It seems like there’s a conspiracy for every aspect, event, and occasion in our life. Think of the theory that there is some kind of a connection between 5G internet and the coronavirus pandemic, which has been continually debunked by our experts. In fact, raising these rumors is considered inappropriate, and those who do can even get into trouble for spreading fake news.
But leaving the pandemic conspiracy aside, there are numerous other conspiracies that people genuinely believe in: Area 51, Bigfoot sightings, chemtrails, New World Order, Freemasonry, Illuminati, Sandy Hook, “stolen election,” the list goes on. And while most skeptics cringe at such improbable scenarios, some actually scratch their heads and wonder… “what if?”
So when someone asked “What is a conspiracy theory you actually believe in?” on r/AskReddit, people, skeptics included, shared some very interesting answers. Let’s see what they had to say below and be sure to share your thoughts on conspiracies in the comment section!
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The media is the biggest stirrer of fear and anger and use it in order to stay relevant to keep the funds rolling in
Certain media outlets exist just to stir up fear and anger, because people who are afraid and angry are so easy to manipulate. Certain Powers That Be count on it.
I don't think this is a conspiracy theory. I thought this is widely known to most educated people. Whilst not ALL media is like that, unfortunately a lot of them are. False news and click bait sell. It's getting harder finding a decent, reliable news source.
Thank the Reagan Administration. - Ronald Reagan's FCC abolished the Fairness Doctrine which, since 1949, required media to present both sides' opinions in the rare event they weren't just reporting straight news. Hence the birth of Fox News (the channel which does not report news but opinions, want news…watch the Comedy channel)
Well it is rather obvious: if you look at what generates revenue for media it is selling advertisements, not informing people. You sell more advertisements with more readers and more engagement and you will get this by spreading fear and anger as these emotions are much more likely to spread on the Internet and grab peoples attention.
Television news is the worst place to turn to for information. Aside from that, though in the U.S. while we have freedom of the press, it is not a public service. It is a commercial enterprise with it's own interests first. The "news" is supposed to be about what is unusual, not commonplace, irregular, and not normal. People get lost if they don't consider that idea first and foremost.
Load More Replies...Slippery slope. Only way to remove this from the equation is if media outlets weren't funded via advertising. Only way to currently do that is via not-for-profit media (NPR?) or state funded media (BBC?). But it is clear we need better checks and balances.
That my phone listens to conversations. Far too many situations where I’d talk about something random and see adverts about it on FB and Instagram without me ever searching for it
This is not a conspiracy. It does. There is actually a setting in the phone which allows certain apps (like facebook, chrome etc) to access your microphone. Use the settings and turn it off.
No, really, it doesn't. The permissions allow the app to use the microphone WHEN IT IS RUNNING. It allows you to deny access to functions of your phone to apps that you don't trust. This grew out of it being a means for apps to delare what features they used, so that you could choose when installing. In a similar vein, you could argue that your phone is tracking you because you gave an app permission to get your location. Some apps do seem to overstep the mark with what they request use of, but considering how many apps now take voice input, it is hardly surprising. Yes, malicious apps do exist that can record audio, watch you through the camera, and track you, but they are absolutely not put there by mainstream phone vendors.
Load More Replies...IT guy here: They don't have to bug you. It is enough that they know your social bubble (keyword: metadata). I talk to a friend about a topic, he (not me!) researches it - and thanks to our WhatsApp (instagram/fb/whatever) link, the relevant companies know that they should offer me the topic as well. After all, it seems to be a "thing" in our social bubble. Or it works the other way around: My friend sees an ad (consciously or not) and that's why he approaches me about a topic in the first place. Since the ad is currently airing in our social bubble, I naturally get it shortly thereafter. But it can be haunting, i know :D
I loved your explanation! I always fail at trying to explain that this + conformation bias makes it look like they are not only listening but being able to descifer what you want. Many time a search made on purpose needs to be modified to get what you're actually looking for, imagine how the AI would need to work to disentangle from a random convo the products we mentioned
Load More Replies...I have one better. Have you ever THOUGHT (but not spoken one single word aloud) about a specific product and then start getting adverts for it on your phone/laptop? That happens to me quite a lot and is a lot more disturbing than having a conversation and your phone listening. A few others have said that’s also happened to them too.
Yes! A lot! I figure it's some awesome intuition or something.
Load More Replies...How's this for creepy. My brother and I were talking about inflatable spas. Now at this time my phone had absolutely no internet capabilities. Anyway the next day whilst browsing FB the first ad I see is for an inflatable spa. Like wtf.
Similar situation with me. A while back, my boyfriend and I were driving to our cottage and were talking about a specific subject. There's no cell phone service or data available in that area (wifi at the cottage only amd my data is always "off"). During the drive we changed the subject. The next day, I had an article about it on my facebook. Neither one of us googled it (there was no need).
Load More Replies...I have never bought diapers before, have no kids and don’t know anyone with kids. Made a trip to Costco last week and a coworker asked me (on a phone call) to buy these “rascal & friends” diapers - never heard of them before. ALL WEEK I’ve been getting ads online for these diapers. I didn’t even use my own Costco card and I paid in cash so idek 😂
Let's test this with something totally random. Everyone say aloud, "I'd really like to find a shower curtain with pictures of giraffes on it. We should know the truth really soon.
They don't have to listen to your conversations. You've given them access to your contact list, your browsing history, your location, etc. If you've talked about something random to your friend, and he/she googles it, they will just advertise it to his/her friends.
Ever notice how you see BABY CARRIAGES all around you when you're pregnant? How how suddenly everyone is driving that car you've been considering of buying? Jeez ... it's just your brain focussing on things.
Products are not made to last
Planned obsolescence is a pretty well documented thing, and started as far back as the first production lines
Had a repairman come over for my wife’s dryer. He showed us which parts are purposely cheap so they wear out and you buy a new one. Sick of this
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This is not a conspiracy theory, just like many of the others on this list.
This ^^ is not taken into account enough. For example, I wear dress shirts and the ones from Brooks and Lands End vs George brand from Walmart are a huge difference. I have shirts that are several yrs old and I wear them 5 days a week. The walmart ones die within a few months of regular wearing and washing. Brands do matter in SOME cases.
Load More Replies...Not any more. We are victims of planned obsolescence. Back in the day products lasted for decades. We handed them down to other generations.
Bored Panda reached out to the redditor Come-What-April and the author of this thread who said they were always fascinated with themes about the paranormal, conspiracies, and scary stuff.“I always wondered if I could maybe get this channel to dedicate a video to a question I could ask on r/AskReddit and that’s how I ended up on Reddit writing my question one night I was pretty bored,” they said.
Come-What-April added that “the conspiracy theory stuff being a subject I know inspires many people, I knew I could get many interesting (and different responses) if I were lucky enough for my post to be seen by many.”
Aliens 1000% exist, maybe not UFOs and all that but there’s no way in hell we’re the only life in this gigantic galaxy
I believe that there's life on other planets, but I don't believe in flying saucers or little gray humanoids or any of the UFOlogist stuff. Other life is going to be so different from our own that we'll have trouble recognizing it as life.
I always thought it was extremely narcissistic of people to think we'd be so interesting to other species they'd put in the time and energy to travel millions of light years to spy on us.
