What's your harmless/low-stakes conspiracy theory?
11mon 9d ago by reddthat.com/u/pleasestopasking in asklemmy
Every year the government takes 1 hour away from every American with the implementation of Daylight savings time. They return the hours to each American in the fall. However, in between March (when the hours are taken) and November (when the hours are returned) over 2 million Americans die, and don't get their hours returned to them, or their estates. This happens every. single. year.
What is the government doing with all of these stockpiled hours of dead Americans?
Before people started measuring time, a day was a day. People worked when they felt like it and stopped before it got dark.
When we started quantifying time, it didn't take long before time suddenly became a commodity. All of a sudden bosses would pay by the "hour", and no longer by what they got in return.
Then, they started regarding the hours that they paid for as "theirs", demanding workers to keep breaks short or peeing in bottles.
/Rant
I love when I see stuff like this online. As if farming is some luxurious fun time denied us by corporations.
I lived in a subsistence farming community in West Africa for a couple years. Farming isn't easy or fun.
People woke up before the sun every.single.day to go tend to the fields. They stopped working when they were exhausted from being out in the sun all day, or when they were finished with the field. The crops and the weeds grow when they want, not when you want.
If it didn't rain enough, they might starve, or their children might starve. Maybe both. The backbreaking farm labor was literally a gamble with their lives. Occasionally someone would get whacked by a tool and have to ask friends and relatives to farm their crops for them, often at a cost of some of that grain later. If that injury got infected, there's extra days or weeks you're asking someone else to do extra work to cover for you, and you owe them for this.
Everyone harvested crops at about the same time, flooding the market. But people also didn't just want to eat millet alone and wanted things like cooking oil or salt they had to buy. So being strapped for cash, they were forced to sell a lot of harvest up front because they simply couldn't afford to wait any longer for basic needs.
I can go on and on, but if you think being a farmer is so wonderful and amazing, I would encourage you to go do some WWOOFing and spend a few months on a farm and actually doing a real farmer's schedule and not some up at 9, done at 2:30 schedule.
Farming? I was talking about data engineering.
I don't think they said farming was fun, and I'm also not sure that you lived on a farm "before people started measuring time" š¤·š¾āāļø
A fellow historia civilis subscriber I see
There are dozens of us.
Big Time conspiracy. I love it.
All brains should aspire to work like your brain.
Obviously those hours are taken back by the babies with the balls to be born after the redistribution.
Those two million all happened to be born after daylight savings time but before the hours are returned. So they get to live with an extra hour.
When they die it cancels out thus the Big Time Bowl doesn't overflow or run dry.
They use them to farm the adrenechrome babies
Your spring forward closer to paying taxes, once paid, they give your time back
Wait... when is this happening?
That NASA has done a zero-gravity intercourse experiment.
The 50th shuttle mission had married couple and it included spacelab. A pressurized and habitable module that could be isolated from the rest of the crew. Even before launch they were asked if it would happen, and denied it, as NASA has afterwards as well.
It doesn't help that several of the listed experiments was about human health, developmental biology and included animals and eggs to study ovulation, fertilization, cell division and growth.
Now that you bring it up, of course we've studied whether babies can be made in a spaceship. Itās literally the only other option for interstellar travel besides cryogenic freezing, which is far more sci-fi than spacesex. Or spacex for short.
Any generational ship will mutiny within one generation and likely die off by the second
Interstellar travel is a pipe dream made up by people tired of saving what we already are losing
Speaking from experience? How many generation ships have you travelled on?
You really don't want to go down that line with a guy on the spectrum that has spent literally half a century thinking about space travel. You really don't.
I think the only reason to even try a generational ship is if it's literally all we have.
We can't even keep the most prosperous nation on the planet from falling to fascism in 5 years how the FUCk do you think we're gonna keep an isolated crew of highly intelligent people with access to the highest tech available?
I know enough about human nature that the only way this works is if it started as a die-hard authoritarian religious movement and even then I only give it 1 out of 4 chances of making it 100 years into the mission
To be fair, there were a few years between when thee country was founded and five years ago.
It went bad in less than 20 so....
Transitional periods take time, and are generally pretty messy. Most of that is because comfortable humans are inherently lazy. The rich managed to stave off a transitional period that began in the mid 1800's for almost a century with specific concessions to the working class, that they immediately started clawing back, after WWI and WWII. They can't hold it back with neoliberal rot anymore, so the transitional period may now continue.
It will get better, just maybe not within our lifetimes.
Most of that is because comfortable humans are inherently lazy.
This is classist propaganda and doesn't belong in your message
The breeding fetish makes so much more sense now. Barf.
Ooh, I do like this one.
But why the secrecy?
