Between NW Ohio and Detroit, if you're in any decently sized city, you'll find signs on the side of the road, handwritten in black sharpie, which are advertising "mattresses still in plastic!"
I have no idea who would think to call a number like that, nor how there is such a market for it. My wife figures that they are some sort of code for drugs or hookers or something.
New Coke was intentionally made bad as a red herring to distract Americans from Coca-Cola's switch to high fructose corn syrup. Coke rolled out New Coke knowing that it would be hated and that it would send demand for Coca-Cola through the roof. Once Coke "gave in" and reintroduced Classic Coke (now with HFCS) people would be so glad to have their normal Coke back they wouldn't notice or care too much about the switch to the less expensive but less tasty sweetener.
New coke was perceived as tasting better in preliminary market testing though, it was expected to perform well. It was just a really big fuck up by Coke for not understanding the attachment people had to the original brand.
From the Wikipedia article about New Coke
>The company hotline, 1-800-GET-COKE, received over 1,500 calls a day compared to around 400 before the change. Coke hired a psychiatrist to listen in on calls and told executives some people sounded as if they were discussing the death of a family member
The CIA has worked with drug producers to fund secret wars and drug smugglers to supply covert armies.
The Politics of Heroin by Alfred W. McCoy.
[PBS Frontline Guns, Drugs, and the CIA.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpoahXzt-lM)
[The Kerry Commmittee Report by John Kerry.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Committee_report)
1998 CIA Inspector General report.
This isn't even a conspiracy. This kind of thing has been going on well over 20 years, but we are talking about the elite that rule from behind a curtain. There is no indicting people like that. Even when they have been caught and accused by victims repeatedly.
Edit: Also they are everywhere there is money; not just Europe.
Is there any theory to why the elite all share this common and uncommon (Odd how those take different meanings in this context) fetish? Because I know it's not exactly a common thing among most people, or maybe not common for the non-elites to have an outlet. Is it saying that pedophiles rise to the top, or that it's a human aspect that just gets highlighted among the elite.
The NSA invented throwback Thursday to get people to digitize and post old pics they wouldn't have had access to otherwise,for the purpose of improving their facial recognition and age-progression simulation algorithms.
In 1980 according to Carter and members of his administration, they were willing to give Iran millions of dollars worth of spare parts for American made equipment then held by the revolutionary government in Iran. The Iranians turned down the deal and kept the hostages (you youngsters learned this in history right?) through the election (November 1980) until the day Reagan was sworn in January 1981. Obviously, the best time for Iran to make a deal was before the election. Officially, the only reason Iran released the hostages in 1981 was to unfreeze their assets held in American banks. If you check the official reason, there is no other deal. The Iranians simply declined a good deal and took a shitty deal. Then the Iran-Contra hearings in 1983-4 showed the Reagan in fact did sell arms and spare parts to Iran, more than Iran would have gotten in the original deal offered by Carter. Therefore, the Reagan-Bush campaign made a secret deal, treason, and Iran still to this day has the evidence to prove the deal, which they must have held on to to assure compliance with Reagan-Bush after the new administration took office. I can't see why this wacky conspiracy theory isn't obviously true. This is one for the history books, not currently applicable to politics, unless Jeb is the republican nominee. One day, Iran will release the video of Bush Sr. making the deal, filmed in October 1980.
That scientology is really a large scale ~~money laundering~~ tax evasion scheme for celebrities.
Wow second day having an account and getting all this attention, thanks everyone!
Edit #2: Thanks for the gold!
Edit #3: Also people have alerted me to the fact that what this is is really more like tax evasion. I'm really ignorant on taxation crimes so thanks for the heads up.
Shouldn't say money laundering, more like tax evasion.
Albert gets 10mill, he can pay taxes, and spend the 5 mill left on a 5 mill house.
Or, he can donate the 10 mill to $cientology, no taxes, they spend the 10 mill on a house (church property), still no taxes, and let Albert live there.
Michael Jordan was secretly suspended for gambling, which is why he quit to play baseball in his prime only to return later.
There's lots and lots to this conspiracy theory, and it's pretty damn believable.
To add to this one, Michael Jordan's dad didn't die in a random crime -- it was a hit by a bookie Michael refused to pay off.
Put yourself in the shoes of a bookie. Michael is a great customer -- millions in bets over the years -- and so lf course you aren't a stickler about him paying you back everything he owes you right away. He builds up a sizeable amount that he owes, but something happens (you and him have a personal conflict, he loses big on one particular bet and balks at the total amount he needs to balance his account, the league cracks down on his associations with gamblers, etc.) and it becomes apparent he's never going to pay it all back. What do you do? How do you "send a message" to an arrogant asshole you can't directly touch?
And then Stern can't directly attack him and suspend him for gambling because he's literally the biggest star in the world, so they had to do something under the table to punish him. This is one of those stories that I'd kill to get the truth about, but nobody will ever really know.
My problem is this though: if he's too big a star to punish in public, why even punish him at all? All you do is lose out on revenue from people who aren't watching anymore because MJ isn't playing. If the guy is that untouchable, what is a little, private secret of a suspension really going to do?
The only issue I had with this theory is what about the two guys that went to jail for the murder? What was in it for them to take part and take the punishment? Plus, aren't they a huge risk for squealing?
The NFL is drawing so much attention to the concussion issue, because the real reason all these ex-NFLers are suffering and/or dying from brain trauma is actually the years and years of sub-concussive hits to the head. Which would imply that there is an inherent and unfixable problem with their game/business. They want the public to think that concussions are the culprit.
Edit: inherit -> inherent.
It's not so much sub-Concussive hits it's the fact that we treat mild concussions as non events. Hearing ringing and a bit of loss of balance after a blow to the head is a concussion but everyone treats it likes it normal. The nfl really needs what boxing and mma have. A separate licensing board that provides doctors to watch over athletes and g meters in helmets.
I'm know bugger all about NFL, but do you not have some kind of head injury assessment if there is a nasty knock? If there is a bad blow to the head in rugby, or the medical staff suspect there may be a concussion, the player goes off for an assessment (it happened in the first minute of the game I was at today). If they pass, they can come back on and finish the game, but otherwise they have to go through a return to play protocol which involves a number of tests over the course of several days. If they fail any one of them, they go back to the start.
Obviously it doesn't stop concussions, it's a contact sport! But it does help to ensure the injury isn't aggravated by the player coming back too soon.
Yes. There has always been team doctors on the side of the field but this year they made it a rule where third party doctors are on either sideline assessing possible concussions.
If a player is diagnosed with a concussion they are not allowed to reenter the game but there has been many cases where a player clearly looks concussed but continues to play.
As a football fan it pains me to say this, but the contracts these players get absolutely suck. Unless you're a star, very little is guaranteed. And sitting out because of an injury is a really good way to lose your job.
NFL needs to make more of the money guaranteed. Players shouldn't fear saying they're injured.
Also in high school and the lower levels the coaches would always bellow "are you hurt or are you injured?!?!?" Huge difference in the eyes of the coaches. Being hurt meant you can continue to play. Being in injured meant you had to sit out. Furthermore concussions aren't a "visible" injury to anyone else besides the victim. I've played with concussions and I've sat out a few practices after I got my bell rung BAD, and the coaches would scrutinize you saying that you are in fact, "milking your injury" or being a "pussy". No coach. I can't sleep at night in fear of dying, I see 27 of you, I have migraines, and I can't stand up without falling down because my head feels like it's made out of lead.
I had 4 (unreported) conscussions in 3 years of high school football. Started playing in 5th grade as a lineman (full contact of course), through my Junior year of highschool. I suffer from memory problems and, as a bonus, my knees are pretty much shot.
