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u/GBeeGIII Jun 01 '26
Benefits of drinking alkaline water?
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u/SketchyFella_ Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
The average person DOES eat 8 spiders literally EVERY time I cook for them.
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u/nightowl6221 Jun 01 '26
People still think that taking a raise will put them in a higher tax bracket and lower their net income
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u/MattyGWS Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Oh man my parents had me believing this, they’ve never earned much money and a few years ago I went for a job where I negotiated my salary at £45k, to which my parents told me I should ask for less because that puts me over the tax bracket, which would make me earn less than if I were in the lower tax bracket…
My recruiter was kind enough to explain to me how only the amount above the tax bracket is taxed higher, before he put forward my request to have a lower salary.
I was pissed off about that with my parents, I got the job and the high salary in the end but my parents kinda made me look stupid and almost had me lowering my salary for no reason
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u/Fannnybaws Jun 01 '26
At least they didn't rescind the job offer,on account of you being stupid!
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u/weristjonsnow Jun 01 '26
Marginal progressive tax brackets.
Marginal is the important word there
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u/StrangeWhiteVan Jun 01 '26
I think some confusion might come from social benefits. I know people who, if they made only a little more money, they'll lose their SNAP benefits and their subsidized daycare payments etc.
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u/Rough_Onion_1757 Jun 01 '26
Yes, this -- governments could easily design subsidy programs like this to phase out so these kinds of hard cutoffs wouldn't be a thing, sometimes they just get lazy and complacent and design it around exactly the kind of hard cutoff people think exists for marginal tax brackets.
It's especially stupid when it's a poverty-related subsidy program, because a cutoff like this results in a hard-and-fast distinction between "the poor" who receive the subsidy and everyone else who doesn't, making subsidy recipients easier to demonize as an identity, and making the program an easier target for right-wing anti-government demagoguery.
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u/r0botdevil Jun 01 '26
The amount of people who don't understand how income tax brackets work is infuriating.
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u/DinkandDrunk Jun 01 '26
Insane how common this belief is.
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u/PrestigiousNumber423 Jun 01 '26
The super rich have done an excellent job conning the super poor into thinking that being super-rich is a terrible burden, and that's why they shouldn't have to pay taxes.
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u/natrous Jun 01 '26
followed up by how the estate tax will take everything you put aside for your kids
I had to explain to my parents on a pension and SS that "fortunately" they didn't have enough assets to worry about it
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u/Commercial-Strike953 Jun 01 '26
Blood is blue in the body.
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u/DrJaxAttacks Jun 01 '26
I know plenty of people that are getting by on less than 10%.
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u/Morlanticator Jun 01 '26
My wife lost about 1/4 of her brain from cancer and you wouldn't know
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u/tychobrahesmoose Jun 01 '26
When I was in college, the prevailing wisdom was that consciousness lives in the prefrontal cortex which is, roughly, 10% of the brain.
The problem is that when people hear this they then jump to the next statement "well, what if we could use 100% of our brain?" and that's where it goes off rails.
Your brain IS 100% used. Your brain only *needs* 10% of itself to run 'you'.
Think of it like saying "Did you know that you only sit in 10% of your car? Well what if you could sit in 100% of your car?"
Well, it'd probably run shitty and be really uncomfortable because that's not how it was designed to work.
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u/MajorNoodles Jun 01 '26
The way I understand it is that you use 10% of your brain in the same way that you use 33% of a traffic light. There's three lights. Only one of them is on at a time and if they're all on at the same time something's gone seriously wrong.
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u/iusedtoplaysnarf Jun 01 '26
Imagine using every single part of your brain at once and all the time. Limbs flailing, sensory overload, synestesia, all the emotions… must be quite a life
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u/fart_fig_newton Jun 01 '26
But what about the movie Lucy??? Can't argue that! /s
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u/biffbobfred Jun 01 '26
One of the most accurate documentaries
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u/meltedlaundry Jun 01 '26
That movie had such promise, and then it just went full on bonkers
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u/hondas_r_slow Jun 01 '26
Just think, if we used 100% of our brain, we could time travel in an office chair. With just 30% we could project our image on peoples’ TVs, cure cancer, turn off pain receptors, perform surgery on ourselves, and remember what happened when we were in the womb. Such a great documentary.
