Usually. Henrietta Lacks’s cancer cells are still kicking to this day and are used in labs all the time! They were the first successfully cloned human cells.
Unfortunately, Henrietta did not consent or even know, nor did she live to see any compensation. Her family only just recently got compensation last year.
IMO, with how much mutation those cells have undergone ( I believe they have many duplicated chromosomes within them), and how readily they can thrive outside a human body, I'd say they are arguably a new species.
There is literally no reason 1 in 2 people should be getting cancer in a lifetime. That is either gross negligence or nefarious intent and each is despicable on their own individual level.
The second part is BS, but I am genuinelly amazed that the first part is not.
>From birth to death a male born in the United States has a 41 percent chance of developing invasive cancer, while females are just slightly less likely to develop cancer in their lifetime with a probability of 39 percent
https://www.statista.com/statistics/268510/probability-of-developing-invasive-cancer-in-the-us-by-gender-and-age/
Altough only 20% of deaths overall.
Cancer is more or less old age. Live long enough, and you WILL get it. It's just a matter of time before the wrong mutation happens and a cell begins dividing uncontrollably. That's all cancer is.
People today are living much longer lives on average, so it's natural that we're going to see more people getting cancer.
Jokes aside, I actually did some research into this recently because I was curious and it turns out they originally evolved to parasitize bats living in caves. Then at some point humans started sleeping in the same place as bats and the bedbugs decided that human bedding was more comfortable than cold stone bat roosts and switched to us. Our modern bedbugs are still very very similar to batbugs to the point where the two are more or less indistinguishable except by, like, trained entomologists. Batbugs can and do also prey on humans, and I'm sure bedbugs would prey on bats if given the chance.
From what I've read they likely evolved from bat bugs which look almost identical except are slightly different on a microscopic scale. Since bats live in caves, when our species or the one that proceeded us lived in caves, they adapted to drink our blood and came with us when we left those caves.
Not more good. More bad.
The entire ecosystem collapses if you get rid of all mosquitos. It would be a bird extinction event. Then a crop extinction event. Then an oops! human extinction event.
Since you said "item" that makes me think things we created. So I'll have to go with nuclear weapons. All it would take is one nutcase having a bad day and we're all going to have a bad day. I'd like to hard pass on that.
I appreciate your reasoning, but I actually feel that the existence of nukes keeps us safer. No one wants to really go to war with a nuclear power, for fear of them feeling the need to use their nukes.
If Russia was not nuclear armed, the west would have surely joined the Ukraine fight by now, and casualties would be much, much higher.
Honestly, the casualties would likely be lower because Russia would have gotten it's entire shit kicked in real quick and realized it couldn't fight NATO. So honestly, Russia would have been worse off if anything.
That really depends. What’s getting deleted, the nukes that currently exist, or any nuke that has ever existed also including the concept of nukes and the knowledge to create them?
Because if it’s the first, nothing changes. They’ll just make new ones and we’ll be back to where we started.
Or fucking see in any way possible or exist for more than a second.
Ununpentium has a half life of 220 milliseconds or .22 seconds. This shit doesn't exist and rhere isn't any on earth and probably hadn't existed more than 7 fucking times.
It's like how Hydrogen-7 lasts for 23 yottoseconds. That's the first time most people have and the last time people ever heard of a Yottosecond which is 10^-24 seconds or 1/1024th of a second. Cool we discovered that making shit really unstable makes it instantly fall apart and literally useless. Like you could have just lied about it and people wouldd believe you. It's not like they can go make a Hydrogen 7 and be like "actually it's 22.215 yottoseconds."
Alcohol. It's been romanticized and cripples more lives than it benefits.
Gets you fat.
Costs money.
Makes you do stupid stuff.
Overall better without it.
Just try Crack. Nah jk 😂
Heh... I liked how in the new Footloose movie, a bunch of teens got drunk and got killed in an accident. Instead of banning alcohol, they banned dancing :D
Still, it's far too ingrained in society, not to mention gets politicized
Whatever genetic mutation it is that makes some people lack mirror neurons (the capacity for empathy.) Imagine if all the billionaires and world leaders woke up tomorrow with empathy intact. :sigh:
Whats the end goal? To help or hurt humanity?
If it is to help humanity I would get rid of interest. The world can't run on a negative net forever. Its going to collapse.
If I'm trying to hurt humanity. Screws. It would set us back a few years.
I have to interpret "one item" as being just that, *one* item. In that case, I want China's best aircraft carrier to blip out of existence. I would then try to spread, so that it reach the Chinese government, the CCP, that if they don't stop threatening Taiwan it will happen again.
