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“Got To Be A Freaking Potato”: 30 Secrets People Believe Are Purposely Hidden From The Public
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They say it’s important to question everything. This urges people to challenge established notions, norms, and beliefs, which ingrains a healthy skepticism in us. It also improves our intelligence and drives innovation in society.
Recently, people in this thread were doing exactly that—discussing things that might not be what the general public is used to believing. From recycling being a myth to inaccurate rich lists, scroll down to find netizens’ opinions on the world's biggest secrets.
While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with Stephanie Kemmerer, a former conspiracy theorist and an advocate for recovery from conspiracy theories and cults, who kindly agreed to tell us more about what happens when people reject certain truths.
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#1
Personal finance. Why are high school kids forced to take three years of math and chemistry but don't understand how a loan works?
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#2
Criminality by the wealthy. It’s massive.
Some people go too far with questioning everything. Sometimes even to the point where they start rejecting standard explanations for a phenomenon or an event and instead credit a group or organization with power for carrying out a secret plot or hidden agenda.
This belief is called a conspiracy theory and is more common than we might think. For instance, one in three Americans is convinced that global warming is fake.
Meanwhile, 49% of people living in New York believe that the US government was involved in the 9/11 attacks. And over half of America’s citizens assume that Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't acting alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
In addition, 37% of Americans are certain that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is purposely hiding the natural cures for cancer from the public.
#4
The unfathomable amount of wealth that is off the books and hidden by the wealthy and/or dictators.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
This is well known. But Republicans continue to blame immigrants and Liberals for the country's economic problems.
#5
That we are currently eyebrows deep in a mass extinction event, and we should be much more concerned than we currently are. it's not anywhere on the news. insects are dying off at an alarming rate. so is sea life, and other life that depend on it. are you seeing less squirrels? what about lady bugs or dragon flies? i can't remember the last time I saw either of those. Butterflies... almost non existent in my area but i used to see them all the time growing up. crows... they used to be annoyingly everywhere, not as much any more. no one is mentioning how things we used to see all the time are slowly disappearing.
Nadine Debard 1 year ago
Were I live most cities and small towns have stopped mowing everything everywhere, leaving weeds in many spots, avoiding chemichals and planting honey plants to feed the bees and other pollinating species. There are much more insects, butterflies, bees, ladybugs, and many other rare species. It only took five years to drastically make the difference.
#6
What absolute disarray the public school system is in. Unless you work in a school, you cannot even fathom how horrible it is. From insane behaviors to kids receiving diplomas and only being able to read at a first grade level, it is beyond broken.
flower petals 1 year ago (edited)
It does seem like things in public schools are pretty bad. I know someone who says there’s a big similarity between the public school system and the foster care system, in that both systems are broken, and not everyone knows that. 🥺 Edit: I should have specified that my comments referred to the US. Sorry..
Curious about how these theories are formed and where they originate from, Bored Panda reached out to a former conspiracy theorist, Stephanie Kemmerer, who kindly agreed to tell us more about them.
She says that conspiracy theories (CTs) are generally broken into several categories of creation, one of which is based on real events but with added fictional elements. Others are completely made up, just like some UFO "evidence."
Some arise from misrepresented or misunderstood data, and 9/11 perfectly illustrates this. Essentially, any event that requires a level of some kind of expertise, like physics, engineering, or geography, can become the target of conspiracy theorists. "The real experts are not trusted, and the theorists create their own non-expert interpretation," explains Kemmerer.
#7
How much the US relies on prison labor and how our for profit prison system synergizes with giant cartels.
How much punishment is designed to encourage repeat offending on purpose. Just a few minor offenses can lead to becoming jobless, then homeless, etc.
Johnny McFearless 1 year ago
Recommended reading on this topic: Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire, a 2010 book by Robert Perkinson. Easy reading, dramatic and shocking. Should be read by everyone.
#8
The degree to which the people in charge have no idea what they’re doing and are basically just winging it.
#9
Acts of terror they catch, before completion.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
You'd never sleep again if you knew all the things that almost happened.
What drives people to believe such unsupported claims is to make sense of a nonsensical world. “Conspiracy theorists are not all likely to be simple-minded, mentally unwell folks—a portrait which is routinely painted in popular culture,” says Shauna Bowes, a doctoral student in clinical psychology.
“Instead, many turn to conspiracy theories to fulfill deprived motivational needs and make sense of distress and impairment.”
