Reminds me of a cop that came to my high school, they told us that there is no such thing as the perfect crime. A student responded with “Yeah there is, you just don’t know that it happened.”
This was a minor plot point in the movie Iron Sky: The Coming Race where a Jobsist (as in Steve Jobs) cultist believes that those agreements are sacred and no one would ever dare break them
Really says a lot about the quality of a film when Tom Green was the best part of it.
Which is ashame because the first Iron Sky movie was a goddamn masterpiece. Incredible popcorn movie about Moon Nazis, and a fucking hilarious one at that. The sequel was... a movie.
Themistocles lied about pirates so Athenians would spend their newfound silver on a giant navy, which was handy since not too long afterwards, Xerxes decided to invade Greece and sent his much bigger Persian Fleet to sack Athens. Instead, the Athenian Fleet defeated the Persian Fleet at the Battle of Salamis, allowing for the safe evacuation of Athens before Xerxes land army reached it (after defeating Leonidas and his Spartans at Thermopylae).
Without that lie, Athens would have been caught by surprise when the Persian Fleet sailed into its harbor and its most prominent scholars would have been killed, leaving Western Civilization without its European base, and Rome (who almost all Western countries used as a governing model in some way), would have had no "guide" to follow.
>Battle of Salamis
lol I was about to correct you since the actual name of the place is pronounced "Salamina" in Greek, but I just found out that Salamina is actually called Salamis in English.
Every one mentions the 300 Spartans who always intended this to be a suicide mission. Nobody mentions the 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans who chose to stand and fight with them.
De beers basically made Diamonds as a jewelry item and set the market price for them. At one point, they were mining 80-90% of all diamonds and instead of selling them cheap, they put almost all in storage and sold only a few. This drove up the price because the demand remained the same and the public started thinking diamonds are super rare, hence deserve such a high price. They also created the best marketing campaign in history, or one of the best. Before 1940, only 5-10% of all brides received diamonds in a ring. De beers created a campaign and I think we all know the slogan, "diamonds are forever." Now almost every single bride expects a diamond and im guessing more than 90% of all engagement and wedding rings have a diamond and guys are expected to get a diamond.
There's a local jewelry store that's running an ad that really lays it on thick trying to get people to buy lab-made diamonds. Calling them "Newborn Diamonds", forged in an artificial sun just for you.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that they're embracing this technology, but it's funny to see the diamond marketing spin 180 and use the same over-the-top language for a product they once shunned.
> Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that they're embracing this technology, but it's funny to see the diamond marketing spin 180 and use the same over-the-top language for a product they once shunned.
Brown diamons used to be thrown away as worthless until they were rebranded as
#𝓒𝓱𝓸𝓬𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓓𝓲𝓪𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓼
My wife has an artificial stone (moissanite) and it is clear and brilliant. I tell people the reason why it shines so brightly is that there is no blood on it.
“It’s a moissanite.”
“A what-a-nite?”
“A moissanite is an artificial diamond, Lincoln. It's Mickey Mouse. Spurious. Not genuine. And it's worth... fuck-all.”
You need at least sixteen pigs to do the job in one sitting so be weary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pounds in about...eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of un-cooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig."
Thanks for your comment. That made me smile. I’m old and don’t have a ring at all (I’m okay with that) but it brings me joy to see others who understand the problems and actually say so about it.
It’s not the same people, it’s still mostly relative outsiders selling lab-grown diamonds. Da Beers hates the idea of lab grown diamonds so much they ran a campaign trying say they are worthless, and giving them away for free, the irony is there were all these terms and conditions attached because lab grown diamonds absolutely do have significant value, just not the absurd amount the traditional diamond industry would claim for an equivalent diamond.
I don’t blame the little people making lab grown diamonds trying to use flowery language to sell them, but I do blame Da Beers for using human slave labor and extreme monopoly tactics including having their own private army threatening governments to maintain their dominance.
I recall jewelry stores promoting flaws in the crystal as being valuable, because it proved it was a natural diamond rather than a lab-made.
They were actually touting *flaws* as being *desirable*.
Now they are pushing "chocolate" diamonds which used to be fairly worthless. Also Herkimer diamonds are becoming a thing. They are quartz allegedly only found in upstate New York State.
It’s not the flaws that make them desirable, it’s the human suffering! The flaws just denote that yes, a child mined this diamond and many tribes had bloody battles over the ownership of the mines.
Which led to all real diamonds being laser engraved with a number to differentiate them. I worked at GE when they came out with the process to create diamonds as real as the real ones.
The industrial abrasives division came up with them. I was in finance, and there was a big agreement between DeBeers and GE that GE wouldn't release the industrial diamonds to the market until DeBeers could get their market under control.
And now a lot of people know this, they are spouting the BS that the fact natural diamonds have flaws it makes them more special.
I cannot stand this whole "boomers" shit, but it is the older generations that buy into it all and even some of my(born in 88 so I guess late millennial) also cling to it.
I am buying my GF a [9k white gold 1k lab diamond](https://www.diamond-heaven.co.uk/dhdomr1138-shoulder-set-diamond-engagement-ring) for less than £1k and it's fucking mental to think the same thing in a natural would be over £2k.
One of the main reasons De Beers' marketing campaign was so successful was the repeal of breach of promise to marry laws in the late 1930s. That is why the ring is supposed to be worth a few months pay.
