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‘The Tinder Swindler’, ‘Bad Surgeon’, and endless true crime series are just some popular (especially among women) examples showing that people love a somewhat shocking documentary. And while there are thousands, if not millions, of them covering basically anything and everything out there already, there are nearly equally as many stories waiting to be uncovered.
Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ community recently discussed such stories, when the user ‘Ninac4116’ asked them about ‘open secrets’ that don’t have a documentary created about them yet. If you’re curious about what stories people would love to watch on the big screen—or their TVs, at least—next, scroll down to find their answers on the list below and see what might be coming up in the world of documentaries in the future.
Below you will also find Bored Panda’s interviews with the OP themself as well as with the Cinema Studies lecturer at Rutgers University, Albert Nigrin, who were kind enough to answer a few of our questions.
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#1
Maga is a cult.
I'm not talking about Republicans necessarily. I am talking about the portion of Republicans willing to surrender their entire free thought to the whim of a charismatic leader.
The closest documentry would be the Alt Right episode of the Netflix docuseries "Web of Make Believe: Death Lies and the Internet"
Edit: For clarification, my personal definition for a cult is:
A high control group that follows a specifically tailored ideology which is used to abuse and manipulate followers for the benefit of the group leader and/or leadership.
Tamra 1 year ago
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.
Cuppa tea? 1 year ago
It's frightening that I'm Democratic party there is a debate whether Biden should resign from candidature, based only on his age. Yet Trump faces multiple lawsuits, yet no one challenges his candidature, it seems like they even didn't have primary. Just blindly stick with the guy.
KatZen 1 year ago
True story: my husband has slowly been sucked into this cult. Just this weekend I pretty much told him I want a divorce. He has lost his mind. Is scared of his own shadow. I told him I was going to stay with my mom and why. MAGA. He had an existential crisis. Begged me not to tell my mom he's MAGA and promised to stay away from the "news". Only sports, entertainment and weather. This is going to be interesting.
Mark Karol-Chik 1 year ago
45 is a charlatan of the grandest to ever cross the stage here in the US. He is a puppet, popped up by The Heritage Foundation and the bastards who are involved with that organization.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Don’t forget the deliberately misnamed “Federalist Society”.
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Lil Miss Hobbit 1 year ago
I identify as a right-leaning voter, but i would agree that the hardcore MAGA crowd is very cultish. Like sheesh he's not Jesus, people.
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
They dint think he's Jesus. He's much more important than that.
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Sierra Tide 1 year ago (edited)
Read project 2025. Trump is a puppet logo to lure people into the cult so that the true evil behind project 2025 can start turning the USA into a corporatocrac and a theocratic governed nation
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#2
The Supreme Court has been bought.
Tamra 1 year ago
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.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Just watch any documentary on Hitler and how he came to power. Trump is doing the same.
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DE Ray 1 year ago
To elaborate: Clarence Thomas has accepted more than $4M in "gifts" during his 30+ years on the court, which is more than his salary in that time. Samuel Alito has accepted nearly $1M from similar sources, some of which were people involved with cases before the court at the time. Just before his confirmation hearing, more than $1M in outstanding debts held by Brett Kavanaugh, including his house mortgage, were paid by an as yet undisclosed party. Those are just the ones I know of the top of my head.
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
Clarence Thomas is a rapist and a crook. And now he's taking aim at OSHA.
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Francis 1 year ago
can biden give the order to let's say kill trump and claim immunity because it was an order to pretect the nation?!
Joe Reaves 1 year ago
Judge Sotomayor certainly believes so (she said the recent ruling would allow the president to assassinate political opponents). It would be way better if Biden used it to assassinate a few judges - you can guarantee the replacements would reverse the court's ruling on immunity pretty damn fast after that.
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Leslie Donsen 1 year ago
The devil's name is Leonard Leo. Co-chair of the Federalist Society. https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority.
DE Ray 1 year ago
The incidence of corruption in the US government is mostly limited to the top. Once you get to the professional bureaucrats, there's less bribery and "favors" than in 90% of the world. But yeah, most offices elected or appointed by elected officials are tainted by what would be considered corruption in at least some countries.
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cecilia kilian 1 year ago
Heck, you can make a whole playlist from, ahem, "classic" rock songs.
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#3
David Miscavige's wife has not been seen in public since 2007. Miscavige is the leader of Scientology.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
Yup. She had people on the show who HAD been imprisoned and escaped. One of them was Miscavige's right hand man. They had him locked up like a convict. Shelly is definitely there being held in the compound. How the hell is this legal?? I wonder how many people are currently trapped there?
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Shark Lady 1 year ago
The police have apparently done a welfare check and claim that all is well, those police should also be investigated.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
there's a guy on youtube who flies drones over their california ranch to check out whether they can see her. Apparently she is incarcerated there.
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
They call it "the hole". I agree, she must be there if they were able to retrieve her for a welfare check.
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Virgil Blue 1 year ago
Look up operation clambake. The site is old, but the information is very relevant.
Beak Hookage 1 year ago
It's also been well documented that Miscavige himself is an extremely abusive and violent person, which just makes the situation even scarier. It's puzzling that the US government hasn't stepped in, though it could be because they're afraid of triggering off another Waco type disaster.
what (she/they/it?) 1 year ago
"In response, the LAPD said: "In 2014, Los Angeles Police Department detectives assigned to the Missing Persons Unit went to Shelly Miscavige's location and personally made contact with her and her attorney. Detectives found her to be alive and safe, and subsequently closed the missing persons investigation" https://www.newsweek.com/shelly-miscavige-video-secret-scientology-base-1772997#:~:text=In%20response%2C%20the%20LAPD%20said,closed%20the%20missing%20persons%20investigation.%22
DC 1 year ago (edited)
One winter, while being an intern in Berlin, I waited for the bus. I walked one or two stops because I'd had to wait for so long, and walking is less cold than standing around. They have a building there, and I saw it was open and went in, they got radiators and it wasn't freezing cold. What you enter there looks like a book store, but all they have is paperbacks with poor printing that cost around 30€ for not even 100 pages. That aren't even printed in a readable quality entirely, there's pages that appear to be blank on the first 5 to 7 glances. Somebody asked me if I need help, I said no, but kept watching stuff. A few second after the first dude who approached me was gone, another two guys showed up, ALWAYS exactly one shelf away from me, always looking elsewhere when I looked in their direction. This was downright funny, like cartoonish funny, if you play that game, ... back, forth, look, away, other shelf, back, forth, back, forth - they seemed to not want me to notice they were watching me, but also seemed to be ragingly incompetent at that. And, I don't even want to start about the rubbish that is in those books. I'm not really in favour of book burnings, but ... if we don't parade it around, these are best used in thermal applications. You can make a bit of heat from those books ... or risk them poisoning someone's mind with their so-called ideas and so-called solutions. That organization sucks, but rather than being something else than religion, they suck because all the betrayalism, making up of crucial stories, principles, rules is so openly and shamelessly conducted, rather than so-called true religions being much off.
#4
Private equity is destroying healthcare. They siphon every cent out and then close hospitals down.
Doctors and nurses are now laborers, not professionals. There won’t be much left in 20 years.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
same in south africa btw. Yet every time our politicians try do something socialist, the opposition (majority white) party cries "the markets the markets omg the markets!" ... guess which group of people here have medical insurance.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
So many professions are having this happen to them. For example, pilots used to make a good wage until they realised that people get into the profession because they're passionate about it and lowered the starting salaries bit by bit.
Susan Raskin 1 year ago
yep, having 40 years as a nurse I can vouch that healthcare is one big corporate machine. Employees are worked to death, bullied, and reminded they are "easily replaceable." MDs and RNs are leaving in droves. Stay well people. Stay well.
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
Hospitals, housing, politicians... Want to know why gas is so expensive? Oil is sold on the equity market to large funds who bet how much people are willing to pay for the final product.
Even though secrets typically refer to something that is not widely known, there are some that are common knowledge to many (even if certain people would rather they weren’t). These often include stories of someone’s bad deeds, intrigues, and even crimes, all of which are far from positive, yet often captivating nevertheless.
In a recent interview with Bored Panda, the redditor who started the thread, ‘Ninac4116’, shared that it was curiosity that led them to pose the question. “As an exposé junkie, I was curious what more in the world we don’t know about yet,” they said.
#5
The prevalence of microplastics in our food and water supply is an 'open secret' that needs a dedicated documentary. the long-term health effects are still unknown, and it’s a topic that deserves more attention.
and_a_touch_of_the_’tism 1 year ago
We can’t accurately study their effects, because we can’t find a control group. That’s f****n’ scary.
guenstig 1 year ago
Back in the days of ancient Rome, it was known that lead was not good for humans. Algeria is the last country to phase out lead in gasoline in 2021. My expectation is that plastic will be abolished in 1000 years.
Vix Spiderthrust 1 year ago
Luckily the oil will run out long before then.
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Alexandra 1 year ago
Microplastics are in almost everything you daily use or eat: soap, shampoo, toothpaste, bodywash, fruit, vegetables, bottled water, fish, cosmetic products, beer, sugar, salt, cleaning products, dishwasher products..the list is almost endless. The best you can hope to do is to limit use of some of these products or use products that are free from microplastics. Unfortunately, those products are more expensive so not an option for many people.
John Luckmann 1 year ago
Nothing is free from microplastics anymore. They have contaminated everything. All thats left to find out is if that really is a problem or if we will be okay with it.
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There are no studies on the health effects of microplatics in the body because the researchers couldn't find a control group. It's in all of us. Everywhere.
Nancy Parker 1 year ago
It definitely isn't benign. https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-3791(24)00273-8?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2666379124002738%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
#6
The Mormon Church is sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars in stock and real estate. They do almost no charity work directly from those funds. The majority of the humanitarian funds the church claims are from an equivalent dollar value of labor from their members and another entirely separate charity arm which doesnt involve church contributions.
