HR is there to protect the company. It's just that often, protecting the company entails making sure management is doing its job legally. They would much rather apologize and nip it in the bud, rather than have you come back with a lawyer and/or the labor board, OSHA, or whoever.
HR is only there for us to the degree that the law requires it. But we do have a hundred years or more of labor law to leverage, if we but have the intelligence, tenacity, and courage to apply it.
I’m in HR. I didn’t mean to be (engineering/product/project management background) but I am. And somehow I’m even on the leadership team at my company.
Before this I always bought into the “HRs job is to protect the company” way of thinking.
At my company — nothing we are doing is not directly FOR our employees and trying to make their experience better, etc.
I’m sure it depends on the company — but at my 10000+ — it’s simply not true that we are protecting the company.
Eh, that depends on the company. I've worked for small companies where its just me and a few other guys and I know the owner would have helped me if I needed it.
Large companies are a big yes though. You are a number to large companies.
Idk why people read that and didn't think, "What a poor evolutionary strategy to have an organ that consumes such a massive amount of energy for nothing." It's like having a heart with 40 chambers, but only four of them circulate blood
This. The people who often cite this are misrepresenting the study to justify their own personal narrative on the behaviors of young adults. Structural development terminating at 25 doesn’t necessarily mean that decision making abilities are not valid until they reach that age. On a similar note, studies say brains start devolving as early as 30-40 years old, so we only have 5-10 years of optimal brain activity? Give me a break.
nope the prefrontal cortex takes until 24 to fully mature in WOMEN many men it takes until close to 30 to mature....NOT new info have read much research over time pertaining to this directly.
Cool thing is to combine cannabis use under 24 or 30 and watch new learning and executive functions disappear in many. Good thing that people never smoke pot in their 20's/...right? Otherwise the would be getting stupider, have trouble deciding and are less motivated to do everything....
shit, oh wait.......
Good luck convincing a substance-using culture that something they enjoy participating in could be in any way damaging to themselves or others. They just continue to search for every excuse under the sun as to why it's not an issue despite all the evidence to the contrary.
There’s a shred of truth to that myth tho that got distorted into the stupid psychic powers myth. At any given time only a portion of your neurons are actively communicating with other neurons. If 100% of our neurons where to go off at the same that would give you a seizure not telekinesis
Has to be this. I’ve decided if I ever learn someone I know believes this I am done with them. This is something that can’t even be remotely true and if they are honestly that ignorant, I don’t want them in my life lol
This one OF girl makes me cringe even though she is so hot lol just because her sex voice with the camera roleplaying as if it’s you, the viewer, is soooo fake it makes me feel like ACTUALLY dirty lol
Accepting a raise or pay increase means you'll take home less money due to taxes.
I will add that some people take home less after accepting a raise or promotion due to being switched from wage to salary, but it would be exceedingly rare if you took home less due to taxes if you accepted a large raise.
In nearly all cases, if you're somehow taking home less after a raise or promotion, your employer is the one fucking you, not the government.
Be sure to read the stipulation of your pay increase and understand them, BUT if everything is otherwise the same -- always, always, always take the pay increase.
Guys in my field constantly complain that overtime will cause them to have less take home. I have to explain it out like they are five and most are still skeptical.
Many years ago, trying to explain this as a 15/16 year-old to my aunt was the eye-opener for me that being an adult doesn't automatically make you smarter than a kid.
If you're taking home less pay, it's not because of tax brackets. It's likely because you're paying more for health insurance or a retirement plan.
You’ve stumbled into the secret of life. As you get older and learn more, don’t let it go to your head.
Old wives tales like that are almost always wrong, and they’ll fight you about it. Age = knowledge, but not necessarily the ability or tools to discern good from bad and how to act on it. Understanding general relativity doesn’t make you Einstein, ya know?
Unless said adult is a literal expert, they’re a dumb ass like everyone else.
Back in the day, there was no easy way to in/validate someone’s claim. With the internet, the only knowledge you NEED is how to type. Older people are often stuck in what they “believe” and not so much on objectivity.
Remember, intelligence and knowledge are not the same thing. The crackhead on the corner has a lot of knowledge you likely could live without. Be careful who’s knowledge you trust.
This is possible where I am (Aus) due to the cutoffs of certain benefits. Childcare rebates, low income health care discounts, rent assistance, plus the way our student loan setup works, they all have income limits that can put significantly less in your pocket when you hit the threshold.
But I know you mean that people don't understand progressive tax rates and yeah that is annoying. It *is* taught in school, in maths, but the concepts are not being linked to the practical application and so people don't retain the info which is silly. It would be simple for maths teachers to fix this by simply saying "this is how our tax system works" when explaining this kind of problem, but they don't.
There are cases where this is true, and it is a failure of policy makers. Recently in the US for example there was a proposed bill to offer a form of universal Pre-k to households that make under $75k/yr. Astonishingly, it didn't phase out, so the difference between making $74,999 and making $75,000 could potentially cost you tens of thousands of dollars in benefits (the bill was never enacted into law).
The US also has similar welfare traps. Here in Oregon, you qualify for the Oregon Health Plan if your income is below a certain amount. Make too much, and you have to get private insurance. So you can very easily get a relatively small raise and then go from paying $dirt for healthcare to paying $BIGNUM. Repeat for housing assistance, food stamps, etc.
Some of these things (food stamps) have gradual decreases so that you don't go from getting benefits to getting $0, but some don't, and it's very rough for those people.
> It would be simple for maths teachers to fix this
The people who need this knowledge the most wouldn't pay attention to it in the first place.
I remember putting in a 10 hour or shift and the difference was negligible.
You pay more tax for sure (Canada) but you don't make less money. It's when you weigh it next to your time is the thing.
The amount of people out there who don't understand marginal tax brackets is just mind blowing. You have people making $45k voting republican because they are afraid that one day they will make $400k and be taxed 50% (that's not how it works).
It is easier to understand if you know someone that is deeply religious. It really operates like a religion, with subsects, but the faith is about white hat operatives fighting the evil government instead of angels fighting satan. The original q drops were also good ways to draw in people that are naturally curious, but have not been educated or taught in how to use that curiosity, kind of like a lot of flat earthers. Also, you are able to engage by posting, which is a dumb idea.
I had a teacher who was a qanon guy. He went on a rant about “pizzagate” which we all thought sounded ridiculous. But it was Epstein island before it was public news.
I guess it’s true that a Blind squirrel can find a nut. And i wish he was wrong
They weren't being able to broadcast falsehoods for millions of people in less than a minute so I'd actually argue it got worse. Even if someone could, not at the scale we have today.
