Underrated reasons to be thankful V

(dynomight.net)

24 points | by numeri an hour ago ago

9 comments

  • ketanmaheshwari 3 minutes ago

    Eating cardamom as I read this. My go to spice to keep mouth busy and flavorful and stay away from junk food.

  • jstanley 15 minutes ago

    This one in particular stood out:

    > we also have lots of crazier tricks we could pull out like panopticon viral screening or toilet monitors or daily individualized saliva sampling or engineered microbe-resistant surfaces or even dividing society into cells with rotating interlocks or having people walk around in little personal spacesuits, and while admittedly most of this doesn’t sound awesome, I see no reason this shouldn’t be a battle that we would win.

    Are you sure that the potential for society to start enforcing these things upon us is a reason to be thankful?

    • kragen 7 minutes ago

      Sounds better than human extinction from bioweapons.

    • paganel 12 minutes ago

      A hopefully tongue-in-cheek entry, or I certainly hope so. Or the guy (or lady) who wrote this is an arrrr ZeroCovidCommunity regular on reddit.

  • GPerson 13 minutes ago

    I found this to be a disturbing read. Do not recommend.

  • kragen 21 minutes ago

    Yeah! Screw you, cobalt-60! And I'm sure glad I'm not two-dimensional, but maybe I could poop through my mouth like a sea anemone.

    • jstanley 10 minutes ago

      People say that 2-dimensional life is impossible because it's impossible to make a 2-dimensional digestive system.

      But you just need to make it work like a zip. The two halves of the body have interlocking hooks, and they move out of the way to let food pass through, and then reconnect.

      • kragen 9 minutes ago

        Yeah, Dynomight suggested that in the article.

        • jstanley 8 minutes ago

          Oops, I missed that!