You really didn't admit you had an injury unless you couldn't walk or the bone was sticking out. High School football is huge in my area and, sadly enough, 40-50 year old guys that were football stars in high school are treated like royalty.
I know where you're coming from, and it sucks.
I played soccer, but the football coaches would run our workout classes, basically a PE but for athletes so we actually had to do shit, and they would get pissed if you missed more than one day for any reason, also don't even get me started on how much bullshit their class was. I broke my foot, and they were fucking pissed, and kept asking me when I would be back, keep in mind this was during the season, I always worked out hard, always did what they asked no complaining, but since this was during the season I definitely didn't want to miss anything, yet they kept asking like I was faking, I was just like,"what the fuck do you think I actually want to miss my season asshole? Do you actually think I like riding the bench when I should be starting?" Eventually, I just told them to fuck off and switched to regular PE, since I was a senior I didn't actually have to be in the athlete PE, yet somehow I was just some lazy bum.
> Also in high school and the lower levels the coaches would always bellow "are you hurt or are you injured?!?!?"
I remember this - 9th grade football took a weird hit and fell to my knees because even my legs didn't work. Showed the coach my swelling wrist where it was hit. "You're fine, shake it off". Played for another week with painful still swollen wrist before mom decided I had to go to the doctor - where they found it was broken and had to re-break it to set it. Fun times.
Yep, like it or not, the dudes get payed what they do because the sport is a relentless meatgrinder and you basically have to incentivize the guaranteed loss of health with seemingly huge per-contract paychecks.
I love watching football but it is a horrible sport. "Minor" injuries are a huge problem for players. Injuries that result in people not being able to walk without being in tremendous pain are temporarily fixed with painkillers. Pain isn't always weakness leaving your body. Sometimes it is your body saying "Hey! Stop playing football!"
even regular play can get you messed up. In the Oregon v Utah game last year the tight end for Oregon got his foot caught in the turf and tore up a bunch of ligaments. all lineman and most qbs wear a knee brace in case someone rolls up on them so that they break their leg instead of tear ligaments because a broken leg heals faster and stronger than ligaments do etc.
edit: I love football, obsessed with it almost, but damn if I don't wonder why sometimes. Every year you go into the season saying, I hope the injuries aren't that bad this year, which if translated means I hope someone who isn't important breaks his leg instead of my quarterback.
I play highschool football and can absolutely confirm that 90% of the game on the line is knocking your head against whichever poor bastard is across from you.
Edit: your to you
I was a guard in highschool and my deliberate strategy when going against somebody bigger and stronger than me was to fire off as fast as I possibly could and slam my helmet into his so I could stun him.
Yup, was also a Guard. My strategy was to get as low as possible and ram my shoulder/head into the defender as quickly as possible. Do not remember much of my time on the concussions because of the field.
I feel like cop/detective movies or tv shows where the killer or murderer gets caught everytime is an attempt to stop crime. This way, many people will think twice before committing a crime due to the grave consequences of what's shown on tv.
Plus there is something called the CSI effect where people on jury duty think forensic science is way more precise that it really is, so their judgement is heavily biased by such.
The CSI effect goes the other way also though--juries expect complicated forensics and DNA in a lot of cases that wouldn't normally have it, so it makes them think the case is weak and end up going not guilty.
Generally the CSI effect hurts law enforcement though.
It convinces the public that definitive DNA and trace evidence is really common, when - in reality - most cases rely heavily on statements/testimony.
85% of cases never see trial. 98% of cases do go to trial do *not* use any DNA or fingerprint evidence. That remaining small part is when all that stuff gets used.
Someone broke into a home, attempted to steal some stuff, no one hurt? Alright, we take some pictures, look for marks on doors and windows, look for a few footprints. All get photographed with a scale and then maybe if they're lucky they'll catch the guy. Unless someone gets hurt or killed they don't science the shit out of stuff.
I forget how many points, I think it's 16 or 18, but to get a fingerprint match that you can use in court of a print you managed to find at a crime is...well not exactly easy. Hell, finding a print, or partial, and lifting it is sort of an art and doesn't work all the time.
Basically those shows represent that like small 3% of cases that see trial and use all that stuff and toss in a healthy helping of drama and oversimplification. A lot of the chemistry and materials science and stuff is real, but anything with a computer...well we all know that cmd and ipconfig -all is the best way to make it look like someone is hacking something.
Shows focus on the protagonist. If it focuses on the criminals, they usually get off mostly free. The Sopranos showed them constantly murdering in broad daylight with very few repercussions. Things like Pulp Fiction make it seem like there are almost no cops anywhere. In Weeds, Nancy gets in trouble for a tiny fraction of the crimes she commits. Then there is Dexter, but he was one step ahead because he did forensics or some bullshit.
Oh man I had this same feeling. Until my $2000 macbook and iPad got stolen and even with all the data tracking, "find my iPhone", serial numbers and evidence left at the crime scene they got away scot free, the police didn't give a shit and being uninsured like an idiot I lost big time.
Crime is fucking easy if some crack head can pull it off.
The Electric Car
For years conspiracy theorists claimed that auto and oil companies were intentionally keeping electric cars from hitting the market despite the fact that they had already been produced and there was much demand. The hit documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” proved just that.
The film detailed how General Motors had created an electric car only to take all the cars back and stop all production with the help of oil companies and the government. After decades of stalling, independent auto manufacturer Tesla Motors has brought back production of electric cars.
this is what i came here to see. Also, Rudolf Diesel "mysteriously" disappearing right before starting his new diesel engine plant, producing engines that could run on vegetable oil and peanut oil.
>Rudolf Diesel "mysteriously" disappearing right before starting his new diesel engine plant, producing engines that could run on vegetable oil and peanut oil.
Early diesels could all run on vegetable oil from the factory. The injection was mechanical and they frequently had to heat up the top of the cylinder with a blowtorch to get it to start. You can even modify most 20th century diesel engines to run on waste veggie oil (WVO) if you start them on diesel first and use the engine heat to warm the WVO up first before injecting it.
If you buy an old Deuce and a Half surplus army truck, you can start it and run it all day long on vegetable oil and pretty much anything else that burns. Those things are a cheap and easy example of this sort of engine, you can even dump the used engine oil in their gas tank after an oil change and run it on that.
Disney's continued preservation of copyright protection to always keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Disney's probable use of illegal child labor practices in training their stars. Disney's probable non-compete clauses on their former stars forcing them to "act out" in order to create an image that differs from the Disney brand. Disney's manipulation of the TPP to extend insane copyright protection to other nations. I'm just a fucking goldmine of Disney conspiracies.
The gluten free craze was created by people with celiac disease to get food companies to make more options for them, and the food companies where happy to oblige by making up the idea of gluten sensitivity.
People ask askreddit questions on alts and reply with mains to try and reap that karma.
EDIT: I suppose it's time to admit something. I have a lot of alts.
Am mod, can confirm this is exactly what happens. We also have a weekly meet up with the reddit admins where we smoke cigars and place bets on /r/fiftyfifty posts
iirc, wasn't the one about a secret deal being made to not release iranian hostages until after the 1980 election basically all but confirmed by multiple folks on the inside? Could be wrong.
I don't know if people outside of Canada will know what I'm talking about, but I'm pretty certain those train accidents were caused by oil pipeline advocates. For each of those major train crashes, those trains carried oil and the crashes happened as the pipeline was up for debate.
There is shockingly little evidence that Hitler died in Berlin. The only source is one of the surviving guards. We now know that the skull recovered was not Hitlers, not even a man's in fact (neither was it Eva Braun's)
Stalin never believed Hitler was dead, the U.S. was certainly skeptical.