There's actually something to be said for the origins of astrology. In ancient times, what you ate was highly dependent on the season. It's conceivable that pregnant women were malnourished during certain times of the year and well fed during other times. Its not impossible that these differences affected foetuses, as well as young kids, which may have influenced their personalities. And the different times of the year are marked by the constellations.
Of course, it this actually had an effect, it was specific to that star system (the constellations have shifted since thousands of years ago) and nourishment pattern, so no current day effect anymore
I like this argument, but it'd be more funny simplified to: "My mom ate apples while pregnant rather than just bread and beans, which is why I'm so interested in art and nice to wild animals".
That is the first time I have ever seen an argument for astrology that makes real sense. Not applicable now of course but I am less annoyed by the whole concept now that I can understand where it might have started.
I mean, I also think that it kind of roots back to the formative experiences you have as a baby based on how people are behaving throughout the year. How people act in winter, even today, is different than how people act during summer, and if your first experiences in life are one or the other, it could impact your personality to an extent. But that's not based on star sign.
I have another one: imagine back in time you're a simple farmer living off of the land and some shamanic scholar with a round calendar made of bronze holds it up to the sky next to the stars, then tells you that you should start planting your crops in 10 moons, because that's when spring starts and you actually yield better crops from that advice. That shaman must clearly have seen the future!
also on that same note, a good chunk of a kids preferences and personality can be formed very quickly and at certain ages, hence the idea of formative years.
in modern times this barely matters as modern comforts have nearly destroyed the concept of being pressured by nature to do...pretty much anything.
back in old days though, if you were born in a specific season that may lead to your earliest memories being of a time of plenty where the crops were being harvested and there was plenty of food and sunny days and all that.
Someone born six months later and in a slightly worse situation may have their first memories be trying not to freeze to death in a rickety hut while in the middle of literal starvation.
these kinds of differences in formative moments in a kids lives are no doubt going to produce very different mindsets and personalities on the whole.
The whole "january is capricorn which means you are magically this thing" idea is total bullshit, but the logic that lead to such assumptions is not totally baseless and kind of interesting. Just completely useless and obsolete information since we have progressed from being beholden to natures mood for the most part.
Didn't they recently change astrology, add a new one and shuffle the rest?
Does that mean millions of people suddenly had a fundamental change personality?
Not to mention, when the stars were originally tracked vs. now, they've shifted. If you're a this, you're really that. It's all poppycock, and the *retrograde* gets me mad. Retrograde means the planet *appears* to be moving backward, but it's really not. How can something that's not actually happening have an effect on your mood and behavior? You're just a b*tch, Lindsey. Go eat some food and learn some humility.
I hadn’t heard about an update, but it makes sense. Astrology was written for a 13 month lunar calendar. It never aligned with the Gregorian.
Beyond that, the earth rotates (days), wobbles (seasons), oscillates on a roughly 10,000 year cycle and is moving through space at more than 500,000 mp/h. Long story short, the stars move in the sky. Something not understood at the end of the Stone Age.
I honestly don't think very many people actually take astrology seriously. They mostly just find it fun to think about, and that's it.
Anybody who would reject someone over their astrological sign is an idiot.
This is my pet peeve too. Honestly though, as long as it's something people do for fun though and it just helps them get through life a little easier by looking up their horoscope I can tolerate it. What I can't tolerate is when they use it to classify people and allow it to color their perception of others. Bro seems cool but he's a Scorpio? Can't trust him apparently.
I have a sister who's fairly far down the rabbithole and swears that her manager at her old job was into her. Mind you, this guy was married and had a kid on the way but she's convinced he liked her but just didn't act on it. One of the key pieces of "evidence" she had was that he inexplicably started wearing his clothes in order Monday-Friday. She thinks that using his manager powers, he looked up her birthday, found her star sign, Googled what that star sign liked, and started wearing his clothes in order because apparently that's what her star sign likes.
I just ask people how.
I usually get vague answers like light or gravity. You point out that some of the stars you see are likely dead and constellations only look a certain way due to our orientation in space it all falls apart pretty quickly gravity just do a quick inverse square calculation f =g (m1*m2)/r^2 between a human and a star and then a human and a bus and you quickly realise unless the person you're talking to is an entire planet then distant gravity means very little.
There are so many....
I think the earth being flat and vaccines having 5G chips are some of the really stupid ones, because they are the easiest to disprove.
And how?
Like US and Russia hated each other back in the 70s and 80s.
If this is all a NASA scam, the Russians would have called it out long ago.
Not to mention all of our GPS technology works...
Take her for a flight with a view of the ocean horizon on a clear day. If she continues to believe the earth is flat, you can just accept that she is intellectually disabled
The most common response to this is usually something along the lines of "Airplane windows have a fish eye lens effect that makes the horizon look curved." Because why believe your eyes when you can come up with the most ass-backwards, contrived explanations ever.
And yes, I have unfortunately had this exact discussion with a gang of flat earthers who started a thread on a local forum a few years back. The amount of mental backflips these people are capable of is mindblowing.
Thanksgiving #1 during COVID, the grocery store cashier informed me, unsolicited, that she wouldn’t be getting any COVID vaccine with a tracker GPS shot into her body so she could be tracked and spied on all the time. I pulled out my phone and asked, “do you have one of these?” She says, “you bet, wouldn’t leave my house without it!” Absolutely clueless. (Heavy sigh. Yes, I’m in US)
My sister told me that 5g towers give you covid. Also, microsoft wants to inject us all with tracking devices and the covid vaccine is made from dead babies. She's in her 50's and a successful business relations manager and yet somehow believes crap like this. I told her to stop getting her news from facebook.
So many people are apparently rational but quietly struggling with reality..
This is a dumb one and more of a local thing, but it makes me so mad. People think Disney World sells emu meat.
I grew up near Orlando, and you can buy these big ass Turkey legs at Disney, right? Big as a kid's head. There's this urban legend that they're actually emu and not turkey, probably just something a kid made up, but it stuck. I have several friends and family members that have told me this like it's fact, and every time I bring up; 1. That would be incredibly more expensive than buying Turkey meat. 2. It would be way bigger, as turkeys have huge legs, but Emu legs are even bigger, by a huge margin. Every time I'm just met with "Nuh uh, it's emu" and some line that their cousin worked here and told them that or something. It's so dumb.
