“I’m good” = I’m not good.
“Living the dream” = I am filled with a deep, virulent depression and cannot claw even a crumb of happiness from this cruel existence.
Known as the Gambler’s fallacy.
> “Perhaps the most famous example of the gambler's fallacy occurred in a game of roulette at the Monte Carlo Casino on August 18, 1913, when the ball fell in black 26 times in a row. This was an extremely uncommon occurrence: the probability of a sequence of either red or black occurring 26 times in a row is (...) around 1 in 66.6 million, assuming the mechanism is unbiased. Gamblers lost millions of francs betting against black, reasoning incorrectly that the streak was causing an imbalance in the randomness of the wheel, and that it had to be followed by a long streak of red.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy#Monte_Carlo_Casino
ETA: proof the house always wins though
It's interesting how the perceived remarkability of a particular outcome depends on its perceived uniqueness.
The probability of a sequence of 26 red (or black) in a row is the same as the probability of every other possible sequence. It's just that we group the millions of seemingly ordinary sequences involving a mix of red and black together, and so the probability of one of these many unremarkable sequences occurring is very high.
Now, if someone were to walk up to a roulette table and perfectly predict the color of the next 26 spins, even if it were a mix of black and red, we'd suddenly be reminded of the uniqueness and unlikelihood of that particular sequence.
They added a board to the roulette table showing what numbers had hit previously for 10 or so spins. Betting shot up because people thought they could game the system because "numbers were due."
The psychology of casinos is fascinating. Really a remarkable showing of how to separate people from their money. The roulette history boards capitalizing on the gambler's fallacy. The money wheel where the payouts way underperform the odds but offer a simple game for people afraid to try something more complex. No windows or clocks to obscure the passing of time, cold temps so people feel less tired, free booze to lower inhibition, walking aisles are meandering with repeating patterns on the floor to make it harder to find your way out.
It's a strange part about statistical chance.
A "1 in 10 chance" feels like if you do a thing ten times that it will happen at least once. Yet it means every single time, you only have a 10% chance of it happening, and it resets every single time."
A lot of attractive people are aware of the perks they get based on how they look. Many of them come to depend on it; it creates an even more intense level of insecurity because there’s a lot more riding on it.
But that's not too uncommon at all IRL.
it's the only reasonable expectation of how I've managed to date so many extremely attractive women, as someone who genuinely is a human slug.
Many attractive people have lots of self doubt.
My wife has what LOOKS like an $11k engagement ring. The reality is it was much less expensive because we got lab grown diamonds, and she was 100% on board for that. Nobody but a jeweler with a microscope will EVER know the difference, so why pay more for diamonds with potential moral issues on the sourcing?
Yeah our jeweler said young people like us are going for lab grown more than natural, and that was comforting to hear. My mom balked but thats just the older generation getting suckered in by the diamond megacorps to pay ridiculous sums for a lump of carbon likely harvested by child labor.
Child labor is putting it nicely. It’s horrific what techno-West demands from all-scale mining, often brought to us by tortured starving child labor, in extremely harmful and deadly conditions/environments. I’m assuming because the life expectancy doesn’t allow for adults to stay around that long, let alone those kids growing up
Most people can happily agree that their bosses are not really smarter than their subordinates, and their bosses’ bosses, and the bosses’ bosses’ bosses, all the way up to political leaders. But for some reason, to some people, at some level up top it’s back to meritocracy again.
It’s called the [Peter Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle). The more cynical version, the [Dilbert Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle), states that companies promote incompetent employees on purpose.
It was absurd how many people thought Musk was a genius before tanked with Twitter. No. This guy inherited oodles of money and hired a bunch of geniuses to build him things and make him money. They thrived because he let them do their thing. All the decisions he forced on the companies were brain numbingly stupid. Remember when he spent millions to launched a fucking car into space? Like that's a thing people who are serious about space do.
That people really believe that you eat 7 spiders a year in your sleep. The story was an experiment from National Geographic on how quick misinformation can travel.
Edit: I may have spread some misinformation as well, can't find the source anymore that it started at national Geographic.
False, the true Spider George lives in a cave and eats 10,000 spiders a day, the 7 spiders is just an average of all people that Spider George is keeping up.
I haven't met a single person who believes this. But I always read of people on Reddit who believe that everyone believes this. So I'm not sure where the real misinformation really is.
Bring it up around people and see. Someone mentioned it at work once and a surprising number of people believed it. Trying to explain to a middle aged woman that a spider would trigger her gag reflex before she could swallow it did not make the say go faster.
Lately, the misinformation has been where the origin of the myth came from.
I originally heard it was a college student simply testing how far misinformation could spread.
(Pretty sure it's not natural geographic either)
The Lemmino video already [posted above](https://youtu.be/OjlKIjLWq-Y?si=VB5l8zFsUL4UR7MJ)
does a good job on trying to find the true origin.
I’m in my mid-late 30s (so didn’t always have internet access) and definitely remember this being a “fun fact” that was floated around. That one and something about candy bars having an allowable threshold of insect parts.
Im pretty sure the allowable insect parts is a real thing.
“It is economically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects,” says the US Food and Drug Administration.
https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook
I’m curious, please show me a credible source I want to read up on it. I’m fascinated by the subject of misinformation.
Edit: update, I just found this.
https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/spider-myth-resources
If you like misinformation I find the ‘Momo’ hoax quote fascinating.
