PixabayTime for a reality check, folks. We’ve been taught that the world’s a scary place and that things we readily assume to be true, are actually quite rare. Things like:
__________________________ Successful restaurants – most restaurants close within 6 months. The majority left close within 5 years. People think if they have a good idea it will work. Watch some of those save my restaurant shows. These people have never run a business before. I don’t care if you are running a mom and pop, a McDonald’s, or a 5 star restaurant at the end of the day it is all about profit and loss. And if you don’t have any working business experience you will not succeed no matter how good your idea is.
– u/Purplechunkymonkey
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People giving away drugs to kids at Halloween, Why would they when they could potentially sell it?
– u/Being_grateful
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Hacking things without any type of interaction from the victim. Like media shows people hacking into mainframes with a command prompt, but the majority happens with social engineering and people just being stupid online.
– u/crackerjeffbox
_____________________________ Yeah it’s funny when you learn about some of the most famous hackers and realize they didn’t do anything technical they just dumpster dived and tricked people into giving up their information.
– u/Falcon84
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PixarHelium.It’s extremely common in the universe, but quite rare on Earth. Only available in our upper atmosphere, or trapped underground. When we run out, we’re out. The next best place to get some would be to mine the goddamn Moon.
– u/openletter8
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Being attacked by a shark.
– u/exocet2647
_____________________________ IIRC you are more likely to be killed/crushed by a cow than a shark.
– u/Jani-v
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ABCLots of death types ; eaten by shark (or killed by any wild animal really), airplane crash, being shot (kinda depends where you live), etc …Fear the mosquitoes and your own body in first.
– u/Maki_Thenaee
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Saving someone’s life with CPR. Resuscitating someone with either CPR or a defibrillator I think are under like 3% success rate.
– u/Omniwing
____________________________ The stats are poor representations of the realities but you are correct. CPR is mostly a lost cause. It works when three factors come together just right: 1. Start immediately from time of drop. 2. Defibrillate within 2 minutes 3. Cause of arrest is reversible.
– u/Lone-lemming
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PixabayKidnapping of children by complete strangers.The vast majority of Amber Alerts have stemmed from abductions relating to custody battles or perpetrators otherwise known to the victims.
– u/SmoreOfBabylon
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Catching on fire. We did the “stop drop and roll” drill at least twice a year in elementary school and I’ve never seen it happen in person.That and quicksand…
– u/gore_schach
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There isn’t that much gold in the world and the total amount mined in the history of the world would fit into a couple of Olympic sized swimming pools.
– u/Deathstroke317
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PixabayPeople getting wealthy with their own business: Normally they don’t bring anything new and even luck can affect the outcome.
– u/WorldBlackened
_____________________________ Or that you can start a business and just sit back and collect a paycheck. Anyone I know with a business worth a damn is there at least 50 hours a week and often much more than that.
– u/spaceman_slim
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Social mobility. They tell you from a young age that if you just work hard you will move up in life. The truth is most people work hard to end up right around where their parents were.
– u/IEATHOTDOGSRAW
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Photosensitivity in epileptics. When I say I’m epileptic, most people automatically assume that flickering light in the corner of the room is going to set a seizure off or something. It’s a relatively small percent of people with epilepsy that are actually affected by flashing lights and patterns. It doesn’t affect me yet even my closest friends still think it will cause one.
– u/Old_man_at_heart
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SourceBig Dicks – Not trying to boast about it (really). But I wish more people would understand that having a big dick is not that great. May sound manly as fuck and extremely desirable by your partners or that you will get a lot more sex because of that, but when you can´t have sex with the girl you actually love because it litterally causes extreme pain to her it aint that fun, and your sex life will be a lot less interesting and more about trying to be as gentle as you can.
– u/_Didds_
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Getting attacked by any predator, whether it be a wolf, bear, shark, or mountain lion. The fear of these extremely rare attacks actively inhibits their conservation, and inspires crazy people to kill them so they can feel macho. Humans are not part of the regular diet of virtually every carnivore, with the exception of some crocodiles.Herbivores are far more likely to attack you, but people don’t seem to be as worried about moose or hippos.
– u/CosmicPaddlefish
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Being made fun of for being out of shape at the gym.
– u/6offender
____________________________ I have never known anyone at the gym to mock people for putting in the effort, always been supportive. The only people who I have seen mocked are the guys who peacock around the gym.
– u/ImBillPurdy
