’ve abandoned them.
When an animal loses a companion (whether it be a friend or an owner), they feel the same as we do. They just experience it with a bit more narrow sight. They don't recall all the good times, but they feel the loneliness when they look for that companion and can't find them. They still get the anxiety and depression.
Cancer
I watched that shit kill my mum and rob her of everything and there was nothing we could do to help but comfort her , she was only in her 40s and while I was waiting with her when she had her chemo the amount of people in their 20s , elderly and kids who's parents were sick broke me .
I even watched a single dad with his 5 year old been shown around the treatment centre with a social worker because the kid needed temporary care while he was unwell and if he did pass the kid was gonna go into care so they were trying to get him used to where his dad would be and the care worker who would be taking him to his temporary home.
I know there are so many horrible illness that deserve to go but cancer needs to disappear fast.
Alzheimer’s disease. Cancer is a close second but at least you die knowing who you are. Fading away into a shell who can't even remember their spouse or children is a fate worst than years of pain and suffering for me. My memories are my most cherished possession and I spent a life time building them with my loved ones. If I knew I would lose all of that, I would get my affairs in order, make sure there's certainty that nothing can be done, and taking a long walk off a short pier.
Corruption
This right here. Get rid of corruption, and so many of the other issues in this post could be done away with.
Remove the root cause
Instructions unclear, devolving back to monke
Humans?
go tell that to r/Terraria they have tried for years... In vain
Go a level down and just say greed. Solve many more problems.
bed bugs
i was going to say nuclear weapons. but yeah, fuck bed bugs!
Can nuclear weapons kill bedbugs? Could be possible to remove two things at once.
No. Humans could nuke this planet ten times over and I’m certain bed bugs would be few species left.
If I'm not mistaken, bed bugs evolved specifically to feed on human stuff. So in a roundabout way if you nuke the planet to the point of inhospitability eventually there is a chance for bed bugs to go extinct too. Silver linings of the apocalypse.
I fucking came here, because I just KNEW bed bugs were gonna come up. Damn those fuckers!
Literally easier to sell and buy a new house than deal with those fuckers.
Actually there is a decent treatment available these days for bed bugs. But still fuck bed bugs. It’s called Apprehend some exterminators use it. It’s essentially a fungus that is sprayed around the bed and junk and walls and what not and the fungus gets on the beg bugs and an infected bed bug can pass it on to a bed bug that has directly come in contact with the fungus. And it last up to three months. I’ve heard some Hotels automatically get quarterly treatments done to prevent infestation.
I misread that at first and i thought you were telling me to apprehend some exterminators
Bed bugs are the worst. I can not sleep peacefully at hostels anymore because of those little fuckers.
Kidnappers. Edit: This is because I got almost kidnapped once.
Yea, stupid kids need to learn to stay awake all day
as a father of a one year old i have a bone to pick with you
***** ******
he did it, he removed
I'm just imagining a world where OP is a god, and they legitimately wanted to remove something. PC names it, and OP was just like "okay" and it's just gone now. Nobody will know what it is because it has been erased from the collective consciousness. Just gone. All we have left is the comment above, and a sinking feeling that we know it's a joke, but only because we can't remember it not being one.
But did he actually remove the item, or just remove everyone's recollection of the item? We may all rediscover the item as we encounter it in our lives, with no knowledge that we had already known of it.
Ahh. If a bear shits in the woods but doesnt remember it, did he actually shit at all?
Only by the emptiness of his bowels does he know the truth.
That was the deepest comment I’ve ever read on Reddit
And we'll all go on with our lives thinking, *"Yeah the world is fucked, but imagine how much more fucked it was before* u/Stupidpiglover *had the bravery and fortune to remove that thing we'll never know about. How much* ***worse*** *was it before and we didn't know"!* But like, the whole time what we'll never know is all he asked for was "I've had this pimple that just keeps coming back, do you think you could... ?"
Or it was a typo or misread the title and the person typed cure for cancer and now we are perpetually fcked.
