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“What Is Something That’s So Common That We Forget Just How Crazy It Is?” (30 Answers)
There are those times in life when you suddenly stop and think just how astonishing some of the seemingly common things around us are. I mean, we can now reach almost anyone in the world in a matter of seconds, while people in the past used to send actual pigeons.
And worldwide connectivity is only the tip of a massive iceberg. In this Reddit thread, people share all sorts of things that only seem ordinary until they take a moment and realize just how crazy they really are. Drop down below and check out what they are!
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#1
I carry a computer in my pocket with more processing power than the one that took us to the moon. It also has a built in camera, telephone, internet connection, and video games.
Carole G. 2 years ago
& remembering the math teacher that always told us, "Learn it. Show your work, you're not going to be walking around with a calculator in your pocket." HA!
Oerff On Tour 2 years ago
Some people complain about their privacy, whilst posting every fart on social media
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Auntriarch 2 years ago
Also it enables me to speedily look up remedies for getting chili in your eyes
Powerful Katrinka 2 years ago
That sounds like the voice of experience...
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Lee Henderson 2 years ago
My mother was born in 1933. Some houses had electricity; her father was a cop so they could afford it. Radios had the AM and shortwave band and cost about $500. TV had been invented but there were no real stations. Some people could afford telephones and due to her father's job. Now she talks to our relatives all over the country and gets news in real time. Talk about progress.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Heck, a Furby has more computing power than the computers that landed astronauts on the moon! (And though I'll forgive my parents a lot of things, I'll never forgive them for taking my Furby away!)
On the right side of the turf 1 year ago
To all the teachers who said "you are never going to go through life with a calculator in your pocket." I beg to differ. Check mate!
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#2
Being able to chat with someone on the other side of the world any time you like.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 2 years ago
Well, telephones have been around for us to do that for several decades, of course. But to view someone as in zoom or skype is on a wholly different level. That to me, is SciFi level.
Dogcat vet (retired) 2 years ago
I still don't understand why corps have to have in person meetings: zoom seems easier
Rick Seiden 2 years ago
When I was a kid we'd talk to my Uncle Ron once a year at Christmas. He lived in Australia and we lived in the US. Not only was it crazy expensive to call, but there was a delay of about a second, and it made the conversations weird. I am often amazed at how I can't tell if someone is in India or Brazil when I'm on a call at work.
Hiram's Friend 2 years ago
There are people today who never heard of long distance calls.
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#3
Some people can just grow another human inside them and squirt it out and it eventually just starts doing stuff on its own. Absolutely mental.
Nichole Harris 2 years ago
Well.... IDK about SQUIRT it out 🤣.... Mine certainly didn't squirt🤣🤣🤣🤣
steven mayes 2 years ago
I love this one, also the fact that the if the baby that's going to squirt out is a girl, she already has the eggs to make the next one inside of her.
Lotekguy 2 years ago
Octomom might have squirted out the last one or two. By then it should be super easy; barely an inconvenience.
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RosenCranzLives 2 years ago
That's like saying the Battle of the Bulge was a 'Squirty Scuffle' in 1944.
Celtic Pirate Queen 2 years ago
Squirt it out? You need to watch a YouTube video, you f*cking moron. OH - and PLEASE don't breed.
Frank Russell 2 years ago
The ability to procreate in this manner is shared by multiple mammal species. Not sure what's so "special" about 4 billion people having the ability to do what homo sapiens has done for tens of thousands of years.
#4
Modern transportation.
We used to walk *everywhere* or at best, ride a horse and then eventually in a carriage. Traveling took weeks, months, and years; not mere minutes, hours, or days. We can cross oceans and mountain ranges; objects that were barriers completely for a long time.
We have cars that *drive themselves* and train services that operate *without drivers*. We can now go places without *doing* anything.
It’s amazing.
dan martyr 2 years ago
Very true, bikes eat miles. Even the old heavy bikes can cover 10 miles in an hour or so. At least 2.5 by foot. People started going to other villages after bikes were cheap and safe, and it truly freed women to travel. After bikes the range of the average person increased from about 20 miles in a day to double or more. A favourite climber of mine (Colin Kirkus, look him up, mad and brilliant) would cycle from the Wirral to Llanberis in north Wales and back in a weekend, whilst putting up routes that would turn your hair white. 140 mile round trip
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keyboardtek 2 years ago
My father's generation saw the model T car and the moon landing. All in one lifetime!
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Been watching Little House On The Prairie. Walnut Grove and Mankato in Minnesota are about 81.9 miles. Whenever the Ingalls planned a trek to Mankato it was not a day trip. It only takes an hour and a half by car. However, those trips to Mankato were only featured in the show and not the books, nor actual records.
April Pickett 2 years ago
I used to think about how long it would take to get from, say, Raleigh to Greensboro on a horse or in a wagon. I'm always amazed at how fast we move these days.
Appalachian Panda 2 years ago
If I can be extremely pedantic for a sec, wagons/ox-carts seem to have predated horseback riding by a number of centuries. Something I just learned from an archaeology podcast a few weeks ago, tbh
Jon Steensen 2 years ago
yeah there was an episode where the American president had already died, before the new that he was elected president had reached the entire nation. So slow did news (and anything else for that matter) travel at that time.
#5
Google Maps - possibly the most impressive piece of software ever. Requires an entire network of satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
Francois 2 years ago
I guess you mean GPS. Google maps is just software using the phone's GPS which basically a but if hardware which requires satellites to function.
Wednesday 4 months ago
who knows? Maybe she meant exactly what she said and works at \Google...?
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 2 years ago
How do flatearthers reconcile the existence of satellites orbiting a sphere to give them maps on their phone?
Frank Russell 2 years ago
It started with satellites that U.S. taxpayers funded. DARPA made this technology possible. Google buys that data from providers.
