Some people just refuse to go to the hospital.

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    19 minutes ago

    I knew a couple guys who had been struck by lightning. They were terrified of storms after, so when there was any lightning in the distance, they would rush inside with their coats over their heads.

    I do not want to be struck by lightning.

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    18 hours ago

    I thought this would be a continuation of the previous one, since this character fell off a cliff. Would have been funnier if she said “you just fell off a cliff” and then lightning strikes him

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        11 hours ago

        I first thought it’s just AI crap…but even ai manages to be funny. These comics are…I don’t even know. Do they just want to make me feel dumb coz I don’t get them?

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          12 hours ago

          The userbase here has a weird sense of humour.

          And a willingness to defend Queen Pizzacake to the death, for some reason.

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    18 hours ago

    I’ve always wanted to be struck by lightning (and survive with relatively few complications). Not enough to tempt fate. Kinda like how everyone “wants to die,” but they never actually kill themselves. Y’know?

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    16 hours ago

    For many, such as in the US, are struggling so hard that, in the Maslow hierarchy of needs, their long term health isn’t as pressing of an issue compared to others.

    Paying to be told why your health is bad and needing to take on the financial burden of continued medical care to rectify anything wrong is not as pressing of a worry as, say, being able to make rent payments or making sure you have food in the fridge to last.

    There are also the psychological trauma effects of poverty that twist people’s ability to logic through a situation. Poverty is stressful; the brain begins to prioritize short-term release of this stress to protect itself from mental harm even to the detriment of other needs cause our fleshy meat computer isn’t perfect and prone to errors of logical reasoning.