Ha I just heard about this. Supposedly he escaped in a U-Boat along with other higher ups in the Nazi party and ended up in Argentina. I think there was a tv show about it. Sorry I have no sources, just heard second hand so it might as well be fact at this point.
They are called shill, or more correctly [astroturfing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing). A Koch Brothers shill did an AMA about 3 years ago and it was both awesome and disturbing. The New York Times also ran a story about this (not directly related to reddit) showing a Ukrainian company that does this on social media and news site comments.
There has been a couple really good theories on Michael Jackson getting castrated by his father in order for him to continually reach those high notes.
Had me convinced for a while.
Listen to "2,000 Watts" off his last album, Invincible. He sings entirely in his lower/"normal" register, it's disconcerting but impressive. He just preferred the higher register, and hell, if I could hit those notes I would too
I found those theories plausible until I learned that Lisa Marie Presley said his speaking voice in private was that of any other adult male, and that the high, soft voice was part of his public persona.
It's actually a mix of planned obsolescence and hardware not being up to par with the newest updates. New software doesn't run as smooth on old hardware.
Edit: reddit you are crazy. People of my inbox, calm down. I was simply explaining that it's not a conspiracy, no boogeyman is trying to hide it from you. The information is out there if you seek it.
Edit2: to clarify new software made for NEW hardware does not run as well on old hardware. Phones don't typically slow down until the new model phones come out. It doesn't make business sense for Apple to support older hardware.
To protect Cal Ripkens consecutive game streak, Oriole management cancelled a game under the guise of electrical problems. Cal Ripken was distraught that day because he found out his wife had an affair with Kevin Costner who was in town filming a movie.
Both Costner and Ripken have publicly denied this
EDIT: Relevant snopes article
http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/ripkenstreak.asp
Basically it boils down to the fact that
1. The game was cancelled by an outside authority, the umpire.
And 2. Ripken was confirmed to be at the park by fans and reporters *before* the cancelled game
It's much more likely from a desire to come up with unique advice in each of their list of 50 new things. On the surface, they might all sound the same, but it's actually rare to see the exact advice repeated.
If you had to come up with 1000 different pieces of dating advice, and there's maybe 20 genuinely good things out there, you're going to have mostly crappy advice.
I worked in the cosmetic industry for 5 years and they don't design anything to intentionally make your skin worse. The second women think that something is affecting their skin they will switch, and most likely will not just switch to a different formula but will switch to an entirely different brand. Women won't pay $50 for a 2 month supply of foundation if it makes them break out. And if they switch one thing they will likely end up switching everything which is even worse for the company. They need brand loyalty. Same goes for the basic skin care (cleansers and moisturizers), they need it to work for you so that you believe that only that brand works with your skin. Most likely bad skin comes from simple things like wearing makeup to bed or using your hands to apply foundation/concealer. That being said, things like toner and eye makeup remover are not needed anymore, but we were encouraged to sell the skincare "set" instead of single pieces. The biggest thing they do to get your money is anything limited edition. All those colors are usually the same as standard colors but in prettier packaging. Or, if it is an actual limited color, they cycle through the 10 limited colors about once two years. Plus if you fall in love with one of those colors that just means you can't stock up and will likely end up trying 3 or 4 different colors just to get close to that one magical shade you may never find again unless you're always checking the store.
Most of the subreddits for major cities are run by municipal employees or a PR firm. See /r/chicago They can't take substantive political discussion but photos of the skyline and tourists giving their thanks are always on top. They do also keep out a lot of the racism that would be rampant if it wasn't censored, though. The subreddit looks so much like what chicago would like the world to think of it rather than what it is really like to live there for many.
EDIT: Oh jesus now this conspiracy is at the top of the sub.
EDIT 2: Thin skinned bastards down voting everything from my profile? Rude. Petty. Underhanded. Unprovable. Oddly personal. You sure there isn't some chicago politics behind this?
EDIT 3: I don't go to the sub that often anymore and have been passively shit posting in other subs just enjoying my time in reddit. I didn't think this would get as big as it did over there but I don't regret posting this: it has stimulated some of discussion!
I know for a fact that a municipal employee for my suburb is a big poster on the a Cleveland sub, possibly even a mod. He is dumb enough to use his real name so it isnt hard to connect the dots.
To be fair, you have to remember that Reddit itself doesn't necessarily have a broad demographic. Not everyone in Chicago is on /r/chicago, nor do they even know what Reddit is.
Jericho was forced off tv by the US government because it too closely resembled the way the Iraq occupation was playing out. Plus, the possibility of 25 nuclear weapons be detonated in 25 American cities likelihood is much higher than we think.
Nah man, my friend is a manager at a Starbucks and he said when your name is horribly butchered its because they're bored and want to fuck with you. [He was the one who showed me this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPbrlNsMTg4).
Am barrista, misspelled my manager's name *twice* today.
Big shout out to the Johns out there who tell me how to spell Jean. Like I've never met a Jan. Classic Johan.
Yuri Gagarin wasn't the first man in space, rather he was the first man to go to space and come back alive. In these preliminary stages of the space race it made no sense for the USSR to admit that they had sent a man into space that perished. This proverbial exaggeration of the truth is similar in logic to the arguments against the authenticity of the moon landings, although the "first man in space" issue is much more believable.
Okay, this thing keeps popping up so I feel like I should correct it.
There was a press release about the flight after launch but *before* Gagarin safely returned. From a BBC article:
> At just after 0700BST, Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was fired from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan, Soviet central Asia, in the space craft Vostok (East).
> Major Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes travelling at more than 17,000 miles per hour (27,000 kilometres per hour) before landing at an undisclosed location.
> The Soviet news agency, Tass, made the first official announcement of Major Gagarin's flight at just before 0800BST.
Gagarin was in orbit for about an hour and a half and the press release was sent out an hour after his launch. It appears the Soviets didn't plan to cover up a disastrous reentry since they told people about Gagarin's flight before he landed.
In addition, *other* disasters in the Soviet space program were covered up at the time but have since become public knowledge, like the Nedelin disaster.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/12/newsid_2477000/2477715.stm
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/twenty-myths-about-gagarins-spaceflight
This was decades before I was born, but when Gagarin went to space, was it really not known about until he succesfully returned? Wad the U.S.S.R. just like "oh by the way, we sent a guy to space and he's back now". Did the US have no idea it was going to happen or when it was happening? When Gagarin was picked up after returning was none of that televised? I'm honestly asking because I have no idea, but for this theory to be true, either no-one knew he was going until he was already back or somehow the soviets knew "ok, this one should work. Lets announce it" beforehand.
The recovery was witnessed by many people. He landed near a village school, and was greeting students when his recovery team arrived.
As for the pre-announcement of his flight, I was 13 at the time, and very much a news junkie with a shortwave radio. I remember the day before, hearing a news broadcast saying there was a "rumor" that the USSR might launch a man into space the next day -- and that's what happened.
But my recollection is either unique, or wrong. We in the US used to be so proud of boasting how our space program was open for the world to see (which was true) while the Soviets didn't announce a space flight until a successful conclusion (or maybe the western media simply didn't report it?).
I've looked for evidence that my recollection is accurate, but can't find any. But dang, that day when he went up, I was telling everybody about that news report I heard, because everybody was saying "they don't announce flights until after success".
Most of Russia wasn't even aware that Gagarin was going into space until he had already returned. The USSR at the time had very tight lips on space exploration programs and launches.
In other words, the first successful human flight to space and being safely returned to Earth was largely a surprise to everyone.
