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What's something that people believe is possible, but is actually
factually impossible to ever do?
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|u/HaveYouSeenMySpoon - 8 hours
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|A lot of people here seem to be unable to tell the difference between
|factually impossible and highly unlikely.
|u/egotistical_egg - 6 hours
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|My brother telling a woman who developed a rare reaction to a
|medication (~0.5%) that it's "impossible" because it's "too
|unlikely". He met her at a medical facility, and she was only there
|because of the reaction.... Wtf...
|u/MyLife-is-a-diceRoll - 5 hours
|
|I have a very rare complication from a specific surgery that people
|think doesn't exist because it's so rare. I assure you the
|complication causing perimenopause at 30 isn't impossible, just
|rather improbable.
|u/sweetequuscaballus - 2 hours
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|This. Thank you. I got Guillain Barré syndrome, but wouldn't be
|seen by a doc because "it's too unlkely." I kept at it and got
|confirmed ... just outside of the time window then treatment was
|possible. Also - I got Chikungunya, severe case. Told it
|couldn't be that - "it's too unlikely." Confirmed a few weeks
|later.
|u/heckno_whywouldi - 1 hour
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|I feel like at this point you can just start handing doctors a
|card that says "my existence defies your perception of the odds"
|or something. It sucks that you're having to fight for
|recognition from DOCTORS. ffs
|u/Excellent_Read_7020 - 4 hours
|
|We don’t actually know what is and what isn’t possible though,
|impossible to us is only impossible in current times and with human
|comprehensiom
|u/Indocede - 3 hours
|
|You are being downvoted but you're correct. The irony of it is that
|those who agreed with the comment you replied to are perhaps the
|ones who are downvoting you, demonstrating the reality of the
|original comment. Most of us can agree that as individuals, we
|perceive a world around us in which things are apparently true and
|demonstrable, if not to the world around us for certain, at least
|to our perceptions. For example, I take it as a "fact" that there
|is a sun in our sky and it warms the planet because I've perceived
|it for myself and have felt the warmth on my skin when it is there
|and the absence when it's not. And all around me people would
|agree, some of whom I understand to be scientists. But to be
|truly objective I have to consider all possibilities. It is a fact
|only because it is practical to accept it as one. But all facts we
|keep hinge upon the assumption that our perceptions are valid in
|the first place. A dream can seem just as real as a waking moment,
|able to feed us the perceptions of reality without being
|constrained by it. And so in truth, speaking of things as being
|impossible or absolute is merely assumptions on our part. If we
|don't understand the nuance between what is practically absolute
|and truly absolute, we give ourselves no reason to suspect fault on
|our end, which leads to complications like another poster mentioned
|about the side effects of a medication being "impossible" merely
|because they discounted the sliver of a chance that it could be
|possible.
|u/Infrared_Herring - 7 hours
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|Target fat loss to a specific area
|u/goaskalice3 - 6 hours
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|The first thing anyone ever does when you bring them to the gym for
|the first time is point to one specific place that they want to get
|smaller. I get why they think it's a thing, but... Yeah, definitely
|not
|u/ChefArtorias - 6 hours
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|My favorite is when people work the muscle of the corresponding
|area in an attempt to target the fat.
|u/goaskalice3 - 5 hours
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|My friend was so upset back in the day when he started lifting
|and did a ton of abs to get rid of his belly, but the muscle
|growing underneath pushed his fat out so it looked like he had
|even more of a beer belly
|u/WmXVI - 5 hours
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|What's even more wild are the guys that have beer guts but it's
|all visceral fat instead of subcutaneous so their abs sit on
|the fat rather than underneath.
|u/iHaveaQuestionTrans - 4 hours
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|I feel like this is me, unfortunately. It's not even a beer
|gut, I have a sway back and can't afford to fix it and it
|makes me look like I have a beer gut with abs :(
|u/Friendly_Chance_ - 3 hours
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|THATS WHAT THAT IS
|u/junglekf - 4 hours
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|This is me. 60 lbs overweight but still have abs 😂
|u/Zikkan1 - 2 hours
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|From what I have heard that's even worse. It might look like
|you are in better shape since you can perhaps see the abs a
|bit but it is unhealthier than having the fat covering the
|abs. Don't remember where I got this from so feel free to
|correct me if I'm wrong.
|u/SnooMaps9864 - 3 hours
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|This happens so often to women who want an hourglass shape but
|end up looking boxier after doing Russian twists/exercises that
|target the sides of the abs.
|u/Godfunkel - 5 hours
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|New research showing it might be possible but it's such a
|miniscule amount it may as well not make a difference.
|u/ChefArtorias - 5 hours
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|The irony being they would build muscle and actually make the
|area larger.
|u/Pancakewagon26 - 5 hours
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|Depends on their diet
|u/ChefArtorias - 4 hours
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|Now we're just thinking it through too far lol
|u/bilboafromboston - 4 hours
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|To be fair, it is logical to think the body would take the fat
|from the closest place.
|u/Surfing_Ninjas - 3 hours
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|That's the kind of shit they've been putting in magazines for
|decades, I kinda don't blame people since there's so much
|disinformation out there about weight loss and fitness.
|u/MountainMan2_ - 5 hours
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|While you cant target fat loss, you can target muscle growth. Well-
|targeted training can reduce your overall fat while keeping bulk on
|parts of your body that accentuate your frame, thus allowing you to
|appear even less fat through the muscle buildup in the same way a
|vertically striped shirt can make you appear taller. Reducing the
|apparent width of a belly, for example, can be done by focusing on
|pectoral exercises so that those muscles increase in prominence,
|allowing your belly fat stand out less.
|u/goaskalice3 - 5 hours
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|The problem is that while you're first starting to gain muscle,
|the muscle is just growing under the fat, so it makes you look
|even bigger before good change starts happening
|u/canondocreelitist - 4 hours
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|It's all good change if you are exercising, building muscle,
|and not injuring yourself or wearing out your connective tissue
|and frame! But like, that's just my opinion, man.
|u/goaskalice3 - 4 hours
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|No, you're right! I just meant the change they're looking
|for.. slimming down and having visible muscles
|u/Watari210 - 2 hours
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|You missed the entire point of the post you responded to. The
|point is, if you want to make your belly look smaller, don't do
|ab exercises. Do chest exercises, so when your chest gets
|bigger your belly looks smaller by comparison.
|u/GammaTwoPointTwo - 4 hours
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|You also don't lose fat at the gym. The gym is for getting
|stronger. The kitchen is for losing fat. So it's even more
|wrong. There is no workout on earth more powerful than portion
|control or eliminating sugar.
|u/Solid-Rate-309 - 5 hours
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|Genes man, it’s wild. The reality is that fat loss is fairly simple,
|calories in vs calories out. Where fat decides to accumulate and how
|it looks on someone though is entirely determined by genes. The best
|bet all of us have is to build muscle and get lean. That’s it. More
|muscle and less fat equals a better overall physical appearance.
|Obviously it’s subjective and it reaches a point of “too buff” and
|“too lean” but that doesn’t happen on accident and for most people
|that doesn’t happen without performance enhancing drugs.
|u/goentillsundown - 3 hours
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|Calories in vs calories out. Although technically true, the output
|of calories in fat people vs thin people are vastly different and
|not in the way most people think. I can eat 1800kcal per day, and
|not lose any weight while running 10km, while someone else could
|eat 2000kcal per day, run 0km and lose weight. Fat people also once
|becoming their lower target weight will also have more efficient
|metabolisms than their forever fit counterparts. Human body is
|pretty wild.
|u/macabremasterplan - 6 hours
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|That's not impossible if you count cosmetic surgery. I mean it's
|definately impossible to do naturally but I don't think we are
|discussing what's biologically impossible.
|u/rheureddit - 6 hours
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|Fat loss is different from fat removal
|u/NoPossibility5220 - 5 hours
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|Depends on your perspective. If you are having the fat removed
|clinically, you are losing it.
|u/who_you_are - 5 hours
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|I mean, liposuction does that actually Oh, you didn't mean in that
|context... Fine...
|u/LoverboyQQ - 8 hours
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|Perpetual motion
|u/SprayedWithMace - 6 hours
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|In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics.
|u/hovdeisfunny - 6 hours
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|In this house, we do not, and I save hundreds on my energy bills
|u/slower-is-faster - 5 hours
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|Energy companies hate this one trick
|u/Diamante_90 - 4 hours
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|Bypass Energy Company Bill with Infinite Money Hack | 2024 not
|clickbait totally real
|u/detour33 - 5 hours
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|*unleash the power of the sun*
|u/Dataforge - 4 hours
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|Hello mother dear!
|u/lazarus870 - 4 hours
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|Don't dissect your own raincoat!
|u/PMzyox - 4 hours
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|When I start my band, it’s going to be called Perpetual Emotion
|u/BigBrainBrad- - 2 hours
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|the hardest thing about perpetual motion is figuring out where to
|hide the battery.
|u/404_error_official - 4 hours
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|Well, not with that atmosphere you won't.
|u/RockaRaccoon - 4 hours
|
|Ectopic pregnancy can not be saved or reimplanted. The number of people
|who think otherwise is staggering.
|u/Very_Slow_Cheetah - 2 hours
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|I never even thought of it as being saveable or reimplantable, it's
|just one of natures "oops I fucked up" things that hurts people in a
|civilized world or kills them in a toxic world. People actually
|believe its saveable or reimplantable???
|u/reddit_understoodit - 4 hours
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|This is a life threatening situation for the mother and an abortion
|is necessary. Ask your doctor, not your Congressman
|u/WeedIronMoneyNTheUSA - 2 hours
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|1 in 11 pregnancies are ectopic pregnancies. This is why abortions
|are necessary, and Roe should be settled Law.
|u/BLK_0408 - 2 hours
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|This is the first time I hear of this. I refuse to believe someone
|actually believes it... they might pretend to, coz it might suit
|their religious/political/deranged agenda, but they can't possibly
|really believe it.
|u/LilMsAlborotadora - 1 hour
|
|There are people so desperate for a baby they simply want to
|believe it. I saw a woman who refused to give up the baby. It
|wasn’t until the Husband came with her one appointment and my boss
|told him about the likely outcome, that she relented.
|u/LTT82 - 6 hours
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|Be unbiased. Everyone is biased. Even if your bias is only "is this
|something interesting?" you're still biased based upon your interests.
|Bias is a part of life. Bias also doesn't sound like a word to me
|anymore. It also looks weird. Bias.
|u/lethargicmoonlight - 5 hours
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|Same thing with judging. It’s evaluation. Judging is living.