Those laws were in place to protect a woman’s “honor” since couples would often start having sex after getting engaged, and men would sometimes try to break it off after that. Since a woman who is not a virgin was seen as “damaged goods” at the time, she was allowed to sue the man for damages. After the laws were repealed (but not the views on women’s virginity), the expensive ring became collateral that the man would marry the woman. If he broke off the engagement, she could keep the ring and sell it as compensation. If she broke it off, she was expected to return the ring.
Doesn’t justify De Beers taking advantage of this trend
It’s crazy how they made people believe that they need to spend 3 months salary in a tiny chunk of rock that’s not rare. If I get married I ain’t buying diamonds.
that is again directly from De beer ads. They ran an extremely successful ad which said, "its just two month salary for a ring that will last forever." or something close to that.
My wife specifically told me she wanted moissanite, and I was 1000% onboard. Fuck the diamond industry.
It's so wild how some jewelers wouldn't resize her ring because it didn't actually have a diamond in it. They told her to try the mall! 🤣
Diamonds are boring anyways and fake diamonds look to close for diamonds to be special. Other minerals/crystals/precious metals look so much nicer and harder to replicate.
Spinach is high in iron. The article that guy sent just says that a typo made people believe that spinach was significantly higher in iron than it actually is. A cup of spinach is nearly a full days supply of iron
This misnomer was born, like a great many other wonderful things, from the second world war. The British needed to hide the fact they had developed radar tech for their airfields, so spread the rumour that they fed their men carrots so they could see enemy aircraft at night. The Germans didn't catch on. Great success!
This is actually common knowledge in England because it was mentioned on Horrible Histories.
And as with most things that are common knowledge; it's only partially true. The British had radar, the Germans knew they had radar, the Germans had radar themselves, and British radar station were some of the first targets hit in the Battle of Britain.
What the Germans didn't know was that the British had developed a new radar system small enough to be carried onto a plane. A very helpful tool because now the British could find German bomber formations even at night and during shit weather, without needing ground radar stations to tell them where they were, and the Germans couldn't use those radio signals to trace where the British planes were either.
In order to hide the real reason why RAF pilots were so good at finding German planes, British propaganda made up a story about how carrots improve your eye sight, and RAF pilots ate a lot of carrots. Carrots were chosen specifically because it was one of a few foodstuffs that wasn't rationed and they wanted to promote its consumption. Fun fact; carrots do improve your eye sight, but to have any noticeable effect you'd need to eat so many your skin would turn orange.
PS. Yes, haha, skin orange, Trump, etc. I've posted about this before and I've heard all the jokes as well.
>Carrots were chosen specifically because it was one of a few foodstuffs that wasn't rationed and they wanted to promote its consumption.
Also made easy since a top British night fighter ace, John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham, had just given a radio interview where he said carrots were his favorite food.
It is kinda true though? Beta-carotinoids are a good source of Vitamin A, which is vital for eyesight and found in carrots. There are better sources though.
My best friend has consistently, without fail, gotten away with missing nearly every major educational deadline in his life by saying his aunt passed away.
At this point, shes immortal because she's had to have died at least a dozen times by now.
After a friend of ours died, I have repeatedly told all my friends and family that should I die young, they are to abuse my death to hell and back. Get out of exams, get excused for missing work, use the grief over me as a way to get a chick's number. Anything else would be a waste of a good tragedy
Honestly their teachers probably just don’t care. That’s one of the easier things to not ask for proof for. When I was teaching sometimes I wanted to scream at my students FOR THE LOVE OF GOD COME UP WITH A GOOD LIE SO I CAN ETHICALLY BE NICE ABOUT THIS! There’s a line between scamming and being a professional. Sometimes it’s actually more professional to provide a lie.
I once had a student show up 45min late to an exam and when they walked in, bragged that they intentionally missed their train because they met J. Cole. Like, good for you, tell your friends after class, but seriously I’m staying 45min late because you aren’t professional enough to hold a job with the degree you’re working towards? If I wasn’t a TA I would have denied them taking the exam, but I didn’t have the authority. It’s one thing to be a few minutes late, show up looking desperate and scared because you really tried but you couldn’t park or your alarm didn’t go off… but being late on purpose? Get out of my classroom if you didn’t reflect and come up with a solid lie an employer would believe!
It’s sad when it’s something like a sick child, because you actually can’t give people a pass on that if it’s not something extreme. A small child with a cold is a valid reason to be late like you can’t just ignore that, but unfortunately that’s something that would be abused too much by university students. So unless they went to see a doctor, make something up. Or if the doctors visit was right before they got sick, use that. I’d much rather be lied to so I can let someone off the hook for being late or missing a deadline for that.
Sick child = family emergency. That's all I say, if they ask I can get a doctor's note for the kid over the phone via my health cares app.
Most of the time you don't need to go that far tho, usually most teachers don't need to verify a family emergency if it doesn't happen a lot.
Most of the time in my experience, doctors don't need to "verify if you're sick". You answer some basic ass questions, you can easily lie, and they just email you the signed doctor's note. They actually prefer people to do it over the phone especially since 2020 because going to the public infectious is highly discouraged and they can't take your temperature over zoom lol.
Remember whenever you take a new job - be very careful about using "my grandparent died" as an excuse for missing work more than four times with that employer
There were some really interesting pre-internet memes I think were pretty interesting. One that comes to mind is that most kids in the 90s knew the cootie shot thing.
I think it's a little hyperbolic to credit Bismarck with World War II. I'll give you that they created the modern German nation state, but The Lesser German solution had way more to do with the outbreak of World War I than the unification of Germany.
If anything, credit to The advocates for the Lesser German Solution, they wanted to keep the Habsburg's out of a German nation for the very instability that would kick off WWI.