Giles McArdell 1 year ago
I suspect this is pretty similar for most large religious organisations - It always annoys me when churches in my area ask for contributions from locals to fix the steeple or stained glass - you're part of one of the richest organisations in the country, what are you asking us for? use some of your own damn money!
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I am amazed at how they even exist in my country (SA). I mean: what does white supremacy and white origination theory, paired with a somewhat mundane doctrine about jesus and the devil being brothers, have to do whatsoever with Africa? (Never mind america). If you want a source on this claim, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism#:~:text=In%20the%20earliest%20days%20of,within%20the%20twelve%20Israelite%20tribes.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The Catholic Church does fund charity work from some of its investments.
Load More Replies... Leslie Donsen 1 year ago
The Mormon Church owns the largest cattle ranch in Florida. Something like 300,000 acres large. The Deseret Ranch spans 3 counties and has 90 ranchers and their families working it.
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
My best friend was a Utah Mormon. He told me never to become Mormon. He got himself excommunicated at one point. His wife was with other men & he divorced her without permission from the church. She could still go to temple, he could not. Also the bars & strip joints in Utah are owned by church elders. Being such close friends with him now caught the attention of other Mormons I knew. They only talked to me in order for me to influence him to become a better Mormon. Very cult like.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
That's nothing. The catholic cult's bank was doing business with the Italian mafia. Look up the murder of Roberto Calvi, labelled a "suicide". After he was found hanging under a bridge by his neck. With his hands tied behind his back. [ https://www.forbes.com/sites/sofialottopersio/2019/08/23/when-the-apparent-suicide-of-gods-banker-roberto-calvi-was-ruled-a-murder/ ]
#7
There’s an industry that basically takes guardianship of elderly people by getting them declared incompetent, without their knowledge. They move them into nursing homes, sell off their homes and assets and take over their money. It’s like the title theft scam, but with people being taken over rather than just real estate. It’s brutal and frightening:
Sarks 1 year ago
The film "I Care a Lot" with Rosamund Pike as it's lead actor is based on this exact thing.
pep Ito 1 year ago
This would be impossible in Spain and I suppose in Europe. Another thing I do not deny is that once an elderly person has decided to go to an old people's home and does not have any close relatives, he or she could be a victim of theft of his or her money and other property by workers of the old people's home. But it would be a crime and so it would be prosecuted.
Kate Jones 1 year ago
It's a crime in the US, too, but if you don't have anyone in your life then it's not like anyone will call the police to rat themselves out. This is why I don't care how much money you have or don't have... unless you 100% trust them, you should always name a health care proxy and power of attorney who is completely separate from family. After the age of 50 you should have a will in place (earlier even!). Especially if you are alone. A lawyer will follow your wishes and not let emotions sway them from that. And it's not just to keep anyone from abusing you or taking money. If you don't want to live suffering and have a don't want drastic measures taken, a family member might try to fight it because they are emotionally hurting. A lawyer isn't totally foolproof but they have already been paid. They have no skin in the game. You can have a living will that states if you ever become incompetent, they will make the decisions as to where your money goes according to your wishes.
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tee-lena 1 year ago
It's terrifying being disabled. Ask for too much help and this happens. You're not even left with the ability to buy yourself what you need
Cecil 1 year ago
This is what unregulated capitalism looks like. While we've been distracted by drag shows, these people are warehousing the elderly.
Declan Fleming 1 year ago
Targeting minorities so they don’t have to deal with actual pressing issues
Load More Replies... Swan 1 year ago
There’s an industry that basically takes ownership PEOPLE by getting them declared incompetent; sequestrate them d**g them up ***ually abuse us, strap us shock us.... last one here was gay/trans conversion therapy, but the whole hospital really; once they decide you stay; they'll find a reason 😞
cecilia kilian 1 year ago
Eldercare in the US is a disaster from end to end once you move on from independant living to assisted living, memory care, etc. The costs only go up, and the care staff ( not the actual nurses, although they are underpaid in general ) are paid so little they dgas.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
And even if they do give a s, they won't have the time or resources to do what they know should be done
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Kate C 1 year ago
And prescribing statins for almost everyone over the age of 50 had caused real harm to our elderly population. I was on a statin for six months and my legs ballooned up with a horrible rash , it was brutal. My GP couldn't figure out what was wrong. I went to a specialist who immediately asked me if I was on statins and took me off them noting that statins do a lot of damage to legs. That got me thinking about my elderly Mom who went from walking normally to using a walker not long after going on statins. I asked the doctor if statins were a big reason many people in nursing homes need walkers or wheelchairs and he replied, "Yes, and I literally think about that every day". I guess patients are easier to control when they can't walk around, just slap a diaper on them, with the added bonus of big pharmacy getting lots of dollars for a class of d**g that should be illegal.
Simon Chen 1 year ago
That is complete and utter nonsense. You might be one of the people who suffer from sideeffects overly much but that is not the norm. I doubt very much that millions of people are prescribed statines to make them immobile. What for? So they dont jump at each other? I think people working in nursing homes would agree with me that mobile people are easier to take care for than immobile people. And lets not forget the benefits of statines wich is protecting peoples bloodvessels from getting clogged and causing heart attacks and so on. I dont know about you, but i would prefer being less fast at walking to a stroke. Before you may ask, yes, i take statines for many years now due to hereditary high cholesterol and i do have pain in my leg muscles sometimes wich i believe is a sideeffect. I , for myself, prefer that to coronary heart diseases or any other nasty problem i could develeop. I dont know what snakeoil merchant your specialist is, but sorry, this is the dumbest sht i have read toda
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Avoidance_Panda 1 year ago (edited)
Yeah it's called the government, work hard all your life pay tax. Get old, right were gonna need money off you to pay for it. Do and pay nothing get the same care for free.
Janice Sanz 1 year ago
My daughter is an attorney for a nonprofit who works against this sort of thing.
#8
I’d love to see a documentary on the PPP loan fraud during Covid (US). There have been a lot of news articles about it, but a deep dive that exposes wealthy people would be awesome.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
same happened in south africa, but we have actually prosecuted some of the people who were guilty.
George D 1 year ago
Churches got 7 billion in "loans". They are not businesses and pay no taxes so still trying to wrap my head around that one.
LonelyLittleLeafSheep 1 year ago
Yet somehow helping people burdened by predatory college loans is bad. 🙄
Load More Replies... Captain Awesome 1 year ago
I know someone who runs a business, got the PPP loan, fired their admin and then rebuilt their deck and sunroom along with adding a sauna. Their PPP loan was forgiven.
Krd 1 year ago
Report them. generally the person who reports fraud in the US gets a cut of the money they recoup. You can profit and help aave taxpayers money!
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ByeFelicia 1 year ago
Not just wealthy people. Most people who took PPP loans never used them as they were meant to be used. They still closed their businesses. Still underpaid their employees. Still furloughed many.
Marnie 1 year ago
On the flip side, my son got one of the low interest COVID loans in the US. It's not one of those that was forgiven if you used it to play employees, but that is exactly what he used the money for when his business was completely shut down for five months. When it came due, he started paying it back, making every payment on time. Then he got a letter saying that, since he had defaulted on his loan, they would be taking action, possibly including garnishing wages (which is illegal, anyway, because they are an LLC). He calls them. They say his only recourse is to send an email, which he does. Never hears back, keeps getting letters for months. Calls, is on hold for over an hour, they disconnect him. Rinse and repeat. Finally one day, he gets ahold of someone who says his only recourse is to SEND AN EMAIL. He tried desperately to get the person to help or transfer him to someone who would, but they refused and finally hung up on him. The business would shut down if it isn't resolved.
Jane Hower 1 year ago
The commie lib/tard dems on the left are responsible for this and most other frauds in the US Govt.
Guess Undheit 1 year ago
Nothing came of the Savings and Loan fraud of the 1980s, people's life savings wiped out, and millions given to the catholic cult.
Discussing what tends to captivate people the most when it comes to documentaries, the redditor suggested that whenever they cover something that affects viewers directly or paints something in a completely different light from how they viewed it before, it immediately gets their attention. “Due to our contentious political climate, anything with a political tie will draw in more viewers [nowadays],” they said.
“Many answers were surprising,” the OP added, “but a common theme [that was] somewhat unsurprising were the Jeffrey Epstein and Trump comments. It makes you wonder why certain things don’t get more media attention.”
#9
How the private prison industry basically got tons of local sheriffs departments into the prison industry, especially in the south by financing, building and training them to run jails and prisons for profit. It's like a franchise, and poor people are the product.
Jason Melvil 1 year ago
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.
j k 1 year ago
American prisons have never been about rehabilitation...it's slavery
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Robert Beveridge 1 year ago
It's slavery. Literal, eighteenth-century slavery still going on to this day thanks to a loophole in the law ("Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.") Since it's in the Constitution, it'll take a Constitutional amendment to close that loophole. Nikema Williams (D-Ga) has been trying to get a bill to the house floor to start the process of getting an amendment written, but (unsurprisingly) it keeps going nowhere. (Give us clickable links, BP: https://nikemawilliams.house.gov/posts/congresswoman-nikema-williams-reintroduces-the-bicameral-abolition-amendment-to-finally-end-slavery)
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
Let's see. Most people in prison in USA are poor and black. And USA allows chain gangs and similar. Can we all say "Day's never finished, masta got me workin, someday massa set me free"
Joy Chapman 1 year ago
The fact remains: You cannot contract away your liability. The government remains responsible for the malfeasance of the private contractors. The contractors with dollar signs for eyes are paying minimum wage and providing minimum training to peons who (surprise, surprise) don't do a very good job of rehabilitation or even security. Ask me how I know.
