“My Dad Might Be Alive”: 50 Things People Are 100% Certain Are True Despite Having No Evidence
We probably all have that one hill that we're ready to die on. That one truth that we have no proof for but still believe no matter what. Some can be quite entertaining, like the now-memed-to-death claim that Keanu Reeves is immortal. Others, like thinking that your phone is always listening to you, are easily proven or disproven.
So when one netizen asked, "What are you 100% certain is true despite having no evidence to confirm or disprove your belief?" naturally, a whole bunch of commenters delivered. From theories that cats and dogs purposely break things just to wind us up, to some conspiracy-like opinions, the Redditors were ready to share. Read the most captivating entries below and don't forget to upvote the ones you like the best!
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The number of stupid people is outpacing those with average intelligence resulting in the overall dumbing down of society.
Our dog knew my wife was pregnant before she did. Normally she was a sweet and lazy lovable dumb*ss who would hang out with whoever wasn't moving. (The dog, not the wife) Then one day, she decided she wasn't going to leave my wife's side. She wasn't aggressive, but she wasn't going anywhere either. Followed her everywhere for a few weeks, then spousal unit started getting sick, and went to the doctor, and the doctor said "Lets check the obvious"... And now I have an eight year old daughter, and that dog is her constant companion.
Conspiracy theories are purposefully circulated in order to create dissonance and divide people so that we forget about legitimate issues.
Some of the 'truths' people list here actually have evidence behind them. Like the fact that drinks taste better in glass bottles than in plastic bottles. Even if Coca-Cola's spokespeople claim that their Coke tastes the same regardless of the packaging. Food chemist Sara Risch told Popular Science that there can be a subtle variation in taste when your drink is in an aluminum can, or a plastic or glass bottle.
"While packaging and food companies work to prevent any interactions, they can occur," she explained. Aluminum cans, for example, have a polymer lining, and it might absorb some soluble flavor from the soda. When it comes to plastic bottles, a chemical named acetaldehyde can find its way into your drink as well.
And while it might sound alarming, there's no need to think that it's harmful. Public health departments track this kind of potential chemical contact. So the only thing we should worry about is the slightly different taste.
Allowed to operate freely, corporations would gladly abandon any semblance of ethics to turn a profit, including ushering in the slavery and or deaths of their customers.
Aren't they already doing this? Especially with illegal immigrants, stealing their passports and forcing them to work is disturbingly not as rare as one would think. Then there's the whole "moving production to overseas" with child labor and massive exploitation.
Electronic appliances, phones, washing machines ... are intentionally made to break down after few years just so you have to buy new ones, cause repair is usually not worth it. My parents have 35 years old washing machine, mine broke twice in 2 years.
Let's make cheap products to force consumers to replace them at regular intervals. The amount of garbage that planned obsolescence has created is obscene.
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https://www.classaction.org/lg-refrigerator-linear-compressor-failure-lawsuits. Here's proof
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Common misconception. Planned obsolescence doesn't mean designing an appliance to break down on purpose. It means designing an appliance according to a reasonable projected life span and use case, without wasting money on overdesigning and overengineering parts. The ultimate goal is to build a product with the right market price, that serves its purpose at least until using/repairing it is not economical anymore and replacement is more efficient.
An example I often bring into this discussion. Many people talk about those 1970s washing machines that never break down. They basically consist of a huge motor, a heating element, a water valve and a mechanical timer. In 1970 that would have cost $800 (about 8% of annual income), or $6300 today. A fancy electronic washing machine today costs... $800, eight times less. A 1970s washing machines consumed on average 40 gallons of water and 8 kWh per load; today's average is 10 gallons and 0,8 kW. With the cost of wasted energy on the old machine alone you could have bought and used a brand new washing machine every 4 years, dramatically reducing pollution, improving cleanliness and reducing damage to clothes (LCA approach. Yes, this takes into account the recycling of the old appliance and the energy cost of producing a new one). Was it worthy to have such an expensive and overengineered machine at the time? Or would have been better to save 3/4th of the cost and have it replaced every decade with a better model?