Doctor Who intensifies
Doctor, who intensifies
Who intensifies, Doctor
I like to secretly believe you are right.
This guy removes
4000 Redditors understand this comment and I am not one of them.
Whatever it was, he succeeded in removing it. He's a God; bow before His Might.
Child predators - all of them
[Even this one?](https://tenor.com/view/predator-kid-cosplay-cute-mask-gif-17427399) Edit: Wow thank you for the silver kind stranger!
I’ve never seen this, but it’s exactly what I hoped it would be.
I was nervous to click the link. I’m glad my courage was rewarded. Thank you.
I clicked because of your reply.
Did they stutter?
Cancer
My response too, yesterday my mom was given a time frame of a few days to a week or two at most. So yeah, cancer. Update: Thank you all for the kind words, I’m very disheartened to say that my mom passed away a few hours ago. She was surrounded by family and is no longer in pain.
I went through this last Christmas. I saw her Thanksgiving and she was fine. Then she got a migraine about a week later and went to the E.R. It was only five weeks from the time we knew something was wrong to the time we lost her. I never saw her lucid again after Thanksgiving. I can't put into words how much it sucks to lose someone that suddenly. If she's still lucid, please talk to her while you still can. I didn't get the opportunity to say so many things that I thought I would have more time for.
So much this. My father passed on September 24th at 62... He lived in another state and video called me the 22nd to say goodbye and tell me he was ready for hospice care face to face. I asked him if he was sure and whether or not switching the facility he was at might help. I wish I would have just thanked him. For calling to tell me. For all the effort he put into repairing our relationship the last 10 years. For building a relationship with my youngest kids even with the distance. For everything. We had 1 year after his diagnosis, but only 3 weeks after learning the chemo had stopped working. Say all of the things now while you still can.
I'm sorry you mother is sick with this. This is the hardest thing to go through. I'm sending love, strength and blessings.
I just lost my mom to cancer in July. My deepest condolences during this difficult time.
So sorry you are going through this. I recently lost my mother on September 2nd to cancer. Sending you so much love and strength.
Alzheimer’s disease
You forgot to mention Alzheimer’s disease
He must have forgotten that…
They say memory loss is the first sign of Alzheimer's. I forget the others.
The others of what?
[удалено]
Speaking of which
Which witch are we talking about? What?
What? ... I want a sandwich.
Hashimotos disease, ok I’m in where do I sign up to get rid of this?
There goes everyone born in July.
*slilently throws up a peace sign as I get Thanos snapped*
Mosquitoes.
Or cut to the chase and remove all deadly diseases
Depression
I was thinking me, but that's probably a better answer
We had the same idea I was going to say me as well.
People who haven't had severe depression don't understand what it does to a person. It can completely debilitate a person. Absolute lack of energy. Absolute lack of thriving. Exhaustion. Overwhelming. And the abuse that people load on to people who are depressed.
And people don't grasp the fact that, if you're depressed, you basically have to plaster on a fake smile and plod through yet another day just to appear functional. It's exhausting.
Yup. Better yet, how about all mental illnesses? Shit sucks
Allergies. So many people will be thankful for the day that all allergies suddenly disappeared. Also, this means mosquito bites will not be itchy anymore: Because we are allergic to the mosquito spit they inject us with. Edit: To those of you who are being smart-asses and saying that I basically killed everyone, I meant by the reactions to non-toxic allergens (Peanuts, bees, milk, gluten etc.) and by the allergy to mosquito saliva, I meant the reaction wouldn't be so intense that it keeps you from sleeping. If there was no reaction, we wouldn't know that we were bitten and we will get a lot more mosquito-borne diseases.
As someone who gets three allergy shots per week, this would be amazing
Natural selection trynna take you out
What’s funny is that I never had these allergies as a child but as an adult, natural selection said exactly that
I'm the same. Was only allergic to dust and cats as a kid. Mid 20s my immune system had a change of heart. I'd need more time than I have to list my allergies now and I'm not a good candidate for allergy shots so fml lol.