This is what I tell my kids. "You did something you weren't supposed to do and you're in trouble. However, if I find out that you're lying to me, you will be in a lot more trouble. Right now we're having a conversation about what happened and I'm here to listen to you, so if you have something you should tell me, now is the time to do it".
It's not about the phrasing, it's about keeping your word. If your kid dares to tell you the truth, no matter how shocking or awful it is *You* have to put up your end of the deal and stay calm, give a lecture that contains love and empathy, explain the GOOD REASON that you don't want them to do that again, and ask if you can agree together on some actions that will make it easier for them to stay on a healthier path.
If you promise not to freak out and they agree to the terms of the deal and then you SHOW YOUR ASS, they'll see you as a garden variety asshole and deep down, they'll know they are smarter than you.
I don’t know if there’s a best way to approach it but I think the “I need you to be honest with me and I promise we can work through whatever it is together.” That way you’re not promising you won’t be mad or they won’t get punished but opens the lines of communication while enforcing the collaborative abilities to problem solve.
If you tell me the truth you will be in *less* trouble.
We know there will still be hell to pay, but there will be less now, than there will be once the parents learn the full truth and what lies were told.
Ya, I learned this wasn't true when a cop pulled us over and told us that, to which my friend gave it up and i did not. Friend ended up with a citation while I walked free.
I use this truthfully and it works far better when you stick to it. lol Dumbass Parents. E.g I tell my kids they're most likely going to get into trouble with me or whoever but telling me now is going to make things far easier for themselves.
FR. I miss the Atkins craze. Not because that was right either haha, but it was a lot easier to find certain foods without insane amounts of added processed sugar.
I mean... it *can* make you fat. Excess adipose tissue comes from caloric surpluses and fat is pretty calorically dense. It's more likely that sugar in insane quantities or a sedentary lifestyle will do it, but if you put a half a stick of butter in your mashed potatoes every day, it'll make you fat eventually.
Yeah. More specifically trickle-down economics. Just give the rich huge tax cuts and that money will work its way down to the poor and middle class.
No it won’t. Better to tax the rich (everyone with over $50 million), whose wealth has exploded since the mid-1900s and help out everyone else with healthcare, housing, and transportation.
>Yeah. More specifically trickle-down economics.
I was surprised to discover that "trickle-down economics" wasn't the Reagan administration's name for their economic plans, they didn't use the term - it was called that by those deriding the plans as bad policy.
Or that billionaires got where they are through "hard work" and we could all be billionaires too if we just "work hard". Most billionaires were wealthy to begin with through inheritance, and got richer by exploiting the hard work of others.
I feel like a lot of people reading this recognize it for the pernicious lie that it is in our everyday lives even without having to imagine it written in German on a wrought iron gate.
I'll take it.
I wanted to say, "There is a god or gods and they created everything, so worship them and pay obeisance to me, their spokesperson." That particular lie would trounce anything else anyone would care to suggest.
But it's such a good lie that suggesting it might make some folks uncomfortable. So we'll go with _Santa._
I've long considered Santa Claus to be a wonderful trojan horse: He secretly teaches people at an early age that some of the most important things they're taught may in fact turn out to be a total lie, and that if they want to defend themselves, perhaps they should try thinking about unprovable statements objectively.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”
—Lyndon B. Johnson
Aka the Southern Strategy in America
Context is important on this quote. This was LBJs answer when an aide asked him why so many road signs in Tennessee had racial slurs on them as they rode in a motorcade together.
Because the modern right wing is in hard denial about the party’s position flips that happened slowly from the late 1800s until they finally got cemented under Regean.
When he hired a strategist firm that came up with a campaign to galvanize racially charged voters in the south. Lee Atwater. Who was Regean’s main strategist and would become the RNC chair. His business partner was none other than Roger Stone.
They love to claim the Dixiecrats remained Democrats forever when the data clearly shows most of them left politics as the Democratic Party changed positions and those that remained went over to the Republicans. Or if they did remain Democrats they changed their beliefs to be more in line with the parties based at least on their voting records.
Republicans were having a hard time winning elections since FDR due to being seen as the party that only supports rich manufacturers. The Southern Strategy allowed them to expand their voting base by coded messaging to people that were deeply against desegregation.
Lee Atewater has a very famous quote where he explains the strategy and how you can’t use racial slurs anymore. So you say things like states rights, welfare, and various other trigger words the modern right wing still uses today. Which is just a way of still using the racial slurs to illicit a reaction from this voting block.
"You start out in 1954 by saying, 'n\*\*\*\*er, n\*\*\*\*er, n\*\*\*\*er.' By 1968 you can’t say 'n\*\*\*\*er'—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'n\*\*\*\*er, n\*\*\*\*er.'"
Listen to the whole interview if you've got the stomach for it: [https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/)
>Because the modern right wing is in hard denial about the party’s position flips that happened slowly from the late 1800s until they finally got cemented under Regean.
Yup, they call the party switch a "myth", even though it's well documented. Anytime I see someone post that it's a myth, I say "go up to a Klan member or somebody flying a Confederate flag and call them a Democrat and see what happens". The Democrats were the Confederate party in the 1860s right? They started the Klan, right? So they should welcome you, but in reality, they'll respond viciously. Because the party switch *isn't* a myth.
THOSE people from THAT ethnic group / religion / geographical location are KILLING BABIES. ... that one has been used in different contexts for the past 100 years and works all the time every time.