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
The fact that the government signs a contract that says if they fail to send enough people to these private for-profit prisons, they'll be responsible for paying for every bed even if there's no one in it.
Thomas Gilfoyle 1 year ago
After the Civil War, records show that the arrests of blacks spike just before harvest season in Mississippi, when sheriffs rent out inmates to cotton growers. Still happens.
Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
Look up the story about the "Kids for Cash" scheme here in Luzerne & Lackawanna County, PA. If you don't know any officials that went to jail, then you just aren't connected. I knew several people who went to prison. Even a former NFL player who became a school board member.
#10
Putin and Russia's influence on social media around the world. I don't think there's been a documentary into just how deep it goes, and how prevalent it is.
Kel_how 1 year ago
Yes, I think he identified the ways in which the 2016 US presidential election was corrupted by the Russian misinformation schemes on social media.
Load More Replies... Nimitz 1 year ago
It's not just Putin and Russia. It's the far right in every country for a simple reason: social media doesn't do enough fact checking, especially now that Musk has ruined Twitter. Liberals and the left are usually at least someone constrained by science and provable truths. The right wing, especially MAGA people, just make s**t up, gaslight, and lie through their teeth. That's why Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate are making inroads with people under 30.
Cj Churchall-McKenzie 1 year ago
or how much of his and other russian money has gone into MAGA behind the scenes
Jason Melvil 1 year ago
It's not just social media. "Fox News" is not social media, as an example.
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Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago (edited)
That's called soft power and imperialism. Virtually every state on earth does that to an extend. Please, there are many proven atrocities we can highlight before going full conspiracy theory.
James Doe 1 year ago
This has nothing to do with "conspiracy theory"."However, the report states that Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election was illegal and occurred "in sweeping and systematic fashion"" see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report
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I’m surprised there isn’t a documentary on the quackery behind chiropractics. It was literally invented by a man hearing what a ghost said to him. Google that.
j k 1 year ago
Whenever I go and get adjusted, I feel better.. quackery or not, it works for me
Amelia Jade 1 year ago
I've read too many stories of people with permanent neck injury, or worse.
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Jerry Lane 1 year ago
I am a chiropractor. I have the same first 2 years of education as an MD/DC. I get people out of pain without medication and it’s side-effects. If you don’t like your DC then find a better one just like you would do with an MD. Stop disparaging a profession. There are many shows about bad auto mechanics, bad MDs, bad positions and so on yet those professions still exist.
Debby Keir 1 year ago
Edzard Ernst - retired emeritus professor of complimentary and alternative medicine agrees with the poster, and not with you. Studies showed, when comparing physio, physio plus acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropraxis for back pain keeping someone off work, chiropraxis was found to be positively dangerous in comparison to any of the others. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20642715/ cites at least 26 deaths directly attributable to chiropraxis.
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)
aka physiotherapy without the science. https://quackwatch.org/chiropractic/general/ Various forms of spinal manipulation have been noted throughout recorded history [1]. The “discovery” of chiropractic was announced in 1895 by Daniel David (“D.D.”) Palmer, a grocer, spiritualist, and “magnetic healer” who practiced in Davenport, Iowa. Palmer believed that he had restored the hearing of a deaf janitor by “adjusting” a hump on his spine. Even though the nerve that controls hearing is inside the skull and does not traverse the spine, Palmer concluded that the basic cause of disease was nerve interference caused by displaced vertebrae [2]. He originally declared that such misalignments cause abnormal tension (“tone”) in the nearby nerves and that disturbed nerve tone causes 95% of all diseases. Later he elaborated a vitalistic doctrine which held that (a) “Innate Intelligence,” or “nerve energy,” flows throughout the nervous system and controls every bodily activity not under voluntary control; (b) even slight spinal misalignments hinder this flow, causing people to become ill; and (c) manual manipulation (“adjustment”) of the spine is the remedy. He rejected the germ theory and had an aversion to d***s, surgery, and medical diagnosis. Palmer referred to spinal “misalignments” as “luxations.” A few years later a disciple began calling them “subluxations,” a term that became central to chiropractic theory and is still used today. The word “chiropractic” was derived from the Greek words cheir (hand) and praktikos (practice).
ManuelQue 1 year ago
That doesn't make current practitioners bad. I've been a client of a few different practitioners over the years and there was no hocus-pocus with any of them. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. As a chiropractor noted above, the first two years of study are exactly the same as those for medical school. At the very least a knowledge of anatomy is needed -.and the original Dr. Palmer certainly didn't have that.
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LuLuBelle 1 year ago
My uncle was treated for back pain by a chiropractor for a year before the pain got so bad he finally went to a real doctor. By then his advanced stage 4 cancer was untreatable. He died a few months later. Chiropractors are dangerous quacks.
Gingergirl 1 year ago
Pretty sure going to chiropractor doesn’t give you cancer.
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Jason Hemphill 1 year ago
Well my wife went to her chiropractor, her main doctor was on vacation his replacement adjusted her neck she had migraines right after a couple of days later my wife had a stroke. They told us she had a torn muscle in her neck that caused a blood clot her doctor called it chiropractor manipulation. It has been 14 years and she is still recovering. So I can't stand chiropractors
Ms. Mack 1 year ago
My concern with Chiropractors is that every person I have met that sees one, continues to see the Chiropractor on a regular basis FOREVER. That seems odd. Additionally I have never had a General Practitioner, Orthopedic Doctor or Neurologist refer me to a Chiropractor, only to Physical Therapy or Massage Therapy.
Gaby Rose 1 year ago
I didn’t know what a chiropractor was when I was 18 and had terrible shoulder pain. Someone recommended their doctor and took me to my appointment. I was sitting in the exam room when the chiropractor came in, walked around me and the next thing I knew he grabbed my head and jerked it around. Then he spent the next 5 minutes telling me what quacks M.D.s were. I had a headache for two weeks and that was the beginning of my neck problems which ended up with me having 2 C-spine surgeries and being fused from C-4 to T-1 before the pain stopped. No more chiropractors for me!
Queeqec 1 year ago
Where I live chiropractors are doctors, mostly orthopaedics who studied regular med for a minimum of 5yrs, have been working at orthopaedics for another 5years BEFORE they can call themselves 'Orthopedic Doctor' legally. So its a minimum of 10years of studies and training, lots of exams. Of course, not all of them are good, but its way more than reading a magazine and watching 2 videos on yt.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
Orthopedic Doctor is very different to Chiropractor.
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Backyard dog breeders could probably fill an hour.
LuLuBelle 1 year ago
There's a special place in Hell for the depraved POS's that run puppy mills.
Rinso The Red 1 year ago
Check out the Amish, they are some of the worst offenders.
Load More Replies... cecilia kilian 1 year ago
Rescue dogs are the best. Stop with the such and such breed trends. If you like a certain look ( fluffy, small, big, sleek...) check out shelters or reliable adoption organizations. A mixed breed dog, or cat will often be healthier than a pure bred, while retaining some features of the said breed.
Xenia Harley 1 year ago
And the horrible things they do. I got a boxer from a friend when the boxer was 4 1/2. I was visiting my mom, when a friend saw the dog for the first time. he said, "You know that the backyard breeder cut those ears and docked the tail on Bruno when he was just a puppy, right?" Without anesthetic. This happens to pit bulls too and any dog they dock tails or ears. The cruelty is unfathomable.
Nimitz 1 year ago
Let's not forget every dumbass who buys a dog with "papers" instead of adopting a mutt from a shelter. So many of them don't get the animals spayed/neutered in case they decide to stud/breed them even though they have no idea what that involves. Then the animals become problematic or get out of the house and it just makes more stray animals...
Discussing what “open secrets” they would want to see presented as a documentary, the OP said that an exposé on chiropractics is long overdue. “Many people consider them a back doctor and blindly go see them. But the reality of its foundations and its practice are pretty mind-blowing.”
#13
I feel like there aren’t very many docs on how horrible tipping culture is.
Jason Melvil 1 year ago
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.
Chech Dasaus 1 year ago
*most of the US There aren't many other countries with simmilar tipping cultures as the US. In many european countries the waiter gets a full wage and the tips are extra. Usually you tip a roundup to the next full € or a little bit mor if you are truly generous.
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Debby Keir 1 year ago
*Most* countries have minimum wages, and the tips are extra for the good service. It really isn't a worldwide issue.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
They're doing their damndest to make it one. Now they're building tip options into the software, apps, and programs that we use to buy and pay for just about anything and exporting it worldwide.
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Is Australia tipping doesn’t exist. They get paid the minimum wage is $18 an hour.
MurderMittens 1 year ago
I would not wait tables for minimum wage. I waited tables for years making up to four times that (including tips). If you don't want to tip, go to a fast food or buffet restaurant.
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Emily Kerkstra 1 year ago
service industry work thankless horrible work. Pretending to like your customers, smiling and acting like it's your greatest pleasure to get them more ranch, being on your feet for hours and hours, carrying heavy trays, shlepping back and forth and cleaning up after people. Service workers can legally be denied breaks in my state, there's a caveat in the employment law that breaks and hours rules need not apply "where it would hinder operation of the business" or some such nonsense. It would be amazing to get rid of tipping culture. Service workers could have any attitude they wanted. And employers would still have to pay 30+ dollars an hour to get anyone to do it!
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
Tipping is the definition of passing the buck. The menu prices are lower, but just add 18% to 20% to it and that's the actual price of that hamburger. Did you know you don't have to tip?
Gingergirl 1 year ago
Where I live, you tip voluntarily and I only tip if the service or food was extraordinary. I wouldn’t tip anyone who just did the job, that’s the employers responsibility
#14
The way old folks are treated in care homes.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
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.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
But it happens when families take care of them in their own homes too. Elder abuse in general needs to be discussed.