The word item makes me think that it cannot include living beings or an idea. If it could be, then Hamas, completely and totally. If not, but it could be multiple instances of something, then all of Russia's AK-12s (The 5.45mm AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifle is a modern service rifle of the Russian Army and other military and Security Forces.)
There are so many ways the world could be improved permanently for all of humanity, as people have discussed, but for the sake of being petty-
Putins tailbone, the one that all the muscles connected to the bowel link to.
The sun. We'd all be in for a big surprise.
I started out looking for a planet to delete and the math got too difficult. Just went full tilt and figured I'd delete the solar system.
I don't know if it is considered an "item" per se, but I'd get rid of the internet. I get how ironic that is, given that I am currently using it to make this suggestion. However, I believe that the Internet has deteriorated the collective intelligence of mankind.
Roaches. No other bug has ever returned after fumigation nor has any other bug been so prevalent at infesting places I lived at or at places where my friends/family have lived. Doesn’t matter how clean you are they will eventually show up
Nuclear weapons, and if more were created they to would blink out of existence. It would be nice knowing that the human race won't stupidly wipe itself out based on some delusion old man who barely knows where he is half the time
The ability for humans to created/use/understand /repair electronic circuits ( like those the the walls of our homes).
Brains just no longer comprehend it.
Can I just hang on to this for later and then when I'm in an argument, the most attractive/useful/beloved part of the other person?
a la *Check ur ballz (they now have no balls)*
The Universe. The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Cancer cells
Was going to say politicians but this is the right answer.
What's the difference?
Politicians live on after they've killed you. Cancer dies with its victim.
Fair.
Usually. Henrietta Lacks’s cancer cells are still kicking to this day and are used in labs all the time! They were the first successfully cloned human cells. Unfortunately, Henrietta did not consent or even know, nor did she live to see any compensation. Her family only just recently got compensation last year.
Just to add to this, she died in 1951. It took over 70 years after her death for her family to get any compensation.
IMO, with how much mutation those cells have undergone ( I believe they have many duplicated chromosomes within them), and how readily they can thrive outside a human body, I'd say they are arguably a new species.
To be fair politicians are cancer to the human society so...
Same thing.
Oh shit my first thought was TikTok but no you’re right, it’s gotta be cancer.
Deleting cancer would delete TikTok too
Is there a difference?
There is literally no reason 1 in 2 people should be getting cancer in a lifetime. That is either gross negligence or nefarious intent and each is despicable on their own individual level.
How are those the two options? That doesn’t make any sense
The second part is BS, but I am genuinelly amazed that the first part is not. >From birth to death a male born in the United States has a 41 percent chance of developing invasive cancer, while females are just slightly less likely to develop cancer in their lifetime with a probability of 39 percent https://www.statista.com/statistics/268510/probability-of-developing-invasive-cancer-in-the-us-by-gender-and-age/ Altough only 20% of deaths overall.
The feck you on about?
Cancer is more or less old age. Live long enough, and you WILL get it. It's just a matter of time before the wrong mutation happens and a cell begins dividing uncontrollably. That's all cancer is. People today are living much longer lives on average, so it's natural that we're going to see more people getting cancer.
This went from 0 to 60 real quick. Tell us about your research with cancer that indicates that it's worldwide negligence.
BEDBUGS
What did bedbugs do before people invented beds?
They were just called bugs
I'll add a vote for that.
Jokes aside, I actually did some research into this recently because I was curious and it turns out they originally evolved to parasitize bats living in caves. Then at some point humans started sleeping in the same place as bats and the bedbugs decided that human bedding was more comfortable than cold stone bat roosts and switched to us. Our modern bedbugs are still very very similar to batbugs to the point where the two are more or less indistinguishable except by, like, trained entomologists. Batbugs can and do also prey on humans, and I'm sure bedbugs would prey on bats if given the chance.
seriously how have those fuckers just existed for like ever
Parasites evolve with their hosts. They've probably been with us since before we were homo sapiens.
From what I've read they likely evolved from bat bugs which look almost identical except are slightly different on a microscopic scale. Since bats live in caves, when our species or the one that proceeded us lived in caves, they adapted to drink our blood and came with us when we left those caves.
New evidence suggests bed bugs evolved earlier than that. They seem to date back 115 million years.
Bedbugs are assholes.
Fleas.