James Frail 2 years ago
THIS. BLOODY F'ING THIS! I am sick to death if the notion that private business does anything this big or complex on their own. Execs would put out both eyes if it meant a better YOY this quarter, with no regard how to read next quarter's results. You expect us to believe that this endeavor was just to make it easier to find a McDonald's? This was to develop superior battlefield mapping. If Google (or whoever) did it, and it improved your life, I swear to gawd, the Pentagon funded it to kill people first.
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Isabel Care 2 years ago
I have used Google maps 6 times. It has been wrong 5 of those times, 3 times over a mile out and in a different direction, with a totally different building as the reference pic
April Pickett 2 years ago (edited)
I bought my phone because it had Google Maps. I was always a hardcore map reader before I found out about that aspect of the phone. Edit: my previous phone was a flip phone, didn't need anything else.
Appalachian Panda 2 years ago
And they have to adjust for relativistic time dilation, even just with the tiny fractions of a second difference from being in orbit.
#6
Most people lose consciousness for about 1/3 of the day to hallucinate vividly.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Not for me. I wish the nightmares would stop.
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
LOL Some of us don't need to sleep to vividly create images in our minds. I recently learned not everyone is able to picture images in their minds in colour, cinematic, and detailed with dialogues in different voices. My mom can't imagine anything. My daughter says she can only see pictures in black and white and not the full picture. This was recent news to me.
Whiskey Tango Delicious 2 years ago
This was the first thing I read after my vivid hallucination.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago (edited)
The interesting thing about this is that all animals sleep and even microbes does at least slow down a period of each day. And trees does something like it too.
#7
People. Ghosts driving meat covered skeletons made from stardust. What are we.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
I've spent too long wondering about this. Is there a soul? What makes us...us? The death part thing I've got checked off but the living is the interesting part.
Frank Russell 2 years ago
Before you developed in the womb, grew a brain, and developed a personality you didn't exist. After you die, you won't exist. One life, one shot, don't waste it on the egotistical speculation that there is anything else after.
Mabelbabel 2 years ago
You as a unique entity didn't exist, but all the atoms that make up your cells have existed since the universe popped into being. For a brief time, those atoms all came together in a unique configuration to form you, a form that has never existed before, and never will again. "YOU" will vanish as an entity, but your atoms won't. They'll head off and become part of rain drops, or star light, or dog poop.
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Alecto76 2 years ago
I find myself able to believe in a higher power with thoughts like this - specifically, our scientific situation. We live on a rock flying through a void with other rocks that go in a circle around a big ball of gas. Plus there is a smaller rock that goes around us, which determines when I get my period. That sounds crazy! and its our reality. A higher power of some sort is just as crazy - so why not? Who knows?!
#8
Life itself really. The fact that chemicals somehow combined at the right time. temperature, and energy level to form the basics of organic life is mind boggling. It's something we humans take for granted.
I think Monty Python very eloquently states it in [The Galaxy Song](https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk?si=Gom_CdpPH5ji4nA4) in the movie "The Meaning of Life":
"So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space
'Cause it's bugger all down here on Earth"
Luke Branwen 2 years ago
And that's why I believe in some higher power (even though I'm not religious). The whole deal - Big Bang, infinite universe, creation, life, evolution, DNA... it's all too perfect, too deliberate to be a mere coincidence.
Andi 2 years ago
Nah - that's only looking at it from our perspective. Other things could have happened but didn't. if you predicted that you would draw 4 aces in a row and did, that's magic; if you do draw 4 aces in a row and then work out the odds, that's science.
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David Paterson 2 years ago
Upvote for Galaxy song. According to Douglas Adams, the reason for the incredibly unlikely event of the origin of a functioning RNA and replication cycle is the first use of the Infinite Improbability Drive.
Frank Russell 2 years ago
With an enormous enough amount of time "coincidental chance" really isn't. We "take it for granted" because it happened. If it hadn't, we wouldn't be here to ponder it.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
I find the fact that this all happened just the right way by chance to be way more miraculous and mind-blowing as an atheist than to think some invisible power directed everything.
On the right side of the turf 1 year ago (edited)
But really Terry Pratchett had it right, we are a planet balanced on the backs of four elephants which in turn stand on the back of a giant turtle
carol bland 1 year ago
Life is what happens when you DON'T store stuff in a cool dark place...
#9
Planes. People usually don't look twice but c'mon. That's upwards of over 1 million pounds of metal, equipment and cargo just flying through the air like it's paper. Imagine your car flying. It seems impossible yet there's aircraft that can carry many many many many models of any car like it's nothing. It's one thing they fly in the first place but for example, a Boeing 747 can take off carrying more weight than it itself weighs, which I believe at max load is pushing 1,000,000 pounds. This plane can take off weighing about the same as 312 Nissan Altimas. Is that not crazy to anybody else? Don't even get me started on the engines they use. The Boeing 777 uses the GE90-115B. ONE of those engines alone produces upward of 115,000 pounds of thrust and it has TWO of them.
Edit: just to add to it, the 747 bone dry weighs about 412,000 pounds depending on exact model. It can take off weighing 970,000lbs. It weighs 412,000 and can take off loaded with an ADDITIONAL 558,000 pounds. That is literally unimaginable weight. And it lifts off the ground like a damn feather. If you don't think that's crazy idek of anything realistically crazier.
ThatG 2 years ago
The A380 maximum take off weight is 1,263,000lbs. If you were to fill it up completely with fuel, that fuel will weigh more than a fully loaded B777-200
Janet Sparrow 2 years ago
1/2 When Luke was on Degoba Yoda had him lift things with his mind. When Yoda said now try your ship. Luke said that's different.....
Erik Rydbom 2 years ago
When a plane flies at a steady speed the aerodynamic drag acting on it is equal to the amount of thrust from the engines. Imagine holding your hand out the window!
#10
The internet-the largest source of information ever created by mankind-and increasing exponentially every minute.
stupidMonkey 2 years ago
I remember going to the library with a pocket full of dimes for photocopies. The Internet is amazing. Ohh, I almost forgot... Get off my lawn!!!
PattyK 2 years ago
Also the largest source of misinformation and downright lies ever created. Why do humans have to spoil everything?
