Secrecy can be fostered for many reasons, from ill will to seeking to spare someone’s feelings. And because of that, there is a wide range of how significant or detrimental secrets are; while some have close to no harm or affect, others can really turn someone’s life upside down.
Members of the ‘Ask Reddit’ subreddit recently touched upon the topic of secrets, after one of them, a user going by the moniker ‘Necrocharm’, asked them about what would shock everyone if it came into the light. Redditors shared stories, ranging from personal matters to events of a larger scale, so if you’re curious about what they think would cause quite a havoc, wait no longer and scroll down to find the secrets on the list below.
Below you will also find Bored Panda’s interview with a professor of communications at Syracuse University, Makana Chock, who was kind enough to answer a few of our questions about keeping secrets, as well as with the person who started the thread, u/Necrocharm.
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The amount of homophobes that are actually closeted gays.
Grindr usage went way, way up in Wisconsin during the Republican National Convention. Just sayin'...
The servers in Milwaukee actually went down due to the traffic during the RNC.
Load More Replies...My grandma used to say "the bigger the bible, the bigger the hypocrite".
Load More Replies...Deeply red towns in red states in the USA watch more porn involving trans people than anywhere else on the planet.
And Christian, and probably church pastors, and Republican congressmen.
Being Christian &/or doesn't mean they have to be closeted gays. Many Christian denominations accept gay people and I personally know of a few out ministers of my denomination.
Load More Replies...Not a secret, at least in the community. The louder they protest, the closer they are to kicking that door right off its hinges.
Mixed feelings about this. Sad that they believe they have to be closeted, disgusted that they hide it by attacking those who are out.
Catholic? There's just as high a percentage of evangelical and protestant ministers and pastors who are self-hating homophobic closeted gays
Load More Replies...Much of it is internalized homophobia; sadly. (Although this isn’t a surprising fact, it’s pretty well known. 😉)
I secretly run a wildly popular OnlyFans account where I just narrate bedtime stories in different accents.
People talk c**p about Onlyfans type websites and sexwork, but those websites have become part of a massive transfer of wealth and the creation of literally thousands of new millionaires. Onlyfans takes 20% and gives the streamers the rest. Just think about how many skeezy skummy creeps that used to pocket all that cash, and now it's going to the actual workers. It's a socialist revolution!
Upvoted to offset a downvote. I wonder if the downvoter is a pimp who thinks they should keep more than the 20%...
Load More Replies...I wonder how does Little Red Riding Hood sound when she swears at The Wolf in Scottish.
I wish I knew how to set up an OnlyFans account. I'd have the camera facing my quilting hoop as I quilt Queen sized hoops.
My wife would subscribe. And I'd watch over her shoulder.
Load More Replies...You know, that's the kind of content I'm lookin' for. It's disconcerting how easily I fall asleep to murder documentaries if someone has the right tone and cadence. If there's a wholesomeish OnlyFans where someone reads me a bedtime story, I'm all for it.
Try listening to Tom Hiddleston narrate something. I tried to listened to him narrate an audiobook once and halfway through I realized I had no idea what the plot was because I was just listening to the sound of his voice.
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You're in a pyramid scheme, Kathy. You don't own a business.
Yes but this is not like those schemes because..................
I forget which MLM - but I remember listening to this convoluted explanation about why "X" was not an MLM because - and they broke down how the upline / downline was broken into A and B columns and this and that song and dance. It was still an MLM - it was just a needlessly complicated MLM.
Load More Replies...My friend lost a lot of weight with Herbalie... just because that's the only thing he drank, so, just like any other diet where you starve yourself.
Load More Replies...Modern technology has made MLMs obsolete. Back in the 60s, SOME MLMs were not too bad. Before internet, before every city had a mall - stuff like Tupperware or Fuller Brush (not an MLM) actually sold you products you could not easily obtain otherwise. My folks sold a soap line called Bestline that was honestly great products. I wish I could still get Ziff. Simple Green is probably the closest I can find now but it's different. But these days, MLMs don't sell you anything you can't find someplace else in a different brand(s). And if you point out the high costs due to extra middle men - the pitch is always the same, "But ours is BETTER!". Every single time.
Besides, you can never have enough tupperware. (Seriously, once you're independant, you really appreciate those things)
Load More Replies...I remember going to an amway presentation 30 years ago. Dude said he could make me rich. I felt like it was more effort than it was worth even then
Load More Replies...Is 'Avon' still existing? It was a (mostly) cosmetic MLM in the 80s/90s. That nasty person who gave birth to me did that for years.
Avon were the Best cosmetics ever. i never found anything like them
Load More Replies...Discussing the reasons why people choose to keep some things a secret, Professor of Communications at Syracuse University Makana Chock suggested it can give us a competitive advantage—like having grandma’s secret recipe or keeping our mouth shut about a job search until the right moment comes; it can also help protect our own or others’ reputation or to avoid negative consequences caused by our actions.
“We also may keep secrets as a way of maintaining our membership in a group,” Prof. Chock continued. “For example, if most of our friend group support one political candidate, we may keep secret that we voted for their opponent. Or we may attempt to maintain social harmony, by not sharing secrets at the family BBQ.”
How many well respected people are sexual predators.
And how many are hidden and "open secrets" because there's money to be made off them or their brand.
We currently have a sexual abuse scandal ongoing here, that went public following a journalist investigation. The sexual predator is a very well known, respected sociology university professor and public figure. He'd humiliate and abuse his students, asking them to strip, to spend time with him, to come to his apartment, and eventually to have sex with him. He was recorded telling to one of his female students "Take off your clothes, so as to show me that you have self-confidence". Several of his former students have already filed complaints.
In an interview a criminal psychologist said most pedophiles will never be discovered, because they will never commit an actual crime. Most cases in which children are harmed by sexual predators, they aren't pedophiles, but people who do it for the feeling of power. Children are just chosen because they are easier targets.
This is one of the main reasons I ignore people who complain about "cancel culture." Is it sensationalized and overblown sometimes? Yes. But is it bringing to light literally thousands of powerful people who were getting away with unending abuse? Also yes! Tabloids are always gonna do their thing, and so is the internet. But unmasking these predators is worth it!
(1/2) First of all, it’s important to distinguish between the monsters among us and those from history. Ongoing sexual abuse should be addressed by legally and medically trained professionals whose services are available to ALL victims, including those who are "too boring" or just poor to generate clicks and likes. Tabloids are incapable of serving justice because they were not designed for that purpose. Outsourcing the problem to them, rather than reforming our justice and education systems, is like outsourcing mail delivery to ice cream trucks. Sure, ice cream trucks might deliver at least some of the mail, it’s hardly a reason to celebrate tho.
Load More Replies...I, as a follower of Jesus, agree with that. If I had a child and I needed a sitter, I'd choose a homosexual or transgender person before a Catholic priest or supposed "pillar of the community". It's so sad!
Protestants and non religious people, EVERYONE can be a child molester. That isn't something private to a group of people but everyone. They can be of any country, ethnicity, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, profession, religion, political ideology, known or unknown, family or not. ANYONE CAN BE. But if you think any homo or trans isn't a predator, you are in for a sad surprise.
Load More Replies...The man who donated the sperm to make me (refuse to call him dad) was very respected in our community yet he was a pedo and I was one of his victims.
Google Jimmy Savile. The most prolific paedophile in UK history - friend to royals, politicians and slebs alike. Those who spoke against him saw their careers ruined.
I love my cat more than anyone else. She always greets me and is happy when I get home from work. Especially when I have a bad day.
Ditto, my cats are what keeps me fighting. I don't think I'd be here without them.
cats are just better versions of dogs honestly, downvote me if you will but CATS ARE BEST
Nobody is shocked by this. Cats don't start wars, they don't yell homophobic slurs, and they also agree Keanu Reeves and Tom Hanks are tied as the best humans alive right now. D**k van Dyke is a very close third.
Because they’re usually busting down the door because the food dish is empty
Load More Replies...According to the expert, our decisions about what—and whether—to keep secret are heavily influenced by the perceived negative consequences of sharing certain information, and the benefits of keeping silent. “How much harm could be done to ourselves and those we care about by making some information public? Who would be hurt?”