You don't understand how sexually conservative the world was back then
They still won't let them have ANY alcohol in the US section of the ISS.
Given how US society treats alcohol, that seems reasonable. Our overall relationship with alcohol is pretty masochistically abusive.
The christians are still like this.
Paying astronauts to bump uglies with tax dollars could cause a bit of a controversy.
I think the US government actively encouraged the UFO craze, because it drew attention away from the experimental aircraft they were testing, like the SR-71 blackbird.
They've admitted that.
Someone at Pentagon was recently investigating UFO conspiracies and found that several kept looping back to them. And they realized that at least one was directly planted by themselves during the cold war to confuse the USSR about what weapons were real or not.
That honestly wouldn't surprise me tbh. And area 51 being great conditions for testing aircraft: empty space, clear skies, easier to recover parts and people from than the ocean, very little human habitation.
Oh, area 51 being used for testing classified aircraft isn't really a secret.
Area 51 wasn't where the really good stuff happened anyway, and none of it was aliens
This isn't a conspiracy, it is a proven, multiply established fact
I absolutely think the government has deliberately spread various conspiracy theories at different points to cover up specific things they were doing.
āChemtrails,ā for example, became a thing with a bunch of wild accessory claims that were obviously wrong, at a time when people were discovering that the US government had done biological weapons testing by dropping viruses from airplanes over cities and in some cases hurt random people by doing it. If thereās a nutty conspiracy theory out there that sounds a lot like what actually happened, it makes it harder for people to talk about what actually happened without also sounding crazy.
Sure, that's documented in projects like COINTELPRO. I agree the US govt does it and by extension, all other govt's do it too because they saw how daddy USA did it.
Did COINTELPRO include planting fake conspiracy theories? I missed that part of it if so, maybe just because there was so much else in it that was so much worse
I think so, against the Black Panthers. It's late and I have to go to bed now but now I'm only 90% certain they did that shit against the OG Panthers.
the 2000's facebook chemtrail uptick was defs a 3 letter agency operation
But planes instead of rockets. People who think chemtrail believers are too retarded to tell the difference between chemtrails and contrails are the bottom of the barrel.
You probably won't see trails in the air. Doesn't mean shit getting sprayed in the air to learn from/control the weather is OK.
Arcade rhythm games (DDR, Pump It Up, maimai, etc) are subsidized by the Japanese government to get Otakus/NEETs to go out, touch grass, and exercise
Have you ever wondered why you can have 10-15 minutes of game time for the same amount of money as one (sometimes half) a pull on a claw machine?? /puts on tinfoil hat
I'm pretty sure they actually did get a government subsidy which is unusual
I know a good number of Japanese cultural stuff (including video game companies) do! Not sure specifically in cases like "hey let's give SEGA money so they can make the funny laundromat game more popular" though. Hence why it is my low-stakes conspiracy... Would be pretty cool if things like DDR really gets a subsidy though, it is genuinely a good means of cardio
Honestly that's a good enough idea that I don't think it even needs to be a conspiracy, they could openly advertise it.
That wouldn't generally be needed here, though. At least in the cities where most people live, they are walking and using public transit just to live, eat, etc.
PIU is Korean, so it would be a multi nation effort.
The way literature is taught in school is designed deliberately to make people hate reading + studying the subtext and paratext.
By forcing kids to read books that aren't just old, but were written by 40 year olds for other 40 year olds, and then mandating them write reports about the symbolism of a book they didn't even want to read in the first place, you ensure that like 80% of people will inherently associate reading and interpreting media with every negative emotion at once.
Meanwhile you look at fandom dorks on every site and you see how invested on themes and subtext they are, and you realise people kinda naturally want to overthink media... Provided they like that media.
But people who can read subtext and understand it are less susceptible to propaganda. So.
This one resonates with me. I fucking love science fiction, and when they forced me to read The Giver, the closest they every got to science fiction, I actually enjoyed it. And then the rest of the time I hated it all.
If I had actually been given the chance to read some good science fiction, I would have been reading a lot more as a kid.
Right?
With hindsight, now being more or less the target audience (a 30+ year old disillusioned with life) -- A lot of the books they pushed on us (I'm in Brazil, so of course they pushed the Brazilian canon of Literature) were objectively super good?
But y'know
When you're 15 years old, and have to read a book that is not only very old (thus has a vocabulary you are already struggling with, just because OLD), but is written by grown-ups for grown-ups (ergo, a lot of the fun leans on heightened versions of life experiences adults have all either lived or seen someone live through) -- AND you have to do it in a hurry (because you've got like 4 other assignments for that week, and the deadline looms) -- AND you are expected to not only get into the nitty-gritty of its themes and such, but to do so in a way that your teacher approves of?
