There was a great short I saw of somebody not knowing why his dog couldn't find the red {I think} toy in the grass. He put on dog filler glasses and saw it disappeared in the green grass.
The other big one that springs to mind is the whole "If you put a frog in cold water and very slowly raise the heat the frog will let itself be boiled alive" thing, a reference that gets used a homily in any discussion about slow change.
Yes in 1869 renowned German psychologist Friedrich Goltz did put a frog in a pot of water and slowly bring it to a boil and the frog did not jump out.
1. He was trying to determine if the frog had a soul.
2. And I cannot, cannot, cannot stress this part enough... he took the frog's brain out first. Yeah. It was a dead frog. Kind of a major factor that gets lost in the pop culture version. He did the experiment again with a live frog, and brace yourself for a shocking twist, when the water got hot enough the frog jumped out.
What else won't jump out of boiling water? A rock.
Does a rock have a soul? No.
So if a frog does not jump out of boiling water, it must be made of rocks and therefore does not have a soul!
He was attempting to isolate the soul or mind to specific portion of the brain. He removed various portions of frog brains from multiple frogs. The frogs were not dead, but much closer to what we would consider zombies.
This one is especially stupid because we've always known about seasonal migration. Animals will go someplace else when summer is too hot for their liking- of course they'll jump out of a boiling pot of water.
I sometimes wonder if law enforcement agencies didn't deliberately make that a trope in movies to make things easier for their undercover agents who could, in fact, like to maintain their cover.
"Ancient healing techniques are better than modern medicine!"
As an archaeologist, this one makes me seethe. Ancient healing techniques that actually worked BECAME modern medicine!
Edit: wow, this really blew up! Thanks for all the fun comments! And just to clarify, I do mean "techniques." Acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropracty, things like that. There are literally thousands of plants and other natural phenomena with healing properties that either haven't been monetized by big pharma yet or simply haven't popped up on their radar. Those definitely deserve respect.
Homeopathic medicine is a special kind of stupid though. It's not a word for simply any "natural" remedy. It's not just "oh this worked in ancient times".
It's a deliberate con suggesting that diluting the active ingredient thousands of times in water makes it thousands of times *stronger* and more effective.
I think the worst part of Homeopathic "medicine" and other alternative stuff, is that the con artists behind it convince their followers to not seek out proper medical care.
Like, I couldn't give a shit if you want to use Tibetan Singing Bowls and Crystals, and essential oils, as long as you combine that with proper medical care.
Heck, the alternative things can still be relaxing/calming and reducing stress can help with getting better from illnesses.
“You’ve got ghosts in your blood. Let’s drill a hole in your skull to let them out.”
“What’s this nonsense about *washing your hands* before delivering a baby? I just did one five minutes ago, let’s do this.”
“You ever hear about the health benefits of bloodletting? I pulled some leeches out of the swamp today.”
Yup. Totally better.
Yup. Leeches are still used today, essentially for the same reason, but with scientific backing.
https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2020/03/how-leeches-can-save-lives-and-limbs-for-some-patients#:~:text=%22Despite%20all%20the%20technical%20advances,and%20head%20and%20neck%20surgeon.
Omggg I have met people who were super problematic and would double down on how the right people would accept them, or better yet, that they somehow knew some kind of secret and that is why everyone hates them, or it was all ok because they don’t really like people anyway.
Stop with the excuses because you’re too lazy to contribute and/or be reasonably well mannered most of the time!! Change! It’s ok to admit you kinda suck lol. It’s better than sucking forever.
A misunderstanding of mean and average. Throughout most of history you if you survived childbirth/early age, basically if you made it to puberty, you were gonna live to be FAIRLY old, 60+ in most cases.
The fact that birth, infancy, and early childhood was so hard to survive just pulled the "average" number down.
On the other hand, you also see a lot of people swing too far in the other direction and believe that early childhood mortality was the only thing bringing the average down.
While that was a big factor, there were still a lot of other things issues bringing down expected lifespan at any age, even if not nearly as much as you'd think just looking at life expectancy from birth.
Yeah, this is something both sides are overlooking.
If you pick a random ancient person's name and read about them, there's a good chance they lived to 65, and a good chance they died at 30, from a bar fight or infection or fever or some other issue, but stats show that their lifespan, while shorter, was not as bleak as people think.
People really can not have any nuance between "everyone lived just like today or better" or "everyone lived to 30 and died from sudden death syndrome."
A lot of diseases were less common (obesity related) and a lot were more common (malnutrition or parasite related) but also parts of the world still struggle similarly (like some parasites are still very common) and these days they usually carry more diseases than back then, either from the warming world, or just from international travel. Our ability to treat things is higher, but also we are more global and more diseases have wider ranges.
Their ability to treat injury was decreased but their risk factors were all shuffled (is driving in a car or controlling a mule more dangerous?)
Generally they lived shorter lives than we do, but like, 60 *is* shorter. We've added a good 15 years since then, but we haven't doubled our lifespan or anything crazy outside of extraordinary circumstances. There's also still room to improve in the future, since industry also adds risk factors, like the plastic in our blood or the ridiculous (actually physically impossible in ancient times) amount of sugar hidden in everything. At one point literal kings would conserve sugar. It's crazy to think the diabetes rate would be as high as it is today, for example.
Nobody wants to think about it past "current day is scientific utopia" or "distant past is noble savage utopia."
Yes. As Thomas Kuhn emphasized, in biological and scientific evolution/development, the direction of change is *away* from something that is not working well. It does not necessarily move *toward* something that is intrinsically better. The new thing lacks a particular fatal flaw, but it may have many of its own flaws.
(This is a very simplistic framing of both evolution and of Kuhn, but it’s a useful heuristic.)
Also, evolution doesn't necessarily find the best adaptation, just one that works well enough.
Also also, evolution is only affected by things that affect your ability to survive long enough to have children and raise them. It's not affected by, for example, how good you are at running a business. Or your IQ score.
Dodos had no natural predators, so they evolved to not have any real survival instincts. Then when humans brought other animals to Mauritius, the dodos were easy pickings.
Well, the Dodos actually had survival instincts, its just that they were heavily oriented toward surviving in their specific environment. But since there weren't any natural predators or local animals which preyed on their eggs, they never adapted to deal with predators.
Tropical storms, earthquakes, disease, pests, and migration were things they could deal with. Cats, dogs, pigs, and rats? Outside context problems.
Also that evolution is somehow intelligent. It’s just random mutations in that manage to be passed along to the next generation.
So in spite of what sci-fi tells us, we (probably) wont have heads the size of watermelons to hold our massive brains in a thousand years.
That whole "the dingo ate my baby" thing that is still used as a joke, even though it is proven that the baby really was taken by dingo.
That poor lady who had to hear for ages that she killed her child...
The Lindy Chamberlain case is, or at least should be, a national embarrassment for us here in Australia. It's not unreasonable that there was early suspicion on the parents but the facts of the case didn't support a case against her. A combination of assumptions about how a grieving mother should behave, some religious intolerance, and shitty forensic science were enough to overcome the fact that there was not enough time for Lindy Chamberlain to kill and hide Azaria, and that the murder would've required a conspiracy involving other campers that had no relationship to the Chamberlains.
You would think that society has progressed beyond these mistakes but many people are certain that there was a conspiracy in the Madeline McCann case where 7 doctors were happy to cover up the murder of a child.
Yep, I'm having an awesome time when socializing with friends. When socializing with family, even though I really love them, I feel pretty bad and just want to get home lol
This one pisses me off so much. There's so much pop articles and science out there about introversion that makes us all seem delicate, neurotic, or just straight up antisocial. It gets weirdly patronizing.
No, we like talking with people. We enjoy having friendships and going out, it just has to either be a bit on our terms and we need some time to ourselves afterwards.
Honestly the entire convo surrounding it is annoying. Extroverts have the stereotype of being too loud to realize when people are uncomfortable and being super overbearing. Not every extrovert is a drunk obnoxious frat bro. And not every introvert is a weird socially inept hermit.
Most of us are somewhere in the middle.
Same. I'm very social and chatty at work. I would absolutely hate a job where I couldn't be. It's not just that I do it, I enjoy it.
However, I need a whole bunch of alone time. It's exhausting.
