Read something the other day that kinda stuck with me:
“People won’t swim in a pool with a corpse in it but most people do wanna swim in the ocean that definitely has corpses in it. So there is a water to corpse ratio that makes it acceptable”
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@stux What's happened to https://pixey.org/, please? When I click on that link, I get this:
@adrian_k Currently I’m migrating the server
I’m sorry it takes longer then expected but we’re back soon
@stux same thing with insect bits in a loaf of bread and there are definitely insect bits in our breC
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it could also be about distance...
Oh, I know! Two pools 1 meter apart, with no way for water to go from one to the other. One of them has a corpse in it. Would people swim in the other one?
@stux homeopathic levels of corpse are acceptable AND ward off death,
@stux we were always taught to walk 30m upstream to check for dead sheep before drinking from a burn. In that distance the corpse water is well enough diluted.
It might not have been 30 metres but it doesn't really matter because what I always did was walk upstream a bit and drink water there which missed the point, looking back.
But with chlorine I expect if the corpse was at the other end of a 25m pool you'd be fine and if i knew they'd drowned in the last couple of hours - as opposed to dying of cholera a week ago, - in the slow lane I'd probably be fine with finishing my laps in the middle lane. Just as long as I know they're not going to drift into my path
@stux this ratio also applies to sex, poop, and urine.
People won’t swim in a pool with a corpse in it
Well, there goes my idea for a fun new waterpark.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/117496882290652705
I think this is pretty much a perfect metaphor for life within any given society.
It's just too bad half the population has now been persuaded by fascists that swimming with corpses in a bathtub is perfectly fine.
@stux It's basically exactly the same with food contaminants. There are small amounts in pretty much everything we eat. We evolved to deal with that most of the time.
@stux Perhaps the same goes for if someone has urinated in it too.
@lydiaconwell @stux someone has urinated in it, and snorted out their boogers. Have you ever noticed the unique gleam a swimming pool has? That's not the indoor lighting, it's people fat
@stux gruesome, but true.
@stux That’s why it’s referred to as a “body of water”.
@stux i guess “as far as you can see” is the approximate rule. (Assuming its not think fog ;)