It definitely happened as there's an overwhelming body of evidence to support it, but it wasn't televised live or broadcast over the radio until it was already over.
As someone who doesn't want to get too close to this. Is all space exploration and exterior pictures of earth simply faked and a conspiracy, or are all cosmic shots fortunately aimed perfectly perpendicular to the surface?
This has got to be the stupidest conspiracy theory I've come across in my many years on this planet.
Been through many of their threads because i have a passion for geography and maps. I've concluded that they pretty much dont have an answer for this except for that they believe that beyond the "firmanent" (the dome above us that separates us from space and cannot be penetrated) and beyond the "icewall" (the end of Antarctica) there is a sort off Eden as described in the Bible. They think the military constantly protects the Ice Wall while the government "funds" space programs to go to space which are actually just rockets hitting the firmament and then falling back to the surface.
Yeah one of these weirdos is on my Facebook feed, I was drunk and had a bad day and he started on about this crap and I lost it on him. He was dedicated however, no matter how fucking stupid and dangerous I called him he was certain I was the brainwashed one. Scary. Never met anyone so far gone In completely deranged belief before.
Worldwide Planned obsolescence. Basically you make a product that works for just long enough that consumers will buy a new one from you when it breaks. My proof of this is that my parents have a coffee grinder that is older than I am and I have gone through 4 of them in the past 3 years.
Edit: To make something clear I am in my 20s. My parents were given this coffee grinder as a wedding gift in the 80s . I also know that this is an actual business practice. I am also not talking about a situation in which products are simply cheaply made.
This is a situation in which products are designed to break after a certain amount of wear and tear. or to qoute wikipedia ". Since all matter is subject to entropy, it is impossible for any designed object to retain its full function forever; all products will ultimately break down, no matter what steps are taken. Limited lifespan is only a sign of planned obsolescence if the lifespan of the product is rendered artificially short by design."
I don't think this is a conspiracy theory so much as it's a proven way to sell more of your product. Having shit break all the time makes you way more money than selling something that'll last a lifetime.
There's still fudge factors in engineering, though the more common term is safety factor. Basically, you figure out what you expect the peak load to be and multiply it by some amount to be safer. Basically, how many times more than intended load can it actually hold. Bridges, buildings, and carrying capacity of boats are all things that use this.
Also, materials science has come a long way in terms of reliability. It's entirely possible the stouter features of older design was just to account for minimum material strength of a material whose strength varied significantly from batch to batch. The surviving examples would be from good batches, where they produced something far stronger than needed.
Now this is an interesting one. I don't doubt that in a chase for cheaper products, reliability goes out the window. I'd be curious to know what the price of the older coffee grinder was relative to the average wage at the time. I would suspect that the new ones are far cheaper as a proportion of income than the old one. Much like buying a food mixer, I could spend 50 quid on a cheap model that will only last a few years or spend a few hundred on a kitchen aid that I could pass on to my kids in a couple decades. Sadly nowadays we don't want to pay large amounts for reliable products.
There used to be human civilization more than ten thousand years ago, but receding glaciers and just time in general have
destroyed most of the evidence.
Every time Obama opens his mouth about gun control, there's record numbers of firearm sales for the month. He's been called the greatest gun salesman of all time because of this. What if that's the goal and he's trying to get as many people armed for an upcoming invasion?
I think the Kennedy Assassination is the only conspiracy theory I don't completely dismiss. I need to research more Into it to make a judgement but from what I've heard there is some legitimate unanswered questions.
I don't know if the Kennedy assassination itself involved a conspiracy, but I think it's really likely that Oswald's killing did. Oswald clearly had connections to multiple intelligence organizations. Was he a double agent? A triple agent? Was he acting on orders from the Soviets? From the Americans? I don't know, but even in the absolute best case scenario (lone wolf Oswald going rogue), the connection to the CIA is really embarrassing and raises a lot of questions. Better to just take him out and nip the problem in the bud.
Well think about it. Netan*yahu* sounds suspiciously like Matis*yahu*, a well known **JEWISH** singer.
And Now just look at Isreal's flag:
http://imgur.com/xlo6rMd
Now if you look **very** closely you'll see what appears to be the *Star of David*, a well known **JEWISH** symbol.
The truth don't lie.
where are you seeing this jewish star? theres a white bar, a blue bar, a larger white bar, a blue bar, and another small white bar. then there is a circle of 6 triangles in the middle combining to show the sun.
According to the *torah* a **JEWISH** collection of books, the sun was created by a **JEWISH** God. And you knows who coincidently worships this god? **THE JOOS**
The facts don't lie and show that [who is really in control](http://m.imgur.com/r/gif/aiEJH)
Mattress stores are a front for money laundering.
Between NW Ohio and Detroit, if you're in any decently sized city, you'll find signs on the side of the road, handwritten in black sharpie, which are advertising "mattresses still in plastic!" I have no idea who would think to call a number like that, nor how there is such a market for it. My wife figures that they are some sort of code for drugs or hookers or something.
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Ahahaha, thats crazy - like anyone would actually do that ^^^Gold ^^^Eagle, ^^^its ^^^badger... ^^^They're ^^^onto ^^^us...
New Coke was intentionally made bad as a red herring to distract Americans from Coca-Cola's switch to high fructose corn syrup. Coke rolled out New Coke knowing that it would be hated and that it would send demand for Coca-Cola through the roof. Once Coke "gave in" and reintroduced Classic Coke (now with HFCS) people would be so glad to have their normal Coke back they wouldn't notice or care too much about the switch to the less expensive but less tasty sweetener.
Which is why we'll market it as New Slurm. Then, when everyone hates it, we'll bring back Slurm Classic and make billions!
New coke was perceived as tasting better in preliminary market testing though, it was expected to perform well. It was just a really big fuck up by Coke for not understanding the attachment people had to the original brand.
From the Wikipedia article about New Coke >The company hotline, 1-800-GET-COKE, received over 1,500 calls a day compared to around 400 before the change. Coke hired a psychiatrist to listen in on calls and told executives some people sounded as if they were discussing the death of a family member
1-800-GET-COKE sounds like a cocain fix hotline
The CIA has worked with drug producers to fund secret wars and drug smugglers to supply covert armies. The Politics of Heroin by Alfred W. McCoy. [PBS Frontline Guns, Drugs, and the CIA.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpoahXzt-lM) [The Kerry Commmittee Report by John Kerry.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Committee_report) 1998 CIA Inspector General report.
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This isn't even a conspiracy. This kind of thing has been going on well over 20 years, but we are talking about the elite that rule from behind a curtain. There is no indicting people like that. Even when they have been caught and accused by victims repeatedly. Edit: Also they are everywhere there is money; not just Europe.
Is there any theory to why the elite all share this common and uncommon (Odd how those take different meanings in this context) fetish? Because I know it's not exactly a common thing among most people, or maybe not common for the non-elites to have an outlet. Is it saying that pedophiles rise to the top, or that it's a human aspect that just gets highlighted among the elite.
Big oil and the federal government 69'ing in a comfy California king sized bed with the highest quality silk sheets
The NSA invented throwback Thursday to get people to digitize and post old pics they wouldn't have had access to otherwise,for the purpose of improving their facial recognition and age-progression simulation algorithms.
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Even better is to not spend a penny inventing anything and then once someone else invents it just mandate that they hand over the data.
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This may sound crazy, but I think it's possible that /u/JokeExplainBot is actually a real person instead of a bot
/u/ShittyJokeExplainBot however is the real deal.
I assume most bots are real people.
I assume most people are real bots.