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
It's a double-edged sword. You have to use common sense and check the sources. Caveat emptor.
Load More Replies... Luke Branwen 2 years ago
And yet some people looked at it and went like "This is a perfect tool to spew hate against minorities"
Frank Russell 2 years ago
The most accessible way to research the knowledge of a species and yet we now have some of the stupidest individuals in existence. Or maybe those morons are just more exposed now thanks to that same interweb.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
It would be amazing if it wasn't so difficult to sort out the correct information from alle the "fake news"
Brent Hollett 2 years ago
I remember people saying "The internet is going to be amazing. The end of the age of ignorance!". They were so so so unfortunately wrong.
ormondotvos 2 years ago
And adding little to world peace. People don't know it's God, but it will be.
#11
Nearly every night you can go outside, look up, and observe in fine detail an astronomical body that's larger than Pluto, glowing brightly, floating around us. More than 50 years ago, humans traveled there on a giant bottle rocket, walked around, took some pics, got back on the boom tube, and rode it back to Earth.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
One of them had to have made a snow angel up there, it's the only logical thing to do. Moon angel?...
Sky Render 2 years ago
That would be VERY hard to do in a 1960s/70s space suit. Those things were absurdly heavy and inflexible!
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Tabitha 2 years ago
Everyone born after 7/20/1969 never lived in a world where we hadn’t actually landed and walked on the moon.
David Paterson 2 years ago
It's weird to think that everyone born after 20/7/1969 has never known an astronaut to travel further than low Earth Orbit. Not even through the van Allen belts.
Load More Replies... Frank Russell 2 years ago
The moon landings were an impressive feat but only happened because we needed to have a d**k-measuring contest with the USSR.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
When I look up at it, it blows my mind to think someone WALKED ON IT
Elizabeth Butler 2 years ago
A planet the size of Earth with a moon the size of ours is an extreme anomaly as most moons for Earth sized planets are MUCH smaller. Also that the apparent size of our moon is the same as the apparent size of our sun allows total exlipses of the sun is an amazing coencinence and I am in awe of the chance to experience TWO of these in my lifetime (the next being April 8 2024).
April Pickett 2 years ago
That is one of the most amazing things in my life. I was just so fascinated and in awe that we could do that.
Mary Kelly 2 years ago
it freaks me out to watch the ISS go by...it's the size of two buses and a football filed worth of solar panels, and i can see it soar by at thousands of mph...fantastic...btw, you can sign up for NASA to email you the prceise time and location the ISS will pass over your home...did it...live it!
#12
U.S. healthcare system.
People just spend $100s a month for health insurance so they can..hopefully avoid to ever going to a medical facility.
And those are the people that vote AGAINST universal healthcare.
It's legit insane behavior.
2econdSelf 2 years ago
I *HAVE* health insurance in the U.S., and I just recently paid off the remainder of what I still owed for an emergency appendectomy 4 years ago. Normally I get tired of Pandas always ripping the U.S., but this is one I agree with.
Danish Susanne 2 years ago
But what do you pay for if your health insurance doesn't cover an emergency appendectomy? I live in Denmark and doesn't understand this.
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XenoMurph 2 years ago
Insurance is taking money from people to put in a central pot. Then if you get sick you take from that central pot to fund the care. The only difference to the tax funded model is that shareholders take out profits first. And there are people employed to ensure you DON'T get that treatment.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago (edited)
I spend close to $400 just for insurance to not cover anything...Isn't it great?...
JNo3277 2 years ago
Same. Mine just went up to $600 a month for me and my 2 sons. Why do I get bills from my Dr’s office then. It’s insane
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago
Interesting fact: Germany has universal healhtcare since 1883 without any break
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Capitalism. Capitalism is the answer. That's why. They charge so much because they can. It's a racket. An oligopoly. Sometimes it's even a monopoly. Imagine if only one corporation developed a COVID vaccine in 2020. They'd have been charging $1000 a pop and the rest of us would be dead.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Health care should NEVER be for profit! Patients come first! If you can't make it free, make it affordable. Watch Michael Myers' documentaries "Sicko" and "Where to Invade Next."
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Happy Homemaker 2 years ago
What I find interesting is our legislators have government healthcare as soon as they get elected for life, but during their tenure, most of them vote against healthcare for their constituents. It’s sad really.
Paul Brown 2 years ago
The U.S A. health care system sucks. Too many companies making too much money, we will never get free health care. You would think that the supposedly greatest country in the world would have free universal health care. Instead we have people being ruined financially because of an illness or accident.
SadieCat17 (she/her) 2 years ago (edited)
"I don't want to pay for other people's healthcare." Where exactly do you think that monthly check for private insurance is going??????
#13
Ordering something huge and having at your door the next day.
Isabel Care 2 years ago
Or at a door that the delivery person hopes might be yours and leaves it anyway (without ringing the bell or knocking), even though you text them to say you are in and waiting. I have far to many "It's been delivered" texts that I reply to with "Great, but where has it been delivered? I do not have it"
Trillian 2 years ago
Nope. Have never had anything damaged. And I order a lot.
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Biytemii 2 years ago
Do you not get paid by your employer? It's a service u provide no reason to leave u a tip for doing your job that u get paid for already...
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#14
We let people drive these massive machines that can go high rates of speed and cause enormous damage and don't really retest their abilities beyond a renewal or minimal testing.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
Yeah we really need retesting every few years. Which would be a pain but some people really shouldn't be driving that somehow got their license...
keyboardtek 2 years ago
And yet just about anyone can get a gun without having a test to see if they can safely use one.
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Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
I was riding a bus today and the driver was brand-new. She took turns ve-r-r-r-y gingerly. A couple passengers gave her encouragement. "You got this!" Hey, I don't blame her for being nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs - driving a 13 meter long, 15 ton lummox is way different from driving a Toyota Camry.
Load More Replies... Frank Russell 2 years ago
The original training and testing are inadequate. Getting a license in a 3,500-lb. car and then being legally allowed to drive a 30,000-lb. motorhome is stupid. When you build your society around motor vehicles (U.S.) you end up having to give every incompetent idiot a driver's license.