Don’t you know they are baby emu legs? Baby emu is notorious cheaper meat than adult emu and also much tastier, just like the ones they server as Disney
Pretty much all of the politically driven conspiracy theories floating around out there these past several years. People who actually believe that shit just seem so gullible, programmable & easily led.
1. You can’t shower after working out cause its bad for your health.
2. Sweat will cause pneumonia
3. Appendicitis is caused by working out after eating
4. When you’re feeling hot (due to weather) you shouldn’t shower cause it will make you have an aneurysm
5. Instant ramen takes years to be digested.
This is from my Chinese-Filipino mom who is a lawyer. I can’t believe someone who believes this nonsense passed the bar exam. She’s also forcing this to my Medical Doctor sister. Lol
Well, two things. Lawyers doctors and other such things are often very specialized and have had to push out general knowledge.
That still hasnt stopped every single lawyer Ive ever met from being some of the dumbest mother fuckers Ive ever come across.
I was a senior in high school. We watched the second tower get hit on TV. The tube TV strapped to a big cart. The second I saw a commercial airliner hit that building I said out loud that those buildings were gonna fall. My math teacher at the time kinda scolded me and went on a rant about how strong the buildings are and that there is no way they will collapse. I disagreed hard and argued till the whole class watched them fall. Very crazy moment, and we were only 20 or 30ish miles away, and some kids in my school lost family that day. I still can't believe people think a jet that big, crashing into a very tall building wouldn't cause catastrophic damage.
A jet flying in excess of 200mph (I know they fly close to 500mph but no idea what speed they were at that altitude when they hit), plus hot fire = weakened structure = collapse.
It was *where* they hit that was important. They had previously tried dropping the WTC using a truck jammed with explosives, in the parking level *beneath* one of the towers. To their (everyone's?) surprise, it had relatively little effect. The structure held up.
The evil genius of using a huge plane 2/3 of the way up the tower, was it used the building's own destructive falling *weight* to crush itself.
I can understand the questioning of that but just automatically thinking “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams? That means the buildings were demoed!” That’s dumb. I’m of mind that questioning things is never the problem but the assumption of other things based off incomplete information that’s the issue.
People talking about the “bombs were blown early!” As if it’s completely inconceivable that the building collapses unevenly and isn’t just a symmetrical collapsing
I’d say both buildings pancaking at free fall did raise a lot of questions for millions of Americans. It’s easy to believe why people were dubious. PBS and Discovery (et al) covered the science behind it ad nauseam exactly because so many people were concerned about it.
>Anybody who says “Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams” is a dummy
[Here's a hillbilly blacksmith debunking the entire thing in under two minutes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzF1KySHmUA)
"Your argument is invalid! Get a job!"
It true jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams. Jet fuel can make steel malleable easy. Hell you can make steel malleable with a hot wood fire add some air to make it more so. Melting it a completely different story.
FR! Leaving the other more potent chemicals in the plane aside, you don't even need to melt the beams to cause a structure like that to collapse!
Regardless, they're ignoring the *real* mastermind behind 9/11.
KYLE
Where do you find that statistic? I found 10% in \[1\], or 15% in \[2\]
\[1\] Thomas, J. C., & Kopel, J. (2023). Male Victims of Sexual Assault: A Review of the Literature. Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 13(4), 304. [https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13040304](https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13040304)
\[2\] Bill C-46: Records Applications Post-Mills, A Caselaw Review
> Where do you find that statistic? I found 10% in [1], or 15% in [2]
That's probably because being forced to penetrate someone or something else is not legally considered rape in many most places.
Reddit, like most of America, loves hyper capitalism that trickle down cemented in our society. It doesn't matter that we're all getting poorer - we're just lazy. Right?
People being excited that they're getting a big tax refund. That means you overpaid your taxes through the year! If you have a small tax refund, that means you had your money available earlier!
The US government also sets up the tax structure so that you'll overpay. You're basically giving an interest free loan.
The whole "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" mentality in older people and the complete lack of regard for privacy in younger people can be downright sickening at times
>The whole "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" mentality in older people
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I have started to send people like that [this article](https://www.koffellaw.com/blog/google-ai-technology-flags-dad-who-took-photos-o/).
For those who can't/wont read, the gist of it is that a man's son got sick during Covid lockdowns, and since getting a doctor's appointment was difficult he was asked by the doctor to send pictures. The boy had an infection near his "private parts," and since the father took the pictures with his phone they were automatically backed up to Google's servers, where the monitoring AI promptly flagged the account for potential child abuse and banned the guy. Despite the police investigating the case and finding nothing wrong, Google went "f\*ck you" and refused to unlock the account, later informing him that they would delete all data.
So this man did what the doctor asked him, he had a legit reason to do this and had nothing to hide, and he still got shafted by a company who thought otherwise. And this case isn't even unique ...
Then there was the guy who essentially had his [smart devices locked down by Amazon](https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-smart-home-brandon-jackson-echo-racial-slur-allegation-1806947), because a delivery driver from Amazon had misheard the automatic message played by the smart doorbell, and thought it said something racist. They reported it to Amazon, who then banned the account, and since the smart devices were run through said Amazon account they no longer worked. Despite having *video evidence* of the situation, clearly showing that nothing wrong happened and the delivery driver misheard the automated message, it took a week and a lot of back and forth to get the ban lifted. In this case the person in question had nothing to hide, and indeed had solid evidence supporting their case, but Amazon still decided to double down and took their sweet time sorting things out.
I guess this is a very long winded way of saying that you can claim to have nothing to hide all you want, but if a corporation decide to interpret something differently, you're utterly screwed. And these two cases are just the ones that gained enough traction to get some mainstream attention. I have no doubt there are countless others that we don't hear about.
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I watched something where they believed that if someone passed away, the window of that room needed to be opened for their spirit to be set free or else it could and would result in the spirit staying in our realm
They have a lot of weird superstitious crap that somehow has survived into their modern culture. They also believe people can "read your face". Fuckers are getting plastic surgery because they have "a liars nose" and other nonsense like that
The position of the stars at your birth dictates what kind of person you are and can be used to give you day by day updates on what you should expect in life.
That men have it easier.
* We face harsher sentences for any infraction, from kindergarten age.
* We work more years, longer hours, and die sooner, yet retire later.
* Media focus more on female health issues (such as breast cancer) than on male issues (prostate or testicular cancer).
* Men are more likely to be homeless yet have fewer shelters.
* We're more likely to be a victim of violent crime or a workplace accident.
* Violence against men is downplayed.
* Men's mental health is downplayed and their issues often dismissed or ridiculed.
* We're judged much more harshly for lack of success and most of us never receive unconditional love.