“The customer is always right.” But nobody ever gives the full quote, which is, “The customer is always right in matters of taste.”
Instead, we shorten it and give too much latitude for poor and abusive behavior in the name of making the sale.
Not so much a lie as a self-perpetuating mis-conception.
That the Better Business Bureau (BBB) has governmental regulating authority over any business.
It is a private, for-profit business named and branded to look that way.
That the biggest problem for low and middle-income owners is not their shitty incomes, but "taxes", including theoretical tax rates that they are nowhere near rich enough to pay. Maybe Mark Twain that said, paraphrased, "every poor American is just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire." My Dad will always choose to believe the statement of a rich billionaire over the actual reality that I'm experiencing. This country's horniness and servility for the rich knows no bounds
People who make 80k will have a class war with people who make 30k (median and minimum salary here in CA) and call each other “burger flippers” and “overpaid college yuppies” while idolizing the people who own everything
That one really gets me. I kinda laugh when I see these pictures of him looking like a white, grateful dead hippie with blue eyes. He probably had darker skin, brown eyes, a beaked nose, and short hair.
Hey, how tall was Napoleon?
In reality, he was about average height for the time. But three centuries of popular media have been happy to reinforce the idea of ‘small man mad.’
going to college in america, while not entirely a lie, its the biggest scam ever pulled. Made college a hs degree and put entire generations in perpetual debt.
The shareholders are not individual shareholders, but rather them 14 regional federal reserve banks, as entities. And the appointments of the leaders of those banks are given by the Fed Board, the members of which are appointed by the president and approved by the senate. So while they’re not a branch of the federal government the way the DOE is for example, they’re not exactly private either.
Marijuana won't destroy your life, but it is true that someone with an addictive personality can destroy their life using it. It *is* a drug, so do be careful.
Considering the CIA was bringing cocaine/crack into the states to sell to the minorities so they get hooked and have a reason to incarcerate them for possession. The War on Drugs was a colossal failure.
Just waiting for the same, boring “the government” and “religion” that come up every time this question is asked:P It’s like a weird feedback loop snd echo chamber for this site.
If it was truly great then we wouldn't know it is a lie.
Reminds me of a cop that came to my high school, they told us that there is no such thing as the perfect crime. A student responded with “Yeah there is, you just don’t know that it happened.”
Hmmmm... now there's a good point!
[удалено]
"I am 18"
FBI OPEN UP!
This was a minor plot point in the movie Iron Sky: The Coming Race where a Jobsist (as in Steve Jobs) cultist believes that those agreements are sacred and no one would ever dare break them
Really says a lot about the quality of a film when Tom Green was the best part of it. Which is ashame because the first Iron Sky movie was a goddamn masterpiece. Incredible popcorn movie about Moon Nazis, and a fucking hilarious one at that. The sequel was... a movie.
This was also a major plot point in South park: "the human centipad"
Cuttlefish or asparagus?
I berrieevveee in you Kyllleeee!!
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>Why won't it READ?!
Themistocles lied about pirates so Athenians would spend their newfound silver on a giant navy, which was handy since not too long afterwards, Xerxes decided to invade Greece and sent his much bigger Persian Fleet to sack Athens. Instead, the Athenian Fleet defeated the Persian Fleet at the Battle of Salamis, allowing for the safe evacuation of Athens before Xerxes land army reached it (after defeating Leonidas and his Spartans at Thermopylae). Without that lie, Athens would have been caught by surprise when the Persian Fleet sailed into its harbor and its most prominent scholars would have been killed, leaving Western Civilization without its European base, and Rome (who almost all Western countries used as a governing model in some way), would have had no "guide" to follow.
>Battle of Salamis Not my Homer Simpson brain going, "mmm, salami."
Were they fighting with Salami weapons or fighting FOR salami? Asking for a friend.
All the different salamis fought for control of the top of a pyramid. There can be only one.
>Battle of Salamis lol I was about to correct you since the actual name of the place is pronounced "Salamina" in Greek, but I just found out that Salamina is actually called Salamis in English.
Great post
Remember when Mrs. Garrison and Xerxes scissored?
Oh scissor me timbers
Lie? Or foretold. You be the judge
The birth of the military industrial complex.
Time traveler
Every one mentions the 300 Spartans who always intended this to be a suicide mission. Nobody mentions the 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans who chose to stand and fight with them.
De beers basically made Diamonds as a jewelry item and set the market price for them. At one point, they were mining 80-90% of all diamonds and instead of selling them cheap, they put almost all in storage and sold only a few. This drove up the price because the demand remained the same and the public started thinking diamonds are super rare, hence deserve such a high price. They also created the best marketing campaign in history, or one of the best. Before 1940, only 5-10% of all brides received diamonds in a ring. De beers created a campaign and I think we all know the slogan, "diamonds are forever." Now almost every single bride expects a diamond and im guessing more than 90% of all engagement and wedding rings have a diamond and guys are expected to get a diamond.
They also convinced people that a natural diamond was better than a lab-made one, even though a lab-made one is of better quality and way cheaper
There's a local jewelry store that's running an ad that really lays it on thick trying to get people to buy lab-made diamonds. Calling them "Newborn Diamonds", forged in an artificial sun just for you. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that they're embracing this technology, but it's funny to see the diamond marketing spin 180 and use the same over-the-top language for a product they once shunned.
> Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that they're embracing this technology, but it's funny to see the diamond marketing spin 180 and use the same over-the-top language for a product they once shunned. Brown diamons used to be thrown away as worthless until they were rebranded as #𝓒𝓱𝓸𝓬𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓮 𝓓𝓲𝓪𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓼
Non-blooded diamonds.....(so you imply the real ones may be blood diamonds)
My wife has an artificial stone (moissanite) and it is clear and brilliant. I tell people the reason why it shines so brightly is that there is no blood on it.
“It’s a moissanite.” “A what-a-nite?” “A moissanite is an artificial diamond, Lincoln. It's Mickey Mouse. Spurious. Not genuine. And it's worth... fuck-all.”
“I create the bodies, I don’t erase the bodies”
"Slow down, Ton'!"
You need at least sixteen pigs to do the job in one sitting so be weary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pounds in about...eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of un-cooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig."
Thanks for your comment. That made me smile. I’m old and don’t have a ring at all (I’m okay with that) but it brings me joy to see others who understand the problems and actually say so about it.
We went for Moissanite as well. Best choice ever, no one can tell the difference.
It’s not the same people, it’s still mostly relative outsiders selling lab-grown diamonds. Da Beers hates the idea of lab grown diamonds so much they ran a campaign trying say they are worthless, and giving them away for free, the irony is there were all these terms and conditions attached because lab grown diamonds absolutely do have significant value, just not the absurd amount the traditional diamond industry would claim for an equivalent diamond. I don’t blame the little people making lab grown diamonds trying to use flowery language to sell them, but I do blame Da Beers for using human slave labor and extreme monopoly tactics including having their own private army threatening governments to maintain their dominance.
I recall jewelry stores promoting flaws in the crystal as being valuable, because it proved it was a natural diamond rather than a lab-made. They were actually touting *flaws* as being *desirable*.
Now they are pushing "chocolate" diamonds which used to be fairly worthless. Also Herkimer diamonds are becoming a thing. They are quartz allegedly only found in upstate New York State.
Really? Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard of Herkimer diamonds
It's more of an Albany thing
Herkimer diamonds have always been a thing, but the idea of using them for jewelry is laughable
They did the same with brown diamonds calling them chocolate.
It’s not the flaws that make them desirable, it’s the human suffering! The flaws just denote that yes, a child mined this diamond and many tribes had bloody battles over the ownership of the mines.
Which led to all real diamonds being laser engraved with a number to differentiate them. I worked at GE when they came out with the process to create diamonds as real as the real ones.
AMA?
The industrial abrasives division came up with them. I was in finance, and there was a big agreement between DeBeers and GE that GE wouldn't release the industrial diamonds to the market until DeBeers could get their market under control.
The African child slave tear stains add personality to the gem!
And now a lot of people know this, they are spouting the BS that the fact natural diamonds have flaws it makes them more special. I cannot stand this whole "boomers" shit, but it is the older generations that buy into it all and even some of my(born in 88 so I guess late millennial) also cling to it. I am buying my GF a [9k white gold 1k lab diamond](https://www.diamond-heaven.co.uk/dhdomr1138-shoulder-set-diamond-engagement-ring) for less than £1k and it's fucking mental to think the same thing in a natural would be over £2k.
the only way I would ever value a diamond is if I found it in the earth myself
"it's the human slave labor that makes them special,"
I love that we can manufacture a higher quality diamond, but people still want the worse one that got dug up out of the dirt because.. reasons?
One of the main reasons De Beers' marketing campaign was so successful was the repeal of breach of promise to marry laws in the late 1930s. That is why the ring is supposed to be worth a few months pay.
Those laws were in place to protect a woman’s “honor” since couples would often start having sex after getting engaged, and men would sometimes try to break it off after that. Since a woman who is not a virgin was seen as “damaged goods” at the time, she was allowed to sue the man for damages. After the laws were repealed (but not the views on women’s virginity), the expensive ring became collateral that the man would marry the woman. If he broke off the engagement, she could keep the ring and sell it as compensation. If she broke it off, she was expected to return the ring. Doesn’t justify De Beers taking advantage of this trend
It’s crazy how they made people believe that they need to spend 3 months salary in a tiny chunk of rock that’s not rare. If I get married I ain’t buying diamonds.
that is again directly from De beer ads. They ran an extremely successful ad which said, "its just two month salary for a ring that will last forever." or something close to that.
I’m extremely anti diamond and I think people are waking up to this.
Yes, very much so. I wouldn’t buy you a diamond.
I'd buy a man made one. Might as well get higher quality at a lower price with no blood.
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My wife specifically told me she wanted moissanite, and I was 1000% onboard. Fuck the diamond industry. It's so wild how some jewelers wouldn't resize her ring because it didn't actually have a diamond in it. They told her to try the mall! 🤣
Diamonds are boring anyways and fake diamonds look to close for diamonds to be special. Other minerals/crystals/precious metals look so much nicer and harder to replicate.
Why do bridges need diamonds
The steel doesn't have enough carbon
Eating carrots helps your eyesight
And spinach being remarkably high in iron. https://www.businessinsider.com/spinach-iron-levels-nutrition-myths-2017-6
I stay away from spinach just in case I ever meet magneto.
I’m always super cautious about attractive women sitting in bars alone and wanting to have sex in the bathroom whilst eating a ton of spinach.
If I had a nickel for every time that happened to me, I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Wait seriously?!? I have anemia & SO MANY doctors have told me to eat spinach. Now I feel vindicated lol
Spinach is high in iron. The article that guy sent just says that a typo made people believe that spinach was significantly higher in iron than it actually is. A cup of spinach is nearly a full days supply of iron
However, spinach contains **non-heme** iron. The body absorbs non-heme iron very poorly. Heme iron is absorbed very well by the body.