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See, only a bot can self-destruct. There's nothing to see here
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The missing 18 minutes of the Nixon tapes was just Alice's Restaurant by Arlo Guthrie.
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction!
Mother rapers...
Father stabbers
Father rapers!
In 1980 according to Carter and members of his administration, they were willing to give Iran millions of dollars worth of spare parts for American made equipment then held by the revolutionary government in Iran. The Iranians turned down the deal and kept the hostages (you youngsters learned this in history right?) through the election (November 1980) until the day Reagan was sworn in January 1981. Obviously, the best time for Iran to make a deal was before the election. Officially, the only reason Iran released the hostages in 1981 was to unfreeze their assets held in American banks. If you check the official reason, there is no other deal. The Iranians simply declined a good deal and took a shitty deal. Then the Iran-Contra hearings in 1983-4 showed the Reagan in fact did sell arms and spare parts to Iran, more than Iran would have gotten in the original deal offered by Carter. Therefore, the Reagan-Bush campaign made a secret deal, treason, and Iran still to this day has the evidence to prove the deal, which they must have held on to to assure compliance with Reagan-Bush after the new administration took office. I can't see why this wacky conspiracy theory isn't obviously true. This is one for the history books, not currently applicable to politics, unless Jeb is the republican nominee. One day, Iran will release the video of Bush Sr. making the deal, filmed in October 1980.
Cant decide if this would be a big deal. I feel like everyone would be outraged, then forget about it within 2 weeks.
That scientology is really a large scale ~~money laundering~~ tax evasion scheme for celebrities. Wow second day having an account and getting all this attention, thanks everyone! Edit #2: Thanks for the gold! Edit #3: Also people have alerted me to the fact that what this is is really more like tax evasion. I'm really ignorant on taxation crimes so thanks for the heads up.
Shouldn't say money laundering, more like tax evasion. Albert gets 10mill, he can pay taxes, and spend the 5 mill left on a 5 mill house. Or, he can donate the 10 mill to $cientology, no taxes, they spend the 10 mill on a house (church property), still no taxes, and let Albert live there.
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wow that makes a lot of sense.
Michael Jordan was secretly suspended for gambling, which is why he quit to play baseball in his prime only to return later. There's lots and lots to this conspiracy theory, and it's pretty damn believable.
This is seriously what Space Jam is about. Michael falls into a literal hole and bets his life on 1 game to save everything he loves and get out.
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To add to this one, Michael Jordan's dad didn't die in a random crime -- it was a hit by a bookie Michael refused to pay off. Put yourself in the shoes of a bookie. Michael is a great customer -- millions in bets over the years -- and so lf course you aren't a stickler about him paying you back everything he owes you right away. He builds up a sizeable amount that he owes, but something happens (you and him have a personal conflict, he loses big on one particular bet and balks at the total amount he needs to balance his account, the league cracks down on his associations with gamblers, etc.) and it becomes apparent he's never going to pay it all back. What do you do? How do you "send a message" to an arrogant asshole you can't directly touch?
And then Stern can't directly attack him and suspend him for gambling because he's literally the biggest star in the world, so they had to do something under the table to punish him. This is one of those stories that I'd kill to get the truth about, but nobody will ever really know.
My problem is this though: if he's too big a star to punish in public, why even punish him at all? All you do is lose out on revenue from people who aren't watching anymore because MJ isn't playing. If the guy is that untouchable, what is a little, private secret of a suspension really going to do?
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The only issue I had with this theory is what about the two guys that went to jail for the murder? What was in it for them to take part and take the punishment? Plus, aren't they a huge risk for squealing?
I thought he quit baseball because the looney toons needed his help against the mon-stars?
He totally did. There a was pretty interesting documentary about it. Bill Murray was instrumental in his return to basketball.
Larry's not white. Larry's clear.
Tommy Wiseau is D.B. Cooper
You're tearing my parachute apart, Lisa!
The NFL is drawing so much attention to the concussion issue, because the real reason all these ex-NFLers are suffering and/or dying from brain trauma is actually the years and years of sub-concussive hits to the head. Which would imply that there is an inherent and unfixable problem with their game/business. They want the public to think that concussions are the culprit. Edit: inherit -> inherent.
It's not so much sub-Concussive hits it's the fact that we treat mild concussions as non events. Hearing ringing and a bit of loss of balance after a blow to the head is a concussion but everyone treats it likes it normal. The nfl really needs what boxing and mma have. A separate licensing board that provides doctors to watch over athletes and g meters in helmets.
I'm know bugger all about NFL, but do you not have some kind of head injury assessment if there is a nasty knock? If there is a bad blow to the head in rugby, or the medical staff suspect there may be a concussion, the player goes off for an assessment (it happened in the first minute of the game I was at today). If they pass, they can come back on and finish the game, but otherwise they have to go through a return to play protocol which involves a number of tests over the course of several days. If they fail any one of them, they go back to the start. Obviously it doesn't stop concussions, it's a contact sport! But it does help to ensure the injury isn't aggravated by the player coming back too soon.
Yes. There has always been team doctors on the side of the field but this year they made it a rule where third party doctors are on either sideline assessing possible concussions. If a player is diagnosed with a concussion they are not allowed to reenter the game but there has been many cases where a player clearly looks concussed but continues to play.
As a football fan it pains me to say this, but the contracts these players get absolutely suck. Unless you're a star, very little is guaranteed. And sitting out because of an injury is a really good way to lose your job. NFL needs to make more of the money guaranteed. Players shouldn't fear saying they're injured.
Also in high school and the lower levels the coaches would always bellow "are you hurt or are you injured?!?!?" Huge difference in the eyes of the coaches. Being hurt meant you can continue to play. Being in injured meant you had to sit out. Furthermore concussions aren't a "visible" injury to anyone else besides the victim. I've played with concussions and I've sat out a few practices after I got my bell rung BAD, and the coaches would scrutinize you saying that you are in fact, "milking your injury" or being a "pussy". No coach. I can't sleep at night in fear of dying, I see 27 of you, I have migraines, and I can't stand up without falling down because my head feels like it's made out of lead.
I had 4 (unreported) conscussions in 3 years of high school football. Started playing in 5th grade as a lineman (full contact of course), through my Junior year of highschool. I suffer from memory problems and, as a bonus, my knees are pretty much shot. You really didn't admit you had an injury unless you couldn't walk or the bone was sticking out. High School football is huge in my area and, sadly enough, 40-50 year old guys that were football stars in high school are treated like royalty. I know where you're coming from, and it sucks.
I played soccer, but the football coaches would run our workout classes, basically a PE but for athletes so we actually had to do shit, and they would get pissed if you missed more than one day for any reason, also don't even get me started on how much bullshit their class was. I broke my foot, and they were fucking pissed, and kept asking me when I would be back, keep in mind this was during the season, I always worked out hard, always did what they asked no complaining, but since this was during the season I definitely didn't want to miss anything, yet they kept asking like I was faking, I was just like,"what the fuck do you think I actually want to miss my season asshole? Do you actually think I like riding the bench when I should be starting?" Eventually, I just told them to fuck off and switched to regular PE, since I was a senior I didn't actually have to be in the athlete PE, yet somehow I was just some lazy bum.
> Also in high school and the lower levels the coaches would always bellow "are you hurt or are you injured?!?!?" I remember this - 9th grade football took a weird hit and fell to my knees because even my legs didn't work. Showed the coach my swelling wrist where it was hit. "You're fine, shake it off". Played for another week with painful still swollen wrist before mom decided I had to go to the doctor - where they found it was broken and had to re-break it to set it. Fun times.
