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That drug dealers will give their product to young children who are out trick or treating. 1.) That shit's expensive. They're not gonna give free samples to people too young to have access to cash. 2.) Even if their attempt was to drug them to kidnap them, the person who has parents/friends with them at all times and immediately leaves after getting the candy is probably the worst target you could choose. They won't even eat it till they get home where they're surrounded by people who will realize what's up instantly. I won't understand why some people find this actually believable.
Flat earthers. Can't understand how these people think that's true. I remember seeing a debate between NASA employees and flat earthers, and it was ridiculous. The flat-earthers were saying to take everything with a grain of salt, but were preaching that everything in the Bible is true. Not even using a scientific approach to reach their conclusions, either. One of them got high-and-mighty asking the NASA employees, "Well how do you know the Earth is round?" Scientist-"Because I went to space and I saw it."
The thing is, that stance is denounced by nearly every Biblical scholar and Christian/Creationist scientist. There are almost no legitimate theologians who espouse flat-earth. So flat-earthers aren’t even listening to their own experts. Flat Earth is the ultimate example of Poe’s Law. It’s either a big parody or people are really that stupid, and it’s impossible to tell.
@@PhoenixMoth Poe’s Law states that extremism and parodies of extremism are often indistinguishable. The perfect parody is one that is taken seriously.
Apparently lots of people never learned that it’s okay to be wrong, that it doesn’t reflect poorly on you as a person, and that every time you are wrong is an opportunity to learn. Oh wait that’s right, in school they teach you the opposite and punish you for being wrong about something.
High school buddy made fun of the kids who smoked weed. He drank beer but was adamant that you couldn't become an alcoholic drinking beer. He is now homeless, and an extreme alcoholic and looks 20 years older than his age. I still smoke weed, own a successful business and when I shave everyone says I look 10 years younger than my age. Alcohol is a hell of a drug.
All weed smokers I know of who did it for years still "need" to do it. They're still addicted. I did it years ago, I have zero cravings for it. There you go.
It's always fun when one drug user says his drug is ok, but another drug is bad. Percisely what addicts say. Doesn't have to be that way. Anything you can do stoned can be done sober. Best wishes on your recovery!
@@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle Actually I confine my smoking to the weekends and often don't bother. I smoke when i want to, which is occaissionally. I love it when people sit on their high horses and try to look down on others they've never met, who choose to live their life differently from theirs. I wish you well on your recovery from being an arrogant prick.
My mother believed the Great Lakes did not experience tides. I did not argue with her, because I knew from previous instances once my mother was convinced of something, the conversation was done.
my friend at the time tried to convince me to mail her a vape because she was down bad desperate for one, i spent a good 20 mins telling her thats illegal and i could go to jail for that. Worst part about it was she was trying so hard to tell me a different mailing service "would" be legal, her standing point was USPS wouldn't mail it but somewhere else would.
Technically there's nothing illegal against sending them a vape through the mail unless they're underage The only legal issue would come is if you included the nicotine / THC
My girlfriend is 55 yrs old, I’m 49. She still to THIS day swears that you’ll get sick if you go outside in winter with wet hair. I’ve literally gone out in freezing cold with soaking wet hair, and let it freeze to try and convince her that she wrong. But she still won’t agree. Her kids, 26 and 22 still live with her. And she will still yell at them about this.
This one annoys me the most. My mum said it to me and ive been in the medical field for 30 plus years. I simply said " You cannot get sick unless there is a virus or bacteria present. A man sat almost naked in the snow for hours to debunk this. He did not get sick lol.
@@leviniahill454 Agreed!!! It is sooo annoying. My GF, is not an idiot. She’s actually quite intelligent. But she believes some of these old wives’ tales. And no matter how much I show her that absolutely disproves it. She won’t let it go.
My mom's friend told her that people didn't die from covid, they died from pneumonia. Then my mom asked him what he thought I saw in the covid icu (I'm a doctor). He said that those were viral pneumonia cases that tested covid positive, and that there is no such thing as covid pneumonia. He wanted to 'discuss' this with me too but mom told him to stay away from me lol
My mother tried to tell me the average global temperature doesn't exist, and therefore can't rise... because the equator is always hotter than the antarctic. She has a degree in mathematics.
How is she wrong? Yes, you can average the temperatures, but an "average" temperature is just a mathematical construct. It's like if you have 99 homeless people and one billionare, and you average them, you *can* find that number, but it will be functionally useless.
@@StefanTravis I'm more saying that, are we sure this isn't miscommunication of intent? As in, sometimes the person I'm arguing with isn't wrong, we just have slightly different definitions of terms that make us think we're not agreeing.
