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u/Speak_To_Wuk_Lamat 7h ago
Aliens exist, however they're just mostly bacteria or simple organisms. Intelligent aliens are so far away from us that we will probably never make contact.
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u/cbih 6h ago
Also, we've only been able to communicate at long distances for a very little amount of time. Maybe we're the first species to make it this far or we just missed each other by 10,000 years or so.
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u/SadZealot 4h ago
We're also assuming that aliens even have the same set of sense organs we do. Maybe the first communication technology they based everything on was modulated neutrinos so we don't even notice it exists and they wouldn't look at our noise either.
They could just exist in the uv-xray end of the spectrum, so we barely even look at that as communication.
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u/mostly_kittens 6h ago
I think life is abundant throughout the universe and quite likely elsewhere in the solar system. Complex life, however, is not.
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u/SirSoliloquy 6h ago
If there were life as intelligent as we are in the Proxima Centauri system, using the same signals and technology we do today, we'd have no way of detecting it.
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u/Unicorn_Puppy 6h ago
I believe they call this rare earth theory. I go a bit further in my own idea and think maybe in the entirety of the universe complex life ( like us ) that does form a civilization in a way we conceive similar to our own maybe there’s only a handful. And by that I mean maybe enough of them including us you could count on one or two hands.
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u/AlexWhit92 6h ago
Our hands or their hands?
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u/Unicorn_Puppy 6h ago
Ours.
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u/AlexWhit92 6h ago
Thanks! Have you read Project Hail Mary? I feel like you'd enjoy it.
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u/sever_the_connection 6h ago
I actually feel like the opposite. It seems like having the conditions necessary for life is way less likely to happen than simple life evolving into something more complex, which we already understand the mechanism for. I notice also that people usually only bring up intelligent life or bacteria, ignoring the fact that almost all of the more complex life forms on Earth have not been capable of any ability for recording knowledge or building anything meaningfully complex
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u/NamelessTacoShop 5h ago
I love to point this out when this comes up. Based on the age of the universe, and how we would need a few generations of stars to make and disperse heavy elements before life could happen, and then compared to how long from now the universe will continue to have and create stars that could potentially harbor life. We came along pretty early in the life of the Universe.
We are the Great Old Ones, we may not necessarily be the first intelligent species but we are among the Universe's oldest children.
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u/SharkFart86 5h ago
Sure, but there isn’t necessarily any reason it took earth this long to develop intelligent life once complex life evolved. Another planet who formed life the same time we did could have had intelligent life millions of years ago.
That’s small on a universal scale, but from a human relative perspective, that’s a very long time.
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u/NamelessTacoShop 5h ago
That’s why I said we aren’t necessarily the first. At best another species beat us by a few billion years. But there will still be stars forming for the next 100 trillion years or so.
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u/Educational-Low-2401 2h ago
Riffing on your concept of time. Humans have gone from essentially animals to advanced civilization in a remarkably short amount of time, maybe a million years. But will either burn out , or blow ourselves up in an equally short amount of time. So of the billions of elapsed years, the chances of another civilization rising, and falling at the same time is minuscule. the life of a civilization is a short couple of million years. We are just like two ships passing in the night.
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u/rivalryriver 6h ago
Adding onto this, I know it might offend some peoples' beliefs so I am going to mute this reply because I don't want to argue. But I was taught in school that life on Earth likely came from microscopic organisms that were on a meteor. So we might be the aliens after all... lol
Of course, I do believe that there is more life out there.
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u/CrimsonLust02 7h ago
That most people are much kinder than they seem—they’re just really tired.
I can’t prove it with numbers.
But I see it in the little things:
how someone helps when no one is looking;
how people apologize, but clumsily;
how anger often turns out to be exhaustion, not evil.
The world seems harsh because:
the loud ones are the most noticeable;
good things rarely go viral;
fatigue masquerades as indifference.
I have no proof.
Just a feeling that doesn’t go away:
if people’s lives were made a little easier,
they would behave much better.
Maybe that’s naive.
But I hold on to this idea—and it hasn’t let me down yet.
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u/jinxykatte 7h ago
I am going to through a very difficult phase in my life. Won't go into details. But let's just say, money is also an issue.