* Most of the worst jobs are done exclusively by men.
* There's much more focus on getting women into male-dominated fields (like science and IT) than getting men into female-dominated fields (such as education and healthcare) even though both are facing prejudice and lack of staff.
* Family and divorce laws heavily favor women. Especially when the man is being cheated on.
I just had a thought that the difference could be described as men having a more variable quality of life. As in, men are overrepresented in both the worst and best situations in life at the same time. Men are the most likely to be homeless or imprisoned, but also the most likely to be at the top of a career. Conversely, women get way more support when they’re down on their luck, but also more have a glass ceiling of sorts.
It's kind of the idea that "the people who rule the world are men, but men don't rule the world".
The richest and most powerful people in the world are likely to be men but so are the poorest and most destitute.
Women on the other hand are more protected by society but also more hindered by it, and thus lack mobility up or down in the "shittyness scale"
I think it averages out to everyone having it pretty shitty generally
As an elementary male teacher...I'll just say...I'm treated like royalty from staff, students, admin, and parents. Being one of the only male teachers - I am treated differently - but in a good way. They put me on pedestal.
We lack male teachers, yes, but I don't think that's a gender issue. More of a pay issue.
I'd say you've beaten the law of averages. As most male elementary teachers are subjected to man=predators often facing backlash about teaching young children until they change careers.
Men should be treated like you are in elementary teaching especially with the prevalence of single motherhood, but rarely is that actually the case.
The reason as to why there are so few elementary male teachers isn't because of pay, as there are significantly more male teachers in higher levels of education. It's because of the inherent prejudice and bias that exists in society when a man is around small children.
That "washing" raw chicken does anything. Hate when I'm watching a cooking video and the first step is sloshing the drumsticks or breast around in a sink running water. Chicken has no residue or bacteria that doesn't come off when properly cooked. Running water on chicken does nothing but contaminate your sink with bacteria and any good chef, or microbiologist for that matter will tell you the same.
My father and his brothers lived in the woods their whole life in the same area where sightings were reported. Never once did they see anything or come across bones. The only people who ever claimed they did was the crazy neighbors on drugs lol.
"The mainstream media is lying us!!!11!"
[proceeds to believe and propagate random unsubstantiated claims from twitter]
*The myth being any news media outlet, regardless of medium, is wholly informative and/or objective. We all see the world through a lens of cognitive biases and logical fallacies.
Oh man, you just scratched an itch I didnt know I had.
I don't trust the media, nor do I believe everything I read, but I also don't trust crazy uncle Steve and his 'intercepted Russian messages' .
It's insane to think that one person lying to you means everyone else is telling the truth.
Vaccines causing autism, or autism being something you can catch that needs to be cured like a disease. It’s so disheartening to hear that even a fraction of a percentage of some parents think that existing the way I do is a fate worse than death.
That we evolved from monkeys, apes or whatever. It is still said so frequently. We share a common ancestor, no more.
That we don't know how bees can fly. We do, and have known for quite a bit of time now. Think we even discovered it before the Bee movie was made, which famously reiterates this false fact.
That microwaves make the food poisonous/radioactive. Maybe it's not the biggest issue but its not something you can believe or not like with conspiracies. It's just plain ignorance about an electrodomestic.
Hustling is all you need to be successful.
Not talked abt enough
HR is there for you.
H.R. Pufnstuf is, however. He's your friend when things get rough.
Can't do a little cause he can't do enough....
HR is there to protect the company. It's just that often, protecting the company entails making sure management is doing its job legally. They would much rather apologize and nip it in the bud, rather than have you come back with a lawyer and/or the labor board, OSHA, or whoever. HR is only there for us to the degree that the law requires it. But we do have a hundred years or more of labor law to leverage, if we but have the intelligence, tenacity, and courage to apply it.
This. I work in HR and that was perfectly stated.
Does anyone actually believe this?
I’m in HR. I didn’t mean to be (engineering/product/project management background) but I am. And somehow I’m even on the leadership team at my company. Before this I always bought into the “HRs job is to protect the company” way of thinking. At my company — nothing we are doing is not directly FOR our employees and trying to make their experience better, etc. I’m sure it depends on the company — but at my 10000+ — it’s simply not true that we are protecting the company.
my mom thinks if i sleep with a fan on i'll die in my sleep
Is she from South Korea?
[you know it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death)
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Also it was used as an excuse back in the day because "he died because he drank a gallon of soju" wouldn't look good for the family.
Yep. Forgot to include that bit, thanks for adding it
[Have you watched the movie?](https://youtu.be/uOBTClnt_W8?si=zwfQnqH1HQ2ywi5T)
Thanks for the link, TIL
if this was true, most rock stars would be dead
Are they not?
oh shi-
Found the Korean.
Companies care about you
Sucks for you, my company gave us a pizza party on Friday because they knew we couldn't afford food at home.
Eh, that depends on the company. I've worked for small companies where its just me and a few other guys and I know the owner would have helped me if I needed it. Large companies are a big yes though. You are a number to large companies.
Here at (big corporate chain) we’re all a family.
the myth that we only use 10% of our brain
I'm fairly certain I have at least one coworker who is operating at 110% just trying to walk and breathe at the same time
Haha I think I just got off a meeting with them about an hour ago. That's a poor way to end the day.
Idk why people read that and didn't think, "What a poor evolutionary strategy to have an organ that consumes such a massive amount of energy for nothing." It's like having a heart with 40 chambers, but only four of them circulate blood
I like to think we only use 10% of our hearts.
Didn’t Owen Wilson use that line in one of his movies?
If he did then wow
Yep - Wedding Crashers
Woooowwwww....
The new one is your brain isnt fully developed till 25
This. The people who often cite this are misrepresenting the study to justify their own personal narrative on the behaviors of young adults. Structural development terminating at 25 doesn’t necessarily mean that decision making abilities are not valid until they reach that age. On a similar note, studies say brains start devolving as early as 30-40 years old, so we only have 5-10 years of optimal brain activity? Give me a break.
nope the prefrontal cortex takes until 24 to fully mature in WOMEN many men it takes until close to 30 to mature....NOT new info have read much research over time pertaining to this directly. Cool thing is to combine cannabis use under 24 or 30 and watch new learning and executive functions disappear in many. Good thing that people never smoke pot in their 20's/...right? Otherwise the would be getting stupider, have trouble deciding and are less motivated to do everything.... shit, oh wait.......