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We replaced a part that half broke in our newer model dryer and I took the half broken part to a metal scrapper with the part number and machine model on a piece of paper. Dude was pretty pleased to have it.
If we want something to last a seriously long time, it will need to be constructed from more expensive parts, Then we go into the shop , look at the price of the high-quality stuff and walk on by. You can't expect high quality for low price, but so many people buy on price. We are our own worst enemy.
Unfortunately price is a poor indicator of quality. If we could actually trust price to be a genuine indicator of whether something is good or bad I'd always pay more. But the reality is many pricey items are no better constructed than cheap ones. They're just gouging you harder.
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Production methods have changed and a lot of wear and tear items are no longer easily replacable. A few decades ago, replacing the bearings on a washing machine was a relatively cheap thing to do and kept the machine going. Now it costs more than half the price of a new machine if they can replace them at all without having to replace the drum and a bunch of other stuff as well.
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My washing machine broke on a sunday the very last day of the warranty. Fortunately the customer line was open on sundays. It was the solenoid valve.
I have a simple frig/freezer (no ice maker, simple freezer on top of fridge) that I bought well over 20 years ago. I've had a repair man out twice, who fixed it very quickly, something minor. The first time, I asked him if I should get a new fridge. He advised me against it, saying the new ones with all the bells and whistles break down a LOT more
Washer-dryer combo in my house is 35 years-old and I've been using it for 25. During that timeframe I've replaced the gear 'dogs' in the washer twice (about $20) and the switch on the dryer door once (which I think was around $15). Friend of mine had a two year-old, high-tech, electronic bells & whistles Samsung combo he was willing to just give to me - he was moving out of state - and I turned it down. Things break no matter how much they cost so I prefer things that can be fairly easily fixed. Simpler tends to be better.
They try to add more bells and whistles, instead of just making a tried and true basic washer
A repairman told my son when he was working on my son's 3 year old chest freezer that the new compressors they use are super efficient (they have to use non-freon coolant so were redesigned) but when they break, they break, that they basically cannot be repaired and that it is cheaper to buy a whole new freezer. New freezers usually have a 3-5 year life span.
It's very true. Was at a client's home yesterday and checked on her dryer that wasn't working. It's just over 50 years old. Was working fine until then.
Crapple intentionally designs batteries (which cannot be replaced) to break down 1-3 months after the warranty ends. You can't fix it, they won't, so the suckers end up buying the next one.
I have the same drier that's in the picture, and the matching washing machine. Bought them about 11 years ago and they're still solid. I have had to replace the heating element a couple times (somehow a sock got in there one of those times) but it's a like $25, 45 minute job. The rubber seal inside the door is MUCH more problematic!
That's something I just can't believe. My cellphone is 5 years, only now starting to bug, my parent's phones aren't 3 years each and have been long broken or had to be fixed. Difference is, I take care of my phone, they don't. Maybe planned obsolescence is true in other countries or true for high end stuff, but for us poor people of my country things always last a lot, even cause we have to make them last.
Planned obsolescence is illegal in France and I really think we should do that here in the US!
We bought an old house that came with appliances from the early 90s. Washer\dryer, stove, fridge, all pre-1995. We've been here 11 years and haven't had to replace any of them. Meanwhile my mom has been through two brand new washers and two refrigerators in the same time period.
Oh that's absolutely true. Suddenly apps were updating and became no longer compatible with my phone until it was basically unusable. It's disgusting.
This isn’t an unexplained theory, it has proven to be true. As Lucifer said, planned obsolescence
Back in the early years of personal computers, I met a guy that worked for a sw house. He entered some code lines that stopped the programs at random intervals, and showed the user a message urging them to call the programmer to fix the problem. Since there were no flaws, he did so to have some extra income
I worked for many years at an appliance maker with a name that rhymes with girlcool. I can assure you they did not have a "plan". They used to make decent stuff, until the bean counters took over. The materials and components just got cheaper and cheaper.
My <5 year old washing machine has gears that are made out of PLASTIC. I don't know how much I'd have to spend to get on that doesn't.
Windows has ruined 2 laptops. Apparently my hardware is no longer compatible with the updates I didn't ask for or need.