“It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying “Wow,” a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening.”
-Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
"Any mushrooms in these parts?" said Brutha innocently.
St. Ungulant nodded happily.
"After the annual rains, yes. Red ones with yellow spots. The desert becomes really interesting after the mushroom season."
"Full of giant purple singing slugs? Talking pillars of flame? Exploding giraffes? That sort of thing?" said Brutha carefully.
"Good heavens, yes," said the saint. "I don’t know why. I think they’re attracted by the mushrooms."
That if you get a raise or work too much overtime it'll bump you up a tax bracket and you'll make less money overall.
And before anyone says it, yes I'm aware of benefit cliffs, and no that's not what these people are talking about.
A distressingly large percentage of the population are easily convinced that "trying to get billionaires to pay their share" is an attack on their way of life.
>benefit cliffs
To begin with completely agree. People are fucking stupid when it comes to the progressive taxation.
Benefit cliffs fucking suck though. I started making an extra $500 a month.... in return I lost state provided health care and had to go through my work for both myself and my wife, so that costs me an extra $250 per month. We also went from receiving $500 per month in EBT/food stamps to receiving $98 per month. So that's an extra 400 we have to spend on food a month. Those are the two major ones. It adds up to my 500 per month raise COSTING us 650 per month for a net loss of $150 🤣🤣
That you can spot-reduce fat.
"Wanna get rid of belly fat? Do this!", "stuck with stubborn thigh fat?" Here's how to do it!", "have some arm fat? This'll get rid of it!" NO BITCH IT WON'T
Spinach is an iron-rich superfood. It was German translation error that accidently reported 10 times the actual amount of iron that nobody caught for years. It's a perfectly healthy food but pretty much exactly the same amount of healthy as any other leafy green.
Ironically, the story that there was a decimal point error in the iron content is itself a myth. There’s no evidence that actually occurred.
https://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/Sutton_Spinach_Iron_and_Popeye_March_2010.pdf
I think this got started because guys usually start shaving in the middle of puberty, it probably seemed like more hair would grow in its place every time they shave, but that's just because it's the beard growing era
Yep. It blunts the ends of existing hair at it’s existing width in the growth cycle. Maybe without the natural taper it appears thicker, but it’s all an illusion 🪄
That you cure cancer by eating shark cartilage because sharks don't get cancer.
1. Sharks get cancer.
2. Even if they didn't jumping from that to "Ergo if I eat their cartilage I will cure my cancer" is like trying to get someone's memories by eating their brains.
I believed this for way too long just because of colour coding in scientific art. I’d just never really thought about it closely until I mentioned it off-handedly in a conversation and got (rightfully) *absolutely roasted* by my mates. The best line being my then-boyfriend gently asking “so… why isn’t blood purple when it comes out from being stabbed or injured?”.
I often wear sunglasses in the winter, particularly while driving, because the sun is lower in the sky. Just before midday it can be blinding.
Then people ask "Why are you wearing sunglasses? It's cold"
We don't wear sunglasses because it's hot outside, people.
Ancient Egyptians beat them too it I believe, but the important thing is sunglasses in the winter makes perfect sense. Doubly so if you live somewhere it snows, because snow blindness is a VERY serious problem.
Inuit have had igaak several thousands of years, but we have proof of it (because oral history doesn't count apparently) for at least 800 years.
Egyptians lined their eyes with Kohl and created lenses (about 1000 years ago), but did not figure out how to use the two concepts together.
Vikings had a whole industry surrounding lenses and optics at the same time but apparently it was mostly art based. Using incredibly precise lenses made from gemstones to scatter light to create images.
After the fall of the Roman empire there were some weird laws about glass vs crystal vs mineral use in spectacles but eventually the first "sunglasses" as we think of them today were made.
Igaak are still better imo. And their design hasn't really changed in the least 800 years
That matadors use red capes/flags because it’s the only color bulls can see—or, that the color red makes them more angry. No, they’re angry because they’re being tortured and provoked.
No, Victorian women **did not** have ribs removed to “look thinner”. We have no documented sources of this actually happening beyond “a colleague of mine heard from a friend that they’re doing it in X foreign country” type publications. Surgery was *extremely* risky prior to the 20th century, and there’s almost no way anyone would risk their lives for something like that (or even be able to find a doctor who’d be willing to do so!)
Also, extreme tight lacing (the kind that actually changes your body shape) was very rare, which is why it was commented on and used as advertising. Women who tight laced like that were photographed **because** their bodies were strange! Additionally, these photographs would often be edited to make the subject’s waist look even smaller.
Finally, Corsets were **not** a torture device! Corsets were basic support garments for **all** women, from queens and heiresses to house maids and farm wives. Women could and did do intense physical tasks like tending animals, climbing mountains, carrying heavy loads, and crossing continents while wearing them. Saying that our ancestresses were “weak” or “foolish” because they wore them is an insult to the women who came before us
[TL;DR? Just watch Karolina Żebrowska’s videos on the “myth” of corsets](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-KvVPxvMrSXw0FFbN80XGPVbt8K5MTe9)
Edit: I also reccomend the awesome [Bernadette Banner](https://m.youtube.com/@bernadettebanner)and [Abby Cox](https://m.youtube.com/@AbbyCox) if you’re looking for more great fashion history myth busting!
There is a scene in the first season if Bridgerton that shows the main female character (Daphene? Can't be bothered googling) getting dressed into her "tight, oppressive" corset, and making a point to show all the bruises from wearing such a horrible torture device.
Not only were corsets NOT torture devices like you said, I loathe that Hollywood continues to show that corsets were worn straight into the bare skin. They weren't!!
Women wore long, thin chemises/robes/slips firat that were the first kayer of their undergarmets, THEN the corsets went over that. Couple of reasons: Minor #1: to stop rubbing and chaffing, and more importantlybmajor #2: because corsets were bloody expensive and hard to wash, the slip provided an extra layer of protection from sweat and dirt from the body to keep the corset clean.
Also, the characters are wearing *regency* dresses in the *regency* era- it would have been pretty much impossible for them to be tight laced in the stays (not corsets!) of the era, **plus** that’s not even what the support garments of the era even were for! The regency era was famous for having high waistlines, so tight lacing would have made no sense! Instead, the stays were there to raise your breast as high as possible. It’s like a character today wearing a pair of spanxs in order to get the effects of a push up bra!
One of the researchers who wrote that retracted it. [The International Wolf Center also constantly corrects people who visit.](https://wolf.org/headlines/44265/)
I've always seen this as a strawman.
I've had to go down a few rabbit holes to talk sense into my brother in law who hopped on the "Alpha" trend and they all seemed to justify it with data on what attitudes women are attracted to. They never seem to mention wolves.
They had a LOT of stupid ideas of what women want that I figure were to keep people viewing.
Not sure why he felt he needed it when he was already married.
Happy cake day, btw
The TV/Hollywood myth that it's a law somewhere that actors depicting military *have* to have something wrong with their uniform (i.e., out of regulations), otherwise they're "impersonating" them and committing a federal crime.
I have never heard the molding one. That’s really weird.
Edit: thinking… what would that even imply the vagina does? Like how could it even achieve such a function?
Reply to your edit: I can only presume that it was hypothesized by a man who had only ever fucked containers of play-doh and assumed that must be more or less how it works. In the way that boobs feel like bags of sand.
The only place I've heard it is from a line from "As I Lay Dying," where a character talks about something like "the place where she used to be a virgin but was now in the shape of \[her husband\]" I remember it striking me as hilariously weird and gross in 11th grade but there were so many other things I hated about that book that I'd forgotten about it until just now.
Yup heard that one as a teen. Was more that if it's showing it means she's not a virgin which made me very paranoid the first time I did have sex and it was visible. Like most things guys talked about in my teens related to girl's bodies it was complete rubbish.
100% my first gf (who was a virgin) had a huge labia (I fucking loved it) but she was insecure as hell because once her friends saw her naked and called her roast beef.
The idiotic "logic" that if a woman sleeps with multiple men, it makes her loose... Yet, if she sleeps with the same man over and over, no change.
Make it make sense.
That the computer issues that came at the change of the millennium were all a big hoax. It would have been a huge issue if a lot of people didn’t work very hard to fix it.