I hate existing. I just wear a happy mask, not genuinely I'm not happy and I wish assisted suicide was legal in the States and that my family understood how I have no enjoyment in my life. I got out of an inpatient facility a little over a week ago and found out I'm on the spectrum, and while I'm on meds now, while I'm aware it takes time -- the only thing I'm really holding on for is my family. My mom would probably follow me so I'm stuck living as though I'm starting to get better. It's honestly exhausting.
I feel the same way. I like to say it's not that I'm suicidal and don't want to live. I just don't want to live and be here with the way things are. I'd love to live and enjoy my life but that has been made impossible now a days. People are fighting for their human rights and are barely able to afford their basic needs. Being forced to work their selves to death just to obtain the things we need and the suffering is only going to get worse. Not to mention all the other horrible things going on. The fact is, Living is intentionally being made hard for most of us and not being able to enjoy life and really exist without struggling and knowing of all this evil going on has been made normal. I'd rather die and be at peace than live abnormally like this.
Load More Replies...It's legal in Vermont. In Oregon they give you pills for a DIY. BUT you have to be sick to a point where there is no hope. But when I'm down, my cat comes around to remind me he needs me.
Pretty convinced cats keep more of us on this planet than anyone suspects.
Load More Replies...If I did not have young kids, i would not be here anymore. I can relate.
HUGE HUGS TO EVERYONE WHO FEELS THIS WAY!! (myself included, hug me back, please!)
Pretending everything is OK is exhausting. It already takes all your energy just to open your eyes every morning but then you have to act like you're OK for other people. You're right, it takes time for meds to kick in and make a difference, but could I give some advice? I know this is a reddit and the poster will never see it but hopefully it might help other people reading this. Please - stop pretending. It's terrifying to drop the mask because when you do that you admit how bad things really are, but the people around you have no idea just how much you're suffering. If you need to fake it til you make it to survive, by all means, do it, but to get the support you need, especially from family and friends, they need to understand what you're going through. This won't work for everyone, but the whole "a burden shared is a burden halved" thing is true. At least it was for me. Good luck all and be safe.
Yeah, very true. I genuinely don't understand how or why people go around enjoying life.. there is nothing to like about it
The amount of people hiding an addiction, whatever that is to them. D***s, alcohol, food, gambling, p**n, sex, watching/following sports… even “healthy” things like exercise, meditation or whatever.
I am beginning to believe that our reward system in our brains have been so hijacked by modern day that we don’t even realize it, and we feel lesser or powerless over time as we dwell on our specific thing.
interesting to think of watching sports as an addiction, but, it makes sense. I just cant get into watching sports like so many guys
To each their own. My addiction is reading books and quoting movies.
Load More Replies...they are not hiding. they just don't feel like they need to show it to everyone on instagram/tiktok/facebook and stuff. there's a difference
I don't actually know what I am doing at work. I have no qualifications or previous work experience in the field. I just wing it every day and seem to get results
Edit: Because so many of you are asking what my job is, I will tell you. I'm currently the operations manager at the biggest sawmill in the area.
The only job I had before this was washing dishes at a care home.
I didn't lie on my resume, I guess they just liked me.
...well i mean under your management nobody's gotten their limbs sawed off... right?
I have a PhD and believe that many management jobs are about being smart, having empathy and a desire to learn from others. OP seems to be a generally smart and kind person.
If only that applied to all management jobs. Retail management jobs seem to be about who can kiss a*s the most
Load More Replies...Bahahahahaha! I worked for years for an attorney, and we did some great things together including hold two different public offices twice. I had no idea what I was doing. He hired me because we were both in a dive bar one night, me drinking because I lost my job, him because it was the only place where he wouldn't be recognized. We drank and talked and he offered me a job. He was kind of surprised when I called him the next day to get my start date. I had no legal experience, no government experience, nothing. I winged it every single day for the first three years. We worked together for 14 years, and I learned so much. When he retired, I really like art so I faked my way into a graphic designer job. 11 years later, I have faked my way to senior leader in the company, and I love it.
He has the title, but likely someone else with the necessary professional knowledge is doing the actual managing. But it's good to be the favorite nephew!
Operations manager is a pretty serious position. He was probably smart enough to not muck about with things, let the people do what they do and ask their advice if it was something he couldn't figure out on his own. Most "real" managers come in and think they can build a better mousetrap and really just end up pi$$ing everyone off
Load More Replies...My favourite techy told me that 9/10 times when they tell you to reboot anyway even though you have, they're having a quick google....
Well sure, It's not like help desk people have every solution to every possible problem memorized, that would be impossible. Their job is narrowing the problem down enough to know what reference sources will most likely provide the best answer.
Load More Replies...If you're good at the job it doesn't matter. Results speak for themselves.
Well, most management jobs don't really need learned skills. You need to be good at coordinating people, listen to people, have empathy and a basic understanding of how to manage a budget. If there already is a system running, let it run and only intervene, when it's in jeopardy.
Some places just want people who are willing to learn And do things the right way.
Obviously the bosses have seen something in you that they wanted to encourage (if as you said you didn't lie on your resume, there had to be something).. And as you're still there obviously nobody has been seriously injured or killed so keep on doing what you're doing.
According to Prof. Chock, there are sometimes conflicting consequences from keeping secrets. “People may feel betrayed or angry that you’ve hidden (or revealed) information from (or about) them. Particularly if you are keeping secrets about others.
“For example, you’re friends with a couple and one of them is cheating. Your brother dropped out of school and doesn’t want your parents to know. Keeping secrets can involve a complicated algorithm of weighing consequences and ethical considerations.”
If my grandfather dies (virtually knocking on the wood) today I will inherit all of his property and money.
He showed me his last will with his attorney.
I think my parents and uncles might k*ll me if they find out
Context:
When my granddad suffered from kidney failure, no one visited him except me. The reason is that he had many mistresses and still drank heavily when he was 75 to 80, which made his children hate him. Also, they have their own lives. From the day he was diagnosed with cancer until today, I have visited and taken care of him every day.
My parents kicked me out of the house for being a party-goer and wanting to arrange my marriage at a young age (I was 19 back then and a female). I ran away for one month, but when I returned, they officially kicked me out. That’s when I told my grandfather. He gave me a lump sum of money to start over, so I went back to university and rented an apartment near his place.
When I graduated this year, he called a meeting with his attorney and me. That’s when they told me that I will inherit all of his assets, including the ranch, his cars, basically everything he owns, and his real estate/construction business. When they asked me what will I do with the money I told them that my experiences when I run away when I was 19 opened my eyes to everything that’s happening within our city. It made me realize how hard life is. I use to have 5 cad for 1 week and I have to stretch it out. Most people would think homeless people are dangerous but they are not, unless you provoke them or they are defending themselves.
My plan when I receive the money is to put half a million each towards
- red road healing society
- hope mission in Edmonton
- Edmonton addiction youth services
- WAEC woman shelter
This has been noted on our meeting and currently working on it with his attorney.
EDIT: Hi everyone, thank you for your input and advice! I did mention this to my granddad’s attorney, and for legal purposes, he said I wasn’t supposed to post anything regarding this, lol. I’m just an excited 22-year-old female who wants to make a difference in my community because I have experienced it for about a month. I know how hard it is, and it excites me to think about how many people I know around that area who would be happy to finally have a shelter!! Thank you everyone. Wish me luck!
I wish you all the luck in the World! My Uncle never married and for years said he was leaving all his money to his younger sister. He is one of 6 kids. Now he got mad at her and now is giving his house and money to his neighbor because they bring him dinner everyday. They brought over an attorney last year for him to sign for paperwork. All he does is talk about his money. He can take his money , rings and watches and shove them where the sun doesn't shine. I could go up there to his house and bring him dinner and desserts but I don't want his money nor anything else from him. He is a very evil man who only can talk about his wealth. Sorry it's just gross to me. Be nice to me and I will give you money. No thank you!!
Money is an illusion. Many things more important than money!!!
