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Aliens have quarantined the solar system to prevent contamination of the universe by humanity. They are waiting for us to incinerate ourselves and keeping the other races safe until we finish the job.
If they had the technology to do that they could just wipe us out
Even dropping a single nuke in the right spot would be enough to blow up everyone (humans initiating nuclear response)
the aliens also believe we have the right to live.
As we are not fast enough to their liking, they send Musk to put so much junk in our orbit, so that we may never reach space.
My moral values, such as valuing reducing suffering as far as possible, qualify I suppose.
Tailgaters (people who drive too close behind another vehicle) are idiots.
Cops are liars.
Anti-vaxxers, and other conspiracy nutters, are anti-science cretins.
these are all truism, the OP wants unscientific opinions!
I agree that tailgating is unsafe and one could view the behavior as idiodic but there’s usually a reason it’s happening… to signal to you to move the fuck over.
If you are camping in the passing lane of a highway/freeway - I argue you are just as much of an idiot.
Risking everyone’s lives because you want someone to move over is not acceptable.
OP is right and you should think about that.
Wow. Where did this fantasy situation come from?
It’s just what comes to mind when people mention tailgater’s.
I’m sorry for your lack of imagination.
I forgive you
Most instancss I have experienced of tailgating are when people want to drive too fast or unsafely:
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I’m going more or less exactly 50 kph, which is the speed limit in the city, but someone thinks because the street is broad and straight they should be able to go 70+.
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I know the route and know some dangerous curve or sudden intersection behind a curve is up ahead so I slow down but someone behind me doesn’t like it.
Sure it happens that people are going too slow. Even then it’s no excuse to tailgate. All that does is make everything less save for everyone including you. You can honk or overtake at the next opportunity, but all you achieve by tailgating is risk your own life.
I merely propose that the original claim that ‘tailgater’s are idiots’ is only half the truth and it ignores that more often than not, both parties involved are being idiots.
Folk on the receiving end of the tailgating treatment often seem to not know about or care to respect their local laws on remaining L/R, except to pass. They appear to be ignorant of laws requiring one to pull over and allow traffic to pass if it impedes >N vehicles.
Does it excuse tailgating? No, of course not. But it certainly explains the cause of the frustration and anger that leads to it for other drivers who do care about such laws.
It may be your opinion that someone else is going ‘too fast’ but unless you’re an officer of the law, that’s not really your job to enforce. If someone wants to find out the hard way how sharp the bend is up ahead, I say let them.
Tailgaters are clearly giving off an unwritten signal for ‘you’re in my way’ and want to engage you in their risky behavior. I’m inclined to let them continue doing so in front of me rather than behind. More often than not however, I see tailgating escalate to brake checking, road rage, and two idiots clinging onto their senses of righteous indignation.
Just move over.
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Seconded. The number of people who stay in the left lane at or below the speed limit, watching people pass them on the right to get by, is too damn high. I have no idea what possesses someone to do this but in my area there is no shortage of them.
Patrick’s Law: If a comment thread on the internet is more than 7 replies deep, it’s a slap-fight that’s best avoided.
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There’s also a small chance it’s a lame train of inside jokes, or a string of Monty Python quotes you’ve seen a thousand times before.
I’ll start:
“This. Is an *Ex-*parrot!”
No he isn’t, he’s a very naughty boy.
And my axe!
No it’s not. It’s just contradiction!
But I don’t like spam!
And don’t call me Shirley
FREUDE
Bananas are awful. Terrible texture and taste, too many calories.
It’s shocking how many of these I agree with.
Assuming that you are either North-American or European, I assume that you mean the Cavendish variety. I know several people who claim that those are horrible when you have tasted the more local varieties. The Cavendish is easy to transport and has a long shelf life, but apparently, the taste is inferier to other races.
I got one - and it’s the only conspiracy theory I give any credence to.
All of Helen Keller’s feats were utter bullshit and were a circus side show to bring money to her family. It’s the perfect “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it” fairytale. Like hell she flew an airplane, ain’t no way she wrote a book.
Before anyone provides evidence of the contrary, I will not accept it no matter how damning it is. Hence the “firmly hold.”