Load More Replies...Based on simple probablity alone, there simply has to be other life out there. The problem is that time also plays a massive factor in whether we might ever meet any of it. It would a require a civilisation to be space-faring during our fairly brief existence, that has developed faster than light travel in order to come and find us. We could easily have had visitors in the past, but we simply didn't exist in a form that could recognise or communicate with them. Hell, we could even be decended from them!
Yes. People just seem to have forgotten what UFO actually means...
Load More Replies...I'm pretty sure lie exists outside of our planet, but they just don't want to come here. Why would they? Look at how we treat each other, why would they want to come here and get to know us? We're a bunch of assholes.
It's narcissistic to think we're the only ones in the universe.
Just because it is narcissistic doesn't mean it is not true.
Load More Replies...I think it's crazy to imagine in the whole universe we are the only living creatures. Like what are the odds? Idk if there are UFOs but I wouldnt be shocked to find out they do exist.
This is why I can’t wait to see if there’s evidence of life, past or present, on Mars, Europa and Titan. If live arose more than once in a single solar system, that would indicate that it’s commonplace in the universe. If not, there’s still the chance that life arising here on Earth was a quirk, and that life is unique or uncommon. As I’m currently watching baby squirrels play outside my window, I like the idea of a universe teeming with life.
I believe that there is life out there, but it could be very new or not as advanced with technology as we are.
This might not be a groundbreaking hot take, but i think that applying for disability status/benefits is intentionally made to be a convoluted mess of bureaucratic jargon and endless hoops to jump through SOLELY so that disabled people don’t take advantage of them, either because they give up trying to navigate an intentionally confusing system, or because they make a mistake along the way, and the process gets f***ed up. I’m really lucky I had my mom helping me with a lot of the paperwork because otherwise I would never be able to get the supports I need in post secondary. It’s like someone purposefully designed the process to be as unobtainable, messy, and overwhelmingly complex for a disabled person as they possibly could.
The successful appeal rates for disability benefits in the UK is very high, because of the bollox applicants are put through. Stories of people in wheelchairs having appointments for a second floor room with no lift; where if they crawl up the stairs they fail as that is evidence that they are fine, and if they can't get to the room they fail for missing their appointment.
That's just extremely vile. You know, whoever decided this needs their brain checked - with an invasive method.
Load More Replies...My son is on disability due to his autism and the amount of crap I had to go through to get there was infuriating. Even a school placement took ages. Definitely needs to be more support out there.
U.S. SocSec Disability Insurance "standard" is that the first application is automatically rejected. Second one is glanced at, and unless BLATANTLY qualified, rejected also. Only when an SSDI lawyer is hired (for usually 1/3 of initial settlement) does the claim actually pass.
Oh, absolutely. I was temporarily disabled following a bad accident and have no idea how people navigate disability full-time. Eventually my partner had to take on sorting our insurance, disability, appointments, etc. because I was unable to focus on recovery while dealing with the red tape. The kicker was when he took me to a Trevor Noah concert to cheer me up... and someone stole my insurance-issued wheelchair. The venue felt horrible and offered to pay or a new one. My insurance was more than happy to take their money, but refused to issue me a new chair. I was learning to walk again, so without a chair I literally could not function. Luckily the wheelchair rental company felt so bad for me they struck my missing chair from their records so that I could get a new one. I supposedly had top-of-the-line insurance... so that's the American healthcare system for you!
Applied for disability in the USA twice. Failed, twice. It's so hard here. I have ME/CFS and the basis for getting SSDI is next to impossible. Add in the fatigue, pain, brain fog and everything else and even with a lawyer I couldn't get it.
And I've seen some people lie and scam and they seem to get it the first time around! It also feels like they'd rather have people keep trying and/or die. If they keep applying and get denied, they still don't have to pay. If they're lucky, the patient end up dying and they still won't have to pay! It's all so disgusting!
Load More Replies...I was just about to say the same! The requirements contradict themselves.
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The US doesn't provide free college because military numbers would plummet
The U.S. doesn't provide free college because Republicans understand that educated people tend not to vote Republican.
In Germany where education is almost free, the army struggles to find recruits....
The U.S. doesn't provide free college because universities are a racket. A very profitable one.
I saw some stat that most of the recruits came from the Deep South. I wish I could find that again.
I remember reading that somewhere too. Mostly from poorer background.
Load More Replies...Serve minimum 3 years in the military and leave on an honorable discharge or general under honorable conditions or medical and you get free college. Not ideal sadly but its what i had to do because despite having the grades to go to college, my dad never put any money into a college savings account (he made more than enough to do so, we werent poor by any means). He wouldnt let me take the SAT/ACT either (which each cost money).
Many responses the redditor received were something they expected. “I know how conspiracies on Covid/vaccination, 9-11 and such are pretty well spread. I loved reading some more 'personal' conspiracy theories, like that guy talking about the weird soup place in his town that seems to be a facade to hide illicit activities.”
When asked if the author themselves believe in a particular conspiracy theory, they said they’re open to the multiverse theory (which is not really conspiracy stuff). “But I like to believe we all evolve on a specific timeline and that other (if not infinite) timelines where things are different exist. I love reading posts on the r/Glitch_in_the_Matrix subreddit.”
There are people out there hired by companies to make dozens of fake accounts that retweet, reblog, etc and act like real people just to advertise products.
If you want to get into all the shady s**t that drives social media, then you need know that you can just go out and buy clicks, ratings and reviews, as there are people that make a living out of selling their services to do just that. This can be entirely automated, or they can literally be paying people to do them.
This is not a conspiracy, in South Africa our previous president Jacob Zuma used this strategy to keep people from noticing how much money he was stealing and using for himself. When it was finally proven that this was in fact true he was replaced with a new president
Not a conspiracy. You can buy them. Real people and bots to click, be your friend, post and tweet your stories. Which is why lots of social media is a lie.
And to spread really crazy theories, and promote trump, and claim true news as fake, and on and on and on!
How are people thinking things like this are a conspiracy and not a fact?
Exactly. It's unbelievable to me how people can possibly be so narrow-minded not to think about that. Why on earth would a company NOT do that kind of marketing?!
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The “Fine Art” market is a scam used/run by the ultra wealthy to hide and preserve their wealth.
Man, wait until you hear about Crypto - and then wait until you hear about the Stock market. WSB shenanigans don't happen without the whole system being built on speculation - and WSB shenanigans are just kid's play compared to what Hedge Funds do on an absolutely massive scale (the only difference is that WSB was randos so it was made public - if it had been Thad and Brad and Chad fresh out of an Ivy in their first finance job, it'd just have been another Tuesday on Wall Street)
Load More Replies...Scam is probably the wrong word there. Everything holds the value that we ascribe to it and that the market bears. It’s common knowledge that certain things are investments so you don’t get taxed on the cash. Like Rolexes and Cartier bracelets.
Close but no cigar, they dont use to hide it, they hype certain artist after buying their work, so that it goes up in price afterwards they donate the art to a museum in a way to generate tax reductions. There is no speculation here they just have the so called critics in their payroll, pretty much a done deal.