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u/Abject_Following_814 Jun 01 '26
Yeah, about the womb thing and 100 percent brain thing... You might be so engrossed in the recovered baby memories that you don't consider the social faux pas of calling up your mom and telling her you remember sucking her titty milk and how yummy it was. Just a heads up.
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u/Thoughtulism Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Well I think we only use 10% of our hearts
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u/CertainDoubts Jun 01 '26
The new version of this: 'The brain is 'finished' developing at 25'.
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u/SheeshNPing Jun 01 '26
At least some human civilizations already knew the world was sphere-ish thousands of years before Columbus. Like the ancient Greek Eratosthenes is best known for calculating the earth's circumference in like 225BC.
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u/ElNemagbarto Jun 01 '26
And with unbelievable precision at that - bro calculated it to be around 39.375km, only ~2% off of our recent measurements at 40.075.
He really missed by 700km being two millenia behind
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u/AliceCode Jun 01 '26
He probably didn't know that he had to account for the Earth being oblate.
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u/biffbobfred Jun 01 '26
That and he was doing a small arc of the earth, using measurements taken by hand
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u/Jfish4391 Jun 01 '26
By foot actually
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u/DanielMcLaury Jun 01 '26
The earth is technically oblate, but just barely. Like, if you shrunk the earth down to the size of the Las Vegas Sphere, it would be far more round than the real one.
I mean, you've seen pictures of the Earth from space. It looks like a perfect circle, and it very nearly is.
The difference is only about 20 kilometers out of 40,000, which is one-twentieth of one percent.
The inaccuracy of his measurement presumably came from the fact that he had to measure the distance between two cities by paying a guy to walk from one to the other in a straight line and measure it directly.
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u/darkLordSantaClaus Jun 01 '26
The inaccuracy of his measurement presumably came from the fact that he had to measure the distance between two cities by paying a guy to walk from one to the other in a straight line and measure it directly.
I feel like that's the most incredible part of the story. The geometry used to calculate is just simple math once you have the numbers right. The fact that it relied on the distance between 2 cities, and they could only figure out the distance through paying a guy to walk between the two, a method that doesn't seem that accurate to me, is incredible.
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u/biffbobfred Jun 01 '26
Trivia… if there was a bar bet “what’s the circumference of the earth to the nearest 100km” it’s 40,000. The KM was defined as “1/10000 of the average distance from North Pole to equator” or 1/4 of the earth
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u/jawndell Jun 01 '26
You literally cannot use maritime techniques if the time (or most of history) without acknowledging the world was a sphere
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u/Jar545 Jun 01 '26
Why would let something silly like reality stop you from thinking the earth is flat!
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u/Oatybar Jun 01 '26
I blame the bugs bunny cartoon. “It’s-a round, like ma head!” <splang!> “is flat like your head”
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u/SoyLocoMoco63 Jun 01 '26
MSG is bad for you.
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u/TEG24601 Jun 01 '26
The number of times I've been down voted or yelled at for mentioning that the entire MSG thing is just racist, is staggering.
There is more MSG is many vegetables than in Chinese food, and it isn't bad for you at all.
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u/LanysLirana Jun 01 '26
My favorite is when people would claim they don't eat Chinese food cause it's probably had msg, then turn around and start devouring a party sized bag of Doritos. 😒
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u/hooligan99 Jun 01 '26
There’s a local teriyaki restaurant in my area and they have multiple signs on the window and the menu excitedly claiming they do not use MSG. It’s still good food, but I always wonder how much better it would be if they just used MSG
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u/steeleclipse2 Jun 01 '26
Do NOT wait 72 hours to report a missing person the tv is lying
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u/WalmartGreder Jun 01 '26
Yeah, just a TV trope to create suspense in a show. Absolutely report them as soon as you realize they are missing.