Yeah I was always a bit skeptical of the Hellen Keller life story as well.
That’s a wild one I like it
It’s depressing to me that one of the top upvoted comments here is ‘there’s no way a deaf blind person could have been literate.’
You’re absolutely correct that her legacy has been used as inspiration porn, but that doesn’t reflect on her intellectual abilities at all, just what stories society and the powerful want us to hear. Even during her own life Keller experienced exactly that once she became a socialist, and suddenly all the newspapers and people who went on at length about how capable she was suddenly believed her unable to reason because she was blind and deaf. Keller herself even spoke out against using her story as a way to tell people that anyone can do anything, and specifically that the poor didn’t have the opportunities she had.
You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Besides this is a safe space for batshit unprovable theories.
You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
That sounds true but I don’t know why
Mate. Look at where you’re at. People aren’t upvoting me because I’m right, they’re upvoting me because I answered the question.
there’s no way a deaf and blind person could have been literate
Keep your words out of my mouth. You’re just looking for an excuse to be offended.
Keep your words out of my mouth
If you meant something else by:
ain’t no way she wrote a book.
I’m open to hearing it. But I’m not sure how you believed that statement gave the impression you thought she was literate.
opens thread for stupid opinions
reads stupid opinion
gets upset an opinion is stupidYou.
Most literate people have never written a book. Blind and deaf people are not a monolith, doubting one does not automatically apply to all like you’re implying. If you’re going to criticize me, at least quote me correctly you goober. Go be needlessly upset somewhere else.
This “your evidence has no power here” is exactly the energy I was looking for lol.
At least you believe she was real unlike half the women on dating apps in this godforsaken state
…wait, do people actually think Helen Keller wasn’t real? Like fucking Santa Claus?
I think it was some TikTok conspiracy theory that started trending. I don’t know if people actually believe it or they’re just memeing, but I refuse to engage with those people regardless
Döner macht schöner.
The moon is closer to me than the Eiffel tower since I can see the first and not the second.
If the Eiffel tower was as large as the moon, you’d be able to see it.
Right before Europe turns into a giant crater.
or if the moon takes up the whole sky(really close), the earths crust nearest to moon would start to destabalize and liquiefy, and melt.
I’m no medicinologist but, anecdotally, I am convinced that anti biotics help recover from the flu much much faster, and can also help prevent complications.
My home country was pretty lax on drug enforcement, and doctors would prescribe antibiotics if your fever hadn’t broken in ~3 days (or sooner if you nagged them enough). Getting started on anti biotics would lead to recovery in a day or two at most.
The govt. bodies are getting stricter now, and it’s harder to get antibiotics. Pretty much everyone around me has longer and longer recovery times. In just the last two years, 3 people I know (granted, they’re 60-70 year olds) have had to be hospitalized (2 pneumonia, 1 I don’t remember) after their condition deteriorated.
I know that’s it’s widely accepted that antibiotics don’t help fight the flu, but it’s my pulled-it-out-of-my-ass hypothesis that it does help ward off all the other crap allowing the immune system to fight the viruses more effectively leading to faster recovery.
Also, in my home country we used to get paracetamol/acetaminophen injections when the fever spiked too much. But I’m currently in Canada and the recommended “just eat soup and hydrate” is BS. We’re just left to fend for ourselves with no option minimize harm /discomfort/symptoms unless you’re on deaths door. I’m guessing that most of the rest of the developed world is like this too?
Sincerely, Suffering from flu
Oh boy. I mean, I guess you’re following the prompt you made…but woof.
Yeah, I know that it sounds ridiculous. I am almost certainly wrong lol. I just want something to make this coughing stop though – I don’t care if it’s opium like I’m in the 19th century, or if it’s a sugar pill pretending to be an anti viral.
I just want something to make this coughing stop
Pseudoephedrine (decongestant), dextromethorphan (cough suppressant), guafenesin (expectorant), and either ibuprofen or acetaminophen/paracetamol (pain relief/fever reduction). Or some other substitutions.
