Reminds me of the story of the warehouseman who refused to give someone the last of an item in the warehouse because that would mean they'd be out of stock.
Ah. There's a reasons for that, as told to me by a supply sergeant in the military. A lot of suppliers had a BEL (Basic Equipment List), which says all stock must have a minimum and a maximum of XYZ in order to meet government spec. Some large items, like diesel generators, have a BEL minimum of 2, but also because of their size and storage complexity, have a maximum of 2. So it order to get a new one, you must get rid of one of the old ones. But if you get rid of the old one, you are below minimum BEL, and could fail inspection or an inventory check, if it takes a while to get a new one. Large items don't always "hang around," but they get manufactured on demand, so the only way to get a new one is to be without one for a very long period of time. Thus, you risk failing inspection. The best way to avoid that is to keep two and never order any.
On top of that, everything is ordered by article number. So it happened on a boat that they needed two replacement bolts for the engine. The engineer wrote the order, and the captain signed it and sent it to HQ.
They were informed the order would take (a long time). When they finally got the word that the order was in, they were astonished that two heavy load trucks were waiting for them. Each containing a turbine nearly as big as their boat. Which had nearly the same inventory number as the bolts. With two digits switched.
Reminds me of my buddy’s story from his time as a warehouse manager for Blockbuster (yeah, we’re old…) Blockbuster’s management did loss prevention and breakage based on item count, not item value. If a new hire shoved a $30 DVD down their pants and walked out with it every week, corporate wouldn’t care. After all, it was only 1 DVD each week. And 1 is an acceptably low number. But if that same hire shoved a $5 box of 100 pencils down their pants, corporate would lose their fucking minds. Because each pencil was counted as 1 item, so they were suddenly 100 items short.
It was sort of an open secret in the warehouse that if you were going to steal something, you should only go for the high value shit. And only do it if nobody else had already done so recently. So if the system said you had 5 in stock and there were 5 in the bin, it was open season. Because as long as you only stole one of them, corporate wouldn’t care. But if you pocketed a dozen 50¢ “impulse buy next to the register” toys, loss prevention would be patting people down as they clocked out.
While I get the joke, I feel obliged to point out that the military is one of the very few places this could potentially makes sense (not saying it does in this case): You can basically decide that the warehouse is responsible for holding emergency stock, not ordering materiel that is produced on-demand for daily use. Essentially, if it's produced on-demand, why would you want to go via to warehouse to get it? There are plenty of reasons you could want that of course, but if we ignore those, then the rationale can make sense.
I worked at a printing factory once, and we often needed to replace roller pins for paper, it's an enormous metal cylinders that, despite being couple of tons hunks of metal, were very prone to being harmed. They were in pairs and should've been changed in pairs so they wear out evenly. The problem is, in a warehouse, the item is "a pair of pins" but the task for a repair crew is "change a pin" which includes ordering a transportation. The problem is, if you're making a "change of a pin" you can only order a "transportation of a pin", but warehouse can only issue a "pair of pins", which transportation can't move. The corpo spent weeks trying to solve this conundrum, until the machine broke completely (a roller pin snapped if you can imagine that). After spending the entire year's revenue on fixing it all, they fired a bunch of people for following their corporate rules too precisely.
That's how Dylan Moran runs his bookstore in Black Books.
Paraquoting off the top of my head: "Customers?? Who wanted to buy something???? What the hell do you treat them nicely for?!" ... "You don't get it; Paying customers who get what they want means books get sold. Which means you have to restock them and deal with additional customers!"
I asked about a certain type of cake that was on sale and wasn't in stock. I asked when it would be in stock. The manager launched into a big complaint, because they always sold out when it was on sale. See, he only ever ordered 10, because they never sold more than 10, and when it was on sale, they would sell out immediately.
He got very upset, calling me stupid when I said "If you only have 10, it would be pretty hard to sell more than 10".
You don't get it though! If you just let the absolute greediest people in the world keep all their profit then they'll definitely share with you!
I actually had a coworker say a few months ago that he's a Regan Republican because he believed in trickle down economics... I literally said "really man? And how many more decades of being wrong do you need before you realize it still doesn't work, is five decades enough?" To which he didn't have a reply...
believing in trumps "policies" and then dont follow up on doing research or the consequences of it. many conservatives just vote, and then forget about it after that. VERY LOW INFORMATION voters.
Add tthe newfangled ai bots into the voice menu and it's a back and forth between your problem and "I don't understand your problem, could you repeat that?"
The damn things pick up on every tiny, insignificant noise in the background, too. You don’t have to say anything and sometimes it’ll go, “Sorry, I didn’t get that.” No shit, I didn’t say anything, someone simply slammed a car door shut outside.
Good luck to all the parents who try to navigate those menus while their kids are around…
I’ve mentioned this one before, but it’s worth retelling.
I briefly knew a guy, absolute hick ass trailer trash, who said a large number of incredibly dumb things to me, but this one stands out. He once told me that Southern Baptist was the one true religion, because, and this is a direct quote, “His name is John the Baptist, not John the Catholic!”
I was at a trailer park party once as a non-white person in the south.
Apropos of nothing, I was approached by probably the skinniest human on the planet. Like, he was so skinny you couldn't tell if you were looking directly at his bones, or if his skin was actually a paper thin covering over his bones. He was so skinny, he could have performed in some sort of advertisement explaining how the price of a cup of coffee could help feed the starving southerners.
As I was scanning my periphery to see if I could identify the Necromancer that was animating this creature, this person told me, of their own volition, that in church they had learned that white people were made by God and therefore had souls and black people evolved from monkeys and therefore did not have souls.
In his mind, this was a way of reconciling the truth of evolution with the faith of his church.
He had no idea that he had just lobbed the most racist thought that I had ever been exposed to in my entire life at me.
This is extremely close to what the Mormon church told their followers for a long time. Cain slew Abel. God found out, marked Cain, and cast him out of the garden… The Book of Mormon states that the Canaanites (Cain’s children) were cursed by a “blackness” descending upon them. Yes, that was interpreted in the most racist way possible.
The Mormon church used to officially preach that Cain was marked by being turned black. So black people were descendants of Cain, and therefore couldn’t officially be part of the church. Black people being accepted into the church is still a relatively recent thing, and only because of massive amounts of external pressure. The church didn’t disavow their racist teachings until 2013. Literally less than 20 years ago. There are fucking middle schoolers who have been alive longer than black people have been in the Mormon church.
This really makes me wonder what would make a black person want to join the Mormon church. Like... these people had to be pressured for decades into accepting that you even have a soul... and you what to join them?
the most racist thought that I had ever been exposed to in my entire life
Damn, the white southerners have started behaving themselves since I left a couple of decades ago if that’s the worst you heard! Barely even joking, I’ve met so many people where I live now who are from the south that say ‘I just had to get the fuck out’. Gorgeous places, tiny clusters of great people, and vast swathes of shit straight out of Deliverance.
Oh, they can throw in a lot more racist stereotypes and racial slurs! Not doing that to your face is what we’ve been conditioned to accept as progress for the south.
On one hand, I think what makes it so deeply racist is how genuine it is. It doesn't sound like he's saying it with an explicit intention to hurt, but just as a "matter of fact" that he thinks this.
On the other hand, that could also be a bit redeeming: If he honestly believes what he said (I can't even make myself repeat it), but doesn't hate black people for it, is he then truly racist or just deeply misinformed? To be fair, there's a decent overlap between the two. I'm arguing from a "don't attribute to malice what can accurately be explained by stupidity" standpoint.
The thing about it to me that is racist is that it is specifically black people. Like, I was not emotionally equipped to ask him what his church thought about Indians like me and Asians.
Or what happens when a white person and a black person have a child? Does the child have half a soul? Like, if somebody is predominantly white but 17 generations ago, there was a black person in their family, do they have like a piece missing from their soul?
Or what if they got it wrong? What if white people evolved from monkeys and black people were made by God and so white people don't have souls?
After all, genetically, the only pure humans with no Neanderthal or Denisovian or other hominid ancestor genetics in it are black people.
How do you test for soul? How can you evaluate the soul percentages?
It's so beyond the pale that I was stunlocked. I honestly wish I could go back and ask these questions.
First of all, to be perfectly clear, I have no intention of defending this person. As far as I can tell from your description, they're probably a raging racist.
Regardless, I think the discussion around where the line between stupidity and racism goes is an interesting one. In my mind, racism requires malice: It requires that you actually see some group as less worth than others, or otherwise dislike or hate them. The counter-example (which I've actually met in the wild once) is a person that genuinely believes that some group is less adept in some way, but that still argues that they have the same inherent worth as others.
To put it bluntly, it's not controversial to say that some people are smarter/taller/stronger/faster etc. than others, while still acknowledging that all human life has the same inherent value. Does it make someone a racist if they hold that stance, combined with a belief that is less adept at <insert skill/property>? I would argue not, because (as previously stated) in my mind racism implies that you believe some people are inherently worth more than others, and that belief is not really tied to any measurable property. Basically, I think a true racist uses "they don't have a soul/ are less intelligent / etc." as a post-hoc justification for a hatred they already hold.
