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If I’m to believe that second person didn’t misspeak, they had “mental breakdowns” with an “s”, so multiple breakdowns, over the thought that their eating lettuce could cause a nuclear apocalypse.

They must really like lettuce. If I had a mental breakdown over the fear that my eating a specific food would cause untold human death and suffering, including my own, I would likely not eat that food again until I could convince myself it was safe.

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lime@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
(While chewing lettuce) “Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”

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- SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Would you mind doing that more over towards Washington DC, please? TIA.
  
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  - lime@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Tactical salad, lol.
    
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TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
How dare you add common sense to our imaginary and greatly embellished struggles!

The audacity of this guy, I almost died of Asperger!

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pigup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Maybe after the first few mental breakdowns, they could have maybe just gone on the internet may be kind of like, I don’t know, learned more. So they were saying they were just so sure that they could accidentally split atoms and they didn’t question why there weren’t nuclear explosions going off at every restaurant hundreds of thousands of times per day.

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- SharkyAttack@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Ah yes, name calling. What a mature way to handle the situation.
  
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- SharkyAttack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You understand that there are a lot of people alive before the internet existed, right? And if this person is relating a story from their childhood, and they’re anywhere over like 35 years old, us old people couldn’t just “go on the internet”.
  
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  - Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    And even if you did go on the internet, there wouldnt be any answer to the prompt “does chewing salad risk splitting atoms” on yahoo or altavista. The search engines where not “smart” enough to parse deeper in the question nor where there enough “random trivia” answers online
    
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Anivia@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I would likely not eat that food again until I could convince myself it was safe

I guess you did not grow up with parents that forced you to clean up your plate before leaving the dinner table

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