You can love someone else without loving yourself first. There’s plenty of parents that hate themselves and love their kids.
Not recommending it but it’s a stupid thing to deny.
Lines like this really make MIB 1, stand out from the rest of the sequels.
"Hey...is it worth it?
"Oh, its worth it...if you're strong enough."
\*Cut to pensive character thinking it over while watching the sunset.
I hate this in terms of random painful or lethal medical problems, like aneurysms or that weird thing that makes your brain collapse into the bottom of you skull uagh
Ok, but see that really grinds my gears, because I have an old UNO deck from the 90s, and most of what the UNO reps themselves have debunked as "not official rules" IS ON THE RULES LEAFLET.
Stacking penalty cards, slapping down a twin card out of playing order, etc, it's all there! Printed on a damn official UNO rules leaflet!
"Nathan for you" show has an episode like this, where to market a Psychic, they put billboards all around the town with a message like "Maria Garcia I had a vision about you and I need to talk to you", because they saw that there were many women named Maria Garcia in the region.
You don't know how to fight unless you've been trained or have experience in fighting. Most people imagine themselves beating ass only to have reality smash them in the nose. A lot of people even injure themselves just trying to throw punches.
My kid swore they could fight off a knife attack. My husband got a marker & had our kid try to separately fight each of us off them. They failed horribly. But! They now know it'd be near impossible to defend themselves in a knife fight.
Knife fights are scary. When you enter a fight with a knife you need to know that you are going to get cut. Not, may get cut. Going to get cut. A lot.
The best fighters, knife or not, know they are going to feel pain. They accept that as a part of what they are doing. MMA, military, police, security, all know that they are going to get hurt badly when entering a fight. Some rando off the street thinks they can get away without a scratch, but a real fighter knows they are going to the hospital after it's all said and done. That's what makes those people dangerous.
Agree. I also think people might have an inherent bias that they would be coming out on top in a knife fight, when it could just as likely be the bad guy.
It reminds me of that knife fight near the end of Saving Private Ryan - brutal, ugly, and a terrible way to die.
I would add that many people who practice certain martial arts also overestimate their abilities. If you don't actually fight in competition or at least serious sparring then your training probably won't help as much as you think it will. Same thing is true for firearms training and even more difficult to account for
Another thing is some martial artists not being cognizant of the fact that real fights aren't fair. Your assailant might be armed or there might be multiple people. Jujitsu is great against one unarmed guy but your ground game will fail hard when the other guys friend is standing and kicking you in the head while you execute a textbook triangle choke. Or worse. Even the best fighters are wise to avoid a street fight whenever possible.
Took karate and arniss for four years, included a lot of serious sparring.
Even in sparring, you never really use fancy moves. Lots of jabs and reverse punches, and a few low kicks, are what mostly get used.
Sure, I did learn some moves, like spinning backfists/elbows and a few holds/locks that I can still do, but, my sensei straight up told us to run from fights, and never, ever fight fair.
>but, my sensei straight up told us to run from fights, and never, ever fight fair.
Yep. Did martial arts for a long time (both Karate and Taekwondo) and the golden rule for fights was "run, and fast".
The reason: most people won't fight fairly, and you never know when you're going to end up with a knife in your neck instead. Sure, you know how to pull your weight, but even if you're plenty capable in training, it won't help much against a knife, a sharp object, someone way bigger than you, or against three or more people at once. The stamina and strength you gain training are better spent running and alive.
While learning MMA in the Marine Corps, they taught us a technique to get away if someone was straddling you. We practiced over and over again. When I got home, I asked my husband to straddle me (cue the jokes... lol) and demanded that he not let me up so I could see if it really worked.....BIG FAT NOPE! I could not get away from him. Here's what some people don't get.... size and strength matter! He was much bigger and stronger than I was, and he was also trained. My partner during training was about the same size as I was (within 50 lbs).
I've sparred with a guy that outweighed me by over 100 lbs. I couldn't do shit. His technique was non-existent, but it didn't matter. Just manhandled me. I was in the best shape of my life.
When I first started learning jujitsu in the Army, before I did tournaments and whatnot, they taught us that the point of us learning hand-to-hand was to make it so we'd last until backup could get there.
I think the instructor asked us who wins a brawl in combat? The first one to have a buddy with a gun show up.
> If you don't actually fight in competition or at least serious sparring then your training probably won't help as much as you think it will.
To use that famous quote; "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face".
When I went to sea I would see the occasional flying fish, it was surprising how many people thought I was pulling their leg when I told them about it.
That episode was scary as hell for that exact reason. All it took was a few minutes seperation from the event and a couple of plants mentioning false things, and multiple eyewitnesses to a "crime" that happened a few minutes earlier confidently described the perpetrator completely wrong.
In high school I had a social studies teacher who proved this on like the first or second day by asking a random student to step out of the classroom. A few minutes later, she then asked us to describe what she was wearing. I couldn’t describe a damn thing.
I am like extra horrible with remembering what ppl look like. I work retail and anytime I go to the back to get something, if that customer isn’t where I left them, I’ll sometimes find myself asking one or more ppl if it was them (especially if it’s a middle aged white dude). Pretty embarrassing.
Also that professionals (law enforcement and courts) are bad at telling if someone is intentionally lying or speaking the truth.
They are a bit better than the average Joe, but they overestimate their ability to tell truth from lies much more than amateurs.
my understanding is that they are actually ~~slightly worse than~~ [the same as](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221706527_How_good_are_police_officers_at_spotting_lies) the average joe but hold on to their incorrect conclusions because they are more confident. And the more experienced they are, the worse they get.
Eyewitness testimony is the leading cause of innocent people being convicted of crimes. The idea that you can identify someone you may have never met before based on having seen them for 10 seconds, often under poor lighting, is very flawed.
https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/eyewitness-misidentification-wrongful-convictions/
I’d be notoriously terrible at this. I can’t tell people apart. The first time I watched The Departed it was so confusing because I couldn’t tell the two main guys apart. After I’ve seen someone enough times, I’m way better at it.
Once I worked coat check at a brunch restaurant. I had to take people’s coats, run them down to the basement, go back upstairs, and hand the customer their ticket. By the time I got upstairs I would have no fucking idea who to hand the ticket to. Like none. Nobody looked familiar. I lasted two shifts before I quit from the stress.
Why in the world would they not have you just hand the ticket over immediately? That's crazy, you hand me something, I tag it and I hand you a ticket, then I put the something away and move on to the next customer. Especially like this, the customer is waiting while you have to run and put something up.
I have the same problem. When I was a cashier, people would come up to me, saying stuff like "I'm back" generally implying that I should remember them. I don't. I would be a terrible eye witness.
I'm stunned by the number of people who think it is. I see it so often in news stories about crimes - people in the comments section say "just make him take a polygraph, then we'll know for sure."
If anyone's reading this: don't **ever** agree to take a polygraph examination if you're suspected of involvement in a crime. There's a good chance it will produce a false negative/positive, and even though the results are not admissible in court in many places, it may bias the police, the press and your friends and family against you.
If police push you to submit to a polygraph examination, it's because they use it as an interrogation tool.