I experienced both benevolent and antagonistic racism as a brown kid in the south.
The antagonistic racism was never so much like, get out of here, you darky, or calling me names or anything, although I have been called a "plains n-word" by an old white fuck in South Dakota, so there's that.
But the antagonistic racism I most commonly experienced was being followed around stores.
So much so that it gave me a complex. It happened so often that I would go to a grocery store, or to some retailer, and I would be browsing around, and the people that worked there, which were always white people, would check in on me constantly, always watching me, following me around, staying six to ten feet away from me at times throughout my entire sojourn through the establishment.
But I, being a young kid, didn't find any malice in this. I just thought, oh, maybe, I don't know, maybe they're time travelers, and I'm gonna be so awesome in the future that this is their opportunity to see me without changing the timeline.
But getting away from the south and magically the following me around in the stores thing completely and totally stopped so abruptly that it made me reevaluate what was going on. I'm like, oh no, they were watching the darkie because they thought he was gonna steal shit from them.
But on the flip side, I also got benevolent racism where they thought I was better than them because I was a Native American. They would ask me things like, can you actually talk to horses? And what's it like being able to control the wind?
And what sucks is I'm really good with animals, so to some degree I could talk to horses and they would just sort of get me, but it's not like I could understand what they were saying.
And the very first time I ever fired a bow and arrow I hit a bullseye.
So the instructor was like, if you do it one time, it's luck, you do it two times, it's skill, so I fired again and I hit another bullseye.
This is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about. I'm sorry for the crap you experienced, and I think it's good of you to be able to recognise the naive and/or positively loaded presuppositions people have for what they are. Honestly, I think it's way too common that people will interpret others in the worst possible way, and see slights where none was intended. It looks like you've been able to do the opposite, and interpret others in the best possible way, and I think that makes the world a far better place!
At first I was gonna write "Why didn't you explain to him why Baptist church is called like that?", but then I remembered cases when people say something so profoundly stupid to me, that I judge they're too far gone to warrant any explanation. If it was someone with a half-working-brain I'd still try in a friendly way to give them some more context and expand their thinking, but there also such people (especially if they are some blowhard personality) that you just put a mental note to stay very far away from them out of caution.
Somebody once told me they don't read recreationally because authors are lazy for making readers do all the work of imagining what their story looks like. He was completely sincere, and actually became agitated at the idea of people reading anything beyond manuals or mandatory sorts of things.
The conversation wasn't exactly productive. In any case it wasn't just that he didn't care for reading books, but he actively opposed it which was really a wild position.
I had a similar talk with a guy in his 30's, who said that books didn't have nearly enough information density for his hyper intelligent super brain. "It's ok, if you're a slow reader, you can fix that with practice!" was apparently not the answer he wanted to hear.
This is second hand from a friend, but he said he overheard a conversation between 2 coworkers:
Person A: looks like you got some sun this weekend
Person B (badly sunburned): Yeah, I just bought a convertible and did a lot of driving with the top down. I figured that the wind would stop me from getting sunburned, but I guess it wasn't cold enough
My family always called it windburn. Not that it was caused by the wind, but that because you have airflow you don't feel as hot so you dont think your being burned.
I got second degree burns over most of my body on a FL beach through sunscreen in the 90s similarly. 0/10 do not recommend.
One side of the couple was arguing that the sun went out at night.
The other couple was arguing that the moon covered over the sun at night, and that's why we couldn't see the sun.
They asked me to clarify which one of them was correct as an independent third party, and I told them that the earth rotates, and so when you can't see the sun, it's because it's on the other side of the planet.
They both paused for a moment, looked at each other, and then looked at me and said, "oh, yeah", and that was the end of the argument.
Should have said its because the mothman spreads his wings at night and covers the sun. But he only does that so he can see you better because he sees better at night.
I've already told that story but anyway: a relative told me that the GDPR was a conspiracy from Europe to destroy the European internet (why? why not!)
So that guy literally deleted his own web site (full of old stuff, it was a big project) so that... he would not be forced to delete his own web site by the big bad Europe.
He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth... except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)
He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth… except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)
A relative of my husband always requests we turn off the router, because she's allergic to 5g. She starts feeling nauseous and itchy when it's turned on. We used to sigh and just do it.
However, I've found out she's not actually allergic to 5g or wifi, it turns out she's actually developed a reaction to the power light. Ever since I put a tiny bit of tape of the little green power light, she stopped complaining about the wifi entirely! My husband won't let me tell her about this amazing medical breakthrough though, I wonder why.
I'll admit it took me a minute to figure out what was wrong with this picture. Obviously it's that Pluto isn't included. Also that the size is too small. It should be at least three times that size.
My father told me I shouldn't use regular table salt because "they" were mixing powdered glass in so that it would work its way through your system and embed itself in your heart muscles.
He had called me after I got high though, so I gave him the best kid glove treatment I've ever managed.
Told him that was very interesting. Explained that he could easily prove and expose the conspiracy by pouring salt into a bucket of distilled water. The salt would dissolve, but the glass would sink to the bottom. He could then filter the glass out, then boil the water off to recover the salt safely. He hasn't brought it up since.
My dad is a sweet guy and good at handyman stuff, but dear lord, almost nothing higher level. I truly think it's the lead exposure.
I worked with this dude who i thought was pretty chill. Then one day we're talking about the future of the world and he tells me that he thinks global warming is a punishment from god coz we legalised gay people getting married in Australia. I thought he was joking and took me a few minutes to realise this guy was dead serious
Some old lady was over fir dinner and she asked me why i only eat certain things. I told her that i don't eat meat. It took some time for her to compute and fired back: but you can eat fish. I said, no, because they are animals too. You could see the gears spinning again before she said that banger: i don't think that's true, because they don't even bleed.
A coworker of mine thinks that climate change isn't real and that believing that humans have the capability is pure hubris. And a few months after he told me that, he claimed that windmills were making tornados worse.
An old boyfriends Dad never used indicators when he drove, because " they should know where I'm going"
I met a boy once who thought that a blowjob meant he'd take off all his clothes and then I'd blow on his skin ... I mean, it's subtle and probably pleasant, but most guys prefer the regular kind
Almost certainly Trump. I've lost contact with her and her husband, but the brief interaction I had with him a few years ago he mentioned communist Democrats so I have to guess they're magoos.
When the first Covid vaccine came out a coworker told me she wouldn't get it. Supposedly the vaccine had "killed 90% of the population in Bulgaria already". I told her I thought we'd have heard about it if that was the case, but she was convinced that the media was covering it up.
She later claimed she was deathly allergic to the vaccine, so I ask which part of it. From what I know you can react to a vaccine if you are allergic to eggs or chicken. That's a pretty common food item and it would be good to know if your coworker has such an allergy. I also asked where she keeps her epipen so I could help her in an emergency. She claimed she always left her epipen at home and that she was allergic against a lot of medication. She never mentioned any allergies again afterwards and they seemed to have mysteriously disappeared after the pandemic was over.
I ended a close friendship over bullshit like this. For a year, one friend was so deathly allergic that her doctor told her that under no circumstances was she to receive any Covid vaccine.
Then, then-governor of Oregon Kate Brown required anyone in a Healthcare career to receive said vax. Wouldn't you know it, this friend's easy caretaking paycheck was about to end when she spontaneously rid herself of a life-threatening allergy.
The worst part is, this ends up hurting people with real allergies.
I myself have an anaphylaxis to nuts so I also carry an epipen. Which is why I asked the coworker for hers, because I am trained to use it.
I can't tell you how often I've met people who don't take it seriously and tell me I'll be fine with just a little bit of nut or organic nuts. "I have a cousin who's allergic to XYZ but since eating only organic she's fine and she can eat it now."
This type of people will say they have allergies and then eat the item later and it leads dumb people to believe allergies are fake.
Once in Kindergarten I overheard two adults talking. They were concerned about kids drinking from the same cup because of ... AIDS. That day I learned that even adults could be ignorant. I definitely knew that AIDS could only be transmitted through blood and specifically not through spit.
I didn't know about the other way but after hearing about AIDS in the news my (I think) brother assured me that it couldn't be transmitted through spit.
Low hanging fruit, but "The next president of the United States is Donald J. Trump". And I heard that shit twice. The second time was definitely the dumber of the two, but the drop off from 2nd to 3rd dumbest thing is about as wide as the known universe. It's cartoonish in its absurdity.
But the dumbest thing I've heard personally from an individual is that unbaptised babies who die go straight to hell. I was told this by a woman who liked to preach Jesus' eternal unconditional love in my town centre. I'm atheist, but by default. Like, I didn't read my way into it or anything, I just completely lack any impulse to believe despite being made to go to Catholic mass every week for 17 years. All that's to say that I don't have particular animosity towards believers, but that kind of believer can suck a dirty dog dick.
Apart from it being insanely unfair to babies - roasting away like a rotisserie chicken without even the consciousness to know what's going on - it's also beyond evil to tell that to believers who've lost children soon after birth due to disease before they even leave the hospital, or have miscarried through no fault of their own, etc. Strangely, I never hear that argument from the anti-abortion religious fanatics. That is, "don't abort the baby, or it'll be sent straight into Satan's Big Green Egg!"