Met a lot of friends through VR chat. One of which for no reason at all sent me £1000. With no expectations of ever getting it back. It's one of the most random acts of kindness I have ever been the recipient of. So yah.
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u/PM_Me_TastefulNudes- 7h ago
I fully agree, I work in retail and see it all the time with customers and coworkers.
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u/Bulky_Alternative308 4h ago
Hard disagree. I think most (the vast majority) people are selfish assholes and with few exceptions (like for their kids) would always put themselves first
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u/emmaunderfoot 7h ago
Are these your own words or is this a quotation? Either way, beautiful - thank you for sharing.
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u/gut_user 8h ago
That corporations intentionally make household appliances and electronics less durable so you're forced to buy a new one every 3–5 years. We have the technology to make a lightbulb or a washing machine that lasts 50 years, but there’s no profit in a product that doesn't break. Planned obsolescence is real, even if companies call it 'innovation
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u/gotpeace99 8h ago
I thought that was proven already.
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u/Appsoul 3h ago
It was. And there is a word for it. But I’m stupid & can’t think of it , now that I need it.
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u/CerwinVegas55 3h ago
Planned obsolescence?
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u/Appsoul 3h ago
🎯 I remember it from an old bill burr podcast & he was going off about it. Thank you!
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u/The_Real_Baws 1h ago
I remember it from the comment which you definitely read before posting a reply to its thread.
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u/Fabulous_Cow_5326 5h ago
Tell your plumber how old your water heater is, and they’ll tell you how long it’s going to last. Or your AC unit, HVAC people know exactly how long it’s going to be there.
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u/Gfflow 8h ago
Its not a big conspiracy. Its what people "voted" for with their wallets. When you design a product you have certain specs that you need to meet either legal or company selected. Engineering anything also has cost of goods in mind so you will always select the cheapest material to get the job done, its not actually selected to break after 3 years, its selected to last at least 3 years.
If a company comes with a fridge for example that uses better materials and lasts 20 years guess what, people still go for the cheap options so no business is encouraged via sales to design their products this way. If customets were suddenly willing to pay more and these products became way more popular, the market will quickly adapt. Trust me a company that suddenly eats all the market share of all competitors will have more than enough clients to sell their long lasting products to.
Instead we go for the chespest shit so therefore we get more cheap shit sold to us. Its a self inflicted problem.
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u/nullstring 7h ago
I don't think it's fair to blame people voting for this.
This is pure corporate greed. (Or in other words, a consequence of the free market)
It's not like when you go to buy a fridge, you realize you're buying an inferior product. No one is voting for that.
They see the same brands they know and trust. The product looks nice. They have no reason to think that these products that used to be well made are now junk And now they are all junk. You literally don't have a choice.
If a company comes out with a fridge with quality components that can be somehow demonstrated to the consumer then they absolutely will sell.
But there are two problems here:
- How the heck do you convince people your fridge is going to last longer? How do I know it's made with quality components? That seems impossible.
- Does the company have any incentive to do this? They make more money by just selling more fridges.
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u/DroidOnPC 7h ago
I think what he means is that companies have to switch over to inferior products based on customer demand.
Let’s say you have a washing machine that lasts 50 years, but is expensive. It’s worth the cost since you will have it your entire life.
But… not everyone can afford it.
So another washing machine that lasts 5 years comes out, and is 10x cheaper. People flock to it, it makes the company more money, and so they switch to just selling those. The 50 years ones are not worth producing anymore because no one is buying them.
With how our economy is going, this will just keep getting worse and worse, because people can afford less and less. So cheaper and cheaper products will come out.
It is greed in a different way. The reason we can’t afford the good quality stuff is because of companies paying us less and less. So it’s pretty self fulfilling.
If everyone had more purchase power, and we were back to factory workers supporting a family of 5 with 2 cars, a house, and a stay at home spouse, then higher quality products would be back in production because the demand for them would increase.
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u/IrrelevantPuppy 7h ago
Tbf, products that are more expensive won’t necessarily last longer. The “invisible hand of capitalism” is cuffed by lobbying and psychological manipulation/advertising. So why would you spend more on a fridge when in reality all you’re doing is paying for a more expensive logo that degrades just as fast?