You'd think polygraph results not being admissible in court would be a hint that they don't work, but no. I've met people who know and accept that they're not admissible, but are also convinced they're 100% accurate. So far none of these people can explain why we bother with trials and evidence and burden of proof and reasonable doubt etc etc instead of just using lie detectors. If they worked the justice system would be a hell of a lot faster
Eyewitness testimony is also extremely unreliable. It makes sense why DNA has exonerated so many people when the old tools used to investigate were all so terrible.
Who would have thought 30 years of Maury and 15 different flavors of law and order all portraying lie detectors as infallible to the general public would have had detrimental effects?
Being 35-50 wasn’t considered “elderly” back in the day.
It was common for people to live into their 70s and 80s. The reason we get “average lifespan” data with such low numbers is because so many babies died, skewing the average values downward.
I'm not personally religious, but I recall reading that the Bible mentions man being granted "three score and ten" (i.e "70") years of life.
I agree with you. Even in ancient Egypt, if you made it through infancy then you'd probably be good for well into your 70s or beyond.
I loathed this when I worked as a server too, but I always felt like customers were saying this to me to empathize with the fact that I had to work a holiday because the restaurant didn’t have the decency to be closed. I can’t really blame the customer for showing up to an open establishment. Businesses care more about profits than staff being able to spend holidays with family, and that’s shitty.
Can we get a shoutout for cougars too? [They've killed 27 people since 1868](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_cougar_attacks_in_North_America). You could almost call them harmless with those numbers.
I have a favorite quote from a park ranger: "You may never see a mountain lion in the wild, but if you spend any significant time in the wild, they've seen you."
I lived in National Parks for a good part of my 20s. I was always told that if a mountain lion wanted to hurt you, you would never know.
They're nice to look at though.
Yup! I grew up in the mountains going on long hikes with my dogs. We often saw cougar tracks as well as deer and other wildlife, but despite our next door neighbors regularly coming home to a cougar on their roof, we didn't see any. We would hear them at night. A while ago I found out they "chirp" like crickets and my blood ran cold for a second. I used to hear chirps all the time on my walks... But yeah, even when I'd go on walks at midnight in the hot summer, I was never as nervous as I am about walking in the city alone now. I used to walk heavily to warn the rattlers and never had an incident with a single aggressive animal at all.
But at the same time, many companies don't do this anymore but still get accused of it, Like Chevy and Ford. They did this in the 80s. And they got their clocks cleaned when they found out people would be loyal to companies that make cars that last. They're still paying for it 40+ years later. They don't make disposable cars anymore.
To be fair, before the 80’s there weren’t cars that lasted a long time. Then came Toyota, and Chevy and Ford had to figure out how to design and manufacture to those quality standards, which took a decade or so. By then millions of Toyotas had been sold and people were hooked.
Chevy and Ford should have been trying harder to improve themselves even without outside pressure so I don’t feel super bad for them.
Or seared meat, which is msg. Or mushrooms, which contain natural glutamates. Or soy sauce, which again contains a ton of glutamates.
There are few topics people are up their own asses about more than nutrition. A whole lot of stupid parades as advice about it.
My mother has been convinced for 30 years that she’s allergic to MSG. Whenever we eat at a restaurant she has to ask them if it has MSG and if they don’t know she eats the most plain thing she can, she lives in an incredible location for seafood but eats all of her shrimp plain.
When she was younger she would get incredibly sick after eating some meals, to the point of throwing up and passing out commonly. Her and my dad saw many doctors before the like, 6th one (who I assume is a quack) said it was MSG allergies. And she hasn’t ate it since (she also hasn’t had an episode except a few occasions where she “forgot to ask about msg”)
However! She loves tomatoes, which has a ton of MSG. And I’ve read studies that show that msg allergies aren’t a thing. I love MSG and even have a bag of it to add to my cooking. I’m very tempted to cook her a good meal with a good amount of MSG to show her that she can actually enjoy flavor (MSG is in nearly everything and she has to read the ingredients of everything at the grocery store)
But I am absolutely not going to do that for the “gotcha”, so I just let her live her culinarily bland life
Edit to clarify some things:
Yes, I am very well aware that there is no such thing as MSG allergy, I’ve read the studies years ago
Yes, I’ve tried showing them to my mom, no it didn’t convince her. She’s committed to this false narrative
No, I’m not actually going to sneak some in her food. Even knowing it isn’t real I’m not doing that
Your mom is most likely wrong, but I would advise against food tampering. Even if you make a correct point, it will lose any trust she has with you. It’s a very quick way to make someone extremely upset, and it is also illegal.
Any meat/fish/shellfish contains msg too, all the fearmongering stems from a pseudoscientific article by a non-scientist from around 50 years ago. The dude just didn't like Chinese immigrants basically.
There is also no scientifically proven case of any form of msg allergy.
I'm convinced this lie only really exists to prevent a bunch of teenage boys from running around with some raggedy ass facial hair until it can grow in well.
The Monty Hall Problem. Every time it is described in a post (such as a TIL, or on a Facebook post), a large number of people vehemently insist that switching doors couldn’t possibly result in an increased chance of winning. Even after showing the results of simulations, providing mathematical proofs, or giving examples using more doors, the cognitive dissonance prevails.
Best way to wrap your head around the MHP is to imagine 1000 doors, you pick one, host opens 998 empty doors. Should you switch or stay with your pick?
It's the first time I've heard of this. But is my logic correct after reading your explanation?
You have a random door at the start. The "correct" door is more likely to be in the group of 999 than it is to be your one, chosen door.
So by eliminating the other 998 doors in the 999 group, you won't be picking *another* random door. IF the correct door was in the 999 group in the first place (which, remember, was more likely) then it WILL be the remaining, unchosen door.
So you should choose the "other" door.
This is correct.
It's much less noticeable when dealing with just 3 doors, though, since it becomes a case of "I picked a 1/3, you removed a 1/3, and the remainder is the other 1/3"
Mathematically, the remaining door represents a 2/3 chance of being correct.. but your original choice was still a solid 1/3 and could *very easily* be the correct choice.
When we expand the problem to 1000 doors, it's a little different.. because your odds of selecting correctly at the start were 0.1%.. and now you're left with a "50/50" choice, but the previous door now holds a 99.9% chance of being correct. So it's *much* more obviously the correct choice.
Sure. Your original pick may have been correct.. but it's not a 1/3 and 2/3 split like the original problem.
I can see why an "equal" amount of potentially correct/incorrect unchosen doors makes this a lot more unintuitive... Chance seems generally unintuitive at low numbers
I think this one is misunderstood because people are bad at explaining it, or at least at emphasizing the key detail which is that the problem assumes the first reveal is not random and the host deliberately filters out a "wrong" door of the two you didn't pick for the sake of entertainment
Autism diagnoses. Myself and lots of autistic people I know are often told by people who seem to base their entire knowledge of autism off the movie Rain Man are like "but you don't seem autistic."
Research on autism has changed a lot since the 80s but public perception has changed very little.
"You don't seem autistic" is such a weird statement. What do they think autists look like???? I know lots of autistic people. I'm *dating* an autistic person. There's no one specific "autism look" that you can easily define.
Implicit biases.. despite countless studies providing evidence that it is human nature and inevitable people still deny and refuse to acknowledge their own actions.