Imagine being Satan, and having a daily influx of humans too young and unformed to even walk when prodded by a demon's pitchfork. Even a supremely evil entity like he's alleged to be would have to wonder just what the fuck is going on with heavenly bureaucracy for this to be the way things are done.
The thing is, the entire concept of hell (and a "loving" god) starts to break down as soon as you start thinking through scenarios like that. Probably why anti-choice people never use it as an argument.
It honestly makes me think if Hell is real, it is by far the more reasonable place to want to end up. Heaven is only getting the people that not only believe that but think it's good. Hell is getting a shit load of normal people and babies (who grow up in hell...? probably adapt pretty well and can teach us the ropes). Like, sure we get the non-religious terrible people and assholes... But we have those on earth. At least a large chunk of the assholes we normally deal with would be in heaven.
most "media" about hell/heaven is even aethiests/ non believers go to either the 2 realms. evangelicals and ultra-conservative christians sees it as a black and white issue. the first one makes more sense, than 'doing very "christian things""
"Monkeys are brown because they eat bananas. You know how flamingos turn pink because they eat shrimp? Well monkeys eat bananas and bananas turn brown" -two dead ass serious girls I met
"People didn't use crossbows when trying to siege a castle because the bolts fly in a straight line, so they fly over castle walls" -college history professor, about to be surprised gravity existed in the middle ages
“Can you find me an outlet that works”, during a building wide power outage.
We have critical systems that run on UPS and wanted me to unplug something so their laptop battery didn’t die.
There are multiple /TalesFromIT types of stories of people calling tech support/IT to troubleshoot their computer. They’ll give some vague and unhelpful “my computer isn’t working” description. The help desk tech will answer, and go through several troubleshooting steps before discovering that the computer isn’t even turned on.
When they ask the caller to turn it on, they say that it won’t turn on. Well let’s check the power outlet and make sure it’s plugged in. “Okay hold on I need to get a flashlight. It’s dark in here.” Wait, why is it dark? “Oh, the power is out for the entire block. I called you on my cell phone.”
A teacher in highschool put this up on the screen and told us to read it to ourselves,
"Aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
Then some bright light in the back of the room asked if that was actually true after fully comprehending what was in front of them.
I just remembered that a former coworker of mine was sure that the real 2020 election results were 80% for Trump.
I remember someone else saying that it's ridiculous how someone can be so smart and believe something so stupid. Because that's the issue: The person who made that claim is objectively a smart person, but he fell into a conspiracy hole of some sort. He was let go from his job because he could not work on our clients' ships because he refused to take the "depopulation shot" (covid vaccine)
One of my jobs I was working next to an older man who didn't believe in climate change because "they told us dinosaurs had scales and now they're saying they have feathers!" He also once told me to fix an electrical component by "spraying WD40 on it" as if the electrons just needed some lubrication before they'd start moving again.
Both of those incidents helped me to realize who not to go to for help with that job and shortly afterwards he was let go after having an entire week with no work completed.
Sooooo WD stands for Water Displacer. It isn't a lubricant, it's more of a cleaning agent. It was originally developed to keep Atlas rockets from rusting. WD-40 might fix an electrical component by floating off any water-based electrolyte that might be shorting something out.
Fair enough, that being said the problem in question was with a solenoid where the coil has broken insulation allowing a short to ground. He was instructing me to shoot a bunch of WD-40 into the solenoid housing with the core and spring where there were no electronics.
Okay yeah that's a little dumb. I could maybe see using WD-40 to free up a solenoid that was mechanically stuck but broken insulation says to me replace the part.
Yeah that's exactly the reason I was so baffled by his instructions. I just stared at him and said "but this isn't a mechanical issue, it's an electrical issue" "oh well that's what I do most of the time and usually it works"
Seeing first hand how he couldn't diagnose a basic issue like that and how he just trusted some catch all solution to fix his problems (for that particular part) really connected the dots to why exactly he seemingly didn't trust scientists or the scientific process at all.
Reminds me of the advice you see in classic Macintosh circles; they'll tell you to stick the motherboard in the dishwasher to wash off leaky capacitor sauce.
A coworker got drunk at an office party, telling me "Then I can't drive, so when I ask Caroline from marketing to drive me home, she can't say no. wink, wink
When that predictably failed, he drove home drunk.
dennis would slash her tires first. something JESSE watters did hes the IRL dennis reynolds, hes the fox talking head that slashed a female co-workers car tires in order so that the woman would have the only option to ride with the creep home.
Not the very dumbest because i heard lots of dumb stuff to really list it all but this is defenetly up there just like:
"Water does take longer to boil with salt". While true, it is so minimal that its not even a second for a regular pot
Well that's not strictly untrue... There is going to be an optimal speed, at which the least amount of fuel is being used per distance traveled. And I'm not an expert, but I think the curve is sort of bell shaped.
They probably half remembered something like that.
“Just do something, take action”. On what exactly? “Just something”. That’s not actionable advice, and it’s always driven me crazy that people think they’re being helpful.
In a leftist bookstore, talking with the proprietor who has an extensive collection of left-wing labor/union literature, and randomly he starts talking about how Lincoln was the worst president etc. and just launches into lost cause mythology of the Confederacy. Hardest conversational 180 I've ever experienced
"I dont know. You're the engineer, engineer it" told to me by my boss when I presented the budget for the testing was not adequate for what we wanted and I presented 3 alternatives that were within the buget with their pros and cons asking how we should proceed. The boss in question was not an engineer but a HR manager with an MBA
Just top of my head I recall a pre Covid conversation between me and some lady in my neighborhood who confidently told me the flu shot wasn’t even worth getting because it doesn’t protect you from the stomach flu…
Some woman walking her ancient beagle and smoking a cigarette I tell her how cute her dog is and I’m wearing a mask. She tells me it’s good I’m wearing a mask to “protect your respiratories” because… they were installing 5G in the area
I’m sure there’s so many more
Oh recently in a car the person driving takes an illegal left, against a red no less, to get on the highway. I tell him it was an asshole move and you don’t get to pick and choose which traffic laws apply to you or not. He then tells me because “no one tried to stop him” it was ok?? I was like what?? Like in your car, like they should have hit you with their car to stop you (reminder it was red so they needed to run a red light to hit him for the purpose of telling him not to run a red light) otherwise it was fine for you to do? And he deadass said “yes”
That COVID was a plandemic so that states could send people into lockdown, during which they could install 5g. I asked who they were and only got ramblings in return.
believing in FLOURIDE-FREE toothpaste, different brands /off brand ones do the same thing. they dont provide any benefit at all. its a placebo effect if you look at the reviews, and then the ingredients people said they have cleaner whiter teeth, no sht, its because these other toothpastes are highly abrasive thats why they get a clean feeling from it,ends up being more damaging because of its abrasiveness., plus people are confusing ingesting flouride in childhood with flouride use in adulthood. and then comes the complain that thier teeth health dint get any better or they still getting cavaties.
Been telling my family that more expensive toothpaste is just the same shit with literally a different taste for years.
We're still buying the expensive colgate crap instead of the cheap stuff that does the exact same thing... Because they say, quote, "it tastes worse so it must be worse"...
I hate that 9/10 the only decent bubblegum flavor is Disney branded. Mint toothpaste makes my lips and tongue swell and I have no idea why because mint tea and candy is fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
that is bad, yea you know its too much mint if it causes burning sensation. some can cause ulcers if its too much mint. i developed chronic chelitis because i used some of the ones with lots of mint, or the off brand ones. i assume its the kids branded one of crest?
the new version of the old varieties have a ton of mint. i think its due to shrinkflation from covid. crest pro supposed to be 4.6oz(old) is very hard to find and its like a very plesant taste without the mint, the new one is 4.3, with overpowering mint oil.
i have been considering getting kids version of crest, i might do it this time.
likely its comes from mint oil they use, oils can be very irritating to the gums. apparently peppermint contains menthol, could be behind the irritation it can cause? apparently spearmint barely contains any menthol. it seems its likely the menthol in pepperminted toothpaste that cause irritation. could not figure out why some off-brand ones are causing it. just checked on some reviews of toothpaste with mint, its mostly the mint+ menthol likely peppermint. since spearmint taste much milder than peppermint (which gives you that fresh cool feeling)
i think mint comes from the oil they use, i think put a ton of it in the newer version of crest/colgate or another to mask the cheapness of the less effective ingredients. some people says SLS(sodium laurel sulfate/sarscoinate), or CLS causes it. but i think its the mint oil, or abrasives. i get ulcers when i use one of these toothpastes. i use the ones with potassium nitrate(to numb teeth)
colgate and crest is actually cheap. its when you buy the flouride free toothpaste which are different companies or different manufacters. yea alot of its marketing if crest/colgate has more expensive toothpaste, but i do notice a difference between alot of them. the older ones have milder minty taste, less abrasive. "the new shrinkflationed ones" cheaped out on ingredients and add overwhelming amount of mint(which apparently causes that burning sensation in the mouth, and cause allergic reaciton in some people). stannous flouride is the one you want in toothpaste. people dont like colgate or some of the crest pro lines becauses its too abrasive.