I thought it was well known that plenty of people use it as money laundering :)
What's in the picture is just "art", specifically conceptual contemporary art. Fine art, the term it is, refers to academic art from the 15th- early 20th century, which is by no means "modern".
I have read convincing arguments that it is indeed a popular money laundering mechanism. because the actual worth of a piece of art is impossible to quantify objectively, it is possible to move any insane amount of money as you want by selling and reselling, building up a convincing and respectable trail for your income
Women's clothing doesn't have adequate pockets because the purse and handbag industry wants to ensure women continue to buy bags to carry their things.
No pockets in this world would be enough for some women to carry their stuff.😄
I swear my gf carries a couple of house-bricks around in her handbag! She'd need pockets with pockets for everything she had in it.
Load More Replies...I love a good dress with pockets, but I'm not carrying my phone and my wallet around in them. I think we should actually normalize man bags so they stop stuffing everything in their pockets or making us carry it in our bags.
There are such things as nice bags for men ("man-purses").
Load More Replies...Nonsense. If I had enough pocket space in my clothing to take what I normally put in my handbag, I'd have to go through the door sideways.
I think it's a conspiracy theory that women's clothing has no pockets. A lot of my clothing has pockets. My jeans have pockets. I have hoodies with pouches and cardigans with deep pockets.
look up the history of it and it's actually quite interesting. it dates back pretty early around the 1800s. wealthy men and women both had tiny pockets, but since people opposed women wearing pants, they made them tinker and have men big pockets
I don't think it's all women's clothing - I think it's just certain brands/costs. Because I have quite a few women's pants with big pockets and quite a few with small
“I believe that as citizens, there definitely is some information we are not yet aware of. I mean, definitely, some things are hidden from us (Area 51 is a good example). By knowing some stuff is hidden/covered up, how can we be sure about what to believe in?” Come-What-April wondered.
“I find the Covid conspiracies interesting,” they said and added that “I am staying very neutral in the Covid category. I don’t take a position regarding the virus’s origin and vaccination theories since the Covid conspiracies tend to divide so much. I strongly disagree with everyone saying the virus is fake, though. I saw people die from it working in a long-term healthcare facility,” the redditor concluded.
Trump ran as a stunt. He was never supposed to win and didn't even want to.
I almost believed this until I saw the lengths he went to trying to steal the election.
I think it was a stunt originally but once he got a taste for power and the ability to use federal funds to book out his hotels, he decided it was his best business scam yet.
Load More Replies...My take on this? Someone even more powerful orchestrated his win thinking they'd be able to control him fully. But they didn't realise how insane he was/is, or how cults of personality work. And it backfired spectacularly when it turned out that Trumps biggest fans are actually bats**t crazy and very loud. You can't silently control the world when your puppet tweets every move!
I think that he is a Russian asset, and that Russia's goal in running him was to destabilize the US. They succeeded admirably.
Load More Replies...Apparently he was considering running a few years before, interestingly he was going to run as a democrat.
He admitted this in a recorded conversation. He ran to get donations to pay off his massive debt.
He was surprised he won. Remember that look he gave to his daughter when he was sworn in.
There was the theory floating around that he ran against Hilary so that she could win...but he got in too deep and didn't know how to back out while still saving face.
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That the government creates or at least promotes crazy conspiracy theories to make the true ones seem crazy by association.
My idea... Many current leaders are too incompetent to do such things
Load More Replies...I'm wondering if this is a serious remark or you're being ironic.
Load More Replies...I (sort of jokingly) suspect that the covid anti-vax hysteria was secretly invented by the Democratic leadership because they knew that such paranoid nonsense would only find fertile ground in the conservative mind and cause the virus to kill a disproportionate number of Republican voters.
They did pass a law saying that the govt could use propaganda against their citizens though.
I believe that's what happened by Area 51. The government let people think it was aliens rather than secret tech/ weapon testing.
Everyone’s going heavy with theirs but I have one that’s less serious.
Baby wipe containers are purposely made so that you always pull 2-3 wipes out at a time and therefore need to buy more often. It’s definitely something I can see Big Wipe engaging in to get just a few more containers out of us each year!
They also often claim their wipes are flushable....but they most certainly are not and should never be flushed.
I don't understand why they haven't been sued to death over this
Load More Replies..."Big Wipe"...that sounds like a conspiracy all on it's own...who is this "Big Wipe" you speak of?
Maybe there's a whistle blower within the ranks of Big Wipe, called Deep Bum?
Load More Replies...I used to work for one of the biggest wet wipe production facilities in Europe. The baby wipes are indeed folded in such a way as to pull the next wipe out when you pull one. The clients prefer it this way because they are usually holding their baby in one hand and they want to be able to easily reach the next wipe without letting go of the baby. If you want to check this you can buy a package of refresh, cosmetic or cleaning wipes. You'll see that only one wipe comes out when you pull it.
That Facebook’s outage the day before the whistleblower went in front of the Senate was no accident.
I honestly don’t understand this one. I know about the outage but what’s the whistleblower and how is it related?
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/04/politics/facebook-whistleblower-what-matters/index.html
Load More Replies...100%. That was my exact thought on the day. Mark what’s-his-face detracting attention. FYI, I use my FB to log in on here, but I've not been on it for a few years now.
I did exactely the same and I avoid all the BS on FB!
Load More Replies...I don't understand this either, how did Facebook benefit from the outage? If anything, it added fuel to the whisleblower coverage in the news. The "Whistleblower testifies" headline became "Horrible week for Facebook - outages, whistleblowers, etc".
Apps track your location, even if you have the permission turned off.
Doesn't matter when they just say, "never mind, we want to see"
Load More Replies...You REALLY trust your big corporations who keep getting fined million of dollars for violating things like this over and over and over.
Load More Replies...Not possible. Android stands between the app and hardware. If you don't give permission, Android will refuse to give location to the app.
A tip: when you're on your phone playing a game or doing something, and just sitting, tilt your phone slightly away from your face. Look at at, but on a comfortable angle, not full at your face. This helps with blue light being shot into your eyes but also if an app or your phone is taking peeks at you, or something malicious is scanning you, they're not seeing a face and stop, or they see a wall or "not your face" and the bot doesn't think it's being used.
The actual phone app needs your location in order to be able to connect with the local network towers. That's just how it works.
That video game companies got a taste of the kind of money that gambling brings in and changed an entire industry to emulate the casino structure but for children.
Oh it's definitely all about money for sure, and they'll keep monetizing it for as long as regulation allows, but there's a fundamental difference between casino gambling and gacha or lootboxes people seem to ignore: money. In a casino you have the [extremely small] chance to win a life changing amount of money. In a game, you're only ever getting in-game rewards that have no impact on your life outside. It's still scummy, but it's not a fair comparison. Buying in-game currency so that you can try to win some kind of in-game lootbox reward is far more similar to playing for tickets in an arcade than gambling in a casino.
Disagree. The loot boxes are worse because the contents have no actual value and it would cost the game developers zero additional money to put something decent in every box.
Load More Replies...I love that they used EA for the picture, they really are a company that will squeeze as much money out of you as they can, especially for The Sims. Game packs, expansions and these new kits don't have enough new content or gameplay to warrant their ridiculous prices. Thank god for custom content and mod creators who make the stuff the games actually need.
