30 ‘Open Secrets’ That Don’t Have A Documentary About Them Yet

The Republican party is absolutely complicit in legitimizing this cult. Trump and his madness would NEVER have achieved such a strong foothold without it. Republicans should have started distancing themselves from his insanity years ago, but instead have chosen to bend over and kiss his a$$ at every opportunity.

Our current supreme court has been completely influenced by the administration of the most corrupt president in US history. Their current ruling stands to give that former president immeasurable power should he regain office.

Leah Remini did a 3 season long docu-series exposing Scientology.

Private equity destroys anything it touches.

There was microplastics discovered in semen

Remove charity statuses and apply tax.

The film "I Care a Lot" with Rosamund Pike as it's lead actor is based on this exact thing.

same happened in south africa, but we have actually prosecuted some of the people who were guilty.

To be more specific here - part of the point of prison is rehabilitation. To try to get a person not to commit crimes anymore. But once the prison system becomes for profit, it is the system's incentive that the person *does* commit more crimes so he will return again.

Pretty sure John Oliver did an episode of Last Week Tonight about this

Whenever I go and get adjusted, I feel better.. quackery or not, it works for me

There's a special place in Hell for the depraved POS's that run puppy mills.

Tipping is a genius concept. It lets an employer avoid paying his employees a living wage and then when the employee doesn't make enough, instead of going after his employer - he blames customers. Absolutely genius. The fact that most of the world does just fine without tips doesn't even get anyone to think that maybe the system itself is the problem.

This is distinctly a western thing. Here in Africa if an older person becoming incapable, generally their family takes care of them. We call it "throwing away old people". As if they are inconvenient garbage. We think it is an indictment of westerners.

ewwww

We need to stop worshipping money and millionaires. Greed is killing us all. Normalize enough.

I will never buy an HP printer again when mine stopped working because I had failed to register their app that I never use. It has no affect on my ability to print a recipe.

Do you remember some years ago a GermanWings pilot crashed his plane into the Pyrenees? He was said to be depressed. In my opinion, there must have been something else. A depressed person (and I'm chronically depressed, and I know lots of people with severe depression) think of killing themselves often, but we never think of harming others.

A dude in florida tried farming Cassowaries (Cassowaries, along with Cockatoos, only exist in the US due to egg smuggling, btw) and got disemboweled by one of the birds (because they're big, violent things prone to rage).

Oh, my.

God that was a shitshow. What a pack of weirdos.

I heard that straight from a senator's mouth on live tv. He said " they won't sign the checks to us anymore if we don't do whatever they want us to do". I always thought they were bought and paid for but it basically confirmed everything.

This is similar to our country. Here if you do not use up your budget it gets reduced the next year and whatever surplus you have leftover is sent back to Treasury. It's a b******t practice. They should REWARD you for underspending. It means you met your targets with lower spend. If however you don't meet targets AND you underspend then sure, punish the department.

The studies are so "buried" that about three dozen have been published in the last decade, leading both NIH and EFSA to reclassify TiO2 as "possible carcinogenic" and not safe for human consumption. The health effects are limited to inhalation and ingestion in significant quantities though, so use in toothpaste, paints, inks and plastic coloring agents is still viable and considered generally safe.

Anyone else remember the Panama Papers? The ones that exposed that the world's rich use tax havens to avoid paying their fair share of tax? You know the only consequence for anyone involved in that? The journalist who published them was assassinated with a car bomb.

Yes. Apartments with bars on the windows and rats are asking for 3K a month. Landlords are gouging people- but also allowing 10 people in a 2 bedroom apartment in order to afford the costs, which is causing problems for neighbors. Also, how about companies that don't pay their staff enough to live in the area they are expected to work? I drive 3 hours a day because I can't afford to live anywhere near my job. This causes all kinds of problems with leasing. Because Boston rent is so ridiculously high, people from Boston have to move to smaller surrounding towns and basically push out the people who work and live there. Then landlords realize this so they up rents to staggering amounts, so it just pushes people to move further and further until they have taken over the area. Now a waitress in southcoast massachusetts has to drive 40 minutes to her sh!tty waitressing job because there's nowhere to live in her town. And she can't afford the gas so she ends up on welfare. It's crazy.

The difference between native American tribes is pretty stark. The miccosukee tribe built casinos and everyone there is rich. I've known people who throw out every pair of socks they wear because they don't think they're worth washing, and whenever anyone gets in trouble the tribe steps in and pays people off to get them out of trouble. On the other side, there are tribes who are basically starving, living in third world conditions less than an hour from major American cities. Neither of those is right.

