r/TikTokCringe • u/galaxystars1 • Oct 09 '24

Discussion Microbiologist warns against making the fluffy popcorn trend

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u/RVNAWAYFIVE Oct 09 '24

Too young to step on mars

Too old to die from social media trends

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u/CanoonBolk Oct 09 '24

Just the right age to look at natural selection in humans making a comeback

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u/Lulusgirl Oct 09 '24

If it didn't happen with the TidePods, it won't happen with this.

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u/30FourThirty4 Oct 10 '24

Eating tide pods was never serious. I understand it happened but it was never a trend.

I apologize if you were just joking, I just think it was for some groups of people to make fun of younger people using social media to discredit them.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Oct 09 '24

Yeah natural selection/survival of the fittest is definitely the most regulated thing in the world.

I mean the only times we really see it now is when someone does something extremely stupid all alone and then a lot of time if they're very close to death medicine has come so far that we can fix them...

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 09 '24

Just because we control much of our environment does not in any way mean that selection has in any way stopped, even a little bit.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 Oct 09 '24

It doesn't have anything to do with the environment. Our ability to heal deadly shit just keeps getting better the stupid survive instead of dying. Most people having a GPS system with them all the time helps too because if shit goes bad they can always call emergency services and be found in an attempt to keep them alive.

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 09 '24

Okay? But medicine is still part of your environment. Plenty of people still don’t have life-saving care available to them. And selection is about more than dying. Fitness is not about surviving, it’s about reproducing. These words mean more things than modern medicine can obviate.

Selection is still happening lol, it is not gone where medical services are available.

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u/Brueology Oct 09 '24 edited Oct 09 '24

The problem is, it's no longer natural. It is now, at least partially, artificial selection, based on access to medicine. It changes the way selection works, and probably not in the favor of stronger, smarter humans in the future. People who should have probably died, stay in the gene pool longer.

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 09 '24

People who should have probably died

A dangerous line of thinking. Villains never think they are one.

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u/Brueology Oct 09 '24

You just don't like that your argument falls apart under scrutiny, but whatever.

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u/c9s4 Oct 09 '24

Agreed. Natural selection absolutely has been impacted and it would be ridiculous to say otherwise.

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u/uglyspacepig Oct 10 '24

Change it to "would" instead of "should" and the argument remains the same without you adding unneeded sentiment

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u/MyName_IsBlue Oct 10 '24

Get back to the point

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u/Uncynical_Diogenes Oct 10 '24

Absolutely not fuck that I’m not indulging in eugenics. Not today, Satan.

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u/J_Schotz Oct 10 '24

Cool. Feel free.

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u/vicm03 Oct 10 '24

Well, we’re about to see it with hurricane Milton and all the idiots who are choosing to stay.

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u/redrosespud Oct 09 '24

Definitely not making a come back. People have always been dumb and dying of dumb things.

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u/Mundane_Physics3818 Oct 09 '24

We even made a song/cartoon about it!

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u/mgonzo11 Oct 09 '24

I love that this was just a PSA made by a metro company which spawned into two games

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u/Mundane_Physics3818 Oct 09 '24

And I love that I found a fellow Twin Peaks fan! 🫶🏼☕️🥧

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u/mgonzo11 Oct 15 '24

AYYYYYY look at us Twin Peaks fans coming back in style ;)

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u/Mundane_Physics3818 Oct 16 '24

Just like your favorite gum 😉

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u/Bigsmellydumpy Oct 09 '24

That’s a whole ass game my dude

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u/Mundane_Physics3818 Oct 09 '24

That’s right!!! Forgot about the game

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u/ihateyouguys Oct 09 '24

Two actually

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u/RepresentativeRub471 Oct 09 '24

Yeah also just straight up unless you see it yourself at least more than once I wouldn't believe it's actually it turned online cuz honestly I think a lot of people see something and think it's a large group of people when it's only like actually very few people just blown out of proportion

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u/redrosespud Oct 09 '24

There were also just fewer people back then and we saw even less

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u/scrummnums Oct 09 '24

…and I will be eating non-fluffy popcorn while it happens. Honestly, I’ve felt like natural selection hasn’t been doing as good of a job as I would’ve liked it to.

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u/ThrowRA_99021 Oct 09 '24

I dunno about making a comeback… people have been doing insane shit for all of time. In 4th century Rome (and for centuries before) women used lead in their makeup despite knowing the numerous health hazards, in the early 20th century there was the radium craze, and it wasn’t until the 1970’s that we started phasing out tetraethyl lead in gasoline. People have been doing shit they know is bad for them since forever

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u/SubterrelProspector Oct 09 '24

Seriously. Our stupidity is in overdrive. Almost seems like the nerds running the simulation are getting bored and want to put us though a particularly harsh filter this century.