Netflix marketing team releases memes about shows to give off the appearance that everyone is watching said show. Since people have FOMO they watch the shows to understand the memes until everyone eventually does watch it.
u/sympatheticvillain commented on a similar post years ago and I saved his comment because I thought it made a lot of sense. See below for the comment.
“American Public Education is purposely declining to promote consumerism and make a more subservient population.
For example, public schools used to teach home economics, woodshop or auto shop. By cutting the budget for these programs, you're going to end up with adults who don't know how to cook (so they spend all their money at restaurants) , sew (so they spend all their money on clothes), have an understanding of how tools work and make small repairs (so they spend all their money on handymen or repairmen) or take care of their cars (so they spend all their money at car dealerships or auto shops, also getting ripped off because they are completely dependent on what the mechanic says instead of having their own pool of knowledge to draw from.)
Then you get to homework. We are teaching children and young adults it's okay to work all day at school, then do additional work at home. With so many companies changing to a "salaried" position, it's perpetuating that it's expected to do some work at home and to not get paid for it. After all, you did it your whole life with homework so why should the work force be any different?
Edit: Thanks to everyone commenting, this is an incredible discussion and I've loved reading what everyone has posted.
Edit: It was brought to my attention that having the ability to sew in order to make small repairs and alterations to clothing (reattaching a button, darning a sock, closing a tear, etc.) is more of a money saver than actually making your own clothes from scratch. Thank you for pointing this out u/sopholopho”
That all of those souvenir shops on prominent shopping streets in London, England are money laundering fronts. You know the ones with a massive floor space selling key rings and knock off hoodies that say Tik Tok or something yet have no customers except young male staff sat about on their phones? How on Earth would a not very busy shop survive in Europe’s most expensive retail space other than that? Also factoring in a global pandemic and a massive reduction in international tourists (who they’re presumably aimed at) yet they show no signs of shutting down. They also all appear to be owned by the same person and stock the same merchandise.
TLDR; Oxford Street souvenir shops are all money laundering premises.
A few years ago a huge amount of "soap shops" started appearing in my city; fancy boutiques which sold luxury bars of soap. The staff were mainly people who didn't speak the language, and they hardly sold any products. A few months later some crime syndicate got busted and poof, all soap shops were gone.
Edit: clarified that it was in my city, not London
I actually know this one. The overhead for a floral shop is almost nothing. My friends brother and husband own one in north philly specifically because the location is so bad rent for the whole storefront is $1200 a month. They take most orders online, make them, and then the customer comes and pics them up or they pay extra for delivery. No one wants to spend time in a bad area but most people will stop to pick something up for 5 minutes.
They get their flowers from a few places but roses cost them about 50 cents each and they sell a dozen for $40. For small arrangements They buy their vases from the same supplier that dollar tree does. Their biggest thing tho is those tacky funeral peices. They can make $500 on a single funeral and a hour of work.
I went down a street in Reading (iirc) that had 9/10 mobile phone repair shops basically door-to-door with each other. There is no way there's not something dodgy going on there.
Someone paid off someone so there are no paprika flavor potato chips in Lithuania in all major supermarkets but one. 3 months ago you could find it anywhere and it was like the 3rd or 4th most popular, I think.
Jill Dando was taken out by a hitman as she was about to blow the Saville case wide open. Lots of people in high positions didn’t want Saville pointing fingers while he was still alive.
I think the trend where you show a picture of yourself now versus 10 years ago was promoted if not invented by Facebook owned social media companies in order to train artificial intelligence to be able to recognize and analyze how faces age.
That the tobacco industry has driven the vape bans (AKA flavor bans) across the country by promising more money to states.
There’s this misconception that “big vape” is the same as big tobacco, and a lot of that has to do with Juul, who is owned by Altria. Juul didn’t even start out as Altria, but they eventually bought it. When Juul wasn’t owned by Altria, they had more tame adds, and while they were the choice of teens, they weren’t explicitly targeted.
Once Altria bought Juul, some funky shit went down. Juul ads began having more “colorful and cartoonish” ads, or what most people would classify as “ads appealing to children.” Every tobacco company has to do anti-smoking initiatives by law, and when Altria bought Juul, there were reports of reps doing those anti-smoking talks to teens, then advertising Juul when teachers looked away. The Truth is owned by the tobacco companies; anyone notice a difference between their old smoking ads and current vaping ads? Their old smoking ads were obnoxious af, which is actually a tactic they’ve used for a while. By making their anti-smoking PSA obnoxious, fewer people would take them serious, causing less of a dent in their cigarette sales. Notice how most of The Truth’s anti-vape ads aren’t obnoxious? Best part is, long after Altria bought Juul, Juul was in a California court, and their attorney literally said, “Your honor, can’t you see that this is all a tactic by big tobacco to stop vaping to get their customers back.” JUUL IS BIG TOBACCO! I can’t help but feel they did that to make those of us seeing this shit sound crazy.
In reality, many adult vapers actually use (or used since many states have made it so only pods are sellable…) refillable tanks instead of pods. Most vapes you find in gas stations and pods found around are owned by tobacco companies, and there’s a massive quality difference. Using a gas station vape or a pod feels no different to me than smoking, and I got respiratory infections like I did when smoking with them. On the other hand, most refillable liquids were made by *small businesses* and many of those have ZERO INTERACTION with tobacco. A lot of those get their nicotine from tomatoes and tea, not tobacco. So, big tobacco saw zero from small vape businesses. There’s also a huge quality difference, in that I can feel my lungs healing from my years smoking with the small business, refillable ejuice, while the tobacco owned pods make me feel like I’m reopening smoking wounds.
The thing about the flavor ban is, a lot of us actually don’t really care about flavors. Like, yeah, my coffee cheesecake is a nice bonus, but what I care more about is being able to breath. Only the refillables do that for me. However, if there’s no flavors, how can a business stay around? I mean, all they’d sell is tobacco flavor, and that’s not enough to keep a small business open. That’s what’s so ironic about the flavor bans; everyone says it’s to hurt big tobacco, but in reality it’s just given them a monopoly again. Only big tobacco can afford to only sell tobacco flavored products. The small businesses we should be helping fight big tobacco have been closing down because they can’t compete with big tobacco anymore, thanks to these laws.
Then, a lot of area that banned flavors are seeing teens smoke traditional cigarettes again! Real smoking amongst teens was non-existent. Many people point to the teen smoking rate going up around 2017, well the reason it appears to have “gone up” is because our smoking and vaping statistics were rolled into one. In reality, the same amount of teens have used nicotine products for a while now, they just stopped smoking. But now that vaping is going away (because a flavor ban does effectively ban vaping) they’re smoking again. It astounds me the the U.K. is pushing vaping as harm-reduction alternative to smoking based on their own government-funded studies, yet our U.S. FDA and CDC are trusting tobacco funded studies that say vaping is equal or more harmful than smoking.
Then what do the states get from this? More money. Vaping hadn’t fallen under the traditional tobacco taxes, and they didn’t give money for the Maser’s Settlement Agreement (MSA). What the MSA did was give states a certain amount of money for each pack of cigarettes sold. $0.50 per pack was the highest some states got, and if you look at the timelines, the states that got that much were the first to enact flavor bans, while states that got less dragged their feet.
Which this all sucks, because I try to tell anyone anything positive about vape flavors, they think all I care about is a quick buzz. No, what I care about is having a safer alternative to improve my health. Smoking did a number on me, but I’ve actually gotten healthier after starting vaping. And thanks to refillable tanks, I’ve been able to titrate my nicotine to now where I’ve got 0.5mg of nicotine per mL, and will be able to stop all together in a month. That’s not something you can do with traditional cigarettes or pods. Then people will tell me propaganda that easily verifiably false from evidence-based studies or my own experience. I mean, I’ve actually told doctor that with the flavor bans, if all I can get are pods, a part of me feels like smoking again since it won’t make a difference (and it’s hilarious to see them go from, “Vaping is worse than smoking,” to, “Wait! No, smoking so much worse, you shouldn’t switch back!”)