Gingergirl 1 year ago
My mother in law was in a care home for the last year of her life. She was treated like a Queen.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
Not just the way that they're treated, but the invisibility of an entire generation to the rest of society. Once people go into homes they disappear from view. All that experience, all those stories, and we shut them away like an embarrassment.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
We had a royal commission into that. Several private "care" companies were shut down and a lot new regulation was created as a result.
Phae Thompson 1 month ago
The care home my mom was in, before she died, let her get out of bed knowing she wasn't able to walk steadily by herself to the bathroom and she broke her leg.
Blondieybat 11 months ago
After I had a stroke (I came out of everything about high 90%) I was in a 'convalescent' facility. Thank all the deitities that my stay was brief. . I was not sick enough for the hospital and not well enogh to go home.
Becca not Becky 1 year ago
Poor staffing, inadequate resources, societal neglect, politics, insurance games, all kinds of BS. The people deserve so much better
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
That's because they can't afford to pay people who are actually trained to do the job because it would require expensive degrees and certifications. Instead, they hire someone off the street, barely pay them, and just turn them lose on the patients while burying anything they do wrong so they don't get in trouble and can keep making money hand over fist (in some instances).
#15
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith adopted his 14 year old wife, so he could legally take her across state lines. Wrote about it in his memoir. Said it was consensual. Later became a judge on American Idol.
Deeelite 1 year ago
I believe they got together when she was 14 and adopted at 16
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30ninjazinmybag 1 year ago
When david Bowie was 24 he took the virginity of a 14 yr old. They called them baby groupies, honest go look into it there was more famous musicians of the time who did this too. Knowing how old they were.
Sophia Athene 1 year ago (edited)
This is awful to say but I'm pretty sure I would have let David Bowie take my virginity at 14. I was obsessed with the movie Labyrinth. If he put on that costume, he could have done anything to me. Let's be honest, I'm still obsessed with Labyrinth. My husband estimates I've seen it about 600 times over my life. He's probably right. So at any point in my life, David Bowie could have put on that costume and I'd have fallen at his feet. Does that make it right I would have let him take my virginity at 14? No it does not but I can see how it could happen. Of course, the responsibility would have been on him to not put on that costume anywhere near me while I was a minor. I joke about it b/c I love that movie and all his music. But statutory rape is never right under any circumstance, even if the minor's idol willingly engages in sex.
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cecilia kilian 1 year ago
"Baby groupies" were a thing at the time. Lots of underage girls sought out famous musicians at the time I was a teen in Norhern California in the 70s, and had classmates who hooked up with members of The Grateful Dead, Pablo Cruise,, and other bands. Does that make it right? No, but it was a whole culture, encouraged by the fashion and music media at the time.
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Seeking to learn more about what makes a good documentary, Bored Panda got in touch with Cinema Studies lecturer at Rutgers University, Albert Nigrin, who said that for him, a good documentary is one where new information is presented in an interesting and unbiased way.
“Documentaries are very important as they are a window into the life of our planet,” he added. “They play an increasing role in helping us understand ourselves and our lives better.”
#16
Someone needs to do something about the robber barons of the 21st century. Tech industry is doing almost exactly what the oil, rail, and gas companies did in the gilded age.
Mtownmick 1 year ago
We need to stop worshipping money and millionaires. Greed is killing us all. Normalize enough.
Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago
Yup, we sure do need to stop seeing property only as a mean to create wealth
Load More Replies... Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
People need to realize you are renting them your time. You don't get my time if you don't pay for it. I don't care about the team, I care if my mortgage check clears.
Karina 1 year ago
The world is corrupt, and politicians are just corrupt people willing to sell us a deceased lie
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
do you mean diseased (sick), or do you mean deceased (dead)?
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keyboardtek 1 year ago
As long as the politicians in charge of the country do not care about the average worker and only in the money the rich make. this will happen until the end of human existence.
Cydney Golden 1 year ago
We need to tax the very rich and corporations. The GOP won't be doing that.
#17
A company can sell you a printer and then render that printer inoperable if you decide not to also purchase the ink from them (in which said ink is being sold as a subscription service).
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
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.
TipsyRedial519 1 year ago
This is why I bought a color laser printer - while I still have to buy their ink, it takes years before I have to replace it.
Mark Fuller 1 year ago
Thankfully, there are still a few models where substitute products are available. It might get flagged by your computer, but they will still work...
Vinoo Matthew 1 month ago
There is a flourishing small-scale industry (often just individuals on their own) of cartridge refillers in most parts of Souther/South-East Asia
Blondieybat 11 months ago
Then don't buy a printer that has that requirement. I haven't had to buy a printer in a year or so. We got a combo printer\scanner.
Jeffrey Diehl 1 year ago (edited)
Yup. HP is. not in the business of selling printers, but ink. And home printers are the worst. If you buy some brand other than their brand (for ANY manufacturer) the machine will tell you "Foreign ink" or something like that and will not tell you that is low or any other information. .
This Person 1 year ago
Bring back dot-matrix printers. Very few things need the level of printing you get from new printers.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
This happened to my mom with her HP printer. Absolutely ridiculous.
iseefractals 1 year ago
One, those subscription systems are opt in, and the terms specify that once you opt in, you're locked in. Two, That cartridge based printer that you paid $30-$75 is sold at a SIGNIFICANT loss, on the basis that the manufacturer will recoup the loss through ink sales....but every printer manufacturer has sold tank based inkjet printers for quite awhile now, and those are priced at actual profit margins ($180+) and allow you to put whatever ink you want into them. The subscription BS is an avoidable problem, solved by not looking for the cheapest PoS on the market. Besides, subscription services aren't even the most egregious development. Those fairly priced tank printers, have a absorption pad to collect excess ink....Canon has decided that once that pad is "full" by whatever arbitrary metric they've deemed, that you've had that printer long enough and just bricks the device with no way to repair or replace the pad.
Bored Trash Panda 1 year ago
I have an eco tank printer, and you can change the pad on it. I have had it for about two years and have had no issues with it and it hasn't even come close to needing it changed though.
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Pilots aren’t allowed to fly if they’re depressed (treated or not) or taking any mental health medications, but most of them can’t afford to take off work until they get better (depression is chronic for many), so they fly regardless of how poor their mental health may be and keep it secret if necessary.
María Hermida 1 year ago
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.
KatZen 1 year ago
That's a very good point. You'd think he had many other opportunities when he was back on the ground. On the other hand, maybe he also had anger issues. I hope they also take anger issues seriously. I'd be much more worried about them.
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Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
I encountered a similar issue as a VA nurse. Many veterans were gun owners. Rumor had it that if they admitted to mental health issues, the VA would have the guns removed from their homes. Many veterans hunted to put extra meat on the table for their families. Others worried about hostile police raids to seize their guns. So they would not officially say that they were having issues. Now there are unstable people walking around with guns. Being stabilized on medications should not be a reason to punish people.
Joy Chapman 1 year ago
Mental health issues, in particular depression, are hidden in many professions. The stigma is real. The repercussions are massive.
Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago (edited)
That's the difference between a joke and an actual policy : a policy have means to implement it. To punish reporting being sick is a joke. An actual policy is mandatory paid sick leaves, enforced on the employer by law if you are sick.
Moon 1 year ago
Well, there go my dreams of being a pilot. Based on this, I'm assuming they wouldn't let a depressed bipolar person fly. Yay me.
ManuelQue 1 year ago
Just the thought of learning to recover from a spin and a stall was enough to stop me. Well, that and my uncorrected eyesight.
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Rich Black 1 year ago
If depression is chronic, does that mean you CANT get better? Maybe they would be happier in a different line if work?
According to the expert, popular topics for documentaries vary by time period. “During World War II, documentaries focused on the war effort [were popular]. During the 1960s, documentaries started to focus on the turmoil of that period.
“Today's documentaries are all over the place given that there are so many more outlets for these; everything from ‘reality TV’ to series on the climate crisis.”
#19
Tiger King kind of covered it, but some states have really lax exotic animal laws. Lions, tigers, and bears are not pets. They are wild animals.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
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).
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
They are practically velociraptors but with less brain and teeth.
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Nolgoth 1 year ago
There are more tigers in captivity than out in the wild and a large chunk of them are owned by private citizens.
Becky Samuel 1 year ago
And so many of them are inbred that they end up with cleft lip and palate, feline Down's syndrome and many other genetic abnormalities. None of them can be considered to be useful to the genetic pool of the species.
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Lord of the laserprinter. 1 year ago
Yeah, about Cassowaries… The Australian army tried to cull the numbers. Basically the Aussies went to war with a bunch of birds… They lost.!
Tom Brincefield 1 year ago
That was emus. They are related, but cassowaries are way meaner.
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#20
Just how much bribery and effort coordination go into lobbying on Capitol Hill.
notlikeyou1971 1 year ago
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.
#21
How much the military actually waste. If they don’t use what they’re allotted one fiscal year they don’t get the same the next so towards the end of the year they’ll throw ammo off boats in the ocean and purposely break office furniture and burn excess uniforms so the same amount at minimum is allotted the next year.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
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.
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
I agree. It’s a stupid practice. I don’t know about the US military doing what the poster said as I’ve never seen it but they do in fact waste money buying shi and hey don’t need
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Kelly H 1 year ago
While true, we don't fund anything as aggressively as we fund the military
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Trophy Husband 1 year ago
I work for a government agency that did this on a small scale. Our budget would be a few thousand under one year, so we would be told to go and buy parts and supplies that we could use in the future in order to not lose that budget. The key difference there is that we would buy stuff that we would use later, we were just buying it early. I worked in Telecom, we used to buy up cables, tools, parts and supplies. We would buy extra telephones, switches, routers. And we would stockpile them all in one back room... No waste, you don't have to waste in order to meet your budget. The systems are still broken, but this is a way better direction to be broken in.