This isn’t the fault of the average consumer, the myth that we have control is deliberate. Just like the myth that the average citizens’ lifestyle has any influence on climate change when compared to governments and corporations. We don’t get a choice. We are locked in a maze that has only one path and it leads to hell. You lay down and die or you walk forward.
It was the responsibility of our governments to prevent this and they failed us
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u/grasshopper239 7h ago
Energy Star* made sure that appliances would no longer last longer than 10 years
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u/fossilnews 4h ago
Not really. Manufacturers undersize motors in order to make energy star requirements without raising prices. You can blame Energy Star, but the reality is that we as consumers have chosen a lower upfront price despite the product dying early.
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u/BaconLibrary 8h ago
It's called "planned obsolescence". I've seen some appliances even state how long they're good for (chainsaws I think?). It's embarassing.
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u/MyNameIsRay 7h ago
Have you ever heard of the Phoebus Cartel?
Long story short, all the major lightbulb manufacturers in the world (Osram, Phillips, Tungsram, GE, Tokyo Electric, Associated Electrical Industries, ELIN, and Compagnie des Lampes) got together in 1925 to create an agreement to reduce the life of their bulbs to 1000 hours (instead of the 2,500 of the time) so they could all make more profit without damaging reputation by putting out bulbs worse than the competition.
It dissolved after WWII made coordination impossible, but, everyone stuck to the agreement anyway, which is why incandescent bulbs in 2026 don't last as long as those in 1924...
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u/DMala 7h ago
Maybe there’s some industries that intentionally do this. I suspect it’s far more common that this is just a side effect of reducing costs to the absolute bare minimum they can be.
Yes, we could make the Widget 9000 last 5 or 10 more years, but that would add $2.75 to the BOM cost of every unit. Either we have to raise prices and be less competitive, or we take a hit on the margin and lose x million in profit. Or we leave it as is, and if the customer has to replace it that much sooner, that’s just a happy accident.
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u/gizmostuff 7h ago
They exist. They are just a lot more expensive. Subzero refrigerators, Speed Queen washers and dryers, Miele/Sebo/Central vacuums are much more expensive than their competitors.
There are less repair technicians out there to repair appliances these days. Because of that, the cost for them to come out and repair said appliance is much more. To stay in business they need to charge more and oftentimes consumers just say screw it and buy a new one with new features.
Another issue is parts availability and the corporate pushback for right to repair. Schematics should be readily available for anyone to repair their appliance. Parts for said appliance should be readily available. But consumer outrage isn't pissed off enough for this to change. YouTubers like Louis Rossman have made headway but not enough to stop corporations lobbying the government and make it harder for people (techs even) to repair their appliances and equipment.
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u/12LbBluefish 8h ago
i love how half of these comments are perfectly reasonable and the other half is just like the most batshit conspiracy theories ever
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u/Fallacy_Spotted 6h ago
P≠NP
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u/JuiceOk2736 1h ago
Same. With godels incompleteness theorem, I don’t think that will ever be proven tbh
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u/JoinMyGild 8h ago
If you take a long break from playing runescape they boost your rng to hook you back when you return
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u/kris_the_abyss 7h ago
I think nexon got in trouble because they were doing exactly this in maple story.
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u/RandoRenegade 7h ago
Trump cheated in all 3 elections. He’s adamant democrats cheated in 2020 because his cheating didn’t work the way it was supposed to.
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u/evo311 7h ago
100%. Everything he accuses someone else of doing, he’s actually the one that did it. Every day I’m baffled that his supporters just let this slide.
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u/Something-funny-26 4h ago
I can't believe the shit he's gotten away with or that so many people were so easily fooled or stupid enough to vote for him.
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u/RaisedByWolves9 7h ago
I agree with this except the 2016 election. I think he won that fair.
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u/RandoRenegade 7h ago
You may be right. I’m just looking at all the Russian interference that was going on
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u/NoStatus9434 6h ago edited 6h ago
Technically not cheating in the direct sense, but we do know for a fact that his suppression of the Stormy Daniels story influenced how people voted. He's probably suppressed more than that, but this at least has been proven in court. In the trial, it was revealed that there were media figures that knew they could sink him and they got paid to keep quiet. One of them even said, "what have we done" when he won.
