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Paper cuts are so painful because at a microscopic level paper is quite rough. A knife makes a straight cut, but paper acts like a saw blade and does more damage to nerve endings. Paper also leaves behind tiny fibres, irritating the wound even more.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/why-do-paper-cuts-hurt-so-much/

Like 1 15 Jul 2023 at 23:24 | Open on mas.to

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Daniel Howard 🌻

@yogthos microsplinters

15 Jul 2023 at 23:32 | Open on sfba.social

John Shirley

@yogthos seems like a metaphor, or, really, a sort of dramatization of the place where the orderly world meets chaos, and how chaos meets the orderly world.

15 Jul 2023 at 23:34 | Open on mastodon.cloud

DELETED

@yogthos Can't blame the trees for taking such revenge as they can

15 Jul 2023 at 23:40 | Open on mstdn.ca

InAFeverDream

@la_sombra

@yogthos

You just changed my entire perception of papercuts.

Alright, trees. That's fair.

18 Jul 2023 at 3:00 | Open on mstdn.ca

Pinky Floyd

@yogthos so you're saying we need sharper paper

15 Jul 2023 at 23:41 | Open on pleroma.payfrit.com

Jeff Smith

@yogthos And cardboard cuts are even more dramatically painful.

15 Jul 2023 at 23:41 | Open on mastodon.nz

@stevewfolds

@sumisu3 @yogthos Agree cardboard is worse. Glass naps to a single molecule. Plastic surgeons still use Obsidian blades.

16 Jul 2023 at 0:02 | Open on mastodon.world

Kevin Karhan :verified:

@yogthos Eeyupp...

#Paper is only ness of a problem than #Asbestos because the fibers usually don't get into the lungs and are big enough to get absorbed by the immune system and deposed of like most organic matter...