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Some people seem so sure about certain things, they must know them for a fact. Right? Well, not necessarily. They might be convinced themselves, yet have no proof to convince you with. Whether it’s a conspiracy theory they’ve made up or a strong belief based on personal experience (for instance, “that sandwiches taste 100 x's better when cut diagonally”), their minds seem to be set in stone.
Redditors discussed the topic after one of them asked what they believe is 100% true but can't prove. Quite a few people were willing to share, so scroll down to find their answers and see if there's anything you believe to be true as well.
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#1
I believe that if you separated the population of any country or city based on either religion, skin color, gender, age group, economical class, political affiliation or eye color, you would find the same percentage of a******s in each of those subgroups.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
As a mathematician, I'd have to say that statistics argues against this. For characteristics not acquired by choice (skin color, gender, age group, eye color), it's quite plausible. But choice is based in least in part on character and personality. I respectly decline to assume that hospice volunteers have the same proportion of a******s as Qanon.
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
Yep, there's are @rseholes everywhere, it's not down to race, colour, creed although certain jobs do seem to attract them more than others.
Jan Velart 2 years ago
Absolutely, I hate categories like Germans are precise, Finns are quiet...... there are loud Finns and disorderly Germans too!
Let’s Be Kind 2 years ago
Yes!!! We get so caught up in race-bashing and country bashing that we don’t realize we are ALL the same! I am glad to see this is #1.
PunchinelloTX 2 years ago
Yes! This is very true and always my response when people make divisive statements or denigrate a segment of any population. No matter where you are or with whom you are, some will be great, some will be jerks.
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#2
That kids would be generally happier if all schools started later in the day, allowed/encouraged mid-day naps, and had cellphone jammers that were turned on at the start of the day and turned off at the end or in case of emergency.
Kookamunga 2 years ago
Do the really young kids still get nap time? I remember this vividly as a child. kids-napti...e80298.jpg 
fair_weather_rose (she/they) 2 years ago
As a teen who just woke up at 6 am for my first day of school, I would definitely learn better if I was less exhausted
Fxnglhl 2 years ago
what time does your school day usually start and end? mine usually starts at 7 am and ends at 4 pm (9 hours :'))
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Firstname Lastname 2 years ago
They told us that high schoolers started earlier to prepare them for the workforce, and then all my sleepy classmates got nightshift jobs where the real world starts after lunch.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
And a long enough lunch to actually be able to eat normally instead of having to cram food down their throats in 15 to 20 minutes—-after standing in line half that time to get their food in the first place.
kansasmagic 2 years ago
I can't believe kids in my H.S. could leave campus for lunch. At the time the closest places to get food were about 10 minutes away, so kids who ate off campus had to rush out, eat fast, and rush back. School officials gradually phased it out, but still one kid died in junior year just rushing back from lunch.
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LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
I remember having to wake up at bloody 5:45 am for secondary school and just being so exhausted and miserable from the pressure to constantly succeed. We put so much pressure on young people.
Verena 2 years ago
The first one is already proven by researches all over Europe. The second is at least common in creches and elementary schools in some countries. The third is at in the Netherlands applied partially: Many schools have a "smart phone garage", where the phones are kept in flight mode, unless being part of a lesson.
Em 2 years ago
The local high school switched to a 9-4 schedule a year or two ago. I was commenting to one of my regulars that it's been proven a later start time is better for teenagers, but it was surprising that the city had actually acted on it (if that was indeed the reason). He joked that they must have had a choice between that and helping the homeless.
Molly Whuppie 2 years ago (edited)
Schools outside the US start at 8 or 9am in some countries and the kids don't seem to have issues with it.
Mia Black 2 years ago
All the schools I went to in Germany started at either 7:30, 7:45 or 8:00 o clock.
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#3
Whoever started the flat earth conspiracy theory doesn't actually believe it-- they did it as a massive troll for their own amusement of watching dumb people dedicate themselves to something so stupid.
Corvus 2 years ago
I believe the same thing about QAnon - whoever started it, probably didn't even expect it would blow up like it did.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
QAnon was just one of the mane Anon "whistleblowers" popping up on 4Chan/8Chan. Most were just trolling, other were spreading antisemitic or neofascist propaganda. The leading theory is that initially it was just some random fascist weirdo trolling online (possibly a south African moderator of the site); when the character started going viral, the profile was snatched by the 8Chan founders, who then continued the ruse turning the nazism up to eleven.
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Tee Rat 2 years ago
'My parent's went to the edge of the world and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Load More Replies... Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
My same thoughts about religion. a hoax gone way too long and wrong...
MadOrca99 2 years ago
I respectfully disagree. We as living beings have a right to question the origin of our existence. The origin of the universes' existences, and the origin of what created the universe. Religion is a choice, or a thought. Like PowellSkier i have experienced way too much for the past 15 years to deny God.
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Beetlejuice 2 years ago
If you like this theory, watch Inside Job on Netflix. A episode is basically this theory. It is really funny
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Exactly. Some people reach the most ridiculous conclusions when something happens and they don't know why.
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Giles McArdell 2 years ago
Go take a look at Scientology, it was founded by the Science Fiction author L. Ron Hubbard. It's so clear he was trying to see if he could make people believe some sci-fi bollocks he made up, unfortunately he succeeded.
Disgruntled Pelican 2 years ago
He believed creating his own religion would make him rich, and he was right.
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#4
Most (all?) animals are much more intelligent than researchers give them credit for.
I can see a thinking creature if I watch any of them long enough. Praying Mantises especially!
Anouk T 2 years ago
It’s because we think our type of intelligence is superior to others. And such thinking will eventually be our downfall
BlackestDawn 2 years ago
While that is a factor I think it's more that we can't device an intelligence test or measure intelligence without relying on facts, facts that we can't teach in the same way outside of humans due to how other species perceive and comprehend the world.
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MargyB 2 years ago
I have always wondered Why there are not more fires during stick insect mating season?
Chucky Cheezburger 2 years ago
Maybe they use motion lotion to prevent friction?
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Angela B 2 years ago
I had a game of "peek a boo" with a praying mantis once. It was on my verandah chair, which I nearly sat on. Gently to it to one of the plant pots near the stairs. I kid you not, it marched back up the handrail while I sat and drank my coffee. I swayed to the left, it would lift itself up to see. Swayed to the right, out of view, it would creep further forward to see where I was. Repeat for a good 10 minutes.... chuckling to myself constantly.
Wandering_Frog 2 years ago
Lot of people have this stupid idea, that intelligence is linked to verbal communication in human language. Parrots are smart, cats are stupid, etc. Stupid ones are people, who measures intelligence, through their narrow perspective.
Silence Hill 2 years ago
From what I have noticed I'd say cats have the IQ of two year old children. Can't comment on Parrots though. The EQ of any of them is basically unknown.
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AnnaRachelle 2 years ago
I have always believed this. I get really annoyed when people say things like..fish don't feel pain. How the hell do they know?
Auntriarch 2 years ago (edited)
They don't know, they just want it to be so in order to carry on fishing. There was a time some years ago when octopus were believed not to feel pain, at the very same time that they were being used in pain research because their reactions were so like ours....
Load More Replies... Verena 2 years ago
I work with horses which are allowed to be a horse in a band and do their horsey things most of the time and just be around when work is done around the stables and pastures. They are smart and clever, watch closely, learn a lot of thing (like opening doors and fences). I am happy the have hooves and not hands. They have the intelligence of a five to seven year old, in their environment and around the stable. Unfortunately they would suck at doing my bookkeeping
Alexandra Davis 2 years ago
100%. I watch my pet sheep and they are so so clever and yet most just see them as food.
Undercover 2 years ago
Dump myself and a monkey in the djungle and watch who will die first... The concept of intelligence has been created by humans, so our view of the world around us may be a litte bit biased /s
#5
That my generation (im 25 yo) will bear witness to a cataclysmic event that dramatically restructures the geopolitical system and society as we know it. I am talking an event on par with the great depression or WWII. Perhaps even the fall of Rome or the plague. I feel it is just about time for the wave to crash.
Nancy Marine 2 years ago
Every generation feels this way and also believes THEY are the only ones to fix it. This is not a new or even original thought. As you get older, you learn it's all cyclical and ever changing. What we are going thru is the result of the industrial revolution and the only thing that can make it better is to go back in time to before we had machines that emit waste, like the early 1800s.
Becky Samuel 2 years ago
The horrible (?) truth is that if humanity loses its technology to the point that society returns to pre industrial revolution levels, we can never recover it again. The industrial revolution was completely dependent on the ready availability of fossil fuels, and they are just gone. If we blow this chance then we are locked into an agrarian lifestyle forever.
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Andi 2 years ago
.... mass migration of peoples all over the world due to climate change along with failures of crops and interruption of global trade that we now rely on. Couple that with American un-civil war, localized wars having an increasing global effect and the break down of the post war democratic consensus, is there any wonder we're f****d? And its all of our making, and there is no point in blaming any single generation because people have had the same nature since they left the plains. .. as the Bard put it ....' life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury and signifying nothing' .... happy days!
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
Sorry kid, you'll be lucky to live to an old age. Global warming is going to screw your generation into oblivion. I was taught about it in the 80's, did everything I could to spread the word and change habits, turns out people are lazy and don't care. My neighbour had some builders over the other day, one of them didn't like his pasta salad so threw it into my cardboard recycling bin meaning nothing in it can now be recycled. That's the mentality of 80% of the population, I didn't have kids for exactly that reason. The only way your generation will survive is a mass cull.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
Right now, wars seem to be fought for oil. Oil is a finite resource that we’re coming to the end of, at least for reserves that are relatively clean, relatively easy to get to and extract, and not located on protected land. Eventually, we’ll (hopefully) move away from it, and on to cleaner sources of energy. The next resource that will spark wars is clean drinking water. We’ve polluted so much, and have not curbed emissions that are causing climate change, so droughts will become more and more common. Yes, floods will too, but floodwater is far from clean and drinkable, and flooding kills crops and removes topsoil. Droughts and floods mean fewer food crops will grow to maturity, so not only the availability of clean drinking water will diminish, but food supplies will too. Whoever controls the food and drinking water supplies will rule the world—-and you know they’ll try to get the maximum profit—-not just money but power and world dominance—-from it they can. For example, the largest source of clean drinking water is the Himalayas—-and China is exerting greater and greater control over the entire range. Too many areas of the world already walk a fine line of self-sustainability when it comes to food crops and drinking water, so they will be the first to fall. In other areas, farmers will no longer be able to support their families by farming, so they will sell their land and move to the cities to seek work. Not knowing the going rate of pay, salaries will drop, as they country folk will take jobs for less, and the glut of workers will turn the job market in favor of employers, who will take full advantage of it, as we have seen in the past and present. Often, there are huge differences in religions and values between country and city people. This, plus the lowering of pay and increase in competition for work, will start conflicts which could spiral out of control and become wars. Then we’ll have refugees flooding the shores of neighboring countries, which will start the process all over again. So climate change doesn’t just stop at weather, it has profound social and political effects as well. If people would just look away from Fox News, social media fluff, and online gaming for a minute and really have a good deep think about it, they’d realize the potential dangers from their own inaction. IF they’d actually do that.
Stygtand 2 years ago (edited)
Covid was a fart in the wind. With the climate changing we are probably 5 to 10 generations from exterminating ourselves.
Annik Perrot 2 years ago
Climate change, far right rising everywhere, finite resources, mass extinction, viruses currently thawing with the permafrost... Yup, we're in for some rough times. I fear for my grandkids growing up in a world much different from the one we knew. After all, us boomers only had the fear of nuclear war to contend with ;-)) Trouble is, that risk is still there, added to the others.
#6
A lot of people don't actually believe in whatever religious organization they belong to and use it to manipulate those that do and amass power for themselves. Church of scientology isn't the only example, but it's a good one. See also the fact that if everyone genuinely believed killing yourself for your religion would lead to eternal paradise, suicide bombings would be reserved for the highest ranking officials.
BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
Only idiots believe killing yourself for your religion and killing innocents along with you will land you in paradise.
Sanni Salo 2 years ago
I understand people's need to believe in a higher power, but I can't understand that someone actually believes, say, the Bible to be true. It's so clearly a collection of fairytales.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago (edited)
It's a collection of books, each written in the way that made the most sense to the common people at the time. For example the psalms are songs and the parables are all basically fables. I know that there are people who think every word literally happened, but I would say they are the minority. The stories used things that most likely did happen in some way (there are many stories of the time that mention a great flood, like gilgamesh, and there is evidence some sort of flood event took place) to key into what people needed to hear to make the teachings seem personal and meaningful. That's why most churches only focus on certain passages throughout the liturgical year, because they are the ones that are still relevant at the time.
Load More Replies... LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
I find the hyper conservative "Christians" and Evangelicals some of the biggest hypocrites of all. They judge LGTBQIA+ people, people of different faiths, and anybody that does not fit their narrow view of the world. Yet, doesn't Matthew 7: 1-6 say in the simplest of terms: "Don't judge, or you too will be judged..."
John Murphy 2 years ago
Actually thats not what it says - Greek Theological major here. Your opinion to me dosent matter but your misrepresentation does. Vs 1 and 2 must be read as one sentence and in plain english it says "you will be judged with the same standard you judge others", it does not not, however, say that you must accept things counter to the Bible. This verse/s does say basically "mind your buisness and keep yourself accountable to your Biblical standards", however since the entirety of the new testament states that Christianity is transformational - one cannot propose to "live in sin" according to the Bible and still be a "christian". This applied to everything from cheaters, drunks , abusive people etc.