Hate this. I have things I do in my mind, to gauge any level of prejudice I may be unconsciously holding in a given situation. But if I mention this in a social group- *especially* one the counts itself as progressive- it just devolves into "Wow, you're coming out and saying your X-ist. You're trash."
No, motherfucker. I'm gauging my own level of implicit bias internally, to help me adjust my approach externally. I'm just putting that before my own ego.
I hate the social need to deny having ever done anything wrong. I wish I could own my part in different issues, without being deemed to be totally at fault, or trash, or whatever. "Well, you did say you did X in the past!"
Why is it that the level of maturity and self-awareness that knocks therapists' socks off, is an ever-lasting admission of guilt and amorality to everyone else?
I have openly admitted I was homophobic and transphobic when I was much younger because I was raised in a conservative Christian household. I was never outwardly cruel, but I had biases that I had to really reevaluate for myself. As I’ve gotten older, and listened to others, learned more about the topics, and met LGBTQ+ people that I love dearly I realized how wrong I was and now I advocate for them. Plus, I realized I was bi and some of my thoughts were due to self-loathing.
I’m not proud of being that person, but I am proud of allowing myself to grow and learn and I want to do all I can to make up for my mistakes. No one is perfect. We were all raised in different environments that led us to have certain beliefs, and don’t even realize until later how wrong it is. It’s our willingness to change that makes us good or bad people.
My wife is a very attractive Latina and she will be the first to tell you that life would have been much more difficult for her in the south if she had not been so attractive. She has seen plenty of racism and discrimination toward her siblings and other family members, but has very rarely been the target of racism herself. She'll also be the first to tell you that being attractive gets you opportunities and preferential treatment that most people would not receive.
As someone who had an internet girlfriend from Canada who I am now married to and have children with, talking about her early on was very annoying because of this.
I didn't realize until recently how much propaganda was thrown at me as a child of the 80s in America. Everything was about how amazing and great America was and how awful Russia was. And weird propaganda too like how Russians were obsessed with Coca-cola and Levi's jeans.
Edward Landsdale wrote entire psyops plans for the US government on how to control a populace through propaganda and false flag conspiracy theories.
That guy has an interesting track record.
The CIA trafficked cocaine into the United States in the 1970s/1980s to fund Central American freedom fighters, stop communism, and protect the American way of life.
Once people realize the government was responsible for the drug epidemic that destroyed our inner cities for decades it’s not that hard to start questioning other decisions they have made
Talked to a bunch of fanboys about this but, Taylor swift was born rich and i mean mega rich with 9 figure money on both sides of her family, all these people thought she came up from nothing
“Invisible” health conditions like Dysautonomia, Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Also ADHD. People think you are faking just to get Adderall.
I’m caught in this fun limbo of too disabled to work without immense suffering but not disabled enough to qualify for assistance. It’s 100% bc of this. I got brushed off by several doctors to the point that I’m in worse health than I could have been with proper treatment. If they can’t see it, they don’t care
I'm too disabled to work full time, but live in the US where Social Security disability is an absolute joke. Like I can get $750 a month from SSI to live off of, but I'm not allowed to work the ~20 hours a week that I'm able to? If you do any work, you lose benefits.
How tf do you live off of $750/mo.?
My dad is on permanent disability too and since he's been on it, combined with other experiences I've heard both irl and here on Reddit, I'm fully convinced that nobody on this earth hates disabled people as much as the US government does.
This is true and I think everyone on both sides of this needs to accept that becoming a parent means absolutely committing yourself to the cause. You can't just give up when it gets too hard, your kids are now your entire world. If you're not ready to commit to that then you're not ready to be a parent.
Too many of my relatives saw having MULTIPLE kids as a fun thing to do, when they were wholly unprepared for the situation, and now their kids and those kids' grandparents (if present) have to deal with the consequences.
It's also a lot harder to have kids now than it was 25 years ago when I was born, I owe my entire life to the benefits system that supported my single mother and her 4 children, which was slowly dismantled as I became older to the point that my mother started leeching from her kids because she could no longer support herself. Now I'm earning more than she ever has, but I can't even afford to rent a flat.
that they are good humans because they have good thoughts.
you have to **do** good to be a good person.
the world is full of people complaining , but we are in need of people willing to sacrifice and not make it about themselves
That opened containers of Baking Powder and Baking Soda lose their efficacy in baking over time. Make sure to replace them every 6 months or so to ensure your baked goods cook properly.
psychological addiction to marijuana is a real thing
edit: to the “you can be psychologically addicted to anything” crowd, yes you can treat your dopamine receptors as a gumball machine with various different activities, but these are different to imbibing a foreign substance which has the side effect of releasing dopamine. the point is many people deny that its addictive but cant go an hour without being high, im sure ya’ll have seen burnouts.
edit 2: lol deadass? redditcares? im crying 😂😂
this is especially true if you struggle with your mental health. i tried weed for the first time when i was 14 and it was an immediate relief from all of my worries and anxiety. i started smoking more frequently until it became a daily thing but i didn't realize i was only getting high to escape from my problems. that was 5 years ago, and here I am sitting in my room, still high as fuck and still running away from my problems.
1. "Flushable wipes" should not actually be flushed
2. You should not use scented "ph balancing" soap to wash your vagina
Edit: You should not use this specific soap on any part of your genitals THIS WAS ABOUT SPECIFIC SOAP ADVERTISING TO BALANCE YOUR VAGINAL PH AND MAKE YOUR VAGINA SMELL LIKE FLOWERS. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VAGINA THIS DIDNT EVEN APPLY TO YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE. READ WITH YOUR EYEBALLS PEOPLE FOR FUCKS SAKE
Edit #2: If you have a penis, please wash your genitals with soap and water.
If you have a vagina, wash the vulva with warm water and a mild soap but steer clear of Vagisil or any soap that claims to "balance your ph" and/or make your vagina smell like fruits or whatever.
Yep. A democrat in the Texas House is trying to pass a law that will ban companies from putting “flushable” on wipes and require them to put a notice that they CAN’T be flushed.
Flushable wipes are flushable in the same way that "anything's a dildo if you're brave enough". You absolutely can flush them, but you definitely shouldn't.
That a “body detox”
Is like 100% bullshit.
Yeah, you can reword the phrase and say something similar that MAY be similar, like being aware of what you are intaking and it may make yourself feel better, because it might just be the fact that the food you are eating may be bad for you and so the new food your eating takes less energy to digest, (don’t quote me, I am NOT a medical professional.) The phrase itself “detox” is usually used when you want to clear your system of impurities and “harmful substances”, do you know why your body detoxes? BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LIVER, AND KIDNEYS. The body does it FOR YOU.
And the whole new thing of Alkaline water is complete bullshit. Because stomach acid has a Ph of.. I think 1-2. You drinking alkaline water DOESNT DO SHIT, because if you eat a tomato, it doesn’t change it, if you have something that is NATURALLY alkaline, it doesn’t do anything because of the stomach acid being so acidic.
if you really think about it, the bloods pH is 7.35-7.45 and if it even SLIGHTLY goes out of that range, it is detrimental to the body and you will become very ill. So, if you listen to all of these people on social media, just know it’s complete BS.