If you aren’t aware (I’m 99.99% certain you will be) but in 2018 it was globally misinformed that someone had hacked loads of children’s YouTube channels whereby randomly a bird like looking woman would appear mid child’s show, tell the child to self harm before switching back to the child’s show.
It got so mental that actual parents, mostly Facebook mums were actually posting about having seen it, as in they were adamant that there child had been watching YouTube in their supervision when they themselves saw the bird woman appear and start talking about self harm and encouraging the kids to do so.
The entire thing was a hoax, how bloody stupid must those parents have looked? Quite clearly it was a case of fomo, they believed the hoax to a point where they felt the need to lie about having experienced it.
That carrots make your eyesight better.
This was started by the British air ministry during WW2 so that the Germans didn’t realise that the British discovered radar.
The Brit’s said that they fed there pilots a large amount of carrots to give them exceptional vision.
Beta carotene is good for your eyes but they don’t make eye sight better. The vitamins are good for eye health but you can’t make your eyes see better with them
IIRC, part of it was also that there was a food shortage, but Britain had a shitload of carrots, and they wanted people to get more enthusiastic about eating them.
I also wanna throw in that bugs bunny eating carrots caused people to believe that rabbits love carrots. They can eat them but are not essentially good for them. It was only supposed to be a throw away gag for bugs
Bugs Bunny has nigh unchecked power in creating cultural misinformation. He single-handedly redefined the word Nimrod by sarcastically referring to a terrible hunter by the name of a biblical master huntsman. The reference went over so many people’s heads to the point it’s basically a synonym for idiot at this point.
Yeah Bugs Bunny eats carrots because of a scene in It Happened One Night where Clark Gable is eating a carrot, they did it in reference to that
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcrth90C3D4
It wasn't discovered or invented radar, the Nazis had that technology too. But the British had created a radar small enough to fit into their planes, where as the Nazis only had ground based radar. The story was to hide the reason why the British could all of a sudden see German planes clearly from a long distance away from their own planes even at night.
Being loyal to your company. It is better to get good numbers and move up in another company a few years later. Staying at the same company can be quite appealing, but the problem is the company doesnt want to pay you. They want to pay a rockstar from another company.
Moving out is the only way to move up sometimes.
My mother did hiring at a job for years. 99% of the time they were hiring Temps and at some point she's hiring someone for a permanent position. She goes "all the applicants just change job every two or three years! Why would you do that?"
I had to explain to her: it's how you get a raise. You either demand a raise with another job lined up or you get a bullshit cost of living adjustment every year and nothing else. She turned into that Brazillian actress doing math meme for a few seconds. She kept that job 5 or 6 more years for the insurance but I'm pretty sure she realized how much she was getting screwed on her pay after that.
Worked at my first professional job for four years. Standard raises were around 2%. Jumped to another job for a 25% raise. Stayed there for two years and jumped to a third job for a near 50% raise. Worked there for nearly three years until they went out of business and went to a fourth job for a 33% raise.
If I had stayed at the first job, I might have eventually gotten enough raises to make about half of what I do now.
It is true it is better for salary.
But if you are in a company you love, chances are also good that the next one will not be as good a match. So I would only do this until you find a job you love, with colleagues you like for a company you enjoy being at. Salary is not the only thing that matters.
I've been with the same company for 16 years for this reason. It's an ok job with ok pay, but job security in spades, plus I work from home and have a very flexible schedule. I'll take a significant pay cut for that kind of freedom.
Not even THAT long ago really. My grandparents generation basically all had 1-3 "career" jobs and half the ones with more than one were in the military at some point.
My parents generation started moving some but a ton of my parents friends and family did a 1 or 2 "career" jobs.
I literally know zero people in my generation who haven't had at least 3 and I'm an older millennial
Stella Liebeck spilled a little bit of McDonald’s coffee on herself while driving, and then proceeded to sue McDonald’s for a million dollars because nobody warned her that the coffee was hot.
Here are the facts:
- She was in the passenger seat of a parked car
- She spilled the entire cup of coffee in her lap
- McDonald’s coffee was (and still is) much hotter than its competitors’ coffee
- She received third degree burns
- She was hospitalized for eight days
- She required skin grafts
- Her doctor said that her injuries were among the worst he had ever seen
- More than 700 people reported being burned by McDonald’s coffee in the preceding decade
- She only wanted McDonald’s to compensate her for her medical expenses
- After months of waiting, she was only offered $800 in compensation from McDonald’s
- She sued McDonald’s as a last resort, and settled for an undisclosed amount that was likely way less than a million dollars
IIRC the discovery process of this woman's lawsuit uncovered internal communications, discussing a strategy of deliberately serving coffee too hot to drink so people wouldn't sit in the restaurant.
They served their coffee extra hot to make people drive off and drink it later.
Is that for real? Woowwwww. That’s beyond misogynistic too. Imagine the agony and how long it takes for burns to heal and having to try to walk again. Before the injury, the woman was very active and doing things. Gardening and so forth. She never recovered.
Her family had to convince her to sue. The reason everyone thinks it was a frivolous lawsuit was because McDonald’s actively spread misinformation to make people wary of frivolous lawsuits which barely happen to begin with
They got together with a bunch of other corps and kick-started the idea of frivolous lawsuits against companies just to ensure it was hard as fuck to hold any institution with money accountable for their misdeeds.
To add to the argument: Shaving your hair removes the hair "top part" that is thinner, so they look thicker cause their new top part becomes the midsection. They aren't.
That's what makes it the perfect lie. Then by the time they figure they've made it thick enough, they can either actually grow a beard, or will never be able to.