Like how can you not hate reading after that? I was lucky I'd been exposed to literature I liked prior to that, so instead of thinking "I hate books", I just thought "wow all these books suck".
They didn't suck. But they just... Were very much not for me?
Like. Senhora, by JosƩ de Alencar, is a deeply enjoyable book if you're a grown up. Two rich people who married for money and hate each other's guts, playing the perfect husband and wife to society while shooting subtle barbs at each other whenever they get the chance? AND then they end up fond of each other after years of this? Inject that into my 30-year-old historical-romance junkie EYEBALLS please. But at age 15? I hated it.
I grew up in Canada.
My high school English teacher let us choose books to write essays on from a selection of a dozen or so that he was intimately familiar with and could tell whether someone was BSing or not.
I don't remember all of them, but I chose The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I also remember reading 1984 in his class.
I kinda got this privilege in my Jr, and Sr years of high school. I had the same teacher both years because AP English, and when it came time to read either Les Miserables or Pride and Prejudice, I informed her that I had already read the book, and provided her with an oral synopsis. Instead I read Dante's Inferno, (I was attempting to finish the entire Divine Comedy, but it took me too long to finish Paradisio, so I just did a report on the first third.) and handed in parallel work on that book instead. The same thing happened with all the required reading books, but Mrs. Sparks wasn't surprised. I was one of those kids that read several hundred books a year.
Damn. Good one.
There's a great book "The Mathematician's Lament" that talks about how math teaching is almost guaranteed to make people hate it, but it's maybe not a conspiracy. Or is it!?
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 a lot of non-american food is rebranded to use tacky american names to get people to try it. Too many americans are afraid to try "foreign" food, but will happily try "Cajun Jim's Cornballs". A couple I can think of are Aioli to "Garlic Mayo" and Chicken Satay becoming "Peanut Butter Chicken". Sounds like mm mm good home american cookin' to me, course I'll try some.
Multinational conglomerates regularly rename their products worldwide to try to cater to local tastes
Yeah, I was going to say, we get more localized names here in the non-USA. If it's USian, it's usually called Dove, Cheetos, etc., not "Cajun Jimās Cornballs". That honestly doesn't sound like it'd sell at all for local tastes based on the name alone.
Out of curiosity, what are Hush Puppies outside of the US? I mean, it's corn batter deep fried, seems right up our alley.
Would this be the same s 'corn fritters' in Canada?
Corn meal, egg, salt+pepper. Add water until self-supporting balls can be formed. Drop 30mm balls into hot grease.
Like that?
1375.99 Pesos
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I guess so? The ones I'm used to have whole corn kernels too
Dammit I'm hungry now :p
That sounds absolutely vile.
It's basically just deep fried corn bread.
It's actually really delicious
Tooth fish doesn't sound very appetizing, does it?
Aioli isn't garlic mayonnaise, it's minced garlic cloves emulsified into olive oil, sometimes with a bit of lemon juice. The modern sauce usually called Aioli is actually garlic may made to sound more up market and "traditional". It's kindof the inverse of your point but perversely done for the same reason, to get Americans to eat it.
Touch screens in cars are evidence that the auto industry is actively trying to increase auto accidents.
Nah, that's purely a cost saving measure. Shitty touch screens are cheaper than buttons.
Is that true? I'm too scared to look up prices. Electronically, touchscreens are infinitely more complex, but I can believe economies of scale brought it down lower than buttons... I just don't want to believe that.
I've seen comments from auto manufacturers outright stating this. I think they also overestimated how much consumers care about touchscreens.
Routing wires for buttons is an absolute clusterfuck as well.
Pretty much no button these days directly controls something, it's routed through the BMS. Headlights may be one of the few that are switched without some type of computer in between, possibly power windows too?
And they're all on a PCB.
Even so, each individual button needs to be connected to that PCB separately, and will only have the function of what it says on the button, or possibly a couple hidden functions through programming.
Touch screens are essentially one connection for infinite buttons with different screens and menus.
Factorio has taken over cars.
Touchscreens can be made at massive scale and then repurposed in batches for everywhere. Theyāre always the same (roughly speaking). Buttons are individual components, you have to lay the whole thing out custom how you want it to be, you have to put all these fiddly little components togetherā¦ just having a robot make a big square object along with 199,999 other ones is cheaper, even if technically the big square object is orders of magnitude more complex than the chunks of plastic and springs and buttons etc.
Yup, that about matches my thought process when I made that comment. Economies of scale make the complexity irrelevant.
I think the assembling is the crucial part as you stated. I mean, buttons can also be manufactured in scale by a robot, but every button needs to be wired, the touchscreen only once.