Limey 2 years ago
Sorry… US again. Other countries have definitely more than “minimal testing” to drive. UK for one. And to those “in their 70s” commentators. Do you really think someone on their 70s is necessarily less safe then some American kid who is driving at 16 on a free license they handed out in high school.?
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago
And people that have problems driving the smaller ones are allowed to drive ones big enough to live in with the same license and skillset!
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
About as likely to happen as having congresscritters take the citizenship test before they can be sworn in.
Cloakred_Is_Bored 1 year ago
And some people (like me) are unreasonably obsessed with these metal death machines
ormondotvos 2 years ago
And a court system that allows multiple DUI accidents and keep your license.
#15
You can go into a store any day of the week year-round and it will be stocked with milk, eggs, meats, fresh produce, breads of all kind, untold varieties of frozen and dry foods, virtually any spice or seasoning you can think of, coffee, tea, etc etc etc
To think that for most of western human civilization people ate bread made from the local staple grain and not much else..
stupidMonkey 2 years ago (edited)
And you can even find toilet paper there again!!! It blew my mind that paper products are what people freaked out about but the battery racks were fully stocked. I could use leaves in place of s**t tickets. I could even build a crude generator if I had to; but, there is no way for me to manufacture a AA battery.
ormondotvos 2 years ago
Talk to a trucker about how it all gets there...Nine meals to chaos, they say.
Brian Droste 2 years ago
Until there I was a pandemic of some sort or a storm c omes through then some people panic and buy way more than they need and the rest of us can't get what we need.
#16
Computers and the chips that power them are nothing short of magic.
The process for [semiconductor fabrication](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_device_fabrication) is simply mind boggling. Are are to the point where we are adding and subtracting individual atoms as part of the process to make these chips. Then we take the chips and have them do things using just two commands - on and off. Like everything in front of you is just a series of 0s and 1s.
Ray tracing graphics and physics modules are insanely complex and their primary use is for GAMES!
We are replacing the air inside hard drives with helium because of turbulence inside the drive. Are you freaking kidding me?
Im going to get in my car to drive home and I have my portable super computer that will connect to satellites 23,000miles in the sky to determine my exact location on the planet to tell me the best way to get home. My handheld super computer will know the best way because every other car has a hand held super computer and they are reporting their speed automatically to the big map in the sky and then the big map in the sky tells me what way to go. And by that I mean a lady talks to me and tells me to get off at a different exit and go a different way if the traffic is too bad. In between giving me directions my hand held super computer is delivering me what ever music, book, or video from roughly the last 100 year I might happen to want to hear. And if my wife wants to talk to me she can either call or text me and my handheld super computer will either connect the call or read me the text while still doing all the other things.
All of that is possible with 0s and 1s flowing through a chip made using witchcraft that costs less than my first keyboard.
David Paterson 2 years ago
Do you know the story of the first silicon transistor. It came from a study of how the crystal radio worked. Won the Nobel Prize. But just think, who the heck was the genius who came with the impossible idea of using a rock, a crystal, to operate a radio.
keyboardtek 2 years ago
Part of my electronics engineering education was basic digital logic. It just blew my mind how clever it all is. And based on Boolean Algebra and base 2 mathematics.
Jon Steensen 2 years ago
yeah, have you ever seen a microchip without its housing under a microcrope. It looks like an endless city with block after block after block. And it is so incredibly small. Infact the majorty of the room inside that plastic case is just filleded with the wires nessesary to communicate with the outside world and to have pads that is big enough that you can solder it onto a circuit board.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
So, does anyone else ever wonder what would happen if they introduced more numbers? I know that's a weird thought...
#17
Honestly, an old school answer but mail. The US mail system isn’t perfect but the fact that I can mail a letter to my in-laws that live across the country and they get it in 2-3 days is crazy.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
$0.66 now. Not sure what else you can even buy for that. A single can of soda? Maybe?
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Equally amazing is that sending a letter in many other countries still takes weeks to receive. The US still can do something right.
pineapple87 2 years ago
Yeah, I was just about to say that where I come from, I can't trust anything to get to the recepient in under a week even if they live in the same city, so I along with everyone else just avoid using the post, which in turn means that they constantly worsen their level of service due to decreasing volumes.
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Linda Laurelin 2 years ago
For the last several months, it takes 2 to 3 weeks for a greeting card to get to Ohio from California. I'd say the postal service is very far from perfect.
ADJ 2 years ago
Maybe US mail is worth something. Polish mail sucks, and sucks big. Every private courier company like UPS/DHL/DPD and others can literally transport your package form other side of the country overnight, but for the post it takes 11 days to deliver registered letter over distance of 40 km. Most s****y post service ever.
Frank Russell 2 years ago
Makes you wonder why so many people keep voting for a party that wants to destroy (privatize) it.
#18
Clapping. We show appreciation by slapping our hands together to make a noise.
TheGoodBoi 2 years ago
I mean, I guess it's better than everyone making slurping noises in unison
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Same with laughing. But what's really amazing is we don't necessarily laugh because something is funny. Our laugh meanings are as diverse a facial expressions and tone. We can laugh because we're uncomfortable, nervous, angry, sad, fed up, frustrated, happy, excited, horny, embarrassed, approving of a situation, or just trying to break tension in the atmosphere.
Appalachian Panda 2 years ago (edited)
And our primate relatives do much the same. This is something that goes way, way back to a time long before our genus evolved.
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Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
We are primates and this behavior has been observed by monkeys and apes in the wild. It's probably just wired into our brains.