LittleTeapot 1 year ago
Maybe I’ve been lucky in my little corner of the DoD but these practices have scaled back enormously since the audit efforts. Plus, the real amount of money wasted breaking office furniture is tiny and firing off ammo has to be pretty egregious to be fraudulent. The waste exists in jacked up contract prices and crappy program and project managers who think they’re geniuses. See other entry about lobbying on the Hill. A lot of it s also because we have antiquated tools to manage these massive inventories. We can’t have better ones because (a) it’s not as sexy to spend money on inventory and work management tools as it is on new jet R&D, and (b) they’re pretty complex problems to solve
penguino (they/them) 1 year ago
This! The USA spends so much and accumulates sooo much debt like cmon militia. Uniforms are good to wait a year and such.
Anna Harding 1 year ago
Insurance companies do this as well. I used to work in picture framing: insurance companies would place huge art and framing orders in December trying to use up their money. They would just put the stuff in storage and not even use it.
MotorcycleDoggo 1 year ago
This is preety much every govenment run department in pretty much every (1st world at least) country.
But even though they cover a wide range of topics, documentaries are rarely successful, Nigrin pointed out. “Only a few have had successful theatrical releases. Hoop Dreams, Fahrenheit 9/11, March of the Penguins were a few of these and they featured pretty in-depth analysis of its subject.”
#22
DuPont plants have a ridiculously high cancer rate for contractors/employees. Studies on titanium dioxide get buried.
Jrog 1 year ago
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.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
BTW, one of the most interesting applications of TiO2 is a direct consequence of its toxicity. It is a great active antimicrobial/antibacterial surface material. When activated by UVs TiO2 breaks down the cellular membrane very quickly, inactivating pathogens in a matter of seconds.
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Ann Marie Hoff 1 year ago
better living thru chemistry! That was the motto of DuPont! We had one in my hometown. My uncle worked there and we would have our family picnics there when I was a kid!
#23
Powerful people using tax havens to avoid paying taxes. While there have been some documentaries on specific incidents or individuals, a documentary covering the system seems to be lacking.
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
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.
Jrog 1 year ago
The assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia is linked to the Panama Papers, but mostly to a very specific political and criminal activity in Malta. Her assassination was part of a string of killings of people who opposed by documenting the corruption and ties with crime lords of to two Maltese bigwigs: the then prime minister Joseph Muscat and the oligarch Yorgen Fenech. Muscat went on to pardon the person suspect of planning the bombings shortly before resigning amidst a political crisis. Fenech was arrested and gave several depositions clumsily trying to frame a political opponent. He is still in jail awaiting trial.
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Yeah, that expose of the rich defrauding the poor? Somebody paid for it to be buried. And for the authors to be buried. It would be funny if it were not so true.
Mary Ballard-Johansson 1 year ago
And the American government goes after normal people living abroad to look tough on the issue. 😡
Rich Black 1 year ago
Nobody knows how the bidens bought 2 mansions on their salaries. He was a senator firc35 years, and she was a grade school teacher
María Hermida 1 year ago
Nobody really wants a documentary "covering the system". Do you really think those people who are "saving" billions in tax havens would let such information be made public?
Jrog 1 year ago
You mean this documentary? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8951058/
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#24
The way apartment leasing mega corps like Greystar squeeze renters for every penny (initial lease rate algorithm for starters) and in return cut every corner to save money destroying their customers without care because there’s always hundreds more lined up due to the horrible housing market. Predatory leasing at its finest. Don’t see this ever changing.
Kate Jones 1 year ago
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.
Rachel Mitchell 1 year ago
I've watched this very thing happen to my little hometown over the last 20 years (I live in NorCal). We've become a bedroom community for the Bay Area, and it's driven housing prices through the roof.
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I read the other day that there is no city in the United States where a full-time, minimum-wage job can pay the rent on a two-bedroom apartment. Never mind food and enough money to commute.
Kalikima 1 year ago
I live in a shìtty little town on the borders of Arizona, California, and Nevada (bonus points if you can figure it out without googling it) and in the last two years we've had so many transplants from SoCal that our rents have damn near doubled. A 2 bedroom apt is now renting at $1500, whereas 2 or 3 years ago they were around $750. It's disgusting, and not worth it for the area that relies on mainly casino workers making less than $10 an hour.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Tell me how the government does this. Does the government own the house being rented? It’s greedy landlords trying to make as much money for as little effort as they can
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The new uranium mines that are being opened on Native American reservations in the Southwest US. Also the ones that are abandoned and the government refuses to clean them up. Not to mention a lot of Navajo Nation is still feeling the effects of the former Bennett Freeze where they couldn’t get anything fixed or anything new built on their land for over 40 years. A good portion of people living in Navajo nation in those areas affected by the freeze still don’t have access to running water and electricity in their homes.
Trophy Husband 1 year ago
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.
Joy Chapman 1 year ago
Further, they can't vote for a different government because they are so isolated, they can't reach polling places. And did you notice all the Republican embargoes on voting by mail?
Senjo Krane 1 year ago
It never ceases to amaze me how the Native Americans have been treated and are still treated. I don't know much about it, but I never hear anything good. I'm not American btw.
Heba Shawky 1 year ago
And the effect of using depleted Uranuim weapons in Iraq! deformities in children and life stock are prevalent in many areas in Iraq hwere those weapons were used by the American army
#26
How some of the top fashion magazines send young models over to meet wealthy donors in hotel rooms who will ‘help’ them get the modelling contract they were after.
Enuya 1 year ago
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
Lara Verne 1 year ago
Remind me of sucide of South Korean actress a few years ago. In her suicide note, she claimed that she was forced to "entertain" wealthy VIPs. It happens everywhere, but until someone ends like this lady, it's open secret that everyone tries to ignore.
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Brigita Petrutis 1 year ago
No. Legitimate modeling agencies do NOT allow this behavior. Sure, there's lots of shady characters floating around "models" -- i.e. Melania.
PeepPeep the duck 1 year ago
I watched one weirdly in the early 90s when I was like 7 or 8 about this subject, I don’t know why I was watching it but i remember it
#27
How recycling is essentially not a real practice. I mean maybe there is something about it but I feel like everyone I know recycles so much of their trash and over 90% if not all of it ends up as trash. Piles and piles of trash.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
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.
iseefractals 1 year ago
Um....nope! Europe in it's entirety recycles about 39% of recyclable materials, Eight countries manage to meet or surpass a rate or 50% while 8 others recycle LESS than 20% of recyclable materials. See....putting it in a recycling bin, or taking it to a recycling center is not the same as the materials....actually being recycled. Just look at Romania, every block in every city has a group of 6 dumpsters, and 3 bins for "paper/cardboard" "plastic/metal" and "glass" and when sanitation comes to collect it....everything goes into the same truck! It's only been very recently that laws have mandated the businesses provide automated collection points (which pay 50 bani/10cents per item) or require that they actually collect and pay for items and arrange proper collection. Recently meaning 6 months ago. Problem being....that even with this, plastic bottles, which are made from THREE different kinds of plastic are crushed together, they're also never cleaned before doing so.
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Maggie Fulton 1 year ago
One big loophole (Arizona USA) is that there are no convenient recycling options for people in apartment complexes. There may be a recycling center somewhere, but how many people are going to hunt it down and go out of their way to drag recycling there every week, especially when they already have a full schedule? Not me, that’s for sure. I lived in one apartment complex that provided a dumpster for recycling, but that was a pretty high-end place, and I had to move to a more affordable place. Also, there’s a problem with hazardous waste disposal. If you are a homeowner and can show your garbage pickup bill, you can have your hazardous waste hauled free at scheduled events. But apartment renters don’t have that,so they have to scramble to dispose of their waste in a safe, affordable way. I shudder to think what is probably being thrown into regular trash by frustrated people.
rullyman 1 year ago
That's terrible. I live in a central London flat and we have recycling collection- most do. Some have food waste collection too but we don't. I wish we did.
Load More Replies... Samuel Pelatan 1 year ago
The issue isn't really the end part anyway : it's essential to mop when there is a leak. But you gotta stop the leak too. We gotta produce less.
PitbullmomAF 1 year ago
I lived in Germany 20 yrs ago and their recycling programs were ahead of where the US is now!
Paul Simpson 1 year ago
The other part of that is that many people just toss everything they *think* is recyclable in the recycle bin. Too many people do that, it arrives at the recycling center, and the load is rejected as contaminated & sent to the dump. Seen that in some municipalities in the US, that reject count can run as high as 50-75%. Better education of the people, and more similarities in recycle programs town-to-town would help.
Sand Ers 1 year ago
Metal and paper are the only things that can currently be reasonably recycled. Plastic recycling is a massive long term con perpetrated by the plastics industry to distract from their culpability in burying the world in single-use plastic waste.
Jrog 1 year ago
BS. Glass is recycled at a 75-80% ratio EU-wide. For plastics, 32% of the collected waste goes into full-recycling (i.e. production of secondary cycle plastics), 45% goes through energy recovery, used as fuel in incinerators converting it to electricity,. About 15% is exported to non EU-countries, and about 8% is landfilled.
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Joy Chapman 1 year ago
Recycling DOES work in some areas. It SHOULD work in all areas, at least with some materials. But I have stood and watched our pick-up men throw the recycling bins in with the trash bins. Infuriating!
#28
The province of New Brunswick, Canada is basically the play toy of a small handful of wealthy families (Irving, McCain, Oland). The government is just there for show.
#29
Air-fryers are just rebranded convection ovens from the 90s.