|u/kamtuketu - 3 hours
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|So they lied when they said "we listen but we don't judge"
|u/Very_Slow_Cheetah - 2 hours
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|Should I run across the road before the bus and then reply to this
|person or shoul
|u/MadStylus - 4 hours
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|I remember someone talking about history sources for a youtube video.
|In the end, he had to acknowledge that everyone had a bias whether
|they liked it or not. They came to the conclusion, though, that his
|preference was to deal with sources with a known bias. Because then
|you at least know.
|u/manykeets - 6 hours
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|The word “bias” lost me the spelling bee in 5th grade. I spelled it
|b-y-a-s.
|u/Hy-phen - 5 hours
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|Bias killed my father.
|u/dirtyrick133 - 4 hours
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|I'm Wilford Brimley and I have dia-bias
|u/horschdhorschd - 5 hours
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|My wife had bias once and it was awful.
|u/Funandgeeky - 3 hours
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|A bias bit my sister
|u/manykeets - 5 hours
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|That escalated quickly
|u/MrCrispyFriedChicken - 5 hours
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|What's odd is that technically you could say "bias did x" and
|it could theoretically be argued that it's true in some way.
|u/isleoffurbabies - 4 hours
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|Cocaine killed Bias.
|u/katkriss - 5 hours
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|Missile lost me mine.
|u/StogieMax - 2 hours
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|This is why I always remember the first H in rhythm
|u/gromolko - 2 hours
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|Say Bye to your ass.
|u/Appropriate_Mine - 5 hours
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|>Bias also doesn't sound like a word to me anymore. It also looks
|weird. >Bias. Semantic satiation. Hope you're satisfied.
|u/Evening_Jury_5524 - 5 hours
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|Jamais vu
|u/Dampware - 5 hours
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|You’re showing your bias against us unbiased people. Shame on you.
|u/grandpathundercat - 3 hours
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|I think you misspelled byas.
|u/youassassin - 4 hours
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|I think you’re biased against bias. I think it looks like a perfectly
|unbiased presentable word. Bias. Bias. Bias. Also bias, one could
|argue is just the some of experiences that make your current
|viewpoint. Your bias maybe the true version of events but it’s still
|your bias. Also bias.
|u/universal_constantin - 2 hours
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|Your bias is also fairly set in stone before you are even born. Who
|your parents is, what your society is, your history etc. People
|have way higher opinion of their own ability to have defined their
|opinions and even values than reality.
|u/Apprehensive_Fill513 - 1 hour
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|This message tickled my fancy. I laughed. For a bit. Bias. Lol
|u/Rose1982 - 6 hours
|
|A lot of people think you can cure type 1 diabetes with dietary changes
|and supplements.
|u/orbit99za - 4 hours
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|As a fellow type 1 Insulin dependent Diabetic, this is way to far
|down the list. Don't forget the Cure in 5 years, and to take your
|cinnamon every day. Plus the multitude of "Sientists" in this subject
|because thier aunts , best friends sister has type 2 diabetes, and
|sits all day eating sniper bars while watching TV. I wish they would
|call Type 1 Diabetes a different name, as it's completely unrelated.
|Mellitus Mellitus means, “pleasant tasting, like honey.” Ancient
|Chinese and Japanese physicians noticed dogs were particularly drawn
|to some people’s urine. When the urine was examined, they found the
|urine had a sweet taste. What made the urine sweet were high levels
|of glucose, or sugar. That is how this discovery of sweet urine
|became part of the name, diabetes mellitus. Diabetes The ancient
|Greek word for diabetes means, “passing though; a large discharge of
|urine.” The meaning is associated with frequent urination, which is
|one symptom of diabetes. Both frequent urination and excess sweet
|glucose levels expelled in our urine can be signs of diabetes. Yes
|the ancient form of testing for Type 1 diabetes was a doctor tasting
|your piss. And was a death sentence before the discovery of insulin.
|Oh and you can make whiskey out of a Type 1 Diabetic urine because of
|the high sugar content.
|u/Notyourfreak - 4 hours
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|Add other autoimmune disorders to this. The number of people who’ve
|asked me if I’ve tried changing my diet to cure a serious,
|degenerative disease -_-
|u/orbit99za - 3 hours
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|I agree, I am 38 years old and just discovered in July I have a
|Type of Epilepsy. Nerologist recons I had it since birth, but it
|is frequently misdiagnosed as ADHD Partial Tonic Seazures =
|daydreaming Type things (chat GPT has a lot of further info on
|this) So I went through hell at school, doped up on Ritalin,
|where a simple anti epilepsy pill could have changed my life.
|u/LilMsAlborotadora - 1 hour
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|Same. I have fibromyalgia which my Dr described as (my nervous
|system attacking itself. Because it thinks it’s its own enemy!).
|I also was told by my mom “oh there’s all kinds of trigger foods.
|Here’s a list. Just don’t eat them you’ll be fine.” SMH
|u/Very_Slow_Cheetah - 2 hours
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|Is your gamer name Sweetpiss? And have you made your own phiskey?
|u/FavoritesBot - 1 hour
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|The only cure for type 1 diabetes is type -1 diabetes
|u/BeautifuIMiss - 8 hours
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|No one can actually multitask perfectly, we just switch focus really
|fast, and it’s kinda wild how our brain handles that.
|u/dew2459 - 6 hours
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|There was a paper a few years ago that showed that the people who
|tended to be the worst at multitasking are the same people who
|describe themselves as the best at multitasking. True or not? I
|don’t know, maybe newer studies have debunked it, but as someone who
|hates trying to multitask I have always enjoyed that paper.
|u/xchngboredom4argumnt - 4 hours
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|If you ever want to demonstrate it to someone, have them count to
|26. Time them. Then have them say their abcs, also time them.
|Then make them go a1 b2 c3 and so on…I’ve never had anyone make it
|past F in the same time frame it took for the first 2
|u/pandemonium__ - 4 hours
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|That was a fun exercise, I got to i9 then it was like my brain
|started lagging
|u/Desertbro - 4 hours
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|Need your SS card to complete I-9.
|u/1CEninja - 2 hours
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|It's weird, this doesn't seem like a difficult task, but I slow
|down measurably. Fun brain thing.
|u/jcts0407 - 2 hours
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|I did it without any problems... Except my last letter/number
|was Z24 lmao
|u/wreckoning - 3 hours
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|fun exercise! I got to Z. It was probably 4x slower. which is not
|bad considering twice the data !!
|u/Prairiegirl321 - 4 hours
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|MythBusters did an episode on multitasking. They picked some guy
|who thought he excelled at it and whose whole family said how great
|he was at it. He was hilariously bad at it, as in, couldn’t do it
|at all for even five seconds.
|u/MrStrype - 7 hours
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|But I can chew gum and walk at the same time?
|u/MitsuSosa - 6 hours
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|Chewing gum isn’t as much a task as it is an action, one that can
|be performed with incredibly little thought.
|u/Fancy_Pens - 5 hours
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|I use my bonus action to chew TWO different pieces of gum while I
|walk
|u/MrStrype - 6 hours
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|Ok...I can also cook and sing at the same time.
|u/AegisToast - 5 hours
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|Those of us who have tried your food would debate that.
|u/ukpunjabivixen - 4 hours
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|Or…..the food is amazing but the singing is terrible (sorry
|OP!)
|u/Don_Thuglayo - 2 hours
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|This and the other comment roasting the cooking op got
|cooked 😂
|u/MrStrype - 5 hours
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|lol hey! I'm actually a good cook lol
|u/themightygazelle - 5 hours
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|I can strum my guitar with one hand, fret the notes with my other
|hand all while singing at the same time all while listening along to
|the rest of the music. Is that not multitasking?
|u/Hbakes - 5 hours
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|This was my immediate thought too, or a pianist being able to play
|wildly different things with both hands simultaneously.
|u/Gernahaun - 5 hours
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|So, the accepted theory is, very simplified: The brain has a
|certain amount of bandwidth and can really only focus on one
|thing at the time consciously. But there ARE tasks you can
|automate and then perform more or less without conscious effort.
|Like what chord to play, knitting, etc. That's how you can do
|more than one thing, or complex tasks, at once. You only have so
|much "attention", but can point it on other things.
|u/wittor - 5 hours
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|You play guitar as you sing, but that is not as much multitasking
|as an ability that you learn that can be divided into simple
|unities that can be learned separately, but they are integrated
|into a level a that makes them one activity to you. Try to pair one
|of those tasks with something else that you didn't trained along it
|and see how the difficulties doing it increase. Maybe read a unknow
|lyric while you sing and play.
|u/314159265358979326 - 3 hours
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|No. Multitasking involves paying attention to two tasks at once.
|All of what you're describing is a single task with multiple
|facets, most of which are already second nature and don't need any
|attention at all.
|u/iceeice3 - 6 hours
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|[oh?](https://youtu.be/aTbuIFmCjrE?si=pEd4saDONOBxltW6)
|u/mitchade - 7 hours
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|And 90% of us are really bad at it.
|u/poop_to_live - 5 hours
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|So are the other 10% When employers say multitasking, they mean
|task switching. Literal multitasking, doing two or more tasks
|simultaneously, will lead to mistakes or less efficiency or both.
|u/AdExcellent4541 - 5 hours
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|I follow this dude on Instagram who can ski and juggle bowling pins
|at the same time. And he skis very well. When people say multi
|tasking is impossible I show them this.
|u/DoomedToDefenestrate - 5 hours
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|Ski juggling is a single task
|u/RandomPenquin1337 - 5 hours
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|Yea, i bet he can't do it while swimming!
|u/wittor - 5 hours
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|Besides the admitted complexity of the feat, he most probably
|learned to juggle bowling pins while skying as one ability, even if
|he learn one after another, he has integrated the two in one
|physical task he does simultaneously, not by dividing his mind
|between juggling and skying.
|u/Trobertsxc - 5 hours
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|Depends on your definition. I'd definitely consider guitar/piano
|multitasking with each hand serving completely different purposes.
|Even though it eventually feels like 1 task meshed together, and
|technically is
|u/Guuhatsu - 5 hours
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|I read somewhere that there is a statistically low percentage
|(checked on Google: 2% "supertaskers") of people who can indeed
|multitask.
|u/kurosen - 5 hours
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|This is factually incorrect. I can intentionally close one eye while
|jumping up and down while patting my head with my hand, while doing
|math equations in my mind and speaking those equations as I'm doing
|them... all at the same time. That's not to mention all the
|involuntary tasks my body is doing simultaneously as well.
|u/MyLife-is-a-diceRoll - 5 hours
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|involuntary doesn't count.
|u/MrCrispyFriedChicken - 5 hours
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|Notice that the commenter said "perfectly." Not to mention that
|most of those are actions, not tasks. Actions require much less
|active thinking and more muscle memory and/or concentration, which
|is different from multitasking. No one's saying that you can't
|multitask, but perfect multitasking *is* impossible.
