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FUCKRedditMods@lemm.ee 9 months ago
R/accidents and r/darwinawards really ground me in the present and confront me with my mortality. Curiously enough I think watching strangers die on the internet has been beneficial to my mental equilibrium (not gore stuff, mind you, that’s decidedly un-beneficial).
Some of them are like finaldestination shit where you literally weren’t doing anything wrong or risky and then bam, life’s over for you by sheer astronomical-chance happenstance—but some of them they def fucky wuckied
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I had the same reaction to Narcos, you see twenty people get hosed down with a TEC-9 at a stoplight and you start to kind of expect it to happen to you.
To my surprise, I was sort of like “well, what the hell else am I gonna do?” and it was calming.
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 9 months ago
If there’s one way I’m definitely not expecting to go, it’s being hosed down with a tec-9 at traffic lights
More, maybe, hosed down with Dijon mayonnaise and trampled by ravenous goats
LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Essentially nobody under the age of 50 dies, especially in the western world: ourworldindata.org/…/number-of-deaths-by-age-grou…
Having learned this lets me quickly resolve thoughts of “what if I die” or “what if this person who is important to me dies” because I can reasonably predict whether that death will happen soon.