• @betterdeadthanreddit
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    1532 months ago

    I want to believe that the kids mentioned in posts like this are playing along with their parents’ delusions so they don’t have to sit through another lecture about how the Federal Reserve is a Ponzi scheme and they’re chemtrailing us with fluoride.

      • ✺roguetrick✺
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        I wanted to dismantle the state for a socialist ideal in at least middle school. I didn’t like punk until freshmen year of high school though, so we all go through changes even if my politics have mostly stayed the same.

        Edit: thinking back on it I remember having an anticapitalist moment in 5th grade, Miss Hill’s class so we’ll scale that back to elementary school.

      • @indepndnt
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        42 months ago

        I have a similar story. I’m glad you grew up, and I hope adulthood is treating you well!

      • @postmateDumbass
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        22 months ago

        They brought in a special teacher for my AP US history, straight from the Masonic lodge i figure.

        Made the usual teacher, a liberal guy, take a sabatical year.

        Thanks secret government assholes.

        • @[email protected]
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          22 months ago

          That’s awesome. I have a formative memory as like a 10 year old putting on a magic play for 5 year olds, and our teacher told us that little kids believe in magic and it turned out to be true because they believed what we were doing

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      Haha you reminded me of a video of some poor young teen having to film his mother making chemtrails disappear by spraying a bottle of vinegar at them.

      He was so unenthused.

      Edit: I can’t find it. My guess it was obv taken down .

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      I mean technically the federal reserve is a ponzi scheme they charge interest on money printed requiring more money to be paid back than they printed. Ergo there isn’t enough print money in existence to pay them back.

      • @madcaesar
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        42 months ago

        Regular economic thinking doesn’t work on the scale of nations. Just like a family having debt is not the same thing as a country having debt.

        Pretty much everyone in the world has no full idea how an economy works and how to best stimulate it. It’s like a trillion moving parts and smart asses always go “yea this pin over here? That’s the one that’s the problem / solution”

        Pretty much no-one knows. We have ideas what’s better / worse but anyone who tells you they’ve got it figured out, is lying.

  • @Squorlple
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    1402 months ago

    Rice confirmed sentient and sapient. Vegans everywhere are in tears. International governments are drafting a Bill of Rice to ensure the rights of these beings. Churches are redirecting rice purchased for weddings to be given directly to their missionaries. Little do we know, the grains will soon band together and revolt, and the Rice War will be upon us.

    • @LesserAbe
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      262 months ago

      Oh man we’d be so fucked if all plants were sentient. We’d still eat, but we’d be doomed to commit plant war crimes to live

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        They could be sentient without us knowing. But they live on a different time scale. Everything we do to them would happen very quickly in their perception. So don’t worry and bon appetit.

      • @dessimbelackis
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        12 months ago

        And isn’t rice pudding just grain-based yogurt?

  • @Contramuffin
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    792 months ago

    The hate jar has visible condensation. The moisture probably is driving the mold growth.

  • billwashere
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    762 months ago

    And this is how you fail in teaching your children science.

  • @[email protected]
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    582 months ago

    One, day… some adult is going to think “that fucking cunt ass bitch lied to me about the rice”.

  • Python
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    552 months ago

    Is this like, some weird parent “lesson” thing you’re actually supposed to fake? Like maybe you’re supposed to put some vinegar in the good jar to prevent mold growth, and the goal is to make your dumbass children behave?

    • @Entropywins
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      542 months ago

      No better lesson learned than being lied to by those in authority…

      • @_g_be
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        252 months ago

        2 lessons in one!

      • @A_Union_of_Kobolds
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        62 months ago

        Yeah there aren’t any lasting affects from that at all

        Said the nearly 40yo anarchist

  • Rob T Firefly
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    522 months ago

    If rice has feelings, consider the unimaginable horror you’re inflicting when you eat a bowl of it for lunch.

    • @[email protected]
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      142 months ago

      i would fucking hope it’s dead by then, just like how i don’t worry about the feelings of a cooked porkchop

      the horrifying part is when the rice is harvested and processed, dear lord

        • Rob T Firefly
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          52 months ago

          “You still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the rice.”

  • Kairos
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    “Words truly matter” but I can’t understand for the life of me what these ones mean. Can someone help me out?

    • @niktemadur
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      Words have powers bordering on magic, I guess is the idea.
      And for many people that’s true, for as long as they are willing to believe that.

      So I guess what I’m saying is that placebos have powers bordering on magic.

      • @UNY0N
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        12 months ago

        Well that’s an opinion I xan get behind, placebos are certainly more powerful than common sense would dictate.

      • Kairos
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        12 months ago

        If this is an explanation it doesn’t make it clearer

        • ArchRecord
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          82 months ago

          There are people who think that “positive” or “negative” words have a magic-like effect on natural processes.

          From what I’ve seen, this was originally popularized in 2004 by Masaru Emoto’s book “The Hidden Messages in Water,” where part of his claims were that snowflakes would develop differently in containers labeled with negative or positive emotions.

          Naturally, this turned out to be a complete lie, but many people, such as those in the original post, still believe that words can somehow influence things like mold development on food.

          • Kairos
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            Thank you. The thing I was missing was the fact that the other one had mold.

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              Ah, yes! Of course, there’s that other half of the post - the “experiment” itself. What I said about words applies to the people involved, it’s not the mold in the jar who “believes” in the placebo, I completely skipped over that part.

              For a laboratory scientific experiment to prove something, anything at all, it has to pass a threshold known as sigma-5, which means that the margin or odds of error must be less than one part in around 3 million. There has to be a laboratory certainty of 99.99994%

              There are a million-plus-one ways that an attempted “controlled experiment” can go askew and wrong. In the case of the jars, my guess is that they packed the “unloved jar” more aggressively. That kitchen experiment is messier and more chaotic, uncontrolled, than a school lab, and a school lab doesn’t cut it even for a sigma-1 I would reckon, you’d get equally “useful” results by flipping a coin.

          • @[email protected]
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            22 months ago

            I watched a youtube video about it. It’s temperature that dictates how a snowflake looks. Simple as that.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          42 months ago

          They wrote mean words on one jar of rice, nice words on the other, and the one with mean words grew mold, illustrating that you should choose your words carefully. That was their intention at least.

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            I was trying to figure out if the kids had eaten more from one or the other jar. And I thought the green stuff was herbs.

  • Greg Clarke
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    412 months ago

    Huh, it really makes you think… some people have no idea how to run an experiment or about statistical significance.

    • @LANIK2000
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      Nah, they actively avoid it. My mom was also like this, and when we did experiments as a kid and something didn’t work “we were just doing it wrong”.

      • @[email protected]
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        192 months ago

        Sounds like my mom too.

        She practiced reiki at one point and wanted to convince me it works by trying it on me. When I said I didn’t feel anything at all her reply was “oh well that’s probably just because you don’t believe in it.”

        …I love you mom, but yes that is it and not in the way you think it is lol

        • @[email protected]
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          32 months ago

          …but she’s right, people feel better from alternative medicine by believing that it work, it’s placebo

  • ✺roguetrick✺
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    402 months ago

    We’ve finally figured out how to develop an active sourdough starter in record time. You curse at it.

    • @aeronmelon
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      262 months ago

      So that’s why the dough is so sour.

  • @MTK
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    372 months ago

    Now I feel bad for blue cheese, must have been abused all this time.

    • @thawed_caveman
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      122 months ago

      The more people hate blue cheese, the bluer it gets

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    All I can see is that this might be evidence that jars with green lids ate bad for storing food. Further studies are needed.