So far, neither my washer or dryer have needed any more than minimal repair and it's been 25 years.
My mum had to call repairman for washing machine barely 4 years old. It was fixed, but then she went on obvious how first washing machine lasted for 20 years. I reminded her that as far as I remember it was being repaired at regular intervals as something broke and had to be replaced.. That's said, at least it was repairable, unlike modern appliances
My father has a fridge in his kitchen and one in the basement that he's had for over 40 years. My husband and I have lived in our home for 20 years and we are up to our fourth fridge. The fridge in our basement was here when we moved in. Has to be over 30 years old and it runs great. Last month I didn't close the freezer door and two days later I realized it. I threw out all the frozen stuff in there which wasn't much. The fridge's compressor was so loud and I thought..."Well...this is it...it's finally going to die" and five days later the compressor quieted down and it's back to working properly.
And that inefficient fridge has cost more in electricity than the amount that its replacement could ever have cost. It's probably also leaking CFCs into the atmosphere. Remember CFCs, those charming chemicals that destroyed the ozone layer?
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I think I read about this. It started with a light bulb manufacturer (GE?). CEO: "Our bulbs last TOO long, we are not selling enough!. Scienciency guy:" Lets replace this really good filament with a one that will not last as long AND it's cheaper to make!" And Wal-la!
Bought a printer in July. I've replaced the ink cartridge 3 times already and have not printed more than 50 pages
Amusing how the machine in the pic appears to be the same brand that I've been trying to nurse through the past two years. The dryer needs a new control panel and a new door switch. And I had a buddy come over to replace the pump in the washer. Remember, kids, that LG doesn't stand for Life is Good. It stands for Lucky Goldstar. No further comment.
The instructions for our current refrigerator reads in part, “ You may notice that your new refrigerator makes more sound than your old one. This is normal”.
It comes from the different compression cycles required by modern eco-friendly gases. They require higher pressure differentials so a larger compressor is needed. The notice is there because the noise is louder for a while just after installation while the circuit is pressurized, and it may cause concerns for some customers.
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Also cars. You can fix most cars over 15 years old but can be much harder if they're new.
I have a 40 year old refrigerator that operates in an uncontrolled environment in my barn that has been keep my beer cold for decades
An average 20 cubic feet refrigerator from the late 1980s would consume about 2000 kWh per year, and would come at an average cost of 900-1000$, or about 2400$ today. A modern Energy Star rated refrigerator consumes on average 350 kWh/yr, and costs about 750-800$. At an average price of 16c per kWh, you could have changed your refrigerator every decade *twice*, and still have saved money on energy alone. Also, 1980 era refrigerators used CFC gas, that are extremely harmful to the ozone layer and are not available anymore.
Load More Replies... Not only do they break easier, but they're harder and more expensive to repair.
I see this in the car repair shop where I work. There are certain faults build into the vehicle for the dealerships to make make money.
We're using cheaper materials to do the same things. Cheaper last fewer cycles requiring fixing/replacing more often as well as cascading faults. Even computer related stuff have alternative causes. Companies don't want to maintain every version indefinitely. And as our machines advance in memory/power, older machines can't handle newer processes. So they have designed cut off dates for support so as to not waste resources on them. Planned obsolescence is definitely a thing, but a lot of it has to do with material use/cost cutting rather than deviousness.
There is at least ONE giant creature deep down in the ocean that we don’t know about because we have never seen before. Like maybe one of those megalodons/plesiosaurs. We thought giant squids weren’t real until we found one.
Next up, the Big Mac debate. People have been saying for a while that the meat patty has been getting smaller and smaller throughout the years. It's a popular theory on social media, with posts on Quora and Reddit, and even TikToks where people call out the fast-food chain for the now-tiny patties.
What officially is the Big Mac? According to the McDonald's site, it's two "100% beef" patties, a special sauce, and a sesame seed bun. It also has "pickles, crisp shredded lettuce, finely chopped onion, and a slice of American cheese." And while the official photos look quite nice, the burger often looks different in reality.