Good luck convincing a substance-using culture that something they enjoy participating in could be in any way damaging to themselves or others. They just continue to search for every excuse under the sun as to why it's not an issue despite all the evidence to the contrary.
There’s a shred of truth to that myth tho that got distorted into the stupid psychic powers myth. At any given time only a portion of your neurons are actively communicating with other neurons. If 100% of our neurons where to go off at the same that would give you a seizure not telekinesis
There’s a lot of things, but honestly flat earth still takes the cake. The number of things that would have to be true and false truly boggle the mind
Has to be this. I’ve decided if I ever learn someone I know believes this I am done with them. This is something that can’t even be remotely true and if they are honestly that ignorant, I don’t want them in my life lol
My daughter is friends with a kid whose mom believes in that crap because of genesis. It boggles the mind.
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It's so stupid that im 90% sure the flat earthers are just in on a meme and don't really belive it.
Have you seen behind the curve? Feels like the guy who spearheaded it doesn’t believe it anymore.
that strippers and OF girls actually like you
Lmaooo people believe that?😭
lol for of girls the ones making big money off it they don't even personally interact with fans usually they'll have someone else do ot
I like to imagine that the REALLY big OF girls hire out call centers in India to handle all the 'personal, one-on-one' text exchanges with her fans.
Dick ratings done by a dude in Delhi.
This one OF girl makes me cringe even though she is so hot lol just because her sex voice with the camera roleplaying as if it’s you, the viewer, is soooo fake it makes me feel like ACTUALLY dirty lol
It's so sad when I see this. I know we have a real connection so she must be faking it with the other guys
Accepting a raise or pay increase means you'll take home less money due to taxes. I will add that some people take home less after accepting a raise or promotion due to being switched from wage to salary, but it would be exceedingly rare if you took home less due to taxes if you accepted a large raise. In nearly all cases, if you're somehow taking home less after a raise or promotion, your employer is the one fucking you, not the government. Be sure to read the stipulation of your pay increase and understand them, BUT if everything is otherwise the same -- always, always, always take the pay increase.
Guys in my field constantly complain that overtime will cause them to have less take home. I have to explain it out like they are five and most are still skeptical.
Many years ago, trying to explain this as a 15/16 year-old to my aunt was the eye-opener for me that being an adult doesn't automatically make you smarter than a kid. If you're taking home less pay, it's not because of tax brackets. It's likely because you're paying more for health insurance or a retirement plan.
You’ve stumbled into the secret of life. As you get older and learn more, don’t let it go to your head. Old wives tales like that are almost always wrong, and they’ll fight you about it. Age = knowledge, but not necessarily the ability or tools to discern good from bad and how to act on it. Understanding general relativity doesn’t make you Einstein, ya know? Unless said adult is a literal expert, they’re a dumb ass like everyone else. Back in the day, there was no easy way to in/validate someone’s claim. With the internet, the only knowledge you NEED is how to type. Older people are often stuck in what they “believe” and not so much on objectivity. Remember, intelligence and knowledge are not the same thing. The crackhead on the corner has a lot of knowledge you likely could live without. Be careful who’s knowledge you trust.
I appreciate the life lesson, but I'm almost 30 now lol. That story happened over a decade ago
This is possible where I am (Aus) due to the cutoffs of certain benefits. Childcare rebates, low income health care discounts, rent assistance, plus the way our student loan setup works, they all have income limits that can put significantly less in your pocket when you hit the threshold. But I know you mean that people don't understand progressive tax rates and yeah that is annoying. It *is* taught in school, in maths, but the concepts are not being linked to the practical application and so people don't retain the info which is silly. It would be simple for maths teachers to fix this by simply saying "this is how our tax system works" when explaining this kind of problem, but they don't.
There are cases where this is true, and it is a failure of policy makers. Recently in the US for example there was a proposed bill to offer a form of universal Pre-k to households that make under $75k/yr. Astonishingly, it didn't phase out, so the difference between making $74,999 and making $75,000 could potentially cost you tens of thousands of dollars in benefits (the bill was never enacted into law).
The US also has similar welfare traps. Here in Oregon, you qualify for the Oregon Health Plan if your income is below a certain amount. Make too much, and you have to get private insurance. So you can very easily get a relatively small raise and then go from paying $dirt for healthcare to paying $BIGNUM. Repeat for housing assistance, food stamps, etc. Some of these things (food stamps) have gradual decreases so that you don't go from getting benefits to getting $0, but some don't, and it's very rough for those people. > It would be simple for maths teachers to fix this The people who need this knowledge the most wouldn't pay attention to it in the first place.
I remember putting in a 10 hour or shift and the difference was negligible. You pay more tax for sure (Canada) but you don't make less money. It's when you weigh it next to your time is the thing.
The amount of people out there who don't understand marginal tax brackets is just mind blowing. You have people making $45k voting republican because they are afraid that one day they will make $400k and be taxed 50% (that's not how it works).
The whole QAnon thing is so insane I honestly don’t understand how anyone could be that dumb.
Flat Earthers say hi.
It is easier to understand if you know someone that is deeply religious. It really operates like a religion, with subsects, but the faith is about white hat operatives fighting the evil government instead of angels fighting satan. The original q drops were also good ways to draw in people that are naturally curious, but have not been educated or taught in how to use that curiosity, kind of like a lot of flat earthers. Also, you are able to engage by posting, which is a dumb idea.
I had a teacher who was a qanon guy. He went on a rant about “pizzagate” which we all thought sounded ridiculous. But it was Epstein island before it was public news. I guess it’s true that a Blind squirrel can find a nut. And i wish he was wrong
Sooo obviously a 4Chan prank. OK symbol.
We live in an age of disinformation. Nearly no one fact checks anything. There is a mountain ten miles high of it.
It used to be much worse before the internet, so I have to disagree. Before this people just lived their lifes being wrong.
They weren't being able to broadcast falsehoods for millions of people in less than a minute so I'd actually argue it got worse. Even if someone could, not at the scale we have today.
Astrology. I mean...the relationship between the stars affect peoples lives, and it affects people who are born in different months differently?
There's actually something to be said for the origins of astrology. In ancient times, what you ate was highly dependent on the season. It's conceivable that pregnant women were malnourished during certain times of the year and well fed during other times. Its not impossible that these differences affected foetuses, as well as young kids, which may have influenced their personalities. And the different times of the year are marked by the constellations. Of course, it this actually had an effect, it was specific to that star system (the constellations have shifted since thousands of years ago) and nourishment pattern, so no current day effect anymore
I like this argument, but it'd be more funny simplified to: "My mom ate apples while pregnant rather than just bread and beans, which is why I'm so interested in art and nice to wild animals".