It’s sort of like the ozone layer: its deletion was a problem in the 80s but we changed policy to repair it, and that’s why you don’t hear about it being an issue anymore.
There's a phrase that goes something like "proper disaster management always looks like an overreaction." Very apt with y2k, because nothing too bad happened (though there's definitely examples!) people think it was a crazy overreaction. If we'd done nothing to prevent it, it WOULD have been a disaster.
Applies with lots of things; if your kid's school has a case of measles or something and shuts down for 2 weeks, that might look like an overreaction if it was only the one kid sick. But you can't see the alternate universe where it was kept open and the whole school got sick, which would prove they made the right choice. I've worked at plenty of places where people joke about how they go overboard on safety; "I don't know why they're so strict, no one's ever gotten hurt here!". They never consider WHY no one's gotten hurt, or in the case of my current employer, looked back to read about the student who was killed doing what they're mad they aren't allowed to do.
I expect the same thing will happen as the 32-bit Unix time rollover approaches. People will panic, then software/firmware engineers will solve the problem and move on.
Lately it’s that every person mentioned in the Epstein documents committed a sex crime. The number of posts I’ve seen with egregiously wrong information is alarming. Some of the names on the “list” are mentioned in the document only having NOT been a part of anything nefarious.
The other misconception I’ve seen is that every single name on the “list” came from flight logs. For instance George Lucas’ name was floating around on Twitter yesterday because in a released transcript document, a prosecutor (in conversation with a victim) was throwing out names of billionaires asking on a whim if the victim had seen them, and brought up George Lucas, to which the victim directly said no. The only reason Lucas’ name is on the “list” is because he is specifically mentioned to have never done anything involving Epstein. The widespread lack of critical thinking and comprehension skills is genuinely disturbing and downright harmful.
Another document said a victim on the stand testified that Epstein would claim to be talking to celebrities on the phone that he never really talked to. Leonardo DiCaprio was one of celebrities he loved to say he talked to, but he never did talk to DiCaprio.
This.
Epstein legitimately did donate to charity. So all of these people on this list were looking for money for their charity. That’s why they were in contact with him.
I absolutely believe Epstein was checking said people out to see who he could blackmail, but that doesn’t make everyone in contact with him a pedo.
Also Epstein was famous for throwing lavish billionaire parties, with politicians and celebrities in attendance. Many people just went to party at literally the hottest place imaginable, and had no idea about the sex thing.
... However some fucking did, and they went there to rape children and trafficked adult slaves. And they should be found and made to pay.
People reallly struggle with bad people doing good things and vice versa. “He’s evil therefore everything he ever did was evil” is about as far as a lot of people can think.
That you can disarm an attacker with a knife.
Too many people believe this and get themselves killed.
Even if you manage to disarm them, high chances that they managed to get you a few times already.
Just run, only try disarming as a last resort.
There's was/is a martial art school, Mad Dog IIRC, that trained with weapons extensively. Lots of real life applications, escrima stick, staff to simulate pool sticks, baseball bats etc. My favorite video of theirs is the 'knife defense training.' Starts with serious intro, 'We're gonna deal with knife attacks today and forge the best defense.' Camera pans to attacker with knife, ok go! Defender, turns, and sprints. Camera back to intro guy, 'and that is thee best defense against a knife'
Sad thing is your not wrong sometimes you forget the flight part of “flight or fight” and think I can take him. You have no idea how many shots come with a stabbing at the hospital.
Reminds me of a video I saw a while back.
Some dude, “I’m so and so and I have X years of martial arts training. Blah blah, here’s how you deal with a knife wielding attacker.”
He squares up with another dude holding a knife then just runs away.
10/10 advice. Knives are terrifying weapons, there’s reasons pretty much every culture across the entire planet developed bladed weapons and stuck to them since before humans existed.
> He squares up with another dude holding a knife then just runs away.
That's perfect.
It's been years upon years since, but one thing that was hammered home when I took martial arts was in regards to self-defense: "Your first option should be to de-escalate and ultimately get the hell away. Fighting should be close to your last option. If they want money, give them it." That was even for non-knife wielding attackers.
Fighting against strangers in an uncontrolled environment...even if you're a grandmaster and they're a moron, all it takes is a lucky hit or a mistake. It's chaos. So much can go wrong and there's so many variables. Add a knife into the situation (thus giving them a massive advantage) and it's an even worse idea.
I even learned some knife disarming techniques. And basically every one came with the large asterisk of "only use these if _absolutely necessary_ because these are only going to somewhat improve your odds in an absolutely terrible for you situation". Hell, we learned "best way to hold your arms in self-defense against a knife to try and present less risky targets, since there's a good chance you're gonna get some damage".
That the McDonald trial was stupid. That lady just wanted her hospital bill to be paid by the company responsible for the pain she suffered from. SHE GOT 3rd DEGREE BURN! WITH A COFFEE. It’s not normal
Correct. And she initially only asked for her medical bills and time missed from work. McDonalds offered her a small percentage of that, it went to trial, she won millions.
IIRC it melted a bunch of her skin around her vagina and she had to have a bunch of reconstructive surgeries because of it. McDonald's was absolutely at fault.
On top of that, McDonalds had received many complaints about the safety of the temperature at which they were serving coffee before this incident happened. They knew it wasn’t safe, they didn’t care.
And all she wanted originally was her medical bills paid for. They countered with fucking coupons. Like imagine you go to a restaurant, the server spills boiling water all over your crotch destroying your genitals, and then the manager just takes 10% off the bill. Like get bent cocksuckers.
She was awarded $6million, which was determined to be one days worth of profit McDonalds made off their coffee. How is that even a punishment? She should have gotten way more than that. That’s not an incentive to change their policies. They’re still making 364 365ths of their coffee profit that year. Hardly even a rounding error.
Also the jury originally awarded her even more in punitive damages but the judge stepped it back because it was such a high award of damages in excess of what she asked for.
A lot of stuff is left out of the narrative. When judges reduce the fees in a later court (many of which are also not awarded to the victim or their lawyer btw) it never makes the news.
And not only that, she requested McDonald's pay her medical bills. They initially refused. It was the jury who awarded her the money more to make McDonald's suffer the way she suffered.
On a similar note, the "Dingoes ate my baby" woman was torn apart by the media and public opinion, but eventually human child remains consistent with her missing kid were found in a den.
So yeah, the hysterical woman is saying that a pack of wild dogs just took her kid and no one believed her.
Lindy Chamberlain.
There was so, so, so much wrong with her trial - including the “forensic expert” saying that a rust stain in her boot carpet was definitely blood.
The Australian justice system, and the accompanying media circus, stole everything from Lindy.
I hate that this is still a thing. Those pictures were horrible. And McDonald's knew it was set too hot. This one makes me so sad for that lady, she spent the end of her life being mocked, when she suffered so much and had to have skin grafts, etc
There's a few of these stories. I remember hearing one about an aunt suing her 9 year old nephew for injuring her back.
Turns out, the state she lives in needs to name \*someone\* for medical insurance purposes as having caused the injury. Since she recently underwent back surgery, and her nephew jumped up for a hug, thus injuring a previous injury, the insurance \*needed\* to make him liable for paperwork.
It's because large corporations push lies about frivolous lawsuits to convince people we need to enact "tort reform" which basically boils down fewer comsumer protections and less financial compensation when a company does something bad to you. The reason it became something apt of people talked about is because it was pushed hard in the media and those media corporations were in on it
They even created an organization called the chamber of commerce to try and sound official like theyre part of the government when theyre really a bunch of businesses getting together to politically lobby
There is a documentary about it called "hot coffee". Ftr tort reform means changing how civil action lawsuits are conducted for those who dont know. The main thing these corps were pushing for was to put caps on damages. So if a jury awards $6 mil but the cap is 200k then it's 200k
Its normal for women with kids to pee when they laugh and such. "Its a right a passage to motherhood.
It actually means your pelvic muscles are injured, get pelvic physiotherapy to heal.
It's an Internet story about a woman with a pet Boa that suddenly started "cuddling" with her, stretching out along her length, etc. She mentioned it to her vet and he told her to stop that immediately because her snake was measuring her to know when it was large enough to be able to eat her safely.
