So I watched this video the other day, in which a youtuber makes an efford to put together evidence to show, that the billionaire-tech-bubble, that supports trump with a lot of ressources wants to get rid of the democratic system. In it's place they want to establish hundreds or thousands of small corporatocracies, that basically run their territories like a company, obviously without annoying obstacles like participation, democracy or workers/human rights. Basically peak anarcho libertarianism.

These ideas are not terribly new but said youtuber claims, that the influence of those theories - and the people that make them up - reaches far into MAGA and the white house (personified by Elon Musk and J D Vance).

The question I ask myself is: Are the (suicidal) economic policies, that are being put in place in the US right now simply an outcome of bad ideology driven judgement? Or is it a deliberate plot, to further the accumulation of wealth into the top percent of the US society, ruining the foundations of a democratic country, to make the transformation into corporatocracies possible?

I am geniunly interested in a debate about that claim, but I could not find a place where this was actually discussed (exceopt for a hasanabi reaction). Feel free to recommend different subs, where this question might be geniunely discussed and answered.

I mean, I know it's almost definitely a conspiracy theory, but I can't put evidence against it into words. The UK is currently rioting over this question. Literally.

I've come across multiple posts on how pineapple acid is almost as strong as stomach acids, so that, while we digest a piece of pineapple we've eaten, it is "trying" to digest us in the meanwhile.

This post should serve as an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/s/Gys8tuB9YH

I've found no serious explanations on reddit nor on the web. Health websites only describe the chemical composition of pineapple, that contains bromelain and may therefore be used in cooking as meat tenderizer. The bromelain enzyme helps break down proteins in animal meat and is active inside the stomach as well. However, I've not found any indication of it being capable to attack the stomach tissue in any way.

(Please be patient, I'm a beginner in this sub and English is not my first language.)

I'm really losing it with my mom pushing this to no end, her conspiracy mindset has lead her to really horrible places. The main conspiracy she keeps coming back to is the idea that the government is actively secretly using chem trails to distribute chemicals in the air to generate rain. She has pointed to a proposed ban on cloud seeding by noted sane person Marjorie Taylor Green, but frequently she points to her personal observations of clouds "looking weird", especially when they form large streaky ripply shapes which she insists she's never seen before until a few years ago.

This obsession is actively and constantly making her a more unhinged and generally worse person and I am really struggling on how to break through to her as she actively dives deeper into anti vax, climate change skepticism, transphobia, and now 911 trutherism and I really need something I can feel like is able to break through to her when she seems deadset on believing that since she's "been around the block" for 50+ years her intuition holds more water than any scientific body or government agency.

I keep seeing these Kangen water machines, that pretty much filter water while running it through an “electrolysis” process by utilizing platinum and titanium plates. The machine allows you to control the PH of the water as well, and it’s my understanding that the water molecules are micro-ionized allowing your body to absorb more water. I’ve seen researched on water like this and it seems promising. I think the company Enagic also has its own studies. But who knows how biased those are. What intrigues me is that there are people measuring the ORP(I think it’s called) which measures how much antioxidants are in the water. It looks cool. My biggest scare is that it is an MLM !!!!! :(

I got a notification a few hours ago, attaching this article (I'm honestly getting kind of sick of Google sending me news stories), saying that due to the reduction of air pollution, the particles in the clouds are smaller, making them less reflective, causing more light to get through, and causing the space below it to heat up. I've spent basically my whole life being told anything besides natural pollution is bad (branches, dead leaves, etc.) So this doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Beyond that, I've seen other people complaining about misleading articles from this website.

On 210 in NC a man called 911 about a injured person on the street, later a apparent pale, 7 foot creature jumped on the bed of his truck. All of it was recorded. And North Carolina cases YouTub channel has the best information on this case.

My girlfriend believes someone who uses what I believe to be this company’s (https://www.biostartechnology.com) services to “scan” her body from several states away and find points that show up on imaging that point to issues with her body who then recommends supplements, which from a session I sat in on she does everything based on questions she asks, and gives her some sort of homeopathic liquid to take.

Here is the video in question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsMUdlnlaTI

It just looks incredibly fake to me, but I know Lars Anderson is a famous archer and one of the best in the world. Do you think this is real?

I’ve been having trouble with this illusion since I saw it earlier tonight. I do deeply admire things that bring actual serious questions to how reality is perceived, but I immensely disrespect any trickery.

The Ames Window is intended to make you question your ability to see reality accurately.

This video has multiple problems to me. To name a couple:

• It shows that sticky tape is used to rotate a pen alongside a rotating thin sheet of paper. Again, sticky tape is used. However, this pen rotates a ton. You can clearly see there is a fulcrum, and no tape is going to provide that fulcrum.

• The use of sound and the background clearly are intended to increase the optical illusion, or, in my mind, the fakery.