I had a community college psychology professor who worked in psychiatric research outside of teaching ask the class, "What is the shape of consciousness? What do you think it is?" He put a clever look on his face and his eyes scanned every perplexed student in the room to see if anyone could produce the simple, obvious answer to the question, "What is the shape of consciousness ..."
Finally he broke the suspense and enlightened us all. The shape of consciousness, according to a man who holds a license to practice medicine, is an oval. It's an oval because you have two eyes and therefore your field of vision is elliptical.
This happened a while ago. A guy started a war half way across the globe and caused major problems for himself and most of the worlds population. He tried to pretend he won that war, but he didn't. Starting a war for no reason, or worse, to deflect from some embarrassing crimes he committed, is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
some people still believe in the moon landing is faked, subsequently any of the news that reported on spaceflight. i know some asian people that believe this sitll.
Shit I should have an answer but all I can think about is categories of incompetent communication attempts, aka people that are effectively mute and can't form sentences.
For example, you can figure out from context someone is pro republican, but they say "republicans have got rid of bureaucracy/regulation that holds back businesses" and mean it as a good thing, then get mad when you push back and more mad that they have to justify their statement.
Then there's ass-pulls that lack any supporting logic (not evidence because human brain doesn't require evidence to believe things) then they get mad when there's push back. The example there is a random antivaxxers that decided that deaths from the covid vaccine was underreported by 20 times simple because "it's common for things to being reported by that much", then get furious when I multiply covid deaths by 20 and magically covid deaths are over reported
"I don't accept any mistakes on a forklift. And I expect them even less when you're working forced overtime, because the longer you're operating the forklift at a time the deeper your focus should be"
the vile shitbag warehouse manager who paid a lot of money to repaint all our forklifts just so she could scream at us about the tiniest scuffs.
fuck you Jean, but also thank you for radicalizing me
I don't think I can pick the absolute dumbest. I'm sure to forget something. One of the dumbest things I heard recently was in an argument about abortion. A guy was arguing that abortion should be illegal. When asked what he suggests should be the penalty for abortion, he said it wouldn't happen because it would be illegal
Indigenous people in Canada believe a giant Sasquatch creature called Sabe is real. Really real. Give me a fucking break guys.
E: oh what, you think that indigenous people are special and deserve some kind of kid gloves for their idiotic superstitious beliefs? It's in every culture, stop being racist.
This comic that puts communism in the same boat as sexual orientation, gender and race, as if people are born communist. I thought it was pretty stupid. Other people don't seem to mind it for some reason
EDIT: If you downvote, be cool and leave a comment. Am I not getting something? Is the comic sarcastic? Or are you just a butthurt communist? Or perhaps this is yet another American thing I'm too Eastern European to understand. Lots of Americans seem to think communism is fabulous. But, you know... Americans seem to believe a lot of bullshit, so...
Especially bullshit they've had no contact with. They also like to condescend to people who have had contact with said things. Not a good look. Makes them look really fucking stupid. Kinda like telling an astronaut the earth is flat
And, again, I fucking hate communists piggybacking on progressive issues. You weren't fucking born communist. You made a choice. If you get backlash for it that is entirely your fucking problem
This comic isn't saying (or even implying) that people are born communist, at all. The comic isn't even implying that communism is necessarily a good thing. It's saying that the random person clearly thinks that it should be morally acceptable not to love people who express or possess certain traits, while the messiah gave no such qualification. If your god says "love everybody", you don't get to say "but these people worship a different God, so I should get to hate them!"
Love everybody.
The comic makes clear that you can't just claim to be a Christian, then reject one of the few things about which Christ was unequivocal. The ultimate point here is that most modern Christians do not follow the teachings of Jesus. That communism is mentioned is simply because it is a common scapegoat among american conservatives, who overwhelmingly identify as Christians. There has never been a significant communist presence in the united states, but that didn't stop McCarthy from turning people against their neighbours in snipe hunts for the "reds".
One time I was at a grocery store and they sold out of a particular drink I liked.
A manager was standing nearby and I asked when they would restock it.
"Never." He said. "It always sells out and I don't want to constantly order and restock it, so I'm not going to get more."
Reminds me of the story of the warehouseman who refused to give someone the last of an item in the warehouse because that would mean they'd be out of stock.
Ah. There's a reasons for that, as told to me by a supply sergeant in the military. A lot of suppliers had a BEL (Basic Equipment List), which says all stock must have a minimum and a maximum of XYZ in order to meet government spec. Some large items, like diesel generators, have a BEL minimum of 2, but also because of their size and storage complexity, have a maximum of 2. So it order to get a new one, you must get rid of one of the old ones. But if you get rid of the old one, you are below minimum BEL, and could fail inspection or an inventory check, if it takes a while to get a new one. Large items don't always "hang around," but they get manufactured on demand, so the only way to get a new one is to be without one for a very long period of time. Thus, you risk failing inspection. The best way to avoid that is to keep two and never order any.
Military logic.
On top of that, everything is ordered by article number. So it happened on a boat that they needed two replacement bolts for the engine. The engineer wrote the order, and the captain signed it and sent it to HQ.
They were informed the order would take (a long time). When they finally got the word that the order was in, they were astonished that two heavy load trucks were waiting for them. Each containing a turbine nearly as big as their boat. Which had nearly the same inventory number as the bolts. With two digits switched.
E4 mafia could probably fix that and a few other issues.
Reminds me of my buddy’s story from his time as a warehouse manager for Blockbuster (yeah, we’re old…) Blockbuster’s management did loss prevention and breakage based on item count, not item value. If a new hire shoved a $30 DVD down their pants and walked out with it every week, corporate wouldn’t care. After all, it was only 1 DVD each week. And 1 is an acceptably low number. But if that same hire shoved a $5 box of 100 pencils down their pants, corporate would lose their fucking minds. Because each pencil was counted as 1 item, so they were suddenly 100 items short.
It was sort of an open secret in the warehouse that if you were going to steal something, you should only go for the high value shit. And only do it if nobody else had already done so recently. So if the system said you had 5 in stock and there were 5 in the bin, it was open season. Because as long as you only stole one of them, corporate wouldn’t care. But if you pocketed a dozen 50¢ “impulse buy next to the register” toys, loss prevention would be patting people down as they clocked out.
While I get the joke, I feel obliged to point out that the military is one of the very few places this could potentially makes sense (not saying it does in this case): You can basically decide that the warehouse is responsible for holding emergency stock, not ordering materiel that is produced on-demand for daily use. Essentially, if it's produced on-demand, why would you want to go via to warehouse to get it? There are plenty of reasons you could want that of course, but if we ignore those, then the rationale can make sense.
that's just cheating the system to achieve some metric
What gets measured gets done. For good or ill.
I worked at a printing factory once, and we often needed to replace roller pins for paper, it's an enormous metal cylinders that, despite being couple of tons hunks of metal, were very prone to being harmed. They were in pairs and should've been changed in pairs so they wear out evenly. The problem is, in a warehouse, the item is "a pair of pins" but the task for a repair crew is "change a pin" which includes ordering a transportation. The problem is, if you're making a "change of a pin" you can only order a "transportation of a pin", but warehouse can only issue a "pair of pins", which transportation can't move. The corpo spent weeks trying to solve this conundrum, until the machine broke completely (a roller pin snapped if you can imagine that). After spending the entire year's revenue on fixing it all, they fired a bunch of people for following their corporate rules too precisely.
seems like a funny joke tbh
Which would have been funny. They didn't ever restock the drink, though.
Sounds like the shopkeeper was more interested in resting than infinite profits & money.
Nobody goes there. It's too crowded
That's how Dylan Moran runs his bookstore in Black Books.
Paraquoting off the top of my head: "Customers?? Who wanted to buy something???? What the hell do you treat them nicely for?!" ... "You don't get it; Paying customers who get what they want means books get sold. Which means you have to restock them and deal with additional customers!"
I asked about a certain type of cake that was on sale and wasn't in stock. I asked when it would be in stock. The manager launched into a big complaint, because they always sold out when it was on sale. See, he only ever ordered 10, because they never sold more than 10, and when it was on sale, they would sell out immediately.
He got very upset, calling me stupid when I said "If you only have 10, it would be pretty hard to sell more than 10".
I worked in retail for a while, and it was staggering to uncover that the majority of people with the control over inventory thought the same way.
Have you ever considered ordering 10 or 20 to see if they sell out in 4 to 8 days or less? Maybe then order 40 or 60?
Funnily it's the same people that also insist on having 6 weeks worth of stock, even if the supplier delivers in 7 days 95% of the time.
That's what happens when the profits of a company do not benefit its employees.
Trickle down economics.
You don't get it though! If you just let the absolute greediest people in the world keep all their profit then they'll definitely share with you!
I actually had a coworker say a few months ago that he's a Regan Republican because he believed in trickle down economics... I literally said "really man? And how many more decades of being wrong do you need before you realize it still doesn't work, is five decades enough?" To which he didn't have a reply...