They have to have a screen anyway, backup cameras are mandated by law
Industrial grade switches (i.e.: buttons) are expensive because of very high quality control requirements, and add a lot more parts that can fail to a car. It is the same thing that happened with mobile phones. Going with touchscreen reduce a lot the number of parts to check and parts that can fail, even if usability is very bad for the end-user.
Cats have a much more complex understanding of human behaviour and just consider us harmless and boring enough to not bother.
As in your cat totally understands that your keyboard is special in a way and you don't want it disturbed, but couldn't give two shits about your wants. Or completely being aware of how unpleasant it is when they sit on you with their butthole in your face, but why not if that's what they want to do right now?
I think this is real and that most (not all) cats are smarter and more selfish than we think
Dogs are waaaaay more aware than most people seem to think. I think it's true of most animals. We just don't like to think about it.
I stayed out later than normal one time and missed one of my dog's walks. He tore up a newspaper while staring at me. Rip, rip, rip. He knew I spent time looking at newspapers so he chose to destroy one, while heavily implying that if I fucked up his schedule again he would rip ME up.
Aw, I can't help but be on his side.
Same. I was very much in the wrong.
LMAO
As someone who spends more free time with electronics and other more expensive stuff than newspapers, this would cause a big rift between me and my dog.
This. My dog knows words that I didnāt teach him. I know people talk about pattern recognition and what not but thatās not all that different than human knowledge. I learn words by hearing them repeated too
I know how to read his body language and the tone of his barks to know what he wants. He will even show me, if I ask him.
I suspect he understands a lot more than I am capable of deciphering as well.
My dogs know the difference between going out pants and around the house pants. We also have to say preambulate when talking about walks unless we want to excite the dogs.
Dogs brains activate the same regions when the see human faces that activate in our brains. These same regions don't activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.
Dogs are far more in tune with us that they are with their own species.
Some of the oldest human archaeological sites have dog remains among the humans. Domestication of the dog was going on far far earlier than the first evidence we have for domestication of the first food species.
We have evolved together as two mutually symbiotic species.
These same regions don't activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.
Probably because they use scent more than sight for being in tune with their own species.
Sent is just an id for dogs. They use body language with humans and other dogs. They also pay attention to threw same parts of human faces that we do. They don't do this with other dog faces.
Scent is how dogs (generally) primarily experience the world.
They don't do this with other dog faces.
Because dogs don't use their faces the same way that humans do
Dogs use scent more then humans. However they still use sight and sound much morfe then they use scent.
Dogs use body language and vocalization to communicate with each other. Watch two dogs interact they look at each other and will growl, and bristle or tail wag and play bow to indicate what they want.
They look at faces on humans because that's a major component of how we communicate.
Smell is not how they communicate. It's just how they know where other animals have been.
I agree, but that's not a conspiracy. Scientifically speaking, we know that animals are smarter than most people admit.
The conspiracy here is that cats are not just smarter than we think but actually one of the smarter animals in general and they are also very internal and just don't care about us so they don't exhibit it in ways that we recognize.
There is a part of their brain that only activates when humans are around.
Some cats are extremely smart and very devious (looking at you, mother's cat) and some are. Well. I love them. But I've met cats that absolutely had nothing going on upstairs, not a single thought in their little brains.
That's rare though! Most are pretty smart and know how to convince us to do everything for them! And I always will do my best for them.
cats that absolutely had nothing going on upstairs, not a single thought in their little brains.
Ah, so you've met a Persian cat. Pretty cats, but at what cost?
Their singing ability was definitely a cost, never let one pick any Bard or Bard adjacent class.
I've always said that people who think cats are simple or ratty/skittish creatures have never laid with a loving cat on their chest. There are few deeper connections that a good owner and a well-loved cat. They are exceptionally bright animals.
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.
I even do it at home (just a couple squares on each side) for comfort
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.
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.
Who owns Amtrak anyway?
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.
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 wonāt
New headline:
Stormy Daniels appointed as new head of Amtrak
Mr. Track
Please, call him Am.
Of the Boston Tracks!?!
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
The sanitation issues that happened at Chipotle in such quick succession a few years ago were corporate sabotage. At the time, Chipotle was the fastest growing chain in the U.S.
We need the guy who posted on Reddit that he thinks all of Chipotle contains a money laundering front based on big phone orders that would sometimes come in that would wind up not getting either made or picked up, just a fake order that went into the list alongside all the real ones but got paid for over the phone. He said this happened at multiple Chipotles he knew and he couldnāt think of anything at all it could be other than money laundering.
Drug dealing operation. Like those pizza places where you order an unusual topping combination (e.g. anchovies and chocolate sauce) and the pizza box comes with a kilo of cocaine.
Oh fuck yes. Qdoba undercover agents getting jobs at Chipotle for the express purpose of not washing their hands. I love it.