A McDonald's spokesperson denies these rumors and told Yahoo News Australia that the size of the burgers has not changed. Interestingly, a former McDonald's corporate chef went on to TikTok to explain why the Quarter Pounder might have shrunken down. He says it comes down to the fast-food chain giant wanting to cut costs and make the burgers more affordable.
My bond with my bearded dragon goes beyond “he’s warm”. I understand the limitations of his tiny nervous system and that he isn’t capable of affection. I just firmly believe that he not only wants heat and food, but that he finds my presence to be pleasant. That boy will come off his basking log as hot as hell ever need to be, with a belly full of bugs, and still come hauling over just to fall asleep on me. I don’t know what it is, but it’s more than just him seeking the necessities.
Reptiles release a different hormone than mammals in response to safety and happiness. This hormone is released in the presence of humans in captive bred reptiles. They do recognise their people, pick favourites, seek play, and seek attention from their person. I've worked with reptiles and have cared for sneks.
Coke/soft drinks taste better in glass bottles than plastic.
Religions are man made.
McDonald's can make their burgers cheaper in some ways. One of them is to mix some frozen beef into fresh patties. However, at least in the U.S., McDonald's prides itself on never using frozen meat. That said, there might be loopholes where a certain percentage of frozen beef might be acceptable.
Another way to make the patties cheaper (and possibly smaller) is to reduce the lean-to-fat ratio. "If the fatty beef portions are cheaper than the lean portions, then they can actually make a fattier beef patty still hitting the appropriate weights. But when you cook it, more of that fat is released and you might have a smaller-looking patty," the former chef Mike Haracz explained.
Facebook and other apps listen and advertise accordingly.
I treat this "belief" and ROCK SOLID TRUTH. I hope the Tech executives take note, because if this is ever proven true, I believe the backlash would be unhinged.
Some modern art is priced so high because rich people utilise it for money laundering. Saw it on a Reddit conspiracy comment and I haven’t been able to shake it since.
That corporations prevent nationalized healthcare in the US so they can exert control over their employees. If employees didn't need a job for health coverage, they could quit any time a better offer came along.
Whether true or not, it is time to decouple health care insurance from your job.
Sandwiches made for you are absolutely better than sandwiches you make yourself.
People with lower IQ's are happier because they aren't constantly overthinking, looking for self-transcendence, analyzing everything around them, and expecting too much of themselves.
This isn't the first universe. This isn't the first time any of this has happened.
Excellent example of something we really can't prove, yet still feels true
Hummingbirds are fairies.
It‘s the last bit of whimsy I have left. Don‘t ruin this for me please.
Whimsy is an underrated characteristic. It should never be quashed or ruined.
Humans can communicate telepathically. We just don't know how to use it on purpose.
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When one of my friends was in his last stages of cancer, I woke up at 5 in the morning just completely heartbroken and sobbing. I don't think I have ever felt the same kind of sadness I did in that moment.
I woke my boyfriend up and told him I needed to call my friend's wife because something was wrong. He said I couldn't call her at 5 in the morning because if she wasn't at the hospital with him she would freak out. He was of course right. She called me 30 minutes later and told me he had passed away at 5.15. I was supposed to visit him in the morning but I was to 4 hours to late.
I don't normally believe in anything supernatural or the afterlife, but I just know deep down in my heart, that it was him saying his goodbye.
At least half the US government can't beat a 5th grader in 5th grade trivia.
Politicians at the highest level of the government are all crooked as hell.
And FBI, CIA, Secret Service, Defence financing, and all of the political lobbyists.
That the leader of Scientology k*lled his wife and burned the body. And bribed the police to get away with it.
I'm 100% positive my sister died of covid before covid was supposed to be in my state.
