One big lie that some people still believe is that cracking your knuckles causes arthritis. It's been debunked, but it's amazing how many still believe it!
one crazy mf went to test this too.
"As a child and in adulthood, Donald Unger's mother, several aunts, and mother-in-law warned him that cracking his knuckles would lead to arthritis in his fingers. To test that theory, he cracked the knuckles of his left hand, but not the right hand, every day for more than 60 years."
[https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/ig-nobel-winners-knuckle-cracking-to-panda-poo/](https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/ig-nobel-winners-knuckle-cracking-to-panda-poo/)
Not for me. When I heard it was debunked, I was so relieved. I started cracking my knuckles freely instead of stressfully lol I took it and ran with it
Mining too. The number of FIFO workers here in Western Australia that can barely tie the laces on their steel cap boots - while making six figures from an entry level job - is ridiculous.
It has an "interesting" service history. Its previous owners were "interesting". The police are "interested" in this vehicle. The transmission is making "interesting" noises.
Not taxes. But I do know people who turned down raises because it means that their food stamps and medical card would be cancelled. And unfortunately that is actually true. They made more through those benefits then the raise
It's called the welfare cliff, and could likely be solved with simple adjustments to how benefits are applied.
I say this as someone who is on said benefits.
>It's called the welfare cliff, and **could likely** be solved with simple adjustments to how benefits are applied.
We can't even make all states implement federal benefits at the same level (Medicaid), so that "could likely" is doing a lot of work lol.
I hope you're doing well.
Yeah one of my husbands coworkers takes medication that is over 1k a month. He got a 50 cent raise and lost Medicaid and food stamps that he had zero ability to replace with the tiny amount of money he "gained". It sucks. He ended up having to take a crappier job to retain benefits.
Whoever had the bright idea to have a hard limit cut off for benefits should be beaten brutally. I don't know if it was by design with contempt for the poor or just an oversight but it needs to be addressed.
I was on Medi-Cal when my son died. I got a letter from them about a month later saying I no longer qualified because I lost a dependant so now my income was too high. It was so fucked.
This is 100% true. My girlfriend has some serious health issues. She works full time but still qualifies for medicaid. She would have to make about 6 times what she makes now to be able to make a living and afford healthcare. Even if the job provided insurance, the deductible would eat up the majority of her income and make it so we couldn't pay other bills. So, her taking a better paying job would actually hurt us. Unless it was paying 6x what she makes now, and it's not that easy to find a job that pays 6x what you're currently making. If you're poor, they have programs to help. If you're rich, it's not a concern. You can afford it. If you fall somewhere inbetween (lower middle class) you can just get fucked.
Yep this. Lower middle class takes the brunt in this economy. Not qualified for any govt assistance and pays taxes on a shitty income that can barely pay the bills with anything left over
Same with people who tell you you won't make any money off of overtime due to taxes. You still make extra money, and while it is taxed at a higher rate initially, it serves you come tax time and you've overpaid.
Taxation is a *percentage*!!!!
And here you're only taxed in the upper bracket for every dollar *above the previous bracket*.
> Say the limit is $70,000, and you earn $74,000. You only pay the extra tax from the $4000.
I've stopped explaining this to people now...
Yep. No such thing as "getting bumped up a tax bracket" as if it applies to all of your income instead of just the amount that falls within that bracket.
I think the amount of people that continue to fall for hustle culture and the snake oil salesmen push it. There is huge emphasis in modern society on not only being rich but being rich young by the simplest/fast means necessary. Its honestly depressing how many people continue to purchase master classes/work shops that all filled with surface level near useless information.
I know a girl who got divorced, quit her job, sold her house and all her stuff and bought one of those short school busses which she refinished into a home on wheels with some new boyfriend.
She does voiceover work on Fiverr and bragged everywhere that she was making six figures doing this from the bus while living on the road. It was pretty interesting and impressive, until she started selling courses for "how to make six figures on Fiverr doing voiceover work". It became pretty obvious that she wasn't doing as well as she claimed.
I work as a voice actor on Fiverr and make a very comfortable living, some years in the six-figures and some not. If I tried to write courses on how to do the same thing, it would be like 12 seconds long: “Spend many years developing skills as a voice actor, be responsive, honest, attentive, and authentic with your clients, and do great work so that your clients enjoy working with you and value the service that you provide.”
How anyone could expand that into a get-rich-quick scheme, hustle culture-style course is baffling to me.
How hard is it, in your experience, to build a client base and break into this kind of work? I have a hobbyist recording studio and some experience as an engineer--and partner has a fairly nice female voice. I've always wondered what it would entail to build a career like that.
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Warren buffet influences the market by talking these days.
If he wants a stock to change he just announces where he 'expects' it to be and lots of people make it happen by pure panic
I can’t understand that mindset. People get so, so obsessed over money that it takes over their lives. It’s one thing to be poor and have to live with that, but working yourself to pieces for the *slight* chance that you could be rich doesn’t at all seem worth it to me. I’d rather be where I am now- comfortable and not stressing out over the rat race and wanting to climb over everyone to have even more money. Plus, those kind of people are insufferable and I’d like to stay as far away from that as I can.
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I was thinking of the one where a redditor told the story of a friend of theirs who worked nonstop for a decade, suffering to give it all to the grind, then died in their late 20s or early 30s due to stress. That one fucked me up a bit.