Load More Replies...I can relate. An uncle, 3 aunts, my mom and roughly a dozen cousins. I inherited 90% of my grandparents estate, including their house, investments and other assets. It was all locked down in an airtight will (with no-contest clause, witnessed in person by two attorneys, notarized and copied by hand & signed, followed by a physical and physiological evaluation) a trust and an attorney as an executor. My mom & I were the only ones close to them (living next door), I was their caregiver in their final years and most of my relatives hadn’t seen them in years. It was assumed they’d lost a fortune in bad investments in the 80s, wiping them out & explaining why they were meager. Little did they know the lost investments accounted for less that 5% of their financial assets. I was handed a blessing that I hopefully haven’t taken for granted & done right by altruism over the past 35 years. My relatives didn’t get a cent of my inheritance & the one person who tried payed my/trust legal fees.
Edmonton is having difficulty addressing its social issues, thanks in no small part to a hostile MAGA-esq provincial government which financially punishes the city for not voting for them. I sincerely applaud OP for using her good fortune to care for vulnerable people.
Edmonton has huge problems with not really addressing our issues. I see it every day going to work. (I live and work downtown.) I also applaud the OP for using her good fortune to help ot our vulnerable people. I don't enjoy seeing these people in their plights. It hurts my soul. And yes, our MAGA-esq provincial gov't is to blame. Help out their friends instead of the people who need it most. *grumble*.
Load More Replies...You are freaking awesome! Although I hope your grandfather has much more life left in his years, to know how much people are suffering right now and you want to make Alberta a better place? You're the best! From one Canadian to another, you go girl! ❤️
I had a several times great-uncle (he and my great grandfather were brothers) who owned quite a bit of property. He never married or had children, so there were a lot of nieces and nephews waiting around to inherit from him. When he died, at 90, he had outlived quite a few of them.
Love this. This would help our vulnerable community out greatly. I hope the money will be able to go a long way in ensuring aid to the people who are in dire situations.
Take the $ and buy some property or better yet the ranch to build and run your own shelter. Just a thought
How close the world actually is to an all out apocalyptic war at every given second.
Oh, believe me, many of us are very aware of that, but there's f*ck all we can do about it.
Yeah, no reason to dwell on problems we have absolutely no possibility to even influence
Load More Replies...There's always an Arquillian Battle Cruiser, or a Corillian Death Ray, or an intergalactic plague that is about to wipe out all life on this miserable little planet, and the only way these people can get on with their happy lives is that they DO NOT KNOW ABOUT IT!
That movie & all of its sequels have never turned a profit.
Load More Replies...And we are refusing to learn from history. Most part of a nation blindly following a right wing, xenophobic, misogynistic clown like a cult leader because he tells them they are the best and he will make their country great again (in slightly different words in German)? Allowing religion to interfere with politics and influencing rights and education? People putting religion above science? Politic leaders going to bed with war provocing dictators? We already DID all of that. IT DID NOT END WELL! Or in terms the ultra-religious might understand: If you believe that god gave you a brain, how dare you insult him by not using it?
I have a 6yo grandson that lives with me. I'm terrified at what his future might hold. The world has gone crazy.
OP must have misunderstood the title of this post, because that is certainly no secret.
Yea, this scares me. There so much conflict going on right now and it's not getting any better. The match and the fuse are lit, it's just a matter of time. I'm old, I'm not worried for myself, but I have a 6yo grandson and the thought of something happening to him crushes me.
Its harder than it seems. Nobody can push s button. There is more chance of a cruise missile hitting a carrier than a nuke
Epstein Island footage.
OMG! Censor bots have not censored word "suicided"! That is unheard of.
Load More Replies...I always found it suspiciously convenient that the guy offed himself before "spilling his secrets". I mean wouldn't this type of person rather drag the others down with him than dying for his "friends"?
While supposedly on suicide watch and being constantly monitored no less. Far too many powerful people had far too much lose.
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Load More Replies...He knew he was a scumbag. Nutter conspiracy theories abound. He was caught and knew his day in court would be nasty.
Discussing secrecies of a larger scale, such as government secrets, Dr. Makana Chock pointed out that they might sometimes be essential. “Revealing the details of a prisoner exchange before it’s finalized could jeopardize the negotiations. They can’t reveal troop movements that could put lives in danger. But as some legal cases have revealed (for instance, Watergate), the definition of ‘national security’ has sometimes been stretched to include reputational damage to specific administrations or individuals.”
The Mormon church is a front to a $100,000,000,000 hedge fund specialized in real estate. They use fear tactics to force their cult members to donate 10% of their income and then funnel that ecclesiastical donation through shell companies in order to grow that fund. They've recently been fined by the SEC $5,000,000 for this.
Edit: f****d up the number. Increased. Actuals above $100B are pure speculation due to the lack of transparency.
To all the people saying the Church isn't that wealthy, I'm going to paste a previous comment of mine below. How much is Leonardo De Vinci's journals worth alone? I'm pretty sure there are many collectors that would pay $1b for his original journals. And that is just one of literally millions of artifacts and art pieces they own. They definitely have more $70b. Maybe the $70b is cash on hand, definitely not net worth. According to Google... The Catholic Church's total assets worldwide are estimated to be over $30 billion, NOT including the Vatican Bank's art, land, gold, and investments. See. Stop spreading the churches dogma and think before you speak.
Load More Replies...And they try to collect even if you leave the church. A good friend's parents used to be Mormon. When her mother died, the Mormon church came to her dad trying to say she owed years of back tithe. I think with the stipulation she wasn't going to get into heaven without it. He basically told them to F off. I think they also tried some of that when he died but none of his daughters are Mormon.
A religious organization using fear in their members for ridiculous monetary gain free of taxes? *gasp* Never heard that before...
I grew up in Mormon country near Cardston in southern Alberta Canada. The money is also used as an anchor to keep people in the church and foster growth of the church. Young members can borrow money at lower than prime rates to start businesses and buy houses. As long as you don't speak against the church (that includes being nice to queers or people of certain races) they will help. It almost sounds wholesome, but there are many ways they use cult members to spy on each other and control members of the church. Just like Scientology, you tell them all your secrets and tie your finances to them, and if you go against them they will destroy you.
Went to school with a lot of former Mormon kids who were kicked out before 18. Child abandonment is big in that community. They only care if you're loyal to the church. One of the main tricks they have is sending you to another country/state/province (as far as possible) and then controlling your money/food/housing until they break your spirit and you become a good little member of the church and hate the right people.
Load More Replies...The church was only fined $1,000,000. The company used to handle the filings, most, if not all of it outside of leadership knowledge, was fined $4,000,000. https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023-35
See the Roman Catholic Church ... once (and maybe still) the largest single owner of real estate in the world.
The Catholic church has accounts that have been maturing for centuries in the world's largest and oldest banks. They single-handedly own every piece of church property and all of the land under it for every single one of their churches in diocese. Just the property value alone is worth tens of billions upon billions. Add that to all the accounts that they have, and it's even more.
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I spend most of my day doom scrolling and pad my hours because my work doesn’t take as long as people think it should.
Yet, my boss and team love me and always compliment me on how hardworking I am.
Work smarter, not harder ;) If you deliver good work anyway, there's no problem.
My absolute motto - work smart, not hard. I also put a lot of early graft into my job to create templates and short cuts so I don't have to work overtime and can be the epitome of efficiency....
Load More Replies...I'm paid for what I know. Not how hard I work. I have learned to be efficient.
This person is smart.. because... and I've unfortunately learned from experience... that the moment you're 'efficient' one of a few things happen, and none of them seem to include a pay raise or a promotion. It's "Well, you obviously need more work", then they assume everyone else is like this... so they overload the whole team... OR... someone gets butthurt/jealous and they start sabotaging and/or wrecking your rep so that the bosses hate you.
I have a new job and have the same issue. Wondering why I was even hired as to me it isn't even enough for 2 people, let alone 3
I'm sitting here thinking that same thing. EXACT same thing. New job and all.