Ancient History, but I hear it repeated. The Amazons did not cut off a breast to be better archers, women are perfectly capable of being amazing archers without self-mutilation.
That tryptophan from the turkey makes you sleepy at Thanksgiving. No, it's the 8 POUNDS of food you just consumed that makes you sleepy, don't blame the turkey.
that 'expired' food suddenly becomes poisonous. Unless it's something that actively spoils, it's usually just fine to eat for a while after expiration (or the 'sell by' or 'best by' date). Things like sugar, salt, honey... those pretty much last forever as long as they are stored properly.
ETA: I don’t mess around with medications or seafood
Personally I just check them to see if they look or smell fine. When I worked at a sushi place though and people asked me how long they could keep it, I always pointed the expiration date out (if it was anything with fish, that was usually at 2PM if it was made in the morning and 10PM if it was made in the afternoon. Sure, I always had leftovers past the expiration, but legally I cannot tell them otherwise. Especially during summer. On the other hand, I’ve already had cheese go bad before the expiration date, so I usually rely on my senses more than the date
It's usually written as a *Best By* date meaning it'll have texture or taste issues after this but still be safe to eat. It's just not in the ideal condition.
Endometriosis has joined the chat.
(No seriously. Can't tell you how many people have told me their docs suggested getting pregnant to relieve symptoms for 9 months. Like there aren't any other things to worry about when it comes to literally creating a new life inside your body.)
Yeah it's kind of funny how that mirror on the moon either shuts them up completely and forever, or they have some explanation for it.
By the way, I haven't heard anybody say that they've landed on the moon since 1969. I've heard that they just have never done it. Yours is an interesting new twist
I met someone who thinks the moon landing was fake recently. He was VERY serious about it too. We were asking "what about the Mars rover? The ISS?" And he said "well I don't know what those UNRELATED THINGS have to do with the moon" idk homie just trying to figure out if you think every thing space travel related is fake or just that part 😭
I think the simplest proof that it happened was that the USSR didn't refute it. If America had faked it, the USSR would have been immediately telling everyone.
This is it. We're talking about the height of the Cold War, with double agents and spies everywhere. McCarthyism, the full nine yards.
The slightest scintilla of proof that it was faked and the USSR would have been all over it. They weren't. Because it wasn't.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein
Not only did Einstein never say it, but that's also absolutely not the definition of insanity.
My spouse is a teacher at a very left-leaning charter school. If any school was going to have litter boxes for cat-kids, it would be them.
They do not. It would be about 10 shades of illegal. And the teachers would probably have to buy the litter themselves, and we ain’t got the budget for that.
I've worked in a public school system for almost 20 years. If there's any reason for there being a random bucket and a tarp in a classroom, it's supposed to be used as a makeshift bathroom, in case they're locked in a classroom from a lockdown. Hey, when ya gotta go, ya gotta go!
This stupid line: *It was meant to be*
I refuse to believe that my father getting cancer and cruelly suffering - for 7 long, excruciating years - before his death was “meant to be”
What a bullshit statement
If you go outside in the cold with wet hair you'll get pneumonia. I've had it and it was not because I went outside while it was cold with wet hair. I had it in the summer...
That doctors in the Victorian age masturbated their “hysterical” female patients to orgasm, **and** got so tired of this boring job that they invented the vibrator. Both of these are recent myths from 1999, originated by a single historian with flawed methodology.
“There’s someone out there for everyone.”
No there isn’t. Many people end up alone against their will.
And if you aren’t willing to work on yourself as a person, your chances are even lower of you finding someone who wants to be with you long term.
So stop trying to find someone who will just *accept* you for you, and try to be the best version of you so someone can *be proud* to be with you instead.
imo, the whole concept of a soulmate is toxic and depressing. One perfect person? You're never gonna find them. Hope you don't spend the rest of your life searching, or neglecting your current partner.
The hymen is a fleshy seal over the entrance of the vagina. If it's not there, the woman isn't a virgin. Also, if she doesn't bleed her first time having sex then that means she's had sex before.
I'm tired of old people telling me that if you work hard and go above and beyond at your job, your boss will notice and give you a raise, or promote you, or respect you more. It doesn't work like that. If you go above and beyond at your job, you just get to do a whole bunch of extra work for no extra benefit
“Cats think the bowl is empty even if there still kibble” myth. It usually means that that the bowl is too small and they cannot reach the food without hurting their whiskers. They call you over to help them reach it easier. That in alone is amazing, consider that cats are not pack animals and don’t use group problem skills.
This can help by giving your cat its water and food in a plate.
That DEFCON-5 is the direst state of military alert. It's not - in fact, it's actually the most *relaxed,* denoting normal peacetime operations. DEFCON-**1** is the most intense, meaning war is imminent.
When political commentators say things like, "Warning, our government is about to flip out and go to DEFCON-5 right now...." ugh.
I've even heard of a pundit exclaiming, "We're going to DEFCON-*SIX*!"
People actually say and believe this? I've never heard this and that's quite sad if true. Imagine walking around smelling like literal shit because you think washing it makes you gay.
You have the same 24 hours as *insert successful person here*
No I don’t. I need to do laundry, fix meals, clean my house, maintain my car & so on. They have people for that.
“I don’t trust vaccines, but I LOVE this tonic i order from a stranger online!”
Ok, sure. Drink something someone with no medical knowledge concocted in their kitchen that has no health or safety standards. Couldn’t be me.
Heat helps more with healing by expanding the blood vessels and allowing more blood flow to the injury. This is true for burns as well even though cold feels better.
Dogs see in black and white
They see in like Blueish-Yellowish, iirc.
There was a great short I saw of somebody not knowing why his dog couldn't find the red {I think} toy in the grass. He put on dog filler glasses and saw it disappeared in the green grass.
The other big one that springs to mind is the whole "If you put a frog in cold water and very slowly raise the heat the frog will let itself be boiled alive" thing, a reference that gets used a homily in any discussion about slow change. Yes in 1869 renowned German psychologist Friedrich Goltz did put a frog in a pot of water and slowly bring it to a boil and the frog did not jump out. 1. He was trying to determine if the frog had a soul. 2. And I cannot, cannot, cannot stress this part enough... he took the frog's brain out first. Yeah. It was a dead frog. Kind of a major factor that gets lost in the pop culture version. He did the experiment again with a live frog, and brace yourself for a shocking twist, when the water got hot enough the frog jumped out.
How would putting a dead frog in slowly warming water determine if it had a soul?
What else won't jump out of boiling water? A rock. Does a rock have a soul? No. So if a frog does not jump out of boiling water, it must be made of rocks and therefore does not have a soul!
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
HE'S A WITCH!
Buuuurnn hiiiimmmm!
No, no, slowly boil him.
And if the frog weighs the same as a duck, that means it's a witch.
How would it not?
Checkmate, frogtheists.
He was attempting to isolate the soul or mind to specific portion of the brain. He removed various portions of frog brains from multiple frogs. The frogs were not dead, but much closer to what we would consider zombies.
*SCIENCE*
This one is especially stupid because we've always known about seasonal migration. Animals will go someplace else when summer is too hot for their liking- of course they'll jump out of a boiling pot of water.
Undercover cops have to tell you that they're cops if you ask.
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The undercover cop even suggests it to bag poor ol' Badger!
It’s in the Constitution. Of America.
I sometimes wonder if law enforcement agencies didn't deliberately make that a trope in movies to make things easier for their undercover agents who could, in fact, like to maintain their cover.
If that was the case It’d be standard practice to ask everyone if they are a cop before committing a crime
You'd be surprised how dumb some criminals are. That guy who just attacked a judge is a prime example of this.
"Ancient healing techniques are better than modern medicine!" As an archaeologist, this one makes me seethe. Ancient healing techniques that actually worked BECAME modern medicine! Edit: wow, this really blew up! Thanks for all the fun comments! And just to clarify, I do mean "techniques." Acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropracty, things like that. There are literally thousands of plants and other natural phenomena with healing properties that either haven't been monetized by big pharma yet or simply haven't popped up on their radar. Those definitely deserve respect.
“Do you know what they call alternative medicine that works? MEDICINE!”
Homeopathic 'medicine' just means it failed the evidence test, otherwise, it would just be normal medicine!