|u/SophSimpl - 5 hours
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|Depends on how you want to define "multitask". The body absolutely
|can multitask in general. Have you also heard about the experiments
|of separating the left and right hemispheres from each other? People
|saying one thing while drawing another. We don't have one single
|voice, but rather that's the loudest or most dominant one at the
|time.
|u/Cultural_Elephant_73 - 5 hours
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|No one can do anything ‘perfectly’. This isn’t an answer to the
|question at all. Multitasking is nebulous and ‘perfection’ is
|subjective. Besides. Plenty of people are great at it. Nothing about
|your answer is ‘factually impossible’.
|u/Previous-Broccoli-88 - 9 hours
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|6% of people think they can take a bear in a fight.
|u/AHungryGorilla - 8 hours
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|You can beat a black bear in a fight assuming getting it to run away
|counts as a win.
|u/ClusterMakeLove - 6 hours
|
|Yeah. The whole idea that they're killing machines is a bit off.
|Like, they're unpredictable wild animals, but if you make a loud
|weird noise, there are decent odds they're going to run away and
|find some berries to eat. Ungulates are statistically more
|dangerous.
|u/MrCrispyFriedChicken - 5 hours
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|Right??? People underestimate how much a cow can fuck you up.
|u/Magerimoje - 5 hours
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|Or a moose. They're SO HUGE 🫎
|u/javerthugo - 4 hours
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|A møøse ønce bit my sister
|u/Patient_Yam4747 - 4 hours
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|My sister was bit by a moose.
|u/iSo_Cold - 3 hours
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|I know it wasn't. But I swear I saw a video of a moose just
|turbo-jetting across water like physics doesn't apply to
|meeses. Edit: meese*
|u/I_AM_AN_ASSHOLE_AMA - 3 hours
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|I've lived in bear country most of my life. Black bears are more
|skittish than a teenage girl in dodgeball. Every once in a while
|though, they'll attack though. Don't corner one. Grizzlies are
|50/50. Some times they could give a rats ass about you and think
|you smell funny. Other times they'll kill just to see if they
|can. Polar bears. We don't fuck with polar bears. Ever. The
|meanest animal though? Moose
|u/Previous-Broccoli-88 - 5 hours
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|In my mind, fight means both of you go into a room, one of you
|comes out. But in the wild, making it run away would count as a win
|in my book. So idk
|u/BloodReyvyn - 7 hours
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|I could 100% fight a bear. I would also 100% get eaten by said bear.
|u/Imightbeafanofthis - 9 hours
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|I bet 0% of them have verified it.
|u/AdjunctFunktopus - 7 hours
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|What kind of bear? Cause I have verified that I can fuck up some
|gummy bears.
|u/wanderernz - 7 hours
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|Haribo has entered the chat
|u/CDimmitt - 7 hours
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|Sugar free?
|u/Roro_Yurboat - 7 hours
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|Nobody wins against sugar free gummy bears.
|u/Imajica0921 - 5 hours
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|The toilet paper companies maybe.
|u/wouldhavebeencool - 6 hours
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|One of the things growing up is you learn from your mistakes.
|Sugar free gummy bears is up there for me
|u/poser765 - 5 hours
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|Fuck that… I’ve got IBS. I’m going to take the win mostly
|because losing causes rheumatoid arthritis same thing as not
|even playing.
|u/just2play714 - 2 hours
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|And teddy bears
|u/mtabacco31 - 9 hours
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|Those that have are not talking about the outcome.
|u/TomDuhamel - 6 hours
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|Those who did did not partake in the survey
|u/curlyquinn02 - 5 hours
|
|Are we talking about wild animal bears or the gay and hairy type of
|bears?
|u/Imightbeafanofthis - 4 hours
|
|Excellent question!
|u/rocketsnail1000 - 8 hours
|
|What if I have that dawg in me?
|u/Substantial_Load6047 - 5 hours
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|If I saw you fighting a bear I’d help the bear
|u/SeaEmergency7911 - 3 hours
|
|Doesn’t matter because it has that bear in them.
|u/jaysaccount1772 - 8 hours
|
|People have killed bears before without weapons, it's just extremely
|unlikely.
|u/Desertbro - 4 hours
|
|Yeah, a forest fire isn't really fighting fair.
|u/GlueSniffingCat - 7 hours
|
|Idk man, you can but not fairly. A fur trapper once got mauled by a
|bear and killed it with a united cutlery knife and sent a letter to
|the company. Which is why it's called a Ka-Bar which is believed to
|be an acronym for kill a bear.
|u/just_kill_me_pls - 5 hours
|
|While it sounds like you just pulled this out of your ass, I choose
|to believe you and will not fact check this.
|u/MyLife-is-a-diceRoll - 5 hours
|
|it's a real thing. The originator of the KA-BAR trademark,
|Union Cutlery Co, began using the name in 1923,[24] having
|received a letter from a fur trapper who had used the knife to
|kill a wounded bear which attacked him when his rifle jammed. h
|ttps://web.archive.org/web/20110205182610/https://www.kabar.com/n
|ame.jsp
|u/just_kill_me_pls - 5 hours
|
|..... because I know someone will do it for me.
|u/MissKhary - 7 hours
|
|[John West](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP92j-uEnps) can fight a
|bear.
|u/Cultural_Elephant_73 - 5 hours
|
|Plenty of people have won a bear fight. Most people lose. But it is
|not factually impossible.
|u/Previous-Broccoli-88 - 5 hours
|
|I think parameters are important, bear size, weapons or no weapons,
|do I have to kill the bear or just get it to fuck off. Abcxyz, it
|was just something that popped into my head when I read the title.
|u/Notorious_DCJ4390 - 4 hours
|
|None of those things are important lol. The question is it
|impossible to win a fight against a bear and the answer is no,
|it's not even close to impossible
|u/Various-Ducks - 8 hours
|
|6% of people think itd be funny to say that on a survey
|u/DongLaiCha - 5 hours
|
|I mean, 6% of people are genuinely statistically very fucking
|stupid
|u/stu-padazo - 8 hours
|
|Maybe for some John West salmon.
|u/Brian_The_Bar-Brian - 8 hours
|
|I've scarred off a bear by waving my hands and yelling at it. Does
|that count? 🤔🥴
|u/Away_You1492 - 6 hours
|
|If you did that to Mike Tyson it would count as a win.
|u/Brian_The_Bar-Brian - 6 hours
|
|I'm not entirely sure. It's not like I kicked the bear's ass or
|anything. I just acted crazy and he bolted. 🤷♂️
|u/RobotFloyd - 5 hours
|
|“Ok, I don’t know what the fuck is going on over there but I’m
|outta here” - that bear
|u/CommishBressler - 5 hours
|
|2 questions: 1) would I get $20 million? 2) do I have to show my
|ass on Netflix? (I’m ok with that I just need to know)
|u/No-Question-4957 - 9 hours
|
|Your should say "bear handed" because I assure you my 30/06 can take
|a bear in a fight. With my hands? Fuck no , I'm heading home.
|u/DoTheRustle - 8 hours
|
|30/06 + some good distance If that bear closes the gap, it's over.
|u/captaintrips_1980 - 6 hours
|
|I wish those people would try. Thin the herd a little.
|u/314159265358979326 - 5 hours
|
|My mom's childhood friend fought a grizzly with a knife to protect
|his fiancee, walked 12 miles to his car, and lived to tell the tale.
|18ish surgeries later, he got a medal from the Queen and married his
|fiancee.
|u/Previous-Broccoli-88 - 5 hours
|
|Damn, dudes doing all the quests 😆 that's really cool.
|u/TheOtherJohnson - 9 hours
|
|Homophobic bastards
|u/Arkdirfe - 5 hours
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|The same 6% would probably get folded by twinks twice over.
|u/sailaway4269now - 6 hours
|
|Teddy bear maybe on a good day
|u/ggouge - 6 hours
|
|What kind of bear and is it a baby?
|u/TartGoji - 9 hours
|
|There was that guy in Bosnia who did it a few years ago. Ended up
|beheading it with an axe.
|u/JackSpadesSI - 5 hours
|
|I’m pretty sure a panda bear would just sit there and take the
|beating. Perhaps it would try to slowly roll away if you really went
|nuts but that’s about it.
|u/Dontbeajerkdude - 6 hours
|
|An alarming number of women also seem to trust bears.
|u/buffystakeded - 6 hours
|
|No, but after last night, I think I could take Mike Tyson in a fight.
|u/CuriousTsukihime - 9 hours
|
|I’ve met enough people across the US who believe this, but CA is NOT
|sinking into the ocean after an earthquake. Thats not how plate
|tectonics work 🫠
|u/LAH_yohROHnah - 8 hours
|
|You have to understand, those of us in our 40’s were taught-
|California will one day break off and sink due to earthquakes, Pluto
|is a planet, it is illegal to drive with your inside lights on, and
|that your blood is actually blue until you cut yourself. It’s not our
|fault we were raised stupid lol
|u/John_Hunyadi - 8 hours
|
|I am mid 30s and I was taught the ‘car lights illegal’ thing too.
| I hadn’t thought about that in years. Was that our parents’ way
|of making us keep the lights off but not wanting to take the blame?
| I guess its irrelevant now, phones are well lit vs the books I was
|reading as a kid and the hard to see Gameboy screen.
|u/Jabbles22 - 6 hours
|
|My parents just told us that it was annoying and made it hard to
|see.
|u/LAH_yohROHnah - 8 hours
|
|I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t actually know if it’s illegal or
|not lol. I’ve been conditioned to this day to believe it is
|u/gnirpss - 7 hours
|
|It's not illegal lol. It can make it harder for the driver to
|see through the windshield, which is why some parents tell
|their kids that turning on the lights isn't allowed while
|driving.
|u/MethodNo4625 - 4 hours
|
|I was told that if you had the light in too long, cops would
|pull you over for doing drugs.
|u/yerfriendken - 8 hours
|
|Add to that anything about swallowing your tongue
|u/LAH_yohROHnah - 8 hours
|
|If you swallowed gum it stayed in your stomach for 7 years. And
|also, if you made a funny face and the wind blowed, it would stay
|like that forever. Our parents were cruel!
|u/RobotFloyd - 5 hours
|
|Those of us who are in our 50’s learned the same things. Although I
|don’t care what anyone says, Pluto is a planet.
|u/My_Own_Worst_Friend - 5 hours
|
|I'm not even 30 yet and I was taught those same things. Pluto is
|still a planet to me and always will be.
|u/Imustbestopped8732 - 5 hours
|
|Don’t forget if you eat a watermelon seed it will grow in your
|stomach.
