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[-] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago

Joy murdered Bing Bong in Disney's Inside Out (2015).

[-] [email protected] 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The way literature is taught in school is designed deliberately to make people hate reading + studying the subtext and paratext.

By forcing kids to read books that aren't just old, but were written by 40 year olds for other 40 year olds, and then mandating them write reports about the symbolism of a book they didn't even want to read in the first place, you ensure that like 80% of people will inherently associate reading and interpreting media with every negative emotion at once.

Meanwhile you look at fandom dorks on every site and you see how invested on themes and subtext they are, and you realise people kinda naturally want to overthink media... Provided they like that media.

But people who can read subtext and understand it are less susceptible to propaganda. So.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 22 hours ago

This one resonates with me. I fucking love science fiction, and when they forced me to read The Giver, the closest they every got to science fiction, I actually enjoyed it. And then the rest of the time I hated it all.

If I had actually been given the chance to read some good science fiction, I would have been reading a lot more as a kid.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Damn. Good one.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Paul McCartney died in a car crash in 1964 and was replaced by someone who turned out to be a way better song writer.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago

I think something cataclysmic happened during the Younger Dryas period and we may never know what but it's not coincidence there are multiple flood myths that evolved independently. Also, I think humans have been around longer than we realize and we're in another iteration of the same course of evolution waiting to get out of our Fermi loop.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago

Well, concerning the floods: flooding is still really bad and usually affects a huge area. Normally it is not like one village floods and everybody dies and the next village is completely fine. So, for people who do not get around a lot it might feel like the whole world was flooded. Then maybe they hit a few bad years in a row, and BAM, God or somebody wants to punish humanity story confirmed.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

True but in parts of the world completely isolated from others? India in comparison to South America as an example.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Especially then. How would the ancients in India know that South America even exists? It floods in India, story develops. It floods 300 years later in South America, story develops. For all they knew, it was the whole world that flooded. They could not check back, whether it flooded on different continents.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Racial carbohydrate diet. You should eat the carbs that match your ancestors DNA.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 15 hours ago

As we all have shared ancestors this would be higly different depending on how far back you go in time.

Heck, if I go back far enough we all need to eat seafood

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

When you buy crisps sometimes there's just.... hardly any seasoning on them?? I'm talking crisps like Doritos or BBQ Beef Hula Hoops. There can be a massive difference with the amount of seasoning between batches and I'm sure they do it on purpose to make you buy more of them so you can get that really well seasoned batch you loved again lol. i don't actually believe this but I'd be interested to know why

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
  • they also taste overly dried out
[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Back when reddit had awards, the admins would routinely award posts to make it appear like people were actually buying them.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I thought this was common knowledge.

I got awarded gold by a mod that told me they were gifted a certain number of awards from Reddit to give out (I believe they said they got 15).

The same mod also claimed that gold-gifted responses were given prioritized visibility.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

JFK's head just...did that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Back and to the left.

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

Microsoft deliberately fucks with your video and audio drivers before a big update so you have to reboot

This isn't a conspiracy, it is a proven fact.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I don't disagree, but I'd like some more info and/or sources.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Does anyone have a source on this? It’s 100% believable but I’m not turning anything up and this seems like something worth knowing more about

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[-] [email protected] 97 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That NASA has done a zero-gravity intercourse experiment.

The 50th shuttle mission had married couple and it included spacelab. A pressurized and habitable module that could be isolated from the rest of the crew. Even before launch they were asked if it would happen, and denied it, as NASA has afterwards as well.

It doesn't help that several of the listed experiments was about human health, developmental biology and included animals and eggs to study ovulation, fertilization, cell division and growth.

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[-] [email protected] 84 points 1 day ago

I think the US government actively encouraged the UFO craze, because it drew attention away from the experimental aircraft they were testing, like the SR-71 blackbird.

[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago

They've admitted that.

Someone at Pentagon was recently investigating UFO conspiracies and found that several kept looping back to them. And they realized that at least one was directly planted by themselves during the cold war to confuse the USSR about what weapons were real or not.

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[-] [email protected] 74 points 1 day ago

Arcade rhythm games (DDR, Pump It Up, maimai, etc) are subsidized by the Japanese government to get Otakus/NEETs to go out, touch grass, and exercise

Have you ever wondered why you can have 10-15 minutes of game time for the same amount of money as one (sometimes half) a pull on a claw machine?? /puts on tinfoil hat

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[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've seen studies claiming that toilet seats are among the cleanest spots in a public restroom, and that slamming your bare ass cheeks down on those things is perfectly safe.

I also work in an operating room, where we routinely chop condyloma off of people's ass cheeks... albeit less commonly the cheeks than the hole, but enough times to showcase the fact that the cheeks are prone to spreading and contracting contact dependent pathogens.

Those studies are bullshit - always build that toilet-paper-bird's-nest on the public toilet seat.

 

Edit - also if you get a skin tag that seems bigger than a normal skin tag, it's probably not a skin tag. Get that shit looked at before it's the size of a fucking golf ball. You'll save yourself a lot of time, pain, money, and worry.

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Okay I think Amtrak is not really remotely interested in providing a positive passenger rail experience, but is instead used by the automotive and railroad industry to provide a poor experience, ensuring that people keep buying cars and gas and keep the rail lines free for commercial usage.

Here is my primary piece of evidence; in e-commerce web design to increase sales your goal is to remove barriers between a motivated customer and them clicking buy. A company the size of amtrak should have a decently sophisticated process of multi variable testing and focus groups to at least someehat improve the process over time and make it easy for people to plan route trips and buy tickets.

And yet in the decades that Amtrak has been operating they user experience has barely changed and seems to do just the minimum to keep up with the times and not look stale. And it's not an overly complicated item they are selling. A very small in house team would be able to make a very usable experience in just a couple of years. But it's absolute shit. It's so frustrating and to try and plan a train trip and it always has been, for absolutely no reason.

Either this massive company has had absolute fools in charge of their web dev for decades leaving piles of money on the table due to incompetence.. OR they actually just don't care about making sales for whatever reason. I think that reason is that they exist just to keep the rail experience shitty.

My secondary piece of evidence is how poor and shitty the actual train service remains after so long in business. Train travel has not gotten better at all in my lifetime, only worse.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

I do think that Amtrak is purposefully kneecapped to keep train travel from being appealing, but honestly I think their website is fine. It's on-par or slightly less usable than something like American Airlines' website

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Destroying amtrak is literally a republican agenda, for the automotive reasons you stated.

Also, if you can spring for a sleeper car, the experience is fucking amazing. Three meals (and one boozy drink) included a day, there was a wine tasting, just all around pretty rad.

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