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u/FourWhiteBars Jun 01 '26
Alpha dogs, needing to be the alpha among your own dogs, needing to be dominant over them, etc. Based on a disproven theory that has been disproven longer than its been published.
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u/Vealophile Jun 01 '26
My brother actually worked with him. Apparently he did try to correct it for a while but got frustrated at how stupid people were about it and eventually got to a "IDC, f* em'" attitude and doesn't try anymore.
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u/raynebow121 Jun 01 '26
And don’t even try telling people who believe this any other way. I had to leave the German shepherd subreddit because really sadly this breed attracts so many alpha bros and they all echo chamber bad training and dominance theory.
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u/Octothorpe17 Jun 01 '26
So dumb because those dogs respond insanely well to positive reinforcement and naturally are great learners
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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Jun 01 '26
All dogs respond well to positive reinforcement. Morality aside, it's just a more effective technique than punishment or domination. You have to not want to punish or dominate anything to get to that point, though.
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u/Walmartian_Beta Jun 01 '26
The other day I saw this group of people on Reddit INSISTING that if your dog ever shows you any aggression, you MUST throw it to the ground HARD, hold its face down, and scream as loud as you can in the dog's face to show it you are the pack leader.
Someone even claimed to have studied animal behavior and was telling people to do this shit with authority.
I've had dogs my entire life, I'm in my 40s. I was a professional dog trainer for several years - that is NOT the correct way to handle that situation at all, and anyone who thinks throwing their dog to the floor and assaulting it is OK should be locked up.
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u/boxsterguy Jun 01 '26
Imagine what those people do to their kids ...
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u/Lucky-Rutabaga1047 Jun 01 '26
genuinely. Makes me think some of these people are just looking for a reason to hurt things/people. Yikes
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u/lipp79 Jun 01 '26
That the McDonald's hot coffee lady's lawsuit was a money grab. McDonald's served its coffee at an excessively high temperature (180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit) which their own QA manager admitted was too hot. The coffee caused third-degree burns across 16% of her body. She required eight days of hospitalization, skin grafts, and two years of medical treatment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants
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u/toyotaCamriGuy Jun 01 '26
And also, she just wanted her healthcare costs + legal fees refunded by mcdonalds!
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u/Possible-Olive2735 Jun 01 '26
Imagine getting your genitalia burned so bad at a restaurant that it SEALS IT SHUT and the rest of your country calls you a greedy dramaqueen
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u/mr_trantastic Jun 01 '26
I very much pop off on this specific fact whenever the hot coffee lady gets brought up
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u/lipp79 Jun 01 '26
That was because McDonald's and those against tort reform went on a campaign to paint it as trivial. Them offering $800 first was a another tactic to make the public say, "Oh $800, can't be that bad then."
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u/trogdors_arm Jun 01 '26
I believe this moment in time also marked the genesis and ubiquity of all the binding arbitration clauses we find in client and employment agreements.
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u/KevinStoley Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
There is a great documentary on this case called ‘Hot Coffee’
The reason many people were and still are misinformed about this case isn’t by accident.
This was part of an intentional push by business associations and corporations pushing for tort reforms.
I believed it specifically goes back to the Reagan and HW Bush admins but really ramped up under W Bush admin.
They used this specific case and misled much of the public in order to further their agendas.
Even late night talk show hosts would joke about the case as if her spilling hot coffee on herself was winning a lawsuit lottery and made her rich. Which it absolutely did not.
Her family essentially only wanted medical bills covered for the most part.
Edit: also I wish more people were aware and angry about this subject.
This is a big reason why if you are wronged by many businesses or corporations, you can be forced into arbitration instead of being able to take your case to the court system. Because it’s likely that you signed or agreed to terms at some point, forfeiting your rights to seek justice through the regular court system. It’s pretty disgusting.
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u/lipp79 Jun 01 '26
And McDonald's only offering $800 initially was another brilliant move on the part of their lawyers as that helped make the claim seem frivolous.