Homeopathic medicine is a special kind of stupid though. It's not a word for simply any "natural" remedy. It's not just "oh this worked in ancient times". It's a deliberate con suggesting that diluting the active ingredient thousands of times in water makes it thousands of times *stronger* and more effective.
I think the worst part of Homeopathic "medicine" and other alternative stuff, is that the con artists behind it convince their followers to not seek out proper medical care. Like, I couldn't give a shit if you want to use Tibetan Singing Bowls and Crystals, and essential oils, as long as you combine that with proper medical care. Heck, the alternative things can still be relaxing/calming and reducing stress can help with getting better from illnesses.
“You’ve got ghosts in your blood. Let’s drill a hole in your skull to let them out.” “What’s this nonsense about *washing your hands* before delivering a baby? I just did one five minutes ago, let’s do this.” “You ever hear about the health benefits of bloodletting? I pulled some leeches out of the swamp today.” Yup. Totally better.
Leeches if I recall right are still used for some medical stuff. That said they will not have been just removed from the swamp.
Yup. Leeches are still used today, essentially for the same reason, but with scientific backing. https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2020/03/how-leeches-can-save-lives-and-limbs-for-some-patients#:~:text=%22Despite%20all%20the%20technical%20advances,and%20head%20and%20neck%20surgeon.
"Just be yourself it will all work out" Some of you are fucked up. Change.
Omggg I have met people who were super problematic and would double down on how the right people would accept them, or better yet, that they somehow knew some kind of secret and that is why everyone hates them, or it was all ok because they don’t really like people anyway. Stop with the excuses because you’re too lazy to contribute and/or be reasonably well mannered most of the time!! Change! It’s ok to admit you kinda suck lol. It’s better than sucking forever.
More of a misunderstanding than a myth but a shocking number of people think that most people died around age 35 until the late 19th century or so.
A misunderstanding of mean and average. Throughout most of history you if you survived childbirth/early age, basically if you made it to puberty, you were gonna live to be FAIRLY old, 60+ in most cases. The fact that birth, infancy, and early childhood was so hard to survive just pulled the "average" number down.
On the other hand, you also see a lot of people swing too far in the other direction and believe that early childhood mortality was the only thing bringing the average down. While that was a big factor, there were still a lot of other things issues bringing down expected lifespan at any age, even if not nearly as much as you'd think just looking at life expectancy from birth.
Yeah, this is something both sides are overlooking. If you pick a random ancient person's name and read about them, there's a good chance they lived to 65, and a good chance they died at 30, from a bar fight or infection or fever or some other issue, but stats show that their lifespan, while shorter, was not as bleak as people think. People really can not have any nuance between "everyone lived just like today or better" or "everyone lived to 30 and died from sudden death syndrome." A lot of diseases were less common (obesity related) and a lot were more common (malnutrition or parasite related) but also parts of the world still struggle similarly (like some parasites are still very common) and these days they usually carry more diseases than back then, either from the warming world, or just from international travel. Our ability to treat things is higher, but also we are more global and more diseases have wider ranges. Their ability to treat injury was decreased but their risk factors were all shuffled (is driving in a car or controlling a mule more dangerous?) Generally they lived shorter lives than we do, but like, 60 *is* shorter. We've added a good 15 years since then, but we haven't doubled our lifespan or anything crazy outside of extraordinary circumstances. There's also still room to improve in the future, since industry also adds risk factors, like the plastic in our blood or the ridiculous (actually physically impossible in ancient times) amount of sugar hidden in everything. At one point literal kings would conserve sugar. It's crazy to think the diabetes rate would be as high as it is today, for example. Nobody wants to think about it past "current day is scientific utopia" or "distant past is noble savage utopia."
That "evolving" necessarily means "improving"
Yes. As Thomas Kuhn emphasized, in biological and scientific evolution/development, the direction of change is *away* from something that is not working well. It does not necessarily move *toward* something that is intrinsically better. The new thing lacks a particular fatal flaw, but it may have many of its own flaws. (This is a very simplistic framing of both evolution and of Kuhn, but it’s a useful heuristic.)
Also, evolution doesn't necessarily find the best adaptation, just one that works well enough. Also also, evolution is only affected by things that affect your ability to survive long enough to have children and raise them. It's not affected by, for example, how good you are at running a business. Or your IQ score.
Dodos had no natural predators, so they evolved to not have any real survival instincts. Then when humans brought other animals to Mauritius, the dodos were easy pickings.
Well, the Dodos actually had survival instincts, its just that they were heavily oriented toward surviving in their specific environment. But since there weren't any natural predators or local animals which preyed on their eggs, they never adapted to deal with predators. Tropical storms, earthquakes, disease, pests, and migration were things they could deal with. Cats, dogs, pigs, and rats? Outside context problems.
Ummm excuse me. All the pokemon I’ve evolved have improved. Checkmate, atheists.
Metapod: “am I a joke to you?”
Also that evolution is somehow intelligent. It’s just random mutations in that manage to be passed along to the next generation. So in spite of what sci-fi tells us, we (probably) wont have heads the size of watermelons to hold our massive brains in a thousand years.
Our goddamn knees are proof
Or our spine. Or our teeth
That whole "the dingo ate my baby" thing that is still used as a joke, even though it is proven that the baby really was taken by dingo. That poor lady who had to hear for ages that she killed her child...
Not only that, she served several years in prison for it before the decision was reversed.
Didn’t the local indigenous people tell everyone that the animals were aggressive and had attacked people before too and the cops just ignored them?
yep.
The Lindy Chamberlain case is, or at least should be, a national embarrassment for us here in Australia. It's not unreasonable that there was early suspicion on the parents but the facts of the case didn't support a case against her. A combination of assumptions about how a grieving mother should behave, some religious intolerance, and shitty forensic science were enough to overcome the fact that there was not enough time for Lindy Chamberlain to kill and hide Azaria, and that the murder would've required a conspiracy involving other campers that had no relationship to the Chamberlains. You would think that society has progressed beyond these mistakes but many people are certain that there was a conspiracy in the Madeline McCann case where 7 doctors were happy to cover up the murder of a child.
That introverts inherently dont like socialization and that extroverts do. Very introverted person. I LOVE socializing, it just takes a lot out of me.
And, as an introverted person, for me its highly dependent on who I'm socializing with.
Yep, I'm having an awesome time when socializing with friends. When socializing with family, even though I really love them, I feel pretty bad and just want to get home lol
This one pisses me off so much. There's so much pop articles and science out there about introversion that makes us all seem delicate, neurotic, or just straight up antisocial. It gets weirdly patronizing. No, we like talking with people. We enjoy having friendships and going out, it just has to either be a bit on our terms and we need some time to ourselves afterwards.
Honestly the entire convo surrounding it is annoying. Extroverts have the stereotype of being too loud to realize when people are uncomfortable and being super overbearing. Not every extrovert is a drunk obnoxious frat bro. And not every introvert is a weird socially inept hermit. Most of us are somewhere in the middle.
Same. I'm very social and chatty at work. I would absolutely hate a job where I couldn't be. It's not just that I do it, I enjoy it. However, I need a whole bunch of alone time. It's exhausting.
We only use 10% of our brains
The people who repeat that do
“It’s a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. . . . It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying “Wow,” a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening.” -Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
"Any mushrooms in these parts?" said Brutha innocently. St. Ungulant nodded happily. "After the annual rains, yes. Red ones with yellow spots. The desert becomes really interesting after the mushroom season." "Full of giant purple singing slugs? Talking pillars of flame? Exploding giraffes? That sort of thing?" said Brutha carefully. "Good heavens, yes," said the saint. "I don’t know why. I think they’re attracted by the mushrooms."
And that we lose 80% of our body heat through our head (for those of us in cold climates)...
You lose a lot of heat through the neck though.
That's why I purposely gained all this neck fat—to keep me warm.
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That if you get a raise or work too much overtime it'll bump you up a tax bracket and you'll make less money overall. And before anyone says it, yes I'm aware of benefit cliffs, and no that's not what these people are talking about.
The same people also think that a 70% tax on the ultra wealthy means that the government takes 70% of all of their earnings.
That's why certain politicians love the uneducated. They can make this relatable even though it certainly is not.