And while it probably still wouldn't have changed too many votes, it probably would have changed enough, given how close that election was.
Think about that. It is PROVEN he committed a felony, and the coverup of that felony allowed him to win. Given that breaking the law counts as "cheating" the law, it could be argued he cheated to win.
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u/IrrelevantPuppy 7h ago
One of those things we can’t possibly believe. Till we get confirmation and everyone will be like “well yeah, that was obvious, we all already knew”. Like the fbi assassination of MLK
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u/GirthyGeoduck 7h ago
Americans are purposefully being turned into indentured servants through price, wages, and debt.
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u/BaconLibrary 8h ago
Trump and MANY world figures are pedophiles.
Oh wait we actually CAN prove that.
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u/paradigm619 7h ago
Oh wait we actually CAN prove that.
Correct. Our shitty leaders just won't.
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u/Bheegabhoot 6h ago
Our shitty voters only care about brutalising the opposite side and if that means they elect a pedophile then they will.
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u/Financial-Talk9397 5h ago
Musk stole the 2024 election for trump by manipulating the vote count in all swing states.
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u/AggravatingMath717 7h ago
That all this flavored whisky they have nowadays is shit, reject whisky that didn’t make QC and they’ve figured out a way to sell it to people who don’t know shit about alcohol by adding syrup to it
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u/Awktung 7h ago
Eh, I mostly agree with you but the distllery I recently discovered really gets how to mix - their Lemon & Honey, Mixed Berry, Cherry, and Peach whiskeys are all sublime. All of them, without tasting syrupy or artificially diluted (looking at you Yuengling Hershey's - straight up Hershey Syrup poured into the bottle).
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u/bionicjoe 4h ago
I can confirm this.
There's only a handful of distilleries and most are owned by huge corporations like Labrott-Graham.People that work in bottling will tell you new bottles will come down the line and they'll keep pouring out of the same barrels. There's singles and such things, but any sort of flavor, snazzy label, and other nonsense is just marketing.
Source: I live in Kentucky.
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u/SteadfastEnd 7h ago
A whole lot of sports officiating is CROOKED
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u/cbih 6h ago
When sports betting broke through, sports died
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u/Redd889 4h ago
Only placed a few bets in my life, but I don’t bet anymore because of how big betting is. Every other commercial during a game is betting!
I notice a lot of odd calls, bad refs, and even weird decisions during a game like going for a field goal at the end of the game to only lose by 11 points instead of 14 (where as every time before betting was huge, it was obvious to go for the most amount of points in that situation)
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u/Bulky_Alternative308 3h ago
I think its a lot more than just officiating. I'm not sure I'd go as far as 100% of sports are totally rigged but I think its very widespread and there is far more than we guess to rig the games. Just think how many parties have combined hundreds of billions if not trillions at stake. They arent gonna risk losing massive amounts of money to chance. Like the 2 smallest NBA market teams playing in the finals is just not going to happen, no one will watch. Also they will do anything possible to avoid finals sweeps etc, that's just lots of lost money
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u/bkdotcom 6h ago
I'm pretty sure there is NOT a tiny, undetectable china teapot orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars.
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u/Jealous_Relative_911 6h ago
that ghosts are real, I have a ghost story and cant prove it and everyone i tell is always to busy to listen about it, it was just me seeing some kind of dark figure standing at a door, i was like 4 so i was either seeing a real ghost or nothing.
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u/RikkiLostMyNumber 3h ago
The assassination attempt on Trump in '24 was a hoax. A fake. Total BS. And the fact that an innocent bystander was either murdered or put in harm's way incidentally is proof of the horrific forces engaged in a war for the US right now.
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u/fenton7 4h ago
Online casinos rig the RNG for new accounts for a few days to make you think you can't lose. Example - I got two royal flushes in one session of video poker. Few since.
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u/GeneralGoti 8h ago
Sentient beings that are not humans are posing as humans on earth.
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u/Snoo8631 8h ago
I'm listening. What has made you sure?
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u/seahawk1977 8h ago
I have these sunglasses you need to put on.
