PhenomenalPancake

And yet the petroleum industry is pushing so hard to brainwash the public to think another Chernobyl is inevitable, even though they can make the very products that can prevent it.

Nuclear is fine, it's only unsafe when people are idiots. Oh wait, actually scratch that, in that case it's not safe. /s

The deaths from both the wars going on in the modern day and infectious diseases like COVID are nowhere near on the scale that they were before, especially in terms of the percent of the world population killed by them. We haven't had deaths on the scale of WWI or the Spanish Flu since those events.

I will never understand people who think they already know everything they need to know.

I am the very model of a modern Capitano.

That being said, even among people who survived childhood, living to the ages we see nowadays was more rare than it is today due to a lot of environmental and societal factors like plagues and war. It wasn't unheard of, but that is also something that brought the average down to an extent.

Well that's why you use ICOE.

What a stimulating meme.

Which chicken-based Pokemon is the soup made from? ಠ_ಠ

Crime doesn't pay when you're not protected by privilege and status.

Is it a crown or my hair? I'll never tell!

I'd say that people often misunderstand the "Money can't buy happiness" thing. I think the saying should be "Money BY ITSELF can't buy happiness." Happiness is bought by being smart with the resources you have. There are happy poor people and miserable rich people because even though money helps, it's not the main deciding factor as to whether or not you'll be happy, it's your decisions and personal mental framework.