The war on drugs.
There are more, list them lemmy.
Nixons war on drugs was a distraction from nixons international disasters, especially with the vietnam war and his watergate scandal.
We won't tax the rich more, coz they are gonna leave if we do.
Seattle just passed a millionaires tax. Howard Schultz, the old Starbucks CEO, made a big stink of it and moved away.
Thing is, Howard Schultz is universally reviled in Seattle. Even corporate shills agree that he fucking sucks.
😂
The rich are job creators! /s
If they don't pay taxes now, why would them leaving even be an issue?
Trump president
You win. Thread over.
I can beat that. Trump president... twice...
Try this one ,trump president FOREVER
Both were RIGGED! Hillary & Kamala both actually won.
theres quite alot of evidence of rigging lol, its not likes it made up. its that the DNC refuses to acknowledges it at all.
To ignore your failures is to never learn
What?
My comment was a mockery of trump who still continually repeatedly insists that the election in which Biden won was "rigged."
So if Trump gets his thrills & success from repeating lies over & over again, why can't everyone else do the same?
Hilary & Kamala both won the presidencies! Those elections were rigged!
Hilary & Kamala both won the presidencies! Those elections were rigged!
Hilary & Kamala both won the presidencies! Those elections were rigged!
Because according to the way Trump talks, if you repeat a lie over & over again, you can eventually convince yourself that it's true.
And half the country
Real and true. Sorry, reading tone on the internet is hard.
believing in trumps "policies" and then dont follow up on doing research or the consequences of it. many conservatives just vote, and then forget about it after that. VERY LOW INFORMATION voters.
Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line and a representative will be with you shortly.
"Please listen carefully as our menu items have changed."
"Call volume is higher than normal"
The fuck it is. If anytime I call is 'higher than normal', change what your "normal" baseline is or stop lying to me.
The normal volume benchmark is taken at 3AM on a national holiday, which also is on a Sunday.
I’ll toss in a voice menu with no option for buttons and mashing zero doesn’t get you a rep.
Add tthe newfangled ai bots into the voice menu and it's a back and forth between your problem and "I don't understand your problem, could you repeat that?"
And their inevitable fuck you of "I couldn't understand you, please call back and try again" before they end the call
Can you still curse at them to get an attendant?
You, you are my problem!
The damn things pick up on every tiny, insignificant noise in the background, too. You don’t have to say anything and sometimes it’ll go, “Sorry, I didn’t get that.” No shit, I didn’t say anything, someone simply slammed a car door shut outside.
Good luck to all the parents who try to navigate those menus while their kids are around…
I promise that everyone in this subthread hates phone systems less than I do. And there is a good reason you all have these infuriating experiences.
And the reason is stupid.
I have had to set those up, we likely hate them on a very similar level.
I’ve mentioned this one before, but it’s worth retelling.
I briefly knew a guy, absolute hick ass trailer trash, who said a large number of incredibly dumb things to me, but this one stands out. He once told me that Southern Baptist was the one true religion, because, and this is a direct quote, “His name is John the Baptist, not John the Catholic!”
And for him that was a QED moment.
Dumbest motherfucker I’ve ever encountered.
I was at a trailer park party once as a non-white person in the south.
Apropos of nothing, I was approached by probably the skinniest human on the planet. Like, he was so skinny you couldn't tell if you were looking directly at his bones, or if his skin was actually a paper thin covering over his bones. He was so skinny, he could have performed in some sort of advertisement explaining how the price of a cup of coffee could help feed the starving southerners.
As I was scanning my periphery to see if I could identify the Necromancer that was animating this creature, this person told me, of their own volition, that in church they had learned that white people were made by God and therefore had souls and black people evolved from monkeys and therefore did not have souls.
In his mind, this was a way of reconciling the truth of evolution with the faith of his church.
He had no idea that he had just lobbed the most racist thought that I had ever been exposed to in my entire life at me.
In his head, you are now the non-white friend he can claim he has to prove he’s not racist.
(Also, username checks out…?)
I did pick that name for a reason.
This is extremely close to what the Mormon church told their followers for a long time. Cain slew Abel. God found out, marked Cain, and cast him out of the garden… The Book of Mormon states that the Canaanites (Cain’s children) were cursed by a “blackness” descending upon them. Yes, that was interpreted in the most racist way possible.
The Mormon church used to officially preach that Cain was marked by being turned black. So black people were descendants of Cain, and therefore couldn’t officially be part of the church. Black people being accepted into the church is still a relatively recent thing, and only because of massive amounts of external pressure. The church didn’t disavow their racist teachings until 2013. Literally less than 20 years ago. There are fucking middle schoolers who have been alive longer than black people have been in the Mormon church.
This really makes me wonder what would make a black person want to join the Mormon church. Like... these people had to be pressured for decades into accepting that you even have a soul... and you what to join them?
Hasa deega Ebowai
Damn, the white southerners have started behaving themselves since I left a couple of decades ago if that’s the worst you heard! Barely even joking, I’ve met so many people where I live now who are from the south that say ‘I just had to get the fuck out’. Gorgeous places, tiny clusters of great people, and vast swathes of shit straight out of Deliverance.
I am struggling to think of anything a human being could say that would be more racist than:
"This entire group of people are soulless homunculi, p-noid zombies, there is nothing going on behind their eyes, when they die they just die."
I mean, I struggle not to think that about conservatives.
Oh, they can throw in a lot more racist stereotypes and racial slurs! Not doing that to your face is what we’ve been conditioned to accept as progress for the south.
On one hand, I think what makes it so deeply racist is how genuine it is. It doesn't sound like he's saying it with an explicit intention to hurt, but just as a "matter of fact" that he thinks this.
On the other hand, that could also be a bit redeeming: If he honestly believes what he said (I can't even make myself repeat it), but doesn't hate black people for it, is he then truly racist or just deeply misinformed? To be fair, there's a decent overlap between the two. I'm arguing from a "don't attribute to malice what can accurately be explained by stupidity" standpoint.
The thing about it to me that is racist is that it is specifically black people. Like, I was not emotionally equipped to ask him what his church thought about Indians like me and Asians.
Or what happens when a white person and a black person have a child? Does the child have half a soul? Like, if somebody is predominantly white but 17 generations ago, there was a black person in their family, do they have like a piece missing from their soul?
Or what if they got it wrong? What if white people evolved from monkeys and black people were made by God and so white people don't have souls?
After all, genetically, the only pure humans with no Neanderthal or Denisovian or other hominid ancestor genetics in it are black people.
How do you test for soul? How can you evaluate the soul percentages?
It's so beyond the pale that I was stunlocked. I honestly wish I could go back and ask these questions.
First of all, to be perfectly clear, I have no intention of defending this person. As far as I can tell from your description, they're probably a raging racist.
Regardless, I think the discussion around where the line between stupidity and racism goes is an interesting one. In my mind, racism requires malice: It requires that you actually see some group as less worth than others, or otherwise dislike or hate them. The counter-example (which I've actually met in the wild once) is a person that genuinely believes that some group is less adept in some way, but that still argues that they have the same inherent worth as others.
To put it bluntly, it's not controversial to say that some people are smarter/taller/stronger/faster etc. than others, while still acknowledging that all human life has the same inherent value. Does it make someone a racist if they hold that stance, combined with a belief that is less adept at <insert skill/property>? I would argue not, because (as previously stated) in my mind racism implies that you believe some people are inherently worth more than others, and that belief is not really tied to any measurable property. Basically, I think a true racist uses "they don't have a soul/ are less intelligent / etc." as a post-hoc justification for a hatred they already hold.
I experienced both benevolent and antagonistic racism as a brown kid in the south.
The antagonistic racism was never so much like, get out of here, you darky, or calling me names or anything, although I have been called a "plains n-word" by an old white fuck in South Dakota, so there's that.
But the antagonistic racism I most commonly experienced was being followed around stores.
So much so that it gave me a complex. It happened so often that I would go to a grocery store, or to some retailer, and I would be browsing around, and the people that worked there, which were always white people, would check in on me constantly, always watching me, following me around, staying six to ten feet away from me at times throughout my entire sojourn through the establishment.
But I, being a young kid, didn't find any malice in this. I just thought, oh, maybe, I don't know, maybe they're time travelers, and I'm gonna be so awesome in the future that this is their opportunity to see me without changing the timeline.
But getting away from the south and magically the following me around in the stores thing completely and totally stopped so abruptly that it made me reevaluate what was going on. I'm like, oh no, they were watching the darkie because they thought he was gonna steal shit from them.
But on the flip side, I also got benevolent racism where they thought I was better than them because I was a Native American. They would ask me things like, can you actually talk to horses? And what's it like being able to control the wind?
And what sucks is I'm really good with animals, so to some degree I could talk to horses and they would just sort of get me, but it's not like I could understand what they were saying.
And the very first time I ever fired a bow and arrow I hit a bullseye.
So the instructor was like, if you do it one time, it's luck, you do it two times, it's skill, so I fired again and I hit another bullseye.
So you know, I'm doing my ancestors proud.