Catharina Geerts 2 years ago (edited)
Clapping doesn't sound weird or miraculous to me. Some sounds, like finger in cheek (from within) the mere voice is much more special imo
#19
Hearts. How a muscle in your body just keeps repolarizing over and over again to pump blood throughout your body over and over, years on end is just crazy to me. Everyone has one and doesn’t think about it unless there are issues. But, it is really wild to think about.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Breathing has been a long wonderment for me. When I was 5 I asked my mom if we ever get tired of breathing. She just said no, because we just do it to be able to live, without thinking about it. It was a simple enough answer. But still makes me think. Sometimes my lungs do feel tired and that's when I let out a sigh. That sigh is sometimes accompanied with a question from someone asking if I'm okay, or what's the matter. I'm just stretching out the lungs, is all I say. Weird how a necessity of survival is associated with a negative emotion.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
The human body is miraculous. I often marvel at how well it works often in SPITE of what we do to it. We do terrible things to it (like overindulging in alcohol) and it still keeps going.
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Jacqueline Conway 2 years ago
The human body, full stop. Easily the most wondrous, beautiful machine ever. TBH that’s true for all life - extraordinarily beautiful and mind-blowing. The variety of life here on our little planet should make us realise that this is heaven, right here, and we should start to respect it as such.
Jon Steensen 2 years ago
Sure especially considered that every other muscle in your body tires after a period of time and just goes on a strike, noping out... but not the heart. For some reason, it is different from every other muscle in this regard, which just leaves you wandering why the rest of your body is not capable of doing the same trick, as there obviously is solution for how to avoid it.
pineapple87 2 years ago
I had an ultrasound of my heart done a while back. It was oddly moving, like "there's my little buddy, just working away"
Kat 2 years ago
The human body is so amazing. How it just does what it needs to do (I know there can be issues that prevent this), and I can only partially make my body do what I want. I cannot just say to myself, “hiccup” and it happens, or say “sneeze” and than you sneeze. It is a super computer, it is an amazing, so amazing. I studied in the medical field, anatomy was hard but so interesting at the same time.
#20
The concept of HOA. You are basically paying someone every month to tell you what you can and can't do with your property and if you get tired of them and disobey them, they TAKE your property away from you.
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
The more I read about HOAs, the more I regard them as an unnecessary evil.
JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
If you get enough people onboard, they can be disbanded...my parents successfully disbanded the POA in their neighborhood years ago. There is still a cooperation agreement for road and well maintenance, but no property rules.
The Doom Song 2 years ago
Like this is actually a thing? Man our front garden looks awful. We do it on purpose so no one will break into our house
April Pickett 2 years ago
I can't complain, but I live without an aggressive HOA. They do the lawn stuff and maintain the outside of the units (townhouse), so I basically live in an apartment that I own on my little plot of land.
#21
Water is the only common material we know of that expands when it turns solid instead of compressing. Wild stuff. Imagine if ice sank.
Pedantic Panda 2 years ago
Silicon does also and makes up about 27% of the earth's crust so quite common.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
You are referring to SILICA, not silicon, but the point still stands. SiO2 is the molecule and it does behave as you say. Pure silicon crystal, I'm not sure about that. People mix those two up all the time.
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Mary Kelly 2 years ago
yes, if the liquid on earth had been, for example, SO2, it would sink and most living oganisms would die whenever the temperatures fell below the freezing point of SO2...a happy accident really
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
If ice sank, life never would have arisen... anywhere in the universe.
Cyril Sneer 2 years ago
Assuming that all life in the universe relies on water as its solvent of course
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Bob Cardwell 2 years ago
I don't know about what it does, it's just that, come to our planet where life giving water falls down from the sky.
#22
Drinking a cow's breast milk
BoredPossum 2 years ago
Not just drinking. Also combining with bird's eggs and mashed plants to make bread.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
What kind of bread are you making? Eggs and milk are for cake not bread.
Load More Replies... geezeronthehill 2 years ago
The ancient covenant. Let us milk you and your descendants and we will protect you from the predators.
stupidMonkey 2 years ago
Someone who desperately needed some calories and didn't wanna slaughter their only cow.
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#23
Work from home/remote.
Only spending the time at work that you get actually paid for is amazing and one of the best developments of modern times. People who demand that you waste your lifetime to come to an office when your work can be done remotely are just as ridiculous as people who think they have the right to 'test' their friends by making ridiculous and unnecessary demands just to see if they do it.
Hiram's Friend 2 years ago
Note that working from home is only available to the elite who push information in one form or another around. Pharmacists don't work from home, neither do electricians, plumbers, auto repairmen, sales clerks, delivery drivers, cops, firefighters, airline pilots, nurses, and hundreds more. If you can work from home, you are blessed, but give a thought to all those who don't share your privilege.
steven mayes 2 years ago
Have to agree, as a recently retired person who has worked for the last 3 years at home but 37 years working in offices. it's sad that so many people died during covid to get this change to society but it must stay and must be fought for. If you cannot work from home then a 4 day week must be an option. It was paid for in a truly awful way but I'm sure it will in the long run be some mitigation for the 3 million that died largely because of the failures of our politicians.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
It was great until the divide between home and work became more and more fuzzy, and my bad work days and all the s**t I had to deal with started affecting other people in the household. Not to mention being told what I can and can't do in my own home, just because I was on work time, and the way I was occasionally spoken to, in my home and there was nothing I could say to defend myself without risking my job. The time came when I decided enough was enough. It was time to reclaim my home as a home and work at a different site.
JM 2 years ago
I’m not sure why you’re getting downvoted. You raise valid points. WFH means there is no decompression time on the way home, which can be a real problem for some. It can be harder to leave your day at the door. Also, it sounds like you had an abusive, micro-managing supervisor, so good on you for getting out of there. WFH isn’t for everyone and that’s okay.
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️️Upvote faery️ 2 years ago
Home is my sanctuary, not my workplace. Even if my job COULD be done remotely, I wouldn't do it from home. I'd choose literally anywhere BUT home or the surrounding area. Coffee shop, Bermuda, in the car while on a road trip, absolutely! Not home.
Tyranamar Seuss 2 years ago
You have a separate room in the house that is just for work. Simple.
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21% of our planet's atmosphere is made of plants burps.