Load More Replies... The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
Religion is every bit a political tool as it is a spiritual quest, perhaps even more so.
Id row 2 years ago
This is a well known fact and just one more reason why religion should be abolished. It's been bastardized and weaponized by the stupid, corrupt and greedy opportunists.
Namea 2 years ago
Most people wouldn't believe in their nonsense religions if they weren't brainwashed from childhood or drawn to them by trauma/mental health issues. People would react the same way to the ridiculous ideas of Christianity as they do to Greek myths if they weren't raised with it while their brains weren't developed enough for critical thinking.
iluvanimals 2 years ago
This is exactly what is happening here in the US. Religion = money and power. A very good portion of the elected Republicans are using religion to manipulate voters.
#7
Small/lack of pockets in women's clothing is a thing so that fashion companies can sell more purses.
Bamboozled 2 years ago
My thoughts exactly, this is what i've been saying to all my male friends, with a demonstration as well; the difference in size is astonishing.
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Also, tiny pockets make your a$$ look bigger, so fad diet industry also gets a boost!
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Tara Noe 2 years ago
Sorry to disappoint, but the real reason is because pockets ruin the curvy shape of female clothing and make them bulge and look awful.
fair_weather_rose (she/they) 2 years ago
You think I care about what others think of my appearance??? I just want to have space to carry around an entire classrooms worth of art supplies, a minimum of 2 decks of playing cards, and my shiny rock collection without needing a purse!!!! And besides, I own several pairs of men's cargo pants and I look absolutely fabulous in them! And why do all women's clothing have to have a "curvy feminine shape???" It detracts significantly from the available space for pockets.
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Trillian 2 years ago
As much as I hate the tiny or nonexistent pockets, never would normal sized pockets be able to replace my purse. I could leave the country at any given moment with just my purse.
kitteh floof lover 2 years ago
i don't want to carry things in my pockets, i like having a purse. they hold more than even big pockets would, and a lot more comfortably. even just the basics for me, keys, phone, sunglasses reading glasses and wallet, would be very uncomfortable and awkward to put in pockets.
Auntriarch 2 years ago
I don't understand this. Many of my clothes have pockets, jeans, shirts, cardigans. Decent size too, will take phone hanky lippie and wallet
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I think it's also to save on materials and they think of women's pockets as not a priority to women. The fake pockets are like a Barbies house. You can see the furniture painted on the interior walls but they serve 0 function.
Little Johnny...and Laura 2 years ago
And then you HAVE to get purses/ bags to carry the c**p of the spouse or the kids. Because they don't want to carry their own c**p.
Šimon Špaček 2 years ago
Few brands tried putting decent sized pockets on women dress and none of them was popular. Why?
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
pockets on dresses are a dealbreaker for me. I do NOT like it. If the dress is a one in a million, and the pockets just flat, i will sew up the pockets so they'll stay in shape and dont become bulging extra's :-(
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CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
Probably because large pockets filled with stuff distract a man's eyes from the shapely contours of a woman's body. Marketing clothing to women is based on sexual attitudes.
Redheaded1 2 years ago
I saw an article about a person carrying a $200000 handbag!?! But of course she had leggings on so no pockets. Crazy that a purse costs the same amount as my house.
#8
That anything and everything we do on our mobile phones, even when you think you are being secretive by using invented usernames and arbitrary passwords, is being logged and electronically documented somewhere. Privacy is a thing of the past.
Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
That's true but not in some dark conspiracy way, but just the way this technology works. it's dots connected from your phone to another site out there. it's like you order coffee somewhere, they write it, fill the order, gives it back to you. the order still logged, the money is logged as received. it's the exact same thing, you just don't think of it this way cuz you just click some buttons on your device.
User# 6 2 years ago
The major difference being that the coffee shop doesn't sell that data to the bakery down the street who will then jump out in front of you and force you to listen to a sales patch for 10 seconds before you'll be allowed to continue your journey.
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Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
Yep. As someone who works in IT, specifically around data, the volume of data they have on people is amazing and the lengths they go to is ridiculous. Think you're safe using a VPN and blocking 3rd party cookies? Nope, there are loads of ways they connect the data threads together.
John Murphy 2 years ago
this has been proven already, amazon, alexa, iphone etc have all confirmed that their electronics do this
Dawnieangel76 2 years ago
Even if it's true, if you don't have anything to hide, or for some of us don't have anything important to lose, who cares?
El Dee 2 years ago
This is not a conspiracy theory. Wikileaks literally has documents on this on its website that were leaked to it. GCHQ spys on US citizens, the NSA spys on UK citizens. The organisations swap their information - it's convoluted in order to get round domestic law on spying on your own people whilst it being legal to spy on another nation. They have backdoors into everything. The thing that I suspect strongly is all the talk about WhatsApp being unassailably encrypted and not giving in to government pressure to give a backdoor is false reassurance to promote the use of it by 'bad guys' so that the government can spy on them. ie just a ruse..
Duane Johnston 2 years ago
Actually it is true. The NSA has a building almost a mile square filled with servers. It copies every electronic message. Quantum computing will allow the to go thru the back log and look in real time. People under 40 are gonna be so screwed.
#9
Giant creatures exist in the deepest parts of the sea.
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago
But even with all the technology that we have today -- satellites, buoys, underwater vehicles and ship tracks -- we have better maps of the surface of Mars and the moon than we do the bottom of the ocean. We know very, very little about most of the ocean. This is especially true for the middle and deeper parts far away from the coasts. ~Gene Feldman (NASA)
AnnaRachelle 2 years ago
I think if we knew what was down there,it would frighten enough people not to go deep sea diving!
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Yeah. I believed that until humans visited the deepest parts of the DNA in the Trieste. An extra nail in the coffin of that idea is the use of "environmental DNA" to find new species that have never been seen.
PowellSkier 2 years ago
Didn't a DNA study of samples found in the New York subway find several of unknown origin?
Load More Replies... Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
Doesn't make much sense. maybe some giant Jellyfish. but very low brain functioning if any. maybe. but the bigger sea animals usually lives closer to the surface. whales, sharks for example.
Saint Thomas 2 years ago
It depends on what you call "giant". But actually, gigantism is pretty common in the depths. From squids to arthropods and fishes, you can find a lot of very big animals down there. Not kaiju big, but still bigger than their counterparts on lesser depths.
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Vasana Phong 2 years ago
The earth and the universe still unknown, anything can happen, imagine due to climate changes, mass quantities of deep sea creatures or land will just pop up, dead or alive
Tamra 2 years ago
Haven't we only explored 5-10% of our oceans? Given that, it seems reasonable to assume there are creatures we haven't documented, but I don't know how large they can get at the deeper levels, given the amount of intense pressure. I would think that would limit growth size.
Marco Richter 2 years ago
while factually correct that's a common misconception. The low percentage comes from a grid based mapping of the oceanfloor which nevertheless provides a pretty good overall knowledge. Like if you look at any scetch only a very low percentage of the paper has been drawn out but you can still tell what the picture should be.
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ROSESARERED 1 year ago
Yes, the most unexplored part of our planet. We know more about space than those depths. I'm not volunteering to go there though
#10
That there's fragments of history behind the legend of Arthur.
A long time ago the only iron they had access to in Britain was bog iron - literally clumps of mud pulled from bogs. They would use them to make iron weapons but the quality of the metal was poor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron
"pull the sword from the stone and you will become king of Britain" - this means if you learn to get iron from iron ore (stone) you will get weapons good enough to make your people conquerors.
"a magic sword from a lake"
Heard of quenching? at some stage someone was forging swords with their new iron and accidentally dropped it in some water (or stuck it in because he was tired of waiting for it to cool down) and to his surprise found the new sword seemed "magically" stronger than non-quenched swords.
Remember; millennia ago history was largely (completely, sometimes) passed down orally from generation to generation and changed in the process.
The legend of Arthur that we have now is in fact the relicts of actual historical events so old there's nothing left of them except the legend...
Not all legends are true; but some may be fragments of oral history.
Corvus 2 years ago
All legends have some tiny grain of truth in them. The Flood, for example - some scholars think it may relate to a major ancient geological upheaval in the Black Sea region... which wasn't a global flood at all, but evolved into such a myth over time.
Emmydearest 2 years ago
I agree. The very fact that it's a myth in several different cultures and populations is a proof to me: it's obviously in the Bible, but it's part of the ancient Greek mythology and of the Mesopotamian mythology.
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Michael Largey 2 years ago
Strange women lying in ponds distibuting swords is no basis for a system of government!
Cyndi Hafele 2 years ago
Almost every culture on earth has an ancient flood story. Pretty coincidental.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
*shrugs* without mass communication over great distances a great flood only really needed to hit a country or city. We've had a few major floods here in the last 20 years. If you'd lived in ancient times two weeks of heavy rain and flood waters that rose 6 metres would seem apocalyptic.
Load More Replies... Giles McArdell 2 years ago
I often wonder whether the prevalence of Dragons in folklore throughout the world is due to some deep fear ingrained in our very DNA left over from the times of dinosaurs.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Or large crocodilians were originally more widespread or tales of them were brought back by travelers and misinterpreted/embellished. Even now we get rare 4 and 5 metre crocs. A five+ metre croc 600 years ago seems more likely and they'd have seemed like a dragon - big enough to kill a man or horse easily, huge, lots of teeth, scaly... Not sure where the wings and the fire breathing came from though ;)
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SkyBlueandBlack 2 years ago
I've read that art is gaelic for bear -- so "arthur" could very well have been a title back in the day.
witchling 2 years ago
It's true that some stories are just that, meant for entertainment, but lore such as Arthurian legends almost always have their start in true events. Those events rarely resemble the modern telling. Lancelot and Guinevere were not part of the original story nor was the round table or the holy grail! If the very first most ancient story of the person/s now known as Arthur were told today it would likely be unrecognizable as the modern story of King Arthur.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Alternatively, the sword from the lake is an iron rich meteorite that fell into a lake. So provided high quality iron ore in a largish quantity which they used to forge a sword far better than the ones everyone else at the time had.
Wondering Alice 2 years ago
I thought the legend was based on an actual sword believed to have been forged from a meteorite much earlier than Arthur somewhere in Arabia where there are earlier but similar descriptions of Excalibur. Problem is, like too many things, I have no idea if I thought that because I read a scholarly article or because it was part of a plot in a piece of fiction I read long ago. My head needs a good cleaning
Bookworm 2 years ago (edited)
I watched a PBS show about the legend of Arthur; they didn't talk about the above (cool info, thanks! Hadn't thought about that!) But they did conduct an archeological dig in the area where Arthur was supposed to have lived, and discovered a rich and extravagant building complex by the standards of the time (they showed earlier in the program that the inhabitants of Britain were doing a lot more immigrating and cultural mixing than fighting in legendary battles, but it was still the Dark Ages). The complex was positioned on the cliffs next to the sea, and the archeologists thought it might have been perfectly placed to take advantage of a thriving trade network from the mainland. It was probably a place of great importance and power, and that's how it became so strongly associated with the legend of Arthur. Edit: spelling
#11
That sandwiches taste 100x's better when cut diagonally.
Giles McArdell 2 years ago
They're bigger too, I don't have time to show you the maths but it has to do with Pythagoras and diagonals.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Would you believe someone came up with an explanation why? You're exposing more of the flavorful interior.
#12
Subway was much higher quality 20 years ago.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Subway has always been pretty bad, and is notorious for being a bad deal for franchisees. They allow close competition and run mandatory promotions that drive the franchisee income down to the lower edge of profitability. Few years ago they have been exposed as part of a scheme where they would fine their top locations franchisees for minor infraction to the point of forcing them to close, and then buy out the once-profitable places for dimes on the dollar, only to reopen under their management.
sweetrottenpeaches 2 years ago
I never liked Subway. I am European and here in Hungary we only have 7 subway rn. The first opened in 2004. I had a sandwich and it was bad. Weirdly sweet bread and condiments, and I never understood why we need a restaurant that sells s****y sandwiches for a high price.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I used to hate the smell of Subways 25 years ago. Now I like it and the food. They revamped the Canada Subway menu. It's not too shabby. Better than McDonalds and Taco Time. At least I don't get gut problems shortly after.
tom 2 years ago
they also used to cut the bread with a wedge shaped incision in the 90's, does anyone remember this?
kansasmagic 2 years ago
Yes, it was to make the sandwiches look fuller bc the fillings poked out of the wedge. I also remember a *lot* of Subway sandwich artists cutting towards their hands and arms.
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Willy Nilly 2 years ago
People’s standards are higher and they have better governmental regulations for food quality.
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Kevin Hickey 2 years ago
Everyone on Earth thinks that things were so much better at some point in the past, usually about when they were 18 years old.
Marilyn Russell 2 years ago
There used to be a good place for submarine sandwiches in Canada called Mr. Sub.
usernamenotfound 2 years ago
Mr Sub was awesome! The pizza sub was delicious 😋
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Aliens exist.
Corvus 2 years ago
From a purely statistical standpoint - they have to. The universe is too damn big for us to be alone.
Black Cat 2 years ago
And the thought that we're the most intelligent species in the universe is just too depressing.
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Angieeee 2 years ago
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
Malfar 2 years ago
The second one isn't unless you deliberately imagine alien life as terrifying enemies. There might be the same Joes tired of their work, credits and Flat Planeters.
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Morten Jul Lægaard 2 years ago
They have not contacted humans because they have not found intelligent beings on earth 🌍
whineygingercat 2 years ago
More likely, they are too intelligent to want to come near us
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Orange Tabby 2 years ago
I 100% believe that. Earth, a single floating rock, has millions of living species. Why can't other floating rocks?