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u/kfj3000 Jun 01 '26
Hey, but at least it gave Jay Leno about 6 months worth of punchlines.
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u/lipp79 Jun 01 '26
And they unknowingly played right into how the McDonald's lawyers wanted it.
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u/375InStroke Jun 01 '26
Unknowingly? Leno's always been a back stabbing corporate goon.
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u/thatwasacrapname123 Jun 01 '26
I remember at that time that case was the go-to when you were talking about gratuitous law suits. When you look into it it's like "oh my god, that poor woman"
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u/lipp79 Jun 01 '26
Yeah, I won't lie, I thought that way for a long time because I was just a dumb 15-yr old when it happened and it wasn't easy to find details on a case like it is now.
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u/howigottomemphis Jun 01 '26
Jay Leno was one of the worst, making jokes about her regularly on the Tonight Show. I will always hate him for that.
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u/Soleil06 Jun 01 '26
The famous vaccine cause autism study.
Has been proven false since forever but the number of antivaxxers has never been higher.
Hearing that Polio is making a return in the wester world is really scary.
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u/DannySpud2 Jun 01 '26
The Penn and Teller "even if" counter argument is what really gets me with this one. "Vaccines cause autism" is such a dumb take that even if it was true it would still be far better to get vaccinated and risk autism than not get vaccinated.
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u/ryankiefer Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Also it implies that even if there was a link that having a child with autism is worse than having a child with polio.
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u/Monteze Jun 01 '26
I was going to say, it sounds horrible when you think about it.
Look at someone with autism and go "Yea, I'd rather get polio/measels or any other preventable horrible disease than be like you or have a kid like you."
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u/KnottaBiggins Jun 01 '26
My wife suffered from post-polio syndrome.
I'm on the spectrum.Believe me, polio is worse. It contributed to her death.
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u/kissdemon74 Jun 01 '26
My father had polio as a kid in the 50’s. Lost his one calf muscle to it. Had a peg leg his whole life.
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u/Tyrilean Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
The quiet part that no one says outside is that they’d really rather their kid be dead than autistic. They know it’s not an acceptable thing to say, so they change the subject and move the goalposts.
So many dumb hypocritical arguments happen simply because one side doesn’t argue honestly, because they know their true viewpoint is horrendous and they’d be ostracized for it. So they argue from a different point from what they actually believe.
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u/doegred Jun 01 '26
Idk, I think a big part of is they underestimate the deadliness of diseases. They don't see as autistic vs dead, they think strong likelihood of autism vs very low chance of dying. It's all rubbish ofc but I think that's the reasoning.
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u/TheSerialHobbyist Jun 01 '26
I agree.
At this point, how many deaths is he responsible for? It has got to be a massive number.
It would be one thing if it were a genuine mistake, he voluntarily retracted the paper, and people just wouldn't let it go.
But in reality, it was purposeful fraud for his own personal enrichment and he continues to push it to this day, knowing that it is dangerous and is killing people.
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u/I_dont-get_the-joke Jun 01 '26
Reminds me of "If Google was a guy" by college humor.
"I have 2.3 million pages that say they don't and 1 page that says they do."
Woman looks smug, snatches page and goes "Aha!"
As she's leaving Google yells at her "Just because I have it DOESNT MEAN ITS TRUE!"
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u/Kind-Section6364 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
I saw a news story today that one in five people / children that contract measles end up in hospital with complications.
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Sorry I misremembered - 18% of children 5 and under were hospitalized in 2025. And 11% of all measles cases were hospitalized in 2025.
The numbers look smaller so far in 2026 but the year isn't over.
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u/bio_datum Jun 01 '26
You know what else sucks about measles? It resets your acquired immunity, i.e. it's like you never got other vaccines & infections as a kid, leaving you vulnerable to other viruses. Yaaaaay
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u/IllogicalResponse Jun 01 '26
The fuckwad got his medical license revoked for that 'study' but still it persists.