|u/Lesserred - 7 hours
|
|The only reason Pluto isn’t a planet anymore is because someone
|high up got nit-picky about it’s classification.
|u/KeepBanningKeepJoin - 7 hours
|
|No, it's because weve found bodies in our solar system in orbit
|that are even larger than Pluto. If Pluto were to be a planet
|then there would be even more. 10, 11, 12....
|u/Lesserred - 6 hours
|
|And…? How does that negate what I said, if anything it proves
|my point. Instead of adding newfound planets, they demoted
|Pluto because they got nitpicky about the classification.
|u/Right_Moose_6276 - 6 hours
|
|One of the requirements for a planet, as defined by the
|International Astronomical Union (the leading authority in
|naming and defining celestial bodies) is that it has cleared
|its orbit of major debris. What specifically consists major
|debris is a source of arguments, but several celestial bodies
|bigger than Pluto have been found in the asteroid belt, which
|is about as far as you can physically get from a clear
|orbital path
|u/KeepBanningKeepJoin - 5 hours
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|It wasn't nitpicky. There was a good reason
|u/Mikeavelli - 6 hours
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|Pluto is still legally a planet in New Mexico.
|u/BigGingerYeti - 9 hours
|
|So why was it in that Superman movie then? If it's in a movie it's
|got to be real.
|u/DStew713 - 8 hours
|
|And if California slides into the ocean, like the mystics and
|statistics say it will. I predict this motel will be standing until I
|pay my bill.
|u/Resident_Bitch - 6 hours
|
|R.I.P. Warren Zevon
|u/hazmatt24 - 5 hours
|
|It isn't sinking, but isn't the Pacific plate rotating
|counterclockwise? Meaning that eventuality the parts of California
|west of the fault lines would eventually end up near modern-day
|Japan? It's been a minute (or 27 years] since I took a geography
|class, but that seems to be one of the only things I remember from
|that class, but I also could be mis-remembering cause I was smoking
|a lot of Mexican dirt weed then.
|u/drdildamesh - 7 hours
|
|Yeah if anything we are getting higher because of the subduction
|zones in the pacific.
|u/SlapDatBassBro - 9 hours
|
|Time travel into the past. Science suggests that travelling into the
|future is technically possible, but going back in time is not.
|u/iamintheforest - 9 hours
|
|I'm travelling forward at 1 hour per hour.
|u/dirty_nibs - 9 hours
|
|relatively
|u/iamintheforest - 8 hours
|
|Absolutely!
|u/Captain_-H - 5 hours
|
|I can also travel through space
|u/iamintheforest - 3 hours
|
|We should team up for some totally normal stuff.
|u/universal_constantin - 2 hours
|
|You aren’t actually. Only relative to yourself. There is no
|“universal time”. GPS satellites for example don’t move forward in
|time at 1 hour per hour
|u/DStew713 - 8 hours
|
|What do we want? Time travel! When do we want it? That’s irrelevant.
|u/SlapDatBassBro - 8 hours
|
|_Wibbly wobbly, timey wimey_
|u/SilentJelly6737 - 8 hours
|
|So you can’t visit the future, you can only go to the future.
|Interesting.
|u/Generoh - 5 hours
|
|They made a Disney movie about it
|u/RandomPenquin1337 - 5 hours
|
|Because I been to the year 3000, not much has changed but they
|live underwater.
|u/MrStrype - 7 hours
|
|As a truck driver, I go back and forth through time quite often...one
|hour at a time.
|u/SlapDatBassBro - 7 hours
|
|Fair play… you got me there.
|u/dave200204 - 4 hours
|
|Every time I come home from Korea I arrive before I take off.
|u/Valnaire - 9 hours
|
|I think it's very likely impossible. But who knows? We could break
|into some weird section of science we aren't even capable of
|conceiving right now, the possibilities are literally endless.
|u/TatteredCarcosa - 6 hours
|
|But if it was possible, people would travel back and we would see
|that. The fact they haven't seems to pretty clearly indicate it is
|impossible. Either that or by the time it exists humans have
|evolved to the point they are smart enough not to use it.
|u/Imajica0921 - 5 hours
|
|I think it was Hawking that had a fully catered party for time
|travelers. He announced it afterwards.
|u/SwordAvoidance - 5 hours
|
|Maybe they didn’t come cuz of the Epstein thing
|u/J3sush8sm3 - 4 hours
|
|Based time travellers
|u/OnTheList-YouTube - 5 hours
|
|Yep indeed
|u/theabominablewonder - 5 hours
|
|If someone travelled back in time they’d end up in the middle of
|space as the position of the planets is forever changing. Maybe
|it’s possible but not in a way that would be useful.
|u/TatteredCarcosa - 3 hours
|
|Eh, if you can travel in time then traveling in space and
|figuring out the relative position of the planet would be
|relatively trivial.
|u/Desertbro - 3 hours
|
|You're ignoring the Central Finite Curve - you couldn't escape
|this wacky universe if you were the smartest Morty ever.
|u/electrogeek8086 - 6 hours
|
|You clearly haven't seen back to the future.
|u/I_Made_it_All_Up - 5 hours
|
|Unless time travel is only possible from the point time travel
|was invented?
|u/AlfonsoHorteber - 5 hours
|
|We’re in the original timeline and once people start traveling
|back we’ll get zapped out of existence and replaced with the new,
|altered timeline with time travelers. Duh.
|u/Valnaire - 5 hours
|
|There are other possibilities. It could be that time is less
|like a linear line, or even a branching web, and more like an
|overlapping spiral. We could be the original timeline, but once
|we unlock the secrets of time travel, we begin to overlap on top
|of previous history, something that's only possible *because* of
|that previous history. Or, who knows, timey wimey stuff.
|u/thatguy752 - 5 hours
|
|Would we see it? Theoretically if someone travels back in time
|and changes the past we would perceive it as always being that
|way. For all we know the past has been changed multiple times!
|u/AegisToast - 5 hours
|
|Or this particular point in time isn’t interesting enough or
|relevant enough for people that invent time travel to care about
|visiting.
|u/shadowsOfMyPantomime - 8 hours
|
|Like the new York times publishing an article saying that human
|flight would take at least a million years to be feasible, like a
|week before the first airplane flight. I personally don't see
|how time travel could ever be realistic, but honestly what do we
|know?
|u/toolatealreadyfapped - 6 hours
|
|There's a universe of difference between "we don't have the
|technology for that yet" and "the laws of physics preclude that
|from being even theoretically possible." Is it possible to land
|a man on Pluto? Absolutely. Not in my lifetime of course. Not by
|a long shot. With our current rocket program, that trip would
|take just shy of 140 years. (Based on the rockets we would use to
|send a man to the moon. Less time if we assume some gravity
|assist to slingshot us faster). It's unrealistic, but possible.
|Eventually... But time travel literally breaks causality itself.
|It's faster than light travel. This isn't learning new
|technology, or refining science. It rips science apart so hard
|that universal constants become arbitrary. It's manifestation of
|energy from nothing, and bending reality like we were gods and
|the universe is nothing but a child's toy. Technological
|advancement gives us airplanes. Time travel is more like saying,
|"fuck aerodynamics. Just will yourself into the air like
|Superman."
|u/realmadrid2727 - 4 hours
|
|The key here is “the laws of physics _as best as we know at the
|moment_ preclude that”. We know things right now at this point
|in our evolution that we didn’t know 1,000 or 50,000 years ago.
|A hunter gatherer in some grassland 28,613 years ago had
|nowhere near a concept of a quark and how it reacted with
|gluons, and if you told them you could speak to a machine made
|of sand and lightning and it would explain that concept to them
|with pictures, they’d think you’re absolutely insane because
|it’s impossible for sand to talk. Our current model of
|understanding reality is what it is right now. None of us have
|any way of knowing what that model will look like 50 millennia
|from now.
|u/amerovingian - 5 hours
|
|Yeah there's no physics "law of causality". Spacetime can be
|warped and bent. Wormholes can conceivably be formed which put
|two separate places and times directly next to each other like
|a folded piece of fabric. No one knows how to do this yet but
|that doesn't mean no one ever will.
|u/HaveYouSeenMySpoon - 8 hours
|
|Sure but what the other person means is that lots of people have
|heard about wormholes and how it could allow time travel. But the
|scientific theory behind wormholes (Einstein-Rosen bridges) is a
|mathematical formula trying to calculate the spacial geometry of a
|black hole. Many people think this theory allows time travel using
|a wormhole, but that's only half correct because the theory still
|only allows time travel in the forward direction.
|u/SlapDatBassBro - 8 hours
|
|I’m open to accept it’s a possibility, theoretically, and/or
|practically. Who knows what consequences come with that though? The
|past is not something that should be fucked with, especially if
|it’s not understood.
|u/curlyfat - 8 hours
|
|In any case, if we were able to travel back in time, we wouldn’t
|be able to travel back forward into the same existence. It would
|have to be a different timeline because any existence in the past
|would change the future. I suppose a science phenomenon might
|become known that would allow us to view the past without
|existing in it, but somehow that seems even less likely.
|u/SlapDatBassBro - 8 hours
|
|Weirdly enough, I think I understand the point you’re making
|here. If someone who travelled back into the past, making even
|the smallest change, triggering the butterfly effect, returning
|to the present time would not be the same reality they left,
|suggesting that the multiverse theory is a very real thing.
|u/curlyfat - 8 hours
|
|Exactly! Time travel is one of my favorite “thought
|experiments” when I can’t sleep.
|u/Pancakefan16 - 7 hours
|
|Wdym? I drank so much kool-aid last night at my buddy Angel’s house,
|I saw Alexander the Great.
|u/Sorrengard - 7 hours
|
|so.. as i understand it, theoretically it would be possible. But
|universal physics prevents it. Time is relative to your speed in the
|universe. As you approach C your relative time slows until it
|basically stops. If you were to somehow go faster than C your time
|should theoretically begin to reverse. The problem is that for any
|object with mass to reach the speed of light it would take infinite
|energy. And you can’t have MORE than infinite energy to go even
|faster than the speed of light. So physically it’s impossible.
|However, if we could find a way to “go faster than the speed of
|light” without actually accelerating in a traditional manner. One day
|a thousand years from now when we can quantum tunnel through the
|fabric of the universe maybe? But that’s just scifi nonsense at this
|point. I’ve heard the best argument against the possibility of time
|travel is the fact that we haven’t met any time travelers. But I’d
|argue the future doesn’t exist yet. The universe would have to play
|out to the point where time travel is invented before we could begin
|to reverse time.
|u/metametapraxis - 5 hours
|
|No, it is theoretically impossible because the theory says
|accelerating to or past C is impossible. Anything can be
|considered theoretically possible if you throw away the rules.
