Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it.

• shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I could step out to check my mailbox and get smeared by an inattentive driver. In all seriousness, I’m more afraid of slipping in my shower and breaking my neck. Instant death or living out my life having a nurse dig shit out of my ass? (My niece did that for a living.) Not too worried about a little mold in my jam.

  Some y’all’s “risk vs. reward” mechanisms are utterly broken. Can’t blame ya! We didn’t evolve to calculate risk in the modern world.

  tl;dr: Take risks. Life is not worth living in fear, not worth calculating infinitesimal odds.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    risk: go blind

    reward: eat…store bought jam on burnt toast…

    not sure if we have the fucked up risk vs reward here champ.

    it’s all fun and games for some people until you go fucking blind permanently.

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Risk: .0001% chance a bad thing happens.

      We’re not talking about your cousin’s sketchy moonshine here.

      Are you afraid to get out of bed? Falling 2.5’ imparts more energy to your body than getting shot with a .45ACP bullet.

      Seriously, how does one navigate the world calculating every bad thing that could occur? Scooping a speck of mold out of my jam doesn’t move the needle on my risk meter. I cannot live in a “zero risk” world.

      Walked a 2-mile round trip to the store today, orders of magnitude more risky than flicking a bit of mold out my jam. And BTW, I have “emphysema light”, doctor’s words. I’m not exactly a tough guy.

      How will you react when faced with real risk? I’ve saved my own life twice, arguably three times. Will you curl into a ball? “NOAWW! The jam might blind me!”

      Having some science education, I choose not to live in fear.

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        what is it with you people. you make figures up in your head and spit them out like facts.

        you are so sure of yourselves that you’re willing to take a risk for a pointless reward.

        I bet you’re the kind of guy with tattoos all up and down your greasy arms to show how “tuff” you are. you probably drive a shitty dodge ram with a hemi in it and “roll coal on the libtards” with truck nuts on it.

        I’m almost positive you refused to wear a mask during covid just because you “ain’t scared of no covid”.

        I have risked my life jellyroll. I didn’t risk my life for something stupid or for myself. I risked my life to save my family in a house fire. I risked my life to pull a person out of a burning car. I risked my life to stop a shit ass pitbull from attacking some kid.

        that’s what a reward is you walnut. a risk taken that is equal to the reward.

        go act tough somewhere else while you suck down methanol you moldy jelly bitch.

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