• LOGIC💣@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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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      2 days ago

      (While chewing lettuce) “Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”

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      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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      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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      16 hours 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.

      Edit: /s for the simpletons below 👇

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        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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          18 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