Imo they were sabotaging themselves with their lack of queso and still are with the poor distribution of ingredients in the burrito. I get my mexican food from real mexican restaurants, but even Moe's is better than Chipotle and they should be ashamed of that.
If you think Moe's holds a candle to Chipotle, you should have your voter registration revoked.
"Holds a candle" better by far, and that's an admonishment of Chipotle not an endorsement of Moe's. Chipotle is the absolute worst cultural appropriation snaxā¢ available, might as well go to taco bell.
Toothpaste tubes and similar containers are intentionally designed to be inconvenient to get the full contents out of.
But the toothpaste tube is literally the most efficient method to get all that paste in a hygenic manner. Toothpaste used to be Toothpowder. You'd dip your nasty fucking brush into the powder and scrub away. That's pretty gross even if every individual has their own little can of tooth powder. Now imagine sharing that shit with your nasty fucking siblings.
I mean, maybe you can buy a liter bucket of toothpaste. You would be able to get every last scrap but it might have mold on it after a year or so.
The newer cosmetic (especially makeup) containers definitely hold back product. I've helped cut into many cosmetic containers as an emergency measure to use the last bit until a shopping trip can be accomplished and yeah, some of them hold a surprising amount of the product.
Not the humble toothpaste tube though.
... you didn't 'dip your brush' into tooth powder, you dusted it onto the bristles...
According to the instructions on the tin of the only tooth powder I've seen in real life, you dipped your toothbrush into the tin. It was round and shaped like a coffee can. The lid didn't have holes in it that would be needed to sprinkle the stuff out. Also that powder wouldn't sprinkle at all, it had hardened into a rock of the stuff. You would have needed a chisel, and mortar and pestle to use it by the time I found it
I've never heard of toothpowder. What prevents people from scooping out a little bit and scrubbing their brush into that?
Nothing, but the house I grew up in during the '80s and '90s was built in 1844, and had all sorts of things that had just been there for ages. One of these things was an ancient tin of tooth powder, next to the washbasin by the back door of the kitchen. This house gets its water from a cistern out the back door. I don't know what the powder was supposed to be like when it was made, back in the '30s according to the tin, but by the time I saw the stuff, it had hardened into a rock. Like you'd need a chisel and mortar and pestle to actually use the stuff again. I suspect that happened due to years of sitting around.
waste and inconvenience.
90s Mentadent got you, bro.
what a fucking ridiculous amount of plastic waste for such a pitifully bad display
Hated when it got lopsided.
Drag them across the corner of the counter, pulling down as you do. Works great.
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.
Does anyone have a source on this? Itās 100% believable but Iām not turning anything up and this seems like something worth knowing more about
I don't disagree, but I'd like some more info and/or sources.
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.
proven fact
no source
Iām not one to stick up for Microsoft but uhhhhh fuck no
"Big Grass" truly runs the beef industry.
So few cattle rely on by grass tho
Depends on the country. Where I am it's virtually 100% grass fed.
If we turned all of global beef demand into grass-fed, weād literally decimate our output because thereās not enough grazable land.
Even land categorized as agriculturally grazable is often not realistically grazable (think mountains, etc)
We didn't domesticate corn. Corn domesticated us.
we might even become corn, down to the molecules.
Fun fact: the Native Americans that originally created the various and sundry types of corn that we have called themselves, "Walking Maize People." We've analyzed their bones and found that the specific type of carbon that corn "tags" as its own ion, made up about 30-40% of the carbon in their bones, and presumably their bodies.
Due to the fact that corn is added to almost everything that is in the US food chain, when similar analysis has been done to average US citizens, more like 60-70% of the carbon in our bodies comes from corn. We "paint" fruits and veggies with corn, we add corn as sugar to all soda, we add corn to some breads for no reason. We, the citizens of the US, are walking corn.
i was referring to the rick and morty episode, where they stumbled upon a planet that was made of corn down to molecules.
If you count corn as grass then yes. I would agree
The majority of US federal agriculture subsidies go to corn production, the majority of corn production is for live stock feed. Anybody who brings up spending that money on vegetables or basically anything other than corn gets silenced pretty quick
I grow and sell weed/grass, I don't think that our industry is profitable enough to influence the beef industry.
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"
Taylor Swift is actually a very evil person. Based purely on the fact I haven't heard any bad things about her. š§
Oh, you're on the list now buddy
I don't think she's evil. But I'm pretty convinced she's into girls or at least bi-sexual for some reason.
YES her super close friendship and subsequent dramatic friend breakup with Karlie Kloss is exactly the kind of shit I did when I was closeted.
Ellen DeGeneres v2?
I saw Ellen DeGeneres on TV long before the scandal and could immediately tell she was awful.