We had something really bad going around in the fall of 2019 and the Winter of 2020. It sent many people to the hospital with pneumonia or breathing difficulties. Several customers at my place of work were diagnosed with COPD even though they never smoked. Others coughed up blood. My coworker came to work sick as a dog in January 2020 and I sat across from him at lunch along with another coworker. The next week I got sicker than I have ever been. My sister and her husband also got very ill even though we hadn't been in contact. I could barely breathe and had to sleep for 3 days leaning upright on the back of the couch. I was so ill I almost broke down and went to the ER even though at the time I was uninsured and never went to the doctor. My coworker that I got it from went to the doctor and they did a test for the flu but it came back negative. The other coworker that sat beside me at lunch also got sick and she too came back negative for influenza. A week later my sister and her husband fell ill and ended up at the doctors office. They both tested negative for influenza.
Two days after my sister went to the doctor, she got out of bed and fell dead to the floor. That was February 18th, 2020. We assumed she had a heart attack, the cause of death was a heart attack only because of the sudden death and her history of having a heart attack a few decades before. No autopsy was done and she was cremated. This was about the same time Covid showed up on the West coast. We live in North Carolina and no covid was supposed to be in the state at that time. My coworker that got it the same time I did had a brother who also had it and ended up in the hospital with a very virulent pneumonia (tested negative for influenza) and died the same day my sister did.
I swear to this day my sister and my coworker's brother both died of covid but no proof and no way to prove it.
PETA is a conspiracy by the meat industry to raise societies distrust in actual animal right activists.
Only evidence i have is that not a single human being could act as stupid and pretentious as PETA does very often.
I don't know whether to hope this is true ... or not. I'm thinking 50/50.
Big Mac keeps getting smaller.
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Pretty soon it'll just be 3 buns with a little grease stain between them.
The loch ness monster is a lil dinosaur ghost. I would highly recommend believing this, since it doesn't hurt anyone to do so. Makes me smile thinking about him.
Garbage trucks have loud brakes to give us one last chance to get the bins out.
I’m convinced that theme parks/fairs/carnivals pay people to walk around with giant prizes to make the games look more winnable and convince more people to play.
Don't know about carnivals, but I was part of the organization committee at a yearly charity fair, and we took care of giving away very early on a couple of the major prizes at the skill games, so people would be drawn in. The kids who scored anything above average early into the afternoon would win one of the RC cars, or Barbies, pro-league footballs and jerseys etc, while later on to win those would have required a nearly perfect score.
Software updates at the end of a product lifetime will brick the device.
I "think" this position has been proven and the EU has sued and won significant damages regarding this action
The ER gets crazier on nights that the moon is full. It's usually busy, theres lots of psych patients, traumas, and all around weird stuff goes down.
The advent of street lighting means that lunatics no longer have to wait for a full moon.
That my sweet, innocent, shy dog is a diabolical mastermind who creates scenarios that get my hyperactive dog into trouble in order to maintain his "favorite" title among friends and family. I've seen some things. Poor Wendy.
I’m being pushed aside for leadership roles at my company because I’m a good reliable worker and they have a shortage of those.
Over half the people who got PPP loans don’t even have a real business.
What they ALL have in common - friends in high places that helped secure the loans and then assisted in getting that loan wiped away
At least 1/3 of the "human" in the internet and social media are bots or IAs.
I feel guilty whenever I tick that "I am not a robot" checkbox as I know I am not being truthful
Companies are offering monthly payment plans in an effort to normalize having a low income and high debt.
Also, monthly payments are better for company books. They represent a constant and predictable income stream, that for management is better than highly volatile and unpredictable quarterly sales. The reliable income allows for expense optimization and better planning of investment, while presenting a more enticing financial scenario to investors.
That my dryer eats my socks. I can’t prove it but I know in my heart it is true, there is no other explanation.
That Goodwill is actually a very cleverly designed money laundering scheme.
Phone and internet providers start out solid and overtime purposefully make the product worse to encourage you to upgrade.
Lately, Disney has been trying to revive the old “steamboat Willy“ version of Mickey Mouse through merchandise and new cartoons drawn in the old fashion that nobody really asked for. I think they are doing all of that deliberately so that they can try to fight the scheduled copyright expirations on their old cartoons.