Money on the source of all evil! Once the green comes in. People tend to change.
not all videogames, you are thining of EA and mobile games, most videogame companies don't do this
I remember back at Uni when we played FIFA for free...once you bought the game that's it. You had access to everything. Now everything is an additional cost and "buy packs".
That questions like this are market research, and this question in particular is likely to be used for some pretty nefarious purposes.
It's actually illegal for marketing research companies to sell information to 3rd parties other than the client that has already paid for the study. Another conspiracy theory is that market research companies do their own studies. They don't. The research companies are commissioned and make money from the client.
No it's not, these articles are nowhere near a representative sample, and is not random. No client would pay money for such crappy data. Marketing on the other hand has a different use for such efforts.
I think they’re talking about the question regarding conspiracy theories.
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The conspiracy that created the term "conspiracy theory". Think back to the 30s, 40s, 50s. There were stories of the black cars showing up and making people that start finding out too much "disappear". Enter the 60s and 70s. Mass media starts growing at a massive rate. A rate at which the government realizes that they cannot ever fully control. Their genius solution is to open the floodgates of crazy. Push a bunch of conspiracy theories into the populace that makes real conspiracy reports be ignored as just "tinfoil hat crazy". Label ALL reports as conspiracy theory. This over time creates a societal misunderstanding in the form of the term "conspiracy theory" becoming equated with "crazy". An example of this is I believe that there really aren't many people that truly believe the earth is flat. There are just some entities planted that push it as a "theory". This then becomes one of the main examples of "all conspiracy theorists are not to be taken seriously".
Sounds accurate to me. You're considered crazy until proven correct. People never take conspiracy theorists seriously, and it can be detrimental. Most theories are pretty dumb, but all deserve a chance to show proof, or else we end up burying whistleblowers and covering things up without giving them a fair shake. Remember Love Canal? Kerr McGee? ABSCAM?
I don't think it really matters if people think the earth is flat or not, they can believe what they want to believe
There is a site called Christian forums. There us a whole section for flat earthers. Some christians say the bible says the earth is flat.😔.. .
i just always attributed this gift to soviet union governors and their listening to all conversations to a point people started fearing the electric outlets (some of them were indeed rigged)
And the drugs that the government pushed out on the public! It weakens people
The government deliberately works on keeping the populace uneducated. From school funding being tied to local property taxes, to allowing militant religious parties to "politicize" and censor science based education. It's easier to manipulate an uneducated society by pitting it against itself across socio-economic and political lines. In the mean time the civil servants meant to b representing us do favors for the wealthy in return for funding and insider trading privileges.
That's not only an American thing, but it also happens in many places.
Load More Replies...This is probably my top conspiracy theory belief. Most people are stupid or very stupid, and it’s not an accident. People are intentionally under-educated, and that includes even the most technically educated people with speciality knowledge but who are absolutely stupid outside of their field. It also includes yokels and hicks who are against intelligence. We literally have groups of people who are anti-intellectuals. Most of these people are victims of being under-educated in one way or another and can’t see outside of their religion, their social causes, their mantras. All the while none of it really matters and the important stuff (the money) is all being kept within the circles who make this happen to commoners.
I 100% agree, but I also think a big factor is that the people themselves are ok with not being educated. We have the internet, all of the human knowledge at our fingertips, but instead of looking up the truth, people head to Instagram or Facebook. If you took the average teen and changed all of their voluntary screen time to something to better their brain, we'd have a lot of really smart teens today.
Load More Replies...Yep. They also do what corporations have been doing for decades, pit employee against employee by giving unbalanced wages, that way employees go after each other not the corporations or government. This was done very successfully in Hawaii during the peak sugar plantations, employees of one race would be paid lower than another, employees killed each other over this, the mastermind never accused of held responsible for the bad blood
Sadly, this should not be thought of as a "theory", conspiratorial or otherwise. It should be treated as a dangerous fact. It's been happening in the US for decades. Politicians have currently weaponized the pandemic to pit an entire nation against itself, while the wealthy sit back and chuckle, and make more money.
With calculators taking all the drudgery out of math, we should be learning how to spot fraud with ease, but most kids get so alienated they are very easy to cheat.
That the international establishment are not cracking down on the slave trade because too many of them benefit from slaves, wage slaves, debt slaves, indentured servants, passport hostage victims, magdalene laundresses, unpaid internships, etc. themselves.
Unfortunately, everyone in the west benefits from slave labour. Fast fashion? Slave labour. Fresh produce (like fruit and veggies)? Slave labour. Phones, Laptops? Also slave labour. I'm not sure what we as consumers can do about it but that is the only reason those things are so cheap in the first place. Although, buying second hand is always better than buying new
Yep, second hand, Fair trade products. Do what you can. No diamonds, no new phone every year, latest fashion is a scam.
Load More Replies...If everybody was paid a fair wage than people's buying power would drastically decrease, because things will become really expensive. It would probably not be good for the capitalist economy, which is based on exploitation
That isn't even a conspiracy theory. It is simply the recorded history of mankind as we know it.
I remember one time on "House Hunters International" this young woman from the US was looking at apartments in Dubai. She was there to teach and one of the apartments she was looking at had an interior room, no windows,small, dark and narrow. It also had a lock on the outside of the door. She asked the agent what the room was for and the agent said "so you can have a place for your live in maid." The look on her face was horrific.
This is why the border is open in the US right now. Non of those people have options other than working undocumented for s**t wages, way less than any minimum, and treated like garbage. It is so sad.
... last summer, the slavery in slaughterhouses in germany became puclicly recognized. East-european weekly or monthly commuters, working for next to nothing, crammed in rooms suitable for two, but there's like 10 in them, and so on. What works well with the pigs and cows, works well with those disassembling them, it seems...
A lot of our economy is based on terrible things. Name any country whose money wasn't made on blood.
Republicans/Democrats aren’t as hostile as we’re lead onto believe and actually agree a lot but are using our differences in beliefs to control us.
It makes good drama for the news. Most people aren't as extreme in their political leanings either, just the ones that get interviewed at rallies.
It's that what often made me lose faith in humanity, you know tgere are some good people but you don't hear them enough
Load More Replies...I've said for years that they're like the WWE. They "fight" in front of the crowd, but they're friends backstage.
Conspiracy: political parties are a front. The wealthy run the world. Period.
Correct...the rich pay the parties, to get what the RICH want...
Load More Replies...Marilyn Monroe did not die from an “accidental” overdose.
she was threatening to reveal all the things JFK told her during "pillowtalk"
The appearance of the bedroom - no water glass, no pills or pill bottles! Poorly staged!
Load More Replies...This is definitely true. Oddly, Bobby Kennedy and Peter Lawford were seen outside her house the night she died. But were meant to be in San Francisco. And why did they wait 8 hours between her dying and calling an ambulance?
Why - because they wanted to make sure she was DEAD!
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Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's when he was still in office and his advisers told him to write a letter to the American people to be released later after it got too bad to hide. When his condition went public in 1994, they released the letter and it was almost perfect handwriting, spelling, and grammar. Six months later he couldn't carry on a conversation. I'm convinced he didn't progress that fast in 1994 and that the entire thing was constructed over the years to look like he was mentally competent while he was president.