Load More Replies...I'm sitting on my reputation. I do my 35h a week job done in 25h, and slacks the other time. But still considered as a ''hard worker'' . Probably I am, during 25 h
My boss is totally okay with me reading or playing games on my phone. I just don't have enough to do.
The comments here are really pissing me off as a nurse :) We have a huge layer of middle management who spend a fraction of their work day on actual work, and then look at their belly button for the rest of the time. Us hands-on nurses who bust our asses every minute of our shift are paid a fraction of the wage of the paper pushers who themselves admit that they can do their whole day's work in 30 minutes.
I used to work in politics as an assistant, and between ourselves, we talk. We talk about who sexually assaulted us and when and how. We'll never come out with the sh*t, because these are very dangerous people to out by the nature of the field, but there's a lot of politicians out there who should count their blessings that we're scared. I've heard names whispered in confidence that would destroy people if spoken out loud.
Nah. Politicians rarely suffer for their sins. One of ours admitted to taking illegal upskirt photos of a young woman - he was asked to an online "ethics" course, which he later admitted to never doing. That man is still in parliament today. Hell, look at the USA - one of their two presidential candidates is a literal r&pist who's got the support of tens of millions of people.
Load More Replies...Create a mob of all the people who have been assaulted and come forward. I swear there needs to be some kind of victims mob that protects these people. Why is it that there can be cartels and mobs of a bunch of evil people that get away with crime? yet there's not one group of people that formed a mob for something good and to help people and protect them the way evil people protect their mob boss and do their bidding. I hate living on this planet sometimes. Bad guys usually win and it is not right!
I wish this was easy. Unfortunately so many SA survivors are terrified, shamed, blamed and punished that creating that mob is nigh on impossible. It's wrong and it needs to change but I have no idea how.
Load More Replies...In a recent interview with Bored Panda, the user ‘Necrocharm’ shared that they were curious about the kinds of deep, hidden truths people might be holding onto; that’s why they decided to start the thread.
“We all have secrets, but some of them are so significant or shocking that they could change our entire perception of a person or situation if they were ever revealed. I wanted to see what kinds of things people might be willing to share anonymously, and it turns out there's a lot people are keeping to themselves.”
That I was addicted to m*th for almost 4 years, and no one knew. But I overcame addiction with my gf that I’ve been with for 10 years almost, by ourselves. 🤘🏻.
Just got a great mental image of a person itching to out at dusk with a net :D
Load More Replies...We think that our substance addiction is only known to us, but we're actually deceiving ourselves. People know, particularly those who know us best. Stumbling, slurring, forgetting things, twitching, odd muscle movements, it's all there but people choose to be silent rather than call us out. It's not hidden, you're only fooling yourself.
Load More Replies...Sometimes, religion can be very dangerous, so I am happy for OP that they overcame their addiction to myth.
I once discovered that a close family friend, who everyone believed was a retired teacher, was actually in witness protection for testifying against a major crime syndicate. It blew my mind and completely changed how I viewed them and their 'quiet' life.
It is possibly an age/time thing. I know someone who was (apparently) an active CIA field agent. I DIDN'T know it in the 60s and didn't find out until decades later. I won't list the reasons why the story is credible to me. My point is, I only knew by pressing a close friend on some details that were odd (and odd to them as well) but by the time I was told the person was likely retired. And as I say it now, almost certainly dead from old age. Possibly the witsec person was old/dying, and/or they knew the person they had been hiding from was dead.
Load More Replies...I am in fact a retired teacher. But I also qualify for the witless protection program.
I never turned in my 4th grade writing assignment. I just stuffed it in my desk incomplete and ignored it. The teacher never said anything. I’m 38 and I think about that way too much.
I never did my mandatory biannual nuclear requalification on my second carrier. One of the instructors just wrote in a grade for me (apparently). I knew my job, I was getting out in a few months and they knew there was no way I was reenlisting. The way I found out - I was at an interview with the ship's captain. He's flipping through my folder and says, "I see you did okay on your biannual recall". I thank God I had the presence of mind not to blurt out, "But I haven't taken that yet". LOL For background - the nuclear biannual requalification was a PITA because it asks you a bunch of theory stuff you haven't used since nuclear power school. Day to day life was operating machinery, not figuring out the macroscopic cross section of an isotope or how much shielding I'd need if I was building the reactor. It's like being tested on engineering a bus when you are just a bus driver.
you should write it, call your 4th grade teacher, and give it to her
Why are you worrying over something that happened nearly 40 years ago. That teacher probably is retired by now and probably wouldn't remember that instance.
Maybe you never passed elementary school and have to go back and finish it.
How old is the person in this picture? Are those tattoos on his arm?
Discussing what secrets would likely shock everyone the most if they were to come into the light, the OP emphasized that it’s hard to pinpoint exact secrets. “But I imagine that the most shocking ones are those that involve people who we think we know well, like family, close friends, or even public figures,” they said.
“For example, discovering that someone has been living a double life, has a hidden criminal past, or has done something that goes against their public persona would definitely be shocking. These are the kinds of things that could completely change how we view someone.”
Though it's been public knowledge for nearly 10 years now, people are still shocked when I tell them that every single bit of data, every phone call, and every electronic communication that enters the N America or Europe is captured by US and EU intelligence agencies. This practice predates the internet, going all the way back to the advent of long distance calling in the US. This is called the Echelon Surveillance network and was confirmed to exist by the Edward Snowden.
Why do you think they still want him dead? Because he leaked lies? I don't think so.
Load More Replies...I was all ready to poo poo this as paranoid Wikipedia BS but then I did a little reading and ho. Lee. Cow. A number of government groups like the European Parliament and organisations like the NSA in the States have confirmed it exists. Check this out: https://www.profolus.com/topics/echelon-program-global-surveillance-network/
The reason people consider Snowden a traitor is because the information he released was real. Probably got some purple killed.
Load More Replies...The problem is that they don't have the manpower to do anything with the collected data. Where are all the successful convictions that this information could sustain?
Now don't worry about why companies are so gung ho about 'AI'... A learning model that could go through all that data and separate the wheat from chaff... especially now by looking at older stuff and cross-referencing with past events...
Load More Replies...I used to say that the government recorded every phone call, but didn't have the manpower to hear all of them. That was before computers. Now they can.
I'd hate to be the person who had to check out my electronic communications! B O R I N G!!!
Wish people could understand the difference between the EU and Europe! Almost half the countries in the latter aren't in the former.
We’d need some sorta geography class to tell us which countries in Europe make up the EU because most folks won’t learn it on their own. I sure haven’t; it doesn’t mean anything to me, so I’ve not bothered. All I know is that the Brits muffed things up for themselves.
Load More Replies...Yes and there are other capture points s elsewhere outside the usa. Like pine gap. Australia. Much of its meaningless chatter and ignored. They can profile people and risks and use data. Same since WW2
When I was still a virgin I went to a Punk concert in London on vacation...ended up talking to the girls of the band, got along and went to a 'club' with them. Turned out to be a staircase in the industrial complex leading down, down, down...to a dominatrix dungeon party.
I had the time of my life stepping on guys who were begging for it, some were actually super cute.
My friends would never guess that. I even let one of the men pay me 300 pounds to let 'April', a fem male sub who works there as a stripper, give me a lapdance in the back rooms on a suspicious leather couch.
Nowadays I'm still looking for a cute sub or switch male. That experience really brought out the beast in me lol.
The amount of information that our own United States government tracks and keeps of us forever
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Since for whatever reason this has high visibility and people don't agree with this statement, go find and read this Wikipedia article on the Utah Data Center
Its amazing how often people will ignore ACTUAL facts becuase it doesnt fit with their premade ideas. Government all track. The UK has the highest coverage of CCTV in the world. The US has been proved to track their citizens (honestly not too sure about how other countries monitoring works haha). Main point, this is a fact. Its like trying to disagree that clouds exist by not looking up.
Or COVID would go away if you stopped counting the # of cases?
Load More Replies...Not just US. And not just government. And ftr, I have never worn a tinfoil hat in my life... we give out our data every single time we use location, shop online, pay bills online and we have been doing it for a very long time. Granted 99% of people are not interesting enough to actually have black clad men coming through their doors. Data is money.