Politics. When someone says something just super false politically and it's easily shown to be bogus, people will just double down, say the source you used is fake, or they don't care they will always believe what they think.
I mentioned in another thread that some schools are putting tampon machines in boys' bathrooms. There have been SO MANY people incredulously insisting I made that up. Or saying, "So which school are you talking about?". As if it's just an isolated incident For one, it amazes me how they never seem to look things up themselves. For two, there's never a response when I tell them three states have made it mandatory by law. They don't want to believe it's happening at all, so they absolutely can't deal with it being bigger than they ever could have imagined, and easily shown with a quick search.
"Electronics don't have anything to do with electricity." Electronic devices run on electricity, so I'd say the landlord has no idea what he's talking about and should not be messing with anyone's electrical wiring if he doesn't even understand this basic fact.
As someone who works with electronics and builds electronic devices, that landlord is totally full of shit. Why does he think that electronic devices need to be plugged in?
My third grade reading teacher told me ants weren't animals because they're insects. My buddy in fifth grade was confused as to why he was given the cheetah to do an animal report on, because he looked it up and they're mammals, not animals. When I tried to explain to him mammals are a type of animal, like us, he ran to his family and they all laughed at me like it was the stupidest, funniest thing they'd ever heard. People aren't animals! That's ridiculous!
The daddy long legs one at 6:57 puts anger in me because, like... look. I dont like it, I wish it wasn't like this, but arguing whether daddy long legs are spiders or not is always going to be a fools errant because "daddy long legs" is a name used to refer to multiple very different animals and because of this, you can be talking about one bug while the person you're talking to is thinking of one entirely different. I think its the harvestmen (family Opiliones) that op is referencing in their comment, since they're arachnids but arent actually spiders, but they share the daddy long legs nickname with crane flies (family Tipulidae) and cellar spiders (family Pholcidae) And don't even get me started on that ever-mystical title of ☆"mosquito eater"☆ because quite frankly I will _scream_
BOTH my parents stood by the view that strepsils are not meds We use them entirely as meds, I only request them when I have a cough, my mum only takes them with a cough and are sold entirely as meds. I've already thought about cutting contact when I turn 18
I’m not shocking family members heart because it is not moving. I need it moving in order to shock it. Otherwise, I’ll only fry the heart. That’s why I’ve been doing CPR only for the last 15 minutes.
I had a former friend of mine insist she was an actress. Her resume was pure fiction. She was wrong about everything that ever fell out of her mouth. She defended her assertion that the word helm did not exist. She also thought a soliloquy and an aside were the same thing. There was no telling her she was wrong or she would immediately play the victim then insist that you were bullying her. This was a woman in her 50s, with two kids and a grandson. We're no longer friends.
@@WhydoIsuddenlyhaveahandle Right? In reality she was so daft as well as entitled, she could have been shot with an arrow and still missed the point. Add the fact that she was intellectually lazy, had nothing resembling a work ethic, an attitude so foul it would make Miranda Priestly cringe, she never made it to anything more than just being an extra or a day player with five lines or less. I can literally count on one hand and have fingers left over how many credits she has.
Got some paint mixed and the lady that made it tried to warn me it would take hours to dry to touch. I pointed out on the can where it said 1-2 dry time but she said that's the base dry time. You add 1 hour for every ounce of tint you add. That's not how it works.
That my parents being absolutely neglectful and abusive is why i now have fibromyalgia, CPTSD, and depression, despite scientific evidence, three psychologists, my general practitioner, and their own nursing education dictating otherwise. Told you so, "Dad".
Once i told another guy in high school, that i was interesting in becoming a weapons designer/engineer for the military. And he told me some BS like “Thats not how it works! They come to you, and say they’re interested in what you’ve done!” He seemed to think the military did no weapons development research by itself, and that everything was the result of maverick inventors being brought in. And yeah, I know now the military itself actually just contracts with companies that develop stuff. But I still feel like his understanding was immensely more flawed.
I knew a guy when i was a kid that said he was older than me because he was born in Canada and they use the metric system. He was a year younger than me. I am not sure why he insisted he was right. But he never let that go. He was not born in Canada, he was born in Dallas Tx.
The dad isn't technically wrong when he said that they could break the crystals inside when moving the computer around. Hard disks are fragile, especially older ones. The hard disk inside is a crystalline solid. So he's not wrong just bad at expressing himself
@@tomzimmerman8 Lmao he's just incompetent and kind of doesn't know much about what's going on. But yeah I won't make any progress here starting an argument. Have a good day.