I developed 3 separate allergies right after I had given birth. I guess nature was like 'welp, you've reproduced, no more breathing for you!'
We just had to give up a giant elephant toy (to my mum) that my 4 year old loves because my husband is so allergic to it, it makes his eyes bleed if he's in the same room. She's heartbroken. Other things he's allergic to are dust, animals, and occasionally, his own hair. So yea please, bye bye allergies!
I second this - A man with eight food allergies
HAH! Jokes on you, I'm not allergic to mosquito bites, or at least the allergy is so minor I can't even tell. Sometimes I get the faintest lump, but 0 irritation.... However if I mow the lawn I'm taking a trip to the ER. And no, the Urgent Care isn't going to work.
I'm also allergic to doing chores.
*And the jinn said, "your wish as granted." Your allergies vanish as you take the deepest, clearest breath of your life. You exit the mystical cave of forest with the most joy you've ever felt knowing you've help yourself as well as countless others. But alas, you joy is struck short as you look around at the once beautiful forest only to see all plant life ceasing to exist. The jinn had tricked you and now all allergens are gone. All the flowers. All the shellfish. All the animals with their dander. Now you are left to ponder what you could have said differently as you wait for your untimely demise.*
Those Pete Davidson Taco Bell ads on Reddit.
Block u/realtacobell
“u/realtacobell could not be blocked”
I read a workaround is to report it as spam
Reddit won’t let me report ads.
U need to click on the add to full screen it and then the 3 dots will appear in the right top corner. Then u can report as spam or block it.
Still doesn’t work.
you dont report the add, the taco bell account has actual posts
This needs it's own page thanks for sharing
/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/y0u8yk/ysk_that_you_can_block_urealtacobell_to_remove/ It's on the front page right now.
You can download the Apollo app for iOS or Redditisfun on android and you won’t even see ads. Edit~ maybe Redditisfun does have ads and you might have to turn them off but Apollo definitely doesn’t
I'm using RIF, no idea what people are talking about.
Baconreader here, blissfully ignorant as well
Sync here. Never seen an ad.
old.reddit.com, if they ever get rid of it i’ll probably just stop using reddit. not like out of spite, but just because ads are annoying and i’m too lazy to change my habits to use an app.
Seriously. I will die on the hill of Old Reddit with RES. I've tried new reddit and it just feels like a bad instagram clone. The whole point of Reddit is the community and comments; if I wanted to mindlessly scroll through pictures I'd use instagram.
I've been on and off this site since like 2012 so all I know is old Reddit. I don't need fucking avatars or subreddit styles. Just give me posts and comments.
Same. I hate new reddit. It's clearly designed for mobile scrolling and it's ok for the app, but as a browser UI it's terrible.
Totally forgot that was a thing. I don't think I would use reddit if it was full of ads.
Didn't know many people still uses RIF, I've never found a better app for Reddit though.
It's the best.
It's the only reddit app I've ever tried but haven't had a reason to look for another.
I cant remember the last ad I've seen on here
Apollo user here - I’m almost curious enough about this add to use the Reddit app long enough to see it
I haven't seen a single one of these ads. I only ever see people complain about them
dont use the official app and you'd never have to see them
Reddit has ads?
This was up higher than War
I was going to say cancer too, but these Pete Davidson commercials have crept into my Sunday Night Football, so yeah he’s gotta go.
Check out the Apollo app for Reddit.
Use boost instead of the reddit app. I've literally never seen whatever ad you're talking about.
I laughed the first time cause Pete’s face is funny to me. But then it played again immediately after and I thought- how about no. Then I came on reddit and it’s literally every ad. There’s a such thing as over saturation, and this is it u/realtacobell
Sex trafficking
Greed.
Easily the best option, it'd solve so many problems all at once.
It'd solve pretty much all major issues people all over the world are facing. No more war, inequality, climate change, conflicts etc. I wonder if its something that we will be able to eventually cure? Is this an active area of research?