Meanwhile, Kemmerer mentions our need for answers. "More so, we need answers that confirm and conform to our belief systems. CTs give us that. You can pick from a buffet of beliefs and take as much or as little as you like, as long as it all tastes good."
#10
The true extent of the Catholic Church's abuse/coverups of abuse. :::UPDATE::: Wow a lot of people liked this one. I wanted to acknowledge that while my point about the Vatican stands, the Roman Catholic Church is not the only religious community that, even just through tradition piety or shame, has to deal with people with religious authority abusing minors. This is of course abhorrent regardless of the source and anyone guilty of this should be locked up forever. I just wanted to play fair here.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
My ex's parents are very religious Christians. They used to go to church every Sunday and did other voluntary stuff, helped out the Pastor with the computers and whatnot. Apparently there was some horrible abuses going on involving the kids at the church they found out and they immediately stopped going, cutting off all ties with the church.
#11
The amount of radiation and pollution that all governments are collectively allowing corporations to create. There's a reason cancer and other diseases have been on the rise for 70 years. Plastics, oil, carbon monoxide, things we know about, and things we don't know about.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
All Canada did was implement a carbon tax on oil and gas manufacturers/producers, and other companies who create those emissions, and distribute a portion of those taxes back to the lowest incomed people every 3 months. Apparently it was supposed to encourage those companies to reduce the level of emissions so they don't have to pay as much of those taxes. The problem is those companies are too rich to be that affected by paying the tax, and it hasn't been enough of an incentive to go out of their way to change their infrastructure and production set up just to reduce the amount of tax they pay out. These companies just increase the price of the product onto the customers, and the poorest working people get a little more money a few times a year, but not enough to keep up with the inflation. This government just created a circle of tax income/distribution. One party is considering getting rid of the carbon tax once elected.
#12
There were some pretty horrific crimes not being told to the public when I was police. It wasn't really in the public interest for anyone to know outside of law enforcement and the judicial system etc.
Some were either so indiscriminate and terrible and some would just cause too much panic.
StrangeOne 1 year ago
I have heard some f****d up things. Not all murders make it to the news. On the lighter side, you don't hear about the funnier or odd calls as much, either. My dad went to a house that got broken into. Nothing was stolen but all the appliances were turned upside down. He said it was one of the most memorable calls he's had and it's a mystery why the perpetrator did that. If you want to know more of the serious calls the police do in your area, follow their social media pages.
People who believe a certain conspiracy theory may create a community, like the infamous Flat Earthers, which provides a sense of belonging to individuals. They create a bond by sharing their insights and circulating these theories, leading them to feel like members of a family.
"People who feel helpless, powerless, and isolated are more likely to fall for these things," adds Kemmerer.
#13
💥The cruelity of factory farm breeding and the toll on the animals.
#14
How unhealthy and unfit both the presidential candidates are to run for office.
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
Let’s stop acting as if they are both equally unfit. One is old. That’s it. The other is a maniac psycho criminal wanna be dictator and clearly has had a decline in his mental capacity and is also OLD! That’s not even a remotely same comparison.
Sadly, falling into an unhealthy rabbit hole of CTs can have negative effects on people. Side effects include dependent narcissistic tendencies; extreme and increasing paranoia; the Dunning-Kruger effect (overestimating one's abilities); a lack of boundaries between online and offline personas; and anger issues.
"It's impossible to grow as a person within that world of CTs," says Kemmerer. "You're fighting imaginary enemies. All that effort, time, and anger—for nothing. In the process of that fight, you alienate friends, family, coworkers and strangers. It's a sad, lonely, and powerless way to live. It robs you of joy and agency."
#15
The fringe right and fringe left are not an accident. They are molded and encouraged to grow. Money and power interests want to keep the general public divided because it is easier to control a divided people. Think about how easy it is to get someone behind a cause or point the finger at the other side, that's how you get votes. Why do you think there's only 2 political parties in the USA? If we were actually united, we could get rid of money in politics, get rid of trash politicians that just want to get reelected and don't care about then welfare of the people.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
To quote a german politician that's in talk of becomming the next chancellor: "The AFD (right wing party) is so successful because they use the current crises to gain influence - we have to fight them to save the democracy" - The interesting thing being that they want to fight the oppossition rather than actually solve the mentioned crises that lead people to vote for such parties in the first place....
#16
How horrifying our justice system is.