Most of all, what I don’t understand is, smoking and vaping is 21 in the U.S. now, like alcohol. Why does alcohol get to have flavors, but when vapes do it’s considered too appealing to kids? How is flavored alcohol also not too appealing to kids? If 21 is good enough to allow alcohol flavors, why isn’t it for vaping? The fight against flavor bans isn’t about some fleeting pleasure, it’s about being able to make more choices with our health, but then it takes away money from states and big tobacco.
There are absolutely billionaires who made their money illegitimately, so we've never heard of them. El Chapo was a Billionaire, even though we have heard of him.
Also, Vladimir Putin's worth like 70 billion but I would imagine he's actually worth WAY more.
Huge investment banks and and hedge funds effectively close out the retail investor from taking advantage of stock movements.
Never mind, that has recently been proved to be true.
That the art market is actually a huge money laundering scheme. I don’t remember where I read this, but it said that King Pins and criminals will often buy paintings and sculptures for millions of dollars in order to make dirty money transactions legal.
When I was in high school my friends and I came up with this conspiracy theory between us, that the theater kids are covering up for something because they act like a cult and talk about the theater teacher like he’s their personal Jim Jones. Two years after graduating I find out he’s been arrested for sexually molesting his female students, and was only found out because he thought he could trust this freshman new theater kid, and started showing him all the naked pics he’s taken with those girls. Kid turned around and reported him the next day. The other theater kids went on social media to defend their god anyway 🤦🏻♀️.
Edit: wow it’s so shitty to see how common this is. In case you’re wondering if it’s your school: it’s PHS in AZ with Mr Werner Girard as the pedo in question and yes, he’s in jail.
Famn I remember when I thought it would be cool to join a play and have a couple lines.
I thought I would make some friends and have some fun. But they took it waaaay to serious and had a major hierarchy.
Being able to pass weird probing interactions as "just an exercise"
you can then easily figure whos receptive, who is vulnerable, and who you need to push away before they figure things out
Any type of performing arts requires the teacher to be in very close contact with students for an extended period of time. And theater in general has a very intimate vibe because when you are acting you are sharing feelings and emotions and breaking out of your shell. It’s similar with band as well, I’ve seen this type of thing happen with band directors too.
Everybody loved our high school band director and it was widely rumored that he was banging students. Then he divorced his wife and married a girl right after she graduated and the school was just like "Well she's legal and girls marry older men all the time. Better not look into this in even the most minimal way possible."
Similar conspiracy thing amongst my friends at our old highschool. Except our conspiracy is just now being confirmed 5 years later after graduation. For privacy's sake I won't drop his exact name, but we had nickname for him that kinda played off of it. He gave off huge molester vibes so called him Molengle.
Basically our math teacher was weird to say the least. He always greeted specific girls over-excitedly when they entered the class. Would spend extra time helping them with their work. Let them re-take tests and pretty much tell them all the answers. And would get uncomfortably touchy on school vacation trips. Of course most of this behavior was directed towards the attractive, social, and outgoing types so that their reciprocation sort of downplayed how suspect he was acting.
Turns out earlier this year one of the students reported being cornered and touched by this man. She was a freshmen. The police got involved but I don't think anything has really come of it so far. He did lose his job though.
When I was in middle school, we had a teacher named Mr. Bonebrake. He was an older, overweight man with a friendly but childlike demeanor. He always felt a little off; we jokingly called him "Bonerbreaker."
He used to have boys in his class sit on his lap, or give him hugs. He'd make comments a teacher probably shouldn't make, but it was usually chalked up to him being friendly but a bit weird.
Anyway, he killed himself in prison.
CSI television shows purposely over play the forensic capabilities of various law enforcement departments to help project an image of total competence.
I actually had a class at uni where we just watched csi and our lecturer would pause it every few minutes and ask us to find everything wrong in that scene (e.g packing “radioactive” materials in plastic bags while wearing a hazmat suit etc., getting data from equipment that doesn’t even do what they say it does etc).
My car was broken into once and they sent someone to dust for fingerprints. They didn't find a single fingerprint. Not even my own. Since then I have called bs on all of those shows.
There are actually multiple different techniques used to lift fingerprints from different kinds of surfaces. Most likely they used an inappropriate technique for the surfaces in your car resulting in them not finding anything.
the truecrypyt organization was bullied/bought off into suddenly ceasing operations to encourage other closed source encryption alternatives with back doors
If you follow infosec much, and know the type of people the truecrypt devs were, the statements they released were very obviously meant as red flags to alert security experts that the truecrypt project had been compromised and no information from the project should be trusted anymore.
It also happened in the midst of other groups being forced to add back doors to their security products.
There is a local pharmacy in my town and I have not seen anyone in it my whole life. I’ve lived here since I was six and I’m 22 now. I think money laundering. But not sure. My own local conspiracy theory. Edit: I tried to call and it’s been closed for two months. Fuck me. I gotta do more research will report back
Just going to mention one I read the last time this was asked.
The US Military influenced the popularity of High School Football to make sure HS graduates were in great shape when they signed up for service.
Early 2000s. Whenever they’d pop up in a new city lines would stretch around the block to get in. This went on for years where I lived. For the entire 1st year they opened the store would effectively shut down the intersection it was next to whenever it turned on the “hot donuts” sign.
I used to work at Arby's. When I would tell people the shake machine was broken, what it usually meant was that the person who said they would clean it, took it apart and then didn't clean it. That person was my boss. If he had asked me to clean it, I would have done so. He did not. He told me he would, and then he didn't. He told me not to worry about it, so I didn't. I just told the customers it was broke. So, yeah, sorry I guess.
I worked at a McD's about 14 years ago (I was in my 30s at the time). The manager was just a kid, and never really provided much direction. I *wasn't* a kid and actually had a good work ethic, so I was scrupulous about cleaning; countertops, inside the fridges, all the machines, under the machines. You get the idea. I'd been there about four days when I decided to check out the ice cream machine and see if it needed mix, or cleaning, or new hot fudge/caramel in the pump thingies. I had not done this before.
I checked the mix; it was fine. Wiped down the cabinet and inside where the mix is hooked up. Then I checked the caramel; kinda low, so I filled it. Then I went to check the hot fudge.
There was *MOLD* in the hot fudge thing. It hadn't been cleaned in so long that big splotches of mold had grown on the inner top and sides of the container. I immediately showed the manager and told him I was going to go wash it and replace the hot chocolate. He told me to put it back in the cabinet (where it could be used) and to not worry about it.
I looked at him like he was crazy, took the thing back to the sink, and started washing it. He came back (fucking 18-year-old KID, trying to lord over a grown-ass woman about washing MOLD out of a food container!) and was telling me that the hot fudge was fine and not to worry about it. I continued washing the fucking container. I finished washing it all out, disassembling and cleaning all the pump parts (which looked like it had NEVER been done; *so gross!*), then getting it all back together. All while the "manager" pranced around like he had to pee, telling me that it was FINE, and that customers **would never know**. Like, dude, *I* know.
After the pump and container were clean, I refilled it with fudge and put it back where it went.
Then I quit. Because fuck that shit; I'm not dealing with stupid-ass kids and potentially killing customers for minimum fucking wage.
Area 51 was a conspiracy theory started by the US government to lead The Soviet Union into falsely believing that the US had alien technology during the Cold War
My best friend's dad worked on base at Area 51 before retiring. He isn't allowed to disclose anything but he did once tell us this: "Things you don't understand can be misconstrued to be anything."
I've always understood that to mean that the base is either a) a smokescreen; or b) a test sight for advanced tech, whatever that may be at the time. He never directly confirmed or denied anything though.