|u/betterthanamaster - 4 hours
|
|Only if you accelerate to the speed of light or beyond. And it’s
|only a theory. It’s a good theory, with good evidence, but my
|father-in-law science teacher has said before that while it’s
|almost impossible to go faster than the speed of light…it doesn’t
|mean we can’t manipulate the speed of light (since we know, for
|example, that things like black holes can bend light). And it
|doesn’t mean we won’t be able to stretch or shrink space itself,
|which would allow for it to exist. If humans invented a
|technology that could create a miniature black hole, it could
|possibly be able to manipulate time itself and allow for humans
|to go backward or forward in time. The biggest reason for time
|travel not existing yet, if it could exist, is because as far as
|we know, it has not been invented yet. A considerable constraint
|to time travel would be weather or not you can return to your
|point of origin. So it is conceivable that time travel might be
|“forced” either by technological limits or universe limits to
|only operate within periods where humans have invented time
|travel. So if time travel exists tomorrow, then a hundred years
|from now, scientists can trace a hundred years in the past to
|yesterday to study it, but no further.
|u/love-unite-rebuild - 4 hours
|
|This just made me laugh xD “theoretically its possible if
|physics doesnt exist”
|u/metametapraxis - 4 hours
|
|Yeah, "if I ignore the theory and replace it with a completely
|different one, it is theoretically possible"
|u/DrHToothrot - 5 hours
|
|But also... you require infinite energy due to your infinite mass
|as you approach light speed. How is your infinitely fat ass gonna
|fit in a time machine?
|u/AegisToast - 5 hours
|
|> The problem is that for any object with mass to reach the speed
|of light it would take infinite energy. And you can’t have MORE
|than infinite energy to go even faster than the speed of light. So
|physically it’s impossible. However, if we could find a way to “go
|faster than the speed of light” without actually accelerating in a
|traditional manner. That’s not quite right. It’s not that it’s
|impossible to go faster than the speed of light because we don’t
|have enough energy to get to those speeds. It’s impossible because
|the speed of light is a constant. It’s 186,000 miles per second
|regardless of your frame of reference. So if you, sitting in your
|chair, turn on a flashlight, the light moves away from you at
|186,000 miles per second. Let’s say your friend is standing next to
|you when you do it, and somehow, right when you turn on the
|flashlight, starts running away from you at 186,000 miles per
|second. From your friend’s perspective, the light is still moving
|at 186,000 miles per second. Effectively, there’s no way to get to
|the speed of light because it’s always 186,000 miles per second
|faster than you. Again, it’s a constant regardless of your frame of
|reference or velocity. It kind of breaks my brain to think about,
|but that’s how it works.
|u/mitchade - 7 hours
|
|You’d also need to figure out teleportation to make it feasible, as
|we are constantly moving through space.
|u/candygram4mongo - 7 hours
|
|That's not actually super clear -- there are
|[models](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_metric) or
|general relativity where retrograde time travel is possible.
|u/astroprof - 5 hours
|
|Life is already only forward minute by minute. GR allows for ways to
|“fast forward” that rate, but not skip to the future. And there isn’t
|a rewind button (unless some exotic worm hole type idea turns out to
|be real).
|u/299792458mps- - 8 hours
|
|I think time travel will be possible, just not in the sense that most
|people believe. I don't think we will be able to physically transport
|our bodies forward or backward to a specific point in time and be
|able to interact with the world. However, I do think sufficiently
|developed AI will be able to flawlessly render the past in 3D, and
|will be able to predict the future with high levels of accuracy. So
|you could essentially experience different times in a way that would
|be indistinguishable from reality, though they would just be very
|good simulations at the end of the day.
|u/SlapDatBassBro - 8 hours
|
|Interesting take. I would root for this, personally. If time
|travel into the past were technically possible, I would rally
|behind this so hard. People could experience/live through snapshots
|of the past, in a controlled, safe environment without the risk of
|fucking up the timelines.
|u/kempnelms - 5 hours
|
|So...holodecks?
|u/brettrob - 7 hours
|
|Wow ! What an amazing concept. You’ve just made my brain explode.
|u/Magnetronaap - 3 hours
|
|Sounds like you're only going to get the hollywood version that's
|full of the biases, perceptions and whatnot from whoever trained
|that AI. No way there's enough data to correctly render 1700s
|Portugal, for example.
|u/SoraUsagi - 7 hours
|
|Right. If time travel was possible, we'd already have seen it's
|influences.
|u/Jay-Moah - 6 hours
|
|How’d we know its influences?
|u/Mikeavelli - 6 hours
|
|We wouldn't have shot that Gorilla.
|u/kempnelms - 5 hours
|
|Maybe the guy who shot the gorilla came back in time to prevent
|a Planet of the Apes situation by killing the ancestor of the
|future ape overlords.
|u/DiggingThisAir - 6 hours
|
|How would you know the difference?
|u/DemonGroover - 7 hours
|
|I agree traveling will be impossible but technically you can see into
|the past - if we can somehow travel through a wormhole to 2000ly away
|then somehow look back on Earth we will see Earth as it was 2000
|years ago. Thats a lot of somehows though.
|u/Key_Telephone_3299 - 5 hours
|
|That's gonna need a pretty impressive pair of binoculars.
|u/SanguineOptimist - 4 hours
|
|Predict aspects of someone’s personality or future based on what
|constellations were visible in the sky at the time of their birth.
|u/CNWDI_Sigma_1 - 2 hours
|
|It is possible to do it based on your history of social network
|posts, however.
|u/Very_Slow_Cheetah - 2 hours
|
|Spoken like a true Aquarius :P /s
|u/Deep_End4452 - 8 hours
|
|Believing you can fold a fitted sheet perfectly every time. It’s a
|conspiracy theory at this point. 🤯🛏️
|u/BigGrayBeast - 8 hours
|
|Or rolling up a tent or sleeping bag as tight as it came from the
|store.
|u/BloodReyvyn - 7 hours
|
|Sleeping bag is a fool's errand, but I can definitely get a tent
|back in its bag. It just takes a LOT of work and is more worth it
|to buy a larger bag and put the tent in that. It's also going to be
|a better bag anyway.
|u/riktigtmaxat - 3 hours
|
|There is also the aspect that folding the tent neatly creates
|stress points from being repeatedly folded. Good tents come with
|a bag suited for reality.
|u/299792458mps- - 8 hours
|
|The trick with sleeping bags is to not even try rolling them. Just
|stuff them hand over hand into the sack and sinch the straps down
|as tight as they'll go. Tents are fucked though.
|u/Dysan27 - 3 hours
|
|There is a reason it's called a stuff sack.
|u/staszekstraszek - 3 hours
|
|Three are differeent types of sleeping bags. Some can be pushed
|hand by hand while others cannot and must be rolled first
|u/bluecheetos - 8 hours
|
|I fought to get my tent back into the bag for years before a friend
|showed me the bag had an easy to remove seam that opened up to make
|the bag two inches larger so it slips right in now.
|u/manykeets - 6 hours
|
|I saw a video of them rolling them in the factory, and they have a
|special machine that rolls them really tight
|u/BigGrayBeast - 5 hours
|
|I knew it. Setting us to fail in front of our kids.
|u/Skorpion_Snugs - 5 hours
|
|That sleeping bag will do what the fuck I tell it to do, and I’m
|not taking arguments from it
|u/Impossibleish - 6 hours
|
|Use the finger-point corner method
|u/KP_Wrath - 7 hours
|
|Straight from dryer to bed. Fuck that noise.
|u/knownmagic - 3 hours
|
|Well this confirms my suspicions that I do not actually exist
|u/AegisToast - 5 hours
|
|Perpetual motion. It seems like everyone hits a point in their life
|where they’re convinced that if you had some kind of wheel and
|positioned magnets *just* so, it could spin forever and/or generate
|electricity. Nope. Never going to happen. It is literally impossible
|based on our current understanding of physics.
|u/betterthanamaster - 4 hours
|
|If we had truly frictionless materials, it is possible to create an
|engine that is 100% efficient. What is less possible, and probably
|impossible, is for that engine to operate at 100% efficiency for
|ever. Even frictionless components would eventually wear out or
|malfunction. As it is now, however, I don’t see how that would ever
|work.
|u/AegisToast - 3 hours
|
|You’re ignoring air resistance. Also, if your parts are wearing
|out, it’s due to friction of some kind. That’s literally what wear
|is: the accumulation of tiny little bits of damage caused by two
|things rubbing against each other or colliding.
|u/Prasiatko - 2 hours
|
|An engine implies it would be doing useful work, ie extracting
|energy from it.
|u/i_am_a_jediii - 4 hours
|
|Get autism from vaccines.
|u/SeaEmergency7911 - 3 hours
|
|Jenny McCarthy told me it is and she looks great naked, so I’m going
|to go with her on this one.
|u/NightOwlIvy_93 - 2 hours
|
|Yeah, i think it has more to do with genetics like with ADHD. I have
|ADHD and it's certainly not from eating too much sugar or playing to
|many video games because my parents kept that all restricted to a
|healthy degree
|u/CheerfulCutieess - 8 hours
|
|You don’t eat on average 8 spiders while you sleep. This was actually
|an example used in a magazine article in 1993 about how people will
|believe whatever they read as fact. Ironic
|u/Cultural_Elephant_73 - 4 hours
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|It’s factually possible to eat 8 spiders in your sleep though. This
|is not relevant to the question.
|u/sapphoisbipolar - 5 hours
|
|That's right. Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave and eats over 10,000
|spiders a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
|u/Ok-Swim2827 - 6 hours
|
|Thank you for this. If you could also fact check the “You’re never
|further than 6 ft from one” thing… I would greatly appreciate you 👉👈
|- arachnophobe
|u/ashkiller14 - 4 hours
|
|Honestly, that ones probably true. The coolest thing ive ever
|learned from my mom was about spiders, and no one ive ever shown
|has heard of it: Take a flashlight, place it looking straight
|forward between your eyes. It works better with a normal flashlight
|rather than a phone flashlight or a headlamp. Shine the light into
|grass, ever little sparkle you see is a spider's eye. There's
|hundreds of them and you'd never know it. I don't lay in the grass
|much anymore.
|u/Larzii - 1 hour
|
|That's great man, fuck you 😊
|u/Ceemer - 4 hours
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|I have never headed this. I don't like this thought.
|u/shadeeee999 - 9 hours
|
|You cannot travel faster than the speed of light.
|u/mcampo84 - 7 hours
|
|You cannot travel _through spacetime_ faster than the speed of light.
|You _can_ (hypothetically) move space itself faster than the speed of
|light. Otherwise the inflation after the Big Bang would have been
|impossible.