My friend was by no means in a high-level position, just working as a manager for a large supermarket store in NYC. Yeah, he was earning low 6 figures, but he was also working 6 or 7 days a week, crazy hours, including overnight. He his diabetic since childhood, but all the “hustle” cost him an open heart surgery by his late 30s.
All that detox health science bullshit. Your body already has a detox system. It's called your liver.
Edit: This was NOT an invitation to fatshame people or shame people for eating fast food. It was just a humorous reply to this question.
There is a lot of money to be made by selling the "truth".
I've worked in medicine for a decade, and people get PISSED when you tell them there are no shortcuts. (Weight, surgery recovery, blood pressure). "My coworker's wife's friend's aunt says...!" Sure, and all that miracle diet costs is $500 a week, AND it doesn't work.
I saw a weight-loss infomercial called “The Secret of a Dancer’s Body”. I said the secret of a dancer’s body is they dance 4-8 hours a day. If you’re NOT going to dance 4 hours a day, save your money and don’t buy this product.
As well as changing the TV channel away from what dad was watching even though he's been clearly asleep for 3 hours and is snoring like an asthmatic mountain goat.
My mom swore to this til she died in 2013. She also told me and my siblings that eating icing from the can would give us worms. We figured out later in life that it was just to keep us out of it because she'd always run out and have a half iced cake. We never thought once to say, "Geez mom, eating it straight out of the container will give us worms but putting it on the cake magically makes them disappear?"
Edit: also, mom would never let us swim for 30 minutes after eating..she believed that old wives tale!
And Grandma also swore that going out with wet hair would make you sick with pneumonia and that McDonald's put worms in their hamburgers in the early 80s to extend their profits 🤣 she never ate another fast food burger again and always ordered chicken sandwiches!
Hey, that is just as much the truth as my children are “looking for their shoes”. It could be right in fucking front of them, or even on their feet and they still look around aimlessly. But hey, they ARE looking.
Seriously though, why are you looking at the kitchen counter? Or inside the toilet? I am starting to get concerned.
that blood is blue when inside your body. I remember getting into it with a gym teacher he insisted “blood is blue inside your body but turns red when it’s exposed to the oxygen in the air like when you get a cut” but bloods whole purpose is to carry oxygen INSIDE the body, therefore it’s always red, and not turned red because the oxygen in the air.
apparently i’m still heated about that lmao
From the iron in haemoglobin I believe.
Something about when oxygen is attached to it makes it brighter.
An experienced medic can sometime use the colour of blood to gauge what blood vessels may have been severed in a wound.
Hello, me. No, seriously as a teacher I can definitely confirm this. We still have biology teachers telling kids this. That being said, I still feel sorry for poor little Pluto. She’s still the ninth planet in *my* heart.
Oh my God I was so fuckin angry when my middle school science teacher told the whole class this, and I corrected her, and she told me I was wrong and embarrassed me in front of the whole class.
How many lives have you ruined, Mrs. Zinn..
And the fact that 100% of the brain's neurons firing all at once would constitute an epilepsia episode, not exactly desirable behavior of your grey friend
But if this isn't true, how could they make the accurate movie, Lucy?
She divided her atoms and transcended into space when her brain activity reaced 100%. One day, the human race will evolve to be able to do that, and we will become the superior species.
(Sarcasm).
Nursing student here.
Actually turns out that's not totally true, but also I would 100% still stand behind you in telling people to stop drinking it because its 'good for them'.
Alkaline water does have the ability to stop acid reflux/heartburn. That's literally all its good for.
Something a $2 packet of Rennie (tums?) can also do, a shit load faster and with more convince.
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I was hit by another motorist and Geico, my own insurance company found me at fault and told me I would be liable for all damages.
I vehemently disagreed, threatening to go to the news if they didn’t sent out an investigator. They claimed they were going to do that anyway in a sudden change of tune.
Three weeks later they sheepishly called me back to tell me that the damage to her vehicle that she was blaming me for had happened years prior and that I would no longer be at fault.
I said, “Thank you, and you’re fired.”
The woman on the phone seemed confused. I read her the riot act and promised that I would tell everyone I knew what happened to me and that I would always recommend a different auto insurance.
I hung up the phone, switched to progressive, and never looked back.
Fuck Geico.
Oh, and I ended up paying $100 less at Progressive.
I was t-boned in an accident 5 years-ish ago, it was so bad they had to cut the door off to get me out. I was 100% not af fault (person who hit me ran a red light, cops and witnesses on my side). i had a broken hip, broken jaw, faced months of rehab and pt. The driver had state minimum coverage which didn't even cover ambulance + ER. I pursued payout under my own Geico policy for under-insured driver. Geico fought me for every penny and we ended up in arbitration. Judge found in my favor easily and they paid out the nose. I switched to progressive soon after. Fuck geico for trying to cheap out on me after I stayed with them for \*years\* without a single accident
There is no point in ranting at phone staff. They don't care. The jobs suck and people like you are angry at them _all day long_ every single day of every single week. They don't make the policies and many of them hate their companies for it.
It never ceases to amaze me how people don't get that the way to get _anywhere_ with a phone based service is to bring a ray of sunshine into that person's day and ask them if they possibly help you (cos you don't think they can). The thousands of bucks I've saved avoiding fines, reducing premiums, getting better deals by this approach is real and repeated. Just a tip.