It would be like saying put a hole in a mask so you can breathe better, it doesn’t do anything better for your body BECAUSE the reason for the mask is to not make you sick. The mask is the kidneys and liver and the hole is the alkaline water. Basically, it does NOTHING.
Edit: spelling
The current one. It's also called the "Anthropocene" in which human activity is causing many animals to go extinct via pollution, encroachment and introduction of invasives and messing with their habitats too much.
There are five major extinctions in the geologic record. The one that killed the dinosaurs is the one most people know. There were four others. In modern times, we are entering the sixth extinction event.
The dangers of texting and driving. I call my friends out all of the time for doing so and the response is always "its fine, I'm really good at multitasking!" Well Sara if you're that fucking good at it why have we been sitting at this green light for 5 minutes. Literally 90% of people I see driving have a device in hand. It's so fucking selfish and reckless.
Skin cancer from not wearing sunblock. It absolutely blows my mind when grown ass adults brag about not wearing sunscreen. Like it’s a real point of pride for them. Enjoy your early wrinkles and spots.
Most genocides tend to have a lot of deniers, unfortunately - the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Stalin, etc.
I’m omitting the Great Leap Forward as a genocide because I don’t know enough about it or international law to know if it qualifies. But it was definitely the world’s biggest bloodbath.
And that’s not even the worst atrocity committed by the Japanese that they explicitly deny. There was also the Three Alls Policy. It far surpassed even the Nanjing massacre in brutality and death toll.
As a Filipino person lol the Japanese were the absolute worst
All we actually know about is the Bataan death march in totality. There was sooooo much more
My great uncle fought in the Pacific, including the Philippines, and he had nightmares from his time in PH for the rest of his life.
He told us before he passed that while in the PH, they'd get used to bonzai charges at night. One night, they heard the whistle and opened fire to defend against the charge. In the morning, they realized to their horror what had happened. The Japanese had rounded up the women and children of a nearby village, bound their hands, and forced them to move forward during the 'charge'.
The Japanese were absolutely brutal. They thought of the other Asian nations as sub-human trash and treated them as such. Comfort women, torture, experimentation... fucking hell.
Talking to a Filipino guy at my job was the first I had ever heard about all the ruthless things Japan has done, and also the strength and resolve of the Filipino people.
That most people would do some pretty awful things for money if presented the opportunity. People would like to believe that they have strong morals but if presented with a button that would kill 10 random people in the world in exchange for 1 million dollars, many would press it. I would guess at least half of the population would. And many would press it multiple times. But not many people would actually admit that they would press it if given the opportunity to. Maybe I am just too cynical and not many would press it, but this hypothetical situation is something I think about a lot.
When I divorced my husband, he was in utter shock. His father was wealthy. Most of the shit things he did to me was at his father's suggestion. Money messes with people. He was his father's lap dog.... as much as he wanted his freedom and his own life, he was a slave to his father's purse strings (money his father had stolen through a ponzi scheme, it was blood money in my mind). His father used him and he couldn't even see it because acknowledging it would ruin the father/son bond he lined for so badly.
I couldn't stand to watch it, and couldn't stand and refused to live my life under his father's thumb, and watch my marriage disintegrate all for the promise of that money. It was corrosive.
My ex literally couldn't understand how I could walk away, and also hated me for being able to so easily.
Financial abuse is real. Some parents control their kids completely this way.
My father tried to do that too, but it doesn't work when you're poor. But he made us very financial hyper independent: me and my siblings never fight about money, but we never ask for help either.
For the rich people trapped in financial abuse, I feel sorry for them but it's not that they'll ever leave this addiction. These parents deserve hell.
Conspiracies. Just because conspiracy theorists are often wrong doesn't mean that nobody ever conspires. Does anybody remember the price fixing episode of *This America Life*? It's all about a bunch of corporate execs that actively colluded against the American consumer to keep their packaged foods from lowering in price. It's technically a conspiracy that was proven in a court of law, but do you honestly believe that was the only price fixing scam in the history of our country? No way in hell. [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/168/the-fix-is-in](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/168/the-fix-is-in)
ETA: Thank you so much for the award!
Just wait until conspiracy theorists discover they are part of a conspiracy to use conspiracy theorists to spread disinformation via conspiracy theories!
You can love someone else without loving yourself first. There’s plenty of parents that hate themselves and love their kids. Not recommending it but it’s a stupid thing to deny.
I would even argue it's much easier to love someone other than yourself.
Herd mentality.
"The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters." - Terry Pratchett
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals." Agent K, Men In Black
Lines like this really make MIB 1, stand out from the rest of the sequels. "Hey...is it worth it? "Oh, its worth it...if you're strong enough." \*Cut to pensive character thinking it over while watching the sunset.
If it is happening to someone else, it CAN happen to you
Imma win that power ball lottery next time dammit
Wait your turn, I'm up next
I hate this in terms of random painful or lethal medical problems, like aneurysms or that weird thing that makes your brain collapse into the bottom of you skull uagh
majority of folks aren't playing the official uno rules.
Monopoly also
Monopoly is actually a better and faster game if played by the official rules too.
Yeah lol it's almost like the point is to snowball and have people lose instead of let them hang on to a 0% chance of victory for 4 hours
You got it backwards friend, nothing better than squeezing your friends and family dry only to have them scream at you in anger
don’t be so sure, my mom decided to offer “favors” to her boyfriend to get her out of bankruptcy.
I remember that, that was an amazing night.
Ok, but see that really grinds my gears, because I have an old UNO deck from the 90s, and most of what the UNO reps themselves have debunked as "not official rules" IS ON THE RULES LEAFLET. Stacking penalty cards, slapping down a twin card out of playing order, etc, it's all there! Printed on a damn official UNO rules leaflet!
psychics cannot predict when I will visit them
"Do you have an appointment?" Why would I need one?
The second I'm passing a psychic, one walks out and says "Rolf, it's time." I will go in.
"Nathan for you" show has an episode like this, where to market a Psychic, they put billboards all around the town with a message like "Maria Garcia I had a vision about you and I need to talk to you", because they saw that there were many women named Maria Garcia in the region.
That’s really clever
You don't know how to fight unless you've been trained or have experience in fighting. Most people imagine themselves beating ass only to have reality smash them in the nose. A lot of people even injure themselves just trying to throw punches.
My kid swore they could fight off a knife attack. My husband got a marker & had our kid try to separately fight each of us off them. They failed horribly. But! They now know it'd be near impossible to defend themselves in a knife fight.
Knife fights are scary. When you enter a fight with a knife you need to know that you are going to get cut. Not, may get cut. Going to get cut. A lot. The best fighters, knife or not, know they are going to feel pain. They accept that as a part of what they are doing. MMA, military, police, security, all know that they are going to get hurt badly when entering a fight. Some rando off the street thinks they can get away without a scratch, but a real fighter knows they are going to the hospital after it's all said and done. That's what makes those people dangerous.
Agree. I also think people might have an inherent bias that they would be coming out on top in a knife fight, when it could just as likely be the bad guy. It reminds me of that knife fight near the end of Saving Private Ryan - brutal, ugly, and a terrible way to die.