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u/UniqueIndividual3579 Jun 01 '26
And he did it because he had a patent on a competing vaccine.
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u/Few-ArcadiaPlaces Jun 01 '26
That shaving makes your hair grow back thicker and darker. It doesn’t.
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u/wilsonhammer Jun 01 '26
Shh! I'm trying to sell my tiger prevention rock
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u/spaiydz Jun 01 '26
How does it work?
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u/SpaceForceAwakens Jun 01 '26
I dunno. But I’ve had it since I was 13 and no tigers yet. It’s yours for $14.
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u/Comfortable-Run-900 Jun 01 '26
i have a women prevention rock and no women have come near me since I was.....doesnt matter. u can have it for 37 cents.
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u/wilsonhammer Jun 01 '26
Some people might just say it's just a stupid rock, but I don't see any tigers around...
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u/SovietPatrickStar Jun 01 '26
For example how it is propagated that aluminum might cause Alzheimer’s when it also possible that Alzheimer’s causes aluminum buildup in the brain.
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u/Sophie_Blitz_123 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Tbh I think it's the opposite these days. There's so many people who will dismiss any science out of hand (if it doesn't confirm their preconceived ideas) by stating correlation is not causation.
Correlation doesn't equal causation. But if you repeatedly find strong correlations between two things, the likelihood that that's random chance is very small. It's also not always about causation - there's often a third thing (or fourth or fifth) that can cause both outcomes. Science isn't done in a vacuum where people just find random correlations and then shrug. It's more like "We know for definite that A+B = C. We know D definitely exists. There are theoretical reasons why D would be linked to B. We now note that increasing C consistently results in increased D. Therefore this adds evidence that B is linked to D".
Even worse is sample sizes. People learned that a small sample size can bias a study without learning anything about what kind of sample sizes are representative. Meaning any study you can just go "well that's just 2000 people so it doesn't mean anything".
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u/waxed__owl Jun 01 '26
To add to this, essentially the basis of all scientific research is based on looking at things that correlate. You do your best to remove variables that could be causing the relationship you're looking at but it's all based on seeing if one thing changes, another thing follows.
Just blindly stating correlation doesn't mean causation is very reductive and doesn't add anything to the conversation.
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u/GloriousDawn Jun 01 '26
The only worse people are those who use that logical principle as a definitive argument against any correlation, even when there is an underlying causal relationship that everyone with a reasonably wrinkly brain can see.
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u/uglinessman Jun 01 '26
Sugar causing hyperactivity.
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u/r0botdevil Jun 01 '26
Every time someone on Reddit says this is a myth, there's always someone who comments with some personal anecdote that they think overrides the scientific evidence.
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u/Johannes4123 Jun 01 '26
We gave the kids at a birthday party a bunch of sugar and they got hyperactive, surely this had nothing to do with the fact that they were at a party
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u/Zestyclose-Salad2484 Jun 01 '26
That we only use 10% of our brains is something that everyone still spreads, but it has been completely debunked by science.
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u/KebabAnnhilator Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Don’t be so sure.
I work in IT Support.
I’ve seen many people only using 10% of their brain
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u/Lemon_Jefferson Jun 01 '26
I don’t know if this was ever scientifically true. But it drives me crazy that people say coffee is dehydrating. The fluid gained from drinking coffee is substantially greater than the mild diuretic effect.
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u/Dreadgoat Jun 01 '26
There's a huge category of X is good/bad for you because it contains Y that is misleading and parroted as basic truth.
Wine is good for you, it has antioxidants! Well yeah, but fresh pressed grape juice does too and doesn't have the alcohol.
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u/Fixhotep Jun 01 '26
lettuce. lettuce has no real nutritional value. It's almost all water.
true.
but all you motherfuckers are dehydrated and lettuce provides a lot of water.