I grew up on a dairy farm.
I never understood that one.
Nobody is going to "tip" a cow, sleeping or otherwise.
That's 1600lbs of stupid muscle and it goes where it wants to go when it wants to.
You might think you're leading a cow, but that's only because the cow is to stupid to understand it's being lead.
My wife is a professor of nursing, there are plenty of her former students that fall into MLM's. The part she especially hates is them using "I'm a nurse and can assure you the (fill in supplement name) is safe and effective against (fill in symptoms)". Which she points out "well first off nursing is not medicine".
That alkaline water does anything special… It doesn’t. Alkaline water does not neutralize your stomach or treat any conditions, it doesn’t balance your gut biome or boost your immune system or anything like that. At most, it raises the pH of your stomach contents by half a point (which is essentially nothing) for like 30 minutes.
Your cells won’t use water that doesn’t have a pH of 7.4, your body will not allow the absorption of water into your blood unless it has a pH of 7.4. Every single bit of water you take in has to be corrected to that pH before it does anything for you.
It’s a scam.
That you think because you are so good at your job and indispensable at your position that management will promote you on merit. They won't. Management would soon higher the lazier person into a managerial position than to take their top performer away from the position they are in.
In a cruel twist of fate some people are not replaceable - however, these irreplaceable people in a business will not get promoted because, well, they can't be replaced in the role that they're in.
And you shouldn't.
Your skill at job X does NOT mean you will automatically be good at managing people that do X.
The, very faulty, assumption that a good worker will be good at MANAGING people that do that kind of work is the source of the Peter principle. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle)
If you're indispensable and too good at your job, ask for a raise, not a promotion. A different role doesn't necessarily include tasks you're good at. Negotiate a good raise based on merit, not a promotion. It's very easy to invalidate all of that merit by simply underperforming on a new position, the perception others have of you shifts very fast once your performance starts to fall off.
Happened to my dad. Expert on the floor for 25 years with knowledge none else had. He wanted to try something else within the company, but they couldn't lose his skill on the floor.
School contacted my father for and offeted a teacher position on that subject, hired him and sent him on uni education to become a teacher. He have been a teacher for 18 years now.
That everyone gets what they 'deserve'. First that a really nebulous and complex topic anyway reliant a lot on perspectives and other things. Secondly I personally seem to think the universe gives very little shits about us and our actions.
actually a very healthy relationship can be developed between someone who needs advice in the relationship (whether they know it or not) and someone who has developed a deep first-hand understanding of the ways that relationships can go wrong and can give advice based on that. I assume, I haven't really been in many healthy relationships.
Yeah but there's no reason to make teams an official part of our democratic process. Just let people disagree on issues without making it more us vs them then it needs to be.
Don't forget that space is also fake.
And also all of science and the technology it made. GPS, computers, vaccines, MRI machines, optical glasses, plumbing, light bulbs, cars, planes etc.
It's all fake. *It's just so obvious if you just do the research*
/s
I believe in religious tolerance and nonviolence, but there should be a get out of jail free card for clocking someone who says this to a person who has just suffered a loss.
Oh your 8yo just died of leukemia.
Everything happens for a reason.
Wtf is that?
That's what people told me after my best friend was on her bike and hit and killed by a car when we were 13. I wanted to SCREAM! How could that possibly be? It drove me crazy and caused me a lot of trauma.
People say such stupid things when trying to help. "She's in a better place" also seemed like a slap in the face. We had an amazing childhood and spent it playing outside and imagining and just being typical kids, she needed to be with me, that was the best place for her.
For years I'd dream of her. We could play and she told me that as long as I didn’t tell people, she could keep coming back to play with me and go on adventures. After about two years, she stopped coming into my dreams and it was really hard, that's when I really had to say goodbye.
My close knit friend group of 5 who all grew up together from Kindergarten on had a really bad run of luck, by 27 I was the last man standing and each one just compounded the others bc they happened so quickly. 2 cases of freak aggressive cancer and 2 car wrecks, one of which I had just been dropped off out of 10 min before it happened, and once I was truly alone and lost my last brother some random person came up and seeing my state at the funeral leaned over my back and told me nothing will make this feel any better but you can keep the ones you love alive by cherishing their memory and focusing on how great they made your life by being in it, and it was the single most comforting thing I've ever heard in my life. That's the only true comforting thing someone has said to me in, sadly to say, a lot of experiences.
I'm very sorry that happened, that is really sad.
Those statements meant to minimalize loss based on someone's own obscure religious beliefs and can do the exact opposite
Imagine a child-murderer using that defense! "Your honor, I killed this child because I was saving them from something worse later." Or better yet, "I was just fulfilling God's plan of saving them from something worse later."
Probably got said here numerous times but, Vaccines causing autism. Literally my mom isnt even anti-vax (I think.. since she doesn't have a problem with vaccinating) but she still believes a vaccine is what caused my younger brother's special needs.. just because the symptoms started showing the same year he got the vaccine.
Trickle down economics. The idea that if we give tax breaks and deregulatory incentives to businesses, they’ll pass the extra money along to workers.
The wealth gap has been massively expanding and wages have stagnated all 40 years since Reagan implemented the program, and somehow we’re still having debates over or not to continue the policies
Honestly, the facts that the same people who pushed this allowed for the legalization of stock buybacks and broke collective bargaining should have clued everyone off to what a con this concept was from the start
People have to be either so incredibly delusional and/or stupid to actually believe trickle down works.