Hugendubel 1 year ago
They are a smaller version of the oven and therefore use less energy, I am ok with that.
Jeremy Bolanos 1 year ago
I prefer to think of them as appropriately rebranded and made functional.
#30
I would say the amount of people that fail at raising their kids. Not even obvious and serious things like abusing their kids, but just not raising them right.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
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.
Swan 1 year ago
yup! like raising someone "right" or "wrong" wil make them evil or good ? parents have to surrender the illusion of control; let go, you don't control your child or what he's going to become; just yesterday -french elections day- I heard that "if you raised your kid "right" he wouldn't be gay! like; kid are people! real people! whole people with a ersonality, you don't decide how they are 😔
Load More Replies... LittleTeapot 1 year ago (edited)
How about a documentary on how hard it is to raise a good, healthy human? Rather than bash everyone else, let’s take a look at the many ways our culture (at least in the US) makes that difficult for parents, across all different cross sections (urban/rural, socioeconomics, race, etc). Then we could look at what we all could do to pitch in and keep getting better!
Joy Chapman 1 year ago
Interestingly, you need to pass a test to demonstrate your knowledge of driving a car, but there is no test of knowledge or good sense to raise a child.
Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Foster system is about to be hella overwhelmed. Where do you think those almost aborted babies are gonna end up? If you aren’t worried about them after birth, are you really pro life?
Jerry Lane 1 year ago
? And how would that be done? How would we know it is happening while it was happening? What does ‘raising them right look like?
Kate Jones 1 year ago
I'd rather foster systems be better funded and staffed so that we can get kids out of bad situations without putting them into another bad, sometimes worse, situation in the system. Foster homes and orphanages should be palaces. If a child is being abused or living in a motel with their crackhead parents, they should be taken away unless the parents can provide proof of being clean for at least 6 months. In the meantime, they can have visitation in certain circumstances, and the child will be in great care with staff that are highly trained and paid. Kids will get the help they need. And there will probably be less violent kids because abuse would be caught sooner since staffing/labor costs wouldn't be an issue. It's not 100% going to magically fix everything, but I would prefer it over what other people's version of 'raising them right' means. For all I know, you could be a religious nut who wants to bring in red capes. And those people are always sure they're right.
Load More Replies... Ralph Watkins 1 year ago
I used to work with troubled kids on a psych unit. We had kids who were seriously abused. Beaten cursed at, etc. They were pretty bad off but not the worst. The worst kids were the ones who were severely neglected. From feral kids to seemingly normal kids with major issues just under the surface. There is so much neglect going on today. At least when kids are yelled at or even spanked, they still know their parents care for them.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
I always hear people say "I got spanked (or insert other bad parenting) and I turned out ok." And I answer "I've never met anyone who came out ok"
Sheena Leversedge Wood 1 year ago
if you grow up thinking hitting people is the right and correct way to get your own way, no, you didn't turn out okay.
Load More Replies... Alyce 1 year ago
So,you feel your neighbors are responsible for raising your kids?
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#31
How absolutely disenfranchising the electoral college is. Not in a partisan way, not about specific outcomes, but how it makes the vote of the few in specific geographic regions have an outsized power and so many have virtually no meaningful contribution to an election. The resources used to target those groups are astronomical and represent a real opportunity cost as well.
pep Ito 1 year ago
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.
Krd 1 year ago
Minority rule has never worked. Nor should it. Why should the few set rules the many? The electoral college is so dumb. It's aingle handedly responsible for the worst presidents we have ever had. No where else in life do you vote, and make one persons vote more powerful than everyone else's!
Load More Replies... Colleen Glim 1 year ago
Isn’t an election intended to elect a candidate by popular vote? And if so, then what even is the purpose of the electoral college?
Michael Largey 1 year ago
The founders were afraid that most voters in those non-media days would not be familiar with the candidates' qualififications, particularly candidates from a different section of the country. The electors were supposed to be people active in public affairs who would be familiar with the candidates. (It also strengthened the power of the smaller states.) The founders at the time admitted that they were not sure how good a system this might turn out to be but that it could be improved by constitutional amendments (which the 12th /amendment did, to a small degree).
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#32
Steroid use in Hollywood. Everyone knows it's happening but I don't think the extent is widely known. When a male actor puts on a lot of muscle for a role they have most likely used steroids. Even if they have just put on a little muscle they probably still used steroids, because you can't gain fast enough to get in shape for the start of filming. And because it is technically illegal no-one will ever admit it. What makes it worse is these people (and their trainers) will write articles for Men's Health where they go through their workouts, ignoring the fact that they took growth hormone for a year. There have been a few good documentaries about doping in sports but I think we need one about Hollywood.
Mimi M 1 year ago (edited)
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.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
also it gives a weird texture/tone to the surface, like too smooth. I can spot it instantly.
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𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 1 year ago
I might buy that Dwayne Johnson came by his body naturally, as he spent many years as a pro wrestler before becoming an actor. So he had time to ACTUALLY body-build - everything after that is just maintenance. But actors who were average for the majority of their prior roles, then SUDDENLY become Greek god level jacked.... well steroids are the only logical answer to that.
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F S 1 year ago
Would recommend to watch some of the workout critics by Dr. Mike Israetel. Not only hilarious but also very informative when it comes to efficient strength training. YouTube channel is called Renaissance Periodization.
Daniel Gómez 1 year ago
Dr. Milo Wolf and Jeff Nippard are also great in that respect, and they have collabed with Dr. Mike. Sadly, Dr. Mike Israetel is a steroid user, although he has openly admitted to it and is very vocal about the consequences of their use.
Load More Replies... Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Not even Hollywood, There is more illegal substances at my local gym the a rave in Ibiza. I know people who mountain week ends that take EPO. Healthy people who drop dead in there 40 and 50 and people say how? he was so healthy!!! Yea sure. I knew several people from the gyms I've been to over the years but it doesn't surprise me.
Kate Jones 1 year ago
It's happening with men now the same way that women who starved and purged themselves tried to claim their weight was natural or part of a healthy diet plan. They've been making people feel bad about themselves for years. That's why no one should strive to look like a celebrity. Even the ones who really did do it the healthy way....you never know.
#33
The way doctors are made in the US is basically a form of indentured servitude if you aren’t from a rich family. You have to obey a system that is using you for massive profits. And if you wipe out or get dismissed at any point you have 250-500k in debt to punish you/make you reconsider your decision to leave. Some experiences of residency include low pay, six day work weeks, forced night shifts, and having little to no say about your schedule (the last one isn’t exactly limited to residency though). .
Emma London 1 year ago
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?
Andrew Read 1 year ago
More like socialism and there’s nothing wrong with that.
Load More Replies... iseefractals 1 year ago
Residency is still part of your education as a doctor. Having the technical knowledge doesn't mean you can put it into practice, let alone in high stress environments. You're still very much riding with training wheels.....because you literally have the lives of others in your control. Not saying it doesn't suck, but...you should kind of know what you signed up for before you've gone through 8 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars at university. That said, here in romania, a country with a minimum wage of $450 per month, med school costs $8000 per year, and minimum starting pay for new doctors is $700 per month
Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago
Depending on the specialty, a Residency program can lose its certification if it does that. Sadly most young residents are afraid to report abuses.
#34
Autism. Is. Everywhere. In every building you're in, every family, every business. They just don't always know it.
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
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.
Alexandra 1 year ago
That's interesting. If the others haven't done anything about it, does that mean their daily lives aren't impacted by it? Also, it reads as if it is hereditary to some degree: do you have that impression? Just so we understand each other: these are honest questions.
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago
Honestly as an ASD person I'd rather have not been diagnosed. I'd rather have continued to live and just adapt to NTs as I always did, and walk around thinking they're absolutely f*****g mad and oversensitive. It was easier than walking around thinking I'm in some way R-t'ded and need to be catered for like I am delicate or something. It was easier to just despise humanity than realise actually I'm the odd one out.
#35
The electric provider in California not maintaining its power lines and causing well over a thousand fires and hundreds of deaths. .
digitalin 1 year ago
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.
Cerridwn d'Wyse 1 year ago
Please note. There are more than one electric provider in california. There are two big ones and many small ones. Neither of the big ones are great but the one is hideously worse than the other
Nolgoth 1 year ago
One of my shipmates in the navy was born and raised in paradise. Sadly after i got out in 06 i lost contact with him and was very worried about him and his family after that fire happened. Reached out on FB but never got a response back (for being an electronics tech, communications, guy he really didnt like technology lol)
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 1 year ago
The electric companies can't win in these situations. If they turn off the electricity, everyone hates on them. If they don't turn off the electricity and a fire starts, everyone hates on them and says they should have turned off the electricity. At some point I feel sorry for PGE. There really isn't a cheap alternative to electricity yet.
#36
Larry Ellison and his 98% ownership of the Hawaiian island of Lanai.
He’s chasing off the locals, natives and poors and turning it into a little private playground for his wealthy friends.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
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.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
Hawaii'ans obviously, this is what colonisers do to the colonised.
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Work from home is more productive by every measure for jobs that can be done remotely. But corporations are in bed with cities that want workers back in their downtown restaurants and shops, so employers are staring to force return to office policies. Some employers are using those policies to get rid of senior staff because they know experienced workers will leave.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
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.
frederick clause 1 year ago
Are you seriously trying to bring common sense into this issue? Besides, incompetent manager won't be able to micro manage their staff as easily.
