Joy murdered Bing Bong in Disney’s Inside Out (2015).
Birds are not real!
Peter McIndoe did a thought provoking talk on TED back in 2023. The whole thing is worth watching IMO. But if you’re wanting to get down to the real stuff, it starts 5:08 of 13:50.
harmless conspiracy theory
Birds are not real!
Laughs in USA 2nd Amendment
Mexicans are the future Gauls. The caesarian era was the end of real Roman democracy due to disgusting consolidation of wealth. When all the money leaves the USA for New Constantinople, probably after the Israeli Reich looks like the Ottoman empire, the Mexicans will invade the worthless boot of rotting NA, some time around when the Atlanta beach party scene really gets cranking at end of the world and the capital Denver is weak.
I’ll let you know if we ever grow a whimsical thirst to invade the future third world. 😉
Racial carbohydrate diet. You should eat the carbs that match your ancestors DNA.
As we all have shared ancestors this would be higly different depending on how far back you go in time.
Heck, if I go back far enough we all need to eat seafood
Back when reddit had awards, the admins would routinely award posts to make it appear like people were actually buying them.
I thought this was common knowledge.
I got awarded gold by a mod that told me they were gifted a certain number of awards from Reddit to give out (I believe they said they got 15).
The same mod also claimed that gold gifted responses were given prioritized visibility.
There were a few times that users were gifted awards to give out too.
Can confirm. I was gifted a bunch of Reddit cash for… er… I dunno, being around for a long time maybe. I spent it on giving gold and silver to posts or comments I enjoyed, but I certainly wasn’t going to spend my actual money on it.
That there are ICE raids frequently carried out at Home Depots because the Trump-loving CEO invites them to the stores. Wouldn’t be all that surprising or change much even if it were true.
Edit: apparently i was thinking of the former CEO/founder. The current one seems to be against facism
I’m surprised as fuck those guys are standing out there again. I didn’t see them in Denver much for like 10 years but now they are back. Brave young men or men who are very confident in their running speed.
More power to them, I asked a group how much they usually got and they said $25/hr but I think they were padding it in case I was actually going to hire them so I’d figure the going rate is probably $20.
This is pretty high stakes
People are only against facism when it isn’t their preferred form of facism.
Not true. I’m against both. You have a right to be a citizen in a democracy. Citizens and democracy only exist when citizens have a right to all information, the right to skepticism, and the right to be wrong. No one truly thinks for themselves without these as a foundation.
Which kind is your favorite?
The one where the government is less relevant to me living my life unless my actions infringe upon the natural rights of others and more relevant the bigger a company or organization gets.
The first rule of fascism is, when it arrives, turn your guns against the fascists. Not against your friends who aren’t being anti-fascist enough, or weren’t in the past, or whatever.
Microsoft deliberately fucks with your video and audio drivers before a big update so you have to reboot
This isn’t a conspiracy, it is a proven fact.
proven fact
no source
I’m not one to stick up for Microsoft but uhhhhh fuck no
I think it is more that the update fucks with drivers? As in, updates bring updated stuff that probably interferes with still-running old stuff.
If my experience is common, the update ‘pre-loads’ some non-locked system files as time goes on while the update is downloaded but not technically applied by the tool. So these files get changed without a reboot, and while you may not be using them at the time of overwrite, when you next load them, there are subtle incompatibilities with the previous version and your active data.
Kind of like ‘The dll was replaced by the exe is still the old version’, and this causes a ton of small but annoying glitches, crashes, and odd audio behavior.
Untill reboot, which happens less and less often now that windows doesn’t bluescreen every few hours.
My conspiracy is that they are aware of it, and do not change it despite the risks it provides, to keep everyone in line with their update schedule, denying the user the rights to control their own hardware, again.
To be fair, the very same thing happens with Linux, when you install updates but don’t restart services (or, god forbid, the whole system). Really weird tiny issues accumulate until I am fed up and hit reboot.
I don’t disagree, but I’d like some more info and/or sources.
Does anyone have a source on this? It’s 100% believable but I’m not turning anything up and this seems like something worth knowing more about
Pillsbury pie crusts - the kind that come rolled up, 2 in a box, come in a very standard box with the typical two big flaps at the end, one glued over the other, with two little side flaps inside. Safeway store brand pie crusts seem identical but have a slightly more complicated box. One flap peels open easily but the other flap is sort of latched into the little side tabs with little slots, making it hard to peel open. You have to rip the corners apart. It’s totally unnecessary. The simpler Pillsbury box works fine.
Until just now my low-stakes conspiracy theory was that the store brand box was deliberately designed to create the disadvantage of being a slight pain in the ass to open. I figured Safeway pie crusts, like most store-brand products, are made by a major manufacturer - probably Pillsbury - and that Pillsbury probably made them under the condition that the package be harder to open, to create a tangible difference between the products.
However, when I started typing this I casually googled and found that Safeway buys their OEM pie crusts from Albertsons. This blows my conspiracy theory but now I wonder even more why the box design is so stupid.
Pillsbury probably put money into R&D for their box design and the Safeway white label company is probably using a box design that is older, made by older machines with lower tolerance for mistakes and cheaper glues. Manufacturing engineering is a very interesting field with a lot of budget concerns.
