People say that if there’s no risk, there’s no reward. That may be true, but there’s also a limit to that thought. There are aspects of our lives where we take more risks than we should that can be blindspots for us. When one Reddit user asked others to share which warnings they think people don’t take seriously enough, the responses became an excellent list of tips for what might not be worth risking in life.
The responses seem to have drawn on a vast variety of different life experiences and come from different fields. We think that just about anyone will find some wisdom on this list that would be worth taking into consideration in their own lives.
#1
Letting the culture war distract you. The purpose of the culture war is to be a distraction. We don’t need to worry about pronouns and drag queens. We need to worry about the extremely rich taking advantage of us all.
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#2
The fact that we need to pay our teachers more these are the people who are teaching the next generation and we pay them a mere pittance of what they are worth. They need to be able to support their families and we do not pay them accordingly.
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#3
Keeping their kids away from social media for as long as humanly possible. They are too young for the 24/7 drama.
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#4
The way you speak around your children
My mother once reffered to my little sister as chunky and said they’d have to cut back on her diet
And I had to stop and remind her that was the exact sort of thing that my dad and his gf said to me that caused me to develope an ED
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#5
How fundamentally AI is going to change our society. It’s going to be bigger and more disruptive than the internet and we are still only at the very early stages. Things are gonna get real weird real fast but funny AI says silly things haha so nobody listens to me.
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#6
Antibiotics. It’s imperative to follow the prescription and finish the bottle. I’ve known people who stop taking them when they start to feel better and save the rest of the bottle for “the next time I’m sick”
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#7
Buzzed driving, is drunk driving.
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#8
Wearing sunscreens.
Surprisingly, more people hadnt got a grasp on how important it is on our skin in the long run.
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#9
Wear your seat belt. It’s like the old PSA goes: whether it’s down the street or to the moon, buckle your seat belt.
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#10
Listening to music so loud on your headphones that I can hear it. This happens at the gym and it’s all the young high schoolers listening to their music so loudly. Gonna blow their ears out eventually
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#11
Microplastics
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#12
I’ve spent the last year teaching at various schools in the LA area, grades 3 up to seniors in high school. I can not emphasize enough the effect of cell phone use on young people. Many of the high schools I go to don’t even make a legitimate effort to make students put their phones down. There were theater games I’d play with seniors in high school where I would have to explain the simple rules so many times that we’d barely ever accomplish getting through the game. The 3rd graders would get it immediately and play for half an hour. Every single time I’d give the high school kids a simple direction they would look at me for a second and then say “Wait…what?” It was alarming.
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#13
owning a fire extinguisher. you never know how fast your life can change until a natural disaster/fire hits. and yes, it could be you
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#14
Overfishing
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#15
Alcohol. It is literally poison and your body doesn’t enjoy it.
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#16
Falling.
You can hurt yourself grievously when hitting your head on the ground or on nearby objects. Concussions are nothing to laugh about, no matter your age.
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#17
Always use fans on your plants when you are growing them indoors!
Especially seedlings.
Plants hate still, stagnant air. They are able to transpire moisture more effectively when the air is moving.
A strong breeze will also keep your seedlings from dying due to damping off.
It also strengthens the stems so that they don’t just fall over when you move them.
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#18
South American here: Send your kids to English lessons as early as possible.
It’s expensive but you are giving them a golden ticket for their future.
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#19
Recycling. I know many people who are proud of the fact that they litter, despite being college educated. They do not care about the effects this has upon our environment or the animals that suffer from human carelessness. I find it to be a mob mentality; “everyone else litters so why should I change?”
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#20
Saving/planning for retirement.
A lot of my coworkers say they will die working which is a real possibility but if you don’t die, you will need money to survive. One of my coworker is almost 50 and has zero savings, zero 401k and cannot afford to survive on her own if anything happens to her partner.
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#21
Having enough insurance for your home and belongings. Your stuff is probably worth way more than you think, once you start adding it up, and a total loss event will flip your entire life on its end, and if there’s not enough insurance money, it can be impossible to come back from.
We had a total loss wildfire, and were dramatically underinsured. We’re only able to rebuild because a family member could rewrite their will and give us an early inheritance and that, added to our insurance settlement, was just enough to build half the house we had before. Our home will be furnished almost exclusively with things we bought at thrift stores and estate sales, because we don’t have the money to rebuy all that we had.
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#22
Workplace Safety and proper claim filing for injuries. Too many times I see workers getting hurt due to haphazard working environments, then not filing because they are ingratiated to their superiors and don’t want to rock the boat (their excuse). I put safety first people, your job won’t care if you lose a limb or a life, they just write it off and keep going. At most you or your family gets a settlement. At the least you may get a plaque or written warning or termination notice, you know just a piece of paper to cement how much they care for you not going after them or for you not being safe.
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#23
Working safely at heights. I work with people who worry more about sun safety than they do about working at heights greater than 2 meters.
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#24
Got to United States is having droughts and that some major states are losing their water supplies but I can never get anybody to have this conversation with me. Droughts I’m becoming more prevalent and big States Los Angeles Utah Colorado Phoenix these things used to only happen in Europe people need to take heat and pay attention
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#25
Damaging their hear with loud music, tv… They all put it on my sound sensitivity but the walls are shaking 🫨
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