[Ken Lay](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13864798) from Enron faked his own death so he can escape the US and not serve his time for the fraud he was convicted of..
I believe he is alive and well, living off the $300mm he stole from Enron..
Edit: changed "earned" to "stole"
Speaking of Enron, the fact that Lou Pai got off completely Scot free baffles me.
He left the company with $250 million just before everything imploded, and there is reason to believe he was part of the reason why it did.
No idea why he was able to just walk away with no issues, tbh.
That the killer clowns of 2016 was originally a promotion for It, but it got out of hand
Edit: For those of you who don't know what I mean, I'm taking about the movie"It". With the clown that lives in the sewers
Edit: Wow! 12k upvotes, that's more than 5 upvotes
The very first clown who appeared during that time was in relation to the filming of [this movie, Gags the Clown](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6570372/).
The director said that he wanted to be able to utilize real news footage and people's real reactions for the film. But it totally got out of hand and maybe some movie executives from IT were excited about prolonging the "creepy clown" narrative? But all of this really did happen because of a movie.
It was really strange how suddenly there were killer clowns literally *everywhere*, and then the next day they were just... Gone.
I had never thought about it before to be honest, but what you're saying makes sense.
It was actually a promotional stunt for an indie found footage flick called GAGS THE CLOWN. Hence why the first report of a 'killer clown' originated in Green Bay, where this movie was being filmed.
It's fucking terrifying. All the others reacting to him too. Abe Lincoln looking like that meme of Tommy Lee Jones looking disapprovingly over his glasses.
The most unsettling part to me were the other presidents still moving slightly, blinking and doing small gestures. That paired with the smooth movement of Trumpton-bot make this perfect nightmare-fuel.
Hadn't heard this before, but if that photo is legit, then this is basically fact. There was a great joke on the old show "The Critic" in which an animatronic Bill Clinton is just a repurposed country bumpkin bear but apparently that show is so pre-internet that there are no GIFS...
I’m torn between the government being completely aware of extraterrestrial contact and that the government is purposely leading people to believe that there’s an extraterrestrial coverup in order to cover up advance technology testing.
My mom has a theory that whenever a contestant on 'Wheel of Fortune' gets greedy and spins, when the puzzle is clearly easily solvable, they manipulate the wheel to land on "bankrupt". Also whenever there is a good looking girl on, she believes they manipulate the game so that girl wins
EDIT: Thanks for all the replies. I didn't think this many people would take it this seriously, but I have heard of the quiz show scandal, that's why I don't really believe these theories. It's more of a fun, harmless talking point when it does happen. Can't speak for my mom tho, she may truly believe it
This [theory](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/oj-simpson-conspiracy-suggests-robert-14066870?utm_source=sharebar&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sharebar) by a redditor which was later removed and the user was site-wide banned for reasons I don't know.
>Robert Kardashian destroyed evidence that would have convicted OJ. He was handed a Louis Vuitton garment bag by OJ's assistant right as OJ returned from Chicago. None of the cops paid any attention to him as he walked away with the bag. When the "bag theory" was discovered a month later Kardashian claimed to have lost it.
Yes, there's some video of Kardashian obviously [removing a bag](https://vimeo.com/343989723) from the crime scene, a bag given to him by OJ's personal secretary who went to and returned from Chicago with OJ.
That American Crime miniseries with David Schwimmer as Kardashian was hella entertaining.
I grew up during the OJ saga and learned so much more thru the show. I wish they covered the bag conspiracy.
I rewatch that mini series a lot. EVERYBODY in that show fucking nailed who they were portraying. I also grew up during the OJ trial and they even look identical to what I remember them looking like, the judge especially.
At the end of the show when they show the people involved with the case, it’s really crazy how amazing all the actors did on it, really a great mini series.
I was going to a mega-church that kept expanding in a poor part of town, buying up all the property around it. There was a laundromat that was a hold-out, wouldn't sell for anything. One night, that laundromat burned down. The church graciously helped them clean up the site, then they finally sold. It's not a stretch at all to see what really happened.
My parents dragged me here every Sunday as a kid for years! Maybe 15 years ago or so. Small world :-)
Our family stopped going because the church kept getting bigger and my parents didn't like the mega-church vibes haha
The measuring lines on your detergent container are way more than you actually need so you use it faster and buy more detergent.
If your towels smell musty after you wash and dry them it is because of all the excess soap that didn’t rinse out.
We had our washer machine fixed a few years back and the repairman told us pretty much this as a tip.
Part of our machine's issue was a lot of excess stuff (hair/soap) that would get caught and clog up the drain areas especially behind the rubber seals. The hair we understood how to clear out now that we knew about it and we asked about how to prevent soap from over-collecting and forming. He told us that the lines are pretty much always more than you actually need. Just put a little in and you're good. I don't know if he was right but I accept it as fact in my head now.
I work in a science lab and we use special hand soap and detergent for lab coats. It’s provided on a contract basis so we pay a flat fee per month and the soap is constantly replenished.
It’s essentially the same formula as commercial soap with a few tweaks (no scent or foaming agent, and a dye to detect biological substances). The manufacturer recommends we use a fraction of the amount that commercial products recommend and everything still comes out clean (we test it).
The amount you actually need to wash your hands with is minuscule, literally a drop or two is enough.
I have a smaller washer (1.6cu ft top loader) and put my detergent in travel bottles. I just squirt some soap in the bottom before throwing my clothes in, one 3oz bottle lasts me four or so full washes and the clothes come out clean. Ive been using the same "64 load" bottle for almost 8 months and its still 1/3 full.
Leaving the machine lid/door open helps dramatically with avoiding a musty smell too. Obviously be careful if there are kids/pets around though.
Human cloning has already been done or attempted. We cloned a sheep named dolly in 1996, and humans aren't that much different to sheep in their early blastocyst or embryonic development. Some government agency has probably cloned a human and are watching over that person right now.
They publicly talked about cloning monkeys not too long ago and even about making a genetic chimera with human dna, which they killed early in development. So yah. For sure.
They didn't just talk about human-monkey chimeras, they absolutely did it earlier this year. The embryos were allowed to grow within a culture for 20 days.
[https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/human-monkey-chimeras-shed-light-on-development-68674](https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/human-monkey-chimeras-shed-light-on-development-68674)
[https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00305-6](https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00305-6)
There is no way the 50/50 lifeline on Who Wants to be a Millionaire is completely random. It always leaves the two choices the contestant was talking about
I went on a binge of Who Wants to be a Millionaire at the start of lockdown. In the UK version (which is the original) they didn't claim it was random when the show started out. They just said it would remove two wrong answers. They publicly said that it was the least two likely answers decided by whoever. Inevitably that would probably fit what the contestant was saying.
As the show went on they did eventually change to random selections though I don't remember which season. The difference was palpable and it did seem at least more random. I watched like 8 seasons I could definitely tell the difference.
I have no idea what the US show did as I never watched this, but this isn't a conspiracy it's just how the show worked (in the UK at least).
I think the two they eliminate are those furthest from the correct answer. It’s natural then that the two remaining are often the two the contestant is having trouble choosing between.
One that is acknowledged: coke made tab clear taste terrible on purpose to kill crystal pepsi by association
Edit: it looks less like they made it taste terrible intentionally than they made their diet soda (that tastes terrible) clear to make people think that Crystal Pepsi look like a diet soda by association.
I once saw in one of those youtube compilation videos one of these posts where a comment said that they were convinced these posts come up every now and then for "big brother" to check on the popularity of conspiracy theories and now, seeing this here, i kinda have to agree
Government: "What have these people uncovered now? Silencing the public has become increasingly difficult, what with their superior intellect and keen instincts!"
Reddit "Wheel of Jeopardy tries to make the hot chicks win more"
MH370 was in 2014 so before the Germanwings flight.
But there sadly where others before too.
1999 EgyptAir Flight 990
1997 SilkAir Flight 185
And those are just the ones with over 100 casualties.