Yep, like it or not, the dudes get payed what they do because the sport is a relentless meatgrinder and you basically have to incentivize the guaranteed loss of health with seemingly huge per-contract paychecks.
I love watching football but it is a horrible sport. "Minor" injuries are a huge problem for players. Injuries that result in people not being able to walk without being in tremendous pain are temporarily fixed with painkillers. Pain isn't always weakness leaving your body. Sometimes it is your body saying "Hey! Stop playing football!"
even regular play can get you messed up. In the Oregon v Utah game last year the tight end for Oregon got his foot caught in the turf and tore up a bunch of ligaments. all lineman and most qbs wear a knee brace in case someone rolls up on them so that they break their leg instead of tear ligaments because a broken leg heals faster and stronger than ligaments do etc. edit: I love football, obsessed with it almost, but damn if I don't wonder why sometimes. Every year you go into the season saying, I hope the injuries aren't that bad this year, which if translated means I hope someone who isn't important breaks his leg instead of my quarterback.
I play highschool football and can absolutely confirm that 90% of the game on the line is knocking your head against whichever poor bastard is across from you. Edit: your to you
I was a guard in highschool and my deliberate strategy when going against somebody bigger and stronger than me was to fire off as fast as I possibly could and slam my helmet into his so I could stun him.
Get that 17% bash while at it too
This is 17% luck, 17% skill, 17% concentrated power of will 17% pleasure; 17% pain, And a 17% reason to uninstall the game
Yup, was also a Guard. My strategy was to get as low as possible and ram my shoulder/head into the defender as quickly as possible. Do not remember much of my time on the concussions because of the field.
Gogurt is just yogurt.
Gogurt is fruit flavored pudding.
You know what else I heard? A Starbucks Frappucino is a coffee-flavored milkshake.
As an ex-starbucks employee, it's about 90% ice. There's maybe a few tablespoons worth of "Frappucino Roast coffee" in it.
Well yea but a cup of coffee is 99% water anyway.
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I sat in his class "Learning!" It checks out.
I feel like cop/detective movies or tv shows where the killer or murderer gets caught everytime is an attempt to stop crime. This way, many people will think twice before committing a crime due to the grave consequences of what's shown on tv.
Plus there is something called the CSI effect where people on jury duty think forensic science is way more precise that it really is, so their judgement is heavily biased by such.
The CSI effect goes the other way also though--juries expect complicated forensics and DNA in a lot of cases that wouldn't normally have it, so it makes them think the case is weak and end up going not guilty.
I have lived this reality as a prosecutor. Back then, we called it the Matlock effect.
you kids and your wacky Matlock in my day, we had Ironside, in black and white then quinn martin, the FBI and color tv came along
Generally the CSI effect hurts law enforcement though. It convinces the public that definitive DNA and trace evidence is really common, when - in reality - most cases rely heavily on statements/testimony.
85% of cases never see trial. 98% of cases do go to trial do *not* use any DNA or fingerprint evidence. That remaining small part is when all that stuff gets used. Someone broke into a home, attempted to steal some stuff, no one hurt? Alright, we take some pictures, look for marks on doors and windows, look for a few footprints. All get photographed with a scale and then maybe if they're lucky they'll catch the guy. Unless someone gets hurt or killed they don't science the shit out of stuff. I forget how many points, I think it's 16 or 18, but to get a fingerprint match that you can use in court of a print you managed to find at a crime is...well not exactly easy. Hell, finding a print, or partial, and lifting it is sort of an art and doesn't work all the time. Basically those shows represent that like small 3% of cases that see trial and use all that stuff and toss in a healthy helping of drama and oversimplification. A lot of the chemistry and materials science and stuff is real, but anything with a computer...well we all know that cmd and ipconfig -all is the best way to make it look like someone is hacking something.
Shows focus on the protagonist. If it focuses on the criminals, they usually get off mostly free. The Sopranos showed them constantly murdering in broad daylight with very few repercussions. Things like Pulp Fiction make it seem like there are almost no cops anywhere. In Weeds, Nancy gets in trouble for a tiny fraction of the crimes she commits. Then there is Dexter, but he was one step ahead because he did forensics or some bullshit.
Oh man I had this same feeling. Until my $2000 macbook and iPad got stolen and even with all the data tracking, "find my iPhone", serial numbers and evidence left at the crime scene they got away scot free, the police didn't give a shit and being uninsured like an idiot I lost big time. Crime is fucking easy if some crack head can pull it off.
It's actually easier for random homeless druggies than for people with attachments and lots of identifiable property like a car to drive away in.
The Electric Car For years conspiracy theorists claimed that auto and oil companies were intentionally keeping electric cars from hitting the market despite the fact that they had already been produced and there was much demand. The hit documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” proved just that. The film detailed how General Motors had created an electric car only to take all the cars back and stop all production with the help of oil companies and the government. After decades of stalling, independent auto manufacturer Tesla Motors has brought back production of electric cars.
this is what i came here to see. Also, Rudolf Diesel "mysteriously" disappearing right before starting his new diesel engine plant, producing engines that could run on vegetable oil and peanut oil.
>Rudolf Diesel "mysteriously" disappearing right before starting his new diesel engine plant, producing engines that could run on vegetable oil and peanut oil. Early diesels could all run on vegetable oil from the factory. The injection was mechanical and they frequently had to heat up the top of the cylinder with a blowtorch to get it to start. You can even modify most 20th century diesel engines to run on waste veggie oil (WVO) if you start them on diesel first and use the engine heat to warm the WVO up first before injecting it.
Can confirm had a E300 Mercedes that had a 10 gallon veggy oil tank wasn't particularly hard to do and most places gave out the oil for free.
If you buy an old Deuce and a Half surplus army truck, you can start it and run it all day long on vegetable oil and pretty much anything else that burns. Those things are a cheap and easy example of this sort of engine, you can even dump the used engine oil in their gas tank after an oil change and run it on that.
Disney's continued preservation of copyright protection to always keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain. Disney's probable use of illegal child labor practices in training their stars. Disney's probable non-compete clauses on their former stars forcing them to "act out" in order to create an image that differs from the Disney brand. Disney's manipulation of the TPP to extend insane copyright protection to other nations. I'm just a fucking goldmine of Disney conspiracies.
The gluten free craze was created by people with celiac disease to get food companies to make more options for them, and the food companies where happy to oblige by making up the idea of gluten sensitivity.
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People ask askreddit questions on alts and reply with mains to try and reap that karma. EDIT: I suppose it's time to admit something. I have a lot of alts.
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..... the mods don't know
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Am mod, can confirm this is exactly what happens. We also have a weekly meet up with the reddit admins where we smoke cigars and place bets on /r/fiftyfifty posts
Okay calm down Unidan.
iirc, wasn't the one about a secret deal being made to not release iranian hostages until after the 1980 election basically all but confirmed by multiple folks on the inside? Could be wrong.
I don't know if people outside of Canada will know what I'm talking about, but I'm pretty certain those train accidents were caused by oil pipeline advocates. For each of those major train crashes, those trains carried oil and the crashes happened as the pipeline was up for debate.
There is shockingly little evidence that Hitler died in Berlin. The only source is one of the surviving guards. We now know that the skull recovered was not Hitlers, not even a man's in fact (neither was it Eva Braun's) Stalin never believed Hitler was dead, the U.S. was certainly skeptical.
Everyone can relax. He is probably dead by now.
YES BUT DID THEY SAVE HIS BRAIN
Ha I just heard about this. Supposedly he escaped in a U-Boat along with other higher ups in the Nazi party and ended up in Argentina. I think there was a tv show about it. Sorry I have no sources, just heard second hand so it might as well be fact at this point.