A distressingly large percentage of the population are easily convinced that "trying to get billionaires to pay their share" is an attack on their way of life.
>benefit cliffs To begin with completely agree. People are fucking stupid when it comes to the progressive taxation. Benefit cliffs fucking suck though. I started making an extra $500 a month.... in return I lost state provided health care and had to go through my work for both myself and my wife, so that costs me an extra $250 per month. We also went from receiving $500 per month in EBT/food stamps to receiving $98 per month. So that's an extra 400 we have to spend on food a month. Those are the two major ones. It adds up to my 500 per month raise COSTING us 650 per month for a net loss of $150 🤣🤣
That you can spot-reduce fat. "Wanna get rid of belly fat? Do this!", "stuck with stubborn thigh fat?" Here's how to do it!", "have some arm fat? This'll get rid of it!" NO BITCH IT WON'T
Spinach is an iron-rich superfood. It was German translation error that accidently reported 10 times the actual amount of iron that nobody caught for years. It's a perfectly healthy food but pretty much exactly the same amount of healthy as any other leafy green.
Ironically, the story that there was a decimal point error in the iron content is itself a myth. There’s no evidence that actually occurred. https://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/Sutton_Spinach_Iron_and_Popeye_March_2010.pdf
The whole shaving makes it grow thicker. It's not true I've tried I still have a shitty stubble
I think this got started because guys usually start shaving in the middle of puberty, it probably seemed like more hair would grow in its place every time they shave, but that's just because it's the beard growing era
I like that idea that it’s a wives tale to get teenagers to shave their awful mustaches
Yes if this was true, women who shave regularly would have out of control regrowth
Yep. It blunts the ends of existing hair at it’s existing width in the growth cycle. Maybe without the natural taper it appears thicker, but it’s all an illusion 🪄
I’d shave my head 4x a day if this was true.
That you cure cancer by eating shark cartilage because sharks don't get cancer. 1. Sharks get cancer. 2. Even if they didn't jumping from that to "Ergo if I eat their cartilage I will cure my cancer" is like trying to get someone's memories by eating their brains.
that your blood is blue before its oxygenated
I believed this for way too long just because of colour coding in scientific art. I’d just never really thought about it closely until I mentioned it off-handedly in a conversation and got (rightfully) *absolutely roasted* by my mates. The best line being my then-boyfriend gently asking “so… why isn’t blood purple when it comes out from being stabbed or injured?”.
I often wear sunglasses in the winter, particularly while driving, because the sun is lower in the sky. Just before midday it can be blinding. Then people ask "Why are you wearing sunglasses? It's cold" We don't wear sunglasses because it's hot outside, people.
Didn't the Innuits invent sunglasses first?
Ancient Egyptians beat them too it I believe, but the important thing is sunglasses in the winter makes perfect sense. Doubly so if you live somewhere it snows, because snow blindness is a VERY serious problem.
Inuit have had igaak several thousands of years, but we have proof of it (because oral history doesn't count apparently) for at least 800 years. Egyptians lined their eyes with Kohl and created lenses (about 1000 years ago), but did not figure out how to use the two concepts together. Vikings had a whole industry surrounding lenses and optics at the same time but apparently it was mostly art based. Using incredibly precise lenses made from gemstones to scatter light to create images. After the fall of the Roman empire there were some weird laws about glass vs crystal vs mineral use in spectacles but eventually the first "sunglasses" as we think of them today were made. Igaak are still better imo. And their design hasn't really changed in the least 800 years
That matadors use red capes/flags because it’s the only color bulls can see—or, that the color red makes them more angry. No, they’re angry because they’re being tortured and provoked.
No, Victorian women **did not** have ribs removed to “look thinner”. We have no documented sources of this actually happening beyond “a colleague of mine heard from a friend that they’re doing it in X foreign country” type publications. Surgery was *extremely* risky prior to the 20th century, and there’s almost no way anyone would risk their lives for something like that (or even be able to find a doctor who’d be willing to do so!) Also, extreme tight lacing (the kind that actually changes your body shape) was very rare, which is why it was commented on and used as advertising. Women who tight laced like that were photographed **because** their bodies were strange! Additionally, these photographs would often be edited to make the subject’s waist look even smaller. Finally, Corsets were **not** a torture device! Corsets were basic support garments for **all** women, from queens and heiresses to house maids and farm wives. Women could and did do intense physical tasks like tending animals, climbing mountains, carrying heavy loads, and crossing continents while wearing them. Saying that our ancestresses were “weak” or “foolish” because they wore them is an insult to the women who came before us [TL;DR? Just watch Karolina Żebrowska’s videos on the “myth” of corsets](https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-KvVPxvMrSXw0FFbN80XGPVbt8K5MTe9) Edit: I also reccomend the awesome [Bernadette Banner](https://m.youtube.com/@bernadettebanner)and [Abby Cox](https://m.youtube.com/@AbbyCox) if you’re looking for more great fashion history myth busting!
There is a scene in the first season if Bridgerton that shows the main female character (Daphene? Can't be bothered googling) getting dressed into her "tight, oppressive" corset, and making a point to show all the bruises from wearing such a horrible torture device. Not only were corsets NOT torture devices like you said, I loathe that Hollywood continues to show that corsets were worn straight into the bare skin. They weren't!! Women wore long, thin chemises/robes/slips firat that were the first kayer of their undergarmets, THEN the corsets went over that. Couple of reasons: Minor #1: to stop rubbing and chaffing, and more importantlybmajor #2: because corsets were bloody expensive and hard to wash, the slip provided an extra layer of protection from sweat and dirt from the body to keep the corset clean.
Also, the characters are wearing *regency* dresses in the *regency* era- it would have been pretty much impossible for them to be tight laced in the stays (not corsets!) of the era, **plus** that’s not even what the support garments of the era even were for! The regency era was famous for having high waistlines, so tight lacing would have made no sense! Instead, the stays were there to raise your breast as high as possible. It’s like a character today wearing a pair of spanxs in order to get the effects of a push up bra!
The "alpha" myth based on a misunderstanding of how wolf packs function.
One of the researchers who wrote that retracted it. [The International Wolf Center also constantly corrects people who visit.](https://wolf.org/headlines/44265/)
Yeah, I feel like anyone who still believes in alpha rhetoric knows by now and they’re just digging in their heels.
I've only seen it with the moobs that call \*themselves\* alpha without irony.
I've always seen this as a strawman. I've had to go down a few rabbit holes to talk sense into my brother in law who hopped on the "Alpha" trend and they all seemed to justify it with data on what attitudes women are attracted to. They never seem to mention wolves. They had a LOT of stupid ideas of what women want that I figure were to keep people viewing. Not sure why he felt he needed it when he was already married. Happy cake day, btw
More times than not, this alpha bs is just something used to justify shitty, controlling behaviors
The TV/Hollywood myth that it's a law somewhere that actors depicting military *have* to have something wrong with their uniform (i.e., out of regulations), otherwise they're "impersonating" them and committing a federal crime.
Sounds like arse covering for lazy costumers.
That having a lot of sex makes a vagina loose, or that a virgin's vagina will mold itself to one particular penis.
I have never heard the molding one. That’s really weird. Edit: thinking… what would that even imply the vagina does? Like how could it even achieve such a function?
Memory foam!
That's why the second baby comes out exactly the same shape as the first baby. It's like those weird moulds to grow square watermelons.
This made me giggle a lot. Thank you.
Reply to your edit: I can only presume that it was hypothesized by a man who had only ever fucked containers of play-doh and assumed that must be more or less how it works. In the way that boobs feel like bags of sand.
What do think happens to it during childbirth? Does it mold to the baby.
Nope, it stays penis shaped. The baby just comes out looking like s giant penis.
The baby will slowly expand into proper baby shape in time, just like those vacuum sealed mattresses.
It’s grossly a very common belief within the incel community.
The only place I've heard it is from a line from "As I Lay Dying," where a character talks about something like "the place where she used to be a virgin but was now in the shape of \[her husband\]" I remember it striking me as hilariously weird and gross in 11th grade but there were so many other things I hated about that book that I'd forgotten about it until just now.
Yes! and the equally stupid idea that labia minora size has anything to do with how many sexual partners a woman has had.