Cyril Sneer 2 years ago
Ultimately, nearly all the oxygen in the atmosphere is generated by cyanobacteria. That includes free living cyanobacteria and chloroplasts in plants and algae, which are just endosymbiotic cyanobacteria.
Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
Do you realize how amazing a single plant or tree is? They are made of nothing but sunlight, air, and water.
Brent Hollett 2 years ago (edited)
There's so much more than light, air and water. There's proteins, phosphorous, nitrogen, lignin and a host of other "stuff", that make up an extremely complex organism. Their *energy sources* involve chemicals extracted from air and water, and fed to symbiotic cyanobacteria that generate the carbohydrates, lipids and proteins that plans need, through light energy applied to chemical reactions.
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#25
In the 19th century, refrigeration and reliable canning processes made it possible for fresh meat and vegetables to be stored safely for long periods, and even shipped around the globe. All this replaced the reliance on salting and drying of these comestibles which damaged the food quality, didn't last well and then damaged the health of the consumers. Refrigeration and canning have also reduced famines by allowing stockpiles of food to be built up and reduced the individual's need to collect and store their own stockpile just to get through winter.
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Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
Early 20th century you mean. The only “refrigeration” in the 19th Century was ice, so as long as the train containing the freezer car full of ice and perishables wasn’t waylaid somewhere along the route for several days, you could get California fruits and vegetables to New York intact. But if it was unusually hot and/or the train sat for several days because of a mix up in scheduling or the need for lengthy repairs or just a total FUBAR, and the ice melted, then when they opened the freezer car, they were faced with a rotten mess. Once they figured out refrigeration, plus had trains wired for electricity so the freezers could continues running, transporting perishables cross country became not only easier, but with improved trains, it became faster.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
NO you are wrong here. INDUSTRIAL refrigeration happened BEFORE 1900. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Harrison_(engineer) 1856. Specifically to keep beer cold enough to ferment properly in Australia. Also where do you think all that block ice came from? INDUSTRIAL ice production. Ice for the consumers but for food production and preservation, it was going strong long before 1900.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago (edited)
Salting and drying doesn't always damage food. I work in a food plant that specializes in dry aged salami and it's part of the character of the product. Jerky, raisins, prunes, and most especially CHEESE. We wouldn't have any of these things without the old pre refrigeration days. But yeah, there's a forgotten revolution from a century and a half ago that lets us have food year round and not worry about starving every winter. Nicolas Appert in 1804 who invented canning and Jacob Perkins who built the first refrigerator in 1834 revolutionized the world without firing a shot.
#26
The logistics of food delivery.
Billions of people rely on food being transported from its sources (farm, abattoir, fishery, etc.) all over the world, to local vendors on a daily basis. It happens so reliably that most people don't give it a second thought, nor give a thought to what would happen if it stopped.
stupidMonkey 2 years ago
As a former truck driver I can confirm this. If the food stopped for 2 weeks the shelves would be empty.
Kelly H. Wilder 2 years ago
As a grocery store worker, I don't think it would take that long.
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bronwyn kaye 2 years ago
I work at a big name convenients store in the Midwest that recently had the systems go offline so our orders had to be "guessed" for a couple weeks. I've NEVER seen these stores so empty and we were still receiving products!
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
I've spent my entire career in the food industry. Second thoughts? how about third forth and fifth thoughts. It's a complex interconnected system that works because over 100 years ago Upton Sinclair wrote a book called The Jungle. Food Safety is my life.
#27
Aluminum. There was a time when aluminum was so rare that it was even more expensive than gold. And now we just drink sodas from it and then throw it by the wayside.
stupidMonkey 2 years ago (edited)
The peak of the Washington monument is actually an aluminum pyramid because, when it was built, aluminum was more precious than gold.
Thiago Gonsalves 2 years ago
Good that the pyramid was aluminum made! If it was gold, it would be gone.
Load More Replies... Morten Jul Lægaard 2 years ago
When you drink from a can and put it to recycling it will in principle only take 3 weeks before parts of it is in the new can you drink from
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
The reason for this is because the only way to refine aluminum is with electricity. Copper Iron batteries were the only source in the 18th century so you refined, copper, refined iron and then used the battery you just built to refine aluminum. Then you took the spent copper and iron and reprocessed it again to make more aluminum. That's why it was so insanely expensive. Aluminum is very common in the Earth's crust so once a mechanical source of electricity was developed, aluminum got a lot cheaper. So cheap we make cans out of it now.
James King 1 year ago
Aluminum is not rare, it's the most common element in the Earth's crust.
#28
We really still don't 100% know how anesthesia works. We have good theories and practice logs but the root of it is still a mystery.
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago
I've heard a theory recently that anesthesia works by preventing you from forming memories of the event. You're actually conscious and aware during the whole thing, but just don't remember it.
David Paterson 2 years ago
True. All the original anaesthetics began as party drugs; rum, nitric oxide, ether, chloroform were all party drugs before they were noticed by doctors.
Coffee loving panda 2 years ago
And some where real medicine before partydrugs. Cocaine, methamphetamine, ketamine,
Load More Replies... JessieJ&LilyLovebug 2 years ago
They don't completely know how, or even why, the brain works the way it does. What defines the brain, and the mind? Are they separate, or the same thing? So many more things we discover all the time...
Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago
This one is not true. It's one of those "I heard that..."
Thomas Ewing 2 years ago
One whiff and you're out cold. How does the effect reach the brain so fast?
#29
Mobile phone. You have whole world's information in ur pocket
Frank Russell 2 years ago
And most people use it to look at cat videos and argue with people they don't know.
Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
I lived in times when call sb meant to go out to public telephone. It offend me if sb expected me run for mobile like racing dog and there is some derp offering me some s**t or ask me to vote him, or some people expecting me to speak with them when they likes.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Because we have awesome butts.
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Mbfsc63 2 years ago
Sorry, I have nooooooo problem with male babies being circumcised as infants. All my nephews were and I can attest they really suffered no ill effects. I was there afterwards. My sister put an antibiotic cream on them at diaper changes. There was no screaming in pain. The diaper rashes they had was worse. Foreskin are down right fugly.....