“Advil Cold and Sinus” is a brand name for the ibuprofen/pseudoephendrine combination over the border in Michigan. I assume you can get it at a pharmacy in Canada, but to get the actually good stuff I’m guessing you have to ask a pharmacist, because at least in the US it’s behind the counter due to pseudoephedrine’s use as a precursor for methamphetamine.
You can get dextromethorphan and guafenesin in cough syrup, though sometimes you can also get it in pill form. Careful, some cough syrups also contain acetaminophen/paracetamol.
You can also go the easy route of DayQuil/NyQuil or equivalents, this is usually effective enough for mild cases but I like to get the pseudoephedrine for the bad ones.
With a viral infection generally the only thing worth doing is fighting the symptoms. Your body will clear the infection with time. Using antibiotics appears to work because the infection was going to clear anyway. So you take the antibiotics and the viral infection goes away, but it would also have gone away had you not taken the antibiotics. But of course you can’t copy yourself and test this.
Edit: Oh, be sure to eat something when you take ibuprofen or your stomach will not be happy with you.
There are drugs to help lessen the symptoms of the flu, paracetamol in particular, but having antibiotics to cure a viral disease will not help in any statistically significant way, barring the placebo effect.
It’s believing that playing easy listening radio at a forest fire helps it burn out quicker. Sure there may be times when it appears like it’s helped, but in reality it has done nothing.
Have you heard of the placebo effect?
Even if that worked, the problem is that we’re already overusing antibiotics and breeding all kind of multiresistant bacteria. We have to use them sparingly or we’ll run out of usable antibiotics in the near future.
Crazier idea: let’s abuse the hell of one and only one antibiotic. Select the antibiotic that has so many resistances that it’s practically useless in a clinical setting. Then prescribe THAT antibiotic to anyone who wants an antibiotic for the flu. The doc can truthfully tell them they’re being prescribed an antibiotic. They get their big fat placebo, and nothing of value is lost.
How much over use of anti biotics (and related issues) is from humans and how much of it is from farming? Is a human taking antibiotics for 3 days a year really the issue when farmers use it like it’s straw on a daily basis?
Farming is a factor for sure, but the kind of multiresistant bacteria being bred in farms are usually a bigger issue for the farms than for humans. Zoonotic diseases exist of course, but most of those bacteria do not infect humans and there is much less opportunities for diseases to spread to humans from a farm. Places like hospitals overusing antibiotics are far more dangerous for human health, as all the germs there are human ones and because there are a lot of opportunities for human to human transmission.
But as I said, it’s not that we should only reduce antibiotic overuse in humans. Overuse by farms is a massive problem as well. One doesn’t exclude the other.
This is the answer.
… no mention of whether you got the flu vaccine this year. The most important piece of this puzzle.
I did, over a month ago.
You’re not the only one who thinks so. Never tried it myself, but I’ve heard the same story from several people. Sure anecdotal evidence is not evidence, and so on. I’m convinced there is some truth to that, but not because of the direct causality.
Maybe it’s a strong placebo (most likely). If you look into placebo effect you’ll see it can be really powerful. Or there is something else in the human body that antibiotics stimulate. Like it’s not directly attacking the virus, but doing something else that makes it easier to recover.
Without the hate speech and constant invasive political discourse, most people on the internet would lose interest and go away.
Sounds like my idea of curating a social platform devoid of “-ist’s and -ism’s” is impossible then lol
We’ve gone from “sex sells” to “hate sells” and yes, that’s the sad side effect. I haven’t used Facebook in ages but I hear it’s not useful for talking to your friends anymore. If such a platform existed I’d go there but I think it would just be you and me.
I check out my Facebook every once in a while and it’s absolutely enraging now. I showed my wife that I had to scroll past 20 ads and suggested pages before I got to something a friend shared, and I have like 1000 friends.
What I’ve also heard is that the things your friends say / share aren’t presented in chronological order they way they used to be, that they’re presented in the time and place you’re more likely to interact with them.
they’re presented in the time and place you’re more likely to interact with them.
Normally about 4 to 6 days late so you’re “forced” to urgently like or comment after " missing out" on something in their life.