Load More Replies... Kate C 1 year ago
Also, many corporate executives have a great deal of personal wealth invested in business real estate. Empty offices means money out of their pockets so they need to sing the mantra of the importance of face time with colleagues. My husband had to go back to in office work even though he uses an hour (each way) of work time commuting (he used to log on by 6 am every morning to work when he was working from home) - and all of his team members are in different states - so he is alone in his cube surrounded by people he does not work with. Oh, but the bosses did give him a raise - one so small it doesn't even cover the cost of gas for his new commuting routine.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
My current company just sold the office and went completely virtual. Most of us never went there anyway. I will NEVER go back to having to drive somewhere every day to do a job I can do exactly the same from home. In my last job we went back once a week after the pandemic. Everyone sat in their individual offices and still emailed each other instead of talking in person. It was pointless.
Kesam 1 year ago
Any sources for the claim that working from home is more productive? It doesn't match with my experience at all. Everything is so much easier when you can just walk into people's offices and talk to them face to face instead of having to set up video calls for every litte thing. Also, it's good for my mental health having people around and getting out of the house.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
It's the exact opposite for me. You're the only one I've met who thinks they're more productive in a office. I'm more distracted in the office and spend more time doing non-work stuff. Because people like to chat and don't know when to leave me alone to do my work. I'm currently 100% remote and it's the best thing that ever happened to my career.
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Jrog 1 year ago
It's complicated. WFH works well for jobs that have very definite responsibilities and deliverables, that can be managed in parallel and -obviously- do not require access to specific resources or equipment. In these cases, productivity has been documented to increase for the first few months by a rate of 7-14%. This wanes in long term WFH, where productivity declines and is ultimately worse than WFO by approximately the same margin due to steep increase in coordination activities, meetings, and personal activities, shrinking uninterrupted work hours. According to some studies (Gibbs, Mengel, Siemroth), the initial advantage is also negated from the start for some categories that use WFH to manage overlapping commitments (people with young children, work while traveling etc). Nowadays, the general consensus seems to be that an hybrid approach, on-site with possibility of WFH, is what works best.
digitalin 1 year ago
I think if cities were affordable to live in, the restaurants, cafes, etc would get the traffic. Some office work, sure, because it can be a benefit to some workers. But the solution isn't "make people commute", the solution would be "have a sustainable model of living where an area thrives on its residents"
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#38
The cult of Wim Hof and the deaths surrounding it.
Dave Van Beurden 1 year ago
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.
KatZen 1 year ago
Ha ha ha ha! That's pretty hilarious. I love embarrassing stories about a******s like this.
Load More Replies... Jrog 1 year ago
This I didn't know, and boy it is insane. Can't manage to feel bad for the victims though, it's Darwinism at work.
Little Wonder 1 year ago
As with any cult or cult like organisation, the victims are probably lost, or at their lowest point and grasping on to anything they can. So I do feel bad for them.
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 1 year ago
Basically his breathing thing is hyperventilating and then holding your breath for a minute. Which is a method free divers use. People trying to follow his system often drown. Plus he enjoys encasing himself in ice for some reason. He must have some incredibly shriveled up balls! ;)
#39
Competitive eating is actually competitive vomiting. They pretend it is not, but it is.
cecilia kilian 1 year ago
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.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I can't even watch that scene. I have to turn it off. So gross!
Load More Replies... penguino (they/them) 1 year ago
Fellow pandas please help because I think Op means they compete till they vomit but idk mate
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
I think it means that afterwards, they vomit to get rid of the excess food, but I could be wrong.
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Would like to see a doc made on the Shen Yun dance cult.
Upstaged75 1 year ago
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.
#41
How many missing people could have been indentified much sooner if America had a proper nationwide mandatory system.
Lydsylou (she/her) 1 year ago
Apparently 1500 people are reported missing across the US every day. And in NY you have a 50% chance if getting away with murder
iseefractals 1 year ago
It's not just NY, national clearance rate for homicides is 52%...but just because someone is reported "missing" doesn't mean they actually are, let alone that they're dead. Many of those reports are about people that just decided to leave their current situation, for whatever reason without notifying anyone else.
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Boeing killing their whistleblowers, yet the federal government hasn’t doing anything about it.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
hmm no they just got fined half a billion dollars for their 737 max disasters. Like, today.
#43
Credit card debt drives inflation.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
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
T'Mar of Vulcan 1 year ago
And now they've slapped a R200 service charge onto PAYG electricity.
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Tech/financial infrastructure is built on 50 year old technology.
Jrog 1 year ago
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.
iseefractals 1 year ago
All the nuclear weapons in the US are running off systems developed in the 1970's, mostly running off 8.5in floppy disks. The problem there is that those systems are coded in a language that about a dozen people in the world still know, and there aren't any new students to take up the mantle. That is at least defensible as that hardware predates network connectivity, everything is on-site. That doesn't mean government is sticking with laughably outdated tech because "if it works, it works" they do it because it's easier and more cost effective to put a band on the problem, then it is to perform surgery to actually fix it. They'd much rather put their $850 billion budget towards building military war machines they'll abandon overseas in a few years. Think back over the growing number of security breaches in banking, government, medicine, education....ya know, all the area's running off hardware and software obsolete for 20+ years and keep trying to spin it.
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago (edited)
nah that's in USA. Last ancient tech I saw in SA was OS/2 Warp, like in 1995-1996, in one of our banks. Client databases etc are long migrated off Cobol/Natural Adabas. Our privacy laws would make mincemeat of this stuff if it was still around. That being said, I know of at least one government database that is still written in that garbage. It was last updated in 1988. Embarrassing.
#45
The prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in society. It's clearly visible in a lot of criminals and famously bad decision makers but our society doesn't like to blame mothers for f*****g up their children so no one talks about it. edit: My original language was incredibly insensitive so I'm changing it to be less judgmental.
Rosyposy 1 year ago (edited)
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
iseefractals 1 year ago
Well....unfortunately there's a growing stable of mothers that deserve every drop of criticism they get. But so many of them never hear a word of it, they just keep repeating the mantra of "hardest job in the world" to excuse every single failure and fuckup they perpetuate and then act like a victim anytime they're called out, criticized or questioned, and the internet has created a community of likeminded enablers and apologists that attempt to lable all those calling out their terrible behavior as hateful/anti-woman/anti-mom/sexist/misogynistic.
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Alexandra 1 year ago
The alcohol consumption of both parents is a factor in FAS: the male consumption before conception and the female consumption during pregnancy, so there's no need to single out the mothers in this case. It's not for nothing that the advice is to abstain from alchohol for both men and women if they are planning on having a child.
iseefractals 1 year ago
That's a narrative that's been floating around for a couple of years, on the basis that alcohol "can" cause epigenetic changes to sperm cells, in chronic abusers who perpetually consume more than 5 drinks per day. But the science is very much not proven, and the effects to a fetus would not be the same as FAS. FAS is caused by the consumption of alcohol, by a woman who is pregnant. There is no shared blame.
Load More Replies... Emma London 1 year ago
The treatment of people of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is problematic. On one hand, it should be considered a developemental delay and offer support for people with it, take it in consideration when sentencing etc. On other hand, the brain injury is so mild that these people should let be independent and make their own decisions, even the bad ones.
Phae Thompson 1 month ago
My niece has a form of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Her mom (my sis) drank her entire pregnancy. Niece's form is a mild case but growing up, she did have problems.
#46
I feel like the 2020 "Chaz" thing where the Seattle government abandoned a neighborhood intentionally as an experiment and then militias took over and a bunch of people got murdered is due for a deep look.
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
This entry is inaccurate and clearly written with political bias. Militias did not "take over". Long story short: protests against police brutalities after the George Floyd assassination led a group of protesters to declare a "no-cop autonomous zone" in the center of Seattle. A few weeks into the protest, a string of shootings happened inside the zone. The shootings were not from "militias": save for the first killing (a mind-impaired guy killed a rapper during a discussion) evidence and witnesses point to deliberate acts of race-related violence by far-right white-nationalists groups like Proud Boys and even the KKK. The police was involved, investigated the first and then when the other four events started to look clearly connected to racial violence they unsurprisingly shrug their shoulder and walked away saying "though luck".
#47
Nigel Richards and his secret life. Best scrabble player by a lot, won world french championship scrabble without speaking french, has a very reclusive personality and has close to no interviews, no online info about him. Would love to see it.
María Hermida 1 year ago
The story of a nerd who is very good at Scrabble sounds like the most boring film ever!
Andrew Arons 1 year ago
Maybe the reason he's so reclusive is because he's too busy doing the Horizontal Hokey-Pokey with all those Scrabble Groupies? That would make the movie at least moderately interesting.🤪
Load More Replies... pep Ito 1 year ago
Nothing interesting. Just a person with a great memory who memorised words from a French dictionary without caring what they meant. Just the words and their spelling. It's not a story to make a movie about.
Jrog 1 year ago
Show him memorizing words for 90 minutes, and then 15 minutes of drama for the Scrabble final match. Still more interesting and thrilling than "50 Shades of Grey".
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That LinkedIn and ATS platforms are jointly responsible for completely f*****g up the jobs market.
pep Ito 1 year ago
This is complete b******t. LinkedIn originally allowed you to manage your network of contacts (hence the name) and through that network of contacts many job offers came to you. LinkedIn has taken a step forward and included that functionality in the app as such. The fact is that I still receive job offers, without sending any CVs except for what appears on my LinkedIn profile, which is not much either. What has LinkedIn ruined the job market?
Janos Schumacher 1 year ago
Cold contact from my resume on LinkedIn is how I got my job. Sure, it's silly as a social platform, but as a way to keep in touch with professional contacts, it's useful.
Andrew Arons 1 year ago
I've been getting a lot more LinkedIn notifications than I used to. Not enough to actually log in and see the details, but definitely more.😜
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
Oh I see ATS platforms... yeah, leaving humanity decisions up to a robot != cool.