Just watch her interactions, from any time period. She clearly is just brimming with hate under the tense, smiling face and the manic presentation. I was sort of surprised that other people couldnāt see it.
The pandering, the condescension, the look of disgust when things don't go right. I saw it too, br0ther.
Honestly I barely saw anything of her, I just knew she existed. Now she's notorious for that 180 in the public's perception of her, which is why she came to mind.
She's far from the first, though. Very different circumstances, but Bill Cosby also springs to mind.
As for Taylor Swift, I know about as much about her as I did about Ellen, which is very little. I never got any icky vibes from her though, besides the inevitably hypocrisy that comes with being filthy rich and mega famous (private jet + preaching about the environment). Not enough to make her out as the bad guy.
Companies add water to meat to make it heavier so they can charge more.
I once left a pound of frozen ground beef from the farmers market in water but the packaging was damaged, so it was watery. I patted it dry with paper towels. Months later I bought ground beef from a store and it felt like the watered patter dry beef. I even dried it using 2 paper towels afterwardsā¦
This is 100% true. Have had a supermarket GM tell me about how much water they āhadā to pump into corned silverside to meet a price point.
There is advertisment in Netflix that is a company saying they don't do this like other companies. It is real
https://aboutseafood.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/USDA-Added-Water-Regulations-Summary.pdf
A company in Canada, Lilydale, used to market their chicken as "no water added"
high-steak conspiracy theory
I have seen videos of the machines injecting water into shrimps (lots of needles), this isn't a conspiracy theory!
A similar thing is fat; force-feed cattle quickly and they get a big lump of fat (it will just melt away, but you still pay for it), feed them normally and exercise them and the fat will be in "stripes" and makes the meat taste way better.
If it was just fat! I save all the fat from cooking, but this thingā¦ has no fat!
Frustrating if true, since I've heard several people float the same conspiracy while shopping in my store, despite this not being something that we do. The price of meat (at least in Canada) has just risen to absurdities post-pandemic. I don't even buy it anymore.
My parents have a local butcher in town. Itās about half the price of the supermarket and excellent quality.
This is absolutely a thing with chicken. Always go for the āAir-Chilledā chicken if you can afford it.
https://www.eatlikenoone.com/air-chilled-chicken-whats-the-difference.htm
woah, and they both use the same hand to grasp at straws, that's insane!
The famous person wears the same size water skis as me
She's got three cars as many years I've lived in this city
Her hair is blonde and mine is brown; they both start with a "b"
Woah a TMBG song that I've never heard of -- thanks for this!
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Holy shit.
Okay this is my favorite
Sometimes in the grocery store I think about this scene from Father of the Bride a lot.
Also I think a lot of people misunderstand the definition of "low-stakes conspiracy."
Local parking companies are getting rid of pay machines and forcing apps and QR codes on people so that it's less convenient to pay. They know people will have trouble so then they can fine people who are "non-compliant".
Apps and web sites can also apply custom pricing based on the individual's ability to pay. Payday? The parking spot costs more.
I like this because the app would also tell them exactly where to come look for the offenders car.
This happened to me. I went through the payment process and finished on a confirmation page. A week later I got a notice that I didn't pay and was being fined. I looked at my bank statements and sure enough the charge never went through. I didn't make a big deal of it because the fine was barely more than what I would've been charged anyway.
They can also make money by tracking the link or better if have an app. If they're not selling the info then they would at least use it for internal statistics which is fair but we don't have to support that.
JFK's head just...did that.
I'm not saying there was candy inside, but did you see how she scrambled?
I'm convinced JFK is an opsec trick. There's nothing suspicious at all but if someone says that have a secret source about info the government hides and then mentions JFK, the agents investigating can drop it there because the know this guy is yakking out his ass.
When a headache gets bad enough you get a government coverup.
Back and to the left.
Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1964 and was replaced by someone who turned out to be a way better song writer.
We had an art teacher in school who believed this theory and he dedicated an entire day to showing us all the evidence that supported it.
Way better explanation than just personal development š
Isn't that just, "The walrus was Paul?"
Goo goo g'joob.
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.
My rebuttal is that only those examples of greed are celebrated and honored in the capitalistic age. There are plenty of examples of people living in a form of harmony with nature and some current countries like Bhutan who are doing better. I imagine at different points in time you had a majority of populations living this way but those histories weren't preserved (like Native American) as well or taught as much.
this is neither low-stakes nor harmless, it is also not a conspiracyš
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You posted a lot of things I've been feeling for a while but haven't put down into words. Thank you for this.
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.