#18
The amount of pharmaceutical residue is a pollution no one talks about that's in our water ways and oceans. Yes, states do their best to reduce other containments such as nitrates, mercury, trace metals and nasty bacteria. All of the d***s Americans consume and then get flushed into the sewers are not monitored. Smallmouth bass were developing male testes as well as female ovaries in the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania. Most likely culprit was pharmaceutical residue from birth control pills found in the water. It all winds up in the ocean and it really makes you wonder about how safe our seafood really is to consume.
Thomas Ewing 1 year ago
Our "normal" quality of health has diminished since ww2 due to overpopulation, radiation, pollution, lowering of safety and mental health standards--no one wants to pay or be responsible for these things and our schools are slipping into a 'who-cares?' mentality. Everyone likes wealth, but no one wants to PAY for it! Stop dreaming and face the music. Stop scamming and do some real work! If you make things too easy, the world falls apart.
#19
A lot of under the table quid pro quo stuff in politics. Not necessarily with each other, but if I do this, company X donates some more and if media Y says this, I let some information leak.
Jo Slatermill 1 year ago
What you describe isn't quid pro quo but corruption. it's illegal almost everywhere except maybe the US, which is a broken country and has 3rd world antics and systems. quid pro quo is in politics itself, you support my bill even though your voters don't like it, I'll support yours.
#20
The reason a bunch of billionaires around the world started making doomsday bunkers all around the same time.
That to me seems like no coincidence and people who are that rich are definitely in inner circles of people that would know when something is coming and I feel is the reason these people started making these luxurious bunkers.
#21
Most information regarding the urgency towards climate change.
#22
The food and drink industry's role in promoting the fat acceptance movement.
BoredPossum 1 year ago (edited)
Yep, also very much depending on location. The concept of bodyshaming is way bigger in the US than in Europe. Here, we can state that being obese is a health risk without being crucified.
#23
The cover-ups and abuse related to charitable contributions.
#24
Military technology at the top level is definitely several decades ahead of what we’re even aware exists. All the technologies and sciences that you can think “I wonder if the military will find a way to use that” are definitely either already in prototype stage, being actively developed, or are already in limited production.
#25
The state of our aquifers, specifically how polluted they are.
Verena 1 year ago
Whatever the fracking people tell you, it is not correct. I worked 15 years in the drilling business, for two major contractors. Even if the area is carefully explored by core drilling (which adds to the environmental damage), no one can control where the fracking suspension is going to.
#26
The history hidden away in the Vatican archive. St. Peter's goes back to when the Romans had control of the city. I'd be most interested to see what information survived from Rome and Old St. Peter's before the current 1500's incarnation was built.
Edgar Rops 1 year ago
Bills, receipts, administrative documentation, low-grade diplomatic correspondence, legalese. Treasure trove for a historian, but 99,99% wouldn't be surprising, or immediately shocking to general population. Same applies to secret (which back in the day meant private) archives of other places. There are mountains of medieval documents in such archives, but they are not so much hidden, as just nobody knows how to work with them - they are in poor condition and we mostly lack technical means by which we can study them without destroying (only in recent years did we develop machines that scan documents without unrolling scrolls and leafing through books). And there is little funding and/or interest in improving the technology: corporations don't stand to profit, and unless there is a horrible, dark secret, governments wouldn't chip in either lest they be accused of wasting taxpayer money on studying stuff nobody cares about, except few university weirdos...
#27
What happens with all our personal data that is taken from us on a daily basis.
Michael None 1 year ago
Eh most people willingly give it away for a dopamine boost. Social media is designed to harvest data. On social media YOU are the product the consumers are advertisers and social engineers.
#28
It's not so much things are being hidden, as the mass media are dominated by conventional thinking and beholden to vested interests, so they focus on superficialities, leaving most people woefully under-informed. I think that our current levels of consumption are completely unsustainable, the world is horrifically over-populated (by a factor of 2 or more), and capitalism as it is now practiced is incompatible with the continuation of global civilization. We are now entering a period of gradual or possibly rapid decline, as the Machine continues to grind through what is left of our ecosystems and resources. The best thing we could all do for future generations is to commit to a 30-50 percent reduction in our standard of living. Cut right back on non-essentials as we transition to 100% renewable/recyclable society within strict demographic and production limits. Of course the cutbacks should fall mainly on the rich but the middle class would also have to take cuts. The poor are already on the edge so we should minimize the effects on them (as far as possible). So who's going to vote for this? Almost no-one of course. Which is why we continue on the road to collapse. I hope I'm wrong about all this, maybe I'm just a pessimist. But we seem to have a strange ahistorical belief that our empire is somehow different from all the ones in the past, all of which eventually collapsed.