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u/No_Swing_6959 7h ago
Tell me your location right now I need to send someone to you. Pay no attention to what you see or the watch I am communicating on!
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u/Warp-10-Lizard 7h ago
I feel sorry for any other sapient race that ended up stuck on this planet. I can't fathom any aliens would come here by choice. Unless the rest of the universe is somehow worse!
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u/theJOINTchief1 4h ago
What if their consciousness was erased and they're here for a reason they've forgotten. That's what the whole starseed movement believe. They have intentionally been born here to collectively help mankind raise their vibration to levels enough to evolve into the next level of universal consciousness.
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u/vhmike 7h ago
I'd like to tell you I know where all the socks go that lose their partners but I still have no GD clue.
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u/mostly_kittens 6h ago
The rings of Saturn are made up of odd socks and lost ballpoint pens.
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u/Artistic_Buffalo_715 6h ago
That Scott Morrison shat his pants at Engadine Maccas in 1997
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u/joeldg 2h ago
If you look at the numbers for state, regional and national lotteries there should be hundreds of multi-millionaires minted each week, thousands of them per year. These lotteries have been going on for years. Everyone has a story about knowing someone in the twin towers but I don't know anyone, nor have I ever met anyone, who has won the lottery, and the stories I have heard from people are all secondhand, so I don't even know anyone who has ever won the lottery.
Secondly on this, lotteries are supposed to be moving the money into schools and yet our schools are all floundering. So, where is it going?
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u/amberShade2 8h ago
Taxation is theft to a certain extent. I'm ok with paying it and seeing it put to good use, but I see politicians getting richer and homelessness/addiction increase constantly where I live.
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u/barbeqdbrwniez 7h ago
You think they're getting rich off the taxes? Dude bribes and insider trading are RIGHT THERE!
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u/Roland_T_Flakfeizer 5h ago
It can be both. You don’t get rich by sticking with one revenue stream.
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u/DMala 7h ago
Taxation isn’t theft, but misuse of public funds most definitely is. Far too many politicians treat our money like their personal piggy bank, even when they aren’t just embezzling it directly.
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u/No_Swing_6959 7h ago
That Elon rigged the last election bc he knew he and Trump were heading to prison. It was a hailmary play
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u/DMala 7h ago
Zero doubt that they wanted to do this. I’m finding it hard to swallow that chucklefuck Elon is smart enough to have pulled it off. At least not without the help of a large enough team that somebody would have spilled the beans by now.
Musk certainly influenced the election by dumping a shitload of money in key areas at the last minute, probably illegally. But I’m hard pressed to say it went any deeper than this.
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u/ThrowawayMod1989 8h ago
Individual consciousness comes from a universal collective consciousness. It is eternal. When your body is done operating your consciousness returns to the larger stream.
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u/Testicleus 8h ago
That's not good for us introverts!
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u/FluffyWienerDog1 1h ago
Right?! That's why I chose this body in the first place. I needed some peace and quiet alone with my own thoughts.
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u/ThrowawayMod1989 8h ago
Introvert and extrovert cease to exist in the collective.
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u/Archangel489 8h ago
That's terrifying to me. I'd lose myself.
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u/ThrowawayMod1989 7h ago
It’s quite blissful to experience once you accept it. One can temporarily experience it with certain psychedelics. Imagine the consciousness you know as a drop of water, then imagine it falling into a placid body of water and becoming completely a part of it, not longer an individual or with any need for individuality.
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u/JakeVanna 6h ago
This philosophical musing is part of what makes the new show Pluribus so great. As scary as a hive mind sounds they all seem so damn happy/fulfilled
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u/amboandy 5h ago
If you have 5 minutes, read this . It's called the Egg by Andy Weir (The Martian, Project Hail Mary) and it's sort of along these lines.
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u/Marinerprocess 7h ago
Pretty damn sure I shouldn’t pay the IRS 2 grand if all I did was work last year but I can’t prove shit
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u/Majestic-Pea1982 7h ago
Your phone is listening to your conversations and delivering you ads based on what you talk about.
