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[–] [email protected] 115 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Every creature that had ever breathed oxygen, dies. That's a 100% mortality rate.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Every creature that hadn't breathed oxygen also dies. Can't live with it can't live without it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

A necessary evil

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 110 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Your body is essentially an oxidation reaction that it ponders its place in the universe.

A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A slowly burning fire that pays taxes.

That's poetry. Nicely done.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yes. Oxygen does degrade our bodies. Unfortunately, we also need it to stay alive. Life be like that.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Rust on the Myrtle Beach ferris wheel has also been shown to reduce fertility levels of crabs nearby, causing a dramatic drop in their population and California Bill 34 was passed to drastically limit how many can be caught, devastating the local fisheries!

For more information, Google "Rust ferris crab rule 34"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Wait a minute, something feels off...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I googled this and that's enough internet for today.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

Just eat enough antioxidants to flush all of the oxygen out of your body!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jeez, imagine coding in rust, that can't be good for you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

there are three constants in life.

taxes, rule 34, And oxidation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

the fact that I made a rule 34 joke about this without even seeing this comment is so great

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

great minds think alike, or something.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

HOW DARE YOU BAD MOUTH RUST LIKE THAT! Rust is natural, and isn't anything bad. Let your body rust, and accept it's warm embrace.

!/s!<

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried doing it in Rust?

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

I bet you sheeple also drink dihydrogen monoxide every day!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

Seriously, though, when those blue-green fuckers came up with oxygenic photosynthesis and started shitting oxygen all over the place they killed practically everything else on the planet, the bastards. Paleontologists call it the Oxygen Catastrophe or Oxygen Holocaust.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Be sure to drink plenty of Coke to dissolve the rust your body builds up from breathing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Not just drink, inhale.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

We joke but oxygen is a caustic poison and when it came on the scene, evolution practically had to start over

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jeez man this oxygen addiction is too great cant withstand 30 seconds without oxygen

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I can do at least 45 seconds up to a full minute.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If oxidation didn't happen, you'd suffocate. 😌

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that there one of them... "forever chemicals"? 😂

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Never trust atoms, they make up everything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I've also heard that electrons in them cannot be relied upon - especially to be anywhere that they say they will (instead, they zip off to the other side of the whole galaxy/universe, then before you can tell anyone they're gone, they are back again!) :-P.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This isn't wrong. Don't put oxygen on a pedastal, it's toxic stuff.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I mean, it wouldn't stay on the pedestal anyway. It would just float away.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Wait until OP learns about dihydrogen-monoxide.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Holding my breath from now on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So I know it's a joke, but isn't this why dietary antioxidants are good for you, is because they literally help inhibit the oxidation of your body?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

Oxygen ravages electrons all day at the end of the electron transport chain and nobody bats an eye, but you steal one pair off some DNA and everybody loses their minds!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

That's why breathing pure oxygen is bad idea

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This but unitronically

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oxygen is one of the most reactive gases. It can burn iron at 100°C.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It can burn diamond at 720 °C, what do you think it'll do to soft tissue over the course of an entire lifetime. Things helping aerobic life survive are
a) partially consisting of partially oxidized polymers in the form of carbohydrates (remember, the only thing that cannot burn is what has already been burned);
b) oxygen's peculiar, natural triplet state which greatly slows down its kinetics compared e.g. to its horrible relative, ozone.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Sodium is a dangerous explosive, choride is a poisonous gas, yet we put the mixture of two into our food.

Raise awareness of sodium-cloride!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Just iron try to protect life from Cyanobacteria. The war is over, but it fights on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought this will somehow relate to rust programming language

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I mean it's not wrong, there's a reason antioxidants are a thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Makes me think of the DHMO awareness campaign

https://dhmo.org/facts.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Oxidative stress is a major factor in health and longevity. People who stop breathing oxygen before dieing generally live a bigger proportion of their lives healthy on average.

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