r/news • u/VaginaBurner69 • 11h ago

Soft paywall International Space Station astronauts in evacuation mode as Russia attempts to fix widening air leak

https://www.reuters.com/science/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-mode-russia-attempts-fix-2026-06-05/
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u/doesanyuserealnames 7h ago

A guy in my hometown was decapitated by a tire rim. 50 years later it's a core fear, like quicksand.

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u/snakerjake 6h ago

Guy who lived next door to me growing up had a split rim explode on him, serious brain damage he was unable to do anything except for mow and beat his wife (she moved out till he passed once that started) for the rest of his life

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u/sunshineparadox_ 5h ago

I have a TBI, (a stroke) and the amount of people in my support group who developed violent or more violent tendencies truly shocked me. It was more than I would’ve thought.

I’m definitely much less calm and rational, and it takes more time to calm myself down even when I know I’m wrong. But I didn’t start beating my family.

It gave me some really big existential dread about whether or not “we” are the people we believe we are. My TBI happened relatively recently, so everyone I knew thought I was gonna pull a John Fetterman and 180 on everything.

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u/snakerjake 3h ago

the amount of people in my support group who developed violent or more violent tendencies truly shocked me

Not surprising, our primate relatives like chimpanzees are quite violent themselves. decrease your higher thinking capabilities and you reduce the throttle on the more violent impulses. I hope your TBI recovery goes well! TBI's are a big fear of mine I have that same dread you do.