This is exactly the kind of thing I was thinking about. I'm sorry for the crap you experienced, and I think it's good of you to be able to recognise the naive and/or positively loaded presuppositions people have for what they are. Honestly, I think it's way too common that people will interpret others in the worst possible way, and see slights where none was intended. It looks like you've been able to do the opposite, and interpret others in the best possible way, and I think that makes the world a far better place!
"If I heard it in church, it can't be bad, it can't be wrong."
At first I was gonna write "Why didn't you explain to him why Baptist church is called like that?", but then I remembered cases when people say something so profoundly stupid to me, that I judge they're too far gone to warrant any explanation. If it was someone with a half-working-brain I'd still try in a friendly way to give them some more context and expand their thinking, but there also such people (especially if they are some blowhard personality) that you just put a mental note to stay very far away from them out of caution.
Somebody once told me they don't read recreationally because authors are lazy for making readers do all the work of imagining what their story looks like. He was completely sincere, and actually became agitated at the idea of people reading anything beyond manuals or mandatory sorts of things.
Has this person ever heard about comics
The conversation wasn't exactly productive. In any case it wasn't just that he didn't care for reading books, but he actively opposed it which was really a wild position.
I had a similar talk with a guy in his 30's, who said that books didn't have nearly enough information density for his hyper intelligent super brain. "It's ok, if you're a slow reader, you can fix that with practice!" was apparently not the answer he wanted to hear.
Hey, we got a reader over here!
This is second hand from a friend, but he said he overheard a conversation between 2 coworkers:
Person A: looks like you got some sun this weekend
Person B (badly sunburned): Yeah, I just bought a convertible and did a lot of driving with the top down. I figured that the wind would stop me from getting sunburned, but I guess it wasn't cold enough
Person A: That's... not how that works
I was once told that it was too cold to wear sun glasses…
Meanwhile I frequently wear them when it’s sunny after snowfall…bright white mounds do a lot to make the sun more annoying.
they probably think being a very snowy area means you wont get sunburn either.
My family always called it windburn. Not that it was caused by the wind, but that because you have airflow you don't feel as hot so you dont think your being burned.
I got second degree burns over most of my body on a FL beach through sunscreen in the 90s similarly. 0/10 do not recommend.
Damn Florida. I got burned on the bottom of my foot when one of my sandals broke halfway through a beach walk in Florida. It absolutely sucked.
I was once stopped by an elderly couple.
One side of the couple was arguing that the sun went out at night.
The other couple was arguing that the moon covered over the sun at night, and that's why we couldn't see the sun.
They asked me to clarify which one of them was correct as an independent third party, and I told them that the earth rotates, and so when you can't see the sun, it's because it's on the other side of the planet.
They both paused for a moment, looked at each other, and then looked at me and said, "oh, yeah", and that was the end of the argument.
Sounds like they were made for each other.
I‘m sure both agreed that what you said was stupid when you left 😂
Should have said its because the mothman spreads his wings at night and covers the sun. But he only does that so he can see you better because he sees better at night.
I've already told that story but anyway: a relative told me that the GDPR was a conspiracy from Europe to destroy the European internet (why? why not!)
So that guy literally deleted his own web site (full of old stuff, it was a big project) so that... he would not be forced to delete his own web site by the big bad Europe.
He is also anti-vax, and allergic to Wifi and Bluetooth... except when he is in our house filled with Wifi and Bluetooth (but we have never told him, he could die!)
A relative of my husband always requests we turn off the router, because she's allergic to 5g. She starts feeling nauseous and itchy when it's turned on. We used to sigh and just do it.
However, I've found out she's not actually allergic to 5g or wifi, it turns out she's actually developed a reaction to the power light. Ever since I put a tiny bit of tape of the little green power light, she stopped complaining about the wifi entirely! My husband won't let me tell her about this amazing medical breakthrough though, I wonder why.
Crank it up to 15!
What kind of knob has 1.3076744e+12 notches?
Best thing I can find is a 15! knob. Is that what you were thinking of?
giving rich people more money is important for 'job creation'.
the lie that killed the middle class
"This isn't what I voted for!"
Those people are at least smarter than the ones who DID vote for this.
Or those who have still to understand that what is happening is actually due to their vote.
Also "both sides are the same, so I'm not voting"!
I'll admit it took me a minute to figure out what was wrong with this picture. Obviously it's that Pluto isn't included. Also that the size is too small. It should be at least three times that size.
My father told me I shouldn't use regular table salt because "they" were mixing powdered glass in so that it would work its way through your system and embed itself in your heart muscles.
He had called me after I got high though, so I gave him the best kid glove treatment I've ever managed.
Told him that was very interesting. Explained that he could easily prove and expose the conspiracy by pouring salt into a bucket of distilled water. The salt would dissolve, but the glass would sink to the bottom. He could then filter the glass out, then boil the water off to recover the salt safely. He hasn't brought it up since.
My dad is a sweet guy and good at handyman stuff, but dear lord, almost nothing higher level. I truly think it's the lead exposure.
I think we may be brothers
I worked with this dude who i thought was pretty chill. Then one day we're talking about the future of the world and he tells me that he thinks global warming is a punishment from god coz we legalised gay people getting married in Australia. I thought he was joking and took me a few minutes to realise this guy was dead serious
In Australia, precisedly?
For context im in Australia and this was when gay marriage was legalised back in 2017
But still, punishing the whole world for Australia?
Sometimes, the smiting gets out of hand.
See also Noah and the Flood.
Mate I know, i had a million questions but thought fuck it im not here to fuck spiders im here to work, so just nodded and got back to it
Sounds about right. Global warming didn't exist in Australia before 2017
Yeah i have no idea what logic he was using. Didn't talk to him much after that
In that case, it makes perfect sense, of course.
QLD, or TAS?
VIC
Some old lady was over fir dinner and she asked me why i only eat certain things. I told her that i don't eat meat. It took some time for her to compute and fired back: but you can eat fish. I said, no, because they are animals too. You could see the gears spinning again before she said that banger: i don't think that's true, because they don't even bleed.
I never got why people think fish is not meat.
A coworker of mine thinks that climate change isn't real and that believing that humans have the capability is pure hubris. And a few months after he told me that, he claimed that windmills were making tornados worse.
Wut? The moon landing is real though or are you trying a "funny"?
An old boyfriends Dad never used indicators when he drove, because " they should know where I'm going"
I met a boy once who thought that a blowjob meant he'd take off all his clothes and then I'd blow on his skin ... I mean, it's subtle and probably pleasant, but most guys prefer the regular kind
You're about to have the most intense blow job of your life.
Next week's headline:
"Blow Job Fetishists Storm Wind Tunnel Facility"
To be fair, "blowjob" is a very stupid term for it.
Now I want to try that variant. Sounds pleasant.
Tie them up (responsibly of course), add a blindfold, and it could be quite intense.
Then you hit 'em with the ice cubes ...
That went from pleasant to erotic real fast..
If being hit with surprise ice cubes is erotic, rather than just plain mean, then yeah, sure.
Seriously though, don't ever do that to a relaxed but tied up person. It would be a real asshole move.
Or with the grapefruit
That is some pure innocence right there.
Yeah. It didn't last long.
I knew a girl that was convinced that ~90% of planes crash...
I had to ask her "do you really think they'd keep making them if almost all of them killed people?"
Who did she grow up to vote for?
Almost certainly Trump. I've lost contact with her and her husband, but the brief interaction I had with him a few years ago he mentioned communist Democrats so I have to guess they're magoos.
I was certain that i was asking a rhetorical question — but not at all surprised to be literally correct…
When the first Covid vaccine came out a coworker told me she wouldn't get it. Supposedly the vaccine had "killed 90% of the population in Bulgaria already". I told her I thought we'd have heard about it if that was the case, but she was convinced that the media was covering it up.
She later claimed she was deathly allergic to the vaccine, so I ask which part of it. From what I know you can react to a vaccine if you are allergic to eggs or chicken. That's a pretty common food item and it would be good to know if your coworker has such an allergy. I also asked where she keeps her epipen so I could help her in an emergency. She claimed she always left her epipen at home and that she was allergic against a lot of medication. She never mentioned any allergies again afterwards and they seemed to have mysteriously disappeared after the pandemic was over.
I ended a close friendship over bullshit like this. For a year, one friend was so deathly allergic that her doctor told her that under no circumstances was she to receive any Covid vaccine.
Then, then-governor of Oregon Kate Brown required anyone in a Healthcare career to receive said vax. Wouldn't you know it, this friend's easy caretaking paycheck was about to end when she spontaneously rid herself of a life-threatening allergy.
Get the fuck out of here. We're done.
The worst part is, this ends up hurting people with real allergies. I myself have an anaphylaxis to nuts so I also carry an epipen. Which is why I asked the coworker for hers, because I am trained to use it. I can't tell you how often I've met people who don't take it seriously and tell me I'll be fine with just a little bit of nut or organic nuts. "I have a cousin who's allergic to XYZ but since eating only organic she's fine and she can eat it now." This type of people will say they have allergies and then eat the item later and it leads dumb people to believe allergies are fake.
bulgaria is such an ODD and specific place to make that claim.