|u/cozywit - 1 hour
|
|Also black holes are warping spacetime faster than the speed of
|light within the event horizon. Otherwise you know... Light would
|escape.
|u/PM_WORST_FART_STORY - 4 hours
|
|So that bit in Futurama about their ship is true!
|u/universal_constantin - 2 hours
|
|Space is expanding faster than the speed of light still now it’s
|not just after big bang. At some point all galaxies will be outside
|the observable universe and it will be a darker sky
|u/Momik - 8 hours
|
|But what if … what if I turn on my flashlight, but like *as I’m
|throwing it.* But like really throwing it.
|u/fresh_throwaway_II - 7 hours
|
|For anyone who thought this or something similar (this always
|puzzled me before I sat down with my physics teacher to discuss
|it), the light still wouldn’t travel faster than the speed of
|light. It is REALLY counterintuitive at first, but if you read a
|bit about it, it does start to make sense. To put it very very
|very briefly, the speed of light (c) is fixed relative to the
|medium that is space. It will ALWAYS travel at c relative to space.
|The speed of the wave is independent to the speed of the source.
|This is due to how the electromagnetic field works.
|u/Phage0070 - 8 hours
|
|Still only goes at the speed of light. Even from the perspective of
|the flashlight!
|u/Momik - 7 hours
|
|No see, I’m throwing the flashlight. So the flashlight is going
|faster than 0, relative to the flashlight.
|u/Phage0070 - 7 hours
|
|You view the flashlight as moving faster than 0 relative to the
|light, so the light recedes from the flashlight slower than
|light speed. But from the standpoint of the flashlight the
|light is moving away at exactly the speed of light.
|u/Nilliks - 4 hours
|
|That's why from the perspective of the observer, time must be
|going slower for the flashlight as it travels. Because light
|looks like it is traveling slower from it? Idk I'm high right
|now.
|u/Phage0070 - 3 hours
|
|Time isn't the only thing that behaves strangely either. If
|the traveling flashlight is experiencing less time than the
|"at rest" thrower, you would expect it to view itself as
|arriving at its destination *faster* than the thrower's
|perspective would indicate. The closer the flashlight is
|thrown to the speed of light the more significant this time
|dilation is, and at some point you would then expect the
|flashlight to view itself traveling faster than light! But
|it doesn't because what is *also* happening is that the
|flashlight starts to view the entire universe as being
|compressed in its direction of travel. Distances become
|shorter from that perspective and so even though less time
|passes for the traveling flashlight it will still view
|itself to have moved slower than light speed! It just won't
|agree with the thrower on how much time passed and how much
|distance was traveled. Similarly the thrower will start to
|see the flashlight as compressed in its direction of
|travel, becoming shorter.
|u/ThaCatsServant - 6 hours
|
|The weird thing about light is that it doesn’t work that way
|u/kaoszombie - 4 hours
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|Normally sure, but we don’t have all of the variables yet.
|For example, are they throwing overhand or underhand?
|u/MrStrype - 7 hours
|
|If I'm in a vehicle traveling at the speed of light, and I turn on my
|headlights, would they do anything? \-Steven Wright
|u/magnaton117 - 5 hours
|
|Lorentz transformations go brrr
|u/OnTheList-YouTube - 5 hours
|
|It would look like they're not on
|u/Doozer1970 - 7 hours
|
|Why does light get to decide the speed limit of the universe? Who
|does light think it is? Light is not the boss of me.
|u/Any-Answer-6169 - 7 hours
|
|I want to talk to the manager. Light is taking away my freedom of
|traveling past light speed.
|u/No-Question-4957 - 9 hours
|
|Interesting comment, because even if we do learn to create wormholes
|we won't be breaking that constant.
|u/BloodReyvyn - 7 hours
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|I raced the street light and won. Lights are very slow.
|u/C4CTUSDR4GON - 5 hours
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|Unless science changes its mind
|u/One-Candle-8657 - 9 hours
|
|Things are only impossible until they’re not- Jean Luc Picard
|u/Armydillo101 - 8 hours
|
|“This bagel was here, but now it is not. Because now it is in my
|belly” - me
|u/Aken42 - 8 hours
|
|"Ta da!"
|u/riktigtmaxat - 9 hours
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|Measure a coast line.
|u/zyr0xx - 8 hours
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|In that case, measuring ANYTHING at all. Sure you can get VERY VERY
|close to the value, but you can never get it right to the
|1000^20000000 decimal.
|u/riktigtmaxat - 8 hours
|
|You really don't have to try to a measure a coastline very
|accurately at before the fractal problem becomes an issue. Like we
|are talking no decimals.
|u/mrjimi16 - 5 hours
|
|That isn't what they are talking about. The idea is that as you go
|closer and closer to the actual line of the coast, it gets more
|curvy, which increases the distance of the line. It isn't about
|decimal precision, it is about resolution.
|u/ashkiller14 - 4 hours
|
|I've always hated this idea for explaining fractiles because it makes
|people think this. That applies for literally everything, rough or
|smooth. You can absolutely measure a coastline because no ones going
|to fucking measure every individual grain of sand. This is meant to
|be an example to explain the concept of fractiles, not this bizarre
|idea that you can't measure coast lines.
|u/gadgetboyDK - 7 hours
|
|Experience reality as it is.... Super scary how almost no one I have
|ever talked to about it understands that what we experience is a
|manufactured by our brains based on our senses, basically a
|hallucination
|u/JackSpadesSI - 5 hours
|
|Hallucination is a bit too far. The fact that we can verify what we
|perceive with other people tells us it’s not pure fabrication.
|u/Even-Jelly8239 - 3 hours
|
|What if other people are also part of the fabrication?
|u/sahdbhoigh - 1 hour
|
|ahh the classic philosophical position of “nobody actually exists
|except me”
|u/robotfarmer71 - 6 hours
|
|I think it’s wild that we only sense a narrow band of the
|electromagnetic spectrum. Imagine being able to see the light
|emanating from your phone antenna or the intense blast of light you
|receive during an x-ray. Not only that, but the transparency of
|materials to different wavelengths would be wild to experience.
|u/ashkiller14 - 4 hours
|
|> the transparency of materials to different wavelengths would be
|wild to experience. You can already do this, ever seen colored
|glass or plastics? Yeah. It'd just look like that.
|u/mrjimi16 - 5 hours
|
|"Basically a hallucination" is an overstatement to the point that it
|is just a lie.
|u/zoup40 - 6 hours
|
|“Reality as it is” is a brilliantly complex phrase, but I think
|that’s almost too complex to be accurate. Sure linguistics, Religion,
|science, can’t explain *everything*, but we’re never trapped in a
|vacuum of constant misinterpretation.
|u/Soul-Cauliflower - 5 hours
|
|> manufactured by our brains based on our senses Something a lot of
|people don't understand about culture is that your culture is one of
|the tools your brain uses to filter reality. The things your culture
|tells you are real, the things it tells you to pay attention to -
|your brain will filter reality based on that, but also *create*
|reality. The example I always give is that there is no such thing
|in nature as 3PM. There is the natural flow of time, there is the
|position of the sun in the sky - but there is no objectively real
|thing that is 3PM. There is no objective reality to being late for
|something at 3PM. There are so many things we take for granted as
|being "objectively real" that are actually just made up ideas defined
|by our culture.
|u/ChangesFaces - 5 hours
|
|It will probably get me hate/downvotes to say but... This is why
|so many people can't wrap their minds around gender being a
|construct. Are there biological differences between humans? Yes.
|But those differences go far beyond genitals/chromosomes/sex.
|Gender goes beyond biology and is expected to abide by general
|rules and traditions. You know what's made up by humans? Rules and
|traditions. Some might say they are a construct... and therefore so
|is gender.
|u/Soul-Cauliflower - 5 hours
|
|> This is why so many people can't wrap their minds around gender
|being a construct. Exactly. It's actually the most famous
|example of something being culturally defined commonly being
|perceived as objective reality. Though I personally dislike the
|term "construct." I think calling things "social constructs" is
|misleading and confusing to people who don't have any background
|in social science. I'm not even sure which science typically uses
|that term, because I'm not aware of it being a term from
|anthropology. But, yes, gender is cultural. It's culture. Gender
|is *defined by culture.* It has no objective reality. There is no
|objectively real reason in nature why women have long hair and
|men have short hair. You can go on and do that for any gender
|norm you want to name.
|u/realmadrid2727 - 4 hours
|
|I don’t disagree, and it makes sense to me. But now I’m
|thinking about other animals and if things like the way
|penguins raise chicks is culture in animals or an objective
|reality. Or am I thinking about this all wrong?
|u/Soul-Cauliflower - 2 hours
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|>Or am I thinking about this all wrong? Strictly speaking,
|yes, you are. Culture is shared ideas, beliefs, and
|behaviors. The key word there is "shared" - culture is
|defined by how it is passed from one generation to the next.
|Non-human animals don't learn how to raise their children
|from their parents the way humans do - it's not cultural,
|it's natural instinct. Of course, there's a lot of overlap
|between culture and instinct, which helps blend the
|difference between natural and cultural - for example, we all
|have a natural instinct to *eat food,* but our cultures
|manage that instinct by telling us where, when, and how to do
|that - even the very concept of *food itself* is defined by
|our culture (my wife's culture considers uncooked fish semen
|to be "food," for example; mine does not). So it brings us
|back to that original idea of culture filtering reality for
|us. My culture filters out fish semen as "non-food," my
|wife's culture doesn't. Is it food? Strictly speaking, yes,
|it has nutritional value. You can eat it without dying. It's
|*food* in the strictest sense, but I'm still not able to put
|it in my mouth, because my entire mind and body tells me it
|does not go there.
|u/nananananana_Batman - 6 hours
|
|Even what you think is the present is really not. By the time you’ve
|become aware of it, it’s in the past. Not far in the past, but in the
|past nonetheless.
|u/Dont_Be_Like_That - 6 hours
|
|Cow tipping?
|u/314159265358979326 - 3 hours
|
|The study that said it's impossible concluded something like "it
|would take four people to tip an average cow" which is like... do you
|think solo teenagers are the ones doing this??
|u/ElsiePea - 5 hours
|
|Arguing with a cat and winning.
|u/CrystalsAndSpells - 5 hours
|
|That the president can change something the Supreme Court has ruled is
|up to the state to make laws regarding that topic. Which is why it’s
|important to vote for your local, state, and federal elections and not
|just federal elections.
|u/TheNozzler - 8 hours
|
|Go faster than the speed of light, sorry sci-fi fans.
|u/SubmergedSublime - 5 hours
|
|Faster than light velocities are against physics; but moving to
|positions light-years away in less time than it’d take light to
|travel might yet be possible.