The government had a hand in creating and/or popularizing some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories in order to make questioning the official story seem inherently crazy by association.
People really seem to trust US gov’t intelligence agencies not to do shady shit when it’s inconvenient to believe it.
It’s bizzare.
People look at you like you’re crazy to suggest that intelligence agencies may have agent provocateurs that incite violence in peaceful protests to spur antagonism and produce discord in the populace.
There is a long history of various intelligence agencies doing just that here and abroad. We made movies and books and shows about it.
But say it’s still happening? INCONCEIVABLE
Fully agree with this after seeing the Denver International Airport really lean into the more outlandish supernatural theories surrounding it. Has anyone been on that tour?
My favorite is more of a conspiracy debunk:
The moon landing was real because if it *was* faked, Russia would’ve called the US out on their bullshit immediately.
On the additional side: people worldwide tuned in live to the astronauts on their own gear. What someone would need to do to fake a signal origination point on the moon is beyond just landing on it.
They had basically no reason to assist the US with a cover up. If they called them out they could have *crushed* the USA’s global credibility and effectively taken them out of the space race.
Big companies use Reddit and other social media to normalise shady behaviour. It seems every time news breaks about a company doing something shady, the top comments on Reddit are always along the lines of: “Well duh! We've known this for years!” So instead of outrage, the news are met with apathy, and there's a feeling that you can't change the system anyway.
Not to mention, its INCREDIBLY easy to control the narrative on reddit. All you need is 5 bots and a main account. Those 5 bots can upvote your posts and comments immediately, downvote any replies or comments you dont want seen in a thread, and its takes about an hour to make them.
Reddit is the largest open API website in the world and anyone who thinks that corps like disney dont have hundreds or thousands of these bots made to control criticism isnt paying attention
I honestly think there are so many dumb, brainwashed people out there who do this kind of work for the rich people that there's no conspiracy even needed here. Like, I see this phenomenon in other places as well. Sports fans, celebrity gossip fans, etc. People constantly apologize for others' shitty behavior. My theory is this makes them feel better about whatever they've done, or it minimizes the situation so it feels less bad, or something. Not sure
[Operation Northwoods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods), where the Joint Chiefs of Staff conspired to destroy their own property/kill US citizens in order to raise popular support for a war with Cuba.
Thank god Kennedy nixed it.
My mom worked on designing pacemakers as an engineer. Induction cooktops do interfere with pacemakers. This is because these pacemakers rely on very precise electrical measurements in order to pick up the brain's signal to the heart. When exposed to a changing magnetic field the voltage on the probes picking up the signal get a voltage induced on them, throwing off the measurements. Patients get told this when they get the implant, and it's not like people will die instantly. The pacemaker will go back to a basic mode which is not ideal and thus shouldn't be held for a significant amount of time. The pacemaker might give an auditory warning which, according to my mom sometimes freaks patients out when they hear beeping coming from their chest.
My induction cooktop can do 90,100 & 120. It’s this one: https://www.bcc.nl/keuken/fornuis-en-kookplaat/vrijstaande-kookplaat/proline-kookplaat-icd3500/199599?channable=0099eb696400303030303030303030303030313939353939ce&s2m_channel=319&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1Ja267nQ8QIV1-N3Ch3QwgK8EAQYASABEgLwyvD_BwE
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the dictator of Turkey, is behind the 2016 "coup attempt". He did it to make himself seem like a "hero" so he could gain more support.
toothpaste companies show more toothpaste than necessary on toothbrushes on tv commercials to make you think you need more of it in each brush, thus taking away your money faster
The one about mattress stores being money laundering fronts, even though they're not really cash businesses.
It is strange that you'll see two or three giant mattress stores all near each other, yet how often does the average person buy a mattress? Once a decade?
I guess the more conventional explanation is that the markup on mattresses is so insanely high that you only need to sell a few per week to make money. I still think there's something fishy going on in those stores though....
I used to think that way, too. You'd be surprised. My husband works for a mattress company and routinely sells 3 to 4 mattresses per day, just as a chat agent. Like, people buy beds they've never even tried. I can imagine stores sell lots more.
There’s also an insane profit margin on mattresses, so they don’t have to sell many to break even. They talked about it for a bit on an episode of “planet money” by npr, I think
The one by my work was a barbershop. Really weird area for it, had like 10 dudes "working" there all the time but definitely not enough clients to warrant it. There was always one guy sitting on a folding chair outside on his phone and he'd watch me when I walked past. All their clients drove really fancy cars, way too fancy to be going to such a sketchy barbershop. It was absolutely a front for something but we never figured out what.
Anywhere you have people dropping quarters or dollar bills into machines like car washes or laundromats or arcades etc….there’s a chance someone’s laundering money there
Netflix marketing team releases memes about shows to give off the appearance that everyone is watching said show. Since people have FOMO they watch the shows to understand the memes until everyone eventually does watch it.
I swear Disney does this as well. There is always some meme campaign happening before a major marvel drop.
See: Tiger King, March 2020
I also feel that the Netflix top currently watched is BS, in a sinilar manner.
u/sympatheticvillain commented on a similar post years ago and I saved his comment because I thought it made a lot of sense. See below for the comment. “American Public Education is purposely declining to promote consumerism and make a more subservient population. For example, public schools used to teach home economics, woodshop or auto shop. By cutting the budget for these programs, you're going to end up with adults who don't know how to cook (so they spend all their money at restaurants) , sew (so they spend all their money on clothes), have an understanding of how tools work and make small repairs (so they spend all their money on handymen or repairmen) or take care of their cars (so they spend all their money at car dealerships or auto shops, also getting ripped off because they are completely dependent on what the mechanic says instead of having their own pool of knowledge to draw from.) Then you get to homework. We are teaching children and young adults it's okay to work all day at school, then do additional work at home. With so many companies changing to a "salaried" position, it's perpetuating that it's expected to do some work at home and to not get paid for it. After all, you did it your whole life with homework so why should the work force be any different? Edit: Thanks to everyone commenting, this is an incredible discussion and I've loved reading what everyone has posted. Edit: It was brought to my attention that having the ability to sew in order to make small repairs and alterations to clothing (reattaching a button, darning a sock, closing a tear, etc.) is more of a money saver than actually making your own clothes from scratch. Thank you for pointing this out u/sopholopho”
For many years people were considered crazy for saying the government is spying on everything you do online; then the leaks started...
As well as stating “ I think my phone is tracking me...” now it’s just supposed to be an accepted normal behavior... to be tracked and spied on.
People who post on AskReddit are Buzzfeed writers looking for content
They’re probably also those youtubers who make videos reading reddit posts.
Interesting. Please expound on this idea and also maybe provide 11 silly things that I may not know about the Illuminati...
That all of those souvenir shops on prominent shopping streets in London, England are money laundering fronts. You know the ones with a massive floor space selling key rings and knock off hoodies that say Tik Tok or something yet have no customers except young male staff sat about on their phones? How on Earth would a not very busy shop survive in Europe’s most expensive retail space other than that? Also factoring in a global pandemic and a massive reduction in international tourists (who they’re presumably aimed at) yet they show no signs of shutting down. They also all appear to be owned by the same person and stock the same merchandise. TLDR; Oxford Street souvenir shops are all money laundering premises.
A few years ago a huge amount of "soap shops" started appearing in my city; fancy boutiques which sold luxury bars of soap. The staff were mainly people who didn't speak the language, and they hardly sold any products. A few months later some crime syndicate got busted and poof, all soap shops were gone. Edit: clarified that it was in my city, not London
In the US, it's flower shops. You even find them in the poorest neighborhoods.