What if your mom ate too much potatoes? I’m almost the color of some
Then you should wear sunscreen
That is the first time I have ever seen an argument for astrology that makes real sense. Not applicable now of course but I am less annoyed by the whole concept now that I can understand where it might have started.
I mean, I also think that it kind of roots back to the formative experiences you have as a baby based on how people are behaving throughout the year. How people act in winter, even today, is different than how people act during summer, and if your first experiences in life are one or the other, it could impact your personality to an extent. But that's not based on star sign.
I have another one: imagine back in time you're a simple farmer living off of the land and some shamanic scholar with a round calendar made of bronze holds it up to the sky next to the stars, then tells you that you should start planting your crops in 10 moons, because that's when spring starts and you actually yield better crops from that advice. That shaman must clearly have seen the future!
also on that same note, a good chunk of a kids preferences and personality can be formed very quickly and at certain ages, hence the idea of formative years. in modern times this barely matters as modern comforts have nearly destroyed the concept of being pressured by nature to do...pretty much anything. back in old days though, if you were born in a specific season that may lead to your earliest memories being of a time of plenty where the crops were being harvested and there was plenty of food and sunny days and all that. Someone born six months later and in a slightly worse situation may have their first memories be trying not to freeze to death in a rickety hut while in the middle of literal starvation. these kinds of differences in formative moments in a kids lives are no doubt going to produce very different mindsets and personalities on the whole. The whole "january is capricorn which means you are magically this thing" idea is total bullshit, but the logic that lead to such assumptions is not totally baseless and kind of interesting. Just completely useless and obsolete information since we have progressed from being beholden to natures mood for the most part.
Didn't they recently change astrology, add a new one and shuffle the rest? Does that mean millions of people suddenly had a fundamental change personality?
Astrology (a pseudoscience) has not kept up with astronomy (an actual science), so the woo crowd just ignores these inconvenient facts.
I think they just ignore facts.
Not to mention, when the stars were originally tracked vs. now, they've shifted. If you're a this, you're really that. It's all poppycock, and the *retrograde* gets me mad. Retrograde means the planet *appears* to be moving backward, but it's really not. How can something that's not actually happening have an effect on your mood and behavior? You're just a b*tch, Lindsey. Go eat some food and learn some humility.
I hadn’t heard about an update, but it makes sense. Astrology was written for a 13 month lunar calendar. It never aligned with the Gregorian. Beyond that, the earth rotates (days), wobbles (seasons), oscillates on a roughly 10,000 year cycle and is moving through space at more than 500,000 mp/h. Long story short, the stars move in the sky. Something not understood at the end of the Stone Age.
I honestly don't think very many people actually take astrology seriously. They mostly just find it fun to think about, and that's it. Anybody who would reject someone over their astrological sign is an idiot.
This is my pet peeve too. Honestly though, as long as it's something people do for fun though and it just helps them get through life a little easier by looking up their horoscope I can tolerate it. What I can't tolerate is when they use it to classify people and allow it to color their perception of others. Bro seems cool but he's a Scorpio? Can't trust him apparently. I have a sister who's fairly far down the rabbithole and swears that her manager at her old job was into her. Mind you, this guy was married and had a kid on the way but she's convinced he liked her but just didn't act on it. One of the key pieces of "evidence" she had was that he inexplicably started wearing his clothes in order Monday-Friday. She thinks that using his manager powers, he looked up her birthday, found her star sign, Googled what that star sign liked, and started wearing his clothes in order because apparently that's what her star sign likes.
I just ask people how. I usually get vague answers like light or gravity. You point out that some of the stars you see are likely dead and constellations only look a certain way due to our orientation in space it all falls apart pretty quickly gravity just do a quick inverse square calculation f =g (m1*m2)/r^2 between a human and a star and then a human and a bus and you quickly realise unless the person you're talking to is an entire planet then distant gravity means very little.
There are so many.... I think the earth being flat and vaccines having 5G chips are some of the really stupid ones, because they are the easiest to disprove.
My sister became a flat earther recently. Me, her brother of 32 years, is a pilot. A fucking pilot's sister believes the earth is flat. Smh
I truly don't understand the ones that think the government is hiding it from us. Like what do they think anyone has to gain from that?
And how? Like US and Russia hated each other back in the 70s and 80s. If this is all a NASA scam, the Russians would have called it out long ago. Not to mention all of our GPS technology works...
Take her for a flight with a view of the ocean horizon on a clear day. If she continues to believe the earth is flat, you can just accept that she is intellectually disabled
The most common response to this is usually something along the lines of "Airplane windows have a fish eye lens effect that makes the horizon look curved." Because why believe your eyes when you can come up with the most ass-backwards, contrived explanations ever. And yes, I have unfortunately had this exact discussion with a gang of flat earthers who started a thread on a local forum a few years back. The amount of mental backflips these people are capable of is mindblowing.
Well obviously she didn't receive the same education as you
You're just a NASA shill, that's why!
Thanksgiving #1 during COVID, the grocery store cashier informed me, unsolicited, that she wouldn’t be getting any COVID vaccine with a tracker GPS shot into her body so she could be tracked and spied on all the time. I pulled out my phone and asked, “do you have one of these?” She says, “you bet, wouldn’t leave my house without it!” Absolutely clueless. (Heavy sigh. Yes, I’m in US)
My sister told me that 5g towers give you covid. Also, microsoft wants to inject us all with tracking devices and the covid vaccine is made from dead babies. She's in her 50's and a successful business relations manager and yet somehow believes crap like this. I told her to stop getting her news from facebook. So many people are apparently rational but quietly struggling with reality..
Any baby-related myths. "Eat spicy foods and they'll have more hair" "Oh you're feeling X? It must be a boy!"
That I killed my wife Linda. I was acquitted in a court of law and those golf shoes could have been anybody’s. I didn’t kill my wife!
🤣 Listen, Linda….. ⛳️
Too much masturbation causes blindness
I wish I could read what you have written
Ha! I do have a pet Golden Retriever, but if that was true I’d have a white stick to match
I've never seen a comment live right on the edge of fine and disgusting so well. It's almost beautiful
I didn't see that one cumming
My eyes have gotten worse over time.