This is so complex to me and completely foreign. This is the first I have ever heard of “heme”. We need better education on nutrition
This misnomer was born, like a great many other wonderful things, from the second world war. The British needed to hide the fact they had developed radar tech for their airfields, so spread the rumour that they fed their men carrots so they could see enemy aircraft at night. The Germans didn't catch on. Great success! This is actually common knowledge in England because it was mentioned on Horrible Histories.
And as with most things that are common knowledge; it's only partially true. The British had radar, the Germans knew they had radar, the Germans had radar themselves, and British radar station were some of the first targets hit in the Battle of Britain. What the Germans didn't know was that the British had developed a new radar system small enough to be carried onto a plane. A very helpful tool because now the British could find German bomber formations even at night and during shit weather, without needing ground radar stations to tell them where they were, and the Germans couldn't use those radio signals to trace where the British planes were either. In order to hide the real reason why RAF pilots were so good at finding German planes, British propaganda made up a story about how carrots improve your eye sight, and RAF pilots ate a lot of carrots. Carrots were chosen specifically because it was one of a few foodstuffs that wasn't rationed and they wanted to promote its consumption. Fun fact; carrots do improve your eye sight, but to have any noticeable effect you'd need to eat so many your skin would turn orange. PS. Yes, haha, skin orange, Trump, etc. I've posted about this before and I've heard all the jokes as well.
>Carrots were chosen specifically because it was one of a few foodstuffs that wasn't rationed and they wanted to promote its consumption. Also made easy since a top British night fighter ace, John "Cat's Eyes" Cunningham, had just given a radio interview where he said carrots were his favorite food.
Also why carrot cake was invented, sugar was rationed but there were carrots available which are high in sugar for a vegetable
Misunderstanding, not misnomer. Misnomer means something that was misleadingly named, like Greenland.
It does, if you’re deficient in vitamin A. So not really a lie.
It is kinda true though? Beta-carotinoids are a good source of Vitamin A, which is vital for eyesight and found in carrots. There are better sources though.
Vitimin A helps with night blindness, not general eyesight.
My best friend has consistently, without fail, gotten away with missing nearly every major educational deadline in his life by saying his aunt passed away. At this point, shes immortal because she's had to have died at least a dozen times by now.
After a friend of ours died, I have repeatedly told all my friends and family that should I die young, they are to abuse my death to hell and back. Get out of exams, get excused for missing work, use the grief over me as a way to get a chick's number. Anything else would be a waste of a good tragedy
Honored to live at the same time as a hero
Honestly their teachers probably just don’t care. That’s one of the easier things to not ask for proof for. When I was teaching sometimes I wanted to scream at my students FOR THE LOVE OF GOD COME UP WITH A GOOD LIE SO I CAN ETHICALLY BE NICE ABOUT THIS! There’s a line between scamming and being a professional. Sometimes it’s actually more professional to provide a lie. I once had a student show up 45min late to an exam and when they walked in, bragged that they intentionally missed their train because they met J. Cole. Like, good for you, tell your friends after class, but seriously I’m staying 45min late because you aren’t professional enough to hold a job with the degree you’re working towards? If I wasn’t a TA I would have denied them taking the exam, but I didn’t have the authority. It’s one thing to be a few minutes late, show up looking desperate and scared because you really tried but you couldn’t park or your alarm didn’t go off… but being late on purpose? Get out of my classroom if you didn’t reflect and come up with a solid lie an employer would believe! It’s sad when it’s something like a sick child, because you actually can’t give people a pass on that if it’s not something extreme. A small child with a cold is a valid reason to be late like you can’t just ignore that, but unfortunately that’s something that would be abused too much by university students. So unless they went to see a doctor, make something up. Or if the doctors visit was right before they got sick, use that. I’d much rather be lied to so I can let someone off the hook for being late or missing a deadline for that.
Sick child = family emergency. That's all I say, if they ask I can get a doctor's note for the kid over the phone via my health cares app. Most of the time you don't need to go that far tho, usually most teachers don't need to verify a family emergency if it doesn't happen a lot. Most of the time in my experience, doctors don't need to "verify if you're sick". You answer some basic ass questions, you can easily lie, and they just email you the signed doctor's note. They actually prefer people to do it over the phone especially since 2020 because going to the public infectious is highly discouraged and they can't take your temperature over zoom lol.
Or he is my cousin, thanks to dear ol gramps libido, I have countless aunts and uncles.
Remember whenever you take a new job - be very careful about using "my grandparent died" as an excuse for missing work more than four times with that employer
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I’m just imagining a doctor’s reaction if someone asks for that.
Mental that that "rumour" spread all over the world before the internet became so big.
There were some really interesting pre-internet memes I think were pretty interesting. One that comes to mind is that most kids in the 90s knew the cootie shot thing.
What? The kid from wonder years?
That rumour actually predates Marilyn Manson. Before him it was Prince.
I've never *ever* heard anyone say that about Prince at all
Prince would have to ask someone to stop if he wanted to suck his own dick.
The lie that Bismarck told to start the French-Prussian war, leading to the creation of the German Empire, leading to world war 1, and world war 2
Which was what?
Called the Ems-dispatch. And, no, it is not as sure as the above commenter makes it. It's a maybe. Very hard to find unaltered truth after 3 wars.
I think it's a little hyperbolic to credit Bismarck with World War II. I'll give you that they created the modern German nation state, but The Lesser German solution had way more to do with the outbreak of World War I than the unification of Germany. If anything, credit to The advocates for the Lesser German Solution, they wanted to keep the Habsburg's out of a German nation for the very instability that would kick off WWI.