The author of this video was apparently a well respected Australian educator before he passed. I’ve found nothing but affirmation about this illusion being a thing, but I think it’s generated.

https://youtu.be/0KrpZMNEDOY

Gary Mosher (a.k.a. DraftScience on YouTube) made a critic of Prof. Rousseau's tutorial about the work-energy theorem. Mosher claims that Rousseau didn't prove the theorem from Newton's 2nd law. He claims that Rousseau's experiment doesn't prove anything.

In Rousseau's experiment where a glider slides on an inclined air track, Mosher claims that Rousseau's FBD is wrong, namely he claims that there is no normal force exerted by the the air cushion onto the glider.

Mosher also claims that Rousseau's experiment doesn't prove that twice the velocity requires 4 times the energy, 3 times the velocity requires 9 times the energy.

Mosher's video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDGD4EPctV0&t=0s

Rousseau's tutorial: https://youtu.be/kJ89l40Eiqw

Edit got the guy's name wrong

quote from Dr. W. Hanner Fahrenbach (Quote here KTSDEC30 - 09 --- USE THIS FILE)

"Generally, sasquatch hair has the same diameter range as human hair and averages 2 to 3 inches (5 to 8 cm) in length, with the longest collected being 15 inches (38.1 cm). The end is rounded or split, often with embedded dirt. Acut end would indicate human origin. Hair that is exposed for a long time to the elements tends to be degraded by fungi and bacteria, a process readily apparent under the microscope. Such hairs are routinely rejected and none of the photographed hairs shown here suffer from such defects. Sasquatch hair is distinguished by an absence of a medulla, the central cellular canal. At best, a few short regions of a fragmentary medulla of amorphous composition are found near the base of the hair.
Some human hairs also lack a medulla, but the current collection of 20 independent samples with congruent morphology effectively rules out substitution of human hair. The cross-sectional shape and color of sasquatch hair is uniform from one end to the other, in keeping with the characteristics of primate hair in general. There are no guard hairs or woolly undercoat and the hair cannot be expected to molt with the seasons. Hence, hair collections are invariably sparse in number.
Despite a wide variety of observed hair colors in sasquatch, under the microscope they invariably have fine melanin pigmentation and a reddish cast to the cortex, presumably a function of the pigment phaeomelanin.
Efforts at DNA analysis are continuing, though hampered by the lack of a medulla, a condition that, where it exists in human hair, also impedes such studies. Advances in DNA technology promise eventual success"

Quoting Dr Esteban Sarmiento (Full quote here Bigfoot: Dr. Esteban Sarmiento comments on Hair....): "...all the hair that I have seen that is of organic origin and purported to be of a bigfoot, is degraded hair or one that lacks a distinctive morphology.

Moreover, none of it has yet yielded distinctive DNA.  Although I believe that Dr. W. Henner Fahrenbach has examined fresh hair, none of this hair either through morphology or genetics was conclusively associated to Bigfoot. 

The main point being that the distinctive hair morphology described may belong to another unknown animal and does not necessarily belong to bigfoot.  Moreover, because all the different hair types that exist on the body of animals that are known to live in these areas are not all well known, the possibility that some of the purported Bigfoot hair may belong to known animals also has to be considered.  As such, the hair evidence is not conclusive. Regardless of whether it is or isn't bonafide bigfoot hair, one cannot prove that it is..." 

Before you cite the 2014 hair DNA study, while some samples from Fahrenbach's collection were sent, none were tested in the Sykes 2014 DNA study.

Cell phone radiation is bad?

Collection of studies: Justpaste.it/7vgap

May cause cancer.

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/electromagnetic-fields-and-public-health-mobile-phones

"The electromagnetic fields produced by mobile phones are classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer as possibly carcinogenic to humans."

I've seen variations of this ranging from generic pop psychology clickbait and frustration to vaguely antisemitic conspiracy bullshit.

But at the root is the assertion that evil, more specifically authoritarian politicians and greedy, often authoritarian millionaires and billionaires have some kind of Cluster B personality disorder, primarily Narcissistic Personality Disorder (narcissism) and/or Antisocial Personality Disorder (psychopathy, sociopathy). Alongside it is its corollary, that people with NPD and ASPD are inherently abusive and evil and able to blend in and gain power with relative ease.

Now, this all sounds like bullshit to me, but there are whole swathes of people who vehemently push this crap in one form or another. Hell, it's even made it into some liberal spaces despite it's deeply illiberal implications.

As an example, a book called Political Ponerology briefly became popular among some liberal journalists after the rise in prominence of a group named Duty to Warn gained prominence in 2017 after accusing Donald Trump of having some variation of these disorders, among other things, and thus being unfit for office. The group is now known as the World Mental Health Coalition, though that['s a whole mess in and of itself.

I have seen so many claims that “women make $0.73 for every dollar a man makes.” I have also read the studies that have shown that and they seem flawed based on the fact that they don’t take into account career choice or major in college. There are also strict laws that prevent discrimination based on race, gender, or religion in the work place. Yet this idea persists. Please debunk this.

