The lottery is a trap designed to catch time travelers.
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The odds would have to be much longer for it to be effective. Sure when it's one in one hundred million there's almost no chance that *you" will win, but with millions of players playing every day there's practically a guarantee that someone will win eventually.
The SEC are the real time cops. They're a front for the Hyperextended Interval Temporal Legislation and Entropic Reduction Society (don't panic about the acronym, they started as private bodyguards and then their mission expanded as chronological abuse became more widely known). It's a lot easier to vet people buying Amazon and Apple stock at IPO. If you've got no history until 1980, then buy 10,000 shares of apple on IPO day, then do absolutely nothing else in the market for decades, then dump all 10k shares at peak that's a pretty easy to spot profile of a time traveler.
Smart enough to time travel, but not smart enough to conceal suspicious trading patterns.
Frosted Flakes are not great, they're just paying Tony the Tiger to say that.
John Harvey Kellogg was a surgeon who performed circumcisions. He believed they were an effective treatment for "addiction to masterbation".
There are conspiracy theories (misconceptions?) that he popularized circumcisions in America. Or that Corn Flakes were created to curb masterbation urges - because they are so bland that obviously no one would want to jerk it after eating that.
Idk where I'm going with this, but John Harvey Kellogg was a weird fucking dude.
Toby Keith had "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" pre-written years before 9/11 and wrote it generically enough so that it could apply to whatever war Amerikkka entered next.
Is Toby Keith considered the typical pro-USA pro-war country star post 9/11? Or is there another famous guy who is even more emblematic of that?
The healing power of crystals is real, but very few people have had the gumption to have enough inside them to get the full effect.
The healing factor is actually just what you get from finding a cool rock
I would like to point out that a lot of these crystals are poisonous pls don't eat them.
Gaylor Swift. I heard someone talking about it once and I went down the rabbithole and it's crazy.
Go on
Cishet white women like to image Taylor is a lesbian or bi because it makes them feel like they're supporting a "diverse" artist instead of a rich, white, cishet one
i dont necessarily believe it but i think the conspiracy theory that justin trudeau is castro's kid is funny
Companies intentionally make it hard to find the balance on a gift card so you forget to apply the remain balance. Saving them billions for free. Even it's just like $3 or whatever, that's three dollars worth of dollars. It's your $3, use it.
Agreed, but it also works both ways. If you think your card has 50 dollars but it only has three, you go and buy 55 dollar item and have to give 'em a ton of money without first realising.
The gift card conspiracy has depths beyond our understanding. A gift card or should i say GRIFT CARD!?! It's a pyramid that extends up and down, it's a card balance without beginning or end.
This is what they don't want us to know. 👁️🔼
This is explicitly the logic behind gift cards. Like this is explicitly why the exist and what they're designed to do. Companies make vast, vast amounts of money on gift cards that are purchased and not redeemed or not completely redeemed. If anything, I'd say the conspiracy part is the idea that it's somehow rude or gauche to send cash. Fuck that, 1.) No I do not want to be locked in to getting a stomach illness at Chili's, and 2 please do send me cash I love cash cash is great.
Dating apps deliberately match you with incompatible people so you keep returning and paying for premium.
I think the story about the passengers fighting back on United flight 93 is fake and it was shot down by the military.
United flight 93
Idea for a bit: Hexbear passengers on United Flight 93 having a struggle session on whether it's okay to critically support our hijackers if they really do intend to fly the plane into the Capitol building.
okay here's one i'm actually serious about that's kind of controversial: Koko the gorilla did not know sign language. in fact she did not know any language. she was very intelligent and emotionally deep, but she did not do what humans do when we communicate with each other through spoken or signed words. at most she repeated some actions that got her some reward, but she did not associate the actions with any meaning beyond the reward. her trainer did not know ASL and did not bother properly codifying the reduced version she supposedly taught Koko. instead she convinced herself of her conclusion, and having done so, worked to imbue any pseudo-signing behaviors by Koko with linguistic meanings whether they made sense or not.
I believe pretty much the same thing about everyone on youtube and tiktok who made those button boards that their dog or cat presses to "talk." i think these cases and claims are worth investigating scientifically, but so far no one has definitively demonstrated what would be a very surprising conclusion i especially find it suspect when they say things like "so far Grover has learned over 80 words!" and what they mean is their golden retriever has pressed over 80 buttons that said a word that the owner could come up with some explanation for.
I think that's the general academic consensus, that Koko probably had some simple psudo-signing behaviour to communicate single concepts (perhaps even as complex as "sad"), but had no real language capability and was just randomly stringing these concepts together at best and signing whatever got her food at worst, likely somewhere between the two.
I remember seeing someone deboonk it once, but I won't say I think animals can't learn language-based communication. Like dogs can learn commands, they can learn that a sound conveys a meaning. Surely animals can then also learn that a motion conveys meaning.
The claim she 'knew language' or could 'speak sentences' is obvious nonsense. But there's no doubt that animals like dogs can indeed learn hundreds of words and associate them with real-world concepts. I've seen videos where someone has a hundred different stuffed toys in another room, and they can tell the dog to get a specific item with complete reliability. So I've no doubt a dog could convey a desire for a specific object, for example. Conveying any abstract concepts, or stringing any sentences beyond a single word, I certainly haven't seen done with any objectively measurable success.
Yeah I suppose that's true, I was too extreme in saying animals can't learn any language when I meant they can't compose sentences like a lot of these people claim they do.
The feds are running Pokémon Go (and possibly other copycat AR games) to harvest data on human movement and shopping patterns, and the feds are the ones who forced Niantic to dismantle the remote raiding economy and focus almost entirely on in person raids.
A development studio deliberately stopping whales from dumping money into them (ie the previously unlimited remote raid passes) is kind of a jaw dropping moment.
Crosswalk buttons and hold open/close door buttons in elevators are just there to give an illusion of control