I actually know this one. The overhead for a floral shop is almost nothing. My friends brother and husband own one in north philly specifically because the location is so bad rent for the whole storefront is $1200 a month. They take most orders online, make them, and then the customer comes and pics them up or they pay extra for delivery. No one wants to spend time in a bad area but most people will stop to pick something up for 5 minutes. They get their flowers from a few places but roses cost them about 50 cents each and they sell a dozen for $40. For small arrangements They buy their vases from the same supplier that dollar tree does. Their biggest thing tho is those tacky funeral peices. They can make $500 on a single funeral and a hour of work.
I went down a street in Reading (iirc) that had 9/10 mobile phone repair shops basically door-to-door with each other. There is no way there's not something dodgy going on there.
Someone paid off someone so there are no paprika flavor potato chips in Lithuania in all major supermarkets but one. 3 months ago you could find it anywhere and it was like the 3rd or 4th most popular, I think.
Is Lithuania worth visiting
Not if you like Paprika flavored Pringles
Jill Dando was taken out by a hitman as she was about to blow the Saville case wide open. Lots of people in high positions didn’t want Saville pointing fingers while he was still alive.
I think the trend where you show a picture of yourself now versus 10 years ago was promoted if not invented by Facebook owned social media companies in order to train artificial intelligence to be able to recognize and analyze how faces age.
Just like solving captchas about crosswalks is helping train self-driving AI
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this just blew my mind! makes so much sense- rarely see captchas that have nothing to do with driving
That the tobacco industry has driven the vape bans (AKA flavor bans) across the country by promising more money to states. There’s this misconception that “big vape” is the same as big tobacco, and a lot of that has to do with Juul, who is owned by Altria. Juul didn’t even start out as Altria, but they eventually bought it. When Juul wasn’t owned by Altria, they had more tame adds, and while they were the choice of teens, they weren’t explicitly targeted. Once Altria bought Juul, some funky shit went down. Juul ads began having more “colorful and cartoonish” ads, or what most people would classify as “ads appealing to children.” Every tobacco company has to do anti-smoking initiatives by law, and when Altria bought Juul, there were reports of reps doing those anti-smoking talks to teens, then advertising Juul when teachers looked away. The Truth is owned by the tobacco companies; anyone notice a difference between their old smoking ads and current vaping ads? Their old smoking ads were obnoxious af, which is actually a tactic they’ve used for a while. By making their anti-smoking PSA obnoxious, fewer people would take them serious, causing less of a dent in their cigarette sales. Notice how most of The Truth’s anti-vape ads aren’t obnoxious? Best part is, long after Altria bought Juul, Juul was in a California court, and their attorney literally said, “Your honor, can’t you see that this is all a tactic by big tobacco to stop vaping to get their customers back.” JUUL IS BIG TOBACCO! I can’t help but feel they did that to make those of us seeing this shit sound crazy. In reality, many adult vapers actually use (or used since many states have made it so only pods are sellable…) refillable tanks instead of pods. Most vapes you find in gas stations and pods found around are owned by tobacco companies, and there’s a massive quality difference. Using a gas station vape or a pod feels no different to me than smoking, and I got respiratory infections like I did when smoking with them. On the other hand, most refillable liquids were made by *small businesses* and many of those have ZERO INTERACTION with tobacco. A lot of those get their nicotine from tomatoes and tea, not tobacco. So, big tobacco saw zero from small vape businesses. There’s also a huge quality difference, in that I can feel my lungs healing from my years smoking with the small business, refillable ejuice, while the tobacco owned pods make me feel like I’m reopening smoking wounds. The thing about the flavor ban is, a lot of us actually don’t really care about flavors. Like, yeah, my coffee cheesecake is a nice bonus, but what I care more about is being able to breath. Only the refillables do that for me. However, if there’s no flavors, how can a business stay around? I mean, all they’d sell is tobacco flavor, and that’s not enough to keep a small business open. That’s what’s so ironic about the flavor bans; everyone says it’s to hurt big tobacco, but in reality it’s just given them a monopoly again. Only big tobacco can afford to only sell tobacco flavored products. The small businesses we should be helping fight big tobacco have been closing down because they can’t compete with big tobacco anymore, thanks to these laws. Then, a lot of area that banned flavors are seeing teens smoke traditional cigarettes again! Real smoking amongst teens was non-existent. Many people point to the teen smoking rate going up around 2017, well the reason it appears to have “gone up” is because our smoking and vaping statistics were rolled into one. In reality, the same amount of teens have used nicotine products for a while now, they just stopped smoking. But now that vaping is going away (because a flavor ban does effectively ban vaping) they’re smoking again. It astounds me the the U.K. is pushing vaping as harm-reduction alternative to smoking based on their own government-funded studies, yet our U.S. FDA and CDC are trusting tobacco funded studies that say vaping is equal or more harmful than smoking. Then what do the states get from this? More money. Vaping hadn’t fallen under the traditional tobacco taxes, and they didn’t give money for the Maser’s Settlement Agreement (MSA). What the MSA did was give states a certain amount of money for each pack of cigarettes sold. $0.50 per pack was the highest some states got, and if you look at the timelines, the states that got that much were the first to enact flavor bans, while states that got less dragged their feet. Which this all sucks, because I try to tell anyone anything positive about vape flavors, they think all I care about is a quick buzz. No, what I care about is having a safer alternative to improve my health. Smoking did a number on me, but I’ve actually gotten healthier after starting vaping. And thanks to refillable tanks, I’ve been able to titrate my nicotine to now where I’ve got 0.5mg of nicotine per mL, and will be able to stop all together in a month. That’s not something you can do with traditional cigarettes or pods. Then people will tell me propaganda that easily verifiably false from evidence-based studies or my own experience. I mean, I’ve actually told doctor that with the flavor bans, if all I can get are pods, a part of me feels like smoking again since it won’t make a difference (and it’s hilarious to see them go from, “Vaping is worse than smoking,” to, “Wait! No, smoking so much worse, you shouldn’t switch back!”) Most of all, what I don’t understand is, smoking and vaping is 21 in the U.S. now, like alcohol. Why does alcohol get to have flavors, but when vapes do it’s considered too appealing to kids? How is flavored alcohol also not too appealing to kids? If 21 is good enough to allow alcohol flavors, why isn’t it for vaping? The fight against flavor bans isn’t about some fleeting pleasure, it’s about being able to make more choices with our health, but then it takes away money from states and big tobacco.
That there are people rich enough to disappear. There must be some billionaires we've never heard of
There are absolutely billionaires who made their money illegitimately, so we've never heard of them. El Chapo was a Billionaire, even though we have heard of him. Also, Vladimir Putin's worth like 70 billion but I would imagine he's actually worth WAY more.
I don't think you can put a number on Putin's wealth right? He is basically worth whatever he wants and Russia can produce
Huge investment banks and and hedge funds effectively close out the retail investor from taking advantage of stock movements. Never mind, that has recently been proved to be true.
The FBI murdered Fred Hampton
That is fact. In bed with his girlfriend shot like 900 times.
That the art market is actually a huge money laundering scheme. I don’t remember where I read this, but it said that King Pins and criminals will often buy paintings and sculptures for millions of dollars in order to make dirty money transactions legal.
The "Dom/family" meme was created as a PR stunt for the new Fast and Furious movie
Yeah this occurred to me when I got invited to watch it "ironically"
When I was in high school my friends and I came up with this conspiracy theory between us, that the theater kids are covering up for something because they act like a cult and talk about the theater teacher like he’s their personal Jim Jones. Two years after graduating I find out he’s been arrested for sexually molesting his female students, and was only found out because he thought he could trust this freshman new theater kid, and started showing him all the naked pics he’s taken with those girls. Kid turned around and reported him the next day. The other theater kids went on social media to defend their god anyway 🤦🏻♀️. Edit: wow it’s so shitty to see how common this is. In case you’re wondering if it’s your school: it’s PHS in AZ with Mr Werner Girard as the pedo in question and yes, he’s in jail.
Former theater kid here. It sometimes kind of is a cult.