Will Cable 2 years ago
They visited an Ikea, then entered and are still lost somewhere in a store.
Hawkmoon 2 years ago
Research the "Fermi Paradox". It's fascinating, especially the set of possible answers.
LeiLah 2 years ago
I love reading stuff about the Fermi Paradox. My favorite theory, which makes so much sense to me, is The Great Filter!
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago
I'm adamant that it's a very cocky thing to think we're the only ones in the universe, let alone our galaxy.
#14
King St. Old Town, Alexandria VA - there are two, count em TWO, wig shops one building apart. They are outdated shabby looking places whose windows are filled with the fakest looking wigs, mustaches, and toupes on mannequin heads. It's on the main street, in a very wealthy town. Other businesses come and go under the competitive pressure of the area and high leasing prices but these shops stay open without a single customer. My mom lived there in the 80s and they were there; I live there now and still they stand unchanged. 100% a front for two competing mobsters.
edit: y’all are bolstering my conspiracy theories, now I’m going to investigate the stores myself. If I die you know what happened.
Carol Karbowiak 2 years ago
Mattress stores too. How many do they really sell?
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Fiona Parky 2 years ago
Have you tried asking one of the mannequins if you can enter St Mungo’s Hopsital for Magical Maladies?
Jo Slatermill 2 years ago (edited)
Some people just hang on to things way too long (no, not the hair). I know businesses that lose money every year but are still open cuz, well, like gambling, they just hope for a "break".
Jrog 2 years ago
No need for conspiracy theories, old stores are often just that: old. Some guy running their business himself out of an already paid-for place, without recurring rent or staff wages, so they can live off otherwise meager sales from a bunch of returning customers for their niche merchandise. No need to brush up the store, the increased business won't offset the costs anytime soon. When they retire, the sale of the store will be their pension.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
And chances are good that when the sell the store will vanish and become something else entirely.
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Spencer's slave 2 years ago
They could be a nonprofit organization providing wigs and toupees to cancer patients so they don't actually need to show a successful business front.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Or doing a massive amount of online business, but keeping the brick and mortar stores anyway.
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Beck 2 years ago
My husband and I talk about this exact thing sometimes. I don't live in a huge city, 52,000, but traffic is awful. We have been stray growing with no room to grow. And at one of our busiest intersections sits a mattress store. Prime real estate. Never any more than 2-3 cars in the parking lot which I assume are employees. No way they are selling that many mattresses to make rent. Not when we have at least a dozen or more mattress stores within an 8 minute drive. No. Way.
Load More Replies... Jane No Dough 2 years ago
I'm thinking they're more likely FBI, CIA or NSA related, due to location....
Steph 2 years ago (edited)
Old Family, who might own the Building, with No Need to Rent it out. Leave them alone, they aren’t bothering anyone, Are they? Or would you prefer a Mc Donalds, trash in Front of the building and Noise?
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kath morgan 2 years ago
I live in the area too and I agree. It’s very strange. There is also a local restaurant that does open but seems… surprised if you actually try to eat there…
Upstaged75 2 years ago
I live in Old Town too! Never noticed that but now I'll have to check it out. If I suddenly disappear you'll know why. :)
Travel Lass 2 years ago
Mattress stores and car washes...Breaking Bad didn't just make that up...
#15
Companies like 23 and me will eventually sell customers dna to health insurance companies, and some folks will be charged higher rates if not kicked off their insurance.
Jrog 2 years ago
They are already selling it to pharmaceutical companies, supposedly in anonymised and aggregated form. 23andme (re)sold their dataset to GlaxoSmithKline for 50 million in 2022, after sharing them in 2018-2022 for a 300 million equity investment.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
There’s good and bad to having DNA on file, just like fingerprints. It can help doctors and medical researchers discover ways of treating, curing, and preventing genetic diseases by understanding their source. In the event of a crime committed against you, it can help ID the perpetrators and yourself if you’re kidnapped, or dead and not found for decades, not to mention using genealogical sites to find cold case criminals. But unfortunately, if it falls into the wrong hands, it can be used against you, as in the case of pharmaceutical companies charging more, companies deciding whether to hire you, or health insurance companies denying you coverage (the last two generally go hand in hand). It’s a conundrum.
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aubergine10003 2 years ago
Oh, I have always believed this... that's why I've never done these tests.
LeiLah 2 years ago
I believe it will be worse than that. Combine this list item and the major geopolitical event list item... I think next time something like WW II happens, DNA will be used to eradicate races. It will be faster and easier than researching paper trails.
Nicole Weymann 2 years ago
"races" are somewhat hard to pin down, because outside some very isolated societies exluding genetical imports and exports we are too mixed-up. Just imagine how people from all over Europe "visited" any place from the Andes to Australia, from Canada to China, and from Greenland to the Philippines in the past 500 years and left their DNA there, how people from mostly eastern Africa were abducted and abused, how international travel for business, fun or emergency reasons (refugees) especially in the last 100 years has been mixing up the genepool with the capacities, speed and range of boats, ships, trains, cars and airplanes.
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Anne 2 years ago
Unfortunately, it will be a problem everywhere. Europe has altered it's health system from what it was and exclusions may happen there too. They already do (reconstructions after all cancers are insure, but not breast cancer reconstructions)
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Will Cable 2 years ago
I'm sure I came across an article where police visited someone who had tried one of these kits because the DNA was a near match to a case and it turned out to be a family member who did the crime.
Tee Rat 2 years ago (edited)
The Golden State Kìller was caught this way. It's not illegal in the US and listed in the fine print of the 23 and Me's purchasing agreement it states that your DNA can be accessed publicly. Where the police obtained the DNA I don't know.
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#16
Facebook suggested friend algorithm is partly based on people that have stalked you.
Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
Doesn't make any sense. I get lots of friend suggestions past years of fake accounts, and people from other countries, with no connection to mine. if anything this algorithm needs serious fixing.
DarkGlassSphere 2 years ago
I'm not arguing, but funny thing is, I know about the case, where one stalker had been sending messages to a person from different forsaken accounts.
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Seadog 2 years ago
Facebook would be great again if they'd provide their legitimate users as much respect and protection as they provide the scam advertisers and the fraud accounts. I reported a fraud user once that was sending me threatening messages. FB refused to do anything about it and that account is still active. FB tells you to keep your privacy set and yet accounts that are set as private still get copied and hacked. That can only happen if FB's security isn't working or if they are actually allowing peoples accounts to be seen anyway. If IM would work without a FB account, I wouldn't use FB at all.
#17
There is an infinite number of universes.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Excellent comment. I believe that there are at least eight different types of multiverse (multiple universes). There are new universes that you get to be going through black holes. There is the quantum multiverse where the decisions we make now cause the universe to split. There is the braneworld multiverse of 11 dimensional space in which 4-D universes float. There is the multiverse of "eternal inflation". There may be a topological multiverse where the universe folds back on itself, and there is the far universe beyond the visible boundary in which the laws of physics are different.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Stephen Hawking believes there are. In fact, there are so many astonishingly unlikely things about the universe that are absolutely necessary for life to exist that believing in an infinite number of universes is pretty much intellectually necessary for atheism. However, the predictions made by Hawking so far have not been demonstrated, but that doesn't prove him wrong.
Cosmologist wannabe 2 years ago
It is impossible to disprove this. But it dàmn near impossible to prove.
Tee Rat 2 years ago
Wouldn't that still be one universe? Universe inside of a universe is one universe.
Holy Shimmering Sheeps541t 2 years ago
Given multiversal trees yeah, that seems about the right number. I'm kinda hoping the afterlife is getting to play out every variation of every decision I ever made.
Ryan Winters 2 years ago
One idea that has been proposed is new universes form on the other side or exist inside black holes and that the entirety of our universe could be inside a black hole
#18
I believe “Bad Luck” exists to steer us in the right direction. For example, turning around because I’ve forgot my wallet to find I’ve left the door front door open. That’s why I’m not so upset about having to cancel a recent vacation. I had vehicle breakdowns, one after another, on a road trip. Had to cancel after only 200 miles and go home. Maybe something horrible would have happened out in the desert if I’d continued.
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
I think in your case, your ancestors may be looking out for you! In my case, I probably did something terrible in a past life and I am only here to suffer this time around.
PixxelDust 2 years ago
I think sometimes it can be hard to see what the bad things helped you avoid. It might not be obvious like the front door example, but I'm sure at least some of the things happening have been for the better. ^u^
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UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
This is some hardcore solipsism here. So “luck” is watching for your open refrigerator door, but not the neighbor falling down the stairs or the friend stricken with Parkinson’s? I’m angry every time someone says “the universe is watching out for them” because they got they got the last donut or found their car keys, and meanwhile Ukrainians are being bombed, migrants are drowning, and cancer kills more than ten million people a year.
Black Cat 2 years ago
I'm not getting vaccinated because God will save me from Covid. Honeybun, God doesn't save babies from AIDS, He's not going to save you from any disease.
Load More Replies... Saint Thomas 2 years ago
Or in other words, confirmation bias. You can forget your wallet 10 times, and only find the door open once. But you will recall that occurence and forget about the 9 others. If you apply the same grid of reading to everything happening in your life, you can forge the impression that "bad luck steers us in the right direction". Another example is a friend of mine who was convinced that she could regularly get a good parking place just by wishing it very strongly. She would remember the few times it "worked", but forget about the much more frequent cases when it wouldn't.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
This is how I look at it, too. Whenever I come to a setback, I take a moment to observe what's really going on. At some point I'll see what it was that I may have missed that would have been worse than that setback.
Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
This is legit crazy belief. it means every one just steered constantly in the "right direction". all those homeless people who had bad luck, just herded to the right direction by this mysterious force who really gives a sh@t about every single person.... I think it's like the arrogance of religion - oh, some greater being thinks I'm special.
Andi 2 years ago
'luck' is totally relativistic in its consideration. Someone said that we are not rational creatures but rationalizing ones. we make decisions and then we rationalize them so we feel they were the right one. We are not very good at accepting the random - we have to rap it in some quasi - spiritual nonsense and call it 'fate'.
Star Gazer 2 years ago
When I'm angry that I missed a bus or something minor like that I often tell myself "well, nevermind, maybe I would be killed or my life dramatically change somehow", like butterfly effect 🤷🏻♀️🙂 I think it's good technique how to stay positive 🙂
#19
Talents shows on TV plant the people who they audition and the judges are cued to ask questions based on their stories.
Corvus 2 years ago
I think people are often chosen not based on talent, but rather on appearance or having a "dramatic" backstory.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
Apparently it doesn't have to be a significant backstory, nor a recent tragedy. It's like "My father had cancer when I was 1 years old. But he survived. A few years later our house went into foreclosure. I almost had to sell my violin for collateral. But I fought to hold on to it. We've been okay for the past 10 years. So this is my story. Watch me play my violin."
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Mistiekim 2 years ago
Pretty much any reality show is scripted in some way to get the most “drama”.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
My wife had an ex-boyfriend on American Idol, so they're real people. But the judges certainly know all the background stories, and they certainly pick people who make for "good television." I'm quite certain this guy was picked to make for funny TV, but one girl picked so they could mean to her even committed suicide.
Fat Harry 2 years ago
My ex auditioned for the X Factor, and what she said was that everyone auditions away from the TV judges first, and then those that are either really good or are total car-crashes are sent to the TV judges, along with a smattering of average people to make it look a bit more real. She only saw the first judges; they said "no" that was it.
bill marsano 2 years ago
Simon Cowell & Co. acted as if Susan Boyle's talent was a total surprise--but how could she had got that far in the competition without their noticing?
#20
The US government artificially deflates the price of cheap high calorie low nutrition foods because poor fat people don’t overthrow governments, poor hungry ones do.
Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
Very naive thinking. the government is lots of departments, with changing agendas according to who is in power (politically). think about the arguing about everything you see every day in the news. now think that all of them just do and agree on one thing for decades... it's just common sense that cheap products are made of lower ingredients, so they just cost less to make.
Bored Templar 2 years ago
I totally agree. People always refer to the government as an absolute entity, when the reality is that they're a bunch of individual egocentric people
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Phoenix 2 years ago
The main ingredients in many of these foods are made from crops that receive US farm subsidies. Farms that produce healthier crops like fruits and vegetables don't qualify for subsidies. However, I don't necessarily think this is intentional but more likely a lack of revision.
Let’s Be Kind 2 years ago
And America’s food pyramid created more demand for carbs, which has fueled the high demand for those types of crops since the early 1990’s. The pyramid is wrong, carbs should not be the biggest source for us. Meat/protein, fruit/veg and healthy fats instead.
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Michael None 2 years ago
Incorrect, the US gov't subsidizes corn because of the dust bowl nearly 100 years ago. This made corn conglomerates pop up and lobby to continue the subsidies for corn. To ensure the corn business they had to start injecting corn into things that corn wasn't a part of before. Thus corn chips, corn syrup, corn cereal, corn, corn, corn, corn. Whenever a theory starts with "The US govt" you can trace the problem back to money and lobbyists.
Charles Kormos 2 years ago
The American government does nothing. Every action requires a majority vote. Every politician votes on party line. No compromise, no cooperation. Result - nothing.
Noyfb noyfb 2 years ago
Where do you see ANY evidence that “the government” (federal, not state or local in your paranoid fantasy) sets the prices at supermarkets, convenience stores or fast food stands? Sorry, there is none.