Mine used to be that Bill Hicks faked his death and created Alex Jones in order to sell out. Doesnāt seem very low-stakes any more
The battery level your phone shows is just made-up bullshit. Itās roughly accurate of course, but they canāt really check how much charge is in the battery with 1:100 accuracy, so it just counts down at a roughly constant rate making adjustments to the rate based on rough measurements of broadly whether the battery is āreal fullā or āmostly fullā or āalmost emptyā or whatever.
The battery has a capacity reading down to the milivolts and the phone knows how much power it is using, which changes dynamically to meet the usage. The remaining battery level is determined by the voltage available at the current consumption. There is some averaging involved based on your usage profile.
So your battery level is accurate at a given time, but changes based on what you are doing and what you have running. So your battery will drain faster if you are playing an intensive game, but will last far longer if you have nothing unessential running and the screen is in sleep mode.
Apps like Facebook, chew through battery in the background because of how often it has to use resources to check for notifications, when when you don't actually have the app open or in the recent apps list. So your battery will lose charge faster than you would expect when you haven't been on your phone.
so, naw lil bro.
The battery has a driver, which is written in software that indicates level based on an underlying profile of how the battery drains.
Hence why Pixel4a users were suddenly shocked by an upgrade that halved their battery life because Google made a whoopsie on the battery profile.
We are saying the same thing, I was oversimplifying though.
The profile is based on the voltage of the battery, the capacity, and the permissible amp draw. The actual voltage reading informs the device of the real remaining capacity because the device can't read capacity and can only infer it based on historic data compared against the profile. Battery temperature is also a throttling factor, but we don't need to get that far into the battery management weeds.
The remaining battery level is determined by the voltage available at the current consumption
Gets all condescending about how it works
Isnāt aware of the difference between V and mAh or the extremely horizontal (for most of the range) curve defining the relationship between them for Li-ion batteries
I got irritated enough by people spouting off at me to look up how it actually works, itās not at all how you are describing, although describing it as ābullshitā is probably a stretch
So naw big bro
But Phil, the difference between V and mAh is just current draw
You misspelled āresistance and time,ā but close. The āAā part is the current.
the flat voltage curve is only really a problem for LFP which is not really used in smartphones due to low energy density
My brother in Christ, may I show you the glory of The Multimeter? You can check voltage of any battery or even individual cells if you can isolate them.
You can get a voltage sensor that is accurate to three decimal points for literal cents, so yes, your phone does know how much energy is left in the battery. It also has current sensors, so knows how much energy is being used.
It does not know the capacity loss of the cell over time. That is why you should let the battery go completely dead and then charge it to max capacity as this will recalibrate the coulomb meter on the battery manager - batman
My understanding is that happens constantly as the battery is charged and discharged.
It tries but the value is floating until it actually has a full charge cycle. There is no way to know what the entire voltage range is. You're getting into how efficient the chemistry is over time and that is impossible to measure. It can be estimated, but that is all theoretical and not real. When the battery is fully discharged, the time, temperature, and current can be used to determine Coulombs and that is the actual energy capacity.
I'm not an expert, but I have built many circuits. My main experience here is in reverse engineering some gaming hardware that had an advanced battery management chip from Diode Semiconductors. That had such a Coulomb battery meter. The board was a 3 layer PCB and I took that as a challenge. The batman chip was also a small ball grid array (pins are inaccessible on the back side. I didn't have xrays when I did the first trace of all pins, so I had to fully understand the chip to trace all connections only using the vias. I think I have a chip or two in parts drawers that do the same thing, but I never built anything with them, or at least haven't yet.
Preach sibling
Idk how multiple super assertive people all got the idea that āvoltage = battery percentā and all wanted to yell it at me the same time lol
I donāt think I am going to take confident proclamations about how it works from someone who thinks āvoltageā translates to āhow much energy is left in the batteryā.
https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-903-how-to-measure-state-of-charge
I donāt really know how this stuff works, thatās why it is my conspiracy theory instead of me just giving fun facts. But, I donāt think you know how this stuff works either.
It sounds like coulomb counting (current sensors, as you said) is often the method. Personally, I suspect thereās a decent amount of bullshit inserted into that to make it look ānormalā when people are looking at how the number behaves, at the expense of accuracy. You might move your phone from cold to warm for example, and the usable energy in the battery might increase when that happens (or something) but itās definitely not going to show your battery percent going up, even if it could detect it properly which I donāt think it can. Whether to say that means itās ābullshitā is I guess a matter of opinion.
Phones don't use lead acid batteries, genius. I don't know why you think that study is relevant.
Also, your phone knows what the temperature of the battery is, and almost certainly takes that into account, although this affects the output voltage but not the amount of energy stored.