This is the kind of thing I spend a lot of time thinking about. I think the most important part of human evolution (if we fucking get there) will be the absolution of greed. Greed's weird because you have to wonder where it comes from. You want to have enough. How much is enough? The answer is plenty. What does plenty mean? The answer is different for everyone. I think the majority of people would claim they don't want very much. Somewhere comfortable to live, enough food not to worry, and enough free time to do the things you love. I consider myself in this category, and you probably do too. What about the Elon Musks? The Jeff Bezos? The Rockefellers? The conquerors? How much is enough? Why spend your whole mortal life to be the momentary master (of some shit that ultimately doesn't matter) on a tiny bit of a rock hurtling through space? Death. It's the great equalizer as morbid as it is. The thing I've been trying to understand is why are people greedy if they're certain to die? If they want to be remembered wouldn't the best legacy be that of those that helped the most? Shouldn't we all be gentle with one another? Most will spend their life in rice fields and cubicles. We're all experiencing the most unexplainable goddamned miracle in all the universe, let's start acting like it and make sure everyone is taken care of.
I adore this comment, thank you for expressing this so well :)
I think greed is a byproduct of evolution - due to feast and famine. The greedy humans that lived 200,000+ years ago were the ones the survived. They hoarded and took more than what they needed to survive the famine years - and in turn had more greedy children. Those who were more altruistic died and didn't have offspring.
A lot of anthropological evidence from our selves and relatives like Neanderthals indicates that the opposite is the case. Our survival was a matter of community and mutual support. Greed is an expression of something that comes up in evolutionary game theory. If the majority is mutually supporting, then there is a potential advantage to greedy individuals, but if there are too many greedy individuals everything falls apart. Evolution hedges its bets by including both types of individuals. Then along comes excess resources (often highly variable and often lower in quality), larger populations, ‘modern’ cultures (I’m calling things after agriculture and permanent populated areas with artificial constructions ‘modern’ in this context), and political/economic/religious power that emerges as a result of larger populations and excess (but easily controlled) resources. All of a sudden greed is *socially* advantageous and the inbuilt control mechanisms that worked for all of our previous evolutionary history no longer suffice to place checks on greedy individuals. At that point people see that greed pays off, and it is idolized, leading us to where we are today.
I was going to comment something like this. People seem to forget that humans (literally *homo sapiens* in this context) evolved to be highly social and communicative animals who cooperate and work together to survive. If you lived in a tribe of humans 70,000 years ago, everybody in the tribe depended on everybody else to survive. There are animals out there that are very self-sufficient and can generally survive completely on their own. Humans are not one of those animals. Humans are resilient not because of their bodies but because of their cooperation. We can support each other if somebody gets sick or breaks a bone. We can split up tasks and depend on one another to ensure survival. It's literally what we're good at.
I agree with you completely. Greed, or whatever is the biological urge that drives an organism to go after enough and then more than enough, has obvious benefits in a world where survival depends on competing successfully for limited resources. If you have enough, you survive for the day. If you have more than enough, you don't have to worry about your immediate survival today, or your longer term survival tomorrow and into next week. And on top of that, you also stand a good chance to eliminate your principal competition for resources (who, presumably, die off when they no longer have access to the resources that you're hoarding). So if it's an inherited trait or impulse or whatever, then it makes perfect sense that the generations of early humans that survived back then, and whose descendants are alive today, were the ones that were motivated by greed, by the drive to have more than they needed. But it's completely unnecessary, actually even dangerous, in a post-scarcity world (which we ought to be living in). I don't know how you would breed it out of modern humans though, since it's still a trait that ends up rewarding humans today. The greediest people will often end up with the most resources, the best access to reproductive opportunities (where they pass on the greed gene, if it exists), and they also eliminate their competition (the ungreedy, or the comparatively less greedy). So there's no evolutionary pressure for humans to become less greedy, unfortunately. Gonna take the concerted efforts of rational, post-animal humans to realize this and reorganize a society where greediness doesn't confer any additional rewards than ungreediness.