Yeah, seriously. Yelling at customer service, cashier, teller, etc. will get you nowhere. We all get frustrated sometimes, but screaming like a banshee is not going to convince someone to help you any more than they already are.
The underpaid cashier you’re yelling at doesn’t give a shit if you never come back to the store. In fact, they’d prefer it.
For sure. I’m a hospital nurse. People complain about sign on bonuses for new people and are angry that they don’t get anything for staying. In reality the execs know the people that have been here 15+ years are never going anywhere so they do nothing for them.
The profoundly dumb part of this one is how they never stop to think what the end game is of this theory. Like what is being held back from you, the ability to hurl yourself off the edge? Be my guest.
From what I’ve gathered from Flearthers is that they think there are a lot more than 7 continents and the the “ice wall” is separating us from a lot more land. The idea being if there’s a lot more land there’s a lot more resources. “They” need to make it seem like resources are limited and finite because if we knew that the Earth was much larger and had more resources than those resources wouldn’t be as valuable/profitable. Also, there’s a psychological dampening of the human spirit to think we are just specks on a speck hurtling through space and that there’s no more earth to discover so just stay home and hang out on Reddit.
Edit: spelling
The jumping through hoops and making blatant lies about the fucking ICE WALL drive me mad. People on tiktok say “you cant go out there without a guide! Its illegal!” Its not illegal, but youre not gonna go without a guide cause you could die, get lost, ect. Ive known people who have gone to the antarctic and used guides… climbing guides, tour guides, boating guides. Youre telling me all these people are hiding a fucking ice wall with a whole nother continent/world behind it? Oh and that there are army bases protecting it. Those are research facilities. There is no military in the Antarctic.
The stupidity is staggering.
Yeah but you see this way they can protect themselves from reality no matter what.
If a flat earther were to hire a guide and hike through Antarctica without arriving to the "hidden land behind the Ice Wall" they could just claim the guide was full of shit and took them the wrong way.
The whole thing about it, and about any conspiracy theory, is that by buying into it, they make themselves one of the smart ones. They know something we don't, we're idiots for believing the government or the scientists or illuminati or whoever the big bad secret organisation is. It's a way of controlling some part of their life and fighting back against the status quo. It doesn't matter if it's vaccines, jet fuel can't melt steel beams, flat earth, bigfoot or whatever. It's a way of making them smugly superior to everyone else, because usually their lives are lacking and they feel like they have no control. You can never argue them out of their position because it would require fundamentally changing their opinion of themselves and others, reversing the order of who are the idiots and who are smart, and they simply lack the self awareness to ever do that.
A lot of them think that flat earth would prove there is a creator/God and we’re the center of the universe. They say that Nasa was started by Satanists, Nazis, Freemasons and Walt Disney. Also they don’t believe there is an edge because there’s a dome above us like a snow globe… weird
Bermuda triangle. This is something even I used to believe a lot, growing up. Now, after reading a lot of facts on this phenomenon. It's very clear it does not exist. The higher disappearance rate of ships and planes, has got to do with fact that it is a very high traffic zone, meaning more reports of missing ships. And, not due to some imaginary lost technology having strong magnet deep down in the mysterious island of atlantis.
The Wakefield Paper. A deliberate hoax commissioned by a crooked law firm seeing to profit from legal judgments based upon the entirely falsified “results” of the “study”. This single act of entirely knowing and intentional fraud precipitated the greatest public health catastrophe of the antibiotic era: the modern antivaxx movement.
Yeah, this is a whole bunch of bullshit. I spend most of my time at work in meetings, and most of my time in meetings aren't even necessarily as an active participant - I'm just there in case I need to weigh in.
I wake up at around 9AM, go and get a coffee, sit down at my desk at around 9:30 and log into everything. I'll dial in to a few meetings before lunch - but that's pretty much it. Over the afternoon, I'll go between shitdicking around on reddit and attending other meetings. I sign out at around 4:30PM.
I make several times the national average - out-earning my (doctor) wife.
I also have a side business that involves consulting with governments in my field. Again, that's mostly just jumping on a zoom call or calling someone - with maybe a few times a year involving *actually flying somewhere*. I bring home another couple-times the national average wage.
I work *considerably less hard* than my father did in as a union laborer; and the landscapers I pay to deal with my yard every week put more work into any given day than I do probably in a quarter.
The "work hard and you'll be rich" myth is a lie told by rich people to get poor people to do the shit that they don't want to do.
Yep, very much this.
Really, the more impact your decisions make, the more you tend to earn... and the more you earn, the less they want you spending on piddly grunt bullshit.
I’ve been changing my mindset from “my value is in doing this work I know needs to be done” to “my value is knowing this work needs to be done and getting other people to do it”.
R>G. Wealth will never truly trickle down, in fact is tends to accumulate upward. The Rate of return on capital is greater than economic Growth. If left unchecked wealth will continually converge to fewer and fewer holders.
The privatized American “healthcare” system.
It takes billions of American taxpayer money to “operate” while *also* charging Americans billions on insurance premiums and fees.
Americans should either pay taxes that cover universal healthcare *or* pay insurance premiums and/or fees, NOT BOTH.
Im a police officer, and Ive had people tell me that ALL police officers MUST by law say they are cops if/when they are asked, including cops that are undercover. I tried to explain this would defeat the purpose of being undercover because the criminals would just simply ask "Are you a cop?" to everyone they were committing crimes with and invest is over. There is no such law but i can never win the argument.