#30
Circumcision for baby boys apparently. I know it’s controversial - but once I had a baby boy, it changed things for me. I never really thought about it. It’s just what I knew. Now I can’t imagine putting my kid through that.
Frank Russell 2 years ago
Genital mutilation, especially of females, is another illustration of the cruelty of humans.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I saw a baby that was circumcised and having to hear him screaming during a diaper change. The mom decided on circumcision, not for religious or cultural reasons, but because she wanted her son to um... have "better pleasure when he has sex". WTF???
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
That's interesting bc I thought I had read that circumcision actually reduces pleasure compared with an intact foreskin. But not having a penis, what do I know?
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Jude Corrigan 2 years ago
I don't agree. Male circumcision is sometimes medically necessary, the same cannot be argued for FGM. I believe circumcision should only be done when there is a medical need.
Load More Replies... Breadcrumb. 2 years ago
As a woman I actually don't think I have a say in it..I got no experience in this field. Do what you want with your d***s dudes, your body your choice!
Forrest Hobbs 2 years ago
That applies to adults, not to babies. Surgery always comes with a risk. It makes no sense to subject babies to the risk of surgery when there's no need for it. Any thinking person should have an opinion on protecting babies.
Load More Replies... Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl) 1 year ago
My sister got both her kids done, because the father was. I was totally against it, but kept my mouth shut. It's not necessary and should be outlawed.
Deep One 2 years ago
I was born in the 1960's where all the boys were circumcised unless specifically requested not to by the parents. At the time it was not a religious thing but was believed to make it easier for men to keep themselves clean and reduced the risk of infection both general and stds.
#31
The interstate/highway system. It really wasn't *that* long ago that the interstate system didn't exist. Eisenhower got it started in the mid/late 1950s. And it's not like this was something that simply happened overnight. It took nearly 40 years for the original plan to be considered complete, which happened in 1992.
Prior to its development and construction, there weren't any travel routes that didn't run *through* every town or city in its path. A 500 mile drive takes about 7 hours on the interstate today, but depending on what part of the country you're in, that drive could have taken as long as 20 hours not much more than 40 years ago.
If you've ever wondered why so many roads have State Route numbers or US Route numbers attached to them, such as California Route 1 (known as the Pacific Coast Highway) or US Route 66 (known as Route [*Root*] 66), it's because that numbering system was the predecessor to interstates. It was much easier to navigate long distance drives by following a route number from town to town to town instead of using street names.
The interstate system seems like a no brainer these days, but the idea for it alone was pretty brilliant, and the design and implementation of such a massive system is nothing short of incredible.
geezeronthehill 2 years ago
Copied from the autobahn system built for him who shall not be named.
John O'Donnell 2 years ago
They were planned before he came along, and the first bit was completed in 1932. It’s one of those myths like Mussolini making the trains run on time. One train ran on time, his train.
Load More Replies... keyboardtek 2 years ago
And half our country would be against any program like that today as they see it a "socialist" program. Any government program that actually benefits the average person is now considered bad because Democrats come up with them.
Forrest Hobbs 2 years ago
Everybody pays for it, everyone benefits from it: if that makes it socialist, then everything from street lighting to the US armed forces are a socialist conspiracy.
Load More Replies... Frank Russell 2 years ago
In 1919 Ike went on a cross-country trip (he was already in the Army). It took 62 days. This stayed with him all his life and was a driving force behind his presidential decision. https://www.history.com/news/the-epic-road-trip-that-inspired-the-interstate-highway-system
Freya the Wanderer 2 years ago
Reading this makes me appreciate the "American Autobahn" even more. I have made several cross-country trips, which took only three or four days.
Load More Replies... Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
Of course not. You lack vision, but I see a place where people get on and off the freeway. On and off, off and on all day, all night. Soon, where Toontown once stood will be a string of gas stations, inexpensive motels, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food. Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see. My God, it'll be beautiful. Judge Doom, Who Framed Rodger Rabbit.
MrsFettesVette 2 years ago
I imagine automakers probably had something to do with that
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#32
LEDs.
And white LEDs are downright bonkers.
Those of you that are a bit older also remember when EVERYTHING suddly had blue LEDs, that was due to that was the last primary colour that we figured out how to mass produce cheaply-ish at scale (in the early 1990s, we didn't even figure out how to make a blue one at all until 1972).
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 years ago
More amazing is that they are 90% more efficient than old fashioned incandescent lamps. I would love if someone were to quantify how much energy is "saved" by LEDs since they hit mainstream use, but I don't think that can be done. Street lights, headlights, houselights. They save so much energy they may as well be running on free energy.
Isaac Nemo 2 years ago
It feels like we use so many more of them, now, though. I often wonder whether we've wasted any energy efficiency by then using ever more of them (LED billboards, etc). Like exercising to lose weight just to end up eating more calories because you think you can ("I ran every day this week, I can have this piece of cake with dinner")
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 2 years ago (edited)
And now we have organic LEDs to have a better quality for displaying black
#33
Freezers… dishwashers… washing machines… all the appliances.
Bec 2 years ago
My grandmother had 10 kids by popping one out every other year, she said getting an electric washing machine was such a blessing because she had been washing diapers every day. I'm not sure at what # kid they got the machine
Forrest Hobbs 2 years ago
Washing machines are so useful and the spread of electricity so hit and miss across the USA that Maytag used to make gasoline (petrol) powered washing machines back in the 1920s (and onwards). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qpDgSktoE8
Load More Replies... Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
When I was a young mother, we lived in a communist country. We made tanks, not washing machines. We must struggle for peace.
#34
The president. It's amazing hiw we can elect someone to the highest office in the land, then watch them screw up the entire country with absolutely no consequences to themselves.