Observers at the time questioned whether he was quite all there. However, he died ten years after his diagnosis which is around average. If he'd already had Alzheimer's while he was in office, he would have had a life expectancy around twice as long as the average sufferer.
You're right. My first thought though was, "Yeah. But he had the absolute best care money could buy." Averages include a massive majority of people who receive the minimum, or in some cases, no, treatment or care. They're thrown away. Tucked into facilities where they rot. You know he was as comfortable as cared for as was possible. Could have extended his life quite a bit. And he could also be an outlier, where he outlived his peers.
Load More Replies...Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Mr Gorbachev, build this wooden bridge! Mr Gorbachev, extend this stick! Mr Gorbachev, don't drown in the water! Mr Gorbachev, drink this nectar! Mr Gorbachev, collect my Pilot's Seat! Mr Gorbachev, stop being eaten by the spotty bulborbs!
Now it's time to test Rutte for alzheimers. Tge guy claims to forget all kimds of tgings
There are those who think the people that voted him in weren’t to stable either.
China is using tiktok to develop a database to experiment and perfect deep fake technology and techniques.
No that's ridiculous why would TikTok do that? You should download TikTok! You can watch funny vidos and more! 习主席万岁!
Here you go: https://www.boredpanda.com/tik-tok-reverse-engineered-data-information-collecting/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
It's funny to post that on random articles that are just a TikTok and the little article header nobody reads.
Load More Replies...Same here. I always go on other sites or just YouTube if I ABSOLUTELY want to watch some Tik Tok vids
Load More Replies...I love how companies complete sometimes .like when YT brought out the shorts bit recently. Reminds me of a playground spat.
Yup. It's just a data mining app with simple inviting features common in gambling. Easy to use but too many permissions.
Load More Replies...They auto filter all uploads though, applying a filter that slims the face even when off, so that wouldn't be very accurate if they did want to use it for deepfake purposes.
Yeah it's probably more a case of general monitoring than anything
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The cardboard rolls that toilet paper are on have gotten wider in diameter over the years. This is one way to make the rolls look bigger. Because you know 6 mega rolls equals 32 normal sized rolls...
They've always differed between brands. I've found some low budget rolls tend to have the bigger cardboard roll on the inside to make you think you're getting more than you are. .
I like to draw funny faces on the empty ones and leave them in the bathroom.
and mega rolls don't fit on my dispensers that are the old-fashion built into the wall.
The world stock market is rigged, and most trading happens behind the scenes
The entire concept of a stock market is rigged, in that there is a finite amount of money in the world. Stock values are not true representations of actual cash/material wealth of companies. They are completely artificial. The money in stock markets is therefore not even real money and for the most part, it never gets cashed out. It is the most artificial system imaginable. It is also the biggest scam, because no matter what the value of a stock, it is still finite and if a bunch of people get rich on one end, then a bunch of other people lose on the other end. If everybody could become millionaires on the stock market, then being a millionaire would no longer have any advantage.
been trying to explain this one to folks for decades now. It exists merely on quick turn over and greed, but unfortunately, even though stock prices have little to do with the economic worth of any company, share-holders can make or break a company based on who they put in charge.. Witness the cluster-F Boeing has become.
Load More Replies...My partner invested SO MUCH into the whole GME thing earlier this year and it's still there. 14k he put in and at the height he made 26k, cashed out and then bought more. He's relying on Reddit and the whole "hodle" and "too the moon" bullshit. He's convinced it'll make him a millionaire. 🙄 I had hope back in April/May but now it's just ridiculous. But Reddit is Gospel to him so I give up. Shitty thing is that money could be used to take our kids on holiday, buy them nice things. We've never had a holiday either.
To give you a crypto case. My wife invested about 1000 usd on crypto in 2017. She now currently has 32000 usd. no work involved. just HODL.
Load More Replies...Anyone with experience knows this would not work and could not work. Too many different people involved in different countries that hate each other too much to co-operate. Moreover, wealth is rarely generational. That is, the grandchildren of billionaires end up as millionaires. It is a slow slide down to merely being in the top 1%, where they tend to stay. Worse, most of the bearish periods make little sense. It is clearly random, not predicted. Top example is the Covid dip in 2020. Just appeared out of nowhere and went away again. Yes, the wealthy took advantage of it and made billions, but it made no sense. Better to have waited closer to the US presidential election. Clearly caused by the disease, and most such bearish periods have well established causes that were not obviously not 'directed'.
his sadly IS true.....the stock market makes money going UP and DOWN.....
That the government collaborated with tech companies to promote taking "selfies" to advance facial recognition software.
Good luck recognizing anyone from a selfie with all the heavy editing, filtering and photoshop lol
Of course the tech companies have the original files and could easily undo their own filters
Load More Replies...wait till you hear about passports, driving licenses and building id passes then.
Do you see how difficult it has been for the FBI to ID the participants of the January event?!?They are still attempting to locate people
It will never work. Just look at the photo shopped pics of the women “influencers “.
Computer program they designed to alter with a click of a button that also has an "undo" button
Load More Replies...Yup but they didn't take into account man's insanity to look better than the next guy or girl.
Bic doesn't fill their lighters with as much fluid as they used to.
That fact aside: I tend to lose them, before i used them up completely. Even the small ones.
Load More Replies...If you were to track the shrinking of products instead of companies adding the cost of their products upfront, you would be stunned at how much things cost vs a couple of years ago. This is a very insidious way that corporations impact rising cost of living charts, the government tracks cost increases not product size decreases.
Like Coke did with their whole botteled product range in Switzerland one or two years ago. 10% increase by less volume per bottle - 500ml is now 450ml. Just waiting for the canned range to follow.
Load More Replies...Disposable lighters are just more eternal garbage piling up. Get a lighter that can be refilled (if they even make them anymore), and buy the fuel separately.
They still make Zippo lighters, and they come with a lifetime guarantee.
Load More Replies...Where I live they keep changing the shape of soda bottles...which just reduces the volume but they don't change that on the wrapper.
This is the same with ALL products. Everything is smaller these days. Either that or they are not giving us as much as they used too. The only thing that is getting bigger is the price. We're having to pay way more for way less.
All countries have Ninjas. We only know about Japanese Ninjas bc they're the worst.
No, they are too easily seen, I mean, NInjas dressed in Green and/or Blue with stripes?
Load More Replies...Ninjas as we know them no longer exist, and, fir tge most part, didn't exist
Chap stick actually causes your lips to feel more chapped after their affect wears off, causing you to use it more often and buy more chapstick
Chapstick is a barrier, not a moisturiser. So, yes, it definitely dehydrates your lips if they were dehydrated to start with.
Drink more water! Chapping happens from dehydration so it’s a sign to drink more. Of course, then they have to heal but since I’ve learned this my lips do not become chapped nearly as often and I’ve “kicked” the chapstick habit!
I better go drink some water rn then. Thanks for the tip
Load More Replies...Nasal sprays work like this too. You take them to unclog your sinuses once a day, then before you know it, you have to use it twice a day, then 3x. Combination of stripping the natural lining of your nose, and the rebound effect.