|u/YoopKid - 4 hours
|
|Which is why scientists will increase the speed of light in 2208
|u/pplazzz - 4 hours
|
|Universe patch 1.6.04: Increased speed of light by 200%
|u/HippoPebo - 5 hours
|
|Apparently people think the weather can be controlled. Somehow became a
|heated issue in the states prior to the election.
|u/betterthanamaster - 4 hours
|
|Technically speaking…you can. Cloud seeding is done even today and
|can change the weather.
|u/cochese25 - 2 hours
|
|I'm betting they're specifically talking about Hurricanes. Which
|no, we have zero way to effect a hurricane. All of the nuclear
|bombs in the world couldn't effect a hurricane considering a
|hurricane has hundreds to thousands of times more energy than that.
|But as for cloud seeding, it doesn't work that well and it only
|works, obviously, if there are already clouds and the potential for
|rain. So I suppose while you can sort of-ish control whether or not
|clouds drop some rain, it's not very efficient or useful
|u/SirTheadore - 6 hours
|
|Get “too big” by going to the gym as a casual natural lifter.
|u/nineinchesofgirldick - 6 hours
|
|I think I read somewhere that u can put a whole lightbulb inside ur
|mouth but due to its shape and limits of the jaw u can’t take it out
|without it breaking?
|u/Akumakoala - 7 hours
|
|Pooping so hard and fast that it propels you through the ceiling.
|u/Its_Curse - 3 hours
|
|Maybe YOU can't
|u/Dinosource - 5 hours
|
|I do that all the time. Contractors love me.
|u/Clean-Agent-8565 - 2 hours
|
|So I had a real bad mushroom trip once and long story short it ended
|up with me having to get a colonoscopy/endoscopy at like 24. As those
|who have suffered this unfortunate circumstance will know they need
|you to be REAL cleaned out and whatever laxative they gave me to
|achieve this raised a few questions about the power that human
|intestines are capable of outputting. Of course it won’t put you
|through the ceiling but I bet if you jumped mid eruption it’d be like
|halfway to jumping in an elevator as it descends. What is the maximum
|PSI our bootyholes can produce? How far could it spray? How many
|laxatives and how long would it take me to pressure wash my driveway
|with my ass?
|u/phoenixAPB - 6 hours
|
|Elect a parliament of bright, honest people.
|u/FlyAirLari - 2 hours
|
|It's possible, but not democratic to do so.
|u/Sylvr - 8 hours
|
|Easily transmute one base element into another, like turning iron into
|copper. Mostly, that's just because people don't know the distinction
|between atoms, molecules, and compounds.
|u/ITSUREN - 6 hours
|
|Easy convert uranium to lead. Edit: all you have to do is wait.
|u/No-Cold-7731 - 5 hours
|
|Keyword there is easily. It can be done, it's just difficult.
|u/Merusadas - 4 hours
|
|Sheathing sword on your back. It looks pretty cool in video games and
|anime, but in reality, it's near impossible and very inefficient.
|u/Sexyfruitymocktail - 3 hours
|
|Had a friend actually try that.... now he has a sick ass back scar
|where they stitched him back up.
|u/Bordoodley - 2 hours
|
|Near impossible =/= actually factually impossible to ever do
|u/Lauffener - 8 hours
|
|Undo inflation. Sustained negative price movement leads to a
|deflationary spiral and is worse.
|u/WhiteRaven42 - 5 hours
|
|... so it's possible. Just not desirable.
|u/magnaton117 - 5 hours
|
|It's possible. We COULD allow the demand for money to outpace the
|supply at such a low rate that it wouldn't hurt anything, but the Fed
|is too greedy and evil to do that
|u/betterthanamaster - 4 hours
|
|That would take decades, and worse, probably lead to a shrinking of
|the overall economy. A low level of inflation is typically
|desirable, between 1-3% annually. Especially when wages increase
|by about the same amount. But to shut all that down and rely on
|the market to fix itself (and that’s assuming the market is at
|least marginally efficient) would take entirely too long and cause
|disastrous economic conditions for most people.
|u/magnaton117 - 4 hours
|
|Taking decades would be fine. Low, steady reduction of prices
|would prevent a deflationary spiral, increase the value of the
|dollar, and prevent things from getting more expensive in the
|meantime. If that takes a little patience, that's still a
|phenomenal deal that I'd take in a second
|u/Emma_Exposed - 4 hours
|
|To enjoy "Madame Web."
|u/M0RT4LW0MBAT - 4 hours
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|Backwards time travel
|u/Not_Jo_Mama - 9 hours
|
|Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. It really is impossible, no
|matter what asshole billionaires keep spouting.
|u/heyoyo10 - 8 hours
|
|In fact, the origin of the idiom is that pulling yourself up by your
|bootstraps is an impossible feat.
|u/mtabacco31 - 9 hours
|
|Not with your attitude.
|u/poopbutt2401 - 4 hours
|
|Well it’s a bad question. I have learned I have zero idea what other
|people think and I’m learning I’m glad I don’t.
|u/the_Athereon - 3 hours
|
|Read every book ever written. Even if you just limit yourself to a
|single genre, you need to read at 100s of pages an hour to keep up with
|new releases. Not to mention the backlog.
|u/LoadStar-9 - 9 hours
|
|I believed until I was old enough to know better- that there was an
|anti gravity machine. 😂
|u/technomancing_monkey - 6 hours
|
|giving more than 100% if something CAN be set to 110% it just means
|that the setting marked as 100% is artificially inflated in value to
|appear as 100%
|u/Quiet_Stranger_5622 - 2 hours
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|Always give 50%. That way, at crunch time, your 75% will look
|amazing.
|u/MadMelvin - 5 hours
|
|Using quantum entanglement for FTL communication
|u/petalsoftxo - 8 hours
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|That Einstein failed math.
|u/WhiteRaven42 - 5 hours
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|that's not an issue possile/impossible. That's just an issue of fact
|or falsehood.
|u/scottcmu - 8 hours
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|It is factually possible for Einstein to fail math.
|u/MrStrype - 7 hours
|
|Considering he never failed at math, and he's dead now, it is not
|factually possible for Einstein to fail math.
|u/MumpitzOnly - 5 hours
|
|Tipping a cow by yourself. And: Leave the cows alone 😅
|u/StationOk7229 - 9 hours
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|Go back in time.
|u/MrStrype - 7 hours
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|Didn't we just do that a few weeks ago? 2am became 1am. (JK)
|u/StationOk7229 - 7 hours
|
|Crap. Forgot about that. Never mind.
|u/fallingintothesky09 - 6 hours
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|Cover the whole planet in water
|u/princekamoro - 1 hour
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|Use a magical red ball to awaken an ancient fish-type creature who
|summons torrential downpours just by existing until the world is
|entirely flooded.
|u/free-toe-pie - 7 hours
|
|People who think they can become a billionaire too if they just work
|hard enough.
|u/QuackityClone - 6 hours
|
|Even if they get insanely lucky and become one, what happens then?
|People who purely chase wealth are
|u/magnaton117 - 5 hours
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|What happens is that you retire and spend your days sleeping in,
|working on your hobbies, and enjoying your freedom
|u/hockeynoticehockey - 5 hours
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|Giving more than 100%.
|u/Nateddog21 - 5 hours
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|Overthrow the government. Wait never mind
|u/whanch - 5 hours
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|Faster than light travel.
|u/boko_harambe_ - 5 hours
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|Perpetual Motion
|u/LagerHead - 4 hours
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|Find an honest politician.
|u/baxisb - 4 hours
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|Aligning chackras, they don't even exist
|u/reddit_understoodit - 4 hours
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|Invest at the exact bottom of the market.
|u/UnlikelyStaff5266 - 4 hours
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|Turning lead into gold.
|u/lllopqolll - 3 hours
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|Winning an argument with your wife without losing.
|u/Amuto95 - 11 minutes
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|Live a happy life
|u/WaySavvyD - 8 hours
|
|Time travel
|u/curlyfat - 8 hours
|
|Traveling forward (in a sense) is already an accepted and mostly
|proven science. But it’s not time travel per se, but simply changing
|how time is observed by entities at different speeds. TBF, this
|still hurts my brain because “speed” is only a measurement relative
|to other entities, so I don’t know how “speed” can actually exist in
|a true vacuum.
|u/nananananana_Batman - 6 hours
|
|Some say we’re traveling forward in time now.
|u/ITSUREN - 6 hours
|
|We are all time travelling at 60 min an hour tho.
|u/chocotacogato - 5 hours
|
|There is no such thing as a self-made billionaire. Everyone gets help
|from somewhere.
|u/ApproximatelyExact - 6 hours
|
|Completely secure digital vote tabulating software enough to prevent
|changing results with physical access to machines.
|u/ackmondual - 4 hours
|
|Give someone anime eyes through surgery
|u/Dexter1399 - 9 hours
|
|Building a dyson sphere, it is thought to be the ultimate goal for
|humanity, however building one would require humans to destroy multiple
|planets and some scientists estimates human moral will never allow it.
|u/TheOtherJohnson - 9 hours
|
|That’s why they downgraded Pluto, to make it more socially acceptable
|to destroy it for our Dyson sphere Once people will stop viewing a
|celestial body as a planet you’d be surprised what they can do.
|u/DustyScharole - 8 hours
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|This is now a fact for me and I won't be taking any further
|questions.
|u/TheOtherJohnson - 8 hours
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|When you see them loading pieces of Pluto onto trains you’ll know
|I was right.
|u/DustyScharole - 8 hours
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|Oh, I know you're right and I'll be telling everyone.
|u/No_Tailor_787 - 7 hours
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|God, I hope I live long enough to see that!
|u/Pro-Row-335 - 9 hours
|
|Human moral allows the sacrifice of children but not destroying
|planets? Curious
|u/Dexter1399 - 9 hours
|
|the idea of building a dyson sphere only exist once humanity
|achieve a type 1 civilization, something we definetly won't see in
|our lifetime. A type 1 human civilization is one where the entire
|earth is perfectly united and harmonized, where thing such a
|cruelty towards each other, religions and conspiracies no longer
|exist, only hand to hand help towards the future and glory of
|humanity matters
|u/299792458mps- - 7 hours
|
|But it's important to point out for people who don't know, that
|the civilization types you're referring to are part of one man's
|science-fiction thought experiment, as are dyson spheres.
|There's no reason why something like a Dyson sphere, if it
|actually could exist in reality, woud be impossible with things
|like cruelty or religion or conspiracy present.
|u/JJohnston015 - 8 hours
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|Well, that's it, then. I'll turn off the lights.
|u/Dysan27 - 2 hours
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|That is not the definition of a Type 1 civilization at all. It
|is entierly about energy consumption. A Type 1 has the ability
|to access all the energy available on a planet, and store it for
|consumption. Nothing about culture, nothing about politics, or
|morality.