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v 2 years ago
The more amazing part of this concept is how many people truly believe that it is the single person sitting in that office that makes everything in the country happen. Not only is this crazy, it is down right scary because people make their decision based on this wholly misguided belief and while they're being distracted by the one man puppet show it's their other chosen leaders/representatives who are truly screwing them over.
keyboardtek 2 years ago
We should be asking every candidate for president who the people are he plans to appoint to head the various branches of government. Had we known Trump was going to appoint people who were totally incompetent, or dedicated to destroying that agency, like the Department of Education, he might have lost. Well, actually he did lose the popular vote.
Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
I always wonder why you criminalize your presidents from another party. The majority voted for him and loo, he is a criminal. Unsane.
Forrest Hobbs 2 years ago
Hang on a bit, the president's a fine fellow and hasn't screwed up anything at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Higgins Well, he couldn't, could he? It's the Taoiseach who's actually in charge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taoiseach
Frank Russell 2 years ago
What's amazing is the outsize importance everyone puts on this position. The president often has very little control over most of the federal government. It's the incompetent and corrupt Congress that is the biggest problem.
Forrest Hobbs 2 years ago
"The (US) Congress" is not an entity. It's a group of people. They're elected by "the people". The problem is the process whereby "the people" decide who to vote for - the corruption starts with those who control the information that "the people" get fed. In a country like the USA, that's really very complicated but, if only anyone could figure it out, would explain why Senator Mitch McConnell has been probably the most powerful person in US politics on and off since the 1980s.
Load More Replies... Trisec Tebeakesse 2 years ago
The fact that the US doesn't have term limits. "Till death do us part" is a terrible way to run the country.
Frank Russell 2 years ago
Contrary to popular belief we DO have term limits. It's called voting.
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Toilet paper. If you pick up poo with your hands, you don’t just wipe it of with paper.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
That's why I wet the toilet paper and gets some soap on it. May have to do that a couple times. But you use up less TP and get a better clean without clogging the toilets with so-called "flushable wipes". A bidet would be ideal but my region doesn't have those in most places.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I was beginning to think that I was the only one who wets the paper
Load More Replies... Vera Diblikova 2 years ago
It is not so big waste compared with the amount of fresh drinkable water used.
#36
Facetime. Its like the Jetsons.
Ozymandias73 2 years ago
When I was a kid, I would sometimes what it would be like to be able to have/use a "video phone". Look at us now. Able to have whole meetings via video chats.
#37
Instead of just buying one home, and living in it, and paying your little mortgage, if you really want to, you can buy a *bunch* of homes before anyone else gets the chance, and then you can charge people pretty much any amount of money you want to live in those homes temporarily, and then, if you really want to, you can just make them homeless and ruin their life. And then you can post an ad and do the exact same thing to someone else. And people will just keep signing up to let you screw them like that because it's not like they can buy their own home, you already bought them all!
StrangeOne 2 years ago
One landlord stated in a comment somewhere that "renting is not supposed to be a long term thing. You move in for a year then move out. You're an entitled, squattor if you're staying long term." People actually think like that. Disgusting.
keyboardtek 2 years ago
Most of rental property and a lot of single family homes is being bought up by investment firms who then raise the rent rates and make the housing market go sky high.
Tabitha 2 years ago (edited)
Even better, you can buy several homes and never live in them, and it’s totally legal. Or you can buy “fixer-uppers”, slap some paint and badly installed cheap s**t features on it, then resell it for an artificially inflated price—-which then drives up the cost of houses in the neighborhood—- before the first payment on the mortgage you took out on the property is due. Your house flipping just set the trend of artificially inflating the cost of so many houses that no one who lives in the area and makes the local wage can afford to buy them. Hell, or even rent them. So people from areas with higher wages end up buying them and the locals all move further into the boonies. Or end up homeless.
#38
There's a popular economic story about the [#2 pencil](https://thenewinquiry.com/milton-friedmans-pencil/). An individual could never duplicate it by themselves. It takes hundreds of people in multiple countries using different technologies to make something that we throw away after barely using it.
Isaac Nemo 2 years ago
Having watched How It's Made, not sure I believe this one. Maybe when they were invented, *maybe* but I could create a workable pencil with nothing more than whats in my backyard. The reasoning in the article is bunk, just because you chose to use wood from far away does not mean you have to. His argument in the provided link is nonsensical.
#39
Government corruption
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 2 years ago
Inevitable. No matter what form of government, there will be corruption.
keyboardtek 2 years ago
Throughout all of human history. Some humans just are users who see the power of government as a means to enrich themselves. So do not vote for Trump unless you want the whole system corrupted, as he has verbally stated he plans to do.
David Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
Not inevitable. I'm coming to realise that the corruption of a single man, J Edgar Hoover, led to him being the centre of the biggest blackmail organisation that the world has ever known. US politicians became corrupt only because they were permanently being blackmailed. And J Edgar casts a long shadow over the American government that lasts to this day. American government corruption is way more than corruption in very many capitalist countries.
Forrest Hobbs 2 years ago
From what I've read, corruption in government has been routine for all of history. The ancient Egyptians had it, so did the Romans and the Greeks - the list is never ending. It's just that sometimes, it's less bad and other times, it's worse. https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022
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Aiden Brough 2 years ago
I love technology. But it's a tool and we should be the users, not the other way around. And how many times do I now read "My teacher said I would never have a calculator/map/camera etc in my pocket"... When did using or exercising our brains become a chore? Could this explain the lurch to stupidity which is evident on thicktok and on other social media? We seem to be devolving, not evolving...
Isaac Nemo 2 years ago
Please hold, we're trying to get off your lawn as quickly as possible. Your perceived lurch to stupidity is not objective, I hope you realize, just different from what you grew up with.
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Aiden Brough 2 years ago
I love technology. But it's a tool and we should be the users, not the other way around. And how many times do I now read "My teacher said I would never have a calculator/map/camera etc in my pocket"... When did using or exercising our brains become a chore? Could this explain the lurch to stupidity which is evident on thicktok and on other social media? We seem to be devolving, not evolving...
Isaac Nemo 2 years ago
Please hold, we're trying to get off your lawn as quickly as possible. Your perceived lurch to stupidity is not objective, I hope you realize, just different from what you grew up with.
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