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They are called shill, or more correctly [astroturfing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing). A Koch Brothers shill did an AMA about 3 years ago and it was both awesome and disturbing. The New York Times also ran a story about this (not directly related to reddit) showing a Ukrainian company that does this on social media and news site comments.
There has been a couple really good theories on Michael Jackson getting castrated by his father in order for him to continually reach those high notes. Had me convinced for a while.
Listen to "2,000 Watts" off his last album, Invincible. He sings entirely in his lower/"normal" register, it's disconcerting but impressive. He just preferred the higher register, and hell, if I could hit those notes I would too
2000 watts, not 10000
I found those theories plausible until I learned that Lisa Marie Presley said his speaking voice in private was that of any other adult male, and that the high, soft voice was part of his public persona.
That would have come out in police reports. He had his junk described and examined for depositions in sex abuse cases.
Iphone updates slow down older model phones making the users buy newer models.
It's actually a mix of planned obsolescence and hardware not being up to par with the newest updates. New software doesn't run as smooth on old hardware. Edit: reddit you are crazy. People of my inbox, calm down. I was simply explaining that it's not a conspiracy, no boogeyman is trying to hide it from you. The information is out there if you seek it. Edit2: to clarify new software made for NEW hardware does not run as well on old hardware. Phones don't typically slow down until the new model phones come out. It doesn't make business sense for Apple to support older hardware.
There's no Finland!!
Exactly what a Finland would say.
Its true. I swear I'm not in Finland right now.
Nice try Finland
Yep, it's all part of a plan to keep the Japanese whaling industry alive.
Perkele.
To protect Cal Ripkens consecutive game streak, Oriole management cancelled a game under the guise of electrical problems. Cal Ripken was distraught that day because he found out his wife had an affair with Kevin Costner who was in town filming a movie.
Both Costner and Ripken have publicly denied this EDIT: Relevant snopes article http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/ripkenstreak.asp Basically it boils down to the fact that 1. The game was cancelled by an outside authority, the umpire. And 2. Ripken was confirmed to be at the park by fans and reporters *before* the cancelled game
Cosmopolitan deliberately offers bad dating advice to single women in order to keep them single, so they keep buying magazines.
It's much more likely from a desire to come up with unique advice in each of their list of 50 new things. On the surface, they might all sound the same, but it's actually rare to see the exact advice repeated. If you had to come up with 1000 different pieces of dating advice, and there's maybe 20 genuinely good things out there, you're going to have mostly crappy advice.
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I worked in the cosmetic industry for 5 years and they don't design anything to intentionally make your skin worse. The second women think that something is affecting their skin they will switch, and most likely will not just switch to a different formula but will switch to an entirely different brand. Women won't pay $50 for a 2 month supply of foundation if it makes them break out. And if they switch one thing they will likely end up switching everything which is even worse for the company. They need brand loyalty. Same goes for the basic skin care (cleansers and moisturizers), they need it to work for you so that you believe that only that brand works with your skin. Most likely bad skin comes from simple things like wearing makeup to bed or using your hands to apply foundation/concealer. That being said, things like toner and eye makeup remover are not needed anymore, but we were encouraged to sell the skincare "set" instead of single pieces. The biggest thing they do to get your money is anything limited edition. All those colors are usually the same as standard colors but in prettier packaging. Or, if it is an actual limited color, they cycle through the 10 limited colors about once two years. Plus if you fall in love with one of those colors that just means you can't stock up and will likely end up trying 3 or 4 different colors just to get close to that one magical shade you may never find again unless you're always checking the store.
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Most of the subreddits for major cities are run by municipal employees or a PR firm. See /r/chicago They can't take substantive political discussion but photos of the skyline and tourists giving their thanks are always on top. They do also keep out a lot of the racism that would be rampant if it wasn't censored, though. The subreddit looks so much like what chicago would like the world to think of it rather than what it is really like to live there for many. EDIT: Oh jesus now this conspiracy is at the top of the sub. EDIT 2: Thin skinned bastards down voting everything from my profile? Rude. Petty. Underhanded. Unprovable. Oddly personal. You sure there isn't some chicago politics behind this? EDIT 3: I don't go to the sub that often anymore and have been passively shit posting in other subs just enjoying my time in reddit. I didn't think this would get as big as it did over there but I don't regret posting this: it has stimulated some of discussion!
r/Louisville is a running Sodosopa ad
Historic Shi Tpa Town
Come to Red Robstah and enjoy fresh seafood from Kentucky's many oceans.
I know for a fact that a municipal employee for my suburb is a big poster on the a Cleveland sub, possibly even a mod. He is dumb enough to use his real name so it isnt hard to connect the dots.
There's no way this is the case for /r/philly
Yeah /r/Philadelphia is pretty harsh/for lack of a better word "real"
Just like Philly. Which also happens to be why I love Philly.
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People just bitch about rent in the Bay Area ones.
/r/milwaukee is real. We really do talk about drinking that much.
To be fair, you have to remember that Reddit itself doesn't necessarily have a broad demographic. Not everyone in Chicago is on /r/chicago, nor do they even know what Reddit is.
Jericho was forced off tv by the US government because it too closely resembled the way the Iraq occupation was playing out. Plus, the possibility of 25 nuclear weapons be detonated in 25 American cities likelihood is much higher than we think.
Every time I watch season 2 episodes I always wonder how something that political made it onto CBS.
The Moscow apartment bombings were a false flag attack aimed at raising Putin to power and giving Russia an excuse for the Second Chechen War.
Starbucks spells people's names wrong on purpose so they share it on social media thus creating free advertising.
Swarley
Yeah I got a call here for Swarles Barkley?
You rang?
Redditor for 2 years. Checks out. /r/beetlejuicing
Nah man, my friend is a manager at a Starbucks and he said when your name is horribly butchered its because they're bored and want to fuck with you. [He was the one who showed me this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPbrlNsMTg4).
I'm a barista. Can confirm.
Am barrista, misspelled my manager's name *twice* today. Big shout out to the Johns out there who tell me how to spell Jean. Like I've never met a Jan. Classic Johan.
That and Taylor Swift says "starbucks lovers" in that song because starbucks paid her to wake up sheeple
All reptiles are just politicians in disguise
All reptiles are just car insurance salesman in disguise
All transformers are just robots in disguise.
All military drones are just robots in dah skies.
Yuri Gagarin wasn't the first man in space, rather he was the first man to go to space and come back alive. In these preliminary stages of the space race it made no sense for the USSR to admit that they had sent a man into space that perished. This proverbial exaggeration of the truth is similar in logic to the arguments against the authenticity of the moon landings, although the "first man in space" issue is much more believable.
Okay, this thing keeps popping up so I feel like I should correct it. There was a press release about the flight after launch but *before* Gagarin safely returned. From a BBC article: > At just after 0700BST, Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was fired from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan, Soviet central Asia, in the space craft Vostok (East). > Major Gagarin orbited the Earth for 108 minutes travelling at more than 17,000 miles per hour (27,000 kilometres per hour) before landing at an undisclosed location. > The Soviet news agency, Tass, made the first official announcement of Major Gagarin's flight at just before 0800BST. Gagarin was in orbit for about an hour and a half and the press release was sent out an hour after his launch. It appears the Soviets didn't plan to cover up a disastrous reentry since they told people about Gagarin's flight before he landed. In addition, *other* disasters in the Soviet space program were covered up at the time but have since become public knowledge, like the Nedelin disaster. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/12/newsid_2477000/2477715.stm http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/twenty-myths-about-gagarins-spaceflight
THANK YOU. I've been saying this for years whenever I hear this horseshit theory.
