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Cake day: July 25th, 2026

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  • I can’t remember where I read this, but if carefully managed, humanity, in a highly controlled environment, could start off with as little as around 36 individuals. But population and reproduction would have to be highly controlled for dozens of generations before we could breed freely. this is all purely from a genetic standpoint.

    And, of course, we would have to be in an environment where we wouldn’t worry about food or pathogens or predators, or anything else that might be a threat to our survival— including each other, or, possibly, ourselves.

    The comment you were responding to is estimating a necessary population that takes into account a lot of other environmental factors.





  • These sorts of attacks rely on a person finding themselves in a pretty shady situation already. You would have had to responded to some shady Web link or some shady email, and already clicked on a few shady links to get to the point where you were screen sharing with some bad actor somewhere. This exploit would have to be run on someone who was already pretty far down the rabbit hole.

    If you’re pretty careful, you would never get started in the first place.

    In fact, sometimes you will see these reports, and it turns out that these exploits exist only in a lab where they tested it, and haven’t been discovered in the real world






  • As far as I’m aware, the only other drug class aside from alcohol, whose withdrawals can kill you are benzodiazepines.

    I was in rehab once with someone who had a terrible Xanax addiction. They had to wean him off, and he still had psychotic episodes where he would hallucinate some very bizarre things accompanied by these terrible panic attacks while they weaned him off, not to mention the seizures he would have.

    They eventually stopped, but the first few weeks he was there were an absolute nightmare for him.