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I just found myself thinking that it's not impossible, but people think it's impossible.

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It's not absolutely achievable then.

The original shower thought took that into account

About 10 minutes ago

When was the last time someone wished for that?

So it's not impossible...

I develop ecommerce and data software.

I'm pushing 50, so as a boy I remember mechanical cash registers and watched them become more and more electronic.

For me the internet is a cash register, or a component of a cash register, and I add features to it.

It's not because people are selfish. And through selfishness, they become evil. And this will always be the case, as long as humans exist.

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It’s not. Unless you’re testing every person before you even kiss them, in the US it’s a coin flip that the person you’re with carries the virus. In most European and Asian countries it’s 2/3 to 90 percent. For most of human history, having herpes was an accepted part of being human. Only in the last generation or two are we seeing thoughts and posts like yours.

While herpes is shed with a cold sore present most definitely, it can also be shed asymptomatically. So Just because someone never had cold sores, doesn’t mean that they can’t give you them. 80-90 percent of carriers are again, asymptomatic.

You not having either strain doesn’t mean you’ve done everything right, it just means you’re lucky. It’s pure chance. You can do everything “right” and still get it.

Of course. You can choose to not share items with people or test them before you kiss them. But imo, that’s overkill.

They only way you can truly avoid herpes is avoiding human contact and swearing celibacy.

Try playing wolfenstein and let me know

Because everything anyone says nowadays has a name above it, along with a number that is supposed to indicate the quality of the thing being said, or more like the amount of people who have read and agreed with the thing. That makes it seem like that thought is then somehow intellectual property of the person, while most of the time it's too trivial to have any sort of copyright law surrounding the thing. Yet people still want to enforce ownership, because it makes them feel good, and like it's them that contributed something to the public discourse and no one else. Ego and the need for social validation, which is something you can apply to almost every situation on social media that makes you question why someone said something. I must say I'm feeling kinda correct here, this may get validated and produce good feels for my primate brain

The only way you'll have world peace is if all the humans are dead

I mean, slipping on a banana peel, falling backwards into a cab, tumbling out at an airport, sliding backwards into a plane, flying to Russia, falling out of the plain, and landing dick first in Putin's mouth is technically not impossible too, doesn't make it likely.

tell me about it, i got them because a dirty glass, but it seems a cure is on the work next 10 years or 20

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When I say "fairly easy to avoid", it's relative. For example, someone can have the flu around me and I may not know it. They could walk by and sneeze or cough in my general direction and that's it.

Herpes, either type, requires some sort of action between them. Sharing a drink. Sharing a body part.

Hope that helps make my comment make more sense. ( :

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I guess we can rephrase and say that online social interaction will never give you the same cognitive and health benefits as an in-person social interaction does. Both social interaction, but one stunts your ability to communicate in person.

Maybe OP forgot what porn is. Pretty sure it makes up about 69% of the internet.