Safeway and Albertsons are the same company (and randalls and tom thumb and about 20 other names). Lots of acquisitions and mergers over the years.
so the real question is where albertsons gets their pie crusts from.
I’m assuming it’s a patent problem.
I srsly doubt that the Pillsbury box design is still under patent, because it’s been used in hundreds or even thousands of products I’ve opened over a span of decades - for example, pretty much every breakfast cereal box works that way. Two main flaps, two little tabs under them at the ends. The store-brand box is something I’ve never even seen before. Could be that it’s designed to be opened along one side, with the “front” of the box opening as a lid. Then the structure would actually make sense. I dunno, next time I make pie I’ll have a closer look.
I don’t know what I was thinking when I read your original comment, but I thought you meant the ones that come in the tubes. Guess I was half asleep. The extra tabs on the corners sound like they might be for structural support so that they don’t get crushed as much when shipping or so that the box they come in can be weaker. I know plenty of the ones with the basic glued design open up on their own when weight is put on it.
In the movie Moana she hits her head while trying to escape the thrashing waves. when she wakes up she’s on the beach and has magic water powers.
I believe she is actually dying and everything after that point in the movie is a fantasy in her head as she slowly dies. she knows this deep down and struggles with the concept of death immediately after when her grandmother dies, thus sending her off on a journey to save her people (herself).
she then follows Maui who guides her along to the afterlife (even takes a small detour to the underworld). when she finally meets Te Fiti the goddess is in a state of duality (life and death). only after restoring Te Fiti to her living state does she return to her people where they welcome her back to the land of the living.
So Island Coco
pretty much, both coco and Moana die at the end so 🤔 probably an apt analogy.
This one is kinda well known but I’ve only recently started educating myself about the subject and came to the same conclusion:
Plants and mushrooms are much, much more effective at healing physical as well as mental diseases than most people think but the powers that be don’t want us to grow our own medicine so they claim everything is either ineffective or dangerous compared to what you can buy at a pharmacy.
Partial agreement. I think that medication for mental illnesses is still essentially in the dark ages, and it’s partially because they were not allowed to use the plants for research to determine what about them was effective, correctly engineer them into a standardised type, and work on the therapies to work best with them.
The physical point I don’t agree with. In these instances, the effective plants have been researched and their mode of action has (generally) been determined. It is then possible to engineer them into higher and more consistent effectiveness in the human body, than the plants which essentially had an effect by random chance.
I don’t know if this is necessarily harmless because an extreme version of this is what causes people to try using essential oils to cure their cancer
Buddy, any plant / mushroom that works, will be made into a pill. That’s one thing big pharma is really good at, it’s exploiting what works in nature and going “we did that!”
Big pharma conspiracy theory, which I don’t know how controversial it is, is that they keep finding excuses to pump people full of pills. Slight headache? Pill! Overweight? Pill. Depressed? Pill.
Anything and everything, where step one should be diet / lifestyle, is immediately funneled to pills.
Big pharma conspiracy theory
I always feel the need to specify having studied pharmacy: it’s the business side with the MBAs who try to do that shit. The science side is like “oh neat,” and these assholes are like “make it make money!”
The AMA was literally formed to keep all forms of healthcare to a few rich white guys called doctors, and prevent nurses and midwives from ‘practicing medicine’.
There’s also a whole lot more going on in health than chemistry. Placebos and holistic approaches work, and science doesn’t know why, because science has to remove all variables in order to function, whereas the human condition is such a complex pile of interoperating nonsense sometimes the only way to get anywhere is to step back, look at, and address the greater picture.
I’m with you on the first part but not the second part.
Okay I think Amtrak is not really remotely interested in providing a positive passenger rail experience, but is instead used by the automotive and railroad industry to provide a poor experience, ensuring that people keep buying cars and gas and keep the rail lines free for commercial usage.
Here is my primary piece of evidence; in e-commerce web design to increase sales your goal is to remove barriers between a motivated customer and them clicking buy. A company the size of amtrak should have a decently sophisticated process of multi variable testing and focus groups to at least someehat improve the process over time and make it easy for people to plan route trips and buy tickets.
And yet in the decades that Antrak has been operating they user experience has barely changed and seems to do just the minimum to keep up with the times and not look stale. And it’s not an overly complicated item they are selling. A very small in house team would be able to make a very usable experience in just a couple of years. But it’s absolute shit. It’s so frustrating and to try and plan a train trip and it always has been, for absolutely no reason.
Either this massive company has had absolute fools in charge of their web dev for decades leaving piles of money on the table due to incompetence… OR they actually just don’t care about making sales for whatever reason. I think that reason is that they exist just to keep the rail experience shitty.
I do think that Amtrak is purposefully kneecapped to keep train travel from being appealing, but honestly I think their website is fine. It’s on-par or slightly less usable than something like American Airlines’ website
Destroying amtrak is literally a republican agenda, for the automotive reasons you stated.
Also, if you can spring for a sleeper car, the experience is fucking amazing. Three meals (and one boozy drink) included a day, there was a wine tasting, just all around pretty rad.