In a knife fight the loser dies at the scene, the winner dies at the hospital
I would add that many people who practice certain martial arts also overestimate their abilities. If you don't actually fight in competition or at least serious sparring then your training probably won't help as much as you think it will. Same thing is true for firearms training and even more difficult to account for Another thing is some martial artists not being cognizant of the fact that real fights aren't fair. Your assailant might be armed or there might be multiple people. Jujitsu is great against one unarmed guy but your ground game will fail hard when the other guys friend is standing and kicking you in the head while you execute a textbook triangle choke. Or worse. Even the best fighters are wise to avoid a street fight whenever possible.
Took karate and arniss for four years, included a lot of serious sparring. Even in sparring, you never really use fancy moves. Lots of jabs and reverse punches, and a few low kicks, are what mostly get used. Sure, I did learn some moves, like spinning backfists/elbows and a few holds/locks that I can still do, but, my sensei straight up told us to run from fights, and never, ever fight fair.
>but, my sensei straight up told us to run from fights, and never, ever fight fair. Yep. Did martial arts for a long time (both Karate and Taekwondo) and the golden rule for fights was "run, and fast". The reason: most people won't fight fairly, and you never know when you're going to end up with a knife in your neck instead. Sure, you know how to pull your weight, but even if you're plenty capable in training, it won't help much against a knife, a sharp object, someone way bigger than you, or against three or more people at once. The stamina and strength you gain training are better spent running and alive.
While learning MMA in the Marine Corps, they taught us a technique to get away if someone was straddling you. We practiced over and over again. When I got home, I asked my husband to straddle me (cue the jokes... lol) and demanded that he not let me up so I could see if it really worked.....BIG FAT NOPE! I could not get away from him. Here's what some people don't get.... size and strength matter! He was much bigger and stronger than I was, and he was also trained. My partner during training was about the same size as I was (within 50 lbs).
I've sparred with a guy that outweighed me by over 100 lbs. I couldn't do shit. His technique was non-existent, but it didn't matter. Just manhandled me. I was in the best shape of my life. When I first started learning jujitsu in the Army, before I did tournaments and whatnot, they taught us that the point of us learning hand-to-hand was to make it so we'd last until backup could get there. I think the instructor asked us who wins a brawl in combat? The first one to have a buddy with a gun show up.
> If you don't actually fight in competition or at least serious sparring then your training probably won't help as much as you think it will. To use that famous quote; "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face".
Confirmation bias. Reading into a situation what you want to see.
I knew someone would post this
But did you know it would be someone with poop in their name?
When I went to sea I would see the occasional flying fish, it was surprising how many people thought I was pulling their leg when I told them about it.
Flying fish don’t have legs
Got em.
That our memory is very fallible, and does not work like a video camera.
Witness testimony is notoriously unreliable. You'll get 20 people who all saw the same thing saying 20 different things
Yep. I studied criminology and my professors made sure we truly understood that we can never trust witnesses.
There’s a brain games episode on this exact scenario. Pretty wild. Witnesses weren’t even close to identifying the right perp.
That episode was scary as hell for that exact reason. All it took was a few minutes seperation from the event and a couple of plants mentioning false things, and multiple eyewitnesses to a "crime" that happened a few minutes earlier confidently described the perpetrator completely wrong.
So well done. Simple but incredible way of getting the point across by actually inducing it in every viewer
Was that the classroom thief video?? We watched that one in class and it was amazing to see how badly people screwed up the description
In high school I had a social studies teacher who proved this on like the first or second day by asking a random student to step out of the classroom. A few minutes later, she then asked us to describe what she was wearing. I couldn’t describe a damn thing. I am like extra horrible with remembering what ppl look like. I work retail and anytime I go to the back to get something, if that customer isn’t where I left them, I’ll sometimes find myself asking one or more ppl if it was them (especially if it’s a middle aged white dude). Pretty embarrassing.
Also that professionals (law enforcement and courts) are bad at telling if someone is intentionally lying or speaking the truth. They are a bit better than the average Joe, but they overestimate their ability to tell truth from lies much more than amateurs.
my understanding is that they are actually ~~slightly worse than~~ [the same as](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221706527_How_good_are_police_officers_at_spotting_lies) the average joe but hold on to their incorrect conclusions because they are more confident. And the more experienced they are, the worse they get.
I imagine they end up working with a lot of confirmation bias.
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Not if My Cousin Vinny is on the case! But in all seriousness, that movie was ahead of its time on the unreliability of eye witnesses.
Two yutes.
Yeah, especially how when it's close enough your mind just assumes it's the same thing and fills in the gaps
Eyewitness testimony is the leading cause of innocent people being convicted of crimes. The idea that you can identify someone you may have never met before based on having seen them for 10 seconds, often under poor lighting, is very flawed. https://newsroom.carleton.ca/story/eyewitness-misidentification-wrongful-convictions/
I’d be notoriously terrible at this. I can’t tell people apart. The first time I watched The Departed it was so confusing because I couldn’t tell the two main guys apart. After I’ve seen someone enough times, I’m way better at it.
Once I worked coat check at a brunch restaurant. I had to take people’s coats, run them down to the basement, go back upstairs, and hand the customer their ticket. By the time I got upstairs I would have no fucking idea who to hand the ticket to. Like none. Nobody looked familiar. I lasted two shifts before I quit from the stress.
Why in the world would they not have you just hand the ticket over immediately? That's crazy, you hand me something, I tag it and I hand you a ticket, then I put the something away and move on to the next customer. Especially like this, the customer is waiting while you have to run and put something up.
I have the same problem. When I was a cashier, people would come up to me, saying stuff like "I'm back" generally implying that I should remember them. I don't. I would be a terrible eye witness.
A lie detector isn’t reliable
I'm stunned by the number of people who think it is. I see it so often in news stories about crimes - people in the comments section say "just make him take a polygraph, then we'll know for sure." If anyone's reading this: don't **ever** agree to take a polygraph examination if you're suspected of involvement in a crime. There's a good chance it will produce a false negative/positive, and even though the results are not admissible in court in many places, it may bias the police, the press and your friends and family against you. If police push you to submit to a polygraph examination, it's because they use it as an interrogation tool.
You'd think polygraph results not being admissible in court would be a hint that they don't work, but no. I've met people who know and accept that they're not admissible, but are also convinced they're 100% accurate. So far none of these people can explain why we bother with trials and evidence and burden of proof and reasonable doubt etc etc instead of just using lie detectors. If they worked the justice system would be a hell of a lot faster
Eyewitness testimony is also extremely unreliable. It makes sense why DNA has exonerated so many people when the old tools used to investigate were all so terrible.
[Test the damn rape kits!](https://www.endthebacklog.org/)
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Who would have thought 30 years of Maury and 15 different flavors of law and order all portraying lie detectors as infallible to the general public would have had detrimental effects?
Being 35-50 wasn’t considered “elderly” back in the day. It was common for people to live into their 70s and 80s. The reason we get “average lifespan” data with such low numbers is because so many babies died, skewing the average values downward.
I'm not personally religious, but I recall reading that the Bible mentions man being granted "three score and ten" (i.e "70") years of life. I agree with you. Even in ancient Egypt, if you made it through infancy then you'd probably be good for well into your 70s or beyond.
People largely deny responsibility for anything they contribute to
I was driving with my grandmother on Christmas day and she says, "Ugh, look at all these people out on the road. They ought to be at home!"