That's a very well known tactic, no conspiracy here. Disney included the character in movie logos and made merchandise because they are turning it into a trademark instead of a intellectual property. IPs expire and go into public domain, trademarks do not but are limited in scope and application; also, the protections granted are different. Disney is trying to convert the expired protection into a new, enforceable one, hoping to limit the availability of the character either through proper brand protection or through "scare tactics": this kind of conversion is a gray area, so if you want to use the character for anything you may be into uncharted waters. Are your pocket deep enough to go to war with Disney Legal, or is it better not to take the gamble?
Michael Jordan didn’t “retire” to play baseball.
He was serving a suspension related to gambling and he and the league agreed on a mutual cover up because he was too valuable a marketing asset for the league. They didn’t want to tarnish his image.
I virtually NEVER believe in cove-ups. But, I have to admit this is one of the most believable I have heard.
Spirits of nature. Anyone who has lived close to a forest for some period of time has weird, unexplainable stories to tell. I've seen some real weird s**t (i live very close to the Atlantic forest in Brazil).
I saw some interesting things in Kakadu NT, I worked the balls up to ask a few locals from the Oenpeli tribe, and was told there’s a lot of spirits out there and it’s not unusual that I kept seeing what I saw - almost like a ghibli film 😂 just black shadows walking or in the act of sitting down on grass etc. tripped me out so bad. Other locals talked of unexplainable things they’ve heard or seen while hunting and camping etc. it’s such a fun place
That my dad might be alive. He supposedly died in 2009. He was a huge paranoid conspiracy theorist to the point where he would bury his money, planted bushes to hide behind incase the government had a shoot off with him, and at one point thought we all had been replaced by clones. The only people who saw his body are one of my aunts and my grandma who had Alzheimer’s. They told us he was cremated and at the funeral there was no coffin, no urn, all there was was a black and white photo from when he was 10 (he was born in the 50’s). I’ve yet to see his urn or death certificate and it’s been 12 years. He had connections to people who could have easily helped him fake his death, he also had the money to do this. People have also supposedly seen him in Indiana (they took a picture and tbh the guy looks just like him only a bit older, same hunchback, same tattoo on his leg, and he even walked with the same little limp).
There is something beyond this material life. A week before my mom died she told me that "I have to go home soon, but you have to stay here". As she was actively dying she kept waving, as if to people, and once even told me to move out of my chair, as if I was blocking her view. I pondered this once in a while ever since; and then I came upon " Hospice nurse julie(I think that's her name; I know it started with a J) on tiktok. She simply describes, without religious or any other bias, the process of dying that she has witnessed. Apparently, a dying person often says that they are going home, and also says that they see lost loved ones and even pets who intimate or even say outright not to worry, and that they will help the dying person pass, as much as a month before they die.
yep I've heard this but it could be brain illusions like a dream state, it doesn't mean the "seen" persons still exist.
“People” who buy NFTs don’t actually exist, it’s just a money laundering scheme.
That chapstick companies make their chapstick to actually chap your lips so you need more of their chapstick...bastards.
My co-worker lies about her medical conditions.
She lies that she has seizures, and while I can’t prove it, I know it’s a lie because she’ll drive the same day that she claims to have a seizure.
Any time you mention any medical condition, she has it and it’s worse than your case.
She has mentioned having toxic shock syndrome, colitis, and a bunch of other things I can’t recall at the moment. One day we were talking about Autism, and she mentioned that her 22 y.o. daughter (who also happens to work with us) was diagnosed as a child. A few days later the daughter casually mentioned that she had found out just recently that she’s Autistic. I wanted to tell her that she only JUST found out because her mom just recently made that s**t up.
I am convinced that the electronics items sold at steep discounts on Black Friday are the ones that don't test as well at the factory. Like, when they do quality control tests, the ones that rate 90% or whatever are the ones that are tagged and sent out for Black Friday sales.
Never thought of this, but it makes complete sense. Excellent observation / belief.
The NFL politicized kneeling to distract from CTE research.
An eye-rolling one, but Jeffrey Epstein’s island, to me. confirmed the existence of depraved headhunting and Squid Game like sadism.[The sun dial with the pastel colored stools?](https://imgur.com/a/JIpFttO) Come on.
There are too many people who go missing without a trace and never found to consider that at least many of them don’t end up in a sick situation like that.