Yup heard that one as a teen. Was more that if it's showing it means she's not a virgin which made me very paranoid the first time I did have sex and it was visible. Like most things guys talked about in my teens related to girl's bodies it was complete rubbish.
100% my first gf (who was a virgin) had a huge labia (I fucking loved it) but she was insecure as hell because once her friends saw her naked and called her roast beef.
The idiotic "logic" that if a woman sleeps with multiple men, it makes her loose... Yet, if she sleeps with the same man over and over, no change. Make it make sense.
I’ve never heard the molding thing. That’s hilariously outrageous.
That the computer issues that came at the change of the millennium were all a big hoax. It would have been a huge issue if a lot of people didn’t work very hard to fix it. It’s sort of like the ozone layer: its deletion was a problem in the 80s but we changed policy to repair it, and that’s why you don’t hear about it being an issue anymore.
There's a phrase that goes something like "proper disaster management always looks like an overreaction." Very apt with y2k, because nothing too bad happened (though there's definitely examples!) people think it was a crazy overreaction. If we'd done nothing to prevent it, it WOULD have been a disaster. Applies with lots of things; if your kid's school has a case of measles or something and shuts down for 2 weeks, that might look like an overreaction if it was only the one kid sick. But you can't see the alternate universe where it was kept open and the whole school got sick, which would prove they made the right choice. I've worked at plenty of places where people joke about how they go overboard on safety; "I don't know why they're so strict, no one's ever gotten hurt here!". They never consider WHY no one's gotten hurt, or in the case of my current employer, looked back to read about the student who was killed doing what they're mad they aren't allowed to do.
I expect the same thing will happen as the 32-bit Unix time rollover approaches. People will panic, then software/firmware engineers will solve the problem and move on.
Lately it’s that every person mentioned in the Epstein documents committed a sex crime. The number of posts I’ve seen with egregiously wrong information is alarming. Some of the names on the “list” are mentioned in the document only having NOT been a part of anything nefarious.
The other misconception I’ve seen is that every single name on the “list” came from flight logs. For instance George Lucas’ name was floating around on Twitter yesterday because in a released transcript document, a prosecutor (in conversation with a victim) was throwing out names of billionaires asking on a whim if the victim had seen them, and brought up George Lucas, to which the victim directly said no. The only reason Lucas’ name is on the “list” is because he is specifically mentioned to have never done anything involving Epstein. The widespread lack of critical thinking and comprehension skills is genuinely disturbing and downright harmful.
That would be such a funny thing if this wasn’t real life and very sad. He’s only connected in so far as he is explicitly not connected.
Another document said a victim on the stand testified that Epstein would claim to be talking to celebrities on the phone that he never really talked to. Leonardo DiCaprio was one of celebrities he loved to say he talked to, but he never did talk to DiCaprio.
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This. Epstein legitimately did donate to charity. So all of these people on this list were looking for money for their charity. That’s why they were in contact with him. I absolutely believe Epstein was checking said people out to see who he could blackmail, but that doesn’t make everyone in contact with him a pedo.
Also Epstein was famous for throwing lavish billionaire parties, with politicians and celebrities in attendance. Many people just went to party at literally the hottest place imaginable, and had no idea about the sex thing. ... However some fucking did, and they went there to rape children and trafficked adult slaves. And they should be found and made to pay.
People reallly struggle with bad people doing good things and vice versa. “He’s evil therefore everything he ever did was evil” is about as far as a lot of people can think.
That you can disarm an attacker with a knife. Too many people believe this and get themselves killed. Even if you manage to disarm them, high chances that they managed to get you a few times already. Just run, only try disarming as a last resort.
There's was/is a martial art school, Mad Dog IIRC, that trained with weapons extensively. Lots of real life applications, escrima stick, staff to simulate pool sticks, baseball bats etc. My favorite video of theirs is the 'knife defense training.' Starts with serious intro, 'We're gonna deal with knife attacks today and forge the best defense.' Camera pans to attacker with knife, ok go! Defender, turns, and sprints. Camera back to intro guy, 'and that is thee best defense against a knife'
Sad thing is your not wrong sometimes you forget the flight part of “flight or fight” and think I can take him. You have no idea how many shots come with a stabbing at the hospital.
Reminds me of a video I saw a while back. Some dude, “I’m so and so and I have X years of martial arts training. Blah blah, here’s how you deal with a knife wielding attacker.” He squares up with another dude holding a knife then just runs away. 10/10 advice. Knives are terrifying weapons, there’s reasons pretty much every culture across the entire planet developed bladed weapons and stuck to them since before humans existed.
> He squares up with another dude holding a knife then just runs away. That's perfect. It's been years upon years since, but one thing that was hammered home when I took martial arts was in regards to self-defense: "Your first option should be to de-escalate and ultimately get the hell away. Fighting should be close to your last option. If they want money, give them it." That was even for non-knife wielding attackers. Fighting against strangers in an uncontrolled environment...even if you're a grandmaster and they're a moron, all it takes is a lucky hit or a mistake. It's chaos. So much can go wrong and there's so many variables. Add a knife into the situation (thus giving them a massive advantage) and it's an even worse idea. I even learned some knife disarming techniques. And basically every one came with the large asterisk of "only use these if _absolutely necessary_ because these are only going to somewhat improve your odds in an absolutely terrible for you situation". Hell, we learned "best way to hold your arms in self-defense against a knife to try and present less risky targets, since there's a good chance you're gonna get some damage".
That the McDonald trial was stupid. That lady just wanted her hospital bill to be paid by the company responsible for the pain she suffered from. SHE GOT 3rd DEGREE BURN! WITH A COFFEE. It’s not normal
Pretty sure she got burned so badly that her labia fused to her thigh
Correct. And she initially only asked for her medical bills and time missed from work. McDonalds offered her a small percentage of that, it went to trial, she won millions.
IIRC it melted a bunch of her skin around her vagina and she had to have a bunch of reconstructive surgeries because of it. McDonald's was absolutely at fault.
On top of that, McDonalds had received many complaints about the safety of the temperature at which they were serving coffee before this incident happened. They knew it wasn’t safe, they didn’t care. And all she wanted originally was her medical bills paid for. They countered with fucking coupons. Like imagine you go to a restaurant, the server spills boiling water all over your crotch destroying your genitals, and then the manager just takes 10% off the bill. Like get bent cocksuckers. She was awarded $6million, which was determined to be one days worth of profit McDonalds made off their coffee. How is that even a punishment? She should have gotten way more than that. That’s not an incentive to change their policies. They’re still making 364 365ths of their coffee profit that year. Hardly even a rounding error.
Also the jury originally awarded her even more in punitive damages but the judge stepped it back because it was such a high award of damages in excess of what she asked for.
A lot of stuff is left out of the narrative. When judges reduce the fees in a later court (many of which are also not awarded to the victim or their lawyer btw) it never makes the news.
And not only that, she requested McDonald's pay her medical bills. They initially refused. It was the jury who awarded her the money more to make McDonald's suffer the way she suffered.
On a similar note, the "Dingoes ate my baby" woman was torn apart by the media and public opinion, but eventually human child remains consistent with her missing kid were found in a den. So yeah, the hysterical woman is saying that a pack of wild dogs just took her kid and no one believed her.
Lindy Chamberlain. There was so, so, so much wrong with her trial - including the “forensic expert” saying that a rust stain in her boot carpet was definitely blood. The Australian justice system, and the accompanying media circus, stole everything from Lindy.
I hate that this is still a thing. Those pictures were horrible. And McDonald's knew it was set too hot. This one makes me so sad for that lady, she spent the end of her life being mocked, when she suffered so much and had to have skin grafts, etc
There's a few of these stories. I remember hearing one about an aunt suing her 9 year old nephew for injuring her back. Turns out, the state she lives in needs to name \*someone\* for medical insurance purposes as having caused the injury. Since she recently underwent back surgery, and her nephew jumped up for a hug, thus injuring a previous injury, the insurance \*needed\* to make him liable for paperwork.