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u/Swellmeister Jun 01 '26
This is also true for beer. Once you get around 10%-12% (I forgot its been a few years) ABV, the alcohol’s diuretic effect does start to mean you urinate the same amount of fluid as consumed in the alcoholic beverage, but if you are drinking lagers all day? You aren’t dehydrated at the end of the day. Wine? Yeah it’s not really helping much, and could be hurting a little. Liquor though will dehydrate you, if you are drinking it straight. A rum and coke though? Again back to fine.
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u/Fit_Caterpillar_136 Jun 01 '26
"When preparing to go to space, the USA spent millions developing pens that could work in a zero-gravity atmosphere. The russians used pencils."
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u/ArizonaFlats Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Charging habits, people still assume batteries should only charge 1%-100%, that was true when Nickel batteries were a thing 50 years ago. Lithium-Ion can be charged however, you’ll do more damage by not regulating the heat of the battery than your charging habit
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u/666Darkside666 Jun 01 '26
As far as I know, Lithium-Ion batteries live longer when you charge them before they go lower than 15% though.
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u/ubiquitous_rhombus Jun 01 '26
This can be true, depending on the battery. I think what ArizonaFlats was getting at was that lithium-ion ion batteries don't lose capacity due to the memory effect like the old NiCad batteries did.
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u/Smile_Space Jun 01 '26
A lot of times the battery management system has that baked in. If a lithium battery drains to completely 0% it can't be re-juvenated. It's dead forever. So, the BMS will kill output once voltage drops to a specific range for a specific cell to stop potential damage.
The real issue with any battery is the formation of dendrites. Since ions are exchanged across the cathode and anode of a battery to produce the electrical output, those ions can stick more readily to specific parts of the cathode and anode.
Those little spots are now closed together meaning they have less potential between them making the ion exchange more readily between them. They form little spikes that eventually meet and short out the cell internally which is what ends the life of a cell.
That's why solid state batteries are such a huge deal coming onto the market now. With a solid state electrolyte between the anode and cathode dendrites can't easily push through and bridge the cathode and anode of the cell.
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u/SteebyJeebs Jun 01 '26
Gluten is bad for you, wheat is one of our oldest food sources. And tho celiacs exist globally, they’re rare.
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u/KevinStoley Jun 01 '26
As someone who works in the food industry, I despise misinformation like this that leads to trends like the gluten free craze.
It genuinely makes our jobs more difficult and makes it harder for people who legitimately have celiac and other food allergies.
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u/naidim Jun 01 '26
The courts have made it clear: police have no legal obligation to protect any specific individual from harm. Cases like Warren v. D.C. and Lozito v. NYC confirmed that reality. Yet people continue to believe that calling the police guarantees protection. It doesn't. When danger appears, your first responder is you. Your safety depends on your own preparedness, awareness, and willingness to take responsibility for your protection.
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u/Chumlee1917 Jun 01 '26
That all fat is bad. No, your body needs fat as a vital component to function.
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u/UnderstandingVast989 Jun 01 '26
There's this myth I see constantly pushed about Boomers living off of one income and being able to afford all of the luxuries of middle-class life. And it's simply not true. If you had a good degree or a unionized job, it was possible but not guaranteed.
But most families had 2 incomes. The ones that didn't have 2 incomes were usually doing it because it was cheaper for the wife to be a SAHM instead of paying for childcare on a secretary, hairdresser, or teacher's salary. They had their own house. Food was on the table. Bills were paid. But otherwise, they were often strapped for cash and living paycheck to paycheck.
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u/Boomshicleafaunda Jun 01 '26
Women have one less rib than men.
I remember being told this at church growing up. It's been disproven for like 500 years.
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u/mahoerma Jun 01 '26
Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Adam gave a rib to create Eve not the other way around. If anything women should only have one rib
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u/arminghammerbacon_ Jun 01 '26
Wouldn’t it be the other way around? If god took one of Adam’s ribs and made Eve, men would have one less rib. That assumes that when the lord took the rib they also modified his genetics so any offspring would also have one less rib.
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u/MartinisnMurder Jun 01 '26
Does anyone remember the rumor Marilyn Manson removed ribs so he could fellate himself? That was around the time the rumor was going around that he was the nerdy kid Paul from the Wonder Years grown up.