I've heard that Wikipedia has a lot of mistakes and shouldn't be trusted. I tend to go by the rule if you only see it in one spot then keep it in your head. If you read it 5, 10, 20 times it may be true. When well respected people are talking about it it's probably true.
Wikipedia has been hijacked. I only trust articles on animals and plants. The rest is questionable. Every time I tried to correct data, they reverted it and didn't even let me discuss it. It was always a leftie site but this is truly shameful.
Load More Replies..."The government can't track me." "Your birth certificate, passport, bank account, National Insurance/Social Security number (apologies to other countries for not knowing your equivalent) driver's licence, and those votes in the last 3 general elections beg to differ. Now shut up and pay attention because it's jury duty time."
How about how much data of your personal/private data is bought and sold by data brokers every day? I don't mean on the dark web. I mean out in the open as a "legitimate" business that pay federal taxes.
Idk how to break it to you all, but the government has your face, name, age, address, even your social security number on record and they can even access your medical files. For some reason people act like this isn't a commonly known fact and worry about facial recognition software.
"They" can do all that but they can't keep the streets clean???
“The responses were both fascinating and a bit unsettling,” the redditor continued, revealing what they thought of the response the thread received from the online community. “I was surprised by the sheer variety of secrets people are holding onto: everything from personal regrets and hidden identities to dark family secrets and past crimes. What surprised me the most was how open people were in sharing these things, even though they were doing so anonymously. It really shows the power of platforms like Reddit, where people feel safe enough to reveal things they might never tell anyone in their real lives.”
The last puppy I brought home I told my family it was just left by the dumpster at Walmart but really someone was giving it away and pressured me to take it.
Unless you're someone who works 12 hrs a day and has someone visit only once a day. My petcare client just got an 8 week puppy literally on a whim- a standard poodle none the less. She got her first dog when he was a bit older. This puppy screams louder than a police siren at times (no, she was not being hurt at all, just pizzed to be in the crate). I do think my client should have thought things thru first before getting that pup.
Load More Replies...Growing up, my grandparent's farm had a lot of feral cats. One had a litter of kittens that I managed to tame one. We lived within a 2 minute walk and I carried her home. Just before I got to the back door, I put her down and walked into the house, she followed me in and I told my parents that she must have followed me. Thankfully my dad let me keep her and I had her for many years. I do miss her tho.
Ah… the old ‘look what followed me home’ trick. I used that often. I was always bringing home some critter
None of the sky daddy's are real.
Billions of people would have an epiphany.
It can be, but it has multiple definitions: "a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience." -Dictionary.com
Load More Replies...I'm fine with that. If only THEY would let other people believe what they want to believe.
Load More Replies...Atheists, please let people believe what they want. It’s the other side of the same coin. You guys are trying to spread your not-faith the same way religions try to spread their faith by you telling people “God isn’t real.” You might say, “it’s true,” well how do you know?! Nobody knows what happens to you after you die. There’s a vast majority of things we don’t know about in the universe. So stop trying to get people to “convert” to your not-faith and don’t harass those who are religious. You’re not as bad as the religious people on this, but you’re on that trajectory.
I agree, I'm not religious but it annoys me when people say "God isn't real" or whatever, like oh, I didn't realise you were the Lord of the Universe who knows everything,? Nobody actually knows, so stop acting like you do. People just want to believe in what makes sense to them and if it's not harming anyone else just let them be.
Load More Replies...The sheer percentage of people in the world who live in a delusional state is mind boggling. No wonder we can't have nice things. 85% of people think magic is real
None of the sky daddy's what are real? Or did they mean to say 'daddies', the correct plural of 'daddy'?
Religion would never cease to exist so long fanatism does too. Facts and logic means s**t to many people, they only need to believe what they want to believe.
People have different mind calming techniques. It only becomes problematic when, as you say, people get fanatical.
Load More Replies...Well, many would tell the sky daddy picture is a scarecrow and god is more like the whole universe. Please don't take the US Christian neofascists for all religious people.
All boils down to the same thing l. No matter religion.
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So many years ago my husband and I were hosting my family at our home. The plan was burgers and all the standard "summer sides", think fruit, salads, chips, ice cream for dessert. My grandma for whatever reason requested HOMEMADE potato salad. My grandma was a saint and didn't make outlandish requests often, if ever, so I did plan to accommodate her request. Unfortunately life was crazy busy leading up to the get together date and ultimately I didn't have the time/energy/supplies to make home made pasta salad. So instead of coming clean I decided to run to the grocery that had a decent deli and get their loaded baked potato salad, it was a little bit more elaborate ingredients wise then the standard potato salad. I put it in one of our glass bowls with a lid and served it as my own. No one questioned it.
Now years later, grandma has since passed, my family will request that I make my homemade potato that grandma loved for potlucks. I don't have the heart to tell them it's store bought.
This is about REAL home made - BUT - My best friend's husband says his mom's (or her mom's? I forget) potato salad is better than hers, even though she uses the same recipe. At one family get together years ago, my BF made the potato salad but husband THOUGHT the mom made it. He went on about, "See! Mom's is so much better!". LOL I'm not sure if she ever told him. She did stop making potato salad for him.
If it was my family, they would *love* that update! One if my aunts once put together a cookbook of “family recipes” that she’s dug up … my dad was delighted to tell said aunt that “grandma’s secret pumpkin pie” was literally the one on the back of the Libby’s pumpkin can. 😂
Alright; I’m tapping out. I read this article for “scandalous secrets that would rock the world if revealed,” but the players seem not to understand the rules, so I’m gonna go look for something a little bit easier for the participants to understand. I’m grateful there was at least a handful in here who got it.
It's gonna come out eventually, when someone younger wants the recipe to carry on the tradition.
If these secrets have awakened your curiosity about what things some people would rather those around them didn’t know, continue next to this list of deeply disturbing secrets people have found out about someone or these dark secrets individuals wanted to get off their chest themselves.
4 out of 5 dentists don’t recommend trident.
I liked the commercial where they had the dentists lined up and as they went down the row asking each if they recommended it and each said yes. When they got to the fifth a squirrel that had entered the room grabs the dentist by the gotchas and he screams: NOOOOOO!
"Chewing sugar-free gum may, when added to a regular home oral care routine of twice daily brushing with fluoridated toothpaste and daily cleaning between teeth, contribute to reducing caries risk." ADA
5 out of 5 dentists say to not chew gum at all. 4 of them, when pressed, say "Fine then at least chew sugar-free gum" and the 5th probably said "no I'm not answering."
My dentist said it was a very good exercise for the gums. And if your mouth is kept moist and not dry, not only you'll have a better breath but less cavities.
4 out of 5 Health Professionals recommend whatever they are paid to....
The whole world economy is over leveraged to the max. GDP growth can't keep up with inflation. It's a house of cards and when they start falling the human cost will be immeasurable.
It's the eternal rise and fall of a capitalistic and exploitative system
Load More Replies...And when it collapses governments will bail out the banks and big corporations, foreclose on everyone's debt, wipe out the savings of the 99%, and the rich and powerful will remain rich and powerful. Just like every time major economies collapse
And then they'll all get their multi-million dollar bonuses for doing such a swell job ruining the economy. Yay!
Load More Replies...I love that it's specifically spaceships they're greedy for.
Load More Replies...The idea of money is so stupid, can we go back to the barter system? lol
It's the wet dream of the left. They were trying to install chaos since 1917 or before, because they only can win when people is full of hate and dispair...while their elite is filling their bank accounts with the money of their voters.
My mom has a secret child. She doesn't know I know.
And I now know that OP doesn’t know that their mother knows that they know.
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I didn't pass my exam, and I no longer have my scholarship. But I'm working to pay my tuition.
I've always hated that so much hinges on exams. I'm smart yet not a great test taker. I can spew all the answers and explain them in detail, but can't do it when having to bubble in the responses. I'm sorry to hear you lost this!
How easy it is to lose everything with your bad password habits.