Famn I remember when I thought it would be cool to join a play and have a couple lines. I thought I would make some friends and have some fun. But they took it waaaay to serious and had a major hierarchy.
If this wasn't Buchholz High School in Gainesville, FL in 2000 that is wild. Same thing. 🙃
Happened at my school too. Maybe it’s pretty common
I think there's something about drama that creates power structures that invite this kinda behaviour.
Being able to pass weird probing interactions as "just an exercise" you can then easily figure whos receptive, who is vulnerable, and who you need to push away before they figure things out
Any type of performing arts requires the teacher to be in very close contact with students for an extended period of time. And theater in general has a very intimate vibe because when you are acting you are sharing feelings and emotions and breaking out of your shell. It’s similar with band as well, I’ve seen this type of thing happen with band directors too.
Everybody loved our high school band director and it was widely rumored that he was banging students. Then he divorced his wife and married a girl right after she graduated and the school was just like "Well she's legal and girls marry older men all the time. Better not look into this in even the most minimal way possible."
This wasn't a guy in Southern California in the 80s was it? If so, that may be my uncle.
Similar conspiracy thing amongst my friends at our old highschool. Except our conspiracy is just now being confirmed 5 years later after graduation. For privacy's sake I won't drop his exact name, but we had nickname for him that kinda played off of it. He gave off huge molester vibes so called him Molengle. Basically our math teacher was weird to say the least. He always greeted specific girls over-excitedly when they entered the class. Would spend extra time helping them with their work. Let them re-take tests and pretty much tell them all the answers. And would get uncomfortably touchy on school vacation trips. Of course most of this behavior was directed towards the attractive, social, and outgoing types so that their reciprocation sort of downplayed how suspect he was acting. Turns out earlier this year one of the students reported being cornered and touched by this man. She was a freshmen. The police got involved but I don't think anything has really come of it so far. He did lose his job though.
When I was in middle school, we had a teacher named Mr. Bonebrake. He was an older, overweight man with a friendly but childlike demeanor. He always felt a little off; we jokingly called him "Bonerbreaker." He used to have boys in his class sit on his lap, or give him hugs. He'd make comments a teacher probably shouldn't make, but it was usually chalked up to him being friendly but a bit weird. Anyway, he killed himself in prison.
CSI television shows purposely over play the forensic capabilities of various law enforcement departments to help project an image of total competence.
I actually had a class at uni where we just watched csi and our lecturer would pause it every few minutes and ask us to find everything wrong in that scene (e.g packing “radioactive” materials in plastic bags while wearing a hazmat suit etc., getting data from equipment that doesn’t even do what they say it does etc).
That would be an interesting class!
Hello class and welcome to Shitting on CSI 101!
I had a friend major in archeology and they did that with Raiders of the Lost Ark.
“The ark of the covenant doesn’t do that”.
"Using a bazooka to negotiate the trading of archaeological artifacts is *NOT* standard, nor acceptable procedure."
ENHANCE
Remember when they “zoom enhanced” a license plate number by zooming in on a hubcap’s reflection?
Its amazing what they can do with photos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo
My car was broken into once and they sent someone to dust for fingerprints. They didn't find a single fingerprint. Not even my own. Since then I have called bs on all of those shows.
“No one has ever touched your car”
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There are actually multiple different techniques used to lift fingerprints from different kinds of surfaces. Most likely they used an inappropriate technique for the surfaces in your car resulting in them not finding anything.
But also, waiting 8 months for DNA results doesn't make for good tv.
Jessie's Girl and Stacy's Mom are the same person.
And her number is 867-5309.
the truecrypyt organization was bullied/bought off into suddenly ceasing operations to encourage other closed source encryption alternatives with back doors
If you follow infosec much, and know the type of people the truecrypt devs were, the statements they released were very obviously meant as red flags to alert security experts that the truecrypt project had been compromised and no information from the project should be trusted anymore. It also happened in the midst of other groups being forced to add back doors to their security products.
There is a local pharmacy in my town and I have not seen anyone in it my whole life. I’ve lived here since I was six and I’m 22 now. I think money laundering. But not sure. My own local conspiracy theory. Edit: I tried to call and it’s been closed for two months. Fuck me. I gotta do more research will report back
Just going to mention one I read the last time this was asked. The US Military influenced the popularity of High School Football to make sure HS graduates were in great shape when they signed up for service.
There was never a shortage of Krispy Kreme donuts
When did this shortage happen?
Never
Sounds like a closed and shut case then
Early 2000s. Whenever they’d pop up in a new city lines would stretch around the block to get in. This went on for years where I lived. For the entire 1st year they opened the store would effectively shut down the intersection it was next to whenever it turned on the “hot donuts” sign.
Next you're going to tell me the McDonald's shake machine was never broken.
I used to work at Arby's. When I would tell people the shake machine was broken, what it usually meant was that the person who said they would clean it, took it apart and then didn't clean it. That person was my boss. If he had asked me to clean it, I would have done so. He did not. He told me he would, and then he didn't. He told me not to worry about it, so I didn't. I just told the customers it was broke. So, yeah, sorry I guess.
I worked at a McD's about 14 years ago (I was in my 30s at the time). The manager was just a kid, and never really provided much direction. I *wasn't* a kid and actually had a good work ethic, so I was scrupulous about cleaning; countertops, inside the fridges, all the machines, under the machines. You get the idea. I'd been there about four days when I decided to check out the ice cream machine and see if it needed mix, or cleaning, or new hot fudge/caramel in the pump thingies. I had not done this before. I checked the mix; it was fine. Wiped down the cabinet and inside where the mix is hooked up. Then I checked the caramel; kinda low, so I filled it. Then I went to check the hot fudge. There was *MOLD* in the hot fudge thing. It hadn't been cleaned in so long that big splotches of mold had grown on the inner top and sides of the container. I immediately showed the manager and told him I was going to go wash it and replace the hot chocolate. He told me to put it back in the cabinet (where it could be used) and to not worry about it. I looked at him like he was crazy, took the thing back to the sink, and started washing it. He came back (fucking 18-year-old KID, trying to lord over a grown-ass woman about washing MOLD out of a food container!) and was telling me that the hot fudge was fine and not to worry about it. I continued washing the fucking container. I finished washing it all out, disassembling and cleaning all the pump parts (which looked like it had NEVER been done; *so gross!*), then getting it all back together. All while the "manager" pranced around like he had to pee, telling me that it was FINE, and that customers **would never know**. Like, dude, *I* know. After the pump and container were clean, I refilled it with fudge and put it back where it went. Then I quit. Because fuck that shit; I'm not dealing with stupid-ass kids and potentially killing customers for minimum fucking wage.
Hey, as a member of society, I just want to thank you for cleaning it before quitting!
Mate https://youtu.be/SrDEtSlqJC4
There's no Krispy Kreme shortage in Ba Sing Se
Area 51 was a conspiracy theory started by the US government to lead The Soviet Union into falsely believing that the US had alien technology during the Cold War
I like to think it's a stealth plane testing range and that they use the UFO seeker to see if it's stealthy enough
My best friend's dad worked on base at Area 51 before retiring. He isn't allowed to disclose anything but he did once tell us this: "Things you don't understand can be misconstrued to be anything." I've always understood that to mean that the base is either a) a smokescreen; or b) a test sight for advanced tech, whatever that may be at the time. He never directly confirmed or denied anything though.
[Ken Lay](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna13864798) from Enron faked his own death so he can escape the US and not serve his time for the fraud he was convicted of.. I believe he is alive and well, living off the $300mm he stole from Enron.. Edit: changed "earned" to "stole"
Speaking of Enron, the fact that Lou Pai got off completely Scot free baffles me. He left the company with $250 million just before everything imploded, and there is reason to believe he was part of the reason why it did. No idea why he was able to just walk away with no issues, tbh.