When you use a moisturizer make sure the skin is already moist i.e. lick your lips and THEN apply chapstick. Same way with skin "moisturizers, make sure your skin is still wet after you get out of the shower and THEN apply oil or lotion to your skin., The ONLY moisturizer is water. When you apply a "moisturizer" you are "sealing" in the moisture already on your skin. If your skin is dry, it isn't going to help, much.
I know someone who read about and stopped using chapstick because they felt like they were constantly using chapstick. They started using vaseline instead. The problem is that they now use vaseline constantly.. as much, if not more so, than they used chapstick. I've told them that no lip balm is meant to be used constantly. Your lips are naturally moist and lip balms are only meant to protect them during extreme cold or hot weather, or to treat chapped lips.
If I'm not mistaken, chapstick contains alcohol which does dry your skin out.
Well I don't actually believe the government is putting stuff in our water that's turning the frogs gay
I do however believe the large amount of urine containing birth control waste getting out into the sewage is becoming an ecological problem
That accounts for less than 1%. The majority is from effluent overflow and seepage from farms getting into waterways and the ground. "Analysis found that EE2 has a lower predicted concentration in U.S. drinking water than natural estrogens from soy and dairy products and animal waste used untreated as a farm fertilizer. And that all humans, (men, women and children, and especially pregnant women) excrete hormones in their urine, not just women taking the pill. Some research cited in the report suggests that animal manure accounts for 90 percent of estrogens in the environment. Other research estimates that if just 1 percent of the estrogens in livestock waste reached waterways, it would comprise 15 percent of the estrogens in the world's water supply."
Maybe a little beside the point, but just fyi, anyone worried about their external estrogen intake should really consider avoiding dairy products. Forget soy, it's known that animal based hormones are far more bioavailable in much smaller doses than anything made by plants. Milk is loaded with female hormones. Any woman who experiences pms, endometriosis, or has a family history of breast cancer should probably just omit dairy products altogether.
Wait...so does this person want women to stop taking birth control or do they want bettering filtering and treatment?
they never said they wanted anything, all they said was they think the hormones that get flushed into waste water facilities are having an ecological effect, no need to stretch that to "they want women to stop taking birth control", you can agree that women should have access to birth control and that there are ecological problems from the waste products. I'd even go further, people should absolutely get mental health medication when they need it, but the waste products won't be doing any favors to the ecology "down stream".
Load More Replies...Home DNA tests are backed by insurance companies to build a database so they can exploit gene-related issues in the future.
I'd personally suspect they're backed by CIA/FBI because those guys would get much more benefit from knowing everyone's DNA, e.g. to ID perps in crime scenes.
Im almost positive I know of some criminals who have been caught when their DNA was put into ancestry websites, and relatives were found, allowing cops to trace back to a person of interest etc
Load More Replies...You mean those tests for ethenicity and genealogie? I think that could be true, having a large DNA database is very usefull in many ways.
You do realize that insurance companies can make more money when everyone is healthy, right? If you’re not going to the doctor as much for expensive treatments, they get to keep more money. It’s far more lucrative to keep the population healthy than it is to ‘deny claims’. Some industries make money off illness but not really so for insurance.
Apple made the original AirPod memes and jokes to boost the sales on them after their sales sucked the first year.
I’m not a fan because they need recharging and earphones which plug in go all day!
Tom Cruise wants out of Scientology, but they have way too much on him and he's in too deep. That's why he does his own insane stunts and tries to outdo himself every MI movie; he doesn't care if he dies, it's his only way out.
I’m still amazed Katie Holmes and her family, particularly her dad, pulled off the stunt and got her and her daughter out of the grip of TC and Scientology. She made sure the paps were there (maybe even rang them herself) so she was *constantly* photographed every time she left her house, so the Sci’s couldn’t get anywhere near her without photographic evidence.
Or he might do the crazy stunts because he is so into their "we get beamed up" theory...?
This. Simple question, never gets answered though
Load More Replies...I have a deeply imbedded hatred of this man and the lies that form around him. Supposedly he can fly. Why can't I find his license?
Certain ultra wealthy rich have slowly politicised the news over the past decades in the way of brainwashing the population into believing their agenda. Along with possibly having multiple news channels eg left or right leaning channels to attract more viewers so if they don’t like one they may go into the other one which they agree more with. Additionally increasing the entertainment part of the news and decreasing the ‘news’ and educational parts of the news.
First came the wiping out of Fair snd Balanced news rules (thanks Reagan administration), then corporations began buying mass media in order to control information, instill fear and loathing etc. News now is not news, it’s opinion pieces paraded as news and it’s hugely damaging, it’s all propaganda these days
For the record, serious answer. But, there’s this soup place at our local mall that’s been there for three years now. I’ve never seen anyone order anything from there, and I rarely see anyone at the register. When our mall was closed due to COVID lockdown/quarantine, several locally owned stores shut down, and a few places in the food court. Last time I was there was for my birthday in August, and the soup place is still there.
My mom and I have an array of theories about what it could be, ranging from money laundering to a front for drugs, but I cannot believe that place is legitimate.
You think we are front for drugs or money laundering, NO SOUP FOR YOU!
There's a Chinese restaurant in my town that's been in business for years, and I've never seen a single person eat there. They seem to do a good takeout business, and I've ordered takeout and it's fine, but... over ten years I've never seen anyone sit at the tables and eat.
I feel this way about mattress stores, they're everywhere and there's no way people are buying enough mattresses to keep them all in business. Money laundering it is.
A You Tuber brought this up in his conspiracy video. There was one town where multiple stores by the one company were on the same street.
Load More Replies...There's a dumpling place at my local mall which is the same! The food is AWFUL (their cheese covered dumplings almost made me throw up), they never seem to have any customers, half the time there's nobody behind the counter, they're occupying prime real estate... and yet somehow they're still "in business". If they're not a front for organised crime, then I'm Nicole Kidman. (Indeed, a popular burger franchise here actually DID turn out to be owned by a motorcycle gang. They shut down, which was a shame because the burgers were fantastic).
There’s a Dania furniture store near me like that. Six cars in a huge parking lot at any given time ,(Belonging to the sales force), tons of expensive Scandinavian furniture inside, and no customers!
In the uk it’s Turkish barbers shops! Every high street seems to have a lot, that have popped up over the last couple of years who needs six new barbers in a small village that previously supported 1 or 2??
I think the same thing about fireworks stores. Here in the southern U.S., nobody needs fireworks in October... but there are always cars there.
I saw a couple places at a mall that are like that where I am. I'm assuming they make the majority of business catering and take out, as they do advertise that option. But I also only ever pass by for a few moments. That's not enough time to make certain they get no customers.
Disney called the movie "Frozen" in an attempt to dilute search results about Walt's head.
Ok, so today I learned there is a theory about Walt Disney being kept frozen.
I have a theory that this is one of those conspiracy theories designed to make people laugh at conspiracy theories.
Now they just need to figure out a way to hide Walt Disney's ties with Nazi Germany.
There's an ongoing theory that they froze Walt Disney's head/body after he died to preserve him, and that "he" may be hidden under the castle at Disneyland or something. Then another theory popped up stating that they named their move based off of the Snow Queen "Frozen" to further shut down any suspicions about Walt's possibly frozen body. That way, if you look up "Walt Disney Frozen" the movie shows up, not the theory!