#29
How truly damaging it is to have Covid more than once. Having it two or more times is pretty much guaranteed to leave you with long-term effects.
#30
How rampant the contamination in the air/soil is in disenfranchised neighborhoods. You can go to the hood and the soils there will test high in heavy metals/carcinogens generally due to the fact that cities will allow industrial plants to open up nearby and the regulations on them are super lax.
flower petals 1 year ago (edited)
Also, often city planners and others chose to let heavily trafficked roads pass by underprivileged areas, but kept roads away from more privileged areas. Today much is known about the debilitating health effects of living surrounded by toxic fumes, and underprivileged people are suffering, getting sick and dying early as a result of this.
#31
Kaiser works numbers and decides if it’s cheaper for a patient to die vs paying for the treatments. They factor in that family will sue. Check out your new contract when u agree to Kaiser insurance with that maximum 250,000 payout. Still don’t understand how it is legal for a company to run insurance and ownes a monopoly of hospitals. Insurance and hospitals are are suppose to be checks and balances on each-other.
#33
Experimentation on the general public and particularly on low grade military members, mental hospital patients, the homeless without consent.
Kathy 1 year ago
Inadequately tested d***s being given with adverse reactions being hidden or downplayed that are nevertheless approved by the FDA, who has done no testing of their own because they rely on results provided by the pharmaceutical companies, all of which have horrible reputations for deception. Some have been fined billions for their deceptions, but they haven't changed.
#35
How much unpaid labour is done in corporate offices.
#36
I wouldn't be surprised if giant corporations regularly have large amounts of money stolen by hackers and that they would hide it in order not to have it affect their stock prices.
Dream 1 year ago
Just got a letter informing my uncle his hospital was hit by ransomware attack here in the states. They warned him his info was stolen but mentioned nothing about how much they payed to get it back. Didn't even offer to pay for real credit protection, just monitoring. AT&T sent him one around 2 weeks ago too but wasn't ransomware, just a data breach. So yea happens a lot here where I live.
#37
The AI we get to play with on every Windows 11 taskbar out there has absolutely GOT to be a freaking POTATO compared to what's on the bleeding edge.
Irishwoman abroad 1 year ago
I just rewatched an interview with Stephen Hawking (rip) where he warned us 10 years ago about AI as being one of the most dangerous things for humanity. Once AI reaches a tipping point of intelligence, it will have no need for us, so we should proceed with extreme caution. But nobody listened when he warned about Brexit, and nobody's listening now.
#38
Positive news.
mrsmunsonbarnes:
No they definitely do. They recently had a breakthrough in the treatment of glioblastoma, but that’s never going to be front page news when all the negative stories generate the traffic.
Annie 1973 1 year ago
In Sweden they have found a treatment for ALS that can help. https://www.umu.se/nyheter/genombrott-for-als-forskningen--ny-medicin-bromsar_11926948 just use Google translate.
#39
True history, I genuinely believe that there have been things discovered in the past that tell a different story of the past and are intentionally hidden.
Szzone 1 year ago
Jesus, this is conspiracy theory level stuf. No. Just no. That's not how this works. There is ample scientific background and research, from multiple independent sources, on the deep human past. You can trace this stuff through a spectrum of scientific disciplines. Please just read an actual book about this, or listen to a podcast by academists, not the hysterical Netflix stuff or the online conspiracy theory websites.
#40
Nuclear policy. The uranium we've stopped buying from Russia was part of the most successful disarmament campaign in history (megatons to megawatts). People don't seem to know or care we have no longterm waste storage facilities, or the state of the Hanford site or the Runit dome. None of this information is inaccessible, but it's sort of willfully kept out of mind because it's such a nasty topic.
David Paterson 1 year ago
Both Obama and Trump were kept completely in the dark about the megatons to megawatts program. Obama started a bipartisan disarmament program completely unaware that there was already this Russian disarmament program in place. Trump cancelled Obama's disarmament program without even knowing what it was.
#41
How close things really are to another depression.
Geoffrey Scott 1 year ago
If you mean 2008 style, I agree. If you mean the type like the 20's/30's, those in power would not let THAT happen again.