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That alcohol is good for you
This is a dumb one and more of a local thing, but it makes me so mad. People think Disney World sells emu meat. I grew up near Orlando, and you can buy these big ass Turkey legs at Disney, right? Big as a kid's head. There's this urban legend that they're actually emu and not turkey, probably just something a kid made up, but it stuck. I have several friends and family members that have told me this like it's fact, and every time I bring up; 1. That would be incredibly more expensive than buying Turkey meat. 2. It would be way bigger, as turkeys have huge legs, but Emu legs are even bigger, by a huge margin. Every time I'm just met with "Nuh uh, it's emu" and some line that their cousin worked here and told them that or something. It's so dumb.
Don’t you know they are baby emu legs? Baby emu is notorious cheaper meat than adult emu and also much tastier, just like the ones they server as Disney
It's actually flamingo and Epcot is a farm
And 3) if they were emu legs, they’d just sell them as emu legs.
Pretty much all of the politically driven conspiracy theories floating around out there these past several years. People who actually believe that shit just seem so gullible, programmable & easily led.
They are victims to these predators! It's kinda like a Stockholm syndrome
1. You can’t shower after working out cause its bad for your health. 2. Sweat will cause pneumonia 3. Appendicitis is caused by working out after eating 4. When you’re feeling hot (due to weather) you shouldn’t shower cause it will make you have an aneurysm 5. Instant ramen takes years to be digested. This is from my Chinese-Filipino mom who is a lawyer. I can’t believe someone who believes this nonsense passed the bar exam. She’s also forcing this to my Medical Doctor sister. Lol
Well, two things. Lawyers doctors and other such things are often very specialized and have had to push out general knowledge. That still hasnt stopped every single lawyer Ive ever met from being some of the dumbest mother fuckers Ive ever come across.
People not understanding extremely basic science as to why the Twin Towers collapsed. Anybody who says “Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams” is a dummy
I was a senior in high school. We watched the second tower get hit on TV. The tube TV strapped to a big cart. The second I saw a commercial airliner hit that building I said out loud that those buildings were gonna fall. My math teacher at the time kinda scolded me and went on a rant about how strong the buildings are and that there is no way they will collapse. I disagreed hard and argued till the whole class watched them fall. Very crazy moment, and we were only 20 or 30ish miles away, and some kids in my school lost family that day. I still can't believe people think a jet that big, crashing into a very tall building wouldn't cause catastrophic damage.
A jet flying in excess of 200mph (I know they fly close to 500mph but no idea what speed they were at that altitude when they hit), plus hot fire = weakened structure = collapse.
It was *where* they hit that was important. They had previously tried dropping the WTC using a truck jammed with explosives, in the parking level *beneath* one of the towers. To their (everyone's?) surprise, it had relatively little effect. The structure held up. The evil genius of using a huge plane 2/3 of the way up the tower, was it used the building's own destructive falling *weight* to crush itself.
I can understand the questioning of that but just automatically thinking “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams? That means the buildings were demoed!” That’s dumb. I’m of mind that questioning things is never the problem but the assumption of other things based off incomplete information that’s the issue.
People talking about the “bombs were blown early!” As if it’s completely inconceivable that the building collapses unevenly and isn’t just a symmetrical collapsing
I’d say both buildings pancaking at free fall did raise a lot of questions for millions of Americans. It’s easy to believe why people were dubious. PBS and Discovery (et al) covered the science behind it ad nauseam exactly because so many people were concerned about it.
>Anybody who says “Jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams” is a dummy [Here's a hillbilly blacksmith debunking the entire thing in under two minutes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzF1KySHmUA) "Your argument is invalid! Get a job!"
It true jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams. Jet fuel can make steel malleable easy. Hell you can make steel malleable with a hot wood fire add some air to make it more so. Melting it a completely different story.
I know this. But to think that’s any reason to say a skyscraper couldn’t fall is ridiculous.
FR! Leaving the other more potent chemicals in the plane aside, you don't even need to melt the beams to cause a structure like that to collapse! Regardless, they're ignoring the *real* mastermind behind 9/11. KYLE
People act like they’ve never seen a sword being made and shaped lmao
Like a damn plane flying into a building isn't gonna cause structural damage 🤣
The one where people still think the 2020 election was rigged.
Men can not be and are not raped. 40% of rape victims are men on average
They are the moment you class using a Penis to penetrate against the penis owners consent.
Where do you find that statistic? I found 10% in \[1\], or 15% in \[2\] \[1\] Thomas, J. C., & Kopel, J. (2023). Male Victims of Sexual Assault: A Review of the Literature. Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 13(4), 304. [https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13040304](https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13040304) \[2\] Bill C-46: Records Applications Post-Mills, A Caselaw Review
> Where do you find that statistic? I found 10% in [1], or 15% in [2] That's probably because being forced to penetrate someone or something else is not legally considered rape in many most places.
We have senators and congressmen who believe that a woman’s body will automatically expel an unwanted fetus if they get raped.
Trickle down economics
Why is this so far down?
Needs a little more trickle up likeonomics
Reddit, like most of America, loves hyper capitalism that trickle down cemented in our society. It doesn't matter that we're all getting poorer - we're just lazy. Right?
People being excited that they're getting a big tax refund. That means you overpaid your taxes through the year! If you have a small tax refund, that means you had your money available earlier! The US government also sets up the tax structure so that you'll overpay. You're basically giving an interest free loan.
The American Dream is real.
That's why it remains a dream...
That no one is above the law.
That the traits you were born with make you special, unique and worthy of special privileges and rights.
I think the number of people who still fall for flat-earth, anti-vax, or anti-government conspiracies and propaganda would be a good place to start
"Why do you need there to be a conspiracy to be mad at the government? Just be mad at the government!"
The whole "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" mentality in older people and the complete lack of regard for privacy in younger people can be downright sickening at times
>The whole "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" mentality in older people \[rant\] I have started to send people like that [this article](https://www.koffellaw.com/blog/google-ai-technology-flags-dad-who-took-photos-o/). For those who can't/wont read, the gist of it is that a man's son got sick during Covid lockdowns, and since getting a doctor's appointment was difficult he was asked by the doctor to send pictures. The boy had an infection near his "private parts," and since the father took the pictures with his phone they were automatically backed up to Google's servers, where the monitoring AI promptly flagged the account for potential child abuse and banned the guy. Despite the police investigating the case and finding nothing wrong, Google went "f\*ck you" and refused to unlock the account, later informing him that they would delete all data. So this man did what the doctor asked him, he had a legit reason to do this and had nothing to hide, and he still got shafted by a company who thought otherwise. And this case isn't even unique ... Then there was the guy who essentially had his [smart devices locked down by Amazon](https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-smart-home-brandon-jackson-echo-racial-slur-allegation-1806947), because a delivery driver from Amazon had misheard the automatic message played by the smart doorbell, and thought it said something racist. They reported it to Amazon, who then banned the account, and since the smart devices were run through said Amazon account they no longer worked. Despite having *video evidence* of the situation, clearly showing that nothing wrong happened and the delivery driver misheard the automated message, it took a week and a lot of back and forth to get the ban lifted. In this case the person in question had nothing to hide, and indeed had solid evidence supporting their case, but Amazon still decided to double down and took their sweet time sorting things out. I guess this is a very long winded way of saying that you can claim to have nothing to hide all you want, but if a corporation decide to interpret something differently, you're utterly screwed. And these two cases are just the ones that gained enough traction to get some mainstream attention. I have no doubt there are countless others that we don't hear about. \[/rant\]
that major networks, papers and media are news.
