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t1_iy2o9wi wrote

Consumption has you burning your sister’s heart and drinking it like it’s fight milk because Vampires? What a god awful time to have been alive.

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t1_iy2ps3o wrote

I just watched the episode of "Lore" about that yesterday. My grandmother and aunt died of tuberculosis back before WWII.

I had hot tub lung that lasted 6 months and that sucked too.

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t1_iy2r4bb wrote

Hmmm ...burning organs didn't work....color me shocked!

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t1_iy2zpax wrote

Yes, I too listened to the Lore podcast series.

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t1_iy36yrp wrote

That's some Skyrim alchemy-style nonsense right there.

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t1_iy39hna wrote

Ok... but - bear with me here - what if we now drink the brother's pancreas through a straw, then inhale their diced gall-bladders through our left nostril???

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t1_iy3qftn wrote

Pretty obvious who the golden child was in this family.

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t1_iy3rlxi wrote

So now we are experts on a fictional, crazy kind of "fake" being? How's that for a viable life styles interest.....

Which is crazier, the topic or the comment?

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t1_iy3s04o wrote

The greatest advances in human longevities came with good public health laws, Vaccines and antibiotics. As we see today with Covid Vaxes....

We now live TWICE as long as the average person in 1910. And we have few doubts that given medical advances coming in only 50 yrs. that will double again.

Many children alive today may well live to be 150. The effects on social security will be remarkable.

And then all that silly doom and gloom. We have more nonagenarians alive at present that EVER before in human history, as a consequence. And many of them fully functional, too.

Fully six of my parents' bros. and sis' lived to be in their 90's. Many of us now have 25 more yrs. to "mingle " with the female population.....

And the effects of collecting that much info, wisdom and experiences will be remarkable, too.

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t1_iy3yr1h wrote

Did you really need to learn that Vampires aren't real and that ashes can't cure TB?

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t1_iy466ru wrote

How downright medieval medicine was in the US/UK until fairly recently has always been bizarre to me. Ancient Egyptians managed to isolate breast cancer as a specific ailment and even attempted treatment through removal and cauterization of tumors way back several millennia earlier, yet as recently as 130 years ago we were doing this weird shit.

Hell, the fact that scurvy is a simple deficiency has been learnt and forgotten multiple times. How easily information is lost (or simply never widely disseminated to begin with) is creepy.

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t1_iy4je7m wrote

>Many of us now have 25 more yrs. to "mingle " with the female population.....

Another amazing fact a redditor pointed out was that, with all the porn on the internet, you have probably seen vastly more vaginas or dicks then anyone else in your ancestry. Going back in the day, even if you managed to see every vagina or dick in your village, you'd maybe manage to see a couple hundred vaginas/dicks in your lifetime. Now you can see a couple hundred vaginas/dicks an hour! From all over the world! I don't know why, but I think back on this fact way too often.

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t1_iy6t3j8 wrote

Actually, Mercy Brown's father didn't believe it. He had to be convinced by his neighbors to exhume her and let them do the ritual.

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