#42
All the horrific animal and human experiments. Don't you think they didn't try to make a human chimpanzee hybrid.
BoredPossum 1 year ago
No, I don't think they did. There's no sense investing so much resources in a project that hard and senseless.
#43
I’m not a conspiracy obsessive at all, but the US military (and even Obama) have acknowledged there are things flying around in the sky, captured visually and on radar, darting around in ways that should be impossible and we don’t know what they are. And they are seen *all* the time. We don’t HAVE to jump to aliens necessarily - but it’s a legit mystery and someone must have an idea of what they are.
michael reid 1 year ago
I'll give you a clue, it's not aliens. Or ghosts, Santa claus, or the tooth fairy.
#44
Where all the money in cities that are poorly run (Oakland) is going? Obviously the people in charge are pocketing the money but they also say they’ve forgot to apply for essential loans to basically help with the assistance of getting rid of the trash and fix the homeless situation along with infrastructure and crime reduction. Like how do you just forget to apply when the other cities around you are applying for the same s**t and getting payed ?
#45
Baby pigeons, I've never seen one.
Robert Millar 1 year ago
They leave the nest fully fledged. If you see a "stupid" pigeon, it's probably a young one.
#46
There may have been an intelligent civilization on Earth prior to humans that we now have very little record of.
keyboardtek 1 year ago
While making a fossil is rare, I think there would be some record of an intelligent life form found. Even if not its fossilized bones, but remnants of artifacts it made, as proof it was a superior intelligence and not just a pre-human that ate berries.
#47
There probably are a lot of sex and d**g party islands out there that only the rich are invited to. I'm not saying they're all necessarily pedophile islands or it's a weird cult, or some "satanic" nonsense or anything, but the rich probably get away with a lot more d**g and sex stuff than is publicly known. Probably more just like sex workers and blow.
cerinamroth 1 year ago
What's wrong with sex parties if everyone consents? I don't see a problem.
#48
That World War 3 has already started.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
The situation we are in is very close to the situation a hundred years ago - small conflicts all around the globe that will interfere with each other at one point into one giant conflict. I would say we currently have 3 factions at the table: The NATO and their allies (Japan, Taiwan, Israel), the BRICKS faction and the Islam as ideological movement
#49
The evacuation plans for the President in the event of a nuclear attack on Washington DC. This is literally the most closely guarded national secret. You could count on one hand the number of people who know what it is. The VP would be expected to stay in DC and die while the President was being evacuated. Not even the President knows the plan. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, maybe Chief of Staff for the President, maybe national security advisor, maybe head of the secret service. it's obviously not public who knows but it's very few people.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
We know how it works in Moscow though - secret subway system connecting several bunkers, a system dating way back to Stalin
#50
That cures have been found for many diseases and probably types of cancer, but they're sitting on it because ongoing treatment is more profitable.
Rose the Cook 1 year ago
Nothing new here, "managing" many conditions have always been more profitable than a cure.
#51
Just how contaminated federal lands are. Everything from bombs to radioactive elements to dangerous chemicals that were just dumped and left. The feds don't actually give a s**t about human lives, and their trash proves it.
#52
We will eventually run out of oil….
#53
There are USA health systems being hacked and I never see news in the news reddit about it. I only know two but I bet there is more Change health system been down since Feb 21 2024 Ascension health systems down since. May 8 2024.
#54
Certain technologies that have yet to be unveiled to the public.
keyboardtek 1 year ago (edited)
Versus the new technologies that are prematurely put out to the public with a ton of problems that will take years to solve. i.e. EV cars.
#55
I still think something was up when Hawaii got that text about an incoming ICBM. Like it was actually happening and somehow we were able to stop it.
#56
How bad tap water is…sooo much bad c**p in it.
Zedrapazia 1 year ago
That depends on the country, the water in Switzerland is so clean you can drink it from the rivers - much to the horror of tourists seeing local hikers refill their bottles in some mountain stream
What do you think ?
Verena 1 year ago
Now, which ones are conspiracy theories to let people panic and which ones are a true concern?
Sky Render 1 year ago
I would add the number of live intersex births to this list. Not just cases where ambiguous genitalia are present, for fairly obvious reasons (a number of intersex conditions are primarily hormonal in nature and are somewhat harder to detect at birth as a result). There's an entire branch of medicine quietly dedicated to concealing intersex conditions from those who have them whenever possible, often with horrific practices and encouraged gaslighting by their families.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
Especially if the hospital is at all connected with any religion.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
We're talking about hidden information, right. The world's greatest oxymoron is the "freedom of information act".