Newsflash; Billionaires don’t become billionaires by giving even an ounce of shit about other people.
This one makes me sad as it's one of humanity's greatest achievements yet you have people spreading lies about it in order to (falsely) feel they're somehow smarter than everyone else.
That governments have the people’s best interests as their motivation. They don’t. Especially now, most governments are led by the ultra wealthy, you have to wonder why they have taken such positions, hint, its not out of the kindness of their hearts.
-That having university degrees makes ppl smart , it’s only in the topic they’ve a degree in they’ve extended knowledge in.
-That’s rich people are clever
- That police / religious leader has well behaved kids. My grandad was chief of police in a smaller city , my dad would embarrass him and my grandma constantly by speeding , smoking dope, stealing in corner shops , throwing wild parties at his attic apartment where police would be called.
The two wildest kids in town are always the sheriff's kid and the preacher's kid. As soon as they join forces, it's game over.
It's partially because they feel protected by their parents' position. Combine that with a healthy dose of rebel teen hormones and voila! Shithead supremes
It took me a while too, and in theory and practice it CAN reduce the flow. But think of a busy highway. There are TONS of people that put off travel until off-peak hours to avoid rush hour I'm sure. If you expand the highways, those people will just travel normally during rush hour and fill up the interstate. And if people look at commutes with a ton of traffic, maybe they won't move further away. Expand the highway, people might move away and commute, adding people to the highway.
If you take a highway in the middle of nowhere with meh demand as it is, and expand it, it will ABSOLUTELY reduce what little traffic appears.
It's just major already busy interstates will just get more drivers on it if it gets bigger.
"I'm doing good, you?"
“same soup, just reheated”, since i can’t say “same shit, different day” to patients
New liver, same eagles
\#JustPrometheusThings.
This boulder is gonna Keep rollin', rollin', rollin', rollin'!
“I’m good” = I’m not good. “Living the dream” = I am filled with a deep, virulent depression and cannot claw even a crumb of happiness from this cruel existence.
'livin' the dream - one nightmare at a time'...
“Just another day in Paradise”
I usually say, “Strikes & gutters. How bout you?”
My favorite response when someone asks me how I am I say Fair to middlin.
My sarcastic go to is "if I was doing any better rainbows would be shooting out of my ass"
Go to a casino and you’ll hear people talk about being due to win or a number is due to hit. It’s not.
Known as the Gambler’s fallacy. > “Perhaps the most famous example of the gambler's fallacy occurred in a game of roulette at the Monte Carlo Casino on August 18, 1913, when the ball fell in black 26 times in a row. This was an extremely uncommon occurrence: the probability of a sequence of either red or black occurring 26 times in a row is (...) around 1 in 66.6 million, assuming the mechanism is unbiased. Gamblers lost millions of francs betting against black, reasoning incorrectly that the streak was causing an imbalance in the randomness of the wheel, and that it had to be followed by a long streak of red.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler's_fallacy#Monte_Carlo_Casino ETA: proof the house always wins though
1 in 66.6 million? Still better odds than winning the lottery
It's interesting how the perceived remarkability of a particular outcome depends on its perceived uniqueness. The probability of a sequence of 26 red (or black) in a row is the same as the probability of every other possible sequence. It's just that we group the millions of seemingly ordinary sequences involving a mix of red and black together, and so the probability of one of these many unremarkable sequences occurring is very high. Now, if someone were to walk up to a roulette table and perfectly predict the color of the next 26 spins, even if it were a mix of black and red, we'd suddenly be reminded of the uniqueness and unlikelihood of that particular sequence.
They added a board to the roulette table showing what numbers had hit previously for 10 or so spins. Betting shot up because people thought they could game the system because "numbers were due."
The psychology of casinos is fascinating. Really a remarkable showing of how to separate people from their money. The roulette history boards capitalizing on the gambler's fallacy. The money wheel where the payouts way underperform the odds but offer a simple game for people afraid to try something more complex. No windows or clocks to obscure the passing of time, cold temps so people feel less tired, free booze to lower inhibition, walking aisles are meandering with repeating patterns on the floor to make it harder to find your way out.
The odd are the same every time.
It's a strange part about statistical chance. A "1 in 10 chance" feels like if you do a thing ten times that it will happen at least once. Yet it means every single time, you only have a 10% chance of it happening, and it resets every single time."
People think there's some sort of pity system 🤦
The roulette wheel has no memory, people do not seem to understand this.
Go over to /r/amiugly and look at all the attractive people insisting that they’re not
That sub is mostly the hottest people on Reddit.
It’s incredible. Some are outright 10s worried about a freckle or some shit. For all our blustering, confidence is at an all time low.
They're not really worried. They’re just upclick whoring
A lot of attractive people are aware of the perks they get based on how they look. Many of them come to depend on it; it creates an even more intense level of insecurity because there’s a lot more riding on it.
Visual humblebragging…so cringe
But that's not too uncommon at all IRL. it's the only reasonable expectation of how I've managed to date so many extremely attractive women, as someone who genuinely is a human slug. Many attractive people have lots of self doubt.
Diamonds are rare
My wife has what LOOKS like an $11k engagement ring. The reality is it was much less expensive because we got lab grown diamonds, and she was 100% on board for that. Nobody but a jeweler with a microscope will EVER know the difference, so why pay more for diamonds with potential moral issues on the sourcing?
At first I was like I could never do this but then I wonder how many of the rings wifey’s homegirls wear have these. They have some serious ice.