#21
Late to the party, but I believe that infants, toddlers, and young children have emotions, thoughts and feelings just as rich and complex as adults, if not more-so due to the magnitude of each new discovery.
lenka 2 years ago
But... of course they do. They are people. It's extremely odd to think that they wouldn't?
kansasmagic 2 years ago
Of course, but for a long time people - including scientists and doctors - believed that infants could not feel pain. Like they needed absolute "scientific" proof to believe it. For some reason, screaming and crying isn't proof enough for some people?
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I have a lot of old memories from when I was a toddler and I remember a lot of feelings I had back then
B-b-bird 2 years ago (edited)
I can second that. observing some little ones in the family, when they are asleep there must be some vivid dreams are going on, as they talk, make noises, hand/leg movements, lip-smacking, smiling in their sleep. It's amazing to observe, never seen an adult with such an "active" sleep.
Lil Miss Hobbit 2 years ago
There are a lot of people that think they don't. But I know better...my 2 year-old niece has deeper thoughts than I do sometimes.
The Darkest Timeline 2 years ago
This is something we can actually measure so there is bound to be at least some research out there on this very subject.
DetongLhamo 2 years ago
Isn’t that just a given? All they have for a while are emotions, thoughts and feeling until they learn how human society works.
#22
That ancient civilisations were WAY more advanced than we give them credit for, this line of thinking can go a few different ways, some more ridiculous than others but I think as a baseline it is true. edit: If you are feeling adventurous check out subreddits like /r/alternativehistory or /r/CulturalLayer . There are a lot of questionable posts but it's interesting stuff and some higher quality posts. It's mostly in good fun of course it's hard to prove any of this type of stuff.
CaptainDinosaur 2 years ago
r/alternativehistory is a s**t show of nonsense. As such, I second the recommendation.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Yep. I got over that idea when I slowly discovered that the examples in Von Daniken Chariots of the Gods are rubbish.
Daft Mosquito 2 years ago
Daniken was a widely known charlatan, debunked back in the late '70s.
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I think that people now don't realize how non advanced ancient civilizations really were. maybe some technologies were "cool". ahead of their time a bit, but generally speaking - everything you see in movies about old times, is not even close to how poorly their life was.
Ryan Winters 2 years ago
I do think we would be more advanced today if conquerors hadn't burned the history/information of those they've conquered
Load More Replies... Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
More advanced technologically, and socially as well. We weren’t brutish imbeciles way back when (though, unfortunately some people today have failed to evolve). If we had been, we’d never have crawled out of the slime (though again, some people are still apparently wallowing in it).
Sonja 2 years ago
People overestimate the importance of intelligence for technical development and underestimate the amount of intelligence needed for completing everyday tasks. They also overestimate their own intelligence and underestimate those of other people. That's called self serving bias. They also underestimate how easy it is to come by information nowadays and how hard it was to find solutions in the past. A troglodyte had to be very smart to find solutions for everyday problems and could only ask their direct companions, so the fact that they survived a fast changing environment so the human race as a whole could develop further shows they must have been pretty intelligent. Nowadays people don't need to figure out much on their own. They have knowledge and how to to videos at their fingertips. So it's pretty delusional and arrogant to believe we're smarter than our ancestors just because we have more knowledge.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
Intelligence is communal and cumulative. That's why we have doctors and very specialised ones at that and that doctor is not also a rocket scientist, and a nuclear physicist and a theoretical mathematician. It's just not possible to be an expert in *everything* within a human lifetime. It's why development has been slow and also why it's been speeding up dramatically in recent times. Shared intelligence requires developments in transport, communication and knowledge (data) storage. And of course each of those developments is built on the back of a multitude of other developments eg: mining, smelting, manufacturing. The faster and more powerful these systems get the faster our communal knowledge grows.
Load More Replies... Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
Not necessarily more advanced, but better able to use the technology they had than we would be able to. Moving Easter Island statues is a good case in point. How could they move 20 ton statues several miles? Must have had some long forgotten technology, or aliens to help. Turns out a few ropes and a dozen strong men and you can walk them.
Daft Mosquito 2 years ago (edited)
Right, there was nothing about advanced technology in moving these statues. Thor Heyerdahl described the process in detail in his Aku-Aku book many years ago.
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Jacob B. 2 years ago
I tend to think they were more mechanically advanced than we give them credit for. But, the rise and fall of empires can often result in lost knowledge. All it takes is one bad ruler and another aspiring but not as advanced nation to take it down by military means. Or bad economics and the populace bring down the elites.
Let’s Be Kind 2 years ago
I don’t know that spending time on reddit is a good use of time. If you’re interested in alternative history, wouldn’t it be a better use of time to research more reliable sources and just use reddit as entertainment?
bill marsano 2 years ago
Intelligent investigation of the past is the reason (for just one example) we no longer use the term Dark Ages.
#23
The management at my work have installed some sort of signal-jamming Faraday cage around the toilets so the staff can't spend time in the toilet using the internet on their phones.
Cecilia Bragg 2 years ago
Faraday cages are expensive. Just not putting a WiFi booster close to the toilets is a saving.
Daft Mosquito 2 years ago
Most of contemporary buildings are built from reinforced concrete. Its steel gridwork forms a sort of a Faraday cage. The deeper into the building, the more grid layers there are between your phone and a cell tower.
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Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
Not really. it's just low signal in those places. especially inside buildings. in the store near me there's a bad signal the deeper inside you go. same as your wifi worse farther from the router.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Hmmm.... Sounds perfectly plausible that plumbing would work as a Faraday cage. A LOT of buildings I've been in have done so.
Verena 2 years ago
I find it utterly gross when people take their mobile phone to the toilet and then touch whatever in the kitchen or office appliances. Just put them in your bags to have them ready when a universal catastrophe strokes. For any other emergency you can be contacted via your work telephone or employer.
Blondie23 2 years ago
I can see some companies doing this but also if you look at the location of restrooms they tend to be in the middle of the building. That's done on purpose so that should there be terrible weather you have a safe place to shelter from that weather. Because of this cell signals tend not to be great there. Just food for thought.
#24
That the vacuum shop down the street is a money laundering operation. Never a customer in the store, no new inventory since what looks like the late nineties to early aughts, and yet, they've been open for business since the 1950s. A specialized vacuum shop could never survive in this walmart era, there's just no way.
Also Mattress Firm. Same deal, I just know it.
Seadog 2 years ago
People buy from our local Mattress Firm though I'll never understand why when Mattress Warehouse is 1 block down and nearly 1/2 the price for the same quality.
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White Sauce Hot Sauce 2 years ago (edited)
They really only sell dust filters for the Hoover Max Extract® 60 Pressure Pro.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Online sales and/or a very healthy repair shop. Not everything happens in the front of the store.
Squiffle Noses 2 years ago
There are lots of 'vanity shops' where i live- they can't possibly cover the overhead with sales but their spouces just pay the bills to keep them happy, and are so rich they don't give a f@@k.
Lavendar rose 2 years ago
I believe this about mattress stores in general. There are so many all over the place and never anyone in there!
Charles Kormos 2 years ago
Plausible but they are not your enemy. Billionaires profit and destroy more lives in seconds than they all year.
not your average weirdo 2 years ago
There's a store called Food Mart in my town, and nobody ever goes there and me and my dad think it's a front for a drug dealing thing
#25
Most of the long winded top posts/comments on reddit are written by professional or aspiring writers who actually do not have the first hand experience they claim to have.
Tobias Reaper 2 years ago
are you telling me that some people put false stories online for attention i have never heard so much dribble since the time i was astronaut war hero that invented the question mark
Fish Fingers 2 years ago
That's obviously rubbish. Space isn't real. I know because my dad painted it.
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Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Some subreddits are basically 100% fantasy or creative writing, often for self-validation with some rage-bait thrown in for good measure. r/AITA, all "revenge" subs, r/relationship_advice, r/maliciouscompliance, r/TIFU, the many "offmychest" and "confessions" spinoffs. Those subreddits are the place of choice for scammers and astroturfers who want to quickly build up "karma" and move on to their business. Unfortunately BoredPanda picks up a lot of stuff from those cesspits.
Richard Graham 2 years ago
Look at the Fox News website. Most of the "comments" amplify the obvious bias of the "news" articles. Most of these "comments", despite coming from so many different people, have a similar writing style. I think they are AI generated, with a Fox News algorithm. This is to make people think that Fox News' crackpot stories are actually in the mainstream of American thought.
ƒιѕн 2 years ago
I love going to the comments on Fox News, generally better entertainment than the article.
Load More Replies... PowellSkier 2 years ago
Reddit is monitored and policed like a personality cult. Most of the moderators don't understand irony, hyperbole, sarcasm, or humor in general.
Marla 2 years ago (edited)
I never care so long as it makes me think of something in an interesting way. I don't know these people anyway. So true or not doesn't really matter. In my head it's about moralistic choices. In that way, it's all just modern day myths to me. So, I find the responses of "fake!" or "didn't happen!" to be distracting because who honestly cares?
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
Shut up. I don't talk about YOU. (Oh, wait... OP said reddit, not BP.)
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
Let me simplify that for you. Most of the posts on reddit are written by people who do not have the first hand experience they claim to have.
#26
When you look at a person completely unaware of you, they have the impulse to turn and look at you too.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
An instinct from back when we were prey animals, and a good instinct to still have, as we are still prey to predatory humans.
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Pretty sure that's why they're called Creeps, it's the feeling you get that makes you look around.
Tiny Dynamine 2 years ago
It's our survival instinct kicking in. We can't help but check if someone is a danger or friendly, but we don't really know that it's what we're doing. We're just used to noticing other people around.
David A Paterson 2 years ago (edited)
True. I think it has to be sound. When you look at a person, your breathing changes, and the person who you are watching subconsciously notices the change in the sound of your breathing.
Paul Richards 2 years ago
It's called instinct from our time in the trees. If you didn't know you were being observed you probably became food
Richard Nichols 2 years ago
This happens to me *all the time*. Maybe even more often than not, when I stare at someone facing away from me, maybe even walking away too, they turn around and look at me. It happens way too often to be coincidence (and, like moggie63 says, why would they randomly turn around and look at me ever?). Skeptics assume it's all coincidence and confirmation bias, but that's just copium for the fact that events don't agree with their physicalist/mundanyfing worldview.
PowellSkier 2 years ago
Scientific studies, (yes, it has been tested) has shown that this is not the case at all.
#27
In the 90’s business leaders all bought stock in student loan companies and began demanding BAs for entry/middle level jobs.
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
I thought it was more about being legally able to hire less women and people of color. We were less likely to hold college degrees than white guys up until the 80's. American companies are still fast tracking white guys over everyone else!
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Yeah, only now more women have college degrees than men, and POC as a whole achieve nearly as many college degrees as whites, so let’s hear them try to explain that away. Here’s a link to a chart showing the 2108-2019 numbers, in case someone decides to differ: https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72
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Tee Rat 2 years ago
When our company was sold the new owners wanted degrees for all supervisors and most office positions. A number of supervisors were high school graduates working in a warehouse and had been on the job for more than 10 yrs. They lost quite a few experienced people who found it easier to leave for another job. Our payroll person was removed from her position because she didn't have the degree, but she held the job for 15yrs. She came to work with us in the warehouse and management asked her if she could fill in for payroll until the new person started. "Hell, no!" was her answer.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
There's a worse "conspiracy" here. In the endless quest to make sure that every child is educated, schools have instead simply made sure than every child gets a diploma. A diploma used to guarantee an employer than an employee could be expected to have a reasonable level of education, skills, and motivation. Now, it's meaningless. So businessmen demand BAs just to prove basic competence, and people who can't afford to go to college or simply to take four years of productivity off get absolutely screwed.
MR 2 years ago
Only a couple of BA's are worth anything, most are a scam. The government shouldn't loan any "school" money unless it proves to lead to a viable employment. If they did, there would be hardly any degree's or colleges/universities. College is a total scam. It puts people into a form of slavery due to debt that can't ever be paid. Interest on interest. BS.
Seadog 2 years ago
And now if our government really cared about helping students they'd make student loans interest free rather than just forgiving them. Forgiving them only teaches them there's o consequences in not paying your bills. Of course, if Uni tuition wasn't so out of control, student debt wouldn't really be an issue.
#28
I’m into conspiracy theories, but at the end of the day I don’t have a strong belief in any of them. I have an open mind towards them, but I also acknowledge that they are just theories. I’m sure some of them are probably true, but there’s no way to tell which ones are and which aren’t. But I do firmly believe this: There is enough evidence to prove that the CIA and the rest of the government won’t give a flying f**k about the well-being of American citizens if it means their goals will be met. The horrors of MK-ULTRA, bacteria being sprayed across San Francisco to test the effects of biowarfare on their own citizens, all of these events actually happened. If the government would do that s**t to their own people, some of the conspiracy theories don’t sound so crazy now. When it comes down to it, you really are the CIA’s lab rat whether you like it or not.
Kim Kermes 2 years ago
The larger the number of people who would have to keep it secret, the less likely it is.
Corvus 2 years ago
True. Also - the more complicated a conspiracy is, the less likely it is to be real.
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Heffalump 2 years ago
I always think, when I read about people anywhere who suspect their government of devious and well executed conspiracies: have they ever actually met anyone who works for their government? Would they suppose that person could be relied upon not to totally screw up?