|u/ethanu - 7 hours
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|but bombs and rockets are built everyday
|u/mrpointyhorns - 6 hours
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|Isn't it a dyson swarm the updated goal
|u/stenger121 - 4 hours
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|Or one of those Dyson fans from Costco.
|u/mother_a_god - 9 hours
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|It's funny, given there the folks in control seem pretty content on
|destroying the planet we're on for profit, i doubt they would have a
|qualms about others!
|u/MudMade1316 - 4 hours
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|“Men” to get pregnant
|u/Trevorblackwell420 - 4 hours
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|Voting for trump and being a devout catholic that actually respects
|Jesus’s teachings.
|u/MacTechG4 - 8 hours
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|Stick your elbow in your ear?
|u/SilentJelly6737 - 8 hours
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|It’s not impossible if your arm is no longer connected to your body.
|u/adjensen83 - 7 hours
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|Or if your ear is no longer connected to your head
|u/SilentJelly6737 - 6 hours
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|Probably the more likely scenario, right?
|u/electrogeek8086 - 5 hours
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|Reservoir Dog taught me that.
|u/Solomonopolistadt - 5 hours
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|That Texas can secede
|u/NoHippo6825 - 5 hours
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|Succeed
|u/Gloomy-Chipmunk6612 - 9 hours
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|go to outer space. There is a big glass dome that keeps the sun from
|getting in and you’ll bounce right off that if you tried.
|u/dragonreborn567 - 9 hours
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|What if I have a hammer?
|u/SpronyvanJohnson - 9 hours
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|Must be one hell of a hammer
|u/boredomspren_ - 6 hours
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|Know for a fact that there is or isn't a God.
|u/pn1ct0g3n - 8 hours
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|I'm prepared for downvotes but... Travelling to other stars.
|Not impossible theoretically, but it's never going to happen.
|u/itsaberry - 8 hours
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|Definitely for people. But we have a couple of things that are
|technically travelling to other stars right now.
|u/pn1ct0g3n - 8 hours
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|Relativistic micro-probes could be the answer to exploring other
|stars: send a sort of canister filled with miniature transmitters.
|It could be accelerated to around 10-20% of lightspeed with a sail
|or ion thruster, and explore nearby stars and send back data in a
|period of time on the order of a generation or two. Google "Yuri
|Milner interstellar microprobes" and see what you get. His design,
|using sails and laser pulses, could get them to Alpha Centauri in
|about 20 years, and the data then comes back in the roughly 4.3
|years it takes light to travel the distance.
|u/frank26080115 - 8 hours
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|why never?
|u/pn1ct0g3n - 8 hours
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|It's more accurate to say it's so monumentally improbable that it's
|practically impossible. I would bet against it ever happening. The
|logistics of sending a manned vehicle to another star are just too
|titanic, and as far as I'm concerned are forever confined to the
|realm of science fiction.
|u/WorkingRecording4863 - 5 hours
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|Maybe not _never_, but... Humans have evolved to live on Earth
|since life started 3.7 billion years ago. Space is completely
|devoid of the things humans need to survive and sustain themselves
|with any sort of normalcy. So...what if we take everything we
|need with us, like Star Trek. Now you have energy expenditure and
|fuel and would need a renewable source of energy for propulsion
|(currently scientifically impossible). Not to mention needing to
|have a renewable source of food and water. Space is also highly
|radioactive. You would need a very expensive ship designed to
|withstand intense extremes of temperatures and radiation, large
|enough to house everything else mentioned so far. It would cost in
|the trillions in today's dollars. And in the end, we would still
|be limited by distance. Even if we discover "faster than light"
|travel, in the time it would take us to fly to Andromeda and back
|again, 4 million years will have passed on Earth. The most
|realistic option is to send out AI and drones that don't require
|food, water, large expensive ships, or have as many risks
|associated as the human element. Humans going into deep space is
|neither financially or logistically feasible when we have cheaper
|and safer means of exploration. So maybe not "never"...but it's
|going to be a very long time.
|u/frank26080115 - 5 hours
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|I feel like we'd all be computers in single digit generations
|u/ACG3185 - 5 hours
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|World peace.
|u/MiniPantherMa - 5 hours
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|Kidnap someone using chloroform.
|u/Quiet_Stranger_5622 - 2 hours
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|Difficult, but not impossible.
|u/nomiinomii - 3 hours
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|Anything sacred or spiritual, it's not factual at all
|u/Plankton_Food_88 - 3 hours
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|Prove there is an after life. Even if there is, how would they prove
|it?
|u/Knightfall0725 - 5 hours
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|Becoming rich while still being a good person.
|u/Master-Leave8591 - 1 hour
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|Becoming a billionaire* Not every lottery winner is evil, not all
|actors, athletes, doctors, lawyers or software developers are bad
|people. Its once they hit a billion which is when you know theyre
|rotten.
|u/CheerfulLeafWhisper - 4 hours
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|Time travel to the past sounds cool, but yeah, totally impossible with
|what we know. Wish it were real though!
|u/TrueSpins - 3 hours
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|Change sex
|u/TrueSpins - 2 hours
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|The fact I'm being down voted demonstrates my point. Remember kids,
|sex isn't gender - though lots of people can't seem to understand
|this.
|u/ftbllmeow - 7 hours
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|Cow tipping. Everyone says they know someone who has done it, but I’ve
|never met anyone who has done it themselves.
|u/NoHippo6825 - 5 hours
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|Yes, that’s the joke. Try to get some tube to do it, the the cows
|stampede as they have to run away. Don’t ruin it.
|u/Cultural_Elephant_73 - 4 hours
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|Not factually impossible though
|u/steve_yo - 7 hours
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|Let’s terraform mars instead of working to make the earth habitable for
|future generations.
|u/hsmith9002 - 8 hours
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|End tipping culture in the US. It’s the strongest addiction I’ve ever
|encountered.
|u/Lampwick - 7 hours
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|It's not an "addiction", it's just a bonus system that's been
|corrupted by employers into a nonstandard compensation mechanism in
|order to increase profits without visibly raising prices.
|u/betterthanamaster - 4 hours
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|A lot of servers would rather not get rid of tipping. Because they
|earn a lot more money.
|u/No_Tailor_787 - 7 hours
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|You spelled "strangest" wrong.
|u/hsmith9002 - 7 hours
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|I’ve heard it both ways
|u/D_Winds - 8 hours
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|Touching your own reflection.
|u/Halflife37 - 6 hours
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|Eating a full pack of saltines and not drinking water in under a
|minute
|u/Aartus - 6 hours
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|Heard something really odd that with the space between atoms,you could
|throw a brick at a window and it'll just go through it. Not by breaking
|it but with all the little spaces lining up so perfectly that they miss
|every. Single. One.
|u/iquire - 5 hours
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|Nothing?
|u/new11110000 - 5 hours
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|Lick your own elbow?
|u/Suspicious_Eye_1717 - 5 hours
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|Happiness
|u/HeartOSass - 5 hours
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|Sneeze with their eyes open.
|u/jatinkhanna_ - 5 hours
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|Practically Folding the Paper 42 times. (Theoretically it would reach
|the moon with its thickness) Folding it 103 times would exceed the
|size of the observable universe.
|u/According-Ad5312 - 5 hours
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|Climb the south col on k2
|u/Itsbellasworldx - 5 hours
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|Breathing underwater without any equipment
|u/himenokuri - 5 hours
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|Me ever getting a date
|u/zqjzqj - 5 hours
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|Have a human goat hybrid
|u/curlyquinn02 - 5 hours
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|Getting better from a chronic illness. I hate telling others my health
|issues because they are always like, I hope you feel better soon 🙄
|u/Revolutionary-Cod444 - 5 hours
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|Lick your elbow...
|u/swomismybitch - 4 hours
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|I was going to say putting your elbow in your ear.
|u/Ikonixed - 5 hours
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|Patriarchy as a consolidated entity.
|u/Oddish_Femboy - 5 hours
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|Beat Super Mario Bros. In less than 3 minutes without glitches?
|u/Round-Sundae-1137 - 5 hours
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|Counting to a million would take you like 11 days.
|u/UpgradedMillenial - 5 hours
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|Endometriosis is not cured by a hysterectomy, having a child, or a 49
|day fast. The disease has ZERO cures. A lack of symptoms of this
|disease is called remission at best but likely is just you getting
|lucky.
|u/Seamoth4546B - 5 hours
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|You are not immune to propaganda
|u/jayzeeinthehouse - 4 hours
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|Jumping social classes, while not impossible, is incredibly difficult
|and your future income is determined by the zip code you grow up in
|just as your future social class is.
|u/Ok-Lavishness-349 - 4 hours
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|I don't know what your definition of "incredibly difficult" is, but I
|personally know several people that have gone from dirt poor lower
|class to middle class (and, in one case, upper-middle class). So,
|while there is a tendency to remain in the class to which one was
|born, I think that "incredibly difficult" overstates the case.
|u/bwmat - 4 hours
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|Will what you will
|u/DrPrognosisNegative - 4 hours
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|being happy
|u/wishiwuzbetteratgolf - 4 hours
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|That if you try hard enough you can make anything happen.
|u/Deimosx - 4 hours
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|Create more bitcoin, or mine it faster.
|u/yobboman - 4 hours
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|Linear time is an illusion
|u/booksandtrouble - 4 hours
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|When people believe you can just break someone's neck like they do in
|the movies.
|u/Hot_Joke7461 - 4 hours
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|Visit a star.
|u/DangerSwan33 - 4 hours
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|Jumping the Grand Canyon. This may technically fall into the realm of
|"practically impossible", but the amount of speed needed to jump just
|about anything besides the shortest point is not possible with anything
|that we will likely ever have access to. The velocity needed is its
|own problem - we simply cannot reach the speeds necessary to launch a
|human-operated vehicle far enough. But the amount of force that would
|be generated would not be able to be handled by the vehicle, the ramp,
|or likely even the ground itself. Even if you you could,
|hypothetically, build a long enough, and tall enough structure, with a
|gradual enough incline, not only would you really only be "falling"
|across the grand canyon, but you'd still have to reach a level of
|acceleration that would tear apart the ramp if it was made of any
|materials we know of that could be used to build said ramp.
|u/PMzyox - 4 hours
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|The best way to look at this if you can only rule something out as
|factually impossible if the chances of it happening aren’t non-zero.
|This might work as an example. I bet a lot of people think that it is
|possible for them to count to one billion if they should so choose to
|do so. In actuality though, it is impossible for someone to speak all
|of the words that would need to be spoken to count to one billion in a
|single human lifetime. And it’s not really close either. A billion
|seconds is about 34 years, for reference.
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