Once in Kindergarten I overheard two adults talking. They were concerned about kids drinking from the same cup because of ... AIDS. That day I learned that even adults could be ignorant. I definitely knew that AIDS could only be transmitted through blood and specifically not through spit.
I didn't know about the other way but after hearing about AIDS in the news my (I think) brother assured me that it couldn't be transmitted through spit.
This is how everyone gets mono.
Just now...
"I hear what you're saying, but have you considered losing your convictions and compromising your principles?"
— average politician
Low hanging fruit, but "The next president of the United States is Donald J. Trump". And I heard that shit twice. The second time was definitely the dumber of the two, but the drop off from 2nd to 3rd dumbest thing is about as wide as the known universe. It's cartoonish in its absurdity.
But the dumbest thing I've heard personally from an individual is that unbaptised babies who die go straight to hell. I was told this by a woman who liked to preach Jesus' eternal unconditional love in my town centre. I'm atheist, but by default. Like, I didn't read my way into it or anything, I just completely lack any impulse to believe despite being made to go to Catholic mass every week for 17 years. All that's to say that I don't have particular animosity towards believers, but that kind of believer can suck a dirty dog dick.
Apart from it being insanely unfair to babies - roasting away like a rotisserie chicken without even the consciousness to know what's going on - it's also beyond evil to tell that to believers who've lost children soon after birth due to disease before they even leave the hospital, or have miscarried through no fault of their own, etc. Strangely, I never hear that argument from the anti-abortion religious fanatics. That is, "don't abort the baby, or it'll be sent straight into Satan's Big Green Egg!"
Imagine being Satan, and having a daily influx of humans too young and unformed to even walk when prodded by a demon's pitchfork. Even a supremely evil entity like he's alleged to be would have to wonder just what the fuck is going on with heavenly bureaucracy for this to be the way things are done.
And I guarantee that bitch voted for trump 3 times so far
The thing is, the entire concept of hell (and a "loving" god) starts to break down as soon as you start thinking through scenarios like that. Probably why anti-choice people never use it as an argument.
It honestly makes me think if Hell is real, it is by far the more reasonable place to want to end up. Heaven is only getting the people that not only believe that but think it's good. Hell is getting a shit load of normal people and babies (who grow up in hell...? probably adapt pretty well and can teach us the ropes). Like, sure we get the non-religious terrible people and assholes... But we have those on earth. At least a large chunk of the assholes we normally deal with would be in heaven.
theres also purgatory.
The name sounds worse than the place.
most "media" about hell/heaven is even aethiests/ non believers go to either the 2 realms. evangelicals and ultra-conservative christians sees it as a black and white issue. the first one makes more sense, than 'doing very "christian things""
"Monkeys are brown because they eat bananas. You know how flamingos turn pink because they eat shrimp? Well monkeys eat bananas and bananas turn brown" -two dead ass serious girls I met
"People didn't use crossbows when trying to siege a castle because the bolts fly in a straight line, so they fly over castle walls" -college history professor, about to be surprised gravity existed in the middle ages
Any of trumps speeches.
That or the things his followers say to justify why they follow him.
“Can you find me an outlet that works”, during a building wide power outage. We have critical systems that run on UPS and wanted me to unplug something so their laptop battery didn’t die.
There are multiple /TalesFromIT types of stories of people calling tech support/IT to troubleshoot their computer. They’ll give some vague and unhelpful “my computer isn’t working” description. The help desk tech will answer, and go through several troubleshooting steps before discovering that the computer isn’t even turned on.
When they ask the caller to turn it on, they say that it won’t turn on. Well let’s check the power outlet and make sure it’s plugged in. “Okay hold on I need to get a flashlight. It’s dark in here.” Wait, why is it dark? “Oh, the power is out for the entire block. I called you on my cell phone.”
A teacher in highschool put this up on the screen and told us to read it to ourselves,
"Aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."
Then some bright light in the back of the room asked if that was actually true after fully comprehending what was in front of them.
I just remembered that a former coworker of mine was sure that the real 2020 election results were 80% for Trump.
I remember someone else saying that it's ridiculous how someone can be so smart and believe something so stupid. Because that's the issue: The person who made that claim is objectively a smart person, but he fell into a conspiracy hole of some sort. He was let go from his job because he could not work on our clients' ships because he refused to take the "depopulation shot" (covid vaccine)
funny thing is covid is the depopulation instead of the vaccine.
One of my jobs I was working next to an older man who didn't believe in climate change because "they told us dinosaurs had scales and now they're saying they have feathers!" He also once told me to fix an electrical component by "spraying WD40 on it" as if the electrons just needed some lubrication before they'd start moving again.
Both of those incidents helped me to realize who not to go to for help with that job and shortly afterwards he was let go after having an entire week with no work completed.
Sooooo WD stands for Water Displacer. It isn't a lubricant, it's more of a cleaning agent. It was originally developed to keep Atlas rockets from rusting. WD-40 might fix an electrical component by floating off any water-based electrolyte that might be shorting something out.
Fair enough, that being said the problem in question was with a solenoid where the coil has broken insulation allowing a short to ground. He was instructing me to shoot a bunch of WD-40 into the solenoid housing with the core and spring where there were no electronics.
Okay yeah that's a little dumb. I could maybe see using WD-40 to free up a solenoid that was mechanically stuck but broken insulation says to me replace the part.
Yeah that's exactly the reason I was so baffled by his instructions. I just stared at him and said "but this isn't a mechanical issue, it's an electrical issue" "oh well that's what I do most of the time and usually it works"
Seeing first hand how he couldn't diagnose a basic issue like that and how he just trusted some catch all solution to fix his problems (for that particular part) really connected the dots to why exactly he seemingly didn't trust scientists or the scientific process at all.
Reminds me of the advice you see in classic Macintosh circles; they'll tell you to stick the motherboard in the dishwasher to wash off leaky capacitor sauce.
A coworker got drunk at an office party, telling me "Then I can't drive, so when I ask Caroline from marketing to drive me home, she can't say no. wink, wink
When that predictably failed, he drove home drunk.
That's some Dennis Reynolds type shit
Because of the implications
dennis would slash her tires first. something JESSE watters did hes the IRL dennis reynolds, hes the fox talking head that slashed a female co-workers car tires in order so that the woman would have the only option to ride with the creep home.
“The free market will come up with a solution.”
Most, if not all things our president says and the rubes that believe it after all this time.
More specifically, every thing he says is the dumbest thing i've ever heard, with no end in sight
Stable genius!
I don’t remember. I can’t let things like that live rent free in my head, and people are always upping their game.
"If democrats want to make the vaccine free because it's 'life saving', why come they don't want to make cancer treatment free too???"
This is genuinely incomprehensible.
I may have embellished a bit for my own amusement
Fair point tbh, all medical treatment should be funded with taxes
"Going faster with the car doesnt use more fuel".
Not the very dumbest because i heard lots of dumb stuff to really list it all but this is defenetly up there just like: "Water does take longer to boil with salt". While true, it is so minimal that its not even a second for a regular pot
The Kitchen Nightmares Clip: Cook: "I thought cold water boiled faster than hot water" Gordon Ramsay: "What?"
Maybe he was confused by the fact hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water?
That's not...totally wrong, though? Most cars have a peak efficiency of 40-50mph. So it would use less fuel to get there at 50mph than 25mph
Well that's not strictly untrue... There is going to be an optimal speed, at which the least amount of fuel is being used per distance traveled. And I'm not an expert, but I think the curve is sort of bell shaped.
They probably half remembered something like that.
“Just do something, take action”. On what exactly? “Just something”. That’s not actionable advice, and it’s always driven me crazy that people think they’re being helpful.
united states is a democracy
In a leftist bookstore, talking with the proprietor who has an extensive collection of left-wing labor/union literature, and randomly he starts talking about how Lincoln was the worst president etc. and just launches into lost cause mythology of the Confederacy. Hardest conversational 180 I've ever experienced
When I read the news for the past 17 months or so, I swear it gets dumber every day.
"I dont know. You're the engineer, engineer it" told to me by my boss when I presented the budget for the testing was not adequate for what we wanted and I presented 3 alternatives that were within the buget with their pros and cons asking how we should proceed. The boss in question was not an engineer but a HR manager with an MBA
And thus shouldn't have been making command decisions in an engineering department. Did you inform whatever regulatory board?
It was a private company. I shared it with her boss and documented the witness but nothing came of it
At the zoo, by the meerkat enclosure, I heard a woman ask an employee "what kind of cats are those?"
Meerly kats, ma'am. Just meer kats.
Porcupines are called "quill pigs" in Dutch. I heard "Those aren't pigs!" more than once when I worked at the zoo.
They're not wrong.