Isn't it like this in all entertainment industries? Film, music, modeling... It shouldn't be like that but I wouldn't call it an open secret - it isn't a secret at all

Let's stop with this BS. This *may* be true in the USA. As of 2003, Europe recycles about 60% of its total waste, treating over 90% of the waste by volume domestically. Almost the totality of the export is made by steel and ferrous metals, that are sent to Asian foundries that are cheaper and closer to the highest demand areas.

So... like the USA, a play toy of a small handful of corporations?

So? As long as it makes tasty food, IDGAF.

hmm that's not really a global conspiracy or open secret. "Raising right" gives me red flags for "I am a republican who wants to beat his kids" vibes.

If representatives were elected only by number of votes in single constituencies, the inhabitants of many states would have no congressional representatives and most would represent the most populous states.

If you want to make a pretty good guess whether someone is using steroids, look at their head to neck ratio. Regular sized neck, probably no steroids - or not a significant amount. Enlarged neck is a sign of steroid use.

And the European way to offer the education for free, with a requirement of a few years as a low-paid intern doctor in public healthcare, is.. communism?

I have a few family members who I and some of my other family do believe have autism but they've never got diagnosed. I think there are about 6 ranging from children to adults who I think are quite likely to have it and only one has a diagnosis the others have never done anything about it.

PG&E. They shut off power periodically for areas because (I think) the power infrastructure doesn't support the need? And something about fire danger? At any rate, entire communities just have rolling blackouts and there's nothing they can do because there's only one power company in that area. My grandmother installed a whole-house generator because she needed reliable power for her medical devices. Her location is rural, but by no means remote.

who sold it to him and how did they get the title deeds? I am pretty sure this could be resolved by waiting for him to land and offering Māmaka Kaiao instead of Lei.

Feels like it might be time to convert some of those office blocks into affordable apartments, then the people living there would visit local shops and cafes.

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This is a reminder that Wim Hof used to give himself an enema in the Vondelpark fountain in Amsterdam. One day he decides to do so again, but a few days before the city altered the jet to be more powerful. So when he sat on the hose the water cut through his colon and intestines like a water knife. I never will understand the admiration for this man.

The pie eating contest in "The Body" "Stand By Me" just flashed through my mind. My apologies to fellow Pandas who are eating while they read.

I had no idea about that. I've seen the ads for the performances and it looks cool. But I just read about it and it's not good.

Mandatory *what* system?

Boeing has adopted the Putin model for dissent.

That is just one contributing cause but actually I think it's much more complex. Increased wage demands can be driven by credit card debt, but e.g. in my country, most people are dirt poor and do not have credit cards, yet we have high inflation? Why? Because "INVESTORS" aka wallstreet parasites, buy our bonds because they have a high interest rate return. That profiteering is managed by our banks, who mostly sell those bonds to corporates or upper income citizens, who carry the costs. What this does in effect is make cost of living higher because those people want to pursue their normal lifestyle in an increasing interest rate context. The result is higher base commodity costs are passed down to the poor, who admittedly are subsidised with zero-tax-rated basic foods, but that's all. To make matters worse, what they do as well is buy green energy to avoid power outages, which then means the electricity monopoly loses its only paying customers, resulting in the need for tax subsidy, etc

So what? It still works better then the alternatives. In 50 years the alternatives will have developed enough to be reliable for mass deployment, while other stuff would be cutting edge but limited to labs and development. It's the way tech works. Banks run on 1980s software that was developed, tested and fine tuned for a decade before being deployed. Air traffic runs on 2000s tech and are just now starting to think about modernizing. US Navy Aircraft carriers run a specialized Windows version that is derived from Windows 2000: it has been fine tuned with a lot of effort to be as stable and secure as required, it wouldn't make sense to do it all over again just to have the latest customer version.

On the contrary, our society LOVES to criticise mothers for literally any little parenting choice that we personally disagree with, whether it messes kids up or the complete opposite. And if our kids turn out to be not so great, we get crucified regardless of whether it was anything we had any control over. Edit: poor wording

The 2020 riots in general - close to 30 people killed and a huge amount of property damage and looting, much of it in minority neighborhoods.

The story of a nerd who is very good at Scrabble sounds like the most boring film ever!

I think employers did that just fine

What absolute rot.

Oh, this is the point of the article where submissions turn into conspiracy theory