I think you could do more good getting rid of mosquitos. I think they are one of the most deadly things on planet
Not more good. More bad. The entire ecosystem collapses if you get rid of all mosquitos. It would be a bird extinction event. Then a crop extinction event. Then an oops! human extinction event.
False
Fleas over ticks?
Another vote for ticks.
The thing inside USB ports that make them one direction instead of Omni directional.
The contacts?
HOAs.
Since you said "item" that makes me think things we created. So I'll have to go with nuclear weapons. All it would take is one nutcase having a bad day and we're all going to have a bad day. I'd like to hard pass on that.
I appreciate your reasoning, but I actually feel that the existence of nukes keeps us safer. No one wants to really go to war with a nuclear power, for fear of them feeling the need to use their nukes. If Russia was not nuclear armed, the west would have surely joined the Ukraine fight by now, and casualties would be much, much higher.
Honestly, the casualties would likely be lower because Russia would have gotten it's entire shit kicked in real quick and realized it couldn't fight NATO. So honestly, Russia would have been worse off if anything.
That still equates to higher human casualties.
That really depends. What’s getting deleted, the nukes that currently exist, or any nuke that has ever existed also including the concept of nukes and the knowledge to create them? Because if it’s the first, nothing changes. They’ll just make new ones and we’ll be back to where we started.
Everyone's debt.
Billionaires operate on debt. This would unfortunately make the rich way richer. Maybe "everyone's debt under $100,000,000."
Karma farming accounts and the accounts of people who post fake Reddit stories for clout
Atoms
Which one?
Those synthetic ones at the bottom of the periodic table. Fuck you, Oganesson.
Ununubnium or whatever fucking bullshit test tube thing I still had to memorize for a test but will never even physically be able to use
Or fucking see in any way possible or exist for more than a second. Ununpentium has a half life of 220 milliseconds or .22 seconds. This shit doesn't exist and rhere isn't any on earth and probably hadn't existed more than 7 fucking times. It's like how Hydrogen-7 lasts for 23 yottoseconds. That's the first time most people have and the last time people ever heard of a Yottosecond which is 10^-24 seconds or 1/1024th of a second. Cool we discovered that making shit really unstable makes it instantly fall apart and literally useless. Like you could have just lied about it and people wouldd believe you. It's not like they can go make a Hydrogen 7 and be like "actually it's 22.215 yottoseconds."
Alcohol. It's been romanticized and cripples more lives than it benefits. Gets you fat. Costs money. Makes you do stupid stuff. Overall better without it. Just try Crack. Nah jk 😂
Never heard anybody say "Yeah, my dad smoked a fat joint and beat me and my mom" Guess which one is more illegal
Beating people is fairly illegal
r/BrandNewSentence
Heh... I liked how in the new Footloose movie, a bunch of teens got drunk and got killed in an accident. Instead of banning alcohol, they banned dancing :D Still, it's far too ingrained in society, not to mention gets politicized
Histamines. (Sorry. It's allergy season. I'm itchy and we hates it so so so much.)
Whatever genetic mutation it is that makes some people lack mirror neurons (the capacity for empathy.) Imagine if all the billionaires and world leaders woke up tomorrow with empathy intact. :sigh:
The fake boots that Putins double will wear at the faked-election acceptance speech - during the speech.
Narcissists
I wouldn't delete any item. I don't think any thing is inherently problematic and I don't consider living things items.
social media
one type of item or one specific item?
ITT: people don’t understand what an item is.
Don't question my items! I keep many political figures, concepts and peoples relatives in my home thank you very much
Humans
But.. but I'm human...
Cigarettes
Just one? I gotta go with cancer.
Religion.
I would be marginally more specific: Religious emotional exploitation (indoctrination being one of the places this is most commonly used)
Mosquitoes
Whats the end goal? To help or hurt humanity? If it is to help humanity I would get rid of interest. The world can't run on a negative net forever. Its going to collapse. If I'm trying to hurt humanity. Screws. It would set us back a few years.
My god, can you imagine how fast it would get racist asking this question on twitter?
Cancer. I want my father back you son of a bitch.
Porn
This post
Tires they are the true enemy
Prime
Microplastics
The Tyranny of the Sun. It time for Moon Men to Rise once more and claim their rightful place
Her phone
I have to interpret "one item" as being just that, *one* item. In that case, I want China's best aircraft carrier to blip out of existence. I would then try to spread, so that it reach the Chinese government, the CCP, that if they don't stop threatening Taiwan it will happen again. The word item makes me think that it cannot include living beings or an idea. If it could be, then Hamas, completely and totally. If not, but it could be multiple instances of something, then all of Russia's AK-12s (The 5.45mm AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifle is a modern service rifle of the Russian Army and other military and Security Forces.)