I have enjoyed the sleeper cars! I’m a fan of rail travel which is how i know that the user experience hasn’t changed in 30+ years!
My favorite is the observation cars on the coast starlight.
The trains are still infrequent, often not to schedule and with minimum available routes. Short hops are far too expensive for the experience you get as well. The only thing keeping Amtrak from working seems to be Amtrak.
Who owns Amtrak anyway?
Mr. Track
Please, call him Am.
Of the Boston Tracks!?!
It’s federally owned. While ops theory is interesting, I think the real answer is because the government runs it and they depend on government funds to operate.
it’s not federally funded the way most federal stuff is handled though. It’s ‘federally chartered’ and nominally a for profit corporation where all the stock is owned by the feds and the feds choose the leadership. It’s supposed to make money not just spend tax money.
So there’s also not much incentive for the people running the service to do any more than the bare minimum.
Bingo! Biden actually increased funding for Amtrak while he was in office to help improve the infrastructure and build more passenger lines. Who knows if any of that will ever get done at this point though.
Spoiler: it won’t
New headline:
Stormy Daniels appointed as new head of Amtrak
The majority of brands are involved in a scheme where their products lead to more consumption of another product.
Deodorant makes your armpits smell worse, needing to use more soap and continue to use deodorant.
Shampoo makes your hair need conditioner, and needs more products to look nice again needing to wash more frequently…
Soda makes you hungry and don’t rehydrate, snacks make you thirsty and aren’t satiating.
Food isn’t nourishing, take these vitamins.
Clothing is getting made from materials that hold onto smells and wear more from washing, needing to be washed more often and washer needing repairs and buying new clothes.
Apps need more resources so you need the new phone to run them.
That’s just capitalism
You’re describing capitalism
And pretty much everyone knows that’s how it works, the disagreement is that some (very odd) people think this is a good thing.
It’s just consumption in general. It predates capitalism (as we know it). For thousands of years humanity has been using beer and wine to cut the fat, sugar, and salt on our palate so we don’t feel too full or sate and can eat more.
Humans being gluttonous motherfuckers who will consume stuff until we’re wrecked is indeed older than dirt. Some of the oldest records we HAVE of humanity involve people committing excesses of the sort.
– Having a bunch of organisations driven by profit independently come to the conclusion they can exploit this flaw in human persons to maximise their profits, leading to a systemic vicious circle where we consume more, so they create more artificial needs for us to consume, so we consume more, so (…) – Is, in fact, a product of capitalism.
this is neither low-stakes nor harmless, it is also not a conspiracy😆
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I thoroughly believe that antiperspirant makes you sweat more. I used to constantly have pit stains, I was so embarrassed by it in high school. I even went to the doctor and was prescribed a hyperhydrosis medication which didn’t work and gave me a rash. So I switched to aluminum free Deodorant and my armpits basically never sweat now. Haven’t ruined a shirt with pit stains in over a decade now.
People are always shocked when I tell them I wash my hair no more frequently than once every 3 or 4 months and without conditioner. My response is that shampoo is a relatively recent invention and people’s hair was perfectly fine beforehand, just as mine is now. I still wash with water every day when I shower and that does the trick just fine.
You posted a lot of things I’ve been feeling for a while but haven’t put down into words. Thank you for this.
Uno changes the rules every few years so that people have different ideas of which “house rules” are canon. Being “the game that people argue over” keeps it in the public consciousness much better than “that game that’s kind of fun to play two rounds of occasionally”
Bullshit, uno and its precursor crazy eights is hands down the best card game ever created. We even played that in big groups in jail and had a blast. The house rules thing is bullshit, agree on something beforehand and play, no stress.
I will say that anyone who doesnt play stacking draw cards is losing out on a ton of fun though.
Stacking draw cards is in the rules book, at least for uno no mercy. It says you could only stack equal to or higher.
Yeah without that rule there isn’t much strategy to whether you play or hold a draw card. Its awesome when the cards stack around the table and come back to you though lol seriously underated game.
I’m actually stealing this as an explanation next time I’m at a house party and someone whips out the uno cards.
That creepy green “day care” is a CIA front.
I’ve seen studies claiming that toilet seats are among the cleanest spots in a public restroom, and that slamming your bare ass cheeks down on those things is perfectly safe.
I also work in an operating room, where we routinely chop condyloma off of people’s ass cheeks… albeit less commonly the cheeks than the hole, but enough times to showcase the fact that the cheeks are prone to spreading and contracting contact dependent pathogens.
Those studies are bullshit - always build that toilet-paper-bird’s-nest on the public toilet seat.
It probably is the cleanest part in the whole restroom. Im not looking to put my ass anywhere else either though. You’re fully right get it built.
See, I’m not crazy! I’ve thought this too. Like, ok, sure, I’m not going to get an STD if my dick touches the seat because those are some very specific pathogens, but we know there are others well-equipped to survive. Relatedly, I’ve also gotten more acne than usual after I visit a sauna and rest my back against the wall. That shit is dirty, and I’m almost sure it makes me break out.
I even do it at home (just a couple squares on each side) for comfort