Li-ion is worse. I looked up a few different articles, I just kind of picked that one at random because I didnāt want to spend more time on it. This one is pretty succinct about it:
āThis method is not suitable for some other cell chemistries like lithium-ion, which has a negligible change in its voltage throughout most of its charge/discharge cycle.ā
Which is why the phone also monitors charge and discharge, or current through the battery.
My new conspiracy theory is that a gang of people have teamed up to try to wind me up on this particular topic in what was supposed to be a lighthearted nonsense-question to which I gave an appropriate nonsense-answer.
Youāre the only one who actually did arrive at something which is pretty much the actual answer (ācoulomb countingā), although you keep mucking it up by saying things like you ācan get a voltage sensorā to get the energy left in the battery, or ācurrent through the batteryā when the battery is the only part current does not flow through during discharge, or by making up wild random guesses that something is āalmost certainlyā taken into account. Just take all that extra stuff away and stick with āthe phone monitors dischargeā and youāll be pretty much right.
Hopefully we can put this whole endeavor behind us now, and go back to talking about Chipotle and chemtrails.
It's very clear from this exchange that you don't know dick about electronics.
The evidence for my secondary conspiracy theory grows stronger
It's hard because it's not a perfect linear relationship between battery voltage and battery percentage. When the battery is 80% full, the voltage hardly changes at all as it drains. But it can change significantly with unrelated factors, like age and temperature. So they have to use the integral of current consumption to calculate the battery level. There are other tricks, too, like using temperature to check battery percentage (when the battery is charging, it heats up if it's nearly full), and some lithium ion batteries have a third wire for measuring the temperature.
Lithium ion battery chemistry is actually incredibly well understood and easily calculated as a point value and also extrapolated into capacity values using data on how you use your phone.
That's not a conspiracy. That's literally how it works.
I mean... It's closer to 100 bins than like 3 bins as described.
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.
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.
The first rule of fascism is, when it arrives, turn your guns against the fascists. Not against your friends who arenāt being anti-fascist enough, or werenāt in the past, or whatever.
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.
This is pretty high stakes
When you buy crisps sometimes there's just.... hardly any seasoning on them?? I'm talking crisps like Doritos or BBQ Beef Hula Hoops. There can be a massive difference with the amount of seasoning between batches and I'm sure they do it on purpose to make you buy more of them so you can get that really well seasoned batch you loved again lol. i don't actually believe this but I'd be interested to know why
- they also taste overly dried out
Batshit insane conspiracy theories are pushed to discredit all conspiracy theories with actual evidence.
Women's pants have small pockets on purpose to increase handbag sales.
Surveillance of the general public is much, much worse than people believe and the view of being considered weird and paranoid is deliberately encouraged.
I think Vince Neil of Motley Crue got a ridiculously short sentence for drunk driving manslaughter because his record company bought off the judge so that they could make money off him performing. I suspect a lot of famous people have that happen.
A lot of coverups seem to happen in high society. Check out the story of Natalie Wood, for instance.
Sheesh I didn't know that one.
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.
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.
actually fitting
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.
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.
That Pac Man isn't eating pellets, he's eating burritos, but because if you look at a burrito face on, it kinda looks round, and the graphics at the time were so limited... Pac Man is secretly shilling Mucho Burrito (or whatever your local Mexican fast food joint of choice is.)
But that means Pac-Man is eating the burritos edge-on which is clearly insane, since he eata them in one chomp.. You might be onto something, but i don't think burrito is the answer.
Weāve never seen pacman facing straight. What if its head is as wide as a burrito is long?
Eipstein didn't kill himself.
I mean, the stakes seem pretty low right now.
Dude how do we know heās really dead?
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.
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. š
...but the gauls didnt invade the roman empire...
The gauls were part of rome.
Goths, lombards, saxons, allemans, baiuvari, fanconians and others invaded rome
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.
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!"
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.
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.
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.
I think something cataclysmic happened during the Younger Dryas period and we may never know what but it's not coincidence there are multiple flood myths that evolved independently. Also, I think humans have been around longer than we realize and we're in another iteration of the same course of evolution waiting to get out of our Fermi loop.
Well, concerning the floods: flooding is still really bad and usually affects a huge area. Normally it is not like one village floods and everybody dies and the next village is completely fine. So, for people who do not get around a lot it might feel like the whole world was flooded. Then maybe they hit a few bad years in a row, and BAM, God or somebody wants to punish humanity story confirmed.
True but in parts of the world completely isolated from others? India in comparison to South America as an example.
Especially then. How would the ancients in India know that South America even exists? It floods in India, story develops. It floods 300 years later in South America, story develops. For all they knew, it was the whole world that flooded. They could not check back, whether it flooded on different continents.
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
That creepy green āday careā is a CIA front.
The whole adding glue to phones and other electronics is the result of Big Glue lobbying Big Tech
Radon is fake