If someone would hack into my bank account, they'd probably have bigger problem than me. I have almost nothing to steal and maybe even would get some compensation money out of it. The thief would risk jail time, reputation and job. (Just kidding, I know that there's more at risk than money)
There's an old joke (sexist, I know; I apologize) that a thief stole his wife's credit cards - he didn't report it because they don't spend as much as his wife did!
Load More Replies...There's lots of good password advice but a basic one is have throw away passwords. By that I mean I may have convenient or easy passwords for things that are throw away to me / don't really care if they get hacked. But I have different / more complex passwords for things like banking. And for important stuff - I don't have "keep me logged in" and I don't have it on my phone that I might drop in the parking lot.
Maybe she knows that you know but doesn't know how to let you know she knows, so she pretends not to know that you know.
I’m a married “straight” man. My wife is the only one who knows that I’m bisexual. She’s supportive too.
I came out when I was in my early 30s. My entire life I assumed I was bi and kept it secret. It wasn't until I actually had the courage to start a relationship with a man that I realized I really am gay. I think a lot of marital problems come from people denying their queer identities due to societal pressures. I really wish we could all be open about who we really are
"bisexual" 😂 And where's the big secret? You are a horny person who wants to f everyone on view!
That I can’t cook, but I’ve mastered the art of convincing people that takeout is gourmet.
As a chef, I find this incredibly annoying…taking credit for someone else’s work
I'm no chef, but can I be annoyed at the fact that OP's guests can't tell the difference between takeout and gourmet? I like quick and easy meals as much as the next person, but Michelin don't hand out stars to Panda Express.
Load More Replies...You will get into a situation where you are asked to cook for a group then what?? There's always at least 2 to 3 people who want to help you or hang out with you.
A majority of my childhood was spent in motels, so whenever I told my friends they could not hangout because my place was "small", I never said the real reason why. I felt ashamed..
Some elected Presidents and world leaders were actually gay and their first lady and children were orchestrated for public image.
This year Finland almost elected an openly gay president (48,38% of votes). I voted for him too and I'm proud of my country for being so open. Also the election campaigns never focused on anyone's sexual orientation and it was barely mentioned at all.
As it should be. No one screams "I'm straight!" so why does it matter for any other orientation?
Load More Replies...The stock market is filled with fake shares from hedge fund a******s that do illegal naked shorting. The authorities know about it but don’t know exactly what to do about it.
That I p***ed away my first year of university and failed half my classes because my parents forced me to be there but I didn’t want to be.
Same. Given the ultimatum: school or military. I dropped out after two years in a major I hated, went back after seven years and did something I love. School just hits differently with time!
I had the opposite experience. I didn't go to college right out of high school because I was homeless and sleeping on the couches of friends. I was finally able to get into/go to college it was ALL on me. I'm pretty sure I did better than most specifically because of this fact.
I hated school growing up. But I went back when I was 34 with the support of my husband and son and now have my associates degree and a job I enjoy (most of the time lol)
That no one is in control.
All the f*****s involved with Epstien.
I am almost 40, but I still suffer from the mental damage the aftermath of my parents' divorce did to me when I was 15.
My parents think I have my life under control, and after such a long time it would be a massive shock to them how much I still suffer, sometimes. They didn't care much for me right after the divorce, but at some point I feel the "statue of limitations" of that has ran out so it would be weird if I ever brought it up or let it show.
They also had their own set of mental problems (alcoholism, s***idal) that they were finally able to overcome, so I am scared it would throw them back into a dark place if they ever noticed how I am feeling.
I'm 32 and my father's absence lukewarm presence in my life has left me resentful and without confidence. My parents divorced before I was even born, and I only saw him on my birthdays and certain holidays of the year. Now that he's old, frail and mentally unstable I've been pressured into checking in on him and making sure his needs are taken care of. My people's culture looks down heavily on those that refuse to take care of their parents in their old age, no matter the circumstances. So I find myself in a frustrating situation I was shamed into complying.
Who was it that sculpted the "statue of limitations"? I don't remember.
Wow, a lot of people are commenting. I’d like to share a story it's actually from one of my siblings who was in high school at the time. There was a school called 19 (shortened to 19). One day, a student in a chemistry class accidentally drank a chemical from a glass, mistaking it for water. Tragically, she died alone, with her mouth filled up with white fumes. What makes this even more disturbing is that no one knew she had died in the classroom only the teachers and staff were aware. My sibling's mom used to work there and told her about it. I’ve heard that the school paid a large sum to the girl's parents to keep quiet about the incident (though that’s just a guess).
(I'm sorry if the story doesn't make complete sense or if some details are missing. English isn't my first language, and I tried to explain it simply and anonymously. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.).
I'm always impressed by people who write and speak English so well, even when it's not their first language. Yay for you!
That this is humanity attempt #23. We usually only make it to 1990, so this run is doing well.
Unless you want to start attempt #24 you will all pretend you didnt read this. Back to your lives everyone.
Are you talking about fallen civilisations, like the Ancient Egyptians or the Incas, or something more conspiratorial? A little context would be appreciated.
23 is a magic number though, so it makes sense. There are 23 chromosomes on each half of a DNA strand, the earth is tilted 23 % on its axis, there is a group of people called 23rdians who believe it is the most powerful number of all, in the disaster movie, Airport, the bomber has seat 23. The number of crosses on Calvary at the end of the Monty Python film, The Life of Brian, is 23. In Die Hard With A Vengeance, a train derails in subway station 23. The lead characters in the Coen brothers' film The Big Lebowski always used Lane 23 at the bowling alley. In the television series Lost, one of the combination of six numbers that haunt the characters and they have to input to a computer to avoid an unknown fate is 23. Michael Jordan was number 23 and I was born on the 23rd.
So Jesus was born in every attempt? Or do we get to 301.990 (300.000 BC - the start of homo sapiens - plus 1990 AC) every time? That's awfully specific...
I don't think Jesus is involved in every attempt at civilisation. At least the Egyptians, Greeks, Mayans, Romans (I could go on and on) didn't think so.
Load More Replies...The sexual desires of the people around you. All the random guys that like feet or want to be dominated. All the women that regularly watch CNC content on p**nhub. All the straight married dudes that watch gay p**n. All the straight women who fantasize about their stepdad. Everyone is weird.
CNC as in Computer Numerical Control? That's a fetisch I haven't heard about before.
Foot fetishes are the reason I am paranoid about not wearing socks when I leave my apartment. Been like that for years. Then, this summer, for some reason, I thought eff it and wore my sandals without sucks for the first time in years - I only wash my feet, but never paint the nails or anything. Also, they''re always very callused, no matter what I do.
Lol, yeah. I was an IT guy and also a property restoration tech. I've seen what everyone has hidden on their computer, and has hidden in their house (no one hides their sex toys when there's water/fire). Everybody's a freak, and the ones who aren't are the ones to watch out for. They keep their stuff buried deep to avoid laws
Brain washing is real.
My generation called it TV. I think social media is ten times more potent and is Aldous Huxley's soma made real.
Both 1984 and BNW are UK government blueprints... Also Animal Farm.
Load More Replies...And surprisingly common and a wide variety of organizations...
There's a shiny title for it now though - neurolinguistic reprogramming.
There's lead in aviation fuel.
I thought this was common knowledge. And there is a reason for it, they must have a high-octane fuel, and it is very hard to get that without lead.
Commercial aircraft, and newer personal planes/jets do not use leaded fuel. It's the 50+ year old smaller planes, like crop dusters and the like that still use leaded fuel.
Load More Replies...For piston-engined planes, yes, it's still allowed, simply because a lot of those engines will not work properly on standard lead-free fuels. Unlike car engines you cannot simply turn down the performance a little bit. It's changing but will still take some time. Fortunately these planes make up just a tiny proportion of global air travel.
Only in AVGAS for piston engine planes. Most commercial aircraft use AVTUR as they are turbine engines which does not contain lead....
There used to be lead in auto fuel, too. They started phasing it out in the late seventies.
Over the past 8 months wife and I have made multiple police reports about some kid online our son decided was a creep and cut contact, after this he blasted not only our sons social media, but ours too about him swatting us or our kid.