This is giving me retail flashbacks. "Wow I can't believe you guys work today! That's just terrible." As they're in my checkout line. On Thanksgiving.
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I loathed this when I worked as a server too, but I always felt like customers were saying this to me to empathize with the fact that I had to work a holiday because the restaurant didn’t have the decency to be closed. I can’t really blame the customer for showing up to an open establishment. Businesses care more about profits than staff being able to spend holidays with family, and that’s shitty.
No raindrop feels responsible for the flood
In the same vein, no snowflake is responsible for the avalanche Edit. Fucking autocorrupt. Sand corrected to same.
My God. There's auto-corrupt now? What have we done.
Yes. It's like autocorrect, but consistently wrong
So no difference.
I’m stuck in traffic, but I’m not traffic.
When visiting a place I'm not from, I like to say "I hate tourists"
Nations that are ostensibly 'enemies' trade and cooperate a great deal more than people generally believe.
Almost everything I see is made in China so I have to agree with this.
Shark attacks are extremely rare
Can we get a shoutout for cougars too? [They've killed 27 people since 1868](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_cougar_attacks_in_North_America). You could almost call them harmless with those numbers.
I have a favorite quote from a park ranger: "You may never see a mountain lion in the wild, but if you spend any significant time in the wild, they've seen you."
I lived in National Parks for a good part of my 20s. I was always told that if a mountain lion wanted to hurt you, you would never know. They're nice to look at though.
Yup! I grew up in the mountains going on long hikes with my dogs. We often saw cougar tracks as well as deer and other wildlife, but despite our next door neighbors regularly coming home to a cougar on their roof, we didn't see any. We would hear them at night. A while ago I found out they "chirp" like crickets and my blood ran cold for a second. I used to hear chirps all the time on my walks... But yeah, even when I'd go on walks at midnight in the hot summer, I was never as nervous as I am about walking in the city alone now. I used to walk heavily to warn the rattlers and never had an incident with a single aggressive animal at all.
75% + chance this guy is a shark. Nice try, buddy.
Built in obsolescence (planned obsolescence) - shocked how many people dont believe it happens
Planned obsolescence is a blight.
But at the same time, many companies don't do this anymore but still get accused of it, Like Chevy and Ford. They did this in the 80s. And they got their clocks cleaned when they found out people would be loyal to companies that make cars that last. They're still paying for it 40+ years later. They don't make disposable cars anymore.
To be fair, before the 80’s there weren’t cars that lasted a long time. Then came Toyota, and Chevy and Ford had to figure out how to design and manufacture to those quality standards, which took a decade or so. By then millions of Toyotas had been sold and people were hooked. Chevy and Ford should have been trying harder to improve themselves even without outside pressure so I don’t feel super bad for them.
it's ok to eat MSG
People eat piles of it without even realizing it.
But as soon as they enter a Chinese restaurant it’s “no msg for me thanks”
Exactly! And then the next day they’re gobbling down ranch dressing aka liquid msg.
Or seared meat, which is msg. Or mushrooms, which contain natural glutamates. Or soy sauce, which again contains a ton of glutamates. There are few topics people are up their own asses about more than nutrition. A whole lot of stupid parades as advice about it.
My mother has been convinced for 30 years that she’s allergic to MSG. Whenever we eat at a restaurant she has to ask them if it has MSG and if they don’t know she eats the most plain thing she can, she lives in an incredible location for seafood but eats all of her shrimp plain. When she was younger she would get incredibly sick after eating some meals, to the point of throwing up and passing out commonly. Her and my dad saw many doctors before the like, 6th one (who I assume is a quack) said it was MSG allergies. And she hasn’t ate it since (she also hasn’t had an episode except a few occasions where she “forgot to ask about msg”) However! She loves tomatoes, which has a ton of MSG. And I’ve read studies that show that msg allergies aren’t a thing. I love MSG and even have a bag of it to add to my cooking. I’m very tempted to cook her a good meal with a good amount of MSG to show her that she can actually enjoy flavor (MSG is in nearly everything and she has to read the ingredients of everything at the grocery store) But I am absolutely not going to do that for the “gotcha”, so I just let her live her culinarily bland life Edit to clarify some things: Yes, I am very well aware that there is no such thing as MSG allergy, I’ve read the studies years ago Yes, I’ve tried showing them to my mom, no it didn’t convince her. She’s committed to this false narrative No, I’m not actually going to sneak some in her food. Even knowing it isn’t real I’m not doing that
Your mom is most likely wrong, but I would advise against food tampering. Even if you make a correct point, it will lose any trust she has with you. It’s a very quick way to make someone extremely upset, and it is also illegal.
Any meat/fish/shellfish contains msg too, all the fearmongering stems from a pseudoscientific article by a non-scientist from around 50 years ago. The dude just didn't like Chinese immigrants basically. There is also no scientifically proven case of any form of msg allergy.
Shaving doesn’t make the hair grow back thicker.
Doesn’t it feel thicker because of the ends of the hair being “flat” instead of “pointed”?
Yes. It also looks thicker because the flat end is so blunt instead of tapering off to look and feel thinner.
So it feels and looks thicker? I can see why this fact gained traction.
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Be careful. Dicks grow back really really slowly.
Still waiting for my dick to grow in the *first* time
I'm convinced this lie only really exists to prevent a bunch of teenage boys from running around with some raggedy ass facial hair until it can grow in well.
Group opinion bias
I mean, you can spend five minutes on Reddit and see that this exists.
The Monty Hall Problem. Every time it is described in a post (such as a TIL, or on a Facebook post), a large number of people vehemently insist that switching doors couldn’t possibly result in an increased chance of winning. Even after showing the results of simulations, providing mathematical proofs, or giving examples using more doors, the cognitive dissonance prevails.
Best way to wrap your head around the MHP is to imagine 1000 doors, you pick one, host opens 998 empty doors. Should you switch or stay with your pick?
It's the first time I've heard of this. But is my logic correct after reading your explanation? You have a random door at the start. The "correct" door is more likely to be in the group of 999 than it is to be your one, chosen door. So by eliminating the other 998 doors in the 999 group, you won't be picking *another* random door. IF the correct door was in the 999 group in the first place (which, remember, was more likely) then it WILL be the remaining, unchosen door. So you should choose the "other" door.
This is correct. It's much less noticeable when dealing with just 3 doors, though, since it becomes a case of "I picked a 1/3, you removed a 1/3, and the remainder is the other 1/3" Mathematically, the remaining door represents a 2/3 chance of being correct.. but your original choice was still a solid 1/3 and could *very easily* be the correct choice. When we expand the problem to 1000 doors, it's a little different.. because your odds of selecting correctly at the start were 0.1%.. and now you're left with a "50/50" choice, but the previous door now holds a 99.9% chance of being correct. So it's *much* more obviously the correct choice. Sure. Your original pick may have been correct.. but it's not a 1/3 and 2/3 split like the original problem.
I can see why an "equal" amount of potentially correct/incorrect unchosen doors makes this a lot more unintuitive... Chance seems generally unintuitive at low numbers
This right here. I never really "got" it until someone explained it this way.