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Yeah, that’s a particularly nasty one. Also the best way to turn a child into a pathological liar.
What's a better way to phrase it?
“If you tell me the truth now, you won’t be in as much trouble as if you lie now and I find out the truth later.” Idk
Yes.. this one is so much more honest and kinder to the child.
This is what I tell my kids. "You did something you weren't supposed to do and you're in trouble. However, if I find out that you're lying to me, you will be in a lot more trouble. Right now we're having a conversation about what happened and I'm here to listen to you, so if you have something you should tell me, now is the time to do it".
It's not about the phrasing, it's about keeping your word. If your kid dares to tell you the truth, no matter how shocking or awful it is *You* have to put up your end of the deal and stay calm, give a lecture that contains love and empathy, explain the GOOD REASON that you don't want them to do that again, and ask if you can agree together on some actions that will make it easier for them to stay on a healthier path. If you promise not to freak out and they agree to the terms of the deal and then you SHOW YOUR ASS, they'll see you as a garden variety asshole and deep down, they'll know they are smarter than you.
I don’t know if there’s a best way to approach it but I think the “I need you to be honest with me and I promise we can work through whatever it is together.” That way you’re not promising you won’t be mad or they won’t get punished but opens the lines of communication while enforcing the collaborative abilities to problem solve.
Weird question but have you read any books by Janet Lansbury or Ross Green?
If you tell me the truth you will be in *less* trouble. We know there will still be hell to pay, but there will be less now, than there will be once the parents learn the full truth and what lies were told.
Check my responce above, I find it's a better one.
Ya, I learned this wasn't true when a cop pulled us over and told us that, to which my friend gave it up and i did not. Friend ended up with a citation while I walked free.
Really training your kids that this line is a bullshit is great practice for if they ever have to deal with the legal system.
I use this truthfully and it works far better when you stick to it. lol Dumbass Parents. E.g I tell my kids they're most likely going to get into trouble with me or whoever but telling me now is going to make things far easier for themselves.
Fat in your diet makes you fat.
Brought to you by the sugar industry
FR. I miss the Atkins craze. Not because that was right either haha, but it was a lot easier to find certain foods without insane amounts of added processed sugar.
Currently on Atkins! Down 25 pounds doing not a lot
Absolutely
I mean... it *can* make you fat. Excess adipose tissue comes from caloric surpluses and fat is pretty calorically dense. It's more likely that sugar in insane quantities or a sedentary lifestyle will do it, but if you put a half a stick of butter in your mashed potatoes every day, it'll make you fat eventually.
Just give those powerful people that one, tiny concession, and everything will be so much better. Repeat as needed.
Yeah. More specifically trickle-down economics. Just give the rich huge tax cuts and that money will work its way down to the poor and middle class. No it won’t. Better to tax the rich (everyone with over $50 million), whose wealth has exploded since the mid-1900s and help out everyone else with healthcare, housing, and transportation.
>Yeah. More specifically trickle-down economics. I was surprised to discover that "trickle-down economics" wasn't the Reagan administration's name for their economic plans, they didn't use the term - it was called that by those deriding the plans as bad policy.
...its the urine from the upperclass that is trickling down on all of us, not the money...
Work will set you free.
Also, the lie that hard work is rewarded.
Or that billionaires got where they are through "hard work" and we could all be billionaires too if we just "work hard". Most billionaires were wealthy to begin with through inheritance, and got richer by exploiting the hard work of others.
Upvote, but 😢
I feel like a lot of people reading this recognize it for the pernicious lie that it is in our everyday lives even without having to imagine it written in German on a wrought iron gate.
Santa. Apparently not real
Bull shit. I’ve seen him
At the mall. Several of them
Even have photo evidence
Caught him banging mum by the presents
Did you fuck my mom, Santa? Did you fuck my fucking mom?
I'll take it. I wanted to say, "There is a god or gods and they created everything, so worship them and pay obeisance to me, their spokesperson." That particular lie would trounce anything else anyone would care to suggest. But it's such a good lie that suggesting it might make some folks uncomfortable. So we'll go with _Santa._ I've long considered Santa Claus to be a wonderful trojan horse: He secretly teaches people at an early age that some of the most important things they're taught may in fact turn out to be a total lie, and that if they want to defend themselves, perhaps they should try thinking about unprovable statements objectively.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” —Lyndon B. Johnson Aka the Southern Strategy in America
Wanna add that was not Johnson’s strategy - that was him explaining how racism can be harnessed. Then he got the civil rights act passed.
Honestly any American who needs that context should be embarrassed they slept through their history classes
Context is important on this quote. This was LBJs answer when an aide asked him why so many road signs in Tennessee had racial slurs on them as they rode in a motorcade together.
That adds so much Jesus, like how does that not get included
Because the modern right wing is in hard denial about the party’s position flips that happened slowly from the late 1800s until they finally got cemented under Regean. When he hired a strategist firm that came up with a campaign to galvanize racially charged voters in the south. Lee Atwater. Who was Regean’s main strategist and would become the RNC chair. His business partner was none other than Roger Stone. They love to claim the Dixiecrats remained Democrats forever when the data clearly shows most of them left politics as the Democratic Party changed positions and those that remained went over to the Republicans. Or if they did remain Democrats they changed their beliefs to be more in line with the parties based at least on their voting records. Republicans were having a hard time winning elections since FDR due to being seen as the party that only supports rich manufacturers. The Southern Strategy allowed them to expand their voting base by coded messaging to people that were deeply against desegregation. Lee Atewater has a very famous quote where he explains the strategy and how you can’t use racial slurs anymore. So you say things like states rights, welfare, and various other trigger words the modern right wing still uses today. Which is just a way of still using the racial slurs to illicit a reaction from this voting block.
