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    Batshit insane conspiracy theories are pushed to discredit all conspiracy theories with actual evidence.


    Women’s pants have small pockets on purpose to increase handbag sales.


    Surveillance of the general public is much, much worse than people believe and the view of being considered weird and paranoid is deliberately encouraged.

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      100% to third one. I posit that’s how they got Luigi (knew where he was basically the entire time imo) and why the actual arrest was so weird and kind of botched

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    Companies add water to meat to make it heavier so they can charge more.

    I once left a pound of frozen ground beef from the farmers market in water but the packaging was damaged, so it was watery. I patted it dry with paper towels. Months later I bought ground beef from a store and it felt like the watered patter dry beef. I even dried it using 2 paper towels afterwards…

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      Frustrating if true, since I’ve heard several people float the same conspiracy while shopping in my store, despite this not being something that we do. The price of meat (at least in Canada) has just risen to absurdities post-pandemic. I don’t even buy it anymore.

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        Typically it’s not the chain that sells it. It is the processor before it gets to the store, think of the prepackaged meats with the weight stamped on a sticker. Or even bulk bags of parts.

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            I was talking about large producers like Tyson or Foster Farms adulterating their products.

            Your family is in a completely different league than them. I say this as someone who grew up splitting a cow from the farm with family members and having a local butcher do the work of splitting it into parts.

            I bet the sausage they make is amazing!

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      I have seen videos of the machines injecting water into shrimps (lots of needles), this isn’t a conspiracy theory!

      A similar thing is fat; force-feed cattle quickly and they get a big lump of fat (it will just melt away, but you still pay for it), feed them normally and exercise them and the fat will be in “stripes” and makes the meat taste way better.

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      This is 100% true. Have had a supermarket GM tell me about how much water they ‘had’ to pump into corned silverside to meet a price point.

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        A company in Canada, Lilydale, used to market their chicken as “no water added”

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    Uno changes the rules every few years so that people have different ideas of which “house rules” are canon. Being “the game that people argue over” keeps it in the public consciousness much better than “that game that’s kind of fun to play two rounds of occasionally”

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      I’m actually stealing this as an explanation next time I’m at a house party and someone whips out the uno cards.

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      Bullshit, uno and its precursor crazy eights is hands down the best card game ever created. We even played that in big groups in jail and had a blast. The house rules thing is bullshit, agree on something beforehand and play, no stress.

      I will say that anyone who doesnt play stacking draw cards is losing out on a ton of fun though.

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        Stacking draw cards is in the rules book, at least for uno no mercy. It says you could only stack equal to or higher.

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          Yeah without that rule there isn’t much strategy to whether you play or hold a draw card. Its awesome when the cards stack around the table and come back to you though lol seriously underated game.

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    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.

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      There’s a great book “The Mathematician’s Lament” that talks about how math teaching is almost guaranteed to make people hate it, but it’s maybe not a conspiracy. Or is it!?

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      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.

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      I grew up in Canada.

      My high school English teacher let us choose books to write essays on from a selection of a dozen or so that he was intimately familiar with and could tell whether someone was BSing or not.

      I don’t remember all of them, but I chose The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I also remember reading 1984 in his class.

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        I kinda got this privilege in my Jr, and Sr years of high school. I had the same teacher both years because AP English, and when it came time to read either Les Miserables or Pride and Prejudice, I informed her that I had already read the book, and provided her with an oral synopsis. Instead I read Dante’s Inferno, (I was attempting to finish the entire Divine Comedy, but it took me too long to finish Paradisio, so I just did a report on the first third.) and handed in parallel work on that book instead. The same thing happened with all the required reading books, but Mrs. Sparks wasn’t surprised. I was one of those kids that read several hundred books a year.

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    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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      Now that you bring it up, of course we’ve studied whether babies can be made in a spaceship. It’s literally the only other option for interstellar travel besides cryogenic freezing, which is far more sci-fi than spacesex. Or spacex for short.

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        Any generational ship will mutiny within one generation and likely die off by the second

        Interstellar travel is a pipe dream made up by people tired of saving what we already are losing

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            We can’t even keep the most prosperous nation on the planet from falling to fascism in 5 years how the FUCk do you think we’re gonna keep an isolated crew of highly intelligent people with access to the highest tech available?

            I know enough about human nature that the only way this works is if it started as a die-hard authoritarian religious movement and even then I only give it 1 out of 4 chances of making it 100 years into the mission

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              Transitional periods take time, and are generally pretty messy. Most of that is because comfortable humans are inherently lazy. The rich managed to stave off a transitional period that began in the mid 1800’s for almost a century with specific concessions to the working class, that they immediately started clawing back, after WWI and WWII. They can’t hold it back with neoliberal rot anymore, so the transitional period may now continue.

              It will get better, just maybe not within our lifetimes.

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                Most of that is because comfortable humans are inherently lazy.

                This is classist propaganda and doesn’t belong in your message

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    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.

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    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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    Toothpaste tubes and similar containers are intentionally designed to be inconvenient to get the full contents out of.

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    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.