Andy Cran 2 years ago
I had an ex who worked for the government as a civil servant in the DWP (that's social security/welfare for those not from UK) , official secrets act she'd had to sign,I had to be cleared to visit her at work (ya know at end of day) so much she couldn't say or talk about
Load More Replies... Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
What you described can be summed up in one word - nationalism. it's not that they don't care about people. they just think the country is bigger then the individual (which is something most people agree on in a small scale). they just believe they do this for "the country". and from there it can go downhill very fast, can you sacrifice 1 person for the great good? how about 2 or 5? then 20? if you start a war how many expected casualties is too many? 100, 500, 5000?
RezFidel 2 years ago
It´s mostly conpiracy stories/myths/ideologies not theories. Stating a theory always implies an academical approach which most of these clownish turdstories do not occupy. Don´t give these tinfoil origami specialists this credibiltiy.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
well said..... also theory and fact are two completely different things.....I once read about the psychology of conspiracy theorists, very interesting
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SheHulk 2 years ago
Um .. most conspiracy theories can be proven to be wrong, it's just that people won´t accept the evidence. E.g. the idea that the Lunar landings never happened.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
it would have been easier to put man on the moon than to maintain the conspiracy that it was false....the best conspiricies are the ones nobody hears about 😉
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Randy Klefbeck 2 years ago
There is a reason the CIA is called "The Company." It primarily was created by wealthy influencial people involved in politics at high levels, for the purpose of controlling economics in the world for the benefit and stabilization of our country politically and economically.
Randy Klefbeck 2 years ago
A claim without evidence is an opinion.....not related to fact or truth.
Kelly Jones 2 years ago
The big conspiracy theorists are in on the conspiracies too, making bank with propaganda for would-be autocrats. The often regurgitate Russia State media. I should know. If you find me on Twitter you’ll know why. Two sides of the same coin. Divide & conquer. The real politic behind a lot of this is the corrupt hidden legal cosa nostra.
#29
Gatorade switched to curvy bottles to hide that they are 4 ounces smaller Edit:I am not saying it can't be proven that the bottles are 4 ounces smaller, I am saying I can't prove that the bottle shape was changed specifically so consumers wouldn't notice.
April Pickett 2 years ago
Of course, it was. There's money in those smaller bottles sold at the same price the bigger bottles used to cost.
Blondieybat 2 years ago
I have noticed a similar "issue" with my body lotion. Every time I buy a new bottle, it holds a little less product. The containers are a little shorter and narrower. Not enough to really notce cut every newer bottles a few ounces smaller:4 at most.
Ken Beattie 2 years ago
It obviously could be shrinkflation but it could also be about minimising packaging and shipping changes. If the bottles stay the same height and same diameter at the base and top (even though smaller in the middle) they can use the same boxes when packaging cartons of them. So you re-tool one manufacturing plant (bottles) not a second (cardboard boxes).
Bob Brooce 2 years ago
They didn't make any change to the package that I can see, but there's a reason that the Oreos in the party size are now loose before I take one out.
#30
The timers at McDonalds to determine when the fries are done frying move at a rate of 2 units per second in order to make employees feel like they're moving too slow and to work faster.
Ripley 2 years ago
Or, just maybe, they are calculated to off off when the fries are ready . . .
Jared Robinson 2 years ago
Employees don't feel that way. Trust me. When you need the basket of fries to come up, cause you need to get three more bastkets down yesterday, 20 seconds becomes a lifetime. Literally everything is hung up until that timer goes off.
Andy Cran 2 years ago
the fries are still going to fry at the same timespan,no quicker or slower.....have I misunderstood the OP 🤔🤔🤔
BeepBoop is Lonely (she/they) 2 years ago
so like instead of 1 seconds being equal to 1 second on the timer, in 2 seconds it would say 1 second. I think that's what they mean?
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#31
That there is no afterlife.
Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
I'll report back here when I am dead to confirm whether this is true or not
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
See, that’s the thing that stops me believing in an afterlife. Near death experiences are just that, NEAR death. They aren’t actual death, though they may represent the brain’s shutdown procedures at the beginning of death. They would have to reanimate several people who are graveyard dead and have been for a long time, and do so to the point where they’re sentient enough to answer that question and confirm there is an afterlife, for me to believe in it. Until then, I will believe that our lives are all we have, and we have the ability, and very often a lot of choices and chances, to make them heaven or hell, for ourselves and/or others. There is no reward or punishment except during your life. Once we can ask someone who’s actually been 100% there, whatever they answer may or may not change my mind.
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StrangeOne 2 years ago
I've seen too many s**t go down to know there's an afterlife, and no one can convince me otherwise. I can't convince other people, but I'm not going to lie to myself just to satisfy the skeptics.
Tess 2 years ago (edited)
It may not be what most people imagine, but it exists. I've lost far too many loved ones. There have been far too many instances of specific personal things that have happened for them to be mere coincidence. There are loved ones on the other side of the world. Always believed that there was just endless nothingness like I did. One person has changed all of that.
Load More Replies... BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
I am kind of sure about it but how exactly do we prove it? Also it makes me happy that there's no afterlife. My life is c**p enough to make me hate the possibility of any other life.
Jason Melvil 2 years ago
What do you mean how do we prove it? You do not prove a negative. How can you prove there is no invisible dragon living under your bed? The person claiming there is one needs to prove it.
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#32
The "arms" on Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons are backwards. They ought to be rotated 180 degrees. What good are these stubby little arms for? We have found out relatively recently that T-Rex have feathers. It is now an established fact, T-Rex where not covered in scales but in feathers, like a bird. Take the "arms" on a T-Rex and flip them around 180 degrees. Now you have wings like a ostrich. Now look at a Tyrannosaurus. We used to think of almost all "dinasaurs" as "lizard-like," in fact the name means "terrible lizard." Now we know that many different animals that we think of as "dinosaurs" are more bird-like than lizard-like. Rex had wings. Not big wings to fly with, but wings that were perhaps somthing like that of an ostrich, cassowary, or emu, although likely much smaller in proportion to their body. Ostriches use their wings in mating rituals, to make themselves appear larger, and to signal and communicate, perhaps T-Rex used theirs for some similar purpose. They did not have useless stubby little arms.
Marco Richter 2 years ago
If you could come up with it by yourself don't you thing at least a some of the hundreds of studied paleontologists would come up with the same idea to double check it?
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
Not necessarily. Plate tectonics seems obvious now, for example, but no one noticed it until the middle of the last century.
Load More Replies... Jane No Dough 2 years ago
Makes sense to me, except weren't some of them excavated intact? Otherwise I would agree maybe they got left and right mixed up. I always thought the stubby arms were used for burrowing, like gigantic rabbits!
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago (edited)
I look at the ducklings at 3 weeks, they just look like dinosaurs, I call them my Dino babies. And watching two chickens rip apart a mouse they find, gives you first hand glimpse of what it might have been like to see their Dino ancestors eating and hunting. Imagining a T rex dust bathing seems so hilariously cute though
StrangeOne 2 years ago
T-Rex was a scavenger, not a hunter. The widdle arms are for loving and foreplay XD.
The Chocolate Gecko 2 years ago
As a dino nerd, this is just waht we've learned from the 90s. Now, we know that t Rex lived in an environment like the everglades, so if it did have feathers, it would only be when it was very young, as the environment would be too hot.
David A Paterson 2 years ago
What good are these stubby little arms? For manoeuvreing underwater. When a T rex is lying submerged underwater then the little arms are used for fine positioning control to line the predator up with prey on the shore, ready for it to sprint up the slope after the prey. Of course I can't prove this.
CaptainDinosaur 2 years ago
I always figured the tiny arms were used to hold on during Rex-Sex. Snakes have tiny legs for this purpose... of course, gimmie five minutes and it always comes back around to dino-loving...
Emmydearest 2 years ago
Unrelated but... is it just my silly brain or does anyone think t-rex look like they have just told you a stupid joke that only they find funny and they are waiting for you to laugh? Like "Eh? Eh? C'mon 😃..."
#33
I’ve waited a long time to be asked this exact question.
1. Skittles are all the same flavor
2. Quail can only fly like 20 feet at a time. They can’t hold sustained flight.
3. When Mormons get married, they are issued a secret sex how-to pamphlet because they’ve had such sheltered lives up until then.
Nobody can convince me otherwise.
Corvus 2 years ago
Can't agree with 1 - I have a pretty good sense of smell/taste, and they all have different flavors to me.
Emmydearest 2 years ago
Well, that is easily verifiable. Just try them blindfolded. If you can tell the flavor anyway it means they do have in fact different flavor...
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I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
If Skittles all have the same flavor how are the red ones my favorite and the purple are my least favorite?
cheesy 2 years ago
As a former mormon #3 is wrong. Remember even mormons are people and they have urges and hear things from friends and people outside of the church too. They also do get ‘the talk’ at some point too. There are a lot more extreme churches out there that i would be more suspicious of this.
Perfumista Perfumista 2 years ago
1 - not the same flavor, 3 - nope, read some hilarious Dr stories of them not beng able to get pregnant because they were doing it wrong.
Norman Beattie 2 years ago
Sorry, Quail will fly 50 to 100 feet when they are first flushed and the covey will fly a much shorter distance on the second flush and then they will sit tight and flush as singles when you almost step on them.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
All partly true. Skittles TASTE the same, but have different scents; quail can fly only about 100 yards; And it does take a lot of explanations for Mormons to get it on: but that myth about making love through a hole in a sheet is a bigotedly bad guess about what people see on Mormon's clotheslines. (It's underwear, not bedsheets. You put your head through the hole. This used to be common in ancient Christianity, too.)
#34
30 years ago or so it was the oil companies behind "Save the Trees" to get everybody to use more plastic. Plastic bags, plastic straws, all sorts of stuff. Nobody was cutting down the rain forest to make paper grocery bags. Trees, paper trees especially, are a crop like any other. "Save the wheats! Dont eat bread!" Signed: Corn farmers. That'd be weird, right?
David A Paterson 2 years ago
Paper or plastic. Kill a tree or strangle a fish. I'm beginning to believe that that "strangle a turtle" meme was invented by an ad company and involved them catching turtles, forcing their necks through beer holders and filming the result. Can't prove it though.
Sonja 2 years ago
You don't 'kill trees' for paper. Trees to produce paper are fast growing crop, not hundreds of years old oaks. Fir trees row so rapidly you can harvest them fast enough. Let's not even get started on bamboo which you can use like wood gor any purpose you would use woof for and you can watch growing daily. It grows 90 cm per day if the environment is right
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The Original Bruno 2 years ago
False religion demands sacrifices. The new civic religion demands sacrifices, too. ("I require no sacrifice, other than a contrite heart" -- God.)
#35
That in elementary school on day when there was a substitute teacher, Jabrahn stole all my shiny football stickers from my drawer. The sub teacher didn't know any of the kids and when the real teacher came back a few days later they said there was nothing they could do as they weren't there. Jabrahn mysteriously had a lot more football stickers to trade at lunchtime. F**k you Jabrahn.
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
Sorry that punk àss Jabrahn stole your football stickers but where were you when this was happening? Also wtf does this have to do with the topic??
#36
Fudgesicles and oatmeal cream pies are smaller than they were when I was growing up in the 1980s.
Matt Du 2 years ago
As far as I remember one half of the original owners emigrated to Australia. The UK half sold the rights to produce the wagon wheels in the uk. Neither can expand beyond their original borders without a new licensing deal. Australia still follows the original recipe but it is a much smaller company, they make the now standard and the original big size. The biscuit inside the UK ones is also different, it was replaced with overcooked rejected biscuits rolled wafer thin or they would be too hard instead of the original digestives.
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Blondieybat 2 years ago
Welcome rto shrinkflation: paying the same amount of money for less product.
#37
I've noticed a few way overpriced gas stations in LA, and at first I thought it was because they were off the highway or something and catching people who weren't locals and didn't know any better. But then I noticed they're next to police stations, and have completely convinced myself that they jack up the price because (I assume) the gas money to fill up the police fleet comes from the government and not individual officers, so nobody cares.
My “in my head” Voice 2 years ago
Municipalities generally have their own gas pumps at the municipal garage and don't buy retail. A better explanation would be that people feel safe that close to a police station so they would prefer to gas up there. You pay a premium for the illusion of safety.
Just another idiot 2 years ago
Police offices usually have a contract with a given gas station or two. At least that's how it was where I worked. The contract would come up every year and the gas stations would bid on it. Just like any other government contract. They usually got a pretty sizable discount.
#38
That humans have to be, by some degree, psychic or able to tell the future somehow. Think about it, how many times have you thought of a song in your head right before it comes on the radio? Or had a topic in mind and came across other people discussing it? Or thought of something at the same time as someone else? That stuff happens too often for it to just be chance.
NewBird 2 years ago
Someone has a done a good de-bunking of this line of thinking. Was it Derren Brown? Something about the sheer number of people in the world, if you think about the number of things that happen to those people or the number of things they think about, there are bound to be a heck of a lot of coincidences. Humans are bad at thinking rationally about large numbers. Radio stations play the same songs on rotation and you probably listen to a particular radio station because you like the music it plays. Sometimes they tell you what's coming up in the next half hour. Life is magical even when it's not mystical.
Collin Lyle 2 years ago
In mathematics, coincidences are not only possible, but exceedingly common. A favorite example is the birthday coincidence (also called the birthday problem). In a random group of only 23 people, there's a greater than 50% chance that two people will have the same birthday.
UpQuarkDownQuark 2 years ago
I have a lifelong problem: there is always—ALWAYS!—music playing in my head. From the moment I wake to the moment I fall asleep. I wake up just enough to turn my pillow and roll over, and there’s music playing in my head. Over the course of 50 years there have been a quite a few times of times that a song has come on while I was thinking of it, but that’s out of literally hundreds of thousands of songs.