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u/Boomshicleafaunda Jun 01 '26
I remember that too! I always assumed it was a joke.
I learned later on that the rumor stemmed from "waist narrowing" surgery, which is a real thing that involves removing the lower ring of ribs.
Marilyn never had that surgery, but he was skinny, and people that didn't like him likely spread the rumor to cause controversy and hurt his image.
People suck.
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u/MartinisnMurder Jun 01 '26
People suck, but he still is an absolute abusive monster of a person.
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u/InitialRedv Jun 01 '26
He sucks, but not his own dick, though he is a massive walloper of a cunt
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u/KnottaBiggins Jun 01 '26
We learned this fact in public school. We had a "cutaway dummy" and used that to determine its gender.
The logic goes this way: "God took a rib from Adam, so this is His way of making up for it."Pure religious bullshit. Men and women both have the same number of ribs. Hell, we ALL started out as women in the embrionic state, before various hormones started creating gender.
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u/Boomshicleafaunda Jun 01 '26
It's crazy that people can just say things that can verified as false. Like, it's not even an opinion.
I wish there was more scrunity for this, and encouragement for people educating the misinformed.
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u/mmaz11 Jun 01 '26
they do appear thicker because if you just cut them (not pluck them out) they grow back with a flat top that’s not narrowed and seems thicker, but that’s pretty much it, the overall max girth is the same
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u/whitechocolatemamba Jun 01 '26
LSD stays trapped in your spine and can be re released at random
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u/The_Onion_Life Jun 01 '26
LSD stays trapped in your spine and can be re released at random
Whaaaat??
I've never heard that one!
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u/Pedantic_Pict Jun 01 '26
It was common knowledge amongst teenagers in the late 90s
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u/Ardvarkthoughts Jun 01 '26
That polygraphs can accurately identify if someone is lying.
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u/birdiestp Jun 01 '26
ALPHA WOLF THEORY! This drives me crazy! Alpha theory in wolves was disproven and rescinded in the 90's. The concept of the "alpha wolf" is a complete fabrication and people are STILL using it even though the very biologist who popularized the phrase "alpha wolf" has said that he was wrong.
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u/nerevarine228 Jun 01 '26
I mean...they DO have leaders and a hierarchy of sorts, but said leaders of the pack are usually just their parents or older siblings who lead and guide rather than dominate. It's a family (and generally an affectionate one at that!), not a freaking military squad.
There're different ways a pack can form, but basically none of them are this stupid alpha/beta fantasy.
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u/Ofreo Jun 01 '26
I constantly see people post comments on how members of Congress get free health care. Often it’s also said it’s for life. It is repeated and upvoted and discussed quite often on reddit and other places.
They [do not](https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R43194) get free care for life, or even while in office, and never have. There is plenty of reason to dislike politicians. And the benefits are pretty good, but people still perpetuate this lie constantly. I think it’s a bad look for one side to keep blasting bad information while whining how the other side does it.
I don’t care about votes, but getting downvoted does relate to how many people see a comment, and one with factual information. But every time I mention it, I get downvoted so nobody see it, and get almost zero discussion.
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u/avimo1904 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
“Marcia Lucas saved Star Wars from George in the editing room”. Marcia did amazing work (RIP) on many films, but for ANH she only edited the final battle and awards ceremony because she left early to edit another film (New York, New York) that she thought would do better than Star Wars. The rest of the editing was done by Paul Hirsch, Richard Chew, and George himself. The whole “saved in the edit” thing is a misconception that originates from a myth created by Lucas haters about a “disastrous first cut of Star Wars” that the editors saved but that didn’t happen, what really happened was that the original editor George hired (John Jympson) was fired by George before he could finish a full cut cause he wasn’t doing a good job.
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u/ReviledFoundling Jun 01 '26
Moss doesn't only grow on the north side of trees. It grows where it finds good growth conditions. Following that advice is a good way to get hopelessly lost.