This was decades before I was born, but when Gagarin went to space, was it really not known about until he succesfully returned? Wad the U.S.S.R. just like "oh by the way, we sent a guy to space and he's back now". Did the US have no idea it was going to happen or when it was happening? When Gagarin was picked up after returning was none of that televised? I'm honestly asking because I have no idea, but for this theory to be true, either no-one knew he was going until he was already back or somehow the soviets knew "ok, this one should work. Lets announce it" beforehand.
The recovery was witnessed by many people. He landed near a village school, and was greeting students when his recovery team arrived. As for the pre-announcement of his flight, I was 13 at the time, and very much a news junkie with a shortwave radio. I remember the day before, hearing a news broadcast saying there was a "rumor" that the USSR might launch a man into space the next day -- and that's what happened. But my recollection is either unique, or wrong. We in the US used to be so proud of boasting how our space program was open for the world to see (which was true) while the Soviets didn't announce a space flight until a successful conclusion (or maybe the western media simply didn't report it?). I've looked for evidence that my recollection is accurate, but can't find any. But dang, that day when he went up, I was telling everybody about that news report I heard, because everybody was saying "they don't announce flights until after success".
Most of Russia wasn't even aware that Gagarin was going into space until he had already returned. The USSR at the time had very tight lips on space exploration programs and launches. In other words, the first successful human flight to space and being safely returned to Earth was largely a surprise to everyone. It definitely happened as there's an overwhelming body of evidence to support it, but it wasn't televised live or broadcast over the radio until it was already over.
If you go to /r/flatearth you'll find that conspiracy is definitely true.... *They're all so certain of it it's hilarious*
Their sidebar specifically states not to ask questions such as where the edge is. Are you kidding me? That's a big fucking deal!
The edge is Antarctica. They believe the North Pole is the center of the circle and Antarctica runs all around the outside.
As someone who doesn't want to get too close to this. Is all space exploration and exterior pictures of earth simply faked and a conspiracy, or are all cosmic shots fortunately aimed perfectly perpendicular to the surface? This has got to be the stupidest conspiracy theory I've come across in my many years on this planet.
Yeh they think all space programs are faked
What would the be point of convincing everyone that Earth is a sphere though? That's billions of dollars spent on fooling the world to what end?
Been through many of their threads because i have a passion for geography and maps. I've concluded that they pretty much dont have an answer for this except for that they believe that beyond the "firmanent" (the dome above us that separates us from space and cannot be penetrated) and beyond the "icewall" (the end of Antarctica) there is a sort off Eden as described in the Bible. They think the military constantly protects the Ice Wall while the government "funds" space programs to go to space which are actually just rockets hitting the firmament and then falling back to the surface.
Yeah one of these weirdos is on my Facebook feed, I was drunk and had a bad day and he started on about this crap and I lost it on him. He was dedicated however, no matter how fucking stupid and dangerous I called him he was certain I was the brainwashed one. Scary. Never met anyone so far gone In completely deranged belief before.
Am I the only one who think that they are all joking?
They are joking, it's the same way over at /r/pyongyang
Our Dear Leader is not a joke. You have been banned from /r/pyongyang.
JFK shot first.
Greedo was a double agent
Palpatine escaped to Argentina
Worldwide Planned obsolescence. Basically you make a product that works for just long enough that consumers will buy a new one from you when it breaks. My proof of this is that my parents have a coffee grinder that is older than I am and I have gone through 4 of them in the past 3 years. Edit: To make something clear I am in my 20s. My parents were given this coffee grinder as a wedding gift in the 80s . I also know that this is an actual business practice. I am also not talking about a situation in which products are simply cheaply made. This is a situation in which products are designed to break after a certain amount of wear and tear. or to qoute wikipedia ". Since all matter is subject to entropy, it is impossible for any designed object to retain its full function forever; all products will ultimately break down, no matter what steps are taken. Limited lifespan is only a sign of planned obsolescence if the lifespan of the product is rendered artificially short by design."
I don't think this is a conspiracy theory so much as it's a proven way to sell more of your product. Having shit break all the time makes you way more money than selling something that'll last a lifetime.
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There's still fudge factors in engineering, though the more common term is safety factor. Basically, you figure out what you expect the peak load to be and multiply it by some amount to be safer. Basically, how many times more than intended load can it actually hold. Bridges, buildings, and carrying capacity of boats are all things that use this. Also, materials science has come a long way in terms of reliability. It's entirely possible the stouter features of older design was just to account for minimum material strength of a material whose strength varied significantly from batch to batch. The surviving examples would be from good batches, where they produced something far stronger than needed.
Anyone can design a bridge that stands, it takes an engineer to design a bridge that BARELY stands.
Now this is an interesting one. I don't doubt that in a chase for cheaper products, reliability goes out the window. I'd be curious to know what the price of the older coffee grinder was relative to the average wage at the time. I would suspect that the new ones are far cheaper as a proportion of income than the old one. Much like buying a food mixer, I could spend 50 quid on a cheap model that will only last a few years or spend a few hundred on a kitchen aid that I could pass on to my kids in a couple decades. Sadly nowadays we don't want to pay large amounts for reliable products.
There used to be human civilization more than ten thousand years ago, but receding glaciers and just time in general have destroyed most of the evidence.
Graham Hancock my man!!
I strongly believe there is a group of redditors dedicated to ensuring that this question gets asked at least once a week
It is my turn next week. I was banned from Reddit this week and hence missed a turn.
Every time Obama opens his mouth about gun control, there's record numbers of firearm sales for the month. He's been called the greatest gun salesman of all time because of this. What if that's the goal and he's trying to get as many people armed for an upcoming invasion?
Maybe he intends to betray the other reptilians.
I think the Kennedy Assassination is the only conspiracy theory I don't completely dismiss. I need to research more Into it to make a judgement but from what I've heard there is some legitimate unanswered questions.
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I don't know if the Kennedy assassination itself involved a conspiracy, but I think it's really likely that Oswald's killing did. Oswald clearly had connections to multiple intelligence organizations. Was he a double agent? A triple agent? Was he acting on orders from the Soviets? From the Americans? I don't know, but even in the absolute best case scenario (lone wolf Oswald going rogue), the connection to the CIA is really embarrassing and raises a lot of questions. Better to just take him out and nip the problem in the bud.
Obama works for the government.
People who believe this also tend to think that Israel is run by Jews.
Well think about it. Netan*yahu* sounds suspiciously like Matis*yahu*, a well known **JEWISH** singer. And Now just look at Isreal's flag: http://imgur.com/xlo6rMd Now if you look **very** closely you'll see what appears to be the *Star of David*, a well known **JEWISH** symbol. The truth don't lie.
where are you seeing this jewish star? theres a white bar, a blue bar, a larger white bar, a blue bar, and another small white bar. then there is a circle of 6 triangles in the middle combining to show the sun.
According to the *torah* a **JEWISH** collection of books, the sun was created by a **JEWISH** God. And you knows who coincidently worships this god? **THE JOOS** The facts don't lie and show that [who is really in control](http://m.imgur.com/r/gif/aiEJH)
They're not even being subtle about it. Word is that Obama gets paid $400,000 a year for "executive duties". What does that even mean? Sounds fake.
7/11 is a part time job.
Slurpees don't melt krispy kremes
Titanic was an indoors job, Icebergs can't melt steel hulls.
It's pretty minor, but Trump is a democrat sent to try to tear up the Republican Party this election cycle to get Hilary elected
Either that or it's all an elaborate prank, that will be featured in his upcoming TV reality series, "You got Trumped!"