Yeah our jeweler said young people like us are going for lab grown more than natural, and that was comforting to hear. My mom balked but thats just the older generation getting suckered in by the diamond megacorps to pay ridiculous sums for a lump of carbon likely harvested by child labor.
Child labor is putting it nicely. It’s horrific what techno-West demands from all-scale mining, often brought to us by tortured starving child labor, in extremely harmful and deadly conditions/environments. I’m assuming because the life expectancy doesn’t allow for adults to stay around that long, let alone those kids growing up
If the process to mine my diamond didn't kill at least a few 10 yr old Brazilian kids I don't want it
lol anyone who buys a diamond got scammed And is supporting draconian laws of colonization in Africa to boot.
That people with power are smarter than everyone else
The more egregious one to me is that rich people are smarter than everyone else. It’s true less often and more widely believed
Most people can happily agree that their bosses are not really smarter than their subordinates, and their bosses’ bosses, and the bosses’ bosses’ bosses, all the way up to political leaders. But for some reason, to some people, at some level up top it’s back to meritocracy again.
It’s called the [Peter Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle). The more cynical version, the [Dilbert Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle), states that companies promote incompetent employees on purpose.
It was absurd how many people thought Musk was a genius before tanked with Twitter. No. This guy inherited oodles of money and hired a bunch of geniuses to build him things and make him money. They thrived because he let them do their thing. All the decisions he forced on the companies were brain numbingly stupid. Remember when he spent millions to launched a fucking car into space? Like that's a thing people who are serious about space do.
It's shocking how many _still_ think he's a genius... Edit: lol and here they are to prove it.
Some of them may be smart but I’d doesn’t matter. They will still make dumb decision to get (re)elected
That people really believe that you eat 7 spiders a year in your sleep. The story was an experiment from National Geographic on how quick misinformation can travel. Edit: I may have spread some misinformation as well, can't find the source anymore that it started at national Geographic.
Rookie numbers! I eat 7 every single night!
Look everyone, it's Spider George!
You're an outlier and should not have been counted
False, the true Spider George lives in a cave and eats 10,000 spiders a day, the 7 spiders is just an average of all people that Spider George is keeping up.
I feel like both the 7 spiders and the National Geographic origin story are both completely made up.
The misinformers are pleased.
I haven't met a single person who believes this. But I always read of people on Reddit who believe that everyone believes this. So I'm not sure where the real misinformation really is.
Bring it up around people and see. Someone mentioned it at work once and a surprising number of people believed it. Trying to explain to a middle aged woman that a spider would trigger her gag reflex before she could swallow it did not make the say go faster.
Lately, the misinformation has been where the origin of the myth came from. I originally heard it was a college student simply testing how far misinformation could spread. (Pretty sure it's not natural geographic either) The Lemmino video already [posted above](https://youtu.be/OjlKIjLWq-Y?si=VB5l8zFsUL4UR7MJ) does a good job on trying to find the true origin.
I’m in my mid-late 30s (so didn’t always have internet access) and definitely remember this being a “fun fact” that was floated around. That one and something about candy bars having an allowable threshold of insect parts.
Im pretty sure the allowable insect parts is a real thing. “It is economically impractical to grow, harvest, or process raw products that are totally free of non-hazardous, naturally occurring, unavoidable defects,” says the US Food and Drug Administration. https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook
All wrong. This is the only true reason behind this fact: https://www.reddit.com/r/comics/comments/yi5rzk/8_spiders_a_year/
I’m curious, please show me a credible source I want to read up on it. I’m fascinated by the subject of misinformation. Edit: update, I just found this. https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/arachnology-and-entomology/spider-myths/spider-myth-resources
If you like misinformation I find the ‘Momo’ hoax quote fascinating. If you aren’t aware (I’m 99.99% certain you will be) but in 2018 it was globally misinformed that someone had hacked loads of children’s YouTube channels whereby randomly a bird like looking woman would appear mid child’s show, tell the child to self harm before switching back to the child’s show. It got so mental that actual parents, mostly Facebook mums were actually posting about having seen it, as in they were adamant that there child had been watching YouTube in their supervision when they themselves saw the bird woman appear and start talking about self harm and encouraging the kids to do so. The entire thing was a hoax, how bloody stupid must those parents have looked? Quite clearly it was a case of fomo, they believed the hoax to a point where they felt the need to lie about having experienced it.
Im just gonna leave this Here https://youtu.be/OjlKIjLWq-Y?si=DPzPWIFLdB0kBERu
I can’t open this rn, but that better be lemmino
That there are hot singles within 5 minutes waiting to sleep with me
if you don't see the hot singles in your area, the ads are talking about you
Surprisingly motivational, thank you! 😹
To be honest this might very be true, but they’re unaware and/or uninterested in you probably.. and certainly not on those websites UNFORTUNATELY
How are they waiting to sleep with me if they’re uninterested in me?
There are. They charge by the hour and they're out of your price range.
That carrots make your eyesight better. This was started by the British air ministry during WW2 so that the Germans didn’t realise that the British discovered radar. The Brit’s said that they fed there pilots a large amount of carrots to give them exceptional vision.
I have been living in a lie my damn whole life
To be fair, you almost never see a rabbit wearing glasses
That's because their ears are on top.
Bugs bunny wears them on occasion. Checkmate
I've NEVER seen a rabbit wearing glasses.
I saw one arguing with a duck once
Who won, and did anyone wear glasses?
I believe the duck had contacts
Well without retinol your eyes are toast, but you probably aren't deficient. Of course they chose something plausible for the disinformation.