Went so far as this kid calling in threats to the school or anon reports for us to dispel them and file more reports.
2 weeks ago police raided our house 24 deep and snatched our kid on some serious s**t.
Been almost 3 weeks and state refuses to turn over discovery saying they are still investigating but they have eliminated anything in previous reports as a possibility.
Back the blue until it happens to you.
ACAB means ALL. Never back the blue, instead watch them like hawks and pounce on their misdeeds.
After 4 years of quitting smoking & promising everyone close to me that i'll never to it again , I've been back at it for more than a year.
I don't disagree, but I will say some people hide it very well. I'm a non-smoker and always thought I could tell who smoked and who didn't. I had a co-worker for over a year and never knew he smoked. If someone is motivated enough to hide it I think they can. It's a lot of work on their part, but they can.
Load More Replies...The problem is -the curse even - is because you stopped for so long, one can always say, "I quit before, I'll do it again" The mere belief you can quit again anytime, precludes ant effort to actually do it.
The old "quitting is easy, I quit 50 times a day" excuse.
Load More Replies... If a species food supply is stable, the species population is stable.
If a species food supply increases the population increases.
We think we need to grow more food to 'catch up' with the rising population; however, growing more food **creates** the rising population.
This only works in nature where the food-supply only supports a given number of animals. If their are too many babies then they die. You want the human race to return to a place where half of the children simply starve to death?
You would prefer that everyone continue with the hubris of "never ending growth"? In 1950, Africa had a population of 228 million people, while the global pop was 2.47 billion. Today, Africa has 1.497 billion people, while the world pop is just over 8 billion. Africa is projected to have a population of 4.28 billion people by 2100, we're adding a billion people to the planet every 11 years. It's not sustainable. If humanity won't control its population growth, sooner or later it will be controlled for us...which is really already beginning to happen. It's not about wanting to see half of all babies starving, it's about not wanting to see everyone starving because every food source has already died off.
Load More Replies...OK, correct me if I'm wrong I've only done limited research, but my take on this is that we don't have a food shortage. We have a food waste problem. We have food accessibility problems. And we definitely have food affordability problems. I don't think we're lacking in the amount of food needed to feed every single person on this planet but we make it impossible for certain people to have access to it.
Actually, there is enough food produced to feed the whole world. The problem lies with the distribution of food.
Actually, it's been said the world produces enough food for everyone. The problem is the distribution of said food.
Rising population is no longer the concern; pretty much every industrialized country is now worried about birth rates dropping below replacement levels, creating an inverted pyramid of a smaller working population trying to support a larger elderly generation at the top. China is already dealing with this because they artificially accelerated the trend with the One Child Policy; the rest of us will be there soon enough. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/07/12/world-population-to-peak-within-this-century-says-the-united-nations.html
Why do people in Africa/famine hit countries keep having kids we have to provide aid for? The Catholics encourage them to pop out new converts like a conveyor belt and ban birth control. They are largely to blame.
There is a different force at work. When your prosperity depends on how much labor can be done, having more kids adds to that prosperity.
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If the amount of money donated for Africans reached africa,each one of them would be millionaires by now.
B******t. The population of the African continent is 1.2 billion people. Of those, 135000 are already millionaires. But hey! Let's round that up to a million people, just for fun. So, now we need to make millionaires of 1.1 billion people. Even if those people already all have $900,000 (that is, they are just $100k away from being millionaires), charitable donations would need to have totaled at least $110,000,000,000,000, or $110 trillion. Obviously, the average wealth of non-millionaire Africans is not $900k, so add a few zeroes to this. I have no idea the level of audacious BS it takes to make a claim like this.
The population of the african continent is in fact just shy of 1.5 billion people. But regardless, the average person has no concept of large numbers. Covid cost the U.S government $4.6 trillion. $1 trillion of that was from handing out those $1200, $600 and $1400 checks. Comparatively, U.S healthcare costs last year were $4.7 trillion (and health care spending is on course to surpass $7 trillion per year by 2030) It's the same kind of logic that encourages so many to rant about how Musk or Bezos could buy everyone in the U.S a house, or give everyone in the country $1 million and still still have $100 billion left or whatever mindless nonsense it is.
Load More Replies...Well I’m kinda glad I spent my ‘40 hour famine donations’ in primary school in the early 90s on lollies now 😂 bad deed is now atoned
I lasted about 39 hours then ate some of my mum’s home made sausage rolls, I couldn’t resist them any longer!
Load More Replies...This isn't even remotely close. Best I could find, there has been $2.6 Trillion sent to Africa in aid over the past 60 years. There are 1.2 Billion Africans. That means each African would have, at most, around $2,200, which isn't even close to $1,000,000.
It's more difficult than most people think. If we want to make sure the money gets where it's needed, you need people to make it happen. People making stuff happen is expensive, so less money actually gets to the people who need it. Charity isn't as easy as many people believe.
I have a feeling that's more on the governments of specific countries more than anything else.
And our governments. Loans are made based on rosy earnings projections, and the country sometimes can't pay it back. So interest mounts on it. A large portion of our "foreign aid" doesn't go towards buying seeds and blankets, but towards PAYING OFF THE INTEREST ON THE LOAN. Who is behind the loan money and RECEIVES THE INTEREST? Some of the trail leads to our banks and millionaires, with links to 1st world parliaments. Kerching!
Load More Replies...Send some of that money to me please. I'm an African still waiting for my millions.
During WW2 the soviets trained dogs to run under enemy tanks with explosives strapped to their backs. After the war soviets have claimed to have eliminate over 300 german tanks using this method, but there's no way to confirm that score.
Unfortunately they were trained using soviet T-34 tanks and would often run under their own tanks, destroying them.... And the US army planned to attach incendiary bombs on bats to release in Japan so they roost in houses and burn them down....I believe the plan was shelved when the bats burnt down parts of the base where the tests were held.... And of course, though the evidence is a bit sketchy, there was a plan by the US navy to train dolphins to carry explosives to blow up ships....... aren't we a lovely species...
In Punic War against Carthage, Romans used pigs covered in tar and set of fire to scare war elephants, and during the Battle of Pelusium in 522 BC, the Persians threw life cats to the Egyptians, since they knew cats were sacred for them. This has been going on for a very long time...
Most people would be shocked if they found out that most celebs who train for roles take PEDs.
N....no. They really wouldn't. Christian bale went from being in batman at 185lbs, to the machinist at 120, and back to batman at 210lbs in the span of like 18 months. Chris hemsworth went from lanky surfer dude to thor in less than a year. Go back and look at 31 year old hugh jackman in his first outing as wolverine. He was a normal looking dude....9 years later he looked like he was cut from granite. Unless it's stallone or Arnold, they're not maintaining those bodies between roles, they have a few months to get "screen ready" and that's not going to happen without some medicinal intervention.
Even Stallone has admitted to using HGH for the 2008 Rambo
Load More Replies...I wanna see summer olympics where any and all “performance enhancers” are legal. That’d be fun.
SNL did a sketch on that in the 80s "The all d r u g Olympics"
Load More Replies...I assumed they all did. Why not, if all you need to do is look the part? And it is done "safely" of course.
I was able to walk across the stage at graduation and then the university sent me an email TO MY PERSONAL EMAIL THE DAY BEFORE and told me I was missing credits.
This was in 2013.
I havent fixed it because I am still so mortified that they did that to me.
So they gave you the degree and only later discovered that you hadn't done enough to deserve it? Their mistake, if you have the certificate do they have any legal right to say that it's not valid?
I don't know this persons situation or where they live, but in the U.S. I believe it's actually fairly common to not receive your actual diploma at graduation. They give you something saying you'll receive it later. At least they have at any graduation I did or have attended. It could be different. If they've actually issued it though I think there could be a real argument against the school for trying to take it back or say it's not valid. But, I'm thinking they never received their actual certificate and it's being held until OP finishes the courses. Just a guess! And absolutely awful of the school to do to this person. Let them know they didn't get the credits before graduation!