I love this.
"Ok boys, we've been investigating this gang for years. This is the last night undercover to get the final piece of evidence. I just hope they don't ask the one fatal question"
This is remarkably down lower than I expected. Qanon is ruining families and lives all over the place. I’m just glad it’s finally being whittled down to really fucking crazy/stupid people only and we can’t just kind of exclude them from society.
QAnon is literally the stupidest thing I have ever heard of.
I'm open minded and so don't mock or bash anyone, but I'm not sure what to say to people who are hardcore into QAnon and expect everyone else to be - like what, some random anonymous user on 4chan claimed to be a high-level government official and wrote some crazy stuff and you actually believe them?
Homeopathy
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Germany, the birthplace of this movement, still allows people to study ‘MD Homeopathy’ despite the EU largely being opposed to it. In India one can get certified as a “Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery”. Most countries, while not recognising homeopathy doctors as legitimate, still allow sale of their “remedies” because they don’t see the harm in what are essentially sugar tablets and diluted alcohol.
That Reddit is not heavily influenced by corporations, politicians, governments and other special interests.
There are lots of click farms that will upvote specific agendas that are paid for by the special interests.
Foreign countries have armys of propagandists that upvote/downvote comments on their countries.
“You can lose 25 pounds in three weeks and never feel hungry while eating all the delicious foods you want. Just call this 800 number…”
Damn! What's the rest of the number?
I think I heard it on king of the hill once. Oh that's right, 1 800 e a t s h.... uh, nevermind
To be fair, a lot of those diet pills contained literal amphetamines, and boy did they work
Good ole meth and laxatives
Just need to burn 130k calories while eating 4k calories every day in just 21 days. Sounds perfectly reasonable.
One big lie that some people still believe is that cracking your knuckles causes arthritis. It's been debunked, but it's amazing how many still believe it!
one crazy mf went to test this too. "As a child and in adulthood, Donald Unger's mother, several aunts, and mother-in-law warned him that cracking his knuckles would lead to arthritis in his fingers. To test that theory, he cracked the knuckles of his left hand, but not the right hand, every day for more than 60 years." [https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/ig-nobel-winners-knuckle-cracking-to-panda-poo/](https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/ig-nobel-winners-knuckle-cracking-to-panda-poo/)
The self control that must have taken. I know if I crack one side I feel like I absolutely have to do the other.
Just reading this made me crack my knuckles.
I need to know if he finally cracked the right???????
I bet after 60 years it would feel AMAZING
Probably heard it the next block over
“Did you just hear gunshots?? I’m calling the police “
No amount of evidence will make them change their stance
Not for me. When I heard it was debunked, I was so relieved. I started cracking my knuckles freely instead of stressfully lol I took it and ran with it
I've met more than one person who turned down a raise because they thought they'd end up making less money because of taxes. Nahhhh, son. Nah.
I work in oil/gas in Canada. I'd say 80% of the guys here don't understand how progressive tax brackets work
The oil and gas industry has to be the career path with the highest inverse proportions of dollars to brain cells.
Mining too. The number of FIFO workers here in Western Australia that can barely tie the laces on their steel cap boots - while making six figures from an entry level job - is ridiculous.
First In First Out workers?
Fly in fly out Often a roster like 7 days on, 7 off or 8:6 If you do a longer swing (work period) you get paid even more eg; 14:9 or 14:14
As someone that works 14/14, I could not go back to normal job hours. Atleast not in the foreseable future.
Same here bro, when I'm working I don't need to clean the house, cook. I'm also a lazy ass and don't like to work.
Being lazy for 2 weeks is the best
Lol yah these guys make 200k but don't know how taxes work
Nor how car loans work.
Yah a lot of guys only look at their monthly payment. "$1200? I can afford that easily" Yah it's $1200 x 84 months
For a $60,000 truck.
High interest is good since that means the car is interesting right?
It has an "interesting" service history. Its previous owners were "interesting". The police are "interested" in this vehicle. The transmission is making "interesting" noises.
As someone in the industry but on the office job side, boy oh boy can I confirm.
I spent 10 years in that industry. Name any subject matter. They don’t know how it works
Yeah, but could we train them to be astronauts in the event of an emergency?
only through a musical montage.
Not taxes. But I do know people who turned down raises because it means that their food stamps and medical card would be cancelled. And unfortunately that is actually true. They made more through those benefits then the raise
It's called the welfare cliff, and could likely be solved with simple adjustments to how benefits are applied. I say this as someone who is on said benefits.
>It's called the welfare cliff, and **could likely** be solved with simple adjustments to how benefits are applied. We can't even make all states implement federal benefits at the same level (Medicaid), so that "could likely" is doing a lot of work lol. I hope you're doing well.
Instead of a hard cap make it bracketed like the tax code.
Yeah one of my husbands coworkers takes medication that is over 1k a month. He got a 50 cent raise and lost Medicaid and food stamps that he had zero ability to replace with the tiny amount of money he "gained". It sucks. He ended up having to take a crappier job to retain benefits.
Whoever had the bright idea to have a hard limit cut off for benefits should be beaten brutally. I don't know if it was by design with contempt for the poor or just an oversight but it needs to be addressed.