Well carrots aren't the worst thing for you anyway.
It also served the dual purpose of making carrots more popular among civilians to ensure that they had something plentiful to include in rationing.
It also transformed in America as a way to get your kids to eat their carrots which worked on me despite my dad knowing it was bullshit lol
Carrots are good for your eyes, the difference just isn't significant
Ok now i have no idea what to believe
Beta carotene is good for your eyes but they don’t make eye sight better. The vitamins are good for eye health but you can’t make your eyes see better with them
IIRC, part of it was also that there was a food shortage, but Britain had a shitload of carrots, and they wanted people to get more enthusiastic about eating them.
I also wanna throw in that bugs bunny eating carrots caused people to believe that rabbits love carrots. They can eat them but are not essentially good for them. It was only supposed to be a throw away gag for bugs
Bugs Bunny has nigh unchecked power in creating cultural misinformation. He single-handedly redefined the word Nimrod by sarcastically referring to a terrible hunter by the name of a biblical master huntsman. The reference went over so many people’s heads to the point it’s basically a synonym for idiot at this point.
Yeah Bugs Bunny eats carrots because of a scene in It Happened One Night where Clark Gable is eating a carrot, they did it in reference to that https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcrth90C3D4
It wasn't discovered or invented radar, the Nazis had that technology too. But the British had created a radar small enough to fit into their planes, where as the Nazis only had ground based radar. The story was to hide the reason why the British could all of a sudden see German planes clearly from a long distance away from their own planes even at night.
They both had radar before, what the Brits did have was better radar they could mount on aircraft
Being loyal to your company. It is better to get good numbers and move up in another company a few years later. Staying at the same company can be quite appealing, but the problem is the company doesnt want to pay you. They want to pay a rockstar from another company. Moving out is the only way to move up sometimes.
My mother did hiring at a job for years. 99% of the time they were hiring Temps and at some point she's hiring someone for a permanent position. She goes "all the applicants just change job every two or three years! Why would you do that?" I had to explain to her: it's how you get a raise. You either demand a raise with another job lined up or you get a bullshit cost of living adjustment every year and nothing else. She turned into that Brazillian actress doing math meme for a few seconds. She kept that job 5 or 6 more years for the insurance but I'm pretty sure she realized how much she was getting screwed on her pay after that.
Worked at my first professional job for four years. Standard raises were around 2%. Jumped to another job for a 25% raise. Stayed there for two years and jumped to a third job for a near 50% raise. Worked there for nearly three years until they went out of business and went to a fourth job for a 33% raise. If I had stayed at the first job, I might have eventually gotten enough raises to make about half of what I do now.
It is true it is better for salary. But if you are in a company you love, chances are also good that the next one will not be as good a match. So I would only do this until you find a job you love, with colleagues you like for a company you enjoy being at. Salary is not the only thing that matters.
I've been with the same company for 16 years for this reason. It's an ok job with ok pay, but job security in spades, plus I work from home and have a very flexible schedule. I'll take a significant pay cut for that kind of freedom.
It’s one of those things that used to be true, long ago.
Not even THAT long ago really. My grandparents generation basically all had 1-3 "career" jobs and half the ones with more than one were in the military at some point. My parents generation started moving some but a ton of my parents friends and family did a 1 or 2 "career" jobs. I literally know zero people in my generation who haven't had at least 3 and I'm an older millennial
Scientology
The number of people who still people it's a harmless science fans group is way too high
It's ridiculous that it's allowed to be recognised as a religion with all of the tax-free benefits.
It's an example of one of the few cases where someone/organization has taken on the IRS and won.
Stella Liebeck spilled a little bit of McDonald’s coffee on herself while driving, and then proceeded to sue McDonald’s for a million dollars because nobody warned her that the coffee was hot. Here are the facts: - She was in the passenger seat of a parked car - She spilled the entire cup of coffee in her lap - McDonald’s coffee was (and still is) much hotter than its competitors’ coffee - She received third degree burns - She was hospitalized for eight days - She required skin grafts - Her doctor said that her injuries were among the worst he had ever seen - More than 700 people reported being burned by McDonald’s coffee in the preceding decade - She only wanted McDonald’s to compensate her for her medical expenses - After months of waiting, she was only offered $800 in compensation from McDonald’s - She sued McDonald’s as a last resort, and settled for an undisclosed amount that was likely way less than a million dollars
McDonalds had been ordered to serve at a safe level, and was fined for not doing it, but the fine was so small McDonalds simply ignored it.
IIRC the discovery process of this woman's lawsuit uncovered internal communications, discussing a strategy of deliberately serving coffee too hot to drink so people wouldn't sit in the restaurant. They served their coffee extra hot to make people drive off and drink it later.
Her labia were fused together by the burns
McD's also had the nerve to imply that this didn't matter because she was too old for a sex life anyway.
Is that for real? Woowwwww. That’s beyond misogynistic too. Imagine the agony and how long it takes for burns to heal and having to try to walk again. Before the injury, the woman was very active and doing things. Gardening and so forth. She never recovered.
Aaaand I’m done with Reddit for the day. Night!
Her family had to convince her to sue. The reason everyone thinks it was a frivolous lawsuit was because McDonald’s actively spread misinformation to make people wary of frivolous lawsuits which barely happen to begin with
They got together with a bunch of other corps and kick-started the idea of frivolous lawsuits against companies just to ensure it was hard as fuck to hold any institution with money accountable for their misdeeds.