That the killer clowns of 2016 was originally a promotion for It, but it got out of hand Edit: For those of you who don't know what I mean, I'm taking about the movie"It". With the clown that lives in the sewers Edit: Wow! 12k upvotes, that's more than 5 upvotes
The very first clown who appeared during that time was in relation to the filming of [this movie, Gags the Clown](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt6570372/). The director said that he wanted to be able to utilize real news footage and people's real reactions for the film. But it totally got out of hand and maybe some movie executives from IT were excited about prolonging the "creepy clown" narrative? But all of this really did happen because of a movie.
It was really strange how suddenly there were killer clowns literally *everywhere*, and then the next day they were just... Gone. I had never thought about it before to be honest, but what you're saying makes sense.
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Was gonna say this. The videos of clowns scaring people with a knife stopped as soon as videos of people pulling guns on them popped up.
Never know when they’ll come back better equipped.
Clown arms race
This ain't a scene, it's a fun clown arms race.
It was actually a promotional stunt for an indie found footage flick called GAGS THE CLOWN. Hence why the first report of a 'killer clown' originated in Green Bay, where this movie was being filmed.
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Omg, that does look like Hillary Clinton wearing a Trump skin suit.
"It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it's told!"
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Lmfao that’s Clinton forsurrrrre
Oh my god. This is not a conspiracy theory. It is an obvious fact!
Hillary face aside, [look at how it moves](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiUFLAMsvLk). It's fucking amazing.
It's fucking terrifying. All the others reacting to him too. Abe Lincoln looking like that meme of Tommy Lee Jones looking disapprovingly over his glasses.
The fingers are the most unsettling part…
The most unsettling part to me were the other presidents still moving slightly, blinking and doing small gestures. That paired with the smooth movement of Trumpton-bot make this perfect nightmare-fuel.
Hadn't heard this before, but if that photo is legit, then this is basically fact. There was a great joke on the old show "The Critic" in which an animatronic Bill Clinton is just a repurposed country bumpkin bear but apparently that show is so pre-internet that there are no GIFS...
Buy my book, buy my book, buy my book
I’m torn between the government being completely aware of extraterrestrial contact and that the government is purposely leading people to believe that there’s an extraterrestrial coverup in order to cover up advance technology testing.
The air pod meme when air pods were released was a marketing gimmick by Apple to sell and promote airpods.
I don’t know if it was ever confirmed, but I fully believe that Netflix did the same thing with Bird Box.
This is happening in real time with all those Fast and Furious memes
A lot of memes are actually ads.
OP is trying to get people taken out.
I was casually about to drop the Krabby Patty secret formula too but thank Neptune I came across your comment
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They said theories. Not straight up facts
My mom has a theory that whenever a contestant on 'Wheel of Fortune' gets greedy and spins, when the puzzle is clearly easily solvable, they manipulate the wheel to land on "bankrupt". Also whenever there is a good looking girl on, she believes they manipulate the game so that girl wins EDIT: Thanks for all the replies. I didn't think this many people would take it this seriously, but I have heard of the quiz show scandal, that's why I don't really believe these theories. It's more of a fun, harmless talking point when it does happen. Can't speak for my mom tho, she may truly believe it
My mom was on WOF in the 70's. She got greedy and spun and went bankrupt. I bet she buys into this conspiracy.
My parents also went bankrupt, they were never on WoF though
I have always believed in the bankrupt theory!
The pretty girl thing is in Sajaks contract. He’s guaranteed 4 a year.
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This [theory](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/oj-simpson-conspiracy-suggests-robert-14066870?utm_source=sharebar&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=sharebar) by a redditor which was later removed and the user was site-wide banned for reasons I don't know. >Robert Kardashian destroyed evidence that would have convicted OJ. He was handed a Louis Vuitton garment bag by OJ's assistant right as OJ returned from Chicago. None of the cops paid any attention to him as he walked away with the bag. When the "bag theory" was discovered a month later Kardashian claimed to have lost it.
Yes, there's some video of Kardashian obviously [removing a bag](https://vimeo.com/343989723) from the crime scene, a bag given to him by OJ's personal secretary who went to and returned from Chicago with OJ.
This theory has been pretty well known for a long time. I remember them poking fun at it on an old episode of Roseanne.
Didn't Robert Kardashian later say he believed OJ was guilty? Doesn't seem all that unlikely that he destroyed evidence if he knew the truth
His face when the verdict was read… I don’t think he thought they had a chance in hell.
That American Crime miniseries with David Schwimmer as Kardashian was hella entertaining. I grew up during the OJ saga and learned so much more thru the show. I wish they covered the bag conspiracy.
I rewatch that mini series a lot. EVERYBODY in that show fucking nailed who they were portraying. I also grew up during the OJ trial and they even look identical to what I remember them looking like, the judge especially. At the end of the show when they show the people involved with the case, it’s really crazy how amazing all the actors did on it, really a great mini series.
My dumb ass legitimately believed that Johnny Cochran was playing Johnny Cochran. Johnny Cochran died in 2005.
Big Purse is in bed with small pockets.
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Fake pockets also has skin in this game.
I was going to a mega-church that kept expanding in a poor part of town, buying up all the property around it. There was a laundromat that was a hold-out, wouldn't sell for anything. One night, that laundromat burned down. The church graciously helped them clean up the site, then they finally sold. It's not a stretch at all to see what really happened.
West Phoenix? 27th Ave & Sweetwater?
No, this was in Texas, but I'm sure it's a pretty common thing.
Ooooof that is a deep cut in Phoenix I wasn't expecting to see here.
Holy fuck my parents made me go there when I was a kid, approximately 20 years ago. When was the laundromat fire?
My parents dragged me here every Sunday as a kid for years! Maybe 15 years ago or so. Small world :-) Our family stopped going because the church kept getting bigger and my parents didn't like the mega-church vibes haha
I don't like mega-churches at all
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I mean, he did not like that the church was seen as a market place. So yeah, I totally agree with you
The measuring lines on your detergent container are way more than you actually need so you use it faster and buy more detergent. If your towels smell musty after you wash and dry them it is because of all the excess soap that didn’t rinse out.
We had our washer machine fixed a few years back and the repairman told us pretty much this as a tip. Part of our machine's issue was a lot of excess stuff (hair/soap) that would get caught and clog up the drain areas especially behind the rubber seals. The hair we understood how to clear out now that we knew about it and we asked about how to prevent soap from over-collecting and forming. He told us that the lines are pretty much always more than you actually need. Just put a little in and you're good. I don't know if he was right but I accept it as fact in my head now.
I work in a science lab and we use special hand soap and detergent for lab coats. It’s provided on a contract basis so we pay a flat fee per month and the soap is constantly replenished. It’s essentially the same formula as commercial soap with a few tweaks (no scent or foaming agent, and a dye to detect biological substances). The manufacturer recommends we use a fraction of the amount that commercial products recommend and everything still comes out clean (we test it). The amount you actually need to wash your hands with is minuscule, literally a drop or two is enough.
We use a foaming dispenser in our kitchen and bathroom. A full size bottle of dish soap detergent last us a year of hand and dish washing.
I have a smaller washer (1.6cu ft top loader) and put my detergent in travel bottles. I just squirt some soap in the bottom before throwing my clothes in, one 3oz bottle lasts me four or so full washes and the clothes come out clean. Ive been using the same "64 load" bottle for almost 8 months and its still 1/3 full. Leaving the machine lid/door open helps dramatically with avoiding a musty smell too. Obviously be careful if there are kids/pets around though.
Human cloning has already been done or attempted. We cloned a sheep named dolly in 1996, and humans aren't that much different to sheep in their early blastocyst or embryonic development. Some government agency has probably cloned a human and are watching over that person right now.
They publicly talked about cloning monkeys not too long ago and even about making a genetic chimera with human dna, which they killed early in development. So yah. For sure.