Load More Replies...“Deflate Gate” was a distraction from brain damage and domestic abuse scandals in the NFL. And I say this as someone who hates Tom Brady. It should have just been a small fine and forgotten quickly. But this is the type of scandal the NFL can tolerate whereas brain injuries and domestic abuse can hurt the league’s reputation. And it worked! Distraction and new cycle dominated by this for an entire off-season rather than more serious issues.
That Charles Lindbergh was responsible for his son’s death.
I've heard this before. Some people believe that the Lindberg baby had mental or physical disabilities, and that Lindberg couldn't be having that.
There was definitely a mild physical deformity [overlapping toes on one foot], so that makes me wonder if that one abnormal feature was just a symptom of a larger medical issue the kiddo might have had.
Load More Replies...Also, he was a Nazi. It wasn't forced on him by Rittenhouse (points for understanding that one!).
Charles Lindberg Jr born 1930. Patrick Magoohan allegedly born 1928. You may be on to something
Load More Replies...Honestly, I find the idea gold isn't at fort Knox anymore believable. In the same vein, I doubt they keep anything important at area 51 anymore. I bet they keep the sites up so we don't look anywhere else. Why or how? I don't care enough to think that deep. This is just something I heard that makes sense to me.
I think Area 51 is too well known to have any prototypes being tested there nowadays
Area 51 was meant to atract the media; in fact, all the alien stuff is in the Area 47, maybe 49.
Load More Replies...I can honestly tell you that what Area 51 was mostly used for at any time in its history was flight test. We have had some seriously bizarre/amazing flight tests over the years BUT for some reason (fascination with the fantastical?) people would rather have believed in extraterrestrial work being done in the middle of the desert in Nevada... rather than say Mohave. Or Utah.... Take a look at skunkworks. At some point the SR-71 (and the A-12) definitely had a home at Area 51.
You do realize that the U.S. hasn’t been on the Gold standard since the 30’s right?
But gold still is used as national reserve despite the money not being bound to it
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Load More Replies...I thought it was hard fact that the government sold off the gold from Fort Knox decades ago
That someone from the inside knew that the Boeing 737-max was absolutely trash and shorted the stock
There's a whole long process for adding systems to the manuals and lot of people had to choose to not follow that to hide the existence of a new system.
Someone knew about the accident before everyone else and shorted it before it hit the news.
That the DOT bought way too many traffic cones but had nowhere to store them so they just move them from road to road.
All of Highways England's crash barrier repair work is just a front for mass bagel-eating.
They need to erect more statues of the Duke of Wellington for more storage space
AND, that’s it’s cheaper to put up a “Bump” sign, than to fix the bump!
There's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity.
And the number of people who were electrocuted by power lines correlates with the marriage rate in Alabama.
No longer playing with the cool toy, kids had no choice but to turn to gangs.
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The Royal Family had Princess Diana killed for a multitude of reasons: pregnant w/Dodi’s child; going to blow the whistle on Andrew being a pedo; spilled other secrets.
If she had worn a seatbelt and kept her security (which the queen offered) she would probably still be alive.
Actually, if they had gotten her to the hospital within 60 minutes [which was more than possible if the ambulance had not driven 30km an hour] she would have lived. She had an aortic aneurysm that is the main factor in causes of car crash deaths. Emergency room doctors make, supposedly, uninjured car wreck patients wait ONE hour in the Emergency Room in case they have one of these aneurysms. They have saved a lot of peoples' lives. Two ED's were on a talk show and they pointed out that Diana would have been saved in England or the US.
Load More Replies...This one is too stupid -- do the people saying this even know how she died? How ludicrously convoluted the plot would have had to be, depending in how much ridiculous luck to work? The driver has to overreact to the papparazi; Diana has to not be wearing her seat belt exactly when a driver accidentally hits something in the tunnel just right to; Diana has to fatally fly out of the backseat just so...the list of coincidental requirements makes this dumb.
This is just utter bullshit. Like all similar conspiracy "theories", it relies on such a ridiculous chain of events to be successfully pulled off, that only an idiot would have suggested it as a method of assassination.
It's no secret that prins philip disliked her but wanting to kill her? Nah.
Actually they got on very well. Philip saw Diana as like him, an outsider coming in.
Load More Replies...The Tianjin explosion was a result of China either working on or moving dangerous materials, and while explosion was non-nuclear, materials were radioactive. Radioactive slag was found nearby afterwards as well as the epicenter of the explosion doesn't match the official reports. Later deleted satellite photos showed the explosion was either on the street or below in the sewers/access tunnels, not within the nearby factory like China suggests. Not a huge conspiracy, just china trying to keep it's nuclear energy/weapons information hush hush after a mishap.
I trust China as much as I trust the U.S - not at all.
Load More Replies...not a conspiracy theory, just wild speculation: China has let too many private citizens become too rich. at some point the wealthy will have too much power, the govt won't be able to control them anymore, which will eventually result in a Chinese civil war, which will be bad bad bad
That Rogue and non rogue members in the FBI, CIA, and mafia conspired to kill, and killed JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcom X. We have documented proof the government worked with the mob on a couple different occasions. I think the proof is there to connect all the dots. Just my opinion.
No way Oswald was working alone, and before we could ask, Jack Ruby, known Bratva associate, shut him up.
Nah, the one documented time that a rogue FBI agent and CIA officer teamed up to do a black-bag op at the Watergate, they couldn’t even get past a minimum wage security guard
i have heard of a band named.... Grassy knoll and the magic bullet.
The secret service is also the group in charge of keeping all retired / passed government officials quiet. It’s crazy to think that all of these powerful people don’t spill their knowledge at some point before they die. Once they get a certain clearance then a detailed profile is built of who their family and friends are and somehow passed to them as a “keep your mouth shut or things will happen to these people”. Whenever a popular congressman voluntarily retires in the middle of their term I think that they keep learning that they wished they hadn’t and that it’s time to just get out.
Many of these people had to sign non- disclosure documents, punishable by law, as a condition of employment.
And if they still do it they are "conspiration theorists" ;-) I dont know, but believe the profile part.
Dollar slice pizza places.
This may not make sense to people who don't live in New York City. We have these great places that sell a plain slice of pizza (cheese only) for $1.00.
I can't believe they make rent and payroll on volume with $1.00/slice and the going rent rates. This has to be some sort of money laundering scam, but one where no one cares because you get a slice of pizza for a dollar.
Might not be the best pizza, but damn, a dollar slice. I'll always stop in if I'm passing one on the street. This just can't be economically feasible and something else is going on.
And they'll end up selling far more pizzas at $1 per slice than they would at $8 per pizza.
Load More Replies...People rarely order a cheese slice. And these places (in NYC) are always super busy. I lived on this pizza for years when I first moved there. I'd say they also use the cheapest possible ingredients and probably make a bit of a profit on each slice anyway.
The ingredients, wholesale, for a plain cheese pizza could be close to just a dollar
Add that to a big hungry city like New York? Instant money, just add water.