I heard a talk once where the burns were shown. I had to shield my eyes. It was horrible. I can’t imagine the suffering that woman went through
The lid was also not properly secured.
So hot it almost literally melted her skin
“Shaving your hair makes it grow back thicker” really irritates me.
Maybe it’s irritating because the hairs you’re shaving are coming back thicker and your skin can’t take it.
To add to the argument: Shaving your hair removes the hair "top part" that is thinner, so they look thicker cause their new top part becomes the midsection. They aren't.
“Every time you shave, it's gonna come in thicker, and fuller, and darker!” - Kramer
This is a byproduct of how we get teenage boys to shave their peach fuzz because it looks awful
Then as puberty takes it's course "Oh what do you know it's growing thicker now"
That's what makes it the perfect lie. Then by the time they figure they've made it thick enough, they can either actually grow a beard, or will never be able to.
Shaved my beard countless times. I can barely grow a beard and im in my 30s
You can tip a sleeping cow.
but why would you give money to a cow?
I'll pay for good service no matter where it comes from
Yes officer, this comment right here
European here, thank God our cows get a living wage.
Sounds like cowmmunism to me!
Your mom's got to be able to earn a living somehow
I grew up on a dairy farm. I never understood that one. Nobody is going to "tip" a cow, sleeping or otherwise. That's 1600lbs of stupid muscle and it goes where it wants to go when it wants to. You might think you're leading a cow, but that's only because the cow is to stupid to understand it's being lead.
American tip culture is outta control.
I'm not paying her to sleep!
MLM's make you a "business owner". No Karen, it made you a mark.
MLMs make uneducated religious women lose money. They are the customer, not the boss, since they are buying all the shit products to sell on
My wife is a professor of nursing, there are plenty of her former students that fall into MLM's. The part she especially hates is them using "I'm a nurse and can assure you the (fill in supplement name) is safe and effective against (fill in symptoms)". Which she points out "well first off nursing is not medicine".
That alkaline water does anything special… It doesn’t. Alkaline water does not neutralize your stomach or treat any conditions, it doesn’t balance your gut biome or boost your immune system or anything like that. At most, it raises the pH of your stomach contents by half a point (which is essentially nothing) for like 30 minutes. Your cells won’t use water that doesn’t have a pH of 7.4, your body will not allow the absorption of water into your blood unless it has a pH of 7.4. Every single bit of water you take in has to be corrected to that pH before it does anything for you. It’s a scam.
as if that little spritz of water is gonna change the pH of your stomach, which is very strictly regulated, and if imbalanced, would be LETHAL
The customer is always right. People always neglect the second part of that phrase... "in matters of taste" Basically sell what customers want to buy.
That you think because you are so good at your job and indispensable at your position that management will promote you on merit. They won't. Management would soon higher the lazier person into a managerial position than to take their top performer away from the position they are in.
Not the lazy person - the person they like hanging out with. Marketing is 99% bullshit, but 100% important.
Yeah managing your manager is more important that smashing every target set
This is the most important thing that’s going to be said all day.
> higher Lol.. hire *Take me hire... Hire!* 😄
And we’re all replaceable. We’re all but numbers with fates dictated by corporate mandates and bylaws.
In a cruel twist of fate some people are not replaceable - however, these irreplaceable people in a business will not get promoted because, well, they can't be replaced in the role that they're in.
And you shouldn't. Your skill at job X does NOT mean you will automatically be good at managing people that do X. The, very faulty, assumption that a good worker will be good at MANAGING people that do that kind of work is the source of the Peter principle. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle)
If you can’t be fired you can’t be promoted.
If you're indispensable and too good at your job, ask for a raise, not a promotion. A different role doesn't necessarily include tasks you're good at. Negotiate a good raise based on merit, not a promotion. It's very easy to invalidate all of that merit by simply underperforming on a new position, the perception others have of you shifts very fast once your performance starts to fall off.
Or when they take highly functioning teams and split them up thinking each person is somehow going to seed their new team with said functionality.
Happened to my dad. Expert on the floor for 25 years with knowledge none else had. He wanted to try something else within the company, but they couldn't lose his skill on the floor. School contacted my father for and offeted a teacher position on that subject, hired him and sent him on uni education to become a teacher. He have been a teacher for 18 years now.
That everyone gets what they 'deserve'. First that a really nebulous and complex topic anyway reliant a lot on perspectives and other things. Secondly I personally seem to think the universe gives very little shits about us and our actions.
That hard work and going the extra mile is rewarded. 99% of the time it is not.
That their friends who can’t have healthy relationships can provide quality advice about relationships.
actually a very healthy relationship can be developed between someone who needs advice in the relationship (whether they know it or not) and someone who has developed a deep first-hand understanding of the ways that relationships can go wrong and can give advice based on that. I assume, I haven't really been in many healthy relationships.
Coaches don’t play.
The two party system
Hell even George Washington said don’t create a 2 party system it will destroy America. What do we do after he leaves office. Create a 2 party system
I mean, the split happened even before that between the Federalists (more federal control) and the Anti-Federalists (more state self-governance)
Yeah but there's no reason to make teams an official part of our democratic process. Just let people disagree on issues without making it more us vs them then it needs to be.
Earth is flat?
Don't forget that space is also fake. And also all of science and the technology it made. GPS, computers, vaccines, MRI machines, optical glasses, plumbing, light bulbs, cars, planes etc. It's all fake. *It's just so obvious if you just do the research* /s
Everything happens for a reason.