#49
Everyone in the corporate media and congressional leadership knew before the debate that Biden’s mental decline was monumental. They all lied until the debate. Now they pretend to be shocked at how much his mental capacity has been diminished.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Como on USA can't you find somebody, young with fresh ideas and energy. That said. I'd rather vote for a brain dead Biden then an egomaniac, lying, racist bigot.
Emma London 1 year ago
America is screwed, having delusional senile and a delusional maniac as their presidental candidates.
Michael Largey 1 year ago (edited)
He couldn't even keep awake during important government proceedings! I, of course, am speaking of Trump at his trial.
Tiny Dancer 1 year ago
If I could vote (I'm in Canada), I'd vote for a pile of warm puke over the wannabe dictator. Since the debate, Biden's been all over the place making speeches and giving interviews, where's The Other Guy? Only thing I've seen is a quick video of him sitting in a golf cart badmouthing Biden and Harris. The media's doing his job for him, why should he bother? As soon as he started on his 9th month (and after birth!) abortion c**p and the supposed moderator said nothing but, "Thank you." and moved on, I knew the fix was in. And then it turns out he only agreed to the debate if the live fact-checking was NOT used. Wake up, America, before it's too late, please!
Kiss Army 1 year ago
I've seen The Emperor was naked since his first election but I can't account for all the delusional people that just love his new clothes!
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censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I still reckon if THE ROCK stood for the Dem nominee he'd sweep the floor, and anyone who voted against him would get The People's Eyebrow.
Kate Jones 1 year ago
We don't need anymore unqualified celebrities as our leaders, thanks. People need to stop voting for people they fangirl or fanboy for. I don't want Taylor Swift as president. No more Idiocracy presidents. How about we just stick to smart political operatives who understand diplomacy (if we can find any)?
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Taylor Swift’s streaming farms, chart manipulation, journalists coercion, and media control.
JammaCoast2Coast 1 year ago
Oh, this is the point of the article where submissions turn into conspiracy theory
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
Just your average tinfoil-hat-wearing-MAGA theories.
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Richard Graham 1 year ago
Who is this Taylor Swift? Is it some guy that can make a suit really fast?
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
TBA after watching some of the interviews at her concerts they do come across a bit MAGA style cult. Not a fan of her music, nothing against her but all this crazy following she had is a bit over the top, for love of the FSM, she only a singer.
censorshipsucks 1 year ago
I think that maga DO NOT like her, as I understand it.
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Swan 1 year ago
people love to insult america, but here in europe it's not any better. well, in terms of badly treated people under """care""" are, microplastics, unfair court judgements, bad politicians...
Load More Replies... Verena 1 year ago
All of them are covered by European documentaries. The media works together across borders to investigate thoroughly. Most of the documentaries can be easily found by googling them. However, not all of them are in english or come with english subtitles, even though native english speaking people appear in them.
Verena 1 year ago
I am missing two, for both no documentary seems to exist in US and AUS: 1. The effects of fracking to the environment and fresh wster supply. The technique is banned in Europe with good reason. 2. Killing off wild horses in the huge space countries. The idea alone refuses any logical thinking. Hey, we have a delicate ecosystem, but after having done some calculations based on unproven assumption, we conclude we have a horse infestation. Only solution is to low fly helicopters over that delicate area, scaring the living daylights out of everything living there, creating a wild panicky stampede destroying that delicateness, which causes horses to break legs, mares prematurely aborting foals and foals get lost/orphaned. Then shoot at anything resembling a horse and let it die miserably, because a clean shot is impossible. The carcasses are left to rot and poison that ecosystem, or lots of predators are lured it for some fresh meat, and endangering the animals living there.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We need a documentary about how cats are the greatest species ever to walk the earth.
Pandarosa 1 year ago
Absolutely we do, lots and lots of documentaries with in-depth interviews included.
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Lea S. 1 year ago
Three things. The right-to-fix movement and something that I think goes hand in hand with it - planned obsolescence. I've watched farmers lose a lot of crops because the new tractor they bought just shuts down - and everything is controlled remotely. Someone can't get out to fix it in time and bam - thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of work down the drain. The terrible, terrible medical care in the United States. A friend of mine recently dealt with cancer - her insurance tried to deny her chemo. My partner has spina bifida, doctors wouldn't take the proper x-rays to prove it for years. For ten years - he's barely been able to drive a car, stand up longer than a few minutes, or sit in a chair. Two months ago he left the doctor (hours away) with a surgery planned....we set up care, days off work, all that....it had been cancelled by that afternoon. He's supposedly having a spinal surgery on the 24th...I don't believe it will happen. I live in fear of the next fall he takes just
Lea S. 1 year ago
trying to live his life. The final example. My friends husband is dying. He has a rare condition that makes steel-like growths in his body until it starts to have a multi-system shutdown. They have a three year old - insurance denied the one medicine that could help.
Load More Replies... Nimitz 1 year ago
We need a documentary about parents who commit crimes and never get caught or punished. My dad was a man who would strangle us like Homer Simpson and rape my mother. His punishment was the government "allowing" his wife to divorce him, take the kids, pay alimony. That's it. So a person walks up to a kid on the street and kicks them in the face, they're going to jail. But a father does it in the house and will never ever be held accountable. It's insane how much crime goes unpunished
ByeFelicia 1 year ago
We need a documentary on lithium production and cobalt mining focusing on both the toxins leaking into the ground/ground water, and the forced child labor to manufacture mobile phones and electric cars--basically anything with a Li battery.
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
All these issues are over-the-top serious and important and only a very small percentage will ever get brought to light...but more importantly, nothing will be done. Greed and corruption is worse than it ever has been over the centuries. Unfortunately, it is ingrained in all cultures. It is, regrettably, human nature. When all peoples are gone, I often wonder what intelligence will take our place. What myths and legends and cautionary tales will be told about the evil species we were. Will they be better? Will they too devolve into the insanity we have mired ourselves? "They held so much promise and caused so much sorrow." Sadly, it may be unavoidable it this point. Just a matter of time. This fact is highlighted by the MAGA cult. The fact that it can thrive, and seemingly, nobody lifts a finger.
Swan 1 year ago
people love to insult america, but here in europe it's not any better. well, in terms of badly treated people under """care""" are, microplastics, unfair court judgements, bad politicians...
Load More Replies... Verena 1 year ago
All of them are covered by European documentaries. The media works together across borders to investigate thoroughly. Most of the documentaries can be easily found by googling them. However, not all of them are in english or come with english subtitles, even though native english speaking people appear in them.
Verena 1 year ago
I am missing two, for both no documentary seems to exist in US and AUS: 1. The effects of fracking to the environment and fresh wster supply. The technique is banned in Europe with good reason. 2. Killing off wild horses in the huge space countries. The idea alone refuses any logical thinking. Hey, we have a delicate ecosystem, but after having done some calculations based on unproven assumption, we conclude we have a horse infestation. Only solution is to low fly helicopters over that delicate area, scaring the living daylights out of everything living there, creating a wild panicky stampede destroying that delicateness, which causes horses to break legs, mares prematurely aborting foals and foals get lost/orphaned. Then shoot at anything resembling a horse and let it die miserably, because a clean shot is impossible. The carcasses are left to rot and poison that ecosystem, or lots of predators are lured it for some fresh meat, and endangering the animals living there.
Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 1 year ago
We need a documentary about how cats are the greatest species ever to walk the earth.
Pandarosa 1 year ago
Absolutely we do, lots and lots of documentaries with in-depth interviews included.
Load More Replies... Lea S. 1 year ago
Three things. The right-to-fix movement and something that I think goes hand in hand with it - planned obsolescence. I've watched farmers lose a lot of crops because the new tractor they bought just shuts down - and everything is controlled remotely. Someone can't get out to fix it in time and bam - thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours of work down the drain. The terrible, terrible medical care in the United States. A friend of mine recently dealt with cancer - her insurance tried to deny her chemo. My partner has spina bifida, doctors wouldn't take the proper x-rays to prove it for years. For ten years - he's barely been able to drive a car, stand up longer than a few minutes, or sit in a chair. Two months ago he left the doctor (hours away) with a surgery planned....we set up care, days off work, all that....it had been cancelled by that afternoon. He's supposedly having a spinal surgery on the 24th...I don't believe it will happen. I live in fear of the next fall he takes just
Lea S. 1 year ago
trying to live his life. The final example. My friends husband is dying. He has a rare condition that makes steel-like growths in his body until it starts to have a multi-system shutdown. They have a three year old - insurance denied the one medicine that could help.
Load More Replies... Nimitz 1 year ago
We need a documentary about parents who commit crimes and never get caught or punished. My dad was a man who would strangle us like Homer Simpson and rape my mother. His punishment was the government "allowing" his wife to divorce him, take the kids, pay alimony. That's it. So a person walks up to a kid on the street and kicks them in the face, they're going to jail. But a father does it in the house and will never ever be held accountable. It's insane how much crime goes unpunished
ByeFelicia 1 year ago
We need a documentary on lithium production and cobalt mining focusing on both the toxins leaking into the ground/ground water, and the forced child labor to manufacture mobile phones and electric cars--basically anything with a Li battery.
Ąåřţđęşịɠŋȿ 1 year ago
All these issues are over-the-top serious and important and only a very small percentage will ever get brought to light...but more importantly, nothing will be done. Greed and corruption is worse than it ever has been over the centuries. Unfortunately, it is ingrained in all cultures. It is, regrettably, human nature. When all peoples are gone, I often wonder what intelligence will take our place. What myths and legends and cautionary tales will be told about the evil species we were. Will they be better? Will they too devolve into the insanity we have mired ourselves? "They held so much promise and caused so much sorrow." Sadly, it may be unavoidable it this point. Just a matter of time. This fact is highlighted by the MAGA cult. The fact that it can thrive, and seemingly, nobody lifts a finger.
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