Jpopy@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoEvery generation has some product/ingredient that they didn’t know was dangerous at the time: tobacco, lead, asbestos, etc. What is that item for this generation?message-squaremessage-square248fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down10
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareEvery generation has some product/ingredient that they didn’t know was dangerous at the time: tobacco, lead, asbestos, etc. What is that item for this generation?Jpopy@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square248fedilink
minus-squarepiece@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoIt’s an old (early-internet?) joke iirc. And yes, I think that’s the answer
minus-squareislandofcaucasus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoOh shit, I was thinking there was no way that hundreds of thousands of people did from drowning every year, but they actually do. WHO estimates that every year over 200k people die from drowning
minus-squaresadbehr@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYea I did my 10 seconds of research before I quoted my number! I could have said ‘200k’ but ‘hundreds of thousands’ sounds much more dramatic don’t you think? Which is the whole point of the Dihydrogen monoxide thing.
It’s an old (early-internet?) joke iirc. And yes, I think that’s the answer
Oh shit, I was thinking there was no way that hundreds of thousands of people did from drowning every year, but they actually do.
WHO estimates that every year over 200k people die from drowning
Yea I did my 10 seconds of research before I quoted my number! I could have said ‘200k’ but ‘hundreds of thousands’ sounds much more dramatic don’t you think? Which is the whole point of the Dihydrogen monoxide thing.