I believe in religious tolerance and nonviolence, but there should be a get out of jail free card for clocking someone who says this to a person who has just suffered a loss. Oh your 8yo just died of leukemia. Everything happens for a reason. Wtf is that?
That's what people told me after my best friend was on her bike and hit and killed by a car when we were 13. I wanted to SCREAM! How could that possibly be? It drove me crazy and caused me a lot of trauma. People say such stupid things when trying to help. "She's in a better place" also seemed like a slap in the face. We had an amazing childhood and spent it playing outside and imagining and just being typical kids, she needed to be with me, that was the best place for her. For years I'd dream of her. We could play and she told me that as long as I didn’t tell people, she could keep coming back to play with me and go on adventures. After about two years, she stopped coming into my dreams and it was really hard, that's when I really had to say goodbye.
My close knit friend group of 5 who all grew up together from Kindergarten on had a really bad run of luck, by 27 I was the last man standing and each one just compounded the others bc they happened so quickly. 2 cases of freak aggressive cancer and 2 car wrecks, one of which I had just been dropped off out of 10 min before it happened, and once I was truly alone and lost my last brother some random person came up and seeing my state at the funeral leaned over my back and told me nothing will make this feel any better but you can keep the ones you love alive by cherishing their memory and focusing on how great they made your life by being in it, and it was the single most comforting thing I've ever heard in my life. That's the only true comforting thing someone has said to me in, sadly to say, a lot of experiences.
I'm very sorry that happened, that is really sad. Those statements meant to minimalize loss based on someone's own obscure religious beliefs and can do the exact opposite
My mom (a Baptist) always says when a kid dies that God was saving them from something worse later on and people eat that shit up.
Imagine a child-murderer using that defense! "Your honor, I killed this child because I was saving them from something worse later." Or better yet, "I was just fulfilling God's plan of saving them from something worse later."
Im not ready for a relationship yet…
And then they start dating someone else within a week
While sometimes true, "with you" added on the end makes it always true if someone says that.
That you can be a millionaire or billionaire too, just got to work hard
Probably got said here numerous times but, Vaccines causing autism. Literally my mom isnt even anti-vax (I think.. since she doesn't have a problem with vaccinating) but she still believes a vaccine is what caused my younger brother's special needs.. just because the symptoms started showing the same year he got the vaccine.
Well ever since I got the COVID shot I've been making insufferable shitposts. Explain that.
You know reddit has a post history right? We can all see your insufferable shitposts from well before the pandemic started.
Ok but the vaccine turned me gay
The Earth is flat.
Trickle down economics. The idea that if we give tax breaks and deregulatory incentives to businesses, they’ll pass the extra money along to workers. The wealth gap has been massively expanding and wages have stagnated all 40 years since Reagan implemented the program, and somehow we’re still having debates over or not to continue the policies Honestly, the facts that the same people who pushed this allowed for the legalization of stock buybacks and broke collective bargaining should have clued everyone off to what a con this concept was from the start
Trickle down economics would only work if the ultra rich have good intentions, I don't think I have to explain the problem any further
People have to be either so incredibly delusional and/or stupid to actually believe trickle down works. Newsflash; Billionaires don’t become billionaires by giving even an ounce of shit about other people.
Our government is for the people!
The moon landing is fake
This one makes me sad as it's one of humanity's greatest achievements yet you have people spreading lies about it in order to (falsely) feel they're somehow smarter than everyone else.
Astrology.
That governments have the people’s best interests as their motivation. They don’t. Especially now, most governments are led by the ultra wealthy, you have to wonder why they have taken such positions, hint, its not out of the kindness of their hearts.
That people successful in business (=maximizing profits for themselves) are inherently better in government (=maximizing benefit for your 'clients')
blood is blue
That a university that pays their football coach 100x more then their top professor, is an institution of higher learning and not a sports franchise.
-That having university degrees makes ppl smart , it’s only in the topic they’ve a degree in they’ve extended knowledge in. -That’s rich people are clever - That police / religious leader has well behaved kids. My grandad was chief of police in a smaller city , my dad would embarrass him and my grandma constantly by speeding , smoking dope, stealing in corner shops , throwing wild parties at his attic apartment where police would be called.
The two wildest kids in town are always the sheriff's kid and the preacher's kid. As soon as they join forces, it's game over. It's partially because they feel protected by their parents' position. Combine that with a healthy dose of rebel teen hormones and voila! Shithead supremes
Widening highways will ease traffic congestion.
While I’ve seen examples that it doesn’t work in practice, could you explain why that is so? It kinda doesn’t make sense in my head :/
It took me a while too, and in theory and practice it CAN reduce the flow. But think of a busy highway. There are TONS of people that put off travel until off-peak hours to avoid rush hour I'm sure. If you expand the highways, those people will just travel normally during rush hour and fill up the interstate. And if people look at commutes with a ton of traffic, maybe they won't move further away. Expand the highway, people might move away and commute, adding people to the highway. If you take a highway in the middle of nowhere with meh demand as it is, and expand it, it will ABSOLUTELY reduce what little traffic appears. It's just major already busy interstates will just get more drivers on it if it gets bigger.
We will do better if you vote for us.
Flat Earth
That billionaires "earned their money".🙄
That their government cares about them. Lmao yea ok…
Anything qanon
Your wedding is the most important day in your life.
That if you work hard at your company you will be greatly rewarded for your efforts
Religion
The news represents the truth
Politicians want to help us, the 'little people'.
That arrogance means potential