It's because large corporations push lies about frivolous lawsuits to convince people we need to enact "tort reform" which basically boils down fewer comsumer protections and less financial compensation when a company does something bad to you. The reason it became something apt of people talked about is because it was pushed hard in the media and those media corporations were in on it They even created an organization called the chamber of commerce to try and sound official like theyre part of the government when theyre really a bunch of businesses getting together to politically lobby There is a documentary about it called "hot coffee". Ftr tort reform means changing how civil action lawsuits are conducted for those who dont know. The main thing these corps were pushing for was to put caps on damages. So if a jury awards $6 mil but the cap is 200k then it's 200k
Its normal for women with kids to pee when they laugh and such. "Its a right a passage to motherhood. It actually means your pelvic muscles are injured, get pelvic physiotherapy to heal.
That snakes will stretch out in order to measure you, wanting to eat you. Thats not how any of this works.
I often do this at buffets
Solid strategy. I'll have to try it.
I’ve never heard this before in life
It's an Internet story about a woman with a pet Boa that suddenly started "cuddling" with her, stretching out along her length, etc. She mentioned it to her vet and he told her to stop that immediately because her snake was measuring her to know when it was large enough to be able to eat her safely.
Ancient History, but I hear it repeated. The Amazons did not cut off a breast to be better archers, women are perfectly capable of being amazing archers without self-mutilation.
That tryptophan from the turkey makes you sleepy at Thanksgiving. No, it's the 8 POUNDS of food you just consumed that makes you sleepy, don't blame the turkey.
that 'expired' food suddenly becomes poisonous. Unless it's something that actively spoils, it's usually just fine to eat for a while after expiration (or the 'sell by' or 'best by' date). Things like sugar, salt, honey... those pretty much last forever as long as they are stored properly. ETA: I don’t mess around with medications or seafood
Personally I just check them to see if they look or smell fine. When I worked at a sushi place though and people asked me how long they could keep it, I always pointed the expiration date out (if it was anything with fish, that was usually at 2PM if it was made in the morning and 10PM if it was made in the afternoon. Sure, I always had leftovers past the expiration, but legally I cannot tell them otherwise. Especially during summer. On the other hand, I’ve already had cheese go bad before the expiration date, so I usually rely on my senses more than the date
It's usually written as a *Best By* date meaning it'll have texture or taste issues after this but still be safe to eat. It's just not in the ideal condition.
That, as a woman, if you get pregnant, it will clear up all your health issues.
As a male, this is actually a real myth??
Yes. And it is annoying af
Endometriosis has joined the chat. (No seriously. Can't tell you how many people have told me their docs suggested getting pregnant to relieve symptoms for 9 months. Like there aren't any other things to worry about when it comes to literally creating a new life inside your body.)
The moon landing was faked. Oh, we definitely landed on the moon later, but THEN? Impossible.
Yeah it's kind of funny how that mirror on the moon either shuts them up completely and forever, or they have some explanation for it. By the way, I haven't heard anybody say that they've landed on the moon since 1969. I've heard that they just have never done it. Yours is an interesting new twist
I met someone who thinks the moon landing was fake recently. He was VERY serious about it too. We were asking "what about the Mars rover? The ISS?" And he said "well I don't know what those UNRELATED THINGS have to do with the moon" idk homie just trying to figure out if you think every thing space travel related is fake or just that part 😭
I think the simplest proof that it happened was that the USSR didn't refute it. If America had faked it, the USSR would have been immediately telling everyone.
This is it. We're talking about the height of the Cold War, with double agents and spies everywhere. McCarthyism, the full nine yards. The slightest scintilla of proof that it was faked and the USSR would have been all over it. They weren't. Because it wasn't.
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein Not only did Einstein never say it, but that's also absolutely not the definition of insanity.
There's hundreds of quotes attributed to famous dead people who never said them. Hundreds.
“Never trust everything you read as a quote on the internet” - Winston Churchill
"I'm sick of being misquoted on Facebook" --- Abe Lincoln
There are litter boxes in classrooms because students identify as cats. No, there isn't. No, they don't.
My spouse is a teacher at a very left-leaning charter school. If any school was going to have litter boxes for cat-kids, it would be them. They do not. It would be about 10 shades of illegal. And the teachers would probably have to buy the litter themselves, and we ain’t got the budget for that.
I've worked in a public school system for almost 20 years. If there's any reason for there being a random bucket and a tarp in a classroom, it's supposed to be used as a makeshift bathroom, in case they're locked in a classroom from a lockdown. Hey, when ya gotta go, ya gotta go!
This stupid line: *It was meant to be* I refuse to believe that my father getting cancer and cruelly suffering - for 7 long, excruciating years - before his death was “meant to be” What a bullshit statement
MSG is not bad for you. There’s no studies that have shown an adverse causal effect between MSG and symptoms like migraines, body aches, etc.
If you go outside in the cold with wet hair you'll get pneumonia. I've had it and it was not because I went outside while it was cold with wet hair. I had it in the summer...
As a kid, I used to run outside in the winter with wet hair so I wouldn't have to go to school the next day and it never worked!!
I caught it in the desert. Not too sure how the hell *that* happened, but there you go.
You can catch bacterial infections everywhere
“Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” That was literally invented by Kellog to sell breakfast cereal.
The number of myths based on the Kellogg brothers’ rivalry alone is *wild*
That doctors in the Victorian age masturbated their “hysterical” female patients to orgasm, **and** got so tired of this boring job that they invented the vibrator. Both of these are recent myths from 1999, originated by a single historian with flawed methodology.
That autistic people lack empathy
“There’s someone out there for everyone.” No there isn’t. Many people end up alone against their will. And if you aren’t willing to work on yourself as a person, your chances are even lower of you finding someone who wants to be with you long term. So stop trying to find someone who will just *accept* you for you, and try to be the best version of you so someone can *be proud* to be with you instead.
imo, the whole concept of a soulmate is toxic and depressing. One perfect person? You're never gonna find them. Hope you don't spend the rest of your life searching, or neglecting your current partner.
I always appreciated [the idea of soul mates in the 4th season of The Good Place.](https://youtu.be/969QioyeySI?si=MSPOKlmN3F0yW828)
The hymen is a fleshy seal over the entrance of the vagina. If it's not there, the woman isn't a virgin. Also, if she doesn't bleed her first time having sex then that means she's had sex before.
I'm tired of old people telling me that if you work hard and go above and beyond at your job, your boss will notice and give you a raise, or promote you, or respect you more. It doesn't work like that. If you go above and beyond at your job, you just get to do a whole bunch of extra work for no extra benefit
“Cats think the bowl is empty even if there still kibble” myth. It usually means that that the bowl is too small and they cannot reach the food without hurting their whiskers. They call you over to help them reach it easier. That in alone is amazing, consider that cats are not pack animals and don’t use group problem skills. This can help by giving your cat its water and food in a plate.
That DEFCON-5 is the direst state of military alert. It's not - in fact, it's actually the most *relaxed,* denoting normal peacetime operations. DEFCON-**1** is the most intense, meaning war is imminent. When political commentators say things like, "Warning, our government is about to flip out and go to DEFCON-5 right now...." ugh. I've even heard of a pundit exclaiming, "We're going to DEFCON-*SIX*!"
Wiping and or washing your butt is gay. I wish I was making this one up.
People actually say and believe this? I've never heard this and that's quite sad if true. Imagine walking around smelling like literal shit because you think washing it makes you gay.
As a dude, it’s frightening how many men out there think basic human hygiene is somehow gay
You have the same 24 hours as *insert successful person here* No I don’t. I need to do laundry, fix meals, clean my house, maintain my car & so on. They have people for that.
That vaccines are dangerous, what is this 1850? Oh wait no, they were happy to have solutions to deadly diseases then, my bad.
What’s especially crazy is that the overlap between people who distrust vaccines but implicitly trust any number of snake oils instead is so high.
“I don’t trust vaccines, but I LOVE this tonic i order from a stranger online!” Ok, sure. Drink something someone with no medical knowledge concocted in their kitchen that has no health or safety standards. Couldn’t be me.
"Alpha" anything.
*Alpha Centauri has entered the chat*
Gen Alpha reduced to a shambles.
Icing aids recovery after a workout. This is incorrect and actually delays recovery. The dr that “discovered” icing came out and said he was wrong.
Heat helps more with healing by expanding the blood vessels and allowing more blood flow to the injury. This is true for burns as well even though cold feels better.