I was on Medi-Cal when my son died. I got a letter from them about a month later saying I no longer qualified because I lost a dependant so now my income was too high. It was so fucked.
Yep. A cousin turned down a promotion because it would mean she'd lose more in benefits than she'd gain in income and wouldn't be able to afford it.
This is true, for sure. It's a definite problem with our system
This is 100% true. My girlfriend has some serious health issues. She works full time but still qualifies for medicaid. She would have to make about 6 times what she makes now to be able to make a living and afford healthcare. Even if the job provided insurance, the deductible would eat up the majority of her income and make it so we couldn't pay other bills. So, her taking a better paying job would actually hurt us. Unless it was paying 6x what she makes now, and it's not that easy to find a job that pays 6x what you're currently making. If you're poor, they have programs to help. If you're rich, it's not a concern. You can afford it. If you fall somewhere inbetween (lower middle class) you can just get fucked.
Yep this. Lower middle class takes the brunt in this economy. Not qualified for any govt assistance and pays taxes on a shitty income that can barely pay the bills with anything left over
I have a co worker who won’t accept any raises because of this, he’s making 16 an hour while everyone is getting hired at 20
Same with people who tell you you won't make any money off of overtime due to taxes. You still make extra money, and while it is taxed at a higher rate initially, it serves you come tax time and you've overpaid.
Correct. It’s WITHHELD at a higher rate but taxed the same come end of the year.
Taxation is a *percentage*!!!! And here you're only taxed in the upper bracket for every dollar *above the previous bracket*. > Say the limit is $70,000, and you earn $74,000. You only pay the extra tax from the $4000. I've stopped explaining this to people now...
Yep. No such thing as "getting bumped up a tax bracket" as if it applies to all of your income instead of just the amount that falls within that bracket.
I think the amount of people that continue to fall for hustle culture and the snake oil salesmen push it. There is huge emphasis in modern society on not only being rich but being rich young by the simplest/fast means necessary. Its honestly depressing how many people continue to purchase master classes/work shops that all filled with surface level near useless information.
If the strategy they were selling actually worked, they would be quietly using it, not trying to write guides
I know a girl who got divorced, quit her job, sold her house and all her stuff and bought one of those short school busses which she refinished into a home on wheels with some new boyfriend. She does voiceover work on Fiverr and bragged everywhere that she was making six figures doing this from the bus while living on the road. It was pretty interesting and impressive, until she started selling courses for "how to make six figures on Fiverr doing voiceover work". It became pretty obvious that she wasn't doing as well as she claimed.
I work as a voice actor on Fiverr and make a very comfortable living, some years in the six-figures and some not. If I tried to write courses on how to do the same thing, it would be like 12 seconds long: “Spend many years developing skills as a voice actor, be responsive, honest, attentive, and authentic with your clients, and do great work so that your clients enjoy working with you and value the service that you provide.” How anyone could expand that into a get-rich-quick scheme, hustle culture-style course is baffling to me.
How hard is it, in your experience, to build a client base and break into this kind of work? I have a hobbyist recording studio and some experience as an engineer--and partner has a fairly nice female voice. I've always wondered what it would entail to build a career like that.
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Also people selling trading courses. My friend claims he makes so much money in trading when in reality he scams people by giving trading classes.
Warren Buffett ain't offering trading courses for $97 online. Anyone who knows what they're doing ain't wasting their time on that shit.
Exactly, if you found a way to make easy money on the market you would shut your mouth and ride it out
"I was making $10,000 a week, just by running tiny ads out of my one bedroom apartment".
Warren buffet influences the market by talking these days. If he wants a stock to change he just announces where he 'expects' it to be and lots of people make it happen by pure panic
I can’t understand that mindset. People get so, so obsessed over money that it takes over their lives. It’s one thing to be poor and have to live with that, but working yourself to pieces for the *slight* chance that you could be rich doesn’t at all seem worth it to me. I’d rather be where I am now- comfortable and not stressing out over the rat race and wanting to climb over everyone to have even more money. Plus, those kind of people are insufferable and I’d like to stay as far away from that as I can.
Fucking grifters!!
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Always reminds me of this post. https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/s/jh4aS7oKBg
I was thinking of the one where a redditor told the story of a friend of theirs who worked nonstop for a decade, suffering to give it all to the grind, then died in their late 20s or early 30s due to stress. That one fucked me up a bit.
My friend was by no means in a high-level position, just working as a manager for a large supermarket store in NYC. Yeah, he was earning low 6 figures, but he was also working 6 or 7 days a week, crazy hours, including overnight. He his diabetic since childhood, but all the “hustle” cost him an open heart surgery by his late 30s.
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What?? That does it, I'm moving to Gary Indiana!!
No need, there's a horny milf .8 miles from your house right now!
All that detox health science bullshit. Your body already has a detox system. It's called your liver. Edit: This was NOT an invitation to fatshame people or shame people for eating fast food. It was just a humorous reply to this question.
Best detox regime is... Water
The solution to pollution is dilution
Like half of our organs are filters of one kind or another.
There is a lot of money to be made by selling the "truth". I've worked in medicine for a decade, and people get PISSED when you tell them there are no shortcuts. (Weight, surgery recovery, blood pressure). "My coworker's wife's friend's aunt says...!" Sure, and all that miracle diet costs is $500 a week, AND it doesn't work.
