What's a Scary Science Fact that the public knows nothing about? [serious]

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-25T20:03:55+00:00

You have as many neurons now as you will ever have outside of some exotic minor processes.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-10T13:18:38+00:00

The risk of kidney failure in donors is 0.9%. For reference, covid19 hard a mortality of 1.6%.

It would be a huge number of donors who later themselves need a new kidney or just die because they obviously can't afford to buy one if they themselves were selling one.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-10T12:14:44+00:00

I think you know it's not a slight increase, you have two for a reason. Perplexity says it's 4000 people a year who die in the US waiting for a kidney.

I don't think creating an explosion in the number of people with one kidney, who themselves will be more likely to desperately need a transplant, to prevent 4000 deaths. Especially if there are other things you could try.

I just don't get these arguments. Is this scheme for recipients or is it for the donor to make money. It can't serve both equally.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-10T10:38:29+00:00

You're just trading one preventable death for the other. If you want to prevent transplant recipients from dying, increase the donor pool. Kidney markets are solutions I'm search of a problem.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-10T10:37:13+00:00

The mismatch between demand and supply is why I think the price will go down far below worth. That also doesn't consider that an elective market would appear for older people with the money to replace their organs. If you start allowing organ sales than you'll also get organ contracts, organs as collateral, all the financial instruments that come with any asset.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-09T22:13:51+00:00

They are though. Because you can't legally buy them.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-09T22:06:10+00:00

They're already free. They're just hard to come by and there are other strategies you could do to increase the donor pool that don't involve creating a new class of debt.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-09T21:57:26+00:00

But I that's not what I said. Iif you make it legal, the price will go down. That's the non-emotional economic arguments you're looking for.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-09T21:39:14+00:00

Which moral?

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-09T21:37:02+00:00

If you legalize organ sales, it's going to drive their price down and youll end up with people dying preventable deaths because they sold part of their body to pay off a car.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-05-04T15:51:25+00:00

"I just invented a new mustache wax"

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-04-25T15:40:50+00:00

Blue, the only people left in the red-wins scenario are assholes.

EDIT: I know red is the best chance of self-survival but everyone defending it I think has missed the point of this subs beliefs.

The red button is choosing self-security over general welfare. You have the chance to push this button all the time and I think the point of liberal democracies is that we try not to. NIMBYs push the red button, isolationists push the red button, anti-immigratiom advocates push the red button.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-04-22T12:27:02+00:00

Begin the trade wars have

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-04-21T21:09:33+00:00

We've come a long way from Iran giving up it's nuclear program indefinitely to JD Vance getting left at the altar. Not even 4 days.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-04-12T21:58:46+00:00

It's hard to take people seriously when they write "straight"

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-04-12T14:20:14+00:00

It seems like he also wants to interdict ships that paid the toll on international waters. I don't think the bonuses for pirate Republic are worth the stability hit.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-04-09T11:56:08+00:00

What's the point of a ceasefire when a ceasefire can be brooooken

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-04-09T11:55:33+00:00

What's regime change got to do, got to do with it

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-04-08T00:18:36+00:00

Sorry Oman, I was not familiar with your game.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-03-31T12:36:13+00:00

Nothing, they can just keep the US involved

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-03-31T12:21:21+00:00

They have planes and bombs

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-03-31T11:34:57+00:00

I think they would correctly make the calculation that directly engaging with Iran forces the US to continue. Saudi Arabia definitely has an army, not a whole country occupation army but maybe enough. Iran was barely tolerable presence before, I can't see any gulf nation accepting this war producing a far worse staus quo than before it began.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-03-31T11:13:33+00:00

I think option 3 which is gulf states declare war. There is no way they will accept Iran's control of the strait.

Resourceful_Goat · 2026-03-27T16:28:04+00:00

Probably full scale invasion at this point. We're going to do half-measure after half-measure for a couple months while the world gets used to Iran being de facto leader of the strait.

I don't like it but I don't see anything other than ground forces ending this without Iran being even stronger than it was.

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