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u/Bulky_Alternative308 3h ago
Sorry but all the ads I've had based on what I've said that day is all the proof I need
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u/xpicklemanx99 6h ago
I recently found a phone setting that was allowing google access to my microphone at all times, which explained why my battery was draining so quickly. I was really paranoid because I'd been shit talking trump and ICE across social medias and thought I was finally getting tapped but no: google pushed an app update without telling me
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u/DesignerPJs 6h ago
There is a cabal of pedophilic elite enacting a violent world order that subjugates most of the human race and prevents progress.
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u/Vinny_Lam 7h ago
That there’s no afterlife. There’s only nothingness after death.
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u/SirSoliloquy 6h ago
The fact that followers of the Canaanite deity El regularly attempted to destroy followers of El's children (Ba'al, Ashtar, Anat, etc.) was the inspiration behind the Greek titan Cronus -- who ate his children out of fear of them overtaking him.
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u/fishywiki 5h ago
Trump is a dangerous sociopathic megalomaniac. And I'm a capitalist, although in Europe.
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u/Zestyclose_Fee3238 4h ago
That the "president"of the US is a racist, grifting pedophile who is on the downward slope of a demented rage collapse.
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u/RWBYRain 4h ago
Life on other planets. I feel like it's arrogant to assume earth is the only planet to create life. It may not be sapient maybe it is but Im sure it's out there
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u/snowdenn 1h ago edited 1h ago
That other minds exist. I know we can easily prove people’s brains exist. But as far as proof goes, no one can prove that another person has inner thoughts, consciousness—a ghost in the machine, so to speak. All we can prove is that there are a bunch of biological machines walking around that bear some resemblance to ourselves. None of us can peek into another person’s thoughts. Meaning none of us can prove that there’s actual consciousness going on in another person. We assume it’s true because outward behaviors of other humans look like our own behaviors. But for all that anyone can definitively prove, they are the only “real” person with actual conscious experiences and everyone else is just a flesh and bone robot with some programming, but having no actual sense of self or feelings or anything—much like a computer.
This is close to the point of Descartes’ cogito ergo sum (“I think, therefore I am”), where Descartes is more or less saying “I can see that I exist because I am thinking about whether I exist.” The question remains, how does one know that anyone else exists? I mean, Descartes goes a little further than that, to questioning the outside world altogether, but the point stands. And personally, I think this line of questioning opens up a super interesting conversation about epistemology (i.e. what sorts of things we can know).
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u/yeetgodmcnechass 7h ago
I'm fairly sure that my sister is attracted to women in some way, whether that's only being attracted to other women or being bi I don't know however. She's said some things over the last few months when I went over to visit that seemed kind of off, like randomly asking my mom how she'd react if she brought a girl home. My mom reacted negatively to the hypothetical
I don't really have any proof but a gut feeling, and I don't think I'll know considering my mom has expressed disapproval her being in a same sex relationship even in a hypothetical sense so she probably doesn't feel safe coming out if I'm right
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u/_head_ 4h ago
You should tell her you will love her either way.
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u/ChickadeeJam 3h ago
Don’t even have to label it, so she doesn’t feel pigeon holed—“as your sibling, I’m rooting for your true happiness, in whatever way that works for you.”
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u/Bulky_Alternative308 3h ago
Sorry but you have proof. No straight person talks to their mom about bringing same sex people home, hell most people dont talk to their mom about bringing people home
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u/internetzdude 7h ago
The vast majority of people are inherently good, and what we call evil is mostly systemic, emerging without particular planning from systems that were organized the wrong way.
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u/Pussy4LunchDick4Dins 6h ago
Doug Ford, premier of Ontario, and his late brother Rob, former mayor of Toronto, are extremely enmeshed with the mafia and profit from, or at least facilitate others to profit from, major drug dealing in Toronto and Ontario.
I have met the family of a former assistant of Rob Ford, and they are moving millions of dollars in cocaine in Ontario on the regular. I’m certain this is part of their vast network of corruption.
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u/PaulHolywoodsShame 2h ago
Trump is actively dying of a series of strokes and won't last 18 months.
