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So recently i’ve seen this go around a bunch of my friends snapchat stories and stuff, I wanted to know if it’s worth spending time on it, is it bullshit?

Here’s the link if anyone wants to see it (it’s a referral) just to let yall know

https://earnglobal.co/share/kidm

"Jewish people and Hindu people lived on the lands for thousands of years, until Muslim invaders came and controlled the region for centuries. Effectively, displacing the Jewish and Hindu populations by being extremely cruel to non-Muslims. Such as destroying sacred synagogues and temples and forcing conversion.

Muslims/Palestinians were only expelled after wars they initiated"

It's from possibly biased source but I'd like some evidence to debunk it.

Not even good nutrition does anything?

I found a bunch of websites saying that Hiroshi Yamauchi said in an interview that the Coplias was intentionally designed to break easily so they could profit from repairs, but none of them give any kind of source, or just use this as a source:

https://toarcade.wordpress.com/2015/07/09/the-most-confusing-holy-grail-of-nintendo-history/

But this site doesnt give a source either.I have no idea where, when, or even if he said this. It definitely sounds like something nintendo would do, but there's no actual evidence. Misinformation can spread pretty easily about an obscure topic like this where information is scarce and most people don't care, and this reeks of potentially being something somebody just made up and a bunch of websites took as fact. I'm not saying it's fake, I just can't find evidence that it's true.

I saw a post on FB recently that said the average cruise ship uses 250 tons of fuel per day, which, converted to gallons, is more fuel than the average person uses in all the cars they'll own in their lifetime.

I haven't been on a cruise in 30 years, and I know cruise ships are hazards to health and the environment to begin with, but even if the math is correct, is this a fair comparison given the different types of fuel cruise ships and cars use?

I’ve always heard it, and have smelled a weird cucumber smell in the woods before, but I’ve come eye to eye with one enough to know if that’s where the smell came from. Anyone experienced it firsthand?

I've read online that this is the case, is it because of the starch? If not what is it? And exactly how and why is it good for hair and skin?

Someone told me that hotels would rather have people stay in a room for a discounted price then leave the room vacant

Bought a pair of dress shoes for work a while ago and the pushy salesman was going on about how important it is to buy two pairs at once so you can alternate and let one pair "rest" each day. He claimed this would make the shoes last longer compared to wearing one pair every day.

I assumed this is a combination of old-wives-tale/way to sell more shoes and I eventually got him to drop it (he was really insistent! ) but it's stuck in my head ever since. Is there any truth to this idea?

So a friend had a procedure known as lemon bottle a few weeks ago, where they essentially inject a fat melting liquid into your face (specifically the chin & jaw area) and you're supposed to drink loads of water and essentially you'll pee out the fat and see results over the course of several weeks. Well, she saw zero results, and ended up going back to her beautician who re-injected her at no extra cost.

Honestly it sounds too good to be true so I'm asking does it actually work? Is she ever going to see any results?

i just saw a tiktok of a guy finding a seemingly random squirrel that walked up to him and calmly let itself get picked up. the dude explained to his friend that when this happens it means they lost their mothers, is that true?

This isn't a NO PILLOWS thread.

Some people think sleeping without a pillow is good.

I'm asking about these:

https://img.kwcdn.com/product/Fancyalgo/VirtualModelMatting/53aadec8a11d073689cae3d2efe07deb.jpg?imageView2/2/w/800/q/70/format/webp

https://img.kwcdn.com/product/Fancyalgo/VirtualModelMatting/edd67e1ada3a3a8afa892c97a66d23fd.jpg?imageView2/2/w/800/q/70/format/webp

Is there any harm in your neck on a "standard" pillow? Is that kind of design better or worse?

I've heard this a few times and I'm not sure the logic behind it. I think all there is to it is that it's "icky" to use a toothbrush that you used while being sick. But it's not like using it after you're sick means you're going to become sick again somehow, right? Even if that were the case couldn't you just splash some hydrogen peroxide on the toothbrush?

I'm pretty sure this is just a marketing trick to get people to buy more toothbrushes or something.

Like...if a simple pillow case causes acne from trapped oil or dirt, than all those beautiful African tribal people not washing their face daily would have horrendous acne?

I understand if your hair products transfer to your pillow and then your face repeatedly? But your face alone is a breeding ground for bacteria without a pillow. A pillow isn't pushing bacteria into your face?

I've never understood this and thought it was a myth.

I’ve heard this a few times, but it seems odd that very competitive players and the teams that have large stakes in winning games would leave points on the table out of fear of looking dumb.

I have friends who bought a bungalow (basement + ground floor) that came with a central furnace for heating. I think it uses some sort of fossil fuel, but I forgot to ask. Might as well be electric.

Anyway, they're the only people I know with central heating. Almost everyone here in Quebec has strips of electric resistive heaters along the window-bearing walls instead.

They have a single thermostat for the whole house, and the basement gets WAY warmer than the ground floor. It's a struggle. They're always playing with the thermostat on the ground floor to balance things so no one's freezing and no one's sweating, but it's rough.

They're sick of it and when they have the money, they intend to have the furnace ripped out and replaced with electric strips.

My first thought was that to a proper engineer, making several zones work should be simple: you just add some sort of trapdoor in each vent that controls the amount of hot air each room gets, each wired up to its own thermostat. And if every trapdoor is closed, a special condition triggers that shuts the heating down entirely. I imagine it should be even simpler if you want something as simple as one zone for downstairs and one zone for upstairs.

One of my friends says it's a lot more complicated than that, that the simple system I'm envisioning would cause way too much power cycling, and that central heating that controls each zone separately requires really expensive equipment, that it can't be retrofitted in and that it only ever makes sense in a large commercial building.

I honestly hope he's wrong about that. I've always idealized central heating as something with a lot of potential, seeing as theoretically the vents can help with the whole "heat rises" problem and provides a way to mix the air better, and allows you to hook up a single big heat pump to your house and make the more efficient heat pump the heart of your setup without any complicated thermostat fiddling. Plus, central air conditioning, potentially.

So, how are things, really? Is central heating really that inconvenient?

This is a claim that was made by my mother who watches a lot of right wing leaning content and just does not make any sense. How true is this claim? Like obviously theres still people to respond to emergencies and such but is it that there are less patrols during this time period. Ive tried googling but there’s nothing about this showing.

There have been claims that Republicans had a bumper sticker in the early 1980’s that said:

“AIDS: Killing all the right people.”

It was even mentioned in Frontline’s Documentary: The Age of AIDS.

The problem is that I can’t find any picture evidence of this bumper sticker’s existence. Has anyone else ever seen this bumper sticker?

Thank you.

https://fcmponline.com/collections/composters/products/im4000-dual-chamber-tumbling-composter

IsItBullshit: i found a website called giinter.com, it seems to have good reviews, but some of the reviews are stating that their items never arrived. can someone tell me if this site is a scam or not before i waste my money? i looked up if it was legit, but results were inconclusive.

I’ve seen some people claim it’s unsafe to freeze rice because of diseases. Is there anything to that claim?

IsItBullshit: Task Manager is a Security Risk?

Within the last couple or weeks my job has disabled the ability to open task manager on all computers. I was annoyed but when i vented to my husband he pointed out that people could accidentally close something important if they weren't computer savvy. That makes sense. But then yesterday when I was talking to my