Apparently, when my dad and my uncle were kids, my grandmother tried to tell them to get out of the (outdoor) swimming pool because it was raining. They did not, in fact, get out of the pool.
Technically speaking your dad isn't wrong it does take a bit more energy to run something like a macbook then something like a small Windows netbook but the overall impact on your electricity bill would just be a few cents at best
I don’t want to get political, but if (censored) ate a pound of human flesh on live TV, my mother, who hates (censored)’s opponent, would either adamantly deny it or tell me it was just fake news and/or (censored) propaganda.
Ok the Sublime one is just stupid. I'm from Ohio, but I have listened to Sublime for years and not once have I thought they were from Ohio. They always talk about Long Beach CA and how they were from there lol
My friend kept arguing that, because he has a crosshair in his game, its not "Realistic" because he wants to play as "Realistic" as possible. He was talking about his crosshair in Apex Legends and when I said that was a bad idea he said that I was wrong and didn't listen
That sex work is like any other form of work. That’s such a naive take. That’s like saying being an MMA fighter is the same as having a desk job. Each profession has pro’s & con’s. To pretend that’s not the situation is honestly just such an immature pov.
15:30 "where for art thou" literally means "where are you", it had a deeper meaning in the story as Juliet was debating with herself but they where both wrong in this story. 15:30
There was a famous April Fools Day trick report in 1957 on a BBC current affairs programme about the spaghetti harvest in Switzerland. Maybe some link? My mother believed that you should never wash your hair when you were on your period because you'd catch a cold. Goes back to pre hairdryer days in winter in Yorkshire, I suspect.
@@havanadaurcy1321 oh really? I don’t know anyone who has died. I do know 3 people in there late 20’s and early thirties that have had heart attacks following there vax and one woman in her fourties’ who did die after her vax. I am not an ‘anti vaxxer’. I am against an obvious attack on the human race though.
You are not my enemy. I respect your view because it’s based in concern. So is mine. I started off pro Covid vax but after digging and digging and deep thought and research it became clear that this is all shrouded in intentional misinformation on both sides, however it is becoming more and more evident of what this is. Well thought out and carefully laid plans. Pure evil. Time will tell as a lie will always find you out. Good luck.
Several people are anti ai art because they believe it steals art from other people. Some of them got so paranoid that they started deleting their own artwork. Started a civil war on Deviantart in which the anti ai people either got their accounts shut down or were curbstomped with facts.
It does steal art, though. The image generation algorithms are trained using multiple image sources pulled from the web, and often these sources are peoples' artwork, used entirely without their permission or credit, which absolutely does count as STEALING THEIR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. "Just use photography only, then!" nope, most photography is also protected by intellectual property laws unless explicitly labeled for Creative Commons usage! The same would go for AI-generated music, especially because music is often protected under record labels. That would mean a serious lawsuit coming down on the creators of the AI! In short, there is no ethical excuse for AI art, especially if it's sources are from a website like DeviantArt.
@@Hirundo-demersalis "It does steal art, though." These AIs began as programs to fill in damaged areas in photos. They'd analyze the photo, cross-reference with references, then try to guess what went in the damaged area. Eventually researchers tried giving it a page full of random static and telling it, 'This is a photo of a cat. Fix it.' To their amazement, it worked. And it's gotten better and better since then. AI art is creating an entirely new image that has never existed before. It's not copying, cutting+pasting, or making a mosaic. " The image generation algorithms are trained using multiple image sources pulled from the web, and often these sources are peoples' artwork, used entirely without their permission or credit" When in history has it ever been considered stealing to look at people's art for reference, then draw your own completely unique art? That's not a definition of theft that has ever existed before. "which absolutely does count as STEALING THEIR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY." If I go to an art museum, look at all the paintings, then go home and draw a picture, have I stolen the intellectual property of those artists? "In short, there is no ethical excuse for AI art," You believe that because people have given you a misleading explanation of the technology. AI is no more unethical than any other art tool.
20:21 I used a VERY simple trick on my kids. Worked every year. I would allow them to sample their Halloween candy that night, then I would put their bags of goodies up on top of something tall (for safekeeping). EVERY year without fail, wait two days and they would forget it was there. One more day to be sure and I would haul every bit of it to my place of employment and share with my co-workers. I have five kids and this was the routine until the youngest was too old to go trick-or-treating.
Parents who steal and take advantage of their kids are so gross. My parents have always respected my and my siblings' possessions, and taught us to be respectful in return by leading by example. What you taught your kids is that if they think they can pull a fast one on someone, they should, morals be damned.