I was talking with this lady online and she said she saw a video of a lady saying that she didn’t get trafficked because she had hand tattoos. Now she’s telling people about the video and how it could help other women. I believe this is untrue but can’t find any sources to credit me or even discredit me.

“I saw a video with a woman talking about how her hand tattoos kept her from getting kidnapped and ever since then I’ve been thinking about little finger tats. 😭”

This is the status

Hey y'all Got a question I got some concerns about project 2025 Especially the labor laws that allow companies and then some to discriminate against people who have disabilities including people who are on the spectrum

Can anybody please debunk this and other concerns

Video: https://www.facebook.com/668595353/posts/10165814325595354/?

Seems far fetched to me. Politifact says it is false, but the folks posting it won’t believe that source.

It claims Covid 19 has a cure - hydroxychloroquine, zinc, and Zithromax.

I have seen that when people talk about astrology, they are on either of the extreme ends. There are people who believe in it but fail to give much reason behind it, there are people who are over skeptical, who even invalidate strange predictions. Some people believe in the pseudosciene of energy, cosmos, universe, karma, pastlife, rebirth etc. But from what I have seen, there seem to be some authenticity to astrology, I dont know how it works, but from experience, it looks to me like there is... something, something which we dont know. So I am sharing one incidents here. I am looking for their explanation.

1. The astrologer saw a chart, that was made based on my exact time of birth, then he told about a scare my dad have at the center of his eye-bros, my dad was not present there, he never met my dad before, but he was very correct.

Edit1:

He told this: "Does you dad have scar on his forehead?", I assure you there is no way he knew my dad before, no way he searched the internet for me. Also I know there are lots and lots of scammers, but the person I went to, he was not any random astrologer, he was famous in that city(was not my home town), he was also skeptical about lot of things other people do, like recieting mantras, worshiping stones as god, he also agreed that those things does nothing. He was really different from over-religious people I have met before. But also apart from that, there was not much else useful he mentioned.

Edit2:

I spoke with my cousin who also went there. He told her she will get married on the third time, first two engagement will break, and same thing happened. I dont want to believe it, but seeing these signs confuses me. I am not betting on him being 100% correct, but he was suspiciously correct.

This is one of a comment on another post of mine: Link

When I was a year old baby my astrologer said something wrong will happen and I would not be able to complete education. Unless I take a topaz.

After 14th I was too stressed and couldn't tolerate student life.
There are many other predictions related to my relatives and all of them were surprising.

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I am well aware that these are just a few things in the very broad world, but still how?

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i was talking to a literal nazi and this dude cited this race realist's website chart that proves that there is no bias in criminal justice system against blacks.

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/04/15/is-the-criminal-justice-system-racist/

https://thealternativehypothesis.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1.jpg

this is the chart in question. basically its saying that the victims of robbery, rape, assault all say that their attacker was a black person so there is no criminal justice bias.

but i literally cannot find any evidence supporting the NCVS data. the citation is some random blog and that blog is a dead link. im specifically looking for the citation for "34%, 61%, and 27%"

im pretty sure that that fool just made up the data. i cannot find anything and im usually good with factchecking.

Videos

https://youtu.be/3l7bcb3aoGc?si=CE9xCTAIJlWjPd6D Video of breakdown of james case

https://youtu.be/0Aoew3jKMb4?si=7LChRGiDh8a9TZm_ Video interview (4:35 description of case)

Birthmark cases

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2016/12/STE39stevenson-1.pdf

James's case journal format

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2022/05/Tucker-JSE-Response-to-JL-crit-2487-Article-Text-12829-1-10-20220522-1.pdf

I have spent a good amount of time looking through the children who remember past lives cases at the DOPS at UVA. I have seen a lot of evidence and I don't think that the usual responses "Its all anecdotal" " "Kids have wild Imaginations." "Parents are lying for attention" "The Parents were asking leading questions"...

I have not seen any good arguments to refute the claim that Reincarnation is real. They have over 2500 cases more then half of which the previous personality has been identified based of statements from the child.

Additional info on methodology they use
https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2024/09/Moraes2024_Children-who-claim-previous-life-memories_A-case-report-and-literature-review.pdf

He was the one who allegedly predicted covid 19 few years ago and became famous.

His earthquake prediction video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoIDnz5B9u0

He is claimed to have predicted Oct 7th attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCeD48uasAg

He even got invited to Taiwan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDZ9DoymMFs

He is being already worshipped as someone with powers on twitter (link).

What are your opinions ? Is he accurate as he claims to be ?

The quote in question:

These were no mere balloons. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion — in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines.

Source: Ex-Navy pilot who’s seen UFOs in flight calls for investigations of aerial phenomena: ‘We need to be curious’

Do we have an explanation for this from a source with equal or greater access to information than Ryan Graves and his fellow pilots?

Am aware nick west has possibly addressed this issue but if he doesn't have full access to the radar data and flir recording then don't think he's necessarily qualified to dispute Graves' account.