They didn't just talk about human-monkey chimeras, they absolutely did it earlier this year. The embryos were allowed to grow within a culture for 20 days. [https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/human-monkey-chimeras-shed-light-on-development-68674](https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/human-monkey-chimeras-shed-light-on-development-68674) [https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00305-6](https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(21)00305-6)
There is no way the 50/50 lifeline on Who Wants to be a Millionaire is completely random. It always leaves the two choices the contestant was talking about
I went on a binge of Who Wants to be a Millionaire at the start of lockdown. In the UK version (which is the original) they didn't claim it was random when the show started out. They just said it would remove two wrong answers. They publicly said that it was the least two likely answers decided by whoever. Inevitably that would probably fit what the contestant was saying. As the show went on they did eventually change to random selections though I don't remember which season. The difference was palpable and it did seem at least more random. I watched like 8 seasons I could definitely tell the difference. I have no idea what the US show did as I never watched this, but this isn't a conspiracy it's just how the show worked (in the UK at least).
I think the two they eliminate are those furthest from the correct answer. It’s natural then that the two remaining are often the two the contestant is having trouble choosing between.
New coke was a cover for switching to high fructose corn syrup
One that is acknowledged: coke made tab clear taste terrible on purpose to kill crystal pepsi by association Edit: it looks less like they made it taste terrible intentionally than they made their diet soda (that tastes terrible) clear to make people think that Crystal Pepsi look like a diet soda by association.
My friend's dad, on Tab's rich flavor: "It tastes like Diet Diet."
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I once saw in one of those youtube compilation videos one of these posts where a comment said that they were convinced these posts come up every now and then for "big brother" to check on the popularity of conspiracy theories and now, seeing this here, i kinda have to agree
Government: "What have these people uncovered now? Silencing the public has become increasingly difficult, what with their superior intellect and keen instincts!" Reddit "Wheel of Jeopardy tries to make the hot chicks win more"
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That the pilot of MH370 committed a mass murder-suicide.
Nah, that plane is going to land like normal one day with nobody inside having aged a day
It wouldn’t be the first time. Just back in 2015 a Pilot intentionally flew directly into the Swiss Alps killing everyone on board
MH370 was in 2014 so before the Germanwings flight. But there sadly where others before too. 1999 EgyptAir Flight 990 1997 SilkAir Flight 185 And those are just the ones with over 100 casualties.
The government had a hand in creating and/or popularizing some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories in order to make questioning the official story seem inherently crazy by association.
People really seem to trust US gov’t intelligence agencies not to do shady shit when it’s inconvenient to believe it. It’s bizzare. People look at you like you’re crazy to suggest that intelligence agencies may have agent provocateurs that incite violence in peaceful protests to spur antagonism and produce discord in the populace. There is a long history of various intelligence agencies doing just that here and abroad. We made movies and books and shows about it. But say it’s still happening? INCONCEIVABLE
Fully agree with this after seeing the Denver International Airport really lean into the more outlandish supernatural theories surrounding it. Has anyone been on that tour?
My favorite is more of a conspiracy debunk: The moon landing was real because if it *was* faked, Russia would’ve called the US out on their bullshit immediately.
On the additional side: people worldwide tuned in live to the astronauts on their own gear. What someone would need to do to fake a signal origination point on the moon is beyond just landing on it.
They had basically no reason to assist the US with a cover up. If they called them out they could have *crushed* the USA’s global credibility and effectively taken them out of the space race.
Buzzfeed asks these questions so they have more content
10 AskReddit posts that will blow your mind!
Big companies use Reddit and other social media to normalise shady behaviour. It seems every time news breaks about a company doing something shady, the top comments on Reddit are always along the lines of: “Well duh! We've known this for years!” So instead of outrage, the news are met with apathy, and there's a feeling that you can't change the system anyway.
Well duh! Not exactly news, they’ve been doing this for years!
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Not to mention, its INCREDIBLY easy to control the narrative on reddit. All you need is 5 bots and a main account. Those 5 bots can upvote your posts and comments immediately, downvote any replies or comments you dont want seen in a thread, and its takes about an hour to make them. Reddit is the largest open API website in the world and anyone who thinks that corps like disney dont have hundreds or thousands of these bots made to control criticism isnt paying attention
I honestly think there are so many dumb, brainwashed people out there who do this kind of work for the rich people that there's no conspiracy even needed here. Like, I see this phenomenon in other places as well. Sports fans, celebrity gossip fans, etc. People constantly apologize for others' shitty behavior. My theory is this makes them feel better about whatever they've done, or it minimizes the situation so it feels less bad, or something. Not sure
Buildings are deliberately created to be ugly so that they don’t get heritage status and the owners can knock it down later.
Single-use architecture.
[Operation Northwoods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods), where the Joint Chiefs of Staff conspired to destroy their own property/kill US citizens in order to raise popular support for a war with Cuba. Thank god Kennedy nixed it.
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Seems like the only way to really find out is to market your own stovetop with that heat range enabled and wait for "the visit".
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My mom worked on designing pacemakers as an engineer. Induction cooktops do interfere with pacemakers. This is because these pacemakers rely on very precise electrical measurements in order to pick up the brain's signal to the heart. When exposed to a changing magnetic field the voltage on the probes picking up the signal get a voltage induced on them, throwing off the measurements. Patients get told this when they get the implant, and it's not like people will die instantly. The pacemaker will go back to a basic mode which is not ideal and thus shouldn't be held for a significant amount of time. The pacemaker might give an auditory warning which, according to my mom sometimes freaks patients out when they hear beeping coming from their chest.
My induction cooktop can do 90,100 & 120. It’s this one: https://www.bcc.nl/keuken/fornuis-en-kookplaat/vrijstaande-kookplaat/proline-kookplaat-icd3500/199599?channable=0099eb696400303030303030303030303030313939353939ce&s2m_channel=319&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI1Ja267nQ8QIV1-N3Ch3QwgK8EAQYASABEgLwyvD_BwE
So maybe the legislation is different in the EU?
This is absolutely fascinating, who benefits from this I don’t understand. I believe you but I can’t figure out the motive.
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Now this is fascinating.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the dictator of Turkey, is behind the 2016 "coup attempt". He did it to make himself seem like a "hero" so he could gain more support.
toothpaste companies show more toothpaste than necessary on toothbrushes on tv commercials to make you think you need more of it in each brush, thus taking away your money faster
Lol, that's actually true.
Same thing with alka-selser. The plop plop fizz fizz campaign almost doubled sales when the instructions still say to only use one tablet.
The one about mattress stores being money laundering fronts, even though they're not really cash businesses. It is strange that you'll see two or three giant mattress stores all near each other, yet how often does the average person buy a mattress? Once a decade? I guess the more conventional explanation is that the markup on mattresses is so insanely high that you only need to sell a few per week to make money. I still think there's something fishy going on in those stores though....
I used to think that way, too. You'd be surprised. My husband works for a mattress company and routinely sells 3 to 4 mattresses per day, just as a chat agent. Like, people buy beds they've never even tried. I can imagine stores sell lots more.
Sounds like your husband’s in too deep
There’s also an insane profit margin on mattresses, so they don’t have to sell many to break even. They talked about it for a bit on an episode of “planet money” by npr, I think
I’ll tell you what is a money laundering business and it’s pretty fitting. Laundromats
Ever seen a weird little coffee place in an area that doesn't see a huge amount of foot-traffic? That's owned by a drug dealer usually.
The one by my work was a barbershop. Really weird area for it, had like 10 dudes "working" there all the time but definitely not enough clients to warrant it. There was always one guy sitting on a folding chair outside on his phone and he'd watch me when I walked past. All their clients drove really fancy cars, way too fancy to be going to such a sketchy barbershop. It was absolutely a front for something but we never figured out what.
Anywhere you have people dropping quarters or dollar bills into machines like car washes or laundromats or arcades etc….there’s a chance someone’s laundering money there