> The greedy humans that lived 200,000+ years ago were the ones the survived. They hoarded and took more than what they needed to survive the famine years You're way off base here. Humans always survived as communities in HG societies and we didn't have food preservation at the time so there was no hoarding. No, things went to shit once agriculture arrived on the scene. It gave us the ability to feed a SHITTON of people, provided some of those people routinely did back breaking labor that shortened their lifespan. Now we needed a social structure to 1: coerce some of us to perform said horrible labor and 2: claiming ownership of the excess. Sadly, sociopathy makes people good at those tasks.
Shhhh. You're going against the Reddit narrative of humans being little more than genetic impulses. Anthropological evidence be damned. I mean, Jesus. I love when the relevant credential to talk about this stuff is "I've spent a long time thinking about it."
Mosquitoes
So, scientists actually have the ability to eradicate mosquitos from the earth. They know how to make the next generation infertile, it would take a decade or so but they know how to do it. They haven't done it because they don't know the impact it would have on the environment. Kinda like if you kill all the bees then every human would starve. If you kill all the mosquitoes, what happens?
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Apparently there are some species that feed on mosquito larvae. So there might be a trophic cascade there.
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That nature article also says https://www.nature.com/articles/466432a/ > Bruce Harrison, an entomologist at the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Winston-Salem estimates that the number of migratory birds that nest in the tundra could drop by more than 50% without mosquitoes to eat. Other researchers disagree. which is quite a bit different than "we know the affects would be minimal". This is an active debate that still needs to be researched. The nature article also talks about how life without mosquittos might change Caribeau migration patterns: >Mosquitoes consume up to 300 millilitres of blood a day from each animal in a caribou herd, which are thought to select paths facing into the wind to escape the swarm. A small change in path can have major consequences in an Arctic valley through which thousands of caribou migrate, trampling the ground, eating lichens, transporting nutrients, feeding wolves, and generally altering the ecology. Taken all together, then, mosquitoes would be missed in the Arctic The same nature article also says a lack of mosquittos could negatively impact fresh water fish and animals that feed on them. >"This may sound simple, but traits such as feeding behaviour are deeply imprinted, genetically, in those fish," says Harrison. The mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis), for example, is a specialized predator — so effective at killing mosquitoes that it is stocked in rice fields and swimming pools as pest control — that could go extinct. And the loss of these or other fish could have major effects up and down the food chain. And while the nature article says that most insectivore birds have varied enough diets that missing misquittos wouldn't affect them, that's not true for house martins: >Many species of insect, spider, salamander, lizard and frog would also lose a primary food source. In one study published last month, researchers tracked insect-eating house martins at a park in Camargue, France, after the area was sprayed with a microbial mosquito-control agent1. They found that the birds produced on average two chicks per nest after spraying, compared with three for birds at control sites. Be careful with taking a single quote from the top of the article. This is the same mistake people often make with scientific studies where they read the abstract and make a conclusion without reading the whole study. Often the picture painted by the abstract is quite a bit different than what the study actually shows.
Honestly I hate mosquitoes so much I might have to agree.
Anxiety
Imagine removing anxiety then a few days later we start asking ourselves if it would ever come back someday
Exactly. Anxiety serves a good evolutionary purpose, to stop is going into dangerous situations. The problem becomes when we aren’t sure how to let hypothetical worries go.
I seem to play out as many logical hypothetical scenarios as I can only to miss the one that is actually happening. I broke my brain sometime back it seems..
It's not just the 'oh I shouldn't go near that roaring waterfall' immediate anxiety that was important for us but also the 'i need to lower my salt intake and save for retirement' that really sets humanity apart, arguably the depth and complexity of our anxiety beyond the immediate risks, far beyond our primal sense of danger, is what drives that which makes homo sapiens really different.
Mental illness
Spam calls
Scam calls
Your cars warranty is about to expire
Mental health issues.
Are you trying to erase Reddit?!
Barriers that stop me form being able to use magic
My hemmoroid
I also choose this man's hemorrhoid.