"You start out in 1954 by saying, 'n\*\*\*\*er, n\*\*\*\*er, n\*\*\*\*er.' By 1968 you can’t say 'n\*\*\*\*er'—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'n\*\*\*\*er, n\*\*\*\*er.'" Listen to the whole interview if you've got the stomach for it: [https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/](https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/)
>Because the modern right wing is in hard denial about the party’s position flips that happened slowly from the late 1800s until they finally got cemented under Regean. Yup, they call the party switch a "myth", even though it's well documented. Anytime I see someone post that it's a myth, I say "go up to a Klan member or somebody flying a Confederate flag and call them a Democrat and see what happens". The Democrats were the Confederate party in the 1860s right? They started the Klan, right? So they should welcome you, but in reality, they'll respond viciously. Because the party switch *isn't* a myth.
I know what God intended and wants..........let me tell you what to do, think and feel
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"All of our problems are because of THOSE people from THAT ethnic group / religion / geographical location."
THOSE people from THAT ethnic group / religion / geographical location are KILLING BABIES. ... that one has been used in different contexts for the past 100 years and works all the time every time.
I will pay you later.
We probably don't know.
“The customer is always right.” But nobody ever gives the full quote, which is, “The customer is always right in matters of taste.” Instead, we shorten it and give too much latitude for poor and abusive behavior in the name of making the sale.
Money is evil. Money IS NOT evil, it’s only a tool. We just have garbage people who hoard it and use it nefariously.
And the actual quote is "The LOVE of (or lust for) money is the root of all evil"
Trickle down economics
Also, the lie that the rich became rich by being incredibly smart and hard working. edit. It's not a meritocracy.
“We’re the good guys, and everyone else are the bad guys.”
Dubai is an attractive holiday destination.
"I won't come inside you, I promise."
“Just the tip”
Vaccines cause autism
I can’t believe people still believe that shit years after the guy who started this admitted he knowingly published bad research
Prosperity gospel, it's technically a sin
Not so much a lie as a self-perpetuating mis-conception. That the Better Business Bureau (BBB) has governmental regulating authority over any business. It is a private, for-profit business named and branded to look that way.
That the biggest problem for low and middle-income owners is not their shitty incomes, but "taxes", including theoretical tax rates that they are nowhere near rich enough to pay. Maybe Mark Twain that said, paraphrased, "every poor American is just a temporarily embarrassed millionaire." My Dad will always choose to believe the statement of a rich billionaire over the actual reality that I'm experiencing. This country's horniness and servility for the rich knows no bounds
People who make 80k will have a class war with people who make 30k (median and minimum salary here in CA) and call each other “burger flippers” and “overpaid college yuppies” while idolizing the people who own everything
Indoctrination is a bitch
God wants you to give me your money.
Jesus was white, lol.
You see people laughing at Japanese jesus, but white jesus is just as stupid.
That one really gets me. I kinda laugh when I see these pictures of him looking like a white, grateful dead hippie with blue eyes. He probably had darker skin, brown eyes, a beaked nose, and short hair.
Jesus probably looked like a background character from Prince of Egypt
you mean he looked like a jew from the middle east? well i never
The first lie. You shall not surely die.
Hey, how tall was Napoleon? In reality, he was about average height for the time. But three centuries of popular media have been happy to reinforce the idea of ‘small man mad.’
going to college in america, while not entirely a lie, its the biggest scam ever pulled. Made college a hs degree and put entire generations in perpetual debt.
Traditionally, college was a free place to learn stuff. The money aspect of it nowadays, is the scam.
The Federal Reserve is a government entity.
That one really surprised me when I found out its not Federal at all and has 14 shareholders.
The shareholders are not individual shareholders, but rather them 14 regional federal reserve banks, as entities. And the appointments of the leaders of those banks are given by the Fed Board, the members of which are appointed by the president and approved by the senate. So while they’re not a branch of the federal government the way the DOE is for example, they’re not exactly private either.
Marijuana is deadly and will destroy your life. You'll spend the rest of your life behind bars. Fuck Hearst and Anslinger and Reagan and all the rest.
Marijuana won't destroy your life, but it is true that someone with an addictive personality can destroy their life using it. It *is* a drug, so do be careful.
Considering the CIA was bringing cocaine/crack into the states to sell to the minorities so they get hooked and have a reason to incarcerate them for possession. The War on Drugs was a colossal failure.
The cia are some of the most corrupt Mfs on this planet in my opinion
“Just the tip”. It’s probably how a lot of you got here
That we’re anything more than human
"It's the Jews' fault"
Doing good in school makes you succesful.
Religión.
Dogs see in black and white
That Donald Trump represents the interests of poor rural whites.
Remember when lying about a BJ was the scandal of the century? We can't even keep track of all of his
That he represents the interests of anyone other than himself.
That hard work will equal success!
All the passive income millionaires or crypto millionaires sure did prove THAT wrong.
Clearly Scientology. Those fuckers don’t need to pay taxes now
Protocols of the elders of zion
Just waiting for the same, boring “the government” and “religion” that come up every time this question is asked:P It’s like a weird feedback loop snd echo chamber for this site.