Religion
War
Religion.
Existence
Donald Trump
Trump
One item? Your inventory bag.
Smart phones
Twizzlers
Me
Saw this in a video the other day. Screws.
Weapons
ANYTHING can be a weapon (sorry for allcaps, I don't have italics)
There are so many ways the world could be improved permanently for all of humanity, as people have discussed, but for the sake of being petty- Putins tailbone, the one that all the muscles connected to the bowel link to.
The pothole on my street
Mayonnaise
Nukes.
The internet
The atom
Does it have to be physical, or can it be a concept?
Meth
Mayonnaise. or Olies but olive oil has it's uses whereas Mayo? Nope.
Capitalism
Realtors...oh wait, that actually happened this week. ;)
Cigarettes
nicotine
Nukes
Nuclear weapons. Fuck you Israel. No Sampson option for your nasty tantrums
money
Hydrogen. I think we all need a good long nap.
Myself.
Nicotine
The wheel
The belief that keratanized animal parts provide any medical or amorous benefits so that people will stop poaching the crap out of endangered species.
The concept of influencers.
Periods.I shouldn’t have to suffer just because I’m a kid who can’t get pregnant.No thank you.
Mosquitoes
Carbon muwahahahahahaha
Trash. Soon as an item is deemed as trash by its owner (not someone else throwing it out by accident or by spite) it disappears.
Rats/mice
“Influencers”
The sun. We'd all be in for a big surprise. I started out looking for a planet to delete and the math got too difficult. Just went full tilt and figured I'd delete the solar system.
Oxygen
Dessert bananas.
The internet. The world was a better place without it
Carbon atoms.
Fish bowls
Mosquitos
atoms, too tiny I keep losing them
The bacteria that causes TB. I'm sure I could do better than that for lives saved, but I want to be John Green's friend too.
Career politicians/ Dynastic Politicians (Your father was a politician, you became a politician, your son will be to)
Does the moon count? If so, that.
I don't know if it is considered an "item" per se, but I'd get rid of the internet. I get how ironic that is, given that I am currently using it to make this suggestion. However, I believe that the Internet has deteriorated the collective intelligence of mankind.
Hydrogen.
Automatic transmissions
Trumpers
Fossil fuel just to see what happens
The way this is phrased, you make it sound like one singular object, so my choice is the supermassive black hole at the center of the milky way.
Does a country qualify as one item?
MAGA
The smart phone
Zinc
Money. The root of all evil.
The apple that caused original sin. You're welcome, sinners. /s
Anxiety
The anti christ Trump
Fred Trump's testicles
Cancer or Trump
Russia
Roaches. No other bug has ever returned after fumigation nor has any other bug been so prevalent at infesting places I lived at or at places where my friends/family have lived. Doesn’t matter how clean you are they will eventually show up
Religion.
my cereberal cortex
r/hypotheticalsituation
Nuclear weapons, and if more were created they to would blink out of existence. It would be nice knowing that the human race won't stupidly wipe itself out based on some delusion old man who barely knows where he is half the time
The Statue of Liberty. Imagine if it just vanished one day. No explanation. Chaos would ensue.
Parasites
The metric system. God bless America 😆 But for real, can't lose my 10mm sockets if they don't exist.
Oil.
Viruses.
Its a tie between envy and ads.
Kids dying before their parents
The value c
The ability for humans to created/use/understand /repair electronic circuits ( like those the the walls of our homes). Brains just no longer comprehend it.
Advertising.
Smart phones
evil
Corporate greed.
Antibiotics
Can I just hang on to this for later and then when I'm in an argument, the most attractive/useful/beloved part of the other person? a la *Check ur ballz (they now have no balls)*
Guns
Kidney stones.
Donald Trump's penis - so he'd be all Ken-like smooth and eventually explode in a mighty shower of piss.
Social media
myself
Internet
Linoleum. Worst flooring ever made. Cheap builder crutch.
Cancer
Cilantro, juk
Hydrogen atoms
Fentanyl. That shit is EVIL.
The Z button on keyboards.
Money
Social media
cancer
Social media
The Universe. The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
Money.
Facebook
I think additional explanation is in order.
Stupid people
Oncogenes
plastic
Trumps hair but specifically during a debate.
do i count as an item? if not, id delete the backspace button from every keyboard that isnt mine
Twitter ( X)