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I am sure that efficient, green and renewable technology has existed for a long time but that the oil industry is keeping it until their stock is empty
I think that they bought out designs for electric cars and stopped them getting them made. But I also believe that the tech at the time was just that - tech from that time. If you implemented some of the designs people would not be impressed because they're 20, 40 or 100 years out of date. Just as an example, they had electric cars before the Model T, but they were rubbish compared to modern ones in terms of performance, battery life etc. And of course the infrastructure to support them just didn't exist. What would be interesting is if they'd proceeded along those lines. How far advanced would electric vehicles be if development hadn't stalled for nearly a 100 years.
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I truly believe we’re not alone in the universe. Even if the only other life is single-celled bacteria on a distant planet we’ll never reach.
I will swear up and down for the rest of my life that i have a great uncle who was locked away in an insane asylum. All the facts fit! He was most likely born in about 1940, and since my family has owned the house we live in since the 1800s, he lived here. i think I must have his bedroom. I found a box with a journel and a few pictures that were enough to convince me he was probably abused by my great grandpa(he was a pretty s****y guy from everything my grandma says) and also most likely gay. Grandpa being the a*****e he was, sent his oldest son away to an insane asylum so he wouldn't stain the family legacy. My poor great uncle died there at around 26. Grandma is geting pretty old and will occasionally tell me stories involving an older brother. According to the rest of the family, she never had an older brother. So either my grandma hallucinated a brother untill she was 9, or he was sent to an insane asylum. I'm planning on check public birth and death reccords to be sure.
If I am right, i plan on moving his body to the family plot and getting all the family photos from before grandma was 9, added back into the house.
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Washing birds with detergent after oil spills is performative nonsense; most die anyway. Better to spend energy preventing spills.
why downvoting, it's saddly true, despite the delicacy of the healers, cleaning is a very aggressive process for the bird, it is very long with a lot of chimical products. And when the birds survive, it’s not for long. in 1999, ERIKA polluted an entire coast, I joint a group to find and bring the birds to the care center, we were 15 volunteers, we all "adopted" a bird to save, none survived :'(
Load More Replies... I have horrible nightmares since I was a kid and also intrusive thoughts and other borderline hallucinatory stuff. I find comfort in thinking that no matter how bad reality and crimes and people being evil gets, it will never be as bad as what my brain can create.
1. Plenty of these have lots of evidence. The people who posted them didn't understand the assignment. 2. Threads like these are showcases for people to demonstrate what poor critical thinkers they are.
And plenty of the others had comments arguing with them from people who also didn't understand the assignment.
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One time the cap to my pill bottle was askew, and since I would never leave it that way myself, I suspected that someone's been breaking into my apartment to take my pills. I still hide them now. Maybe they're not working so well!
I don't believe this, but there's a lot of personal reason to conclude that dreams exist within these planes running near ours. Continuing stories, worlds being affected by certain crossover events, etc. It's a fun thing to think about, but I think I'm just a s****y story-teller at heart.
In my dreams, I often re-visit places that exist only in my dreams. City layouts, a hotel by the sea, various houses. I don't actually believe that I'm in a different universe or something, but sometimes it's kind of nice to think of it that way.
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Swing that Galileo was commissioned by the church to prove a Earth centered solar system I would say the church was a direct cause. It was only after Galileo to his own surprise that the Earth revolved around the sun and reported his findings to the church did he eventually become a heretic.
My "unprovable" belief is that when the super collider was turned on in 2012, it caused our universe to accidentally collide with another parallel universe (or even some of us to slip into it). That's why we have so many things that don't add up or false memories as a group conscious (Mandela effect for one). Also, I firmly believe that the first "homo-" species were actually aliens exiled here as a prison planet.
Dunno bout that but it certainly sounds interesting lol
Load More Replies... I believe but can't prove that Leibniz was right when he said that infinity is less than infinity plus 1. And that Newton was right when he said that dy/dx equals infinitesimal dy divided by infinitesimal dx.
nice! I have a personal theory that division by zero is not undefined, it's infinite. Prove me wrong.