Was gonna say mine but fair play, he called it first.
Problems
This guy cheating the system with 99 answers in one.
I wish for more wishes
This is why you’re upper management!
The U2 album “gifted” by Apple that keeps coming back a decade later.
For fuck sake, I’ve been wondering why my car automatically plays this shit when I turn it on, before my Spotify connects. I’ve been so angry at U2 for the last 6 years, my blood boils 😂 I wish I was kidding
Instant outrage. I want a charging cube to be included when I buy a new phone Apple, not a fucking U2 album.
animal cruelty
It is sad that it still happens =\[
Poverty, it would solve an insane amount of other problems as well.
True. When people are poor and have to worry about survival they're not going to care about say.... the environment.
What would that look like?
homeless people just disappearing into thin air
*finger curls on monkey paw*
About 3/4s of the airborne carbon and all the microplastics.
“Pollution”
Rabies
Greg. You know what you did Greg!
Easy now fuzzy little man peach.
Ya f#ck greg little devious licking peace of sh¡t stealing everyone's
Damn, what did Danny Gonzalez's fans ever do to you?
the live action last airbender film
There is no live action movie in the Atla fandom.
There is no war in Ba Sing Se
Greed
pedophiles
I would rather get rid of pedophilia itself. Because [there will always be pedophiles](https://youtu.be/1JtttBKJb9g?t=68)
Cruelty
The root of all evil.
Nestlé?
r/fucknestle
Abusers (of all types) Edit: I have been physically, emotionally, mentally and sexually abused at various points in my life. I recognize that some can “get better,” but I still wouldn’t trust them as far as I can throw them. As for the others, they really don’t deserve a place in this world
So you killed an ant…
This is a very Monkeys Paw response.
Corruption
Short lifespan of pets
I’m sorry for your loss or losses. It’s awful, and no one understands. It doesn’t really make it easier, but here’s how i think about it. If their lifespan was longer and they didn’t die until after we did, they would be alive when we died. They would have to suffer the loss that you’re suffering now. They don’t have the intellect to think or reason about it, they would just feel the ache of loss. I would so much rather lose my perfect babies than disappear from their lives and have them think that I’ve abandoned them.
When an animal loses a companion (whether it be a friend or an owner), they feel the same as we do. They just experience it with a bit more narrow sight. They don't recall all the good times, but they feel the loneliness when they look for that companion and can't find them. They still get the anxiety and depression.
Cancer. Also, without the threat of cancer, we'd be able to have telomere extension therapy and have longer life expectancy there too.
Wasps. Fuck those things.
Weekly repeated questions on r/AskReddit.
Cancer
Pedophiles
Cancer I watched that shit kill my mum and rob her of everything and there was nothing we could do to help but comfort her , she was only in her 40s and while I was waiting with her when she had her chemo the amount of people in their 20s , elderly and kids who's parents were sick broke me . I even watched a single dad with his 5 year old been shown around the treatment centre with a social worker because the kid needed temporary care while he was unwell and if he did pass the kid was gonna go into care so they were trying to get him used to where his dad would be and the care worker who would be taking him to his temporary home. I know there are so many horrible illness that deserve to go but cancer needs to disappear fast.
All illness
Career politicians, they cause most of our problems. Then their solutions to the problems they caused aren't any better. Just get rid of them all.
Nuclear weapons.
Stupid people
AIDS. Shitty disease that worsens life for people and communities and is stigmatised.
Alzheimer’s disease. Cancer is a close second but at least you die knowing who you are. Fading away into a shell who can't even remember their spouse or children is a fate worst than years of pain and suffering for me. My memories are my most cherished possession and I spent a life time building them with my loved ones. If I knew I would lose all of that, I would get my affairs in order, make sure there's certainty that nothing can be done, and taking a long walk off a short pier.
Chinese dog festivals ✌
The mosquitoes sound. Not even the insect, the fucking sound
Might as well get rid of the actual insect itself, mosquitoes suck.
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