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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 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.

[–] ranok@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 hours ago

Radon is fake

[–] pno2nr@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours 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.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 28 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 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.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Damn. Good one.

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago
  • they also taste overly dried out
[–] MTK@lemmy.world 17 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Cats have a much more complex understanding of human behaviour and just consider us harmless and boring enough to not bother.

As in your cat totally understands that your keyboard is special in a way and you don't want it disturbed, but couldn't give two shits about your wants. Or completely being aware of how unpleasant it is when they sit on you with their butthole in your face, but why not if that's what they want to do right now?

I think this is real and that most (not all) cats are smarter and more selfish than we think

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Dogs are waaaaay more aware than most people seem to think. I think it's true of most animals. We just don't like to think about it.

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I stayed out later than normal one time and missed one of my dog's walks. He tore up a newspaper while staring at me. Rip, rip, rip. He knew I spent time looking at newspapers so he chose to destroy one, while heavily implying that if I fucked up his schedule again he would rip ME up.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Aw, I can't help but be on his side.

[–] Denjin@lemmings.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Dogs brains activate the same regions when the see human faces that activate in our brains. These same regions don't activate in dogs to anything like the same degree when they see other dogs.

Dogs are far more in tune with us that they are with their own species.

Some of the oldest human archaeological sites have dog remains among the humans. Domestication of the dog was going on far far earlier than the first evidence we have for domestication of the first food species.

We have evolved together as two mutually symbiotic species.

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I agree, but that's not a conspiracy. Scientifically speaking, we know that animals are smarter than most people admit.

The conspiracy here is that cats are not just smarter than we think but actually one of the smarter animals in general and they are also very internal and just don't care about us so they don't exhibit it in ways that we recognize.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Some cats are extremely smart and very devious (looking at you, mother's cat) and some are. Well. I love them. But I've met cats that absolutely had nothing going on upstairs, not a single thought in their little brains.

That's rare though! Most are pretty smart and know how to convince us to do everything for them! And I always will do my best for them.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 hours ago

cats that absolutely had nothing going on upstairs, not a single thought in their little brains.

Ah, so you've met a Persian cat. Pretty cats, but at what cost?

[–] Nefara@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Local parking companies are getting rid of pay machines and forcing apps and QR codes on people so that it's less convenient to pay. They know people will have trouble so then they can fine people who are "non-compliant".

[–] r0ertel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Apps and web sites can also apply custom pricing based on the individual's ability to pay. Payday? The parking spot costs more.

[–] invertedspear@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 hours ago

I like this because the app would also tell them exactly where to come look for the offenders car.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

I think Vince Neil of Motley Crue got a ridiculously short sentence for drunk driving manslaughter because his record company bought off the judge so that they could make money off him performing. I suspect a lot of famous people have that happen.

[–] UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

JFK's head just...did that.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

I'm not saying there was candy inside, but did you see how she scrambled?

[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

I'm convinced JFK is an opsec trick. There's nothing suspicious at all but if someone says that have a secret source about info the government hides and then mentions JFK, the agents investigating can drop it there because the know this guy is yakking out his ass.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 30 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Vegan_Joe@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours 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.

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 29 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 7 points 9 hours 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

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 111 points 23 hours ago (12 children)

Every year the government takes 1 hour away from every American with the implementation of Daylight savings time. They return the hours to each American in the fall. However, in between March (when the hours are taken) and November (when the hours are returned) over 2 million Americans die, and don't get their hours returned to them, or their estates. This happens every. single. year.

What is the government doing with all of these stockpiled hours of dead Americans?

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