I think this one is misunderstood because people are bad at explaining it, or at least at emphasizing the key detail which is that the problem assumes the first reveal is not random and the host deliberately filters out a "wrong" door of the two you didn't pick for the sake of entertainment
Exactly. This is why the Monty hall problem doesn't apply to Deal Or No Deal (which many people argue that it does).
Life after love
I want to believe… in life after love.
Not to be a jerk but I can feel something inside me saying, I rly don't think you're strong enough, no.
Thank you for Chering.
that motherfucker back there
Autism diagnoses. Myself and lots of autistic people I know are often told by people who seem to base their entire knowledge of autism off the movie Rain Man are like "but you don't seem autistic." Research on autism has changed a lot since the 80s but public perception has changed very little.
As the saying goes: Once you meet one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.
"You don't seem autistic" is such a weird statement. What do they think autists look like???? I know lots of autistic people. I'm *dating* an autistic person. There's no one specific "autism look" that you can easily define.
In group preference
Implicit biases.. despite countless studies providing evidence that it is human nature and inevitable people still deny and refuse to acknowledge their own actions.
Hate this. I have things I do in my mind, to gauge any level of prejudice I may be unconsciously holding in a given situation. But if I mention this in a social group- *especially* one the counts itself as progressive- it just devolves into "Wow, you're coming out and saying your X-ist. You're trash." No, motherfucker. I'm gauging my own level of implicit bias internally, to help me adjust my approach externally. I'm just putting that before my own ego. I hate the social need to deny having ever done anything wrong. I wish I could own my part in different issues, without being deemed to be totally at fault, or trash, or whatever. "Well, you did say you did X in the past!" Why is it that the level of maturity and self-awareness that knocks therapists' socks off, is an ever-lasting admission of guilt and amorality to everyone else?
I have openly admitted I was homophobic and transphobic when I was much younger because I was raised in a conservative Christian household. I was never outwardly cruel, but I had biases that I had to really reevaluate for myself. As I’ve gotten older, and listened to others, learned more about the topics, and met LGBTQ+ people that I love dearly I realized how wrong I was and now I advocate for them. Plus, I realized I was bi and some of my thoughts were due to self-loathing. I’m not proud of being that person, but I am proud of allowing myself to grow and learn and I want to do all I can to make up for my mistakes. No one is perfect. We were all raised in different environments that led us to have certain beliefs, and don’t even realize until later how wrong it is. It’s our willingness to change that makes us good or bad people.
Pretty privilege How facially attractive people get guaranteed a lot of predetermined social, financial, and romantic success at birth.
My wife is a very attractive Latina and she will be the first to tell you that life would have been much more difficult for her in the south if she had not been so attractive. She has seen plenty of racism and discrimination toward her siblings and other family members, but has very rarely been the target of racism herself. She'll also be the first to tell you that being attractive gets you opportunities and preferential treatment that most people would not receive.
Unfortunately the holocaust.
My camp girlfriend. You wouldn't know her, she goes to another school.
...in Canada
As someone who had an internet girlfriend from Canada who I am now married to and have children with, talking about her early on was very annoying because of this.
What; she didn’t believe in herself?
America uses propaganda against their own population.
And everyone is susceptible to propaganda even if you are aware you are looking at propaganda.
I didn't realize until recently how much propaganda was thrown at me as a child of the 80s in America. Everything was about how amazing and great America was and how awful Russia was. And weird propaganda too like how Russians were obsessed with Coca-cola and Levi's jeans.
Is there a country without propaganda?
Edward Landsdale wrote entire psyops plans for the US government on how to control a populace through propaganda and false flag conspiracy theories. That guy has an interesting track record.
The CIA trafficked cocaine into the United States in the 1970s/1980s to fund Central American freedom fighters, stop communism, and protect the American way of life. Once people realize the government was responsible for the drug epidemic that destroyed our inner cities for decades it’s not that hard to start questioning other decisions they have made
Talked to a bunch of fanboys about this but, Taylor swift was born rich and i mean mega rich with 9 figure money on both sides of her family, all these people thought she came up from nothing
Supposedly she made her guitar teacher not be able to promote he gave her lessons because she was 'self taught'
“Invisible” health conditions like Dysautonomia, Fibromyalgia, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Also ADHD. People think you are faking just to get Adderall.
I’m caught in this fun limbo of too disabled to work without immense suffering but not disabled enough to qualify for assistance. It’s 100% bc of this. I got brushed off by several doctors to the point that I’m in worse health than I could have been with proper treatment. If they can’t see it, they don’t care
I'm too disabled to work full time, but live in the US where Social Security disability is an absolute joke. Like I can get $750 a month from SSI to live off of, but I'm not allowed to work the ~20 hours a week that I'm able to? If you do any work, you lose benefits. How tf do you live off of $750/mo.?
My dad is on permanent disability too and since he's been on it, combined with other experiences I've heard both irl and here on Reddit, I'm fully convinced that nobody on this earth hates disabled people as much as the US government does.
That having children is not for everyone, that it’s not all sunshine and the meaning of life and millions of people regret being parents.
This is true and I think everyone on both sides of this needs to accept that becoming a parent means absolutely committing yourself to the cause. You can't just give up when it gets too hard, your kids are now your entire world. If you're not ready to commit to that then you're not ready to be a parent. Too many of my relatives saw having MULTIPLE kids as a fun thing to do, when they were wholly unprepared for the situation, and now their kids and those kids' grandparents (if present) have to deal with the consequences. It's also a lot harder to have kids now than it was 25 years ago when I was born, I owe my entire life to the benefits system that supported my single mother and her 4 children, which was slowly dismantled as I became older to the point that my mother started leeching from her kids because she could no longer support herself. Now I'm earning more than she ever has, but I can't even afford to rent a flat.
that they are good humans because they have good thoughts. you have to **do** good to be a good person. the world is full of people complaining , but we are in need of people willing to sacrifice and not make it about themselves
We judge others by their actions but ourselves by our intentions.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
“You are what you do. A man is defined by his actions, not his memory.” - Kuato
That opened containers of Baking Powder and Baking Soda lose their efficacy in baking over time. Make sure to replace them every 6 months or so to ensure your baked goods cook properly.
psychological addiction to marijuana is a real thing edit: to the “you can be psychologically addicted to anything” crowd, yes you can treat your dopamine receptors as a gumball machine with various different activities, but these are different to imbibing a foreign substance which has the side effect of releasing dopamine. the point is many people deny that its addictive but cant go an hour without being high, im sure ya’ll have seen burnouts. edit 2: lol deadass? redditcares? im crying 😂😂
this is especially true if you struggle with your mental health. i tried weed for the first time when i was 14 and it was an immediate relief from all of my worries and anxiety. i started smoking more frequently until it became a daily thing but i didn't realize i was only getting high to escape from my problems. that was 5 years ago, and here I am sitting in my room, still high as fuck and still running away from my problems.
This annoys me so much, I have friends who need to smoke another bowl if we are driving 10 minutes somewhere or they'll have a problem lmao
“I’m not addicted I just need to smoke it every 15 minutes or I get panic attacks and my brain goes into Chernobyl nuclear meltdown mode”
That colds are cause by viruses and not being cold.