Load More Replies...My university held up my diploma because they claimed I hadn't returned my towel from gym class freshman year.
We were standing in line to start the graduation procession when someone walked up and told our class president he wasn't getting a diploma. He was short a class. Q
There is a Starbucks cup in every single scene of the movie Fight Club.
Ok, I just looked this up and it's not in every single shot but there are a LOT
I've just committed to the fact I'm not "smart" enough to like this movie. Sorry but I can't stand it. Anyone who likes it good on ya, please enjoy it. I hate it. :P
The amount of coworkers my female coworker banged while married with a child. Her husband knew about one of them and still tried to "mend the relationship" because he loves her so much. She had an "emotional affair" in the past, (so he thought, she was again banging around) and again "they mended the relationship". I know of at least 6 guys she had sex with numerous times (not including me, she told me that they broke up, but the divorce isn't officially yet), and many times that happened within the office (conference rooms, basement parking lot etc etc).
I mean this woman would blow a guy in the parking lot and then pick up her daughter from nursery, driver her home to her husband, they'd have lunch as a family and then she'd come back to the office and f**k another guy before she leaves in the afternoon.
If her husband knew all that happened, I honestly fear about both his and her life.
What a tramp. Sidenote, why do you have so many coworkers that screw around in the office? I'd like to address that for everytime she did it, there was apparently also a male coworker she's doing it with.
True!! You know what they say, it takes 2 to tango.
Load More Replies...Or: You could mind your own business and stop slutshaming. It's a real alternative, you know.
I had a coworker like this, too. Within four years, he had affairs with five different colleagues, all while having a really stunning girlfriend. When you met someone crying lonely in one of the offices, it would most certainly have to do with him. So disgusting.
At this rate, never mind the husband, her life might simply be at risk from an STI.
Honesty is the most important thing. If she's honest with her husband about it, and she uses protection, then what harm is it? Mind your own business.
The amount of the defense budget spent on secret projects that would profoundly change our understanding of the universe and our place in it. The truth is out there.
Except that conspiracy theorists just generally create lies to get attention. They are usually losers who have zero access to secret government programs. So how would they know what secret programs exist?
People act like scientists don't want aliens to be real and they are part of a the cover up with the government. People who say that have never met a scientist they would want that more than anyone for the knowledge that would be gained would be unprecedented. The fact that no real scientists think that any of the declassified UFO images in the past few years are anything but video artifacts and angle effects speaks volumes about the truth.
American politics is fake, they are all on the same team. Literally like the WWE.
False. The competition is real. If you go back a few decades, you’ll at least find some cooperation between the major parties. That’s rare today. Does anyone really think Obama, Biden, and Harris are “on the same team” as The Orange Buffoon?
Not really true, the problem is that the limitation to two parties makes it impossible to get any meaningful changes. Both agree on neoliberalism, which is all sunshine and rainbows when things run smoothly and turns into fascism if they don't. The dems still tell themselves that all is fine, while the reps are riding the wave to fascism.
The electricity surrounding us, although not particularly a secret, but most people don't realise how much electricity is around us at any given time and it's pretty shocking if it came out.
You need to conduct yourself with a more positive outlook.
Load More Replies...You laugh but I does effect things, so when I lived in Melbourne you’d notice birds that are NOT meant to be up all night, up allllll night. Their breeding patterns are disturbed because of it also. And to be frank it’s really not normal to be wandering around at 2am and seeing cockatoos and pigeons doing daytime stuff.
Load More Replies...They did a study, tin foil hats don't block signals, they intensify & as them.
Load More Replies...That Charles Manson was manipulated by the CIA/FBI to turn the population against the hippie/anti-war movement. The FBI literally had a program to infiltrate and bring down groups they saw as threats, one of those being the hippie movement.
Johnson and Nixon loved the Viet Nam war because it was a reason to draft the hippie counter culture and send them to be killed. It was a methodical extermination of a group of youth who were questioning the status quo and the corruption of American traditional values.
War is huge money for the people who get defense contacts
Load More Replies...I read a book by Dave McGowan (forget the name of it) and he put forth a theory that Manson was actually an MK Utra participant.
Jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams.
It does make them bend however.
I think a lot of people aren't getting the OP's point on this. The conspiracy line is "jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams". The reality is that it doesn't have to melt, it only had to be compromised.
You’re getting fat because you’re not eating fat.
Everyone making blanket statements on why people are overweight can, respectully, f**k all the way off!
I'm fat because I genuinely enjoy eating and will sometimes do it to the point my colon hurts 😁
My mom actually had sex with all those dudes on Xbox.
Someone call CPS! And what's the number for 911? We gotta throw this pedo behind bars!
I'm pretty sure that Bill and Hillary Clinton have been open/poly since they started dating and it was easier for people to handle "infidelity" than the president and first lady openly boinking. It'd be nice to have confirmation but I don't think it'd be as crazy to hear now vs then.
Good for you for being “pretty sure”. You don’t know them so unless they confirm it, your speculation means nothing
Another example of the "pretty sure" principle.
Load More Replies...Governments that have deceased aliens or are in contact with living ones.
If aliens are smart enough to fly around in space with ease, like we drive back and forth to work; and it's all humans can do to make it to the moon every so often; why haven't they just wiped out mankind and taken over this planet if they wanted it??
Who says that a race of beings who can travel across galaxies can also make planet-ending weapons?
Load More Replies...It's not a nut job conspiracy theory, see Reality Check with Ross Coulthart
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These became less likely and/or more silly as the list went on. Does no one at BP read these before posting them?
A click is a click in yellow/tabloid "journalism"".
Load More Replies...I have a secret. I'm not really two cats and a soft can-opener all rolled into one. Don't tell anyone, especially Bouche and Audi.
The "hidden addiction" comes out in the news. A "normal citizen" aboard a plane will suddenly freak out, run around shrieking, and try to open a door. I figure they're secretly addicted to something, but "have it totally under control" in everyday life, but when put to stress or go too long without a hit - explodo!
That government contractors work at most 2 hours a day, or just 10 minutes, or not at all. I was a contractor for different agencies in DC for five years. Contractors are supposedly "cheaper" because they can be hired for projects and fired the second they're not needed - like picking up a tool and dropping it back in the box. The government hires 10 contractors to help 1 Federal employee. So contractors are basically on-call until needed. Sometimes they're not needed and just sit around. I worked on a Homeland Security team and once had nothing to do for four weeks. Very typical. And there are MILLIONS of contractors on the payrolls. Your tax dollars (not) at work.
Here's mine: I just don't care anymore. 1 or 2 people who aren't my family give me true joy. That's it.
Ok, now I'm done. I can spend 3 years more without remembering this awful site. I need to reconstruct my brain. I've lost maybe 1 thousand gray cells reading that much stupidity.
These became less likely and/or more silly as the list went on. Does no one at BP read these before posting them?
A click is a click in yellow/tabloid "journalism"".
Load More Replies...I have a secret. I'm not really two cats and a soft can-opener all rolled into one. Don't tell anyone, especially Bouche and Audi.
The "hidden addiction" comes out in the news. A "normal citizen" aboard a plane will suddenly freak out, run around shrieking, and try to open a door. I figure they're secretly addicted to something, but "have it totally under control" in everyday life, but when put to stress or go too long without a hit - explodo!
That government contractors work at most 2 hours a day, or just 10 minutes, or not at all. I was a contractor for different agencies in DC for five years. Contractors are supposedly "cheaper" because they can be hired for projects and fired the second they're not needed - like picking up a tool and dropping it back in the box. The government hires 10 contractors to help 1 Federal employee. So contractors are basically on-call until needed. Sometimes they're not needed and just sit around. I worked on a Homeland Security team and once had nothing to do for four weeks. Very typical. And there are MILLIONS of contractors on the payrolls. Your tax dollars (not) at work.
Here's mine: I just don't care anymore. 1 or 2 people who aren't my family give me true joy. That's it.
Ok, now I'm done. I can spend 3 years more without remembering this awful site. I need to reconstruct my brain. I've lost maybe 1 thousand gray cells reading that much stupidity.