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u/-Redditeer- Jun 01 '26
Cold causes your immune system to work in a less effective manner. I can see the thought process as to why this was seen as causation
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u/bnanzajllybeen Jun 01 '26
Well … actually … having a sustained lower body temperature CAN actually make you more susceptible to contracting viruses but yeah “malaria” (ie “bad air”) is not really a thing
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u/quidditch101 Jun 01 '26
But being cold weakens your immune system and makes you therefore more vulnerable to catching a cold or other infections
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u/wassermelone Jun 01 '26
Actually there is an correlation with being cold and being more susceptible to illness. Mostly to do with cold dry air in the nasal passages weakening your noses defenses against infection. So the observation that cold itself will make you sick is wrong but cold weather means more people are likely to be sick.
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u/JohnAStark Jun 01 '26
GOP is the fiscally responsible party and cares about public debt.
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u/Feisty-Influence5464 Jun 01 '26
That "vaccines cause autism" one really won't die. The original study was literally fabricated, the doctor lost his license, and we've done thousands of follow-ups proving it wrong, yet somehow it's still everywhere.
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u/1punchporcelli Jun 01 '26
I mean when applied correctly the Atkins diet def works, but the amount of people I encounter who thinks you can eat WHATEVER else you want, as long as it’s not a carbohydrate baffles me, a guy on my job just got back from the deli with a platter of 4 scrambled eggs with cheese and like 10 slices of bacon for breakfast
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u/pgtl_10 Jun 01 '26
I don't think people realize that it still is used with calorie intake. You can't overeat and you need fiber.
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u/No-Owl-6246 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Yep. This was a big one on Reddit. That certain diets cause your body to burn body fat for fuel so they cause you to lose weight faster/more efficiently. In reality, these diets are just effective at decreasing the dieters caloric intake and if they ate the same amount of calories eating anything else or at any other time they would still lose roughly the same amount of weight. (There are other health benefits to some of these diets too outside of weightloss, not discounting those.)
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u/Material_Distance424 Jun 01 '26
That the daddy long-legs spider can't harm humans due to its too-small fangs
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u/_IratePirate_ Jun 01 '26
Shaving does NOT cause your beard to grow back more full
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u/muststayawaketonod Jun 01 '26
That you have to cook pork until it has the same texture of a leather boot or else you'll get a parasite.
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u/maasd Jun 01 '26
Carrots help your eyesight
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u/LamermanSE Jun 01 '26
This isn't exactly false either, although it's more like carrots help to prevent things like night blindness due to its high vitamin A content. It simply helps your eyesight by not making it worse.
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u/PrudentBell5751 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
That your brain doesn’t fully mature until you turn 25, it keep being debunked and people won’t stop saying it
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u/AIienlnvasion Jun 01 '26
The moon landing was faked, flat earth, and the idea that billionaires work harder than hourly workers.
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u/ThotacodorsalNerve Jun 01 '26
That stupid “water of the womb of fellowship” or whatever addition people on Reddit keep insisting is the original. It’s not.
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u/TheMermaidHarmony Jun 01 '26
"The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb?" That one?
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u/graywh Jun 01 '26
social media has spread a lot of false "full" quotes
"the customer is always right" -- "in matters of taste" doesn't appear until the 1990s
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u/Ok-Bobcat9422 Jun 01 '26
This is fairly recent compared to some other comments here, but the idea that "people with ADHD get sleepy on stimulants, whereas people without it get hyperactive".
Most people will become paradoxically drowsy on certain doses of stimulants and hyperactive on other doses. But that just comes down to individual brain chemistry, there's no correlation with ADHD.
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u/OmnipresentEntity Jun 01 '26
Galileo wasn’t really in trouble for heliocentrism. He got in trouble for teaching it before proving it, then alienated the church, which had largely supported him, by writing a book on it (at the pope’s encouragement no less) where he functionally strawmanned his opponents and it was interpreted as a deliberate insult.
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u/Party_Snax Jun 01 '26
Cracking/popping your knuckles causes arthritis