Yeah I don’t know how they choose how to present them but it’s fucking annoying.
It hasn’t been chronological since like… 2012
FB is most AI generated bots, plus zuckerberg intentionally made it that way,. its also a safe haven russian backed propaganda to go unchecked., and plus they want to datamine you heavily like require your ID. reddit is heading to the same path as FB.
How dare you!!! It should be ILLEGAL to not include -ism! You filthy piece of dirty filth! That’s ism ism!
you fucking ismonkey piece of shit. Everybody knows isms are inferior to ists, keep on believing in your precious isms, I can’t wait to drink your delicious ism tears.
Fuxkig asshole isms are the best. There’s no ist so good as the worst ism.
You know who like ists just like you? Hitler! Yeah u r modern day hitler and pol pot combined fuck shit you
HISTLER IS JUST MISUNDERSTOOD.
Go suck Joe’s stalism’s dick some more you cuck.
Nothing wrong with some good cuckism. You know what rhymes with cuckism? You suck-ism!
You know who’s also a cuck?! YOUR MOM! IN UR STUPID FACE YOU ISTER!!!
Eh, gotta break at least one egg to make an omelette (or break the seal on the packaging if you’re using egg substitutes) lol.
Counterpoint: memes, cats, and memes about cats!
This is not unscientific. This is exactly what science shows. Re-read the title.
I don’t believe there’s a spoons worth of plastic in your brain. Ain’t no way. It’s suspiciously sensational, and confirms something we all believe to be true (plastics bad, humans reckless, etc.). I have zero evidence to the contrary but im pretty confident that in a few years to a decade it will be debunked.
it’s in your balls
Hey at least I put my ball-spoon there myself
Good news: it’s already been debunked! Or at least called into question.
https://youtu.be/MedC_v-dEbY?t=48 description of the myth
https://youtu.be/MedC_v-dEbY?t=111 calling it into question
SciShow on youtube is well worth a subscription, their videos are well researched and fact checked.
Oh nice! Yeah I’m a fan of the Green brothers they’re legit.
Planted by big plastic so they can debunk it and say “SEE? THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS LIE TO YOU!”
Half Life 3 will be teased on 3rd Dec, and fully revealed on 11th Dec at The Game Awards
Half Life: Alyx is awesome, though.
For all the 12 people who played it, at least.
That conflicts with my own theory. Back in 2013, Half Life 3 was quietly released as an easter egg hidden inside a random indie title somewhere on Steam and nobody has noticed yet.
I also had a similar thought where Valve is just waiting for someone to solve an ARG that no one has noticed for the last 10 years lol
Flames on the side makes things go faster
Red is the fastest color.
“What’s your scientific reasoning for that?”
“I’m 12.”
I have magnetic flame decals on the side of my Minivan, and I can 100% confirm that it is track ready.
What if they’re on the side of your face, and you have heaving breaths?
Gotta go fast!
Are you a Space Ork?
Wagh?
Purple orks are invisble
I mean have you ever “seen” a purple Ork?
Until they lose their stealthboy supply
No, their thing is the colour red
Flames are red
Hmmm…are they though? Orange maybe. Yellow definitely. White or blue? Yeah. But red?
Nah
I’ve never heard anybody argue that red cannot be the colour of fire before but I am here for it.
If you have a thing, and you cut it at a diagonal, you get more thing.
I don’t care how many studies are done on food safe plastics I still don’t like the idea of using them on my kitchen. That’s not to say I avoid them 100% but I do what I can to avoid them within reason. Like I feel after the whole BPA scare and banning them from use in food applications is a temporary thing and that it’s a matter of time until we find a problem with the new BPA-free liners.
100%, I avoid using plastics as much as possible around anything that I ingest that involved heat somewhere in the production process. Not entirely possible, but I do what I can.
Ya, I don’t believe you can completely avoid it. I’m with you though, reduce the use of it in the kitchen and with food wherever possible.
Not only do I avoid plastic where heat is invloved but I also try and avoid plastic in places where mechanical friction or cutting is involved. Using steel mixing bowls and wooden cutting boards are two big ones for me to avoid adding bits of plastic to my food.
