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Are you a Space Ork?
Wagh?
I got one - and it’s the only conspiracy theory I give any credence to.
All of Helen Keller’s feats were utter bullshit and were a circus side show to bring money to her family. It’s the perfect “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it” fairytale. Like hell she flew an airplane, ain’t no way she wrote a book.
Before anyone provides evidence of the contrary, I will not accept it no matter how damning it is. Hence the “firmly hold.”
This “your evidence has no power here” is exactly the energy I was looking for lol.
At least you believe she was real unlike half the women on dating apps in this godforsaken state
Yeah I was always a bit skeptical of the Hellen Keller life story as well.
That’s a wild one I like it
The Costanza Rule is real, but any attempt to utilize it is a paradox.
Rule: any decision I make is the wrong decision because I made it therefore I should always do the opposite.
But to do the opposite is also a choice I am making and therefore it too will be the wrong choice.
Reminds me of a trolley problem variant I saw once. It went roughly like this:
A trolley is headed for Track A, where a single person is tied to the tracks. You can pull a lever and cause the trolley to switch to Track B, which enters a tunnel that you cannot see inside. Track B might have 3 people tied to the tracks, or it might be free of people. You can’t see which.
Two hours ago, a perfect prediction machine inside the tunnel predicted whether you would pull the lever.
- If it predicted that you would pull the lever (sending the trolley into the tunnel), then it tied 3 people to Track B, thus setting it up so pulling the lever would kill 3 people.
- If it predicted that you would not pull the lever, then it ensured Track B is free of obstacles.
The perfect prediction machine is guaranteed to have made the correct prediction. Do you pull the lever?
The moon is closer to me than the Eiffel tower since I can see the first and not the second.
Patrick’s Law: If a comment thread on the internet is more than 7 replies deep, it’s a slap-fight that’s best avoided.
There’s also a small chance it’s a lame train of inside jokes, or a string of Monty Python quotes you’ve seen a thousand times before.
I’ll start:
“This. Is an *Ex-*parrot!”
No he isn’t, he’s a very naughty boy.
I don’t believe there’s a spoons worth of plastic in your brain. Ain’t no way. It’s suspiciously sensational, and confirms something we all believe to be true (plastics bad, humans reckless, etc.). I have zero evidence to the contrary but im pretty confident that in a few years to a decade it will be debunked.
Good news: it’s already been debunked! Or at least called into question.
https://youtu.be/MedC_v-dEbY?t=48 description of the myth
https://youtu.be/MedC_v-dEbY?t=111 calling it into question
SciShow on youtube is well worth a subscription, their videos are well researched and fact checked.
Planted by big plastic so they can debunk it and say “SEE? THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS LIE TO YOU!”
Without the hate speech and constant invasive political discourse, most people on the internet would lose interest and go away.
Sounds like my idea of curating a social platform devoid of “-ist’s and -ism’s” is doomed to failure then lol
How dare you!!! It should be ILLEGAL to not include -ism! You filthy piece of dirty filth! That’s ism ism!
Eh, gotta break at least one egg to make an omelette (or break the seal on the packaging if you’re using egg substitutes) lol.
We’ve gone from “sex sells” to “hate sells” and yes, that’s the sad side effect. I haven’t used Facebook in ages but I hear it’s not useful for talking to your friends anymore. If such a platform existed I’d go there but I think it would just be you and me.
I check out my Facebook every once in a while and it’s absolutely enraging now. I showed my wife that I had to scroll past 20 ads and suggested pages before I got to something a friend shared, and I have like 1000 friends.
What I’ve also heard is that the things your friends say / share aren’t presented in chronological order they way they used to be, that they’re presented in the time and place you’re more likely to interact with them.
It hasn’t been chronological since like… 2012
Yeah I don’t know how they choose how to present them but it’s fucking annoying.
This is not unscientific. This is exactly what science shows. Re-read the title.
Dissociative identity disorder. I’ve been diagnosed with it, but it’s not a diagnosis all psychiatrists belief exists.
I don’t care how many studies are done on food safe plastics I still don’t like the idea of using them on my kitchen. That’s not to say I avoid them 100% but I do what I can to avoid them within reason. Like I feel after the whole BPA scare and banning them from use in food applications is a temporary thing and that it’s a matter of time until we find a problem with the new BPA-free liners.
Santa Claus is real, and the reason why most of you don’t believe in him anymore is because you were naughty kids.
The only reason I still believe in him is because I heard the sleigh bells. I was a naughty child, too.
Tailgaters (people who drive too close behind another vehicle) are idiots.
Cops are liars.
Anti-vaxxers, and other conspiracy nutters, are anti-science cretins.
these are all truism, the OP wants unscientific opinions!
If you have a thing, and you cut it at a diagonal, you get more thing.
Bananas are awful. Terrible texture and taste, too many calories.
It’s shocking how many of these I agree with.
Döner macht schöner.
Half Life 3 will be teased on 3rd Dec, and fully revealed on 11th Dec at The Game Awards
That conflicts with my own theory. Back in 2013, Half Life 3 was quietly released as an easter egg hidden inside a random indie title somewhere on Steam and nobody has noticed yet.
I also had a similar thought where Valve is just waiting for someone to solve an ARG that no one has noticed for the last 10 years lol