HeavyMetalHeart 2 years ago
Honestly? Very, very rarely. Certainly no more than could be explained by coincidence or circumstance. Like, that song is very popular and gets a lot of airplay, that topic has been in the news recently or something happened to trigger similar thoughts in two people who were together at the time.
MadOrca99 2 years ago
Downvote me to hell if you want, but sometimes ill dream a specific, very specific moment, and sometime later in the future it will happen. I mean moments like someone walking across the room, saying something to someone else, then they make a gesture and reply, basic stuff like that.
Jeff L 2 years ago
I've had similar dreams since I was about 7. Mines like a still frame of a moment. When the moment occurs it feels like the image clicks into place. It's happened at least a dozen times over the years. They're also one of the few dreams I remember clearly after I wake up
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Elizabeth Kuhns-Boyle 2 years ago
Or thought about calling someone and your phone rings a few minutes later and it's them!
TheAnimalGoddess 2 years ago
I actually agree with this. I will dream of people who I haven't seen or heard from in years - sometimes decades - & within 24hrs I will run across them somewhere or someway... There are multiple ways I seem to have clairvoyance in my daily life, but I can usually brush it off as coincidence. This particular thing is what really makes me wonder though - I mean a couple of times dreaming about someone who I haven't seen in years sure, but the regularity of this happening has become more than I, or people around me, can seem to explain.
#39
That Jeff Bezos is laughing at all of us not realizing that the Amazon arrow is really a penis.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
How long were you in a coma that you just realized that? We knew it the millisecond we saw it. We aren’t stupid, we understand symbolism.
#40
Financial systems are involved in a conspiracy to remove financial education from public schools. This is in order to keep young people financially illiterate and more susceptible to incurring debt. They influence governments to remove or fail to include mandatory financial learning from standard cirricula. Seriously, I never learned anything about the financial reality that I would face as a citizen of my country. I did a brief three month elective rotation at age 14 learning how to write a budget sheet and how businesses worked, but nothing about my personal financial rights and responsibilties.
StrangeOne 2 years ago
This is a bit of a stretch. But I'm guessing they're referring to the USA education system. Canada, or at least in Manitoba, finances are a part of Applied and Essential Mathematics courses in High School. Some banks, such as RBC have books for youth explaining finances. My mom gave me one a long time ago. If there's such a thing as banking institutes bribing or lobbying for depriving youth from education it would have been blown way out of the water by now, and I'm sure some laws would have been broken.
Huddo's sister 2 years ago
We have compulsory financial maths in Australia from year 10 onwards as well. It was my most dreaded maths unit, but I somehow passed!
Load More Replies... Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
Another irrational thinking. the financial system wants, more then everything, that people will have money. banks - they hold your money, invest it, and make much more money out of it. what do they profit from you being in debt? if you are constantly poor, they don't really profit from you. they profit much more from the rich.
kansasmagic 2 years ago
In 5th grade we had to learn how to write checks and balance a checkbook. That was probably the extent of my "financial education," although we probably covered some things like compounded interest in other math classes. I suspect the answer is more simple: at some point we as a society "decided" that the whole purpose of high school is to prepare kids for college. (Or, if you are a cynic, to prepare kids to take standardized tests.)
Blondieybat 2 years ago
I learned how to budget my allowance when I was a pree-teen. Taught to me by a mother who was born at the beginning of WWII and several not filthy rich relatives. The envelope method: divide the cash into literal paper envelopes for appropriate categories. Spend accordingly.
Anya Beboop 2 years ago
My dad who has a master's in finance might be able to answer. He definitely knows that there are loopholes used by older people in corporate/gov systems that younger IRS workers don't know. Could operate like trade secrets and be locked tight by NDA. USA btw yes.
Richard Graham 2 years ago
I work in a bank. I am constantly shocked that so many people are so financially illiterate.
Justanotherpanda 2 years ago
Sounds kinda far fetched. In my country we learn this stuff in school, in government programs for the iliterate/immigrants and parents teach it to their children. we have special (government funded) organisations that can help budget or help out when it all went wrong and people need debt management.
#41
That the US military possesses many technological advancements but it is all kept secret so that other countries can't use them.
Corvus 2 years ago
Many technological advancements that we already use in our daily lives (including the internet) came from the military, so... yeah, perfectly plausible.
Bernd Heiligtag 2 years ago
The internet wasn't invented by darpa (if that was your thought) it was invented by Cern to be able to communicate fast between laboratories and universities
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CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
Too bad they have not invented a pill that makes the soldier smarter.
Jason Melvil 2 years ago
LOL what? Nope, sorry. Most of the tech in the US military is bought from other countries.
#42
We're living in an alternate evil reality, because somebody timetraveled and messed everything up.
Saint Tim the Godless 2 years ago
Compare the 1990s to now. It makes sense.
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LooseSeal's $10 Banana 2 years ago
It's all because Jeff caught that dice in that episode of Community.
The Chocolate Gecko 2 years ago
"Everything went downhill after harambe" is a very common sentiment
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
But what if the time traveler went back in time and then changed something that prevented his time machine from being invented?
kansasmagic 2 years ago
Or...somebody traveled back in time to fix everything and this is the best they could do?
#43
That if someone else lived the exact life and circumstances that I did, they would have done a better job than me. *edit*: Appreciate the words of encouragement. This is not a self defeating thought. I generally think of this from time to time as a reminder to not take myself too lightly or seriously. As mentioned by many, the converse is probably true as well. It’s probably a good thing that this cannot be proven so there’s really no point comparing with others. What’s more important is to stay humble and do the best that I can given the cards that I’m dealt with.
B-b-bird 2 years ago
take into account that there are no perfect people because we are not robots. There are emotions, feelings and psychological state in play. Who knows, maybe that other person would have done worse, and you were stronger than anyone else would be in your situation. Don'd be harsh to yourself, love yourself. You deserve to love you, for imperfect but good human as you are :)
Noyfb noyfb 2 years ago
A person with the “exact same” experience as you? The same random events and accidents, second by second for a whole lifetime? The same body and brain and their precise history,?cell by cell? That would just produce exactly you. Do you have any idea how impossible and meaningless your starting premise is?
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
In an alternate universe, you would’ve taken the “other” paths in life, so would’ve turned out better, worse, or just differently. Hell, you probably also have been born to completely different parents, because your parents and all your ancestors would’ve taken the other paths in their lives too.
Blondieybat 2 years ago
You can only work with what you have access to. Been there, done that. And still managed to come out ok. Go figure...
PeepPeep the duck 2 years ago
That’s a harsh thing to say about yourself. Some may have succeeded and some may have crumbled
Phoenix 2 years ago
I'm certain that if someone else lived the exact life and circumstances that I did, they would not have done as well as I have. Not trying to brag but I don't know anyone who could have gone through everything I've gone through and done as well as I have and be as ok as I am. Other people tell me the same thing, that they don't know anyone else who could deal with everything I've dealt with.
#44
I think Maddie McCann's parents killed her.
SewingStaffy 2 years ago
If it had been "lower class" parents rather than doctors, they'd have had cps or social services taking the other 2 kids away.
PowellSkier 2 years ago
Jon Benet Ramsey was killed by her brother in a jealous rage, then covered up by his parents.
Emmydearest 2 years ago
How is that a conspiracy theory? It's not a conspiracy, it's just a...well, a theory
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
There is an investigation going on that led to identification of a suspect, a German man with some precedents already in jail. The inquiry found to several testimonies and some very strong leads linking the suspect to the disappearance, but hit a snag last May when the German court dealing with the case repealed it due to lack of jurisdiction on a technicality. The investigation is still going on, and is due to move to he correct jurisdiction later this year.
Jrog 2 years ago
Some more details: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/christian-brueckner-suspect-madeleine-mccann-b2356430.html
Load More Replies... Ellie Hope 2 years ago
I think they would have been found out pretty quickly if this was the case, they should have definitely been prosecuted for leaving their kids alone though.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 2 years ago
yep. I think they accidentally overdosed her, trying to get the unsupervised children to just sleep through the evening, then messed up, and covered up
Ryan Winters 2 years ago
Not saying your right but statistics say that's the most likely explanation.
#45
Elf on the Shelf, the elf doll that supposedly watches children and reports back to Santa that parents love so much, is actually a subversive program by government or maybe corporate interests to desensitize children to being under constant surveillance so they won’t question it as adults. No, I don’t believe there are any cameras or mics in the actual doll. The point of it is to implant the idea into children’s head when they are young that someone is always watching them.
For those of you saying this is no different than Santa who “sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake” or a god who watches you from on night, I agree with you, but the Elf on the Shelf takes it to the next level. The Elf is a visible, tangible representation of surveillance where as an old bearded guy magically watching you from the North Pole or up in the clouds is more of an abstract concept.
Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
Now that I think about it though, just the idea of an elf “watching” you sleep is kinda creepy 😅
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago
I believe elf on a shelf was invented by the Acme shelving company. The elves are so cute you will want to buy more shelves for more elves.
lenka 2 years ago
lol. We have an elf on the shelf. he doesn't report back to Santa though. He just gets up a mischief and adds some magic to the mornings.
MadOrca99 2 years ago
Mine sneaks out do deal heroin, so i have to shout, "no elf on the shelf, play time is over!" Playtime being him doing some of the heroin like a very bad business person
Load More Replies... ROSESARERED 1 year ago
We use one at work, retail job, at Christmas, it's hidden around staff only areas, different place each day. First one to find eve gets a prize. Helps with the c**p we put up with at Christmas....how do people not know by now that Christmas is on the 25th of December EVERY YEAR...sorry pet rant
#46
More like 65% but......The Hawaiian missile false alarm was intended to see how a large group would respond knowing they are about to die.
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
I'm more concerned over the reported human error in this type of situation. One dummy with access he should never have had. Pretty sure he got the job from a relative!
Panda 2 years ago
Humans make errors. Companies should have mechanisms in place to not allow such errors.
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Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
I was on vacation in Honolulu at the time and as tourists we didn't get the alarm. There was this guy jelling at us how we're about to die- naturally we thought he was just one of these conspiracy nutcases
JB 2 years ago
My parents were tourists on the Arizona when it happened. They got the alert.
Load More Replies... JB 2 years ago
It's far easier to believe the real story: that an incompetent employee who was overly obsessed with homeland security just f****d up. No mystery, just a dumbass who was dumb. If you've ever played Warhammer 40k, you can probably picture the type. The Guardian even reported, "His superiors said they knew for years he had problems performing his job. The worker had mistakenly believed drills for tsunami and fire warnings were actual events and colleagues were not comfortable working with him, the state said."
#47
Some employers make having a driver's license a requirement for jobs that clearly wouldn't need to involve driving because it's a legal way to discriminate against disabled applicants.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Doesn't sound right. Most disabled people are eligible for a driving license. One out of seven Americans have some type of disability, while only 1 out of 200 have a disability that would prevent having a driver license (possibly with specific mandatory conditions attached).
Hawkmoon 2 years ago
Thank you, you answered the question I was asking myself in a comment that crossed with yours.
Load More Replies... StrangeOne 2 years ago
You can be disabled and drive. The way I see it, they want you to have a driver's license as another way to see how responsible and mature you are. They may also not be located where there is public transit, requiring your own vehicle to get here, or being able to use a company vehicle if need be.
Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
No. they just want to make sure that 1) they won't have to pay for your public transport 2) you won't be late all the time cuz "the bus was late" 3) you won't suddenly say hey I moved and now I can't get to work on time cuz it's a 1 hour farther
Blondieybat 2 years ago
It may be more of a point of being legally able to get a legal ID, I am in So CA. DL's and SS #s are vital for employment.Of any kind.
PowellSkier 2 years ago
What companies, besides shipping and other driver-centric businesses require a drivers license? There are a lot of people who simply cannot pass the driving or written tests.
#48
Random shuffle on Windows Media Player isn't actually random. Out of all the songs I have, I feel like I get a few specific ones at the beginning pretty much every time I load the playlist, while there are other songs that I even forgot I already have because they never play.
Brian Hawley 2 years ago
Of course it’s not random. If it was, it would occasionally play the same song two or three times in a row.
Pieter LeGrande 2 years ago
Not unless it is random selection with replacement.
Load More Replies... Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
That's actually a common problem related to the library database. it needs rebuilding. it's random but most of the bugs happens cuz it doesn't read the whole library. either cuz it needs rebuilding, or cuz its' too big and it just picks X of the albums.
A girl 2 years ago
Agree. I cleaned up some dups and reindexed. OP does cause me to ponder some remaining replays
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Lex <3 (they/them) 2 years ago
For some reason, it sways seems to play my least favorite song in the playlist first. And there’s nothing I can do about it since I use Spotify and there’s no way I’m paying for premium lol.
#49
That the Nutella recipe has changed markedly over the last 10-15 years (and not just the most recent highly publicised change). I now find the texture in particular to be almost gross whereas I used to enjoy guzzling it in large quantities.
Sum Guy 2 years ago
Or, you have have grown older and sweet unhealthy foods are getting gross to your tastebuds
lenka 2 years ago (edited)
No. The recipe has changed. In 2006 they changed to recipe from regular vegetable oil to substitute palm oil which has changed the flavor and consistency. Also, Nutella recipe is different per country. In europe it is better than in the US because of stricter food standards (still way too much palm oil).