Donkeywheel 1 year ago (edited)
As usual, a big list of things that may be true in the states but absolutely not in the rest of the world, without any indication or even awareness of this geographical particularity.
Seedy Vine 1 year ago (edited)
How about all those ambulances and police cruisers you see swarming your neighborhood, and then the news NEVER EVER tells you what the fƯck that was even about.
marianne eliza 1 year ago (edited)
I don't know about where you live, but here in CA. there is a public website that logs every 911 call and details. You click on the geographic area your closest 911 center is in. For instance the greater Bay Area is all under Golden Gate. A lot of the calls, like illness or accident not associated with anything public is referred to the fire dept or ambulance or local LE and drop off the website quickly. But public stuff like fires, accidents, jumpers, traffic hazards like animals or debris or road closures due to police activity and such are right there to be read by anyone. The only problem I have is they don't report who is in the dang helicopter circling overhead or why. Unless it's an active and publicly hazardous situation.
Load More Replies... cugel. 1 year ago
My personal hunch is that when government contracts out some task, x dollars worth of work is being charged x*2 by contractors , and everyone considers it business as usual.
marianne eliza 1 year ago (edited)
And when the contractor does a lousy job, they are NEVER required to fix it on their own dime. Oh, we did a bad job paving that section of freeway? It's sinking or falling apart? Well that'll cost taxpayers to fix the substandard work. Oh. We said we could get it done by X date? Well it'll take months longer and cost twice as much as the estimate. It's all a scam and a lot of people are padding invoices, pocketing bribes, pocketing the difference between what they bill the taxpayers and what they actually paid out to suppliers.
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Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago
I knew a lot of this already, but I had to stop reading halfway through. Just brings sadness and a shudder to my heart. 😭💔
Verena 1 year ago
Now, which ones are conspiracy theories to let people panic and which ones are a true concern?
Sky Render 1 year ago
I would add the number of live intersex births to this list. Not just cases where ambiguous genitalia are present, for fairly obvious reasons (a number of intersex conditions are primarily hormonal in nature and are somewhat harder to detect at birth as a result). There's an entire branch of medicine quietly dedicated to concealing intersex conditions from those who have them whenever possible, often with horrific practices and encouraged gaslighting by their families.
marianne eliza 1 year ago
Especially if the hospital is at all connected with any religion.
Load More Replies... David Paterson 1 year ago
We're talking about hidden information, right. The world's greatest oxymoron is the "freedom of information act".
Donkeywheel 1 year ago (edited)
As usual, a big list of things that may be true in the states but absolutely not in the rest of the world, without any indication or even awareness of this geographical particularity.
Seedy Vine 1 year ago (edited)
How about all those ambulances and police cruisers you see swarming your neighborhood, and then the news NEVER EVER tells you what the fƯck that was even about.
marianne eliza 1 year ago (edited)
I don't know about where you live, but here in CA. there is a public website that logs every 911 call and details. You click on the geographic area your closest 911 center is in. For instance the greater Bay Area is all under Golden Gate. A lot of the calls, like illness or accident not associated with anything public is referred to the fire dept or ambulance or local LE and drop off the website quickly. But public stuff like fires, accidents, jumpers, traffic hazards like animals or debris or road closures due to police activity and such are right there to be read by anyone. The only problem I have is they don't report who is in the dang helicopter circling overhead or why. Unless it's an active and publicly hazardous situation.
Load More Replies... cugel. 1 year ago
My personal hunch is that when government contracts out some task, x dollars worth of work is being charged x*2 by contractors , and everyone considers it business as usual.
marianne eliza 1 year ago (edited)
And when the contractor does a lousy job, they are NEVER required to fix it on their own dime. Oh, we did a bad job paving that section of freeway? It's sinking or falling apart? Well that'll cost taxpayers to fix the substandard work. Oh. We said we could get it done by X date? Well it'll take months longer and cost twice as much as the estimate. It's all a scam and a lot of people are padding invoices, pocketing bribes, pocketing the difference between what they bill the taxpayers and what they actually paid out to suppliers.
Load More Replies... Whoopdeedoo 1 year ago
I knew a lot of this already, but I had to stop reading halfway through. Just brings sadness and a shudder to my heart. 😭💔
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