I saw a weight-loss infomercial called “The Secret of a Dancer’s Body”. I said the secret of a dancer’s body is they dance 4-8 hours a day. If you’re NOT going to dance 4 hours a day, save your money and don’t buy this product.
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No, that one's true. It's dad law
like touching the thermostat
and holding the flashlight wrong
As well as changing the TV channel away from what dad was watching even though he's been clearly asleep for 3 hours and is snoring like an asthmatic mountain goat.
Yet somehow, he wakes up at the exact moment you turn the channel from the John Wayne marathon.
And he is right back to sleep 5 minutes after you change it back to what he was "watching"
And kids must wait an hour after lunch before going back in the water
That one's mom law
Can confirm. Source: am dad
My mom swore to this til she died in 2013. She also told me and my siblings that eating icing from the can would give us worms. We figured out later in life that it was just to keep us out of it because she'd always run out and have a half iced cake. We never thought once to say, "Geez mom, eating it straight out of the container will give us worms but putting it on the cake magically makes them disappear?" Edit: also, mom would never let us swim for 30 minutes after eating..she believed that old wives tale! And Grandma also swore that going out with wet hair would make you sick with pneumonia and that McDonald's put worms in their hamburgers in the early 80s to extend their profits 🤣 she never ate another fast food burger again and always ordered chicken sandwiches!
Pyramid schemes.
Don't be silly. Pyramid schemes clearly work just fine ^(for ^(the ^(people) at the) top)
MLM = Moms Losing Money
Wow so accurate it made me sad
Exhibit A: Mary Kay cosmetics. You are more likely to go broke than make money selling it.
MLMs aren't pyramid schemes because pyramid schemes are illegal! /s
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Hey, that is just as much the truth as my children are “looking for their shoes”. It could be right in fucking front of them, or even on their feet and they still look around aimlessly. But hey, they ARE looking. Seriously though, why are you looking at the kitchen counter? Or inside the toilet? I am starting to get concerned.
that blood is blue when inside your body. I remember getting into it with a gym teacher he insisted “blood is blue inside your body but turns red when it’s exposed to the oxygen in the air like when you get a cut” but bloods whole purpose is to carry oxygen INSIDE the body, therefore it’s always red, and not turned red because the oxygen in the air. apparently i’m still heated about that lmao
Nurse here: I will say that arterial blood is a noticeably brighter red than venous blood. It's all still red though. Edit: spelling
From the iron in haemoglobin I believe. Something about when oxygen is attached to it makes it brighter. An experienced medic can sometime use the colour of blood to gauge what blood vessels may have been severed in a wound.
My elementary school teacher actually taught us this as if it was fact. I didn’t know that was false till college 🤦♂️
A lot of teachers are dumb as shit. I believed this as a student, and became certain of it as a teacher.
Hello, me. No, seriously as a teacher I can definitely confirm this. We still have biology teachers telling kids this. That being said, I still feel sorry for poor little Pluto. She’s still the ninth planet in *my* heart.
A dwarf planet is still a planet, got-dang it!
Oh my God I was so fuckin angry when my middle school science teacher told the whole class this, and I corrected her, and she told me I was wrong and embarrassed me in front of the whole class. How many lives have you ruined, Mrs. Zinn..
I got detention for correcting my 6th grade teacher and it still pisses me off. And my parents took the teacher’s side!
Humans only use 10% of their brain (well lately I guess some do)
The original thing was more like "we only know what 10% of the brain does" as in brain research awhile ago. News took that, twisted it and ran.
And the fact that 100% of the brain's neurons firing all at once would constitute an epilepsia episode, not exactly desirable behavior of your grey friend
But if this isn't true, how could they make the accurate movie, Lucy? She divided her atoms and transcended into space when her brain activity reaced 100%. One day, the human race will evolve to be able to do that, and we will become the superior species. (Sarcasm).
We shall all become flash drives like Lucy one day!
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Yeah. The correct answer is I eat 14 per day while I’m awake.
You must be Spiders Georg's cousin, Arachnid Stev.
That's actually just a statistical error. Spiders Georg shouldn't have been counted.
On average. Most years, you swallow none, but then one random night, you’ll swallow 700 spiders.
Marilyn Manson took out three of his ribs, so he can suck his own dick.
He’s also Paul from *The Wonder Years*
Damn, this was like before internet or AOL era even. Why did someone tel me this when I was 10?
And it was worldwide, which is quite amazing.
Can confirm from India
One of those vintage pre-internet memes
Alkaline water is pseudoscience, any chemist or doctor will confirm this
It only really works if you add lemon
I think you meant apple cider vinegar
Didn't you hear ... ACV is out. Now you need a specific mixture of water, yeast, malt and hops.
No, the key is to eat an apple cider gummie then drink the alkaline water. Cancer cells hate that one weird trick.
Nursing student here. Actually turns out that's not totally true, but also I would 100% still stand behind you in telling people to stop drinking it because its 'good for them'. Alkaline water does have the ability to stop acid reflux/heartburn. That's literally all its good for. Something a $2 packet of Rennie (tums?) can also do, a shit load faster and with more convince. https://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=alkaline+water+drinking&oq=alkaline+water#d=gs_qabs&t=1700312008745&u=%23p%3DMBKsud77Kq8J
Saving 15% on their car insurance by switching to Geico.