Load More Replies... Bailey 2 years ago
This one is true though, Nutella updated their recipe back in 2017, wasn't a secret, they admitted it at the time
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Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
It’s not the only one. I’m 62, and have revisited a lot of foods I loved when I was a child—-when I came across them, or if they were reintroduced. Back in the day, they were full of flavor and had a pleasing consistency—-if they didn’t taste good or had an unpleasant consistency I would not have eaten them, ffs. When I tried them recently, I encountered a lot of tastelessness, and/or a really unpleasant consistency or aftertaste—-some upset my stomach which they didn’t used to, and some even left my mouth feeling like it was coated in wax or Crisco, which was categorically NOT the case when I ate them as a child or teenager. I know for a fact that my tastes haven’t changed as much as the ingredients in those foods have been altered or swapped out for cheaper substitutes.
Almost sunny 2 years ago
Nutella sandwiches don't taste the same. But I'm more annoyed by the change in peanut butter, used to be WAY better, I don't care if it didn't spread properly.
Mysteria 2 years ago
Tell me I’m not the only person who thinks peanut butter tastes really oily now!
Load More Replies... ROSESARERED 1 year ago
Our tastebud 'upgrade 'or are replace every 7 years, so our taste for certain things change
#50
Mattress Firm is a money laundering front. There are at least 4 within my small city’s limits. No one buys that many mattress.
Jane No Dough 2 years ago
I think the Mafia does indeed buy the most mattresses. Ever see the Godfather?
Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
Yes they do. literally every person has one. they just don't take the Mattress with them, so you don't see people with Mattresses. they get delivered. the fact the shops are near each other means nothing. maybe it's a central area easier to deliver from to the surrounding areas. maybe even a factory close so all want to be close to it to reduce costs.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
And especially nowadays, people can order them online and have them delivered, so they don’t even need to leave their houses to buy a mattress.
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Health insurance companies regularly give confidential employee health information to the companies that partner with them. Employees “consent” to this by regularly taking “voluntary” health screenings, biometric surveys, and and exercise data to maintain their premium discount. I’ve tried to tell my coworkers this but they insist HIPAA covers this and that insurers “would never do that.” They are wrong and I’ve regularly seen sick or post [expensive] surgery coworkers get terminated for “performance reasons.”
StrangeOne 2 years ago
They regularly give confidential health info to everyone in listening shot in the waiting room. "I'm sorry. I can't hear you. What are wanting to see the Doctor for?.... Oh A YEAST INFECTION? WAIT RIGHT OVER THERE BY THAT YOUNG MAN."
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
This is definitely not the case in Germany. Such a thing would spark the utmost outrage and firing a person without a very good reason is also extremely difficult. Disabled employees and those with illnesses are specially protected by the law. Companies do often try to get rid of those people more or less overtly, but it is (thankfully) still very difficult. Source: working as an occupational health physician in a big workplace accident insurance company and looking after the member companies that are insured by it
Duh 2 years ago
People think HIPAA covers a lot it dioesn't cover. Only way it comes into play with your employer is if they happen to be your medical provider as well. Otherwise, your employer can tell whomever whatever you may have disclosed about your health to them, it's about your doc, not your boss.
Michael None 2 years ago
This is why I never volunteer to do health screenings no matter what the incentive. My employer has no right to know my health information so long as I do my job. "It's not paranoia if they are really after you."
#52
Most internet providers are throttling your service, so you never reach the advertised speeds. Except for speed-checking websites, which, whilst not normally reaching your advertised speeds, are quick enough that you think it's just having a bad day.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
am i the only one who never checks or knows what speed their internet is? I really dont care.
Anikulapo 2 years ago
When you have to sit and stare at your screen while trying to get something done, you start caring after a while.
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Erin Geiger 2 years ago
I work for the most connected wholesale internet provider on the planet. We don't throttle. However, I have customers that will specifically purchase excess capacity to their oversold circuit just to circumvent the speed test to show customers that they're getting what they paid for, when they didn't.
#53
The funeral home by my house is run by some sort of criminal organization. I always see the same gangster looking guys hanging out in front of it smoking cigars and drinking beers.
#54
Time travel is real but it isn’t what we think, that’s just our name for a concept our limited human brains can’t understand.
JB 2 years ago
Time travel is definitely real! In fact, your doing it right now, only it's called "aging." Humans exist in four dimensions. We can even time travel into the future with the tech we already have, just get in a plane and fly high and fast as fast as you can - you'll end up a few fractions of a second into Earth's future and less time will have passed for you! The problem is all this time travel is only in one direction and tends to be slow (well, slow as long as you're not talking to an attractive person who seems into you).
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
Time can be fluid and take many forms, the most common of which is the social construct of linear time.
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DC 2 years ago
Oh come on... XYZ is real, but we have no grasp to even determine if it's possible ... how can that be? Easiest solution - randomly point at the fact that we have limitations, effectively allowing everything and its Grandma to be considered true, but different than we'd think. Like, dragons are real, it's just that they're small, don't fly, can't spit fire and generally lead a boring life. Actually, like lizards. They are lizards! Nice thing we talked about that, and now, that Loch Ness beast is true also, it just isn't as we'd expect it to be ... it's small, can only breathe water, has fins and is, generally, known as Trout. And they live elsewere, in case that there are no trouts in Loch Ness.
Andy Cran 2 years ago (edited)
loch Ness,a sturgeon or large eel is most likely candidate.... monsters and magic was given to many natural occurrences in a time when the natural world was little understood especially by those who never had been past their own village let alone their own shores......of course when these uneducated folk would for whatever reason go to lands beyond were mystified,of course the world looked flat at sea for someone whos looking at the sea for the first time the education and knowledge just wasn't available for everyone
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Governments collude all the time and pretend to be shocked if found out. There is a somewhat universal (not every country participates) ruling class that has chopped up the world like Europe did Africa, and they work together to keep the structure intact.
Jason Melvil 2 years ago
For this insane conspiracy to be true, that means the "ruling class" controls both coalitions and oppositions in major countries. How can anyone think that there is a shadowy government that includes both Biden and Trump? Heck, Trump couldn't even keep secret the fact that he took some documents home and Biden couldn't cover up for his son's videos. You think they can cover up some NWO?!?
Ryan Winters 2 years ago (edited)
Maybe not intended but like free clothing that gets sent to Africa will put the citizens clothing shops out of business for obvious reasons or same with free food. Charities giving away things isn't always as beneficial to the entire system as hoped. Complicated problems, and usually they're problems because they are complicated, required complicated solutions.
#56
That Brooks Brothers in the airport is a money laundering operation.
I fly two or three times a month, and I almost never see any customers in those places at all. But somehow they manage to maintain prime airport storefronts. I am 99% convinced that they only exist to launder money.
Jrog 2 years ago (edited)
Airport stores are among the fastest and highest in investment return, balanced by the fact that they are by far the most difficult to set up and run. You need authorizations taking long time, liaise with the airport for anything from store design to installation procedures, you need airport-certified personnel; once you are open, you have no closing days, strict operational standards (for cleanliness, security, fire safety etc) all your goods have to pass through safety checks and customs. The advantages, though, are amazing: airports provide the highest traffic, practically a bored and "captive" audience made only of people with average or above average means. Markups are higher than in street stores and often there is little to no competition and minimal possibility to compare prices.
Petra Schaap 2 years ago
or they make so much money on all of their OTHER locations, that they can afford a "slow" shop at the airport, because they think their presence at the airport is important.
Ryan Winters 2 years ago
Buy a couple packs of Tic Tacs at their prices and they've made a profit for the day
Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
How do they launder money if there are no costumers...? it's the exact opposite to what money laundering is. you need costumers for that.
Fenchurch 2 years ago
No you don't. In fact customers would get in the way. But you do need a business that is known for being a cash business, like a takeaway or launderette. So not a high end designer shop where most purchases would be expected to be on card, like Brooks Brothers.
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Lindbergh killed his own child and then set up the whole kidnapping thing to cover his a*s.
PowellSkier 2 years ago (edited)
The evidence and case built against Richard Hauptmann was overwhelming. The broken ladder found at the Lindbergh estate was constructed of material from his home. Thousands of dollars worth of the ransom money, mostly gold certificates, were found stashed in his home. He also matched the description given by cab drivers and the man who delivered the ransom money. A very solid and well-documented case.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
No, the kidnappers hit the bad rung on the really poorly put together homemade ladder, dropped the baby, and that fall broke the baby’s neck. The baby died on the ground below the nursery window. That’s probably why his body was found near the house weeks later. So all the ransom b******t was exactly that—-b******t. There was no baby to return when it was paid. Just Google the ladder and you’ll see how plausible dropping the baby would be. A fall from that height really would break a baby’s neck. Oh, and Hauptmann was chosen as the fall guy. He wasn’t wry bright, he did a p**s-poor job of hiding evidence, and people in the US were waking up to the dirty deeds of the Nazis in Germany, so he was the perfect storm of person to take the fall.
CrazyAuntiePanda 2 years ago
Lindbergh was a believer in Eugenics & Nazism. Something was wrong with the baby, he wasn't a perfect Aryan. So the baby had to done away with.
Chewie Baron 2 years ago
The book by Philip Roth - The Plot Against America - uses Lindbergh in the plot brilliantly. An excellent book. Highly recommend.
Michael Largey 2 years ago (edited)
Lindbergh was known for pulling dangerous pranks, particularly on family and friends. If he accidentally killed his son during one, a kidnapping would be a good cover-up. (I'm not saying that this is what actually happed.)
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The US govt runs VPN services to collect info on people who attempt to evade the NSA collection programs.
A girl 2 years ago
My vpn has many sites. It periodically will connect via The Netherlands. My browser will magically present in Dutch.
Load More Replies... Jo Slatermill 2 years ago
No. people that really wants to evade the government don't use VPN. maybe they use the darknet, maybe other ways that shouldn't be discussed here.
#59
That imaginary friends are real and there is some kind of secret society somewhere. I still vividly remember my imaginary friend and it kind of creeps me out that I can recall moments of him being very... tangible and not very... imaginary.
Michael Largey 2 years ago
I had imaginary friends as a child. They were real people - I just imagined they were my friends.
the quickening 2 years ago
I have always been fairly creative, but I don't remember having imaginary friends at all? I talked to my dolls and myself. I play-pretended. Maybe I just stopped doing that early enough to not have memories of it? Do all children have imaginary friends?
Not-a-Clue (she/her) 2 years ago
No, not all, although it's quite common.
Load More Replies... Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 2 years ago (edited)
... I wish I had this. My imaginary friends were imaginary
#60
I’m Romanian and I’m not sure if it’s the culture or the place I grew up in, but whenever you lose something and are panicking to find it, there’s a simple way to always find it. Just go get a mug, and visualize a smaller version of the object you’re looking for (I do it so it’s kind of spinning like a video game). After seeing it in the can, flip over the can on the table and leave the object covered by the flipped mug on the Table. Stop looking for the object, you will find it in your hands in less than 2 days, no matter what. If it’s something like your keys or wallet or socks or headphones, you will 100% come across them maybe even minutes after doing it, so long as you just avoid thinking of it. I’m not superstitious at all and I understand that this can be explained just by the way we interact with the tings around us i our day to day lives, but after growing up with this and it never faltering even on big things, I simply feel better off pleading ignorance and understanding that some things are just going to be how they are and putting time into thinking bout them is a waste of my time. Also my mom is a luck magnet and a telepath and a wizard but that’s a story for another day.
Spencer's slave 2 years ago
I usually find mine if I move the cat. He will sleep on anything 🙄
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
I just retrace my steps and concentrate on looking at every inch of wherever I am. I usually find lost stuff that way pretty quickly, if it actually is still where I forgot I left it. I can’t control someone else moving it.
DarkGlassSphere 2 years ago
I like it, very interesting. I heard of things like that, different cultures ceep it's secrets. Thanks for sharing
Kat 2 years ago
Where I live, you have to recite a rhyme: saint Antoine de Padoue, quand je pense à vous, je trouve tout
Orion Red 2 years ago (edited)
Tony Tony come around, something's lost and can't be found.
Load More Replies... #61
That a car's combination meter is also a secret timer that, when it's clock runs out, starts messing with the electrical systems, turning on warning lights, and sending you back to the dealer for expensive diagnostics and unnecessary replacement parts.
Collin Lyle 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure that all the timers in your car's system are programmable. The shop that changes my oil told me they set the timer to warn me to get the oil changed in 3 months.
Spencer's slave 2 years ago (edited)
My auto sparky laughed out loud when I showed him OPs comment. If all the warning lights come on at once, and continue to stay on, it's the vehicle's computer that's failed and most good sparkies have worked on enough of these problems to know it's a manufacturing fault. You'd be horrified by the number of brand new vehicles - under a year old - that end up in an an auto sparky workshop whilst still under warranty. Go ask a reputable sparky before buying a new/computer run/electric vehicle. I trust mine with my life.
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Facial features aren't unique. They can be repeated like lips is the same feature for 1 in every 200000.
Emmydearest 2 years ago
I agree. It's like there's a "palette" of features and those features combine in many different combinations creating billions of different faces. Like "this person from across the world has the same nose as my uncle"
Jason Melvil 2 years ago
It's the Pidgeon Hole principle. There is an X limited number of possibilities for a feature. there are more than X people in the world. Therefore, at least 2 people in the world has that exact feature. I mean seriously, have you seen some celebrity look alike?