Load More Replies...A pizza is mere cents to make, a dollar a slice - so 8-10 dollars a pizza with a rush hour of say 20-30 people asking for a slice - is good money
This is serious, but I do actually believe we live in a world where there are multiple universes. What I mean by this is even if there is a 0% chance, in another parallel universe, that 0% is 100%. I believe there are many different parallel universes, and what choice we make in this one affects them. i know it sounds stupid but it's what I believe
Why would this one be the main one? Maybe we are a secondary one and choices made in another plane changes things here
"New Coke" was just a distraction so we didn't notice the change to high fructose corn syrup. It was never supposed to work.
Newell it did not work, the product was discontinued. Though I have to say I prefer cane sugar taste over beet sugar
I only buy Mexican cokes as they are made with real sugar. But in truth I rarely buy them. Just once in a loooong while. Couple times a year maybe. Sodas are just too high in sugar.
Load More Replies...New coke was a result of the 'Pepsi challenge' marketing campaign and the increase of Pepsi sales. Pepsi were out-selling Coke and this was simply because Pepsi had a lot more sugar so coke decided to change their recipe.
The bad Sonic movie trailer was only made to gain coverage. Don’t you think it’s strange that they fixed the animation so quickly? I think the “new” design is actually the original.
Osama bin Ladin wasn’t killed the way they said he was, and they kept him alive for interrogation. Doubt he’s alive today but there’s no way they’d just Chuck the most wanted man in the world over the side of a boat. Bet they interrogated him then killed him, or jailed him who knows.
The story that they chucked him over the side of a boat to keep the site of his burial from being a tool for martyrdom seems reasonable, though.
I'm pretty convinced acne washes/cleansers contain materials that cause the acne to flare up when you stop using them, so you keep buying it. Realistically, maybe it's just your skin adjusting to producing its own oils again and it'll even out after a bit, but who knows?
I kinda feel that anything you put on your skin has an addictive effect for the skin, like moisturizers.
My dermatologist ages ago told me to wash my face just with a simple soap bar, nothing fancy, nothing too simple. I use it for years and never had any acne or any face skin problems ever again. At least works for me. And yes, i know that people say it makes your skin dry. Doesn't affect my skin.
this one i must support, I found that when i stopped using harsh soaps as a kid, the acne cleared up by itself.
I think the main problems are that soaps 1) remove all the oils, and the skin rushes to put out more, and 2) change the Ph of the skin, with devastating effects on the skin microbiome.
Load More Replies...I honestly believe there are aliens that live deep in the ocean but they’ve been here longer than us.
Cahf ah nafl mglw'nafh hh' ahor syha'h ah'legeth, ng llll or'azath syha'hnahh n'ghftephai n'gha ahornah ah'mglw'nafh
Load More Replies...I hate that people claim to believe completely arbitrary things that there is absolutely no evidence for or chain of logic that they should be true at all. BTW I absolutely believe there is a cheese sandwich the size of Earth's moon located exactly 1 billion light years from here that knows the scores of every sports game on earth for the next 1001 years and 4 months and 3 days. That's what these people sound like to me.
That's what's keeping us safe from other alien invasions. They know of the tentacles and teeth that lurk below
West Nile virus came to the US east coast from Plum Island. This island officially has an animal disease reasearch lab. Unofficially it's suspected as being a bioweapons research facility. Anthrax being the most know suspect. However several diseases have suddenly appeared over the years in the area with no history. West Nile and dutch duck disease being two big ones. There is a book " lab 257" that goes into greater detail.
Right because mosquitos can't possibly move from place to place as the climate warms...this one is pretty dumb.
And they were going to send Hannibal Lecter there once a year. For a holiday no less. Shame.
I bet he was really looking forward to seeing the terns' nests, too.
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OJ Simpson is Khloe Kardashian’s father
What I have heard is that Alex Rolden is her father, there is a photo of the two together looking pretty similar, her middle name is Alexandra and it's known that Kris had more than one affair. If OJ was her father her skin tone would be darker and would probably look more like her sisters, their skin tone comes from the Armenian side.
She looks exactly like Robert Kardashian’s mother, her grandma. Like carbon copy spitting image. She looks more like Robert K than her sisters do, just his less attractive and less exotic features. She doesn’t look black or part black like OJ. People just say this to shame her for not being as pretty as the other two.
Who cares?? I mean really, I admit I’m not an admirer of Hollywood people of their offspring. I don’t care who is doing who or what their thoughts are. There are more important things in life to spend time in, like slims mold classifications and why so many mammals have white tipped tails
I love that the image is not just a face, but is the photographic equivalent of a sculptural bust.
To me, it seems pretty obvious that OJ is her father. I mean, she's a foot taller than all the rest of them. Both sides of the rest of the family are short. I have a daughter with the same racial mix as her, so I can totally see some of those characteristics in her. She looks a lot more like OJ's other kids than she does her own sisters. Ultimately, it doesn't really matter, but I just assume OJ is her father.
Russia is controlling social media with bots and trolls and increases polarization in society with this army of trolls. There is evidence for this theory, but I feel it goes way further than people think
Substitute "controlling" with "manipulating" and you have the simple truth.
Load More Replies...Someone makes it rain every day at school drop-off and pick up time. Might be crazy but I am convinced this is true
A conspiracy that I just made up is that the Anti-Vax movement was started by a misogynistic group of men to bring back high infant mortalities to get women out of the workforce and back to being baby makers full time
Most of these aren't conspiracy theories at all. I think this bored panda needs to research what that term actually means.
Does it mean: a nonscientific theory without any facts that has an elite group of people who know what is really happening and purposefully hiding it from others? Because that is what this post was doing.
Load More Replies...After all these years and all the millions of dollars given for cancer research the best they've managed to come up with is chemo? I have a hard time believing that. I think they just don't want the money to stop coming in.
There have been massive strides in cancer treatment over the decades. Cancer survival rates increase every year, and there are many non-chemo treatments either available or in trial or research. Not to mention that we have a literal vaccination for cervical cancer. Cancer is not a single disease with a single trajectory.
Load More Replies...a theory i heard recently is that the lottery was invented to trap time travelers
Russia is controlling social media with bots and trolls and increases polarization in society with this army of trolls. There is evidence for this theory, but I feel it goes way further than people think
Substitute "controlling" with "manipulating" and you have the simple truth.
Load More Replies...Someone makes it rain every day at school drop-off and pick up time. Might be crazy but I am convinced this is true
A conspiracy that I just made up is that the Anti-Vax movement was started by a misogynistic group of men to bring back high infant mortalities to get women out of the workforce and back to being baby makers full time
Most of these aren't conspiracy theories at all. I think this bored panda needs to research what that term actually means.
Does it mean: a nonscientific theory without any facts that has an elite group of people who know what is really happening and purposefully hiding it from others? Because that is what this post was doing.
Load More Replies...After all these years and all the millions of dollars given for cancer research the best they've managed to come up with is chemo? I have a hard time believing that. I think they just don't want the money to stop coming in.
There have been massive strides in cancer treatment over the decades. Cancer survival rates increase every year, and there are many non-chemo treatments either available or in trial or research. Not to mention that we have a literal vaccination for cervical cancer. Cancer is not a single disease with a single trajectory.
Load More Replies...a theory i heard recently is that the lottery was invented to trap time travelers