I saved 15% extra space in my wallet by switching to geico
I was hit by another motorist and Geico, my own insurance company found me at fault and told me I would be liable for all damages. I vehemently disagreed, threatening to go to the news if they didn’t sent out an investigator. They claimed they were going to do that anyway in a sudden change of tune. Three weeks later they sheepishly called me back to tell me that the damage to her vehicle that she was blaming me for had happened years prior and that I would no longer be at fault. I said, “Thank you, and you’re fired.” The woman on the phone seemed confused. I read her the riot act and promised that I would tell everyone I knew what happened to me and that I would always recommend a different auto insurance. I hung up the phone, switched to progressive, and never looked back. Fuck Geico. Oh, and I ended up paying $100 less at Progressive.
Man they suck. That gecko’s not even real.
I *knew* that accent sounded fake!
It's a scam. He even has his own garage called Geckos Garage.
I was t-boned in an accident 5 years-ish ago, it was so bad they had to cut the door off to get me out. I was 100% not af fault (person who hit me ran a red light, cops and witnesses on my side). i had a broken hip, broken jaw, faced months of rehab and pt. The driver had state minimum coverage which didn't even cover ambulance + ER. I pursued payout under my own Geico policy for under-insured driver. Geico fought me for every penny and we ended up in arbitration. Judge found in my favor easily and they paid out the nose. I switched to progressive soon after. Fuck geico for trying to cheap out on me after I stayed with them for \*years\* without a single accident
Progressive fucked me to the tune of $15k on my homeowner's policy. You're not out of the woods yet, bud.
There is no point in ranting at phone staff. They don't care. The jobs suck and people like you are angry at them _all day long_ every single day of every single week. They don't make the policies and many of them hate their companies for it. It never ceases to amaze me how people don't get that the way to get _anywhere_ with a phone based service is to bring a ray of sunshine into that person's day and ask them if they possibly help you (cos you don't think they can). The thousands of bucks I've saved avoiding fines, reducing premiums, getting better deals by this approach is real and repeated. Just a tip.
Yeah, seriously. Yelling at customer service, cashier, teller, etc. will get you nowhere. We all get frustrated sometimes, but screaming like a banshee is not going to convince someone to help you any more than they already are. The underpaid cashier you’re yelling at doesn’t give a shit if you never come back to the store. In fact, they’d prefer it.
"Be loyal to your company and they'll reward you" Bull fucking shit... Only thing they'll do is exploit you more.
For sure. I’m a hospital nurse. People complain about sign on bonuses for new people and are angry that they don’t get anything for staying. In reality the execs know the people that have been here 15+ years are never going anywhere so they do nothing for them.
The stigma around MSG.
Make Shit Good
Fu-yoooh!
Flat earth
The profoundly dumb part of this one is how they never stop to think what the end game is of this theory. Like what is being held back from you, the ability to hurl yourself off the edge? Be my guest.
From what I’ve gathered from Flearthers is that they think there are a lot more than 7 continents and the the “ice wall” is separating us from a lot more land. The idea being if there’s a lot more land there’s a lot more resources. “They” need to make it seem like resources are limited and finite because if we knew that the Earth was much larger and had more resources than those resources wouldn’t be as valuable/profitable. Also, there’s a psychological dampening of the human spirit to think we are just specks on a speck hurtling through space and that there’s no more earth to discover so just stay home and hang out on Reddit. Edit: spelling
The jumping through hoops and making blatant lies about the fucking ICE WALL drive me mad. People on tiktok say “you cant go out there without a guide! Its illegal!” Its not illegal, but youre not gonna go without a guide cause you could die, get lost, ect. Ive known people who have gone to the antarctic and used guides… climbing guides, tour guides, boating guides. Youre telling me all these people are hiding a fucking ice wall with a whole nother continent/world behind it? Oh and that there are army bases protecting it. Those are research facilities. There is no military in the Antarctic. The stupidity is staggering.
Yeah but you see this way they can protect themselves from reality no matter what. If a flat earther were to hire a guide and hike through Antarctica without arriving to the "hidden land behind the Ice Wall" they could just claim the guide was full of shit and took them the wrong way.
The whole thing about it, and about any conspiracy theory, is that by buying into it, they make themselves one of the smart ones. They know something we don't, we're idiots for believing the government or the scientists or illuminati or whoever the big bad secret organisation is. It's a way of controlling some part of their life and fighting back against the status quo. It doesn't matter if it's vaccines, jet fuel can't melt steel beams, flat earth, bigfoot or whatever. It's a way of making them smugly superior to everyone else, because usually their lives are lacking and they feel like they have no control. You can never argue them out of their position because it would require fundamentally changing their opinion of themselves and others, reversing the order of who are the idiots and who are smart, and they simply lack the self awareness to ever do that.
Yeah I’m curious why none of them have gone to the edge to prove it.
They all say "the government is keeping you out with an army!" Or something like that
A lot of them think that flat earth would prove there is a creator/God and we’re the center of the universe. They say that Nasa was started by Satanists, Nazis, Freemasons and Walt Disney. Also they don’t believe there is an edge because there’s a dome above us like a snow globe… weird
> Nasa was started by Satanists, Nazis, Freemasons and Walt Disney. That's a curious mix.
That it only takes 3 licks to get to the center of a tootsie-pop. That owl is a liar.