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I am sure that efficient, green and renewable technology has existed for a long time but that the oil industry is keeping it until their stock is empty
I think that they bought out designs for electric cars and stopped them getting them made. But I also believe that the tech at the time was just that - tech from that time. If you implemented some of the designs people would not be impressed because they're 20, 40 or 100 years out of date. Just as an example, they had electric cars before the Model T, but they were rubbish compared to modern ones in terms of performance, battery life etc. And of course the infrastructure to support them just didn't exist. What would be interesting is if they'd proceeded along those lines. How far advanced would electric vehicles be if development hadn't stalled for nearly a 100 years.
Load More Replies... I truly believe we’re not alone in the universe. Even if the only other life is single-celled bacteria on a distant planet we’ll never reach.
I will swear up and down for the rest of my life that i have a great uncle who was locked away in an insane asylum. All the facts fit! He was most likely born in about 1940, and since my family has owned the house we live in since the 1800s, he lived here. i think I must have his bedroom. I found a box with a journel and a few pictures that were enough to convince me he was probably abused by my great grandpa(he was a pretty s****y guy from everything my grandma says) and also most likely gay. Grandpa being the a*****e he was, sent his oldest son away to an insane asylum so he wouldn't stain the family legacy. My poor great uncle died there at around 26. Grandma is geting pretty old and will occasionally tell me stories involving an older brother. According to the rest of the family, she never had an older brother. So either my grandma hallucinated a brother untill she was 9, or he was sent to an insane asylum. I'm planning on check public birth and death reccords to be sure.
If I am right, i plan on moving his body to the family plot and getting all the family photos from before grandma was 9, added back into the house.
Load More Replies... Washing birds with detergent after oil spills is performative nonsense; most die anyway. Better to spend energy preventing spills.
why downvoting, it's saddly true, despite the delicacy of the healers, cleaning is a very aggressive process for the bird, it is very long with a lot of chimical products. And when the birds survive, it’s not for long. in 1999, ERIKA polluted an entire coast, I joint a group to find and bring the birds to the care center, we were 15 volunteers, we all "adopted" a bird to save, none survived :'(
Load More Replies... I have horrible nightmares since I was a kid and also intrusive thoughts and other borderline hallucinatory stuff. I find comfort in thinking that no matter how bad reality and crimes and people being evil gets, it will never be as bad as what my brain can create.
1. Plenty of these have lots of evidence. The people who posted them didn't understand the assignment. 2. Threads like these are showcases for people to demonstrate what poor critical thinkers they are.
And plenty of the others had comments arguing with them from people who also didn't understand the assignment.
Load More Replies... One time the cap to my pill bottle was askew, and since I would never leave it that way myself, I suspected that someone's been breaking into my apartment to take my pills. I still hide them now. Maybe they're not working so well!
I don't believe this, but there's a lot of personal reason to conclude that dreams exist within these planes running near ours. Continuing stories, worlds being affected by certain crossover events, etc. It's a fun thing to think about, but I think I'm just a s****y story-teller at heart.
In my dreams, I often re-visit places that exist only in my dreams. City layouts, a hotel by the sea, various houses. I don't actually believe that I'm in a different universe or something, but sometimes it's kind of nice to think of it that way.
Load More Replies... Swing that Galileo was commissioned by the church to prove a Earth centered solar system I would say the church was a direct cause. It was only after Galileo to his own surprise that the Earth revolved around the sun and reported his findings to the church did he eventually become a heretic.
My "unprovable" belief is that when the super collider was turned on in 2012, it caused our universe to accidentally collide with another parallel universe (or even some of us to slip into it). That's why we have so many things that don't add up or false memories as a group conscious (Mandela effect for one). Also, I firmly believe that the first "homo-" species were actually aliens exiled here as a prison planet.
Dunno bout that but it certainly sounds interesting lol
Load More Replies... I believe but can't prove that Leibniz was right when he said that infinity is less than infinity plus 1. And that Newton was right when he said that dy/dx equals infinitesimal dy divided by infinitesimal dx.
nice! I have a personal theory that division by zero is not undefined, it's infinite. Prove me wrong.
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