• ValiantDust
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    72 years ago

    Hm, interesting question. Dangerous in which sense?

    A kitchen knife can easily kill a person. A match might burn down a house. Everything that produces CO2 or other greenhouse gases is extremely dangerous for the whole world in the long term.

    • @maporita@unilem.org
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      You could make the same claim for salt, saturated fats or even water if you wanted to. Everything is a poison… it just depends on the dose.

      Our bodies actually need a certain amount of sugar . It’s why evolution built into us the craving for sweet things … sugar is instant energy and in the distant past that often meant the difference between life and death.

      I eat a lot of sugar, but I also run 70 miles a week and swim 5 so all that energy is not only consumed but required. If you like sugar maybe the answer is to increase your excercise rather than reduce your intake.

      • tider06
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        32 years ago

        True, but there’s a difference between natural sugars, like from a strawberry, and the processed sugars (or worse HFCS) you find in almost every item on the market these days.

        Exercise is helpful, but it’s hard to keep up when you don’t have time for it or the time to prepare your own meals all the time with fresh ingredients.

      • No we don’t need extra sugar. We can make our own sugar from carbs, protein, and fat.

        I think sugar is the only macronutrient we don’t actually need any of to survive.

        Most people don’t put in 1.5 to 2 hours of excersise a day, I’d be surprised if the average person does 1.5 to 2 hours a week. That is a big ask for the average person. I’d personally would rather just cut out my snacking and go to the gym 3 times a week.

  • @guylacaptivite@sh.itjust.works
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    Your car. Just think about the forces and mechanisms invovled for this to happen. Every single day we travel at 100km/h in our 2ton at least metal box surrounded by hundreds of other people in their equally large and heavy and fast machines in a space barely wide enough to react in case of an emergency(not even considering if most are actually ready to act in such a case. All of this with realistically little training. Not to mention most people don’t really pay attention while driving and certainly don’t consider the life of others while doing so. It’s so impersonal and dangerous. If it was a never heard of concept, individual cars driven by any normal person would be considered laughably stupid at the very best.

  • @Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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    532 years ago

    Capitalism. Most of the other (daily, specific) dangers out there are dangerous because someone’s making money off putting other people in danger. I’m including the military industrial complex, but also regular industries and the exploitation of vulnerable populations.

    • @Thisisforfun@lemmy.world
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      What would you call the military industrial complex of CCCP?

      Edit: I love that one reply is claiming it’s self defense, the other is claiming they’re capitalist

      • Dalek Thal
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        22 years ago

        …they’re capitalist. Tell me you’ve never lived there without telling me

      • @MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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        62 years ago

        Necessary to prevent invasions by imperialists and capitalists who feel threatened by successful socialist models or who are looking to exploit other countries.

        Imagine how much more they could have accomplished if they didn’t have to fear the very real threat of foreign invasion. Remember, they were invaded by foreign powers shortly after the revolution in 1918.