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Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by jugg1es »

dokem wrote: post #92
jugg1es wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found my son floating in the pool at a beach rental house when he was 3 (the pool door was broken). I managed to revive him with CPR and he's totally fine now. Years later, I still feel trauma from it. I often think about what my life would be like if I had found him a minute later. I feel deeply for your neighbor.

You should be proud. Bringing your kid back like that. Incredible.

It's impossible to describe the feeling of your kid coming back to live in your arms.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by michaelcampbell »

corobo wrote: post #36
explodingwaffle wrote: post #26

22 is far too young. I've been watching his videos since 2017- the picture in today's video of him in a hospital bed with his 10 million subscriber play button absolutely destroyed me. He used to joke all the time about hitting 10 million subscribers as if it could never happen, and the fact that it did is a monument to all the time and effort he put in- should've lived to 100 million. A reminder to us all- life is p…

Christ, 22. That's fucking brutal.

That's my son's age, and he was into minecraft in a big way a few years ago. Not sure if he knows of this news yet since he's at work, but I might mention it to him tonight.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by packetslave »

light_hue_1 wrote: post #76

Cancer research funding is laughably low. These deaths not necessary. They are a choice that we make as a country. NIH spends $6 billion on cancer research every year. Google alone spends $31 billion on research activities every year. A single company literally spends 5 times more money doing research on how to serve ads better, than we spend as a nation on curing cancer. Truly pathetic. Cancer kills 1 in 4 people or…

That $6 billion presumes that the all cancer research is being funded by NIH grants, though. I imagine there is plenty of research being done in major pharmaceutical labs like Pfizer, J&J, Merck, etc.

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Post by sytelus »

Amazing shift in new generation is that they are completely oblivious to movie and TV stars. Their world revolves all around set of YouTubers. Many of these YouTubers are exclusively just streaming their game plays. This is literally the most important entertainment medium for the new generation, and as usual, the old generation just doesn’t understand this transition.

Re: Minecraft content creator Technoblade has died

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Post by sytelus »

light_hue_1 wrote: post #76

Cancer research funding is laughably low. These deaths not necessary. They are a choice that we make as a country. NIH spends $6 billion on cancer research every year. Google alone spends $31 billion on research activities every year. A single company literally spends 5 times more money doing research on how to serve ads better, than we spend as a nation on curing cancer. Truly pathetic. Cancer kills 1 in 4 people or…

Humans, except for very cream of the crop (and that too in limited time window), is not rational species. The chimp genes still dominates our majority of the short and long term actions.

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Post by xyzzy123 »

light_hue_1 wrote: post #76

Cancer research funding is laughably low. These deaths not necessary. They are a choice that we make as a country. NIH spends $6 billion on cancer research every year. Google alone spends $31 billion on research activities every year. A single company literally spends 5 times more money doing research on how to serve ads better, than we spend as a nation on curing cancer. Truly pathetic. Cancer kills 1 in 4 people or…

Unfortunately everything causes cancer, every biochemical mechanism can be related to cancer somehow. As a researcher in life science or chemistry or whatever you "package" whatever you were doing anyway to meet grant terms.

This means that (after the politics are done) increased cancer funding ends up being an increase in "general" science funding.

What's also needed is much better targeting of the money already spent.

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Post by lostmsu »

bovermyer wrote: post #100
lostmsu wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was it in their own pool or elsewhere?

It was a public pool with dozens of people watching. Why do you ask?

Trying to add (anec-)data to risk assessments for own children. The sort of what to avoid thing.

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Post by LocalH »

e40 wrote: post #72
bentoncreation wrote: post #56

My teenage son knocked on our bedroom door last night after we'd all gone to bed. He was crying and told us his cousin had just texted him the news, and then he watched the video. We watched it again together. I cried and hugged him and we talked about it a little bit. My kids were so isolated during covid lockdown, we were getting really worried for their mental state. They weren't seeing other kids their age, they…

Parasocial relationships can have an extremely strong effect on people. My son was similarly effected by the suicide of a youtuber a few years ago. My son was 18 at the time, just out of HS and struggling. This person is someone he had followed for years and was public about his struggles and was doing better, then this happened. The unintended side effects of the world we have built are many, and some are impacting…

I'm 42 and there are more than a few people in the Guitar Hero community for whom I would be extremely sad to learn of their passing, including several of the more prominent creators and community pillars.
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