Look at all those chickens
Just top of my head I recall a pre Covid conversation between me and some lady in my neighborhood who confidently told me the flu shot wasn’t even worth getting because it doesn’t protect you from the stomach flu…
Some woman walking her ancient beagle and smoking a cigarette I tell her how cute her dog is and I’m wearing a mask. She tells me it’s good I’m wearing a mask to “protect your respiratories” because… they were installing 5G in the area
I’m sure there’s so many more
Oh recently in a car the person driving takes an illegal left, against a red no less, to get on the highway. I tell him it was an asshole move and you don’t get to pick and choose which traffic laws apply to you or not. He then tells me because “no one tried to stop him” it was ok?? I was like what?? Like in your car, like they should have hit you with their car to stop you (reminder it was red so they needed to run a red light to hit him for the purpose of telling him not to run a red light) otherwise it was fine for you to do? And he deadass said “yes”
This sounds like a really effective argument as it's so stupid that it takes all the wind from the sails of the person arguing against you.
That’s essentially what happened so I guess yeah…
Einstein never proved anything and what he said were just stories he made up
“Salt is making a comeback.”
—Mother in law, after a quadruple bypass.
The efficient market hypothesis.
The market will regulate that..
Whatever Donny tweeted most recently.
Israel's right to self-defense
That AI will make jobs.
obselete*That COVID was a plandemic so that states could send people into lockdown, during which they could install 5g. I asked who they were and only got ramblings in return.
believing in FLOURIDE-FREE toothpaste, different brands /off brand ones do the same thing. they dont provide any benefit at all. its a placebo effect if you look at the reviews, and then the ingredients people said they have cleaner whiter teeth, no sht, its because these other toothpastes are highly abrasive thats why they get a clean feeling from it,ends up being more damaging because of its abrasiveness., plus people are confusing ingesting flouride in childhood with flouride use in adulthood. and then comes the complain that thier teeth health dint get any better or they still getting cavaties.
Been telling my family that more expensive toothpaste is just the same shit with literally a different taste for years.
We're still buying the expensive colgate crap instead of the cheap stuff that does the exact same thing... Because they say, quote, "it tastes worse so it must be worse"...
Not liking the taste is a valid reason to not get cheap stuff though
yea, but what pisses me off is that they don't say that. They say better taste = more better overall.
If they just said they like the taste more I'd not mind but they always make shit up man
I hate that 9/10 the only decent bubblegum flavor is Disney branded. Mint toothpaste makes my lips and tongue swell and I have no idea why because mint tea and candy is fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
that is bad, yea you know its too much mint if it causes burning sensation. some can cause ulcers if its too much mint. i developed chronic chelitis because i used some of the ones with lots of mint, or the off brand ones. i assume its the kids branded one of crest?
the new version of the old varieties have a ton of mint. i think its due to shrinkflation from covid. crest pro supposed to be 4.6oz(old) is very hard to find and its like a very plesant taste without the mint, the new one is 4.3, with overpowering mint oil.
i have been considering getting kids version of crest, i might do it this time.
My guess is the food uses real mint but the toothpaste doesn't and you're allergic to the mint substitute.
likely its comes from mint oil they use, oils can be very irritating to the gums. apparently peppermint contains menthol, could be behind the irritation it can cause? apparently spearmint barely contains any menthol. it seems its likely the menthol in pepperminted toothpaste that cause irritation. could not figure out why some off-brand ones are causing it. just checked on some reviews of toothpaste with mint, its mostly the mint+ menthol likely peppermint. since spearmint taste much milder than peppermint (which gives you that fresh cool feeling)
My mom has lichen planus in her mouth and can't use any kind of minty toothpaste.
i think mint comes from the oil they use, i think put a ton of it in the newer version of crest/colgate or another to mask the cheapness of the less effective ingredients. some people says SLS(sodium laurel sulfate/sarscoinate), or CLS causes it. but i think its the mint oil, or abrasives. i get ulcers when i use one of these toothpastes. i use the ones with potassium nitrate(to numb teeth)
colgate and crest is actually cheap. its when you buy the flouride free toothpaste which are different companies or different manufacters. yea alot of its marketing if crest/colgate has more expensive toothpaste, but i do notice a difference between alot of them. the older ones have milder minty taste, less abrasive. "the new shrinkflationed ones" cheaped out on ingredients and add overwhelming amount of mint(which apparently causes that burning sensation in the mouth, and cause allergic reaciton in some people). stannous flouride is the one you want in toothpaste. people dont like colgate or some of the crest pro lines becauses its too abrasive.
Don't worry about a thing. Every little thing gonna be alright.
This is my comment to you.
I want the big things to be alright as well!
Rockabye
Politicans think about their voters.
I had a community college psychology professor who worked in psychiatric research outside of teaching ask the class, "What is the shape of consciousness? What do you think it is?" He put a clever look on his face and his eyes scanned every perplexed student in the room to see if anyone could produce the simple, obvious answer to the question, "What is the shape of consciousness ..."
Finally he broke the suspense and enlightened us all. The shape of consciousness, according to a man who holds a license to practice medicine, is an oval. It's an oval because you have two eyes and therefore your field of vision is elliptical.
This guy is either a Gene Ray or a Jaden Smith follower.
Fuck the blind lmfao
It's okay to eat them because they don't have any feelings.
This happened a while ago. A guy started a war half way across the globe and caused major problems for himself and most of the worlds population. He tried to pretend he won that war, but he didn't. Starting a war for no reason, or worse, to deflect from some embarrassing crimes he committed, is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
A team of American soldiers were wiped out by a huge red haired sasquash in the mountains of Afghanistan.
I would be facinated to hear this one.
It's a creepypasta called the giant of Kandahar:
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Giant_of_Kandahar
One time, I tuned in while I was in the middle of talking and realized how I sound.
"The reason they call them "flu shots" and not "flu vaccines" is because they aren't vaccines."
I'm still reeling. I'm still trying to process how someone that I otherwise respect can say something so phenomenally stupid
some people still believe in the moon landing is faked, subsequently any of the news that reported on spaceflight. i know some asian people that believe this sitll.
Sony is choosing to support Marathon over Destiny 2.
Whatever I said yesterday.
Nowadays, that's a very dynamic list...
Why do we need satellites? when we have eyes to see it ourselves.
I'm amazed by some of the shit that falls out of my own mouth sometimes.
Shit I should have an answer but all I can think about is categories of incompetent communication attempts, aka people that are effectively mute and can't form sentences.
For example, you can figure out from context someone is pro republican, but they say "republicans have got rid of bureaucracy/regulation that holds back businesses" and mean it as a good thing, then get mad when you push back and more mad that they have to justify their statement.
Then there's ass-pulls that lack any supporting logic (not evidence because human brain doesn't require evidence to believe things) then they get mad when there's push back. The example there is a random antivaxxers that decided that deaths from the covid vaccine was underreported by 20 times simple because "it's common for things to being reported by that much", then get furious when I multiply covid deaths by 20 and magically covid deaths are over reported
"I don't accept any mistakes on a forklift. And I expect them even less when you're working forced overtime, because the longer you're operating the forklift at a time the deeper your focus should be"
the vile shitbag warehouse manager who paid a lot of money to repaint all our forklifts just so she could scream at us about the tiniest scuffs.
fuck you Jean, but also thank you for radicalizing me
I don't think I ever encountered anything than most of trumps tweets.
I don't think I can pick the absolute dumbest. I'm sure to forget something. One of the dumbest things I heard recently was in an argument about abortion. A guy was arguing that abortion should be illegal. When asked what he suggests should be the penalty for abortion, he said it wouldn't happen because it would be illegal
All the dumb that I hear just completely outstrips my memory capabilities.
Indigenous people in Canada believe a giant Sasquatch creature called Sabe is real. Really real. Give me a fucking break guys.
E: oh what, you think that indigenous people are special and deserve some kind of kid gloves for their idiotic superstitious beliefs? It's in every culture, stop being racist.
This comic that puts communism in the same boat as sexual orientation, gender and race, as if people are born communist. I thought it was pretty stupid. Other people don't seem to mind it for some reason
https://lemmy.world/post/47411425
EDIT: If you downvote, be cool and leave a comment. Am I not getting something? Is the comic sarcastic? Or are you just a butthurt communist? Or perhaps this is yet another American thing I'm too Eastern European to understand. Lots of Americans seem to think communism is fabulous. But, you know... Americans seem to believe a lot of bullshit, so...
Especially bullshit they've had no contact with. They also like to condescend to people who have had contact with said things. Not a good look. Makes them look really fucking stupid. Kinda like telling an astronaut the earth is flat
And, again, I fucking hate communists piggybacking on progressive issues. You weren't fucking born communist. You made a choice. If you get backlash for it that is entirely your fucking problem
To explain what I see:
This comic isn't saying (or even implying) that people are born communist, at all. The comic isn't even implying that communism is necessarily a good thing. It's saying that the random person clearly thinks that it should be morally acceptable not to love people who express or possess certain traits, while the messiah gave no such qualification. If your god says "love everybody", you don't get to say "but these people worship a different God, so I should get to hate them!"
Love everybody.
The comic makes clear that you can't just claim to be a Christian, then reject one of the few things about which Christ was unequivocal. The ultimate point here is that most modern Christians do not follow the teachings of Jesus. That communism is mentioned is simply because it is a common scapegoat among american conservatives, who overwhelmingly identify as Christians. There has never been a significant communist presence in the united states, but that didn't stop McCarthy from turning people against their neighbours in snipe hunts for the "reds".