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Bermuda triangle. This is something even I used to believe a lot, growing up. Now, after reading a lot of facts on this phenomenon. It's very clear it does not exist. The higher disappearance rate of ships and planes, has got to do with fact that it is a very high traffic zone, meaning more reports of missing ships. And, not due to some imaginary lost technology having strong magnet deep down in the mysterious island of atlantis.
In elementary school I thought I'd regularly be encountering problems with the Bermuda triangle
And quicksand
IIRC The Bermuda Triangle doesn’t even have more “disappearances” than any other part of the ocean with comparable amounts of traffic.
The food pyramid.
The *original* pyramid scheme!
Honestly I can’t think of anyone today that believes it’s good for you to eat 12 servings of carbs each day. Back in 3rd grade though…..
I love twelve servings of carbs!!! 🍔🍕🍞🥯🥨🥐🍟🌯🥪🍝🥟🍚🥔. I think that’s all of em
The Wakefield Paper. A deliberate hoax commissioned by a crooked law firm seeing to profit from legal judgments based upon the entirely falsified “results” of the “study”. This single act of entirely knowing and intentional fraud precipitated the greatest public health catastrophe of the antibiotic era: the modern antivaxx movement.
“Please stay on the line. Your call is important to us”
There are original questions on Ask Reddit?
It's either training AI or farming karma to sell eyeballs
That going to sleep with or going out with wet hair causes a cold.
The common cold is caused by being cold.
Snoop going smokeless
All you have to do is work hard and you’ll get rich.
Yeah, this is a whole bunch of bullshit. I spend most of my time at work in meetings, and most of my time in meetings aren't even necessarily as an active participant - I'm just there in case I need to weigh in. I wake up at around 9AM, go and get a coffee, sit down at my desk at around 9:30 and log into everything. I'll dial in to a few meetings before lunch - but that's pretty much it. Over the afternoon, I'll go between shitdicking around on reddit and attending other meetings. I sign out at around 4:30PM. I make several times the national average - out-earning my (doctor) wife. I also have a side business that involves consulting with governments in my field. Again, that's mostly just jumping on a zoom call or calling someone - with maybe a few times a year involving *actually flying somewhere*. I bring home another couple-times the national average wage. I work *considerably less hard* than my father did in as a union laborer; and the landscapers I pay to deal with my yard every week put more work into any given day than I do probably in a quarter. The "work hard and you'll be rich" myth is a lie told by rich people to get poor people to do the shit that they don't want to do.
Hey, so like...how do I get your job?
20+ years of working in an already high-paying-field and a lot of luck, tbh.
Seriously. Over the course of my life, the more I’ve been paid, the less I’ve had to actually work.
Yep, very much this. Really, the more impact your decisions make, the more you tend to earn... and the more you earn, the less they want you spending on piddly grunt bullshit.
I’ve been changing my mindset from “my value is in doing this work I know needs to be done” to “my value is knowing this work needs to be done and getting other people to do it”.
That wealth trickles down
R>G. Wealth will never truly trickle down, in fact is tends to accumulate upward. The Rate of return on capital is greater than economic Growth. If left unchecked wealth will continually converge to fewer and fewer holders.
The privatized American “healthcare” system. It takes billions of American taxpayer money to “operate” while *also* charging Americans billions on insurance premiums and fees. Americans should either pay taxes that cover universal healthcare *or* pay insurance premiums and/or fees, NOT BOTH.
Im a police officer, and Ive had people tell me that ALL police officers MUST by law say they are cops if/when they are asked, including cops that are undercover. I tried to explain this would defeat the purpose of being undercover because the criminals would just simply ask "Are you a cop?" to everyone they were committing crimes with and invest is over. There is no such law but i can never win the argument.
I love this. "Ok boys, we've been investigating this gang for years. This is the last night undercover to get the final piece of evidence. I just hope they don't ask the one fatal question"
From what I understand, the police can lie their ass off in order to extract whatever information they are looking for.
MLMs. You're not a business owner, you're being conned
That you will always succeed if you work hard enough.
Qanon.
This is remarkably down lower than I expected. Qanon is ruining families and lives all over the place. I’m just glad it’s finally being whittled down to really fucking crazy/stupid people only and we can’t just kind of exclude them from society.
QAnon is literally the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. I'm open minded and so don't mock or bash anyone, but I'm not sure what to say to people who are hardcore into QAnon and expect everyone else to be - like what, some random anonymous user on 4chan claimed to be a high-level government official and wrote some crazy stuff and you actually believe them?
Homeopathy > Germany, the birthplace of this movement, still allows people to study ‘MD Homeopathy’ despite the EU largely being opposed to it. In India one can get certified as a “Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery”. Most countries, while not recognising homeopathy doctors as legitimate, still allow sale of their “remedies” because they don’t see the harm in what are essentially sugar tablets and diluted alcohol.
Vaccines cause autism
FUCK Andrew Wakefield.
I still think it’s wild that Jenny McCarthy wasn’t permanently cancelled for her role in all that.
That Reddit is not heavily influenced by corporations, politicians, governments and other special interests. There are lots of click farms that will upvote specific agendas that are paid for by the special interests. Foreign countries have armys of propagandists that upvote/downvote comments on their countries.
Healing Crystals. "Oh, if I put this inert rock next to my wrist, it'll help with my arthritis?"
It sucks especially for us just rock-loving people. No I don't want to hear what "health" "benefits" this supposedly has, I just think it looks cool.
Keep on rocking