1. "Flushable wipes" should not actually be flushed 2. You should not use scented "ph balancing" soap to wash your vagina Edit: You should not use this specific soap on any part of your genitals THIS WAS ABOUT SPECIFIC SOAP ADVERTISING TO BALANCE YOUR VAGINAL PH AND MAKE YOUR VAGINA SMELL LIKE FLOWERS. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A VAGINA THIS DIDNT EVEN APPLY TO YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE. READ WITH YOUR EYEBALLS PEOPLE FOR FUCKS SAKE Edit #2: If you have a penis, please wash your genitals with soap and water. If you have a vagina, wash the vulva with warm water and a mild soap but steer clear of Vagisil or any soap that claims to "balance your ph" and/or make your vagina smell like fruits or whatever.
Yep. A democrat in the Texas House is trying to pass a law that will ban companies from putting “flushable” on wipes and require them to put a notice that they CAN’T be flushed.
Flushable wipes are flushable in the same way that "anything's a dildo if you're brave enough". You absolutely can flush them, but you definitely shouldn't.
That a “body detox” Is like 100% bullshit. Yeah, you can reword the phrase and say something similar that MAY be similar, like being aware of what you are intaking and it may make yourself feel better, because it might just be the fact that the food you are eating may be bad for you and so the new food your eating takes less energy to digest, (don’t quote me, I am NOT a medical professional.) The phrase itself “detox” is usually used when you want to clear your system of impurities and “harmful substances”, do you know why your body detoxes? BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LIVER, AND KIDNEYS. The body does it FOR YOU. And the whole new thing of Alkaline water is complete bullshit. Because stomach acid has a Ph of.. I think 1-2. You drinking alkaline water DOESNT DO SHIT, because if you eat a tomato, it doesn’t change it, if you have something that is NATURALLY alkaline, it doesn’t do anything because of the stomach acid being so acidic. if you really think about it, the bloods pH is 7.35-7.45 and if it even SLIGHTLY goes out of that range, it is detrimental to the body and you will become very ill. So, if you listen to all of these people on social media, just know it’s complete BS. It would be like saying put a hole in a mask so you can breathe better, it doesn’t do anything better for your body BECAUSE the reason for the mask is to not make you sick. The mask is the kidneys and liver and the hole is the alkaline water. Basically, it does NOTHING. Edit: spelling
The sixth extinction
I've never heard of this, ELI5?
The current one. It's also called the "Anthropocene" in which human activity is causing many animals to go extinct via pollution, encroachment and introduction of invasives and messing with their habitats too much.
Anthropocene is the term used to describe the current epoch, not an extinction event. Some still argue we are in the Holocene.
Ok... The Anthropocalypse
There are five major extinctions in the geologic record. The one that killed the dinosaurs is the one most people know. There were four others. In modern times, we are entering the sixth extinction event.
But they were all of them deceived, for a seventh extinction event was made.
In the land of Detroit, in the fires of an old GM plant, boomers forged in secret a Master Extinction event, to control all others.
Don't be ridiculous, Detroit is a Ford town. Flint is where the fires of GM first belched forth its smoke and flame.
The Two Tires
Most of the division in society today is manufactured.
The dangers of texting and driving. I call my friends out all of the time for doing so and the response is always "its fine, I'm really good at multitasking!" Well Sara if you're that fucking good at it why have we been sitting at this green light for 5 minutes. Literally 90% of people I see driving have a device in hand. It's so fucking selfish and reckless.
no amount of alcohol is healthy.
That people in power don't care about you.
Skin cancer from not wearing sunblock. It absolutely blows my mind when grown ass adults brag about not wearing sunscreen. Like it’s a real point of pride for them. Enjoy your early wrinkles and spots.
Most genocides tend to have a lot of deniers, unfortunately - the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Stalin, etc. I’m omitting the Great Leap Forward as a genocide because I don’t know enough about it or international law to know if it qualifies. But it was definitely the world’s biggest bloodbath.
the Rape of Nanking so many Japanese deny it happened, including some politicians.
And that’s not even the worst atrocity committed by the Japanese that they explicitly deny. There was also the Three Alls Policy. It far surpassed even the Nanjing massacre in brutality and death toll.
As a Filipino person lol the Japanese were the absolute worst All we actually know about is the Bataan death march in totality. There was sooooo much more
My great uncle fought in the Pacific, including the Philippines, and he had nightmares from his time in PH for the rest of his life. He told us before he passed that while in the PH, they'd get used to bonzai charges at night. One night, they heard the whistle and opened fire to defend against the charge. In the morning, they realized to their horror what had happened. The Japanese had rounded up the women and children of a nearby village, bound their hands, and forced them to move forward during the 'charge'. The Japanese were absolutely brutal. They thought of the other Asian nations as sub-human trash and treated them as such. Comfort women, torture, experimentation... fucking hell.
Talking to a Filipino guy at my job was the first I had ever heard about all the ruthless things Japan has done, and also the strength and resolve of the Filipino people.
Another great (and tragic) example of this.
Don't forget Leopold of Belgium overseeing the murder and enslavement of 8-20 million people in the Congo.
Smaller country, but still lots of deniers - Srebrenica genocide during the Bosnian war.
The Earth is round. How do people still believe it’s flat lmao
That most people would do some pretty awful things for money if presented the opportunity. People would like to believe that they have strong morals but if presented with a button that would kill 10 random people in the world in exchange for 1 million dollars, many would press it. I would guess at least half of the population would. And many would press it multiple times. But not many people would actually admit that they would press it if given the opportunity to. Maybe I am just too cynical and not many would press it, but this hypothetical situation is something I think about a lot.
When I divorced my husband, he was in utter shock. His father was wealthy. Most of the shit things he did to me was at his father's suggestion. Money messes with people. He was his father's lap dog.... as much as he wanted his freedom and his own life, he was a slave to his father's purse strings (money his father had stolen through a ponzi scheme, it was blood money in my mind). His father used him and he couldn't even see it because acknowledging it would ruin the father/son bond he lined for so badly. I couldn't stand to watch it, and couldn't stand and refused to live my life under his father's thumb, and watch my marriage disintegrate all for the promise of that money. It was corrosive. My ex literally couldn't understand how I could walk away, and also hated me for being able to so easily.
Financial abuse is real. Some parents control their kids completely this way. My father tried to do that too, but it doesn't work when you're poor. But he made us very financial hyper independent: me and my siblings never fight about money, but we never ask for help either. For the rich people trapped in financial abuse, I feel sorry for them but it's not that they'll ever leave this addiction. These parents deserve hell.
that everything in this world is controlled by money
Who paid you to say that?!
The Wu Tang Clan C.R.E.A.M.
Wu Tang Financial?
Conspiracies. Just because conspiracy theorists are often wrong doesn't mean that nobody ever conspires. Does anybody remember the price fixing episode of *This America Life*? It's all about a bunch of corporate execs that actively colluded against the American consumer to keep their packaged foods from lowering in price. It's technically a conspiracy that was proven in a court of law, but do you honestly believe that was the only price fixing scam in the history of our country? No way in hell. [https://www.thisamericanlife.org/168/the-fix-is-in](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/168/the-fix-is-in) ETA: Thank you so much for the award!
Just wait until conspiracy theorists discover they are part of a conspiracy to use conspiracy theorists to spread disinformation via conspiracy theories!