Blue Bunny of Happiness 2 years ago
With the filters these days everyone looks the same anyway…
Ryan Winters 2 years ago
It's hard to prove anything really with 100% certainly there is always done uncertainty in everything but that's okay
#63
For a brief window of time following the second world war, the United States could have taken over the world. Every other industrialized economy in the world was in ruins or exhausted from fighting. We were the only nation in the world that knew how to construct the atomic bomb. If that advantage had been pressed and the bomb used without restraint the US might have been able to overwhelm the Soviet Union before it developed nuclear capabilities of its own. The result would have been a dystopian nightmare worse than anything the Nazis could have imagined. A single nuclear-weapon state enforcing a global hegemony through the threat of nuclear war. (All of this is wild, brain-dead speculation of course.)
Donkeywheel 2 years ago
LoL, the USA lost every single war they participated in since ww2… They had their asses kicked by the Vietnamese who were not exactly from a highly developed, technological rich country. No, they could not have taken the world. That’s indeed a brainless speculation from a brainwashed American.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
A more realistic possibility is that we would’ve bombed too many countries back to the Stone Age, and irradiated everything and everybody on the planet. IF anyone survived, their children would’ve suffered from terrible mutations, and their life expectancy would drop. IF those children survived and weren’t infertile from the radiation exposure, their children may not have survived to adulthood, the birth rate would’ve plummeted, as would the population as a whole. Centuries of progress would’ve been wiped out, forcing us to go back to pre-Industrial Revolution levels at best, probably Iron Age levels at worst, until everyone who possesses the skill set for self-sufficiency died, and succeeding generations would lack training and could’ve devolved to Stone Age levels.
DC 2 years ago
Soviet scientists knew how to build one pretty early, way before the US deployed the first one in New Mexico. They had to build a lot of facilities, gather rare ores and stuff before they could build one themselves, but the knowledge was there already. And, while the details are somewhat delicate, the principles are easy.
Spencer's slave 2 years ago
German scientists developed the A bomb in 1938, the USA heard about it and "brought" those German scientists to the USA. The USA is still the only country to have used a Nazi Germany designed and built weapon outside of Nazi Germany.
Robert Pi 2 years ago
Plutonium is an artificial element that takes time to make, it does not exist in nature (it decays). Nazis didn't even have reactors to do it and i took years for the US to make enough for the first few bombs.
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I'm convinced Botox rots your brain.
Anouk T 2 years ago
Nah I think it’s the type of people that usually get it they already have the required type of brain ;) plus - it’s addictive like many plastic surgeries
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
Some of us use Botox in as a genuine and very effective medical treatment. I get injections against chronic migraines and bruxism and it has helped very much
Load More Replies... Daft Mosquito 2 years ago (edited)
Not sure about rotting brains (if the botox users have any,) but seriously: botox is BOTulism TOXin. Read about botulism, it's awful. And people inject this shìt voluntarily!
Feathered Dinosaur 2 years ago
It's only locally injected and stays in the muscle tissue
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OJ's son committed the murders and OJ went to the scene to help cover it up.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago (edited)
You mean his son from his first marriage, right? If so, it’s plausible, but someone would need to check his alibi(s), and set up a timeline for him for that night. Did anyone see him hanging around? I know it’s 30 years later, but I wonder if there’s a witness statement or anonymous tip describing him at the scene that was never followed up on. A good Cold Case Squad might shed some new light on this theory.
Colin 2 years ago
He was infatuated with Nicole. She has promised to come have dinner at the restaurant he worked in and no showed. He apparently was angry and upset over it. That was the either the day of our night before she was killed.
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Ghosts/spirits/entities/phantoms/presences... Whatever you want to call it/them. They say seeing is believing, and in this case, it's absolutely true. Very few things, if anything at all compares to the feeling of *knowing* something "else" exists and having not only no proof, but this whole new level of fear that comes with life itself, that very few people can relate to you about. Seeing things that "shouldn't" be is frightening enough, but imagine being alone in that, no-one else but a dog as witness. You can talk to him, but he won't reply. You can't convince yourself you were just tired, sick, crazy. "It" was real, whatever "it" was, and there's no-one to explain how or why.
Kathryn Baylis 2 years ago
While I don’t discount the possibility of ghosts and aliens, given the plethora of modern and historic encounters, I still will not absolutely believe until there’s incontrovertible proof that’s shared with EVERYONE. Otherwise, I have my doubts because a lot of what is reported could believably be shown to be something more mundane.
Libstak 2 years ago (edited)
I saw something inexplicable once, not calling it a ghost cos I don't know what it was. It was definitely real though, my dog was frightened by it and growling right at it. It just looked like a spherical bunch of coloured lights. No it was not a reflection from anything, I looked high and low and it only happened once, dog only ever reacted that one time also. I should add my dog woke me growling and crawling toward the hallway, it was only when I looked into the stairwell that we saw it, it was large, ave human sized.
Blondieybat 2 years ago
Been there, done that with varying experiences. Some good, some not as good.
CHRIS DOMRES 2 years ago
People believe in ghosts and spirits because the alternative is too frightening. That alternative is that you may be going insane.
#67
If there are people who will pick their nose and eat their boogers, there are people who will wipe their butts and lick their poo. I guarantee it. We just can't spot these sickos because doing the number two is always done in private. But they are out there. I'm damn certain of it.
Fish Fingers 2 years ago
Well that's just referencing a fairly lively subsection of porn. Not a conspiracy theory at all 🤷♂️
Spocks's Mom 2 years ago (edited)
🤣🤣"Lively". Spirited even! I like your name, btw.
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I heard a related saying back in the day, “There are two kinds of people; those who pee in the shower, and liars.”
StrangeOne 2 years ago
I've heard some girls do this with their period. One girl admitted this in Grade 7 to her friends, quite loudly. I guess she was popular enough that the social suicide wasn't a worry for her. Grossed me out.
Tiny Dynamine 2 years ago
I wondered if there's anyone who eats their earwax. That repulses me as an idea.
Paul Pienkowski 2 years ago
Oh sweetie. This is called coprophilia. There's porn dedicated to this stuff. Scat enthusiasts are real.
Shishal Asaurus 2 years ago
Sadly my ex husband did BOTH of these things. Not initially.. but eventually. One of the main reasons hes an ex. Among many other reasons
Shishal Asaurus 2 years ago
To clarify, he would go in his pants and scratch his a*hole then clean his nails out with his teeth. Then he questioned why i stopped kissing him.... Bruh, u eatin doodie.... Keep ur lips to urself
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The Denver airport has a doomsday bunker built beneath it for important people like the president (who was Obama at the time).
#69
There's only one property brother, they edit the other one in and that's why you see them together so little. They do minor changes to make you think they don't look alike but I know there's only one! You can't fool me HGTV and TLC!
Susan Green 2 years ago
Of course there’s only one, the very thought of identical twins is preposterous 🥴
MakeupMama68 2 years ago
Sorry to disappoint you, but my friend worked on their show and there’s most definitely 2 of them, 😂
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
It's a home buying reality show on HGTV that is hosted by twins. One twin is a real estate agent and the other is a carpenter.
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#70
HQ is a scam... somehow. They’re somehow mining data from us and they’re cheating us somehow.
Jason Melvil 2 years ago
Clicking on the reddit link seems to point out they are talking about HQ Trivia game
#71
Tom Cruise is a great actor that seems like a decent person despite being a scientologist. So the obvious conclusion is that he's using his acting skills to go undercover and attempting to dismantle scientology from the inside.
I heart Boo-BI-es 2 years ago
Unpopular opinion here but I have never liked Tom Cruise. Imo he isn't a great actor and I do not find him attractive, never understood why so many women found him gorgeous? 🤔
Susan Green 2 years ago
I don’t think that’s an unpopular opinion, many people, including myself, agree with you.
Load More Replies... Blondieybat 2 years ago
Hubs knew someone that got sucked into Scientology, Every level of 'enlightenment' cost you a LOT of money and time. And you were convinced that only more time and more money would save you.
What do you think ?
B Jones 2 years ago (edited)
I remember the last time I was in a regular mattress store. Only one there, two employees. Neither Keen to help me, and after laying on just two trying to find something comfortable was asked right after "is this the one you want" like I just got here and it's gonna last me 10+ years give me some time or advice. Could've just been bad employees but it really felt like I was intruding.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
Here's a simple, non-"threatening" conspiracy theory: Scientists downgraded Pluto so they won't have to admit they were wrong. Here's the timeline: (1) Pluto is recognized as a planet. (2) Scientists spend decades denying the existence of any tenth planet in the solar system. (3) Not one, but two objects about the same size as Pluto are discovered, but their discovery goes unannounced while they are confirmed. (4) Scientists announce that they've decided Pluto isn't a planet. (5) The existences of Eris and Haumea are confirmed and publicly, but since they're not "planets," they don't get much attention. This happened; I just can't ascribe motives. In fairness, Pluto is smaller than they once thought it was. They once thought it was larger than the moon.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
The current, new definition of a planet is absurd. A much simpler notion of when is a planet big enough to be a planet would be that it is large enough that its own gravity forces it into a round (spheroid) shape (this is a simplified explanation of "hydrostatic equilibrium.") EDIT: Yes, it must ALSO revolve independently around a star.
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Moë 2 years ago
Here’s one…Trump never expected to win the first time, why else was nothing ready when he took office?
Q B F T 2 years ago
Eh, even if true, I wouldn't imagine he'd be that prepared either way! Doesn't seem like his style... But in 'politicians not expecting to win' I'd put Boris Johnson and the Brexit vote. That celebration press conference he was giving "wtf" vibes
Load More Replies... Little Johnny...and Laura 2 years ago
@Makabert Abylons...we don't know what truly lives down there....I'm not going down there to find out!!
Duolingobird 2 years ago
Ghosts are people who look like us from another universe. But sometimes a loophole happens and we can see into their world. That also might be why ghosts look like dead people. But I have no proof
Will Cable 2 years ago
That when elected politicians drink a 'special' toast to their success that then alters their brain waves turning them in to self serving, ego massaging, money grabbers who forget what they are there for and don't care about the masses.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
There are plenty of well-documented "initiations" to ensure only the "right" sort of person becomes politically powerful, from Bohemian Grove to the Trilateral Commission. And that's the known stuff. I suspect Jeffrey Epstein's island was used to "compromise" people such as John Roberts and Bill Clinton.
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pug nose curly tail 2 years ago
Just because you have a different opinion is not a reason to down vote one BP. Down votes get people banned. They are intended for hate speech and bullying, not a difference of opinion or just being mean to some you don't agree with on other posts.
Mark 2 years ago
I'm surprised, "Gender is fluid and one can switch between male and female,"isn't on the list bc it's something people believe despite not only is there no evidence backing it up there's also tons of facts that can't be argued against disproving it.
madbakes 2 years ago
Sex is biological. Gender is a social construct. Learn the f*****g difference.
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B Jones 2 years ago (edited)
I remember the last time I was in a regular mattress store. Only one there, two employees. Neither Keen to help me, and after laying on just two trying to find something comfortable was asked right after "is this the one you want" like I just got here and it's gonna last me 10+ years give me some time or advice. Could've just been bad employees but it really felt like I was intruding.
Load More Replies... The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
Here's a simple, non-"threatening" conspiracy theory: Scientists downgraded Pluto so they won't have to admit they were wrong. Here's the timeline: (1) Pluto is recognized as a planet. (2) Scientists spend decades denying the existence of any tenth planet in the solar system. (3) Not one, but two objects about the same size as Pluto are discovered, but their discovery goes unannounced while they are confirmed. (4) Scientists announce that they've decided Pluto isn't a planet. (5) The existences of Eris and Haumea are confirmed and publicly, but since they're not "planets," they don't get much attention. This happened; I just can't ascribe motives. In fairness, Pluto is smaller than they once thought it was. They once thought it was larger than the moon.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago (edited)
The current, new definition of a planet is absurd. A much simpler notion of when is a planet big enough to be a planet would be that it is large enough that its own gravity forces it into a round (spheroid) shape (this is a simplified explanation of "hydrostatic equilibrium.") EDIT: Yes, it must ALSO revolve independently around a star.
Load More Replies... Moë 2 years ago
Here’s one…Trump never expected to win the first time, why else was nothing ready when he took office?
Q B F T 2 years ago
Eh, even if true, I wouldn't imagine he'd be that prepared either way! Doesn't seem like his style... But in 'politicians not expecting to win' I'd put Boris Johnson and the Brexit vote. That celebration press conference he was giving "wtf" vibes
Load More Replies... Little Johnny...and Laura 2 years ago
@Makabert Abylons...we don't know what truly lives down there....I'm not going down there to find out!!
Duolingobird 2 years ago
Ghosts are people who look like us from another universe. But sometimes a loophole happens and we can see into their world. That also might be why ghosts look like dead people. But I have no proof
Will Cable 2 years ago
That when elected politicians drink a 'special' toast to their success that then alters their brain waves turning them in to self serving, ego massaging, money grabbers who forget what they are there for and don't care about the masses.
The Original Bruno 2 years ago
There are plenty of well-documented "initiations" to ensure only the "right" sort of person becomes politically powerful, from Bohemian Grove to the Trilateral Commission. And that's the known stuff. I suspect Jeffrey Epstein's island was used to "compromise" people such as John Roberts and Bill Clinton.
Load More Replies... pug nose curly tail 2 years ago
Just because you have a different opinion is not a reason to down vote one BP. Down votes get people banned. They are intended for hate speech and bullying, not a difference of opinion or just being mean to some you don't agree with on other posts.
Mark 2 years ago
I'm surprised, "Gender is fluid and one can switch between male and female,"isn't on the list bc it's something people believe despite not only is there no evidence backing it up there's also tons of facts that can't be argued against disproving it.
madbakes 2 years ago
Sex is biological. Gender is a social construct. Learn the f*****g difference.
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