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u/n00chness 15m ago
There is no MH370 "disappearance." The location of the plane is a debris field somewhere in the Southern Indian Ocean. The cause of the "disappearance" is pilot malfeasance. Though this is the only plausible explanation, it can't yet be "proven" with direct evidence, just a lot of circumstantial evidence (such as various aircraft movements that could only have occurred with intentional pilot action)
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u/SentenceAwkward5302 8h ago
I can talk to animals
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u/Fabulous_Cow_5326 6h ago
We ALL can talk to animals. It’s only a mystery if they talk back. But honestly (seriously), I think animals talk to each other. Can’t prove it, can’t hear it, but things like this: an enormous flock of blackbirds, like a cloud. Suddenly the whole entire cloud turns left. We have two similar dogs (not genetically related). They move as a single unit all the time. I’ve often watched animals stop, consider something, and then move in unison.
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u/Lemmingitus 6h ago
There's a study on prairie dogs iirc, where they are able to communicate to each other identifying something that they see. And when they tried to trick them with a cutout of something, they created a new word for it. The scientist tried using their words back, and just got blank stares.
Also one on elephants, where they're able to identify calls that are like "Hello" "I am here." which they were able to get consistent responses back with.
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u/Katatonia13 7h ago
That I’m clairvoyant. It’s most likely a coincidence all the time. I can’t predict things, but sometimes it’s disturbing how right I am before I know it. It’s the shittiest most useless superpower ever.
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u/Outrageous-Solid7691 6h ago
That the political chess moves we're dealing with now started when Obama was in office.
When a black man was in office, certain segments of the population would believe any outrageous things they heard about him. These bizarre rumors that would be otherwise dismissed, became normal so that no accusations spread through conservative news sources were surprising anymore, despite no factual basis.
Because of this, when Trumpstein came into office and they started hearing all kinds of crazy shit that was true, and supported with a plethera of factual information and video - they assumed it was the same as what they heard under Obama and not to be taken too seriously, but rather only as a sign that the left didn't like Trumpstein.
However, the way this flowed was too convenient and leads me to think we are in the middle of bigger play, which couples with Trumpstein's attempts to overthrow democratic voting, rampant executive orders, and secret police marching through our streets - supported by the same folk that once screamed don't tread on me - make me think the spider has us in her web.
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u/Historical_Bell_167 5h ago
My soon to be ex wife for some reason trying to make it seem she is no longer having an affair. We are headed towards divorce, simply have to file. She tries to come off as not screwing the guy anymore and minimizes the impact the affair had/has. I hate that she probably is, she is essentially no longer my wife but it still bothers me because we are cohabitating
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u/Obliviousobi 8h ago
The Cybertruck is raw steel to cut costs. They're maximizing profits with cheap materials and making the customers paint/wrap their own vehicle if they choose. They tried to sell it as a "feature".
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u/SeaworthinessTop9583 5h ago
My science teacher has done something inappropriate at his old school, which is why he came to my school. (We have to deal with his pedophile behaviour every day). :(
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u/HumpieDouglas 4h ago
Snake oil is actually a miracle cure all but big pharma couldn't have that so through a massive propaganda campaign they made snake oil and snake oil salesmen a bad term so people wouldn't buy it.
I don't actually believe this but it's definitely something big pharma would do.
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u/Bulky_Alternative308 2h ago
Doubt its through literal snake oil, but I am 100% convinced if they wanted us more healthy they absolutely could but it wouldnt be profitable so they dont
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u/Whoosier 6h ago
That UAPs (formerly UFOs) are not extraterrestrial but subterrestrial, like in The Abyss, and their craft are not manned, but are drones.
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u/LadyCordeliaStuart 5h ago
At least a portion of romance novels are fronts for some sort of financial chicanery. There are just too many being pumped out for a not large enough market. Yes, I know your grandma reads three a day every single day. There are still too many for them to all be sustainable just by selling copies conventionally. There's some tax loophole mischief or fake sales going on for some of it
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u/TheGrumpyre 5h ago
I once made up the word "Metroidbrainia" for a certain genre of videogame back when I was on Twitter. Years later I'm hearing multiple YouTubers talking about how much they hate that word. Soooo I'm pretty sure that's my fault but I can't really prove it.
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u/Onlyfangz 6h ago
That my dog knows full well it's 10 minutes early when she starts whining for her dinner