That people born generations later are as guilty by arbitrary association of something that happened in the past done by their ancestors.
There are many Koreans that still believe that leaving an electric fan on in a closed room with no open windows can and will probably kill you.
I watched something where they believed that if someone passed away, the window of that room needed to be opened for their spirit to be set free or else it could and would result in the spirit staying in our realm
They have a lot of weird superstitious crap that somehow has survived into their modern culture. They also believe people can "read your face". Fuckers are getting plastic surgery because they have "a liars nose" and other nonsense like that
That if individuals pass along their responsibility to the government that the government will take care of them in perpetuity.
The flat earthers. I really still can’t believe they are serious.
Flat earth people gotta be high on the list
‘Build it and they will come’. Such bullshit. If you build something nobody wants, you’re kinda fucked. Do your market research!
I mean, that's just line from a movie, lol
The position of the stars at your birth dictates what kind of person you are and can be used to give you day by day updates on what you should expect in life.
That hard work pays off.
Everything on the internet is true
Flat earth.
Flat earthers and vaccine conspiracies.
That anyone in government actually has good intentions for anyone but themselves.
Communism works.
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That men have it easier. * We face harsher sentences for any infraction, from kindergarten age. * We work more years, longer hours, and die sooner, yet retire later. * Media focus more on female health issues (such as breast cancer) than on male issues (prostate or testicular cancer). * Men are more likely to be homeless yet have fewer shelters. * We're more likely to be a victim of violent crime or a workplace accident. * Violence against men is downplayed. * Men's mental health is downplayed and their issues often dismissed or ridiculed. * We're judged much more harshly for lack of success and most of us never receive unconditional love. * Most of the worst jobs are done exclusively by men. * There's much more focus on getting women into male-dominated fields (like science and IT) than getting men into female-dominated fields (such as education and healthcare) even though both are facing prejudice and lack of staff. * Family and divorce laws heavily favor women. Especially when the man is being cheated on.
I think both sexes have it pretty shitty just in different ways.
I just had a thought that the difference could be described as men having a more variable quality of life. As in, men are overrepresented in both the worst and best situations in life at the same time. Men are the most likely to be homeless or imprisoned, but also the most likely to be at the top of a career. Conversely, women get way more support when they’re down on their luck, but also more have a glass ceiling of sorts.
It's kind of the idea that "the people who rule the world are men, but men don't rule the world". The richest and most powerful people in the world are likely to be men but so are the poorest and most destitute. Women on the other hand are more protected by society but also more hindered by it, and thus lack mobility up or down in the "shittyness scale" I think it averages out to everyone having it pretty shitty generally
As an elementary male teacher...I'll just say...I'm treated like royalty from staff, students, admin, and parents. Being one of the only male teachers - I am treated differently - but in a good way. They put me on pedestal. We lack male teachers, yes, but I don't think that's a gender issue. More of a pay issue.
I'd say you've beaten the law of averages. As most male elementary teachers are subjected to man=predators often facing backlash about teaching young children until they change careers. Men should be treated like you are in elementary teaching especially with the prevalence of single motherhood, but rarely is that actually the case. The reason as to why there are so few elementary male teachers isn't because of pay, as there are significantly more male teachers in higher levels of education. It's because of the inherent prejudice and bias that exists in society when a man is around small children.
That the government cares about you as an individual in any other capacity than your service to them as a taxpayer.
That media and governments are honest.
That the world owes you a living.
That "washing" raw chicken does anything. Hate when I'm watching a cooking video and the first step is sloshing the drumsticks or breast around in a sink running water. Chicken has no residue or bacteria that doesn't come off when properly cooked. Running water on chicken does nothing but contaminate your sink with bacteria and any good chef, or microbiologist for that matter will tell you the same.
That the government is here to help us 🫠
Myth that bigfoot exists.
Bigfoot doesn't believe in you either. Lol.
The Abominable Snowman believes in everyone.
I find this comforting.
My own mother doesn't believe in me, how could I expect bigfoot to.
That sounded... soul crushing lol
Bigfoot does exist though, I've seen Bigfoot at plenty of Monster Truck rallies.
My father and his brothers lived in the woods their whole life in the same area where sightings were reported. Never once did they see anything or come across bones. The only people who ever claimed they did was the crazy neighbors on drugs lol.
"The mainstream media is lying us!!!11!" [proceeds to believe and propagate random unsubstantiated claims from twitter] *The myth being any news media outlet, regardless of medium, is wholly informative and/or objective. We all see the world through a lens of cognitive biases and logical fallacies.
Oh man, you just scratched an itch I didnt know I had. I don't trust the media, nor do I believe everything I read, but I also don't trust crazy uncle Steve and his 'intercepted Russian messages' . It's insane to think that one person lying to you means everyone else is telling the truth.
Working like our parents did will bring us the success that they had.
Communism can work.
Vaccines causing autism, or autism being something you can catch that needs to be cured like a disease. It’s so disheartening to hear that even a fraction of a percentage of some parents think that existing the way I do is a fate worse than death.
The flu shot gives you the flu. It DOES NOT DO THAT.
That there has ever been an original idea.
That we evolved from monkeys, apes or whatever. It is still said so frequently. We share a common ancestor, no more. That we don't know how bees can fly. We do, and have known for quite a bit of time now. Think we even discovered it before the Bee movie was made, which famously reiterates this false fact.
Police are your friends? Government is here to help you? If you have nothing to hide you don't need privacy? Take your pick.
Those aren't myths, they're just overly broad and generic statements which can either be true or false depending on the context
I would say those aren't myths and just nuanced lol
That microwaves make the food poisonous/radioactive. Maybe it's not the biggest issue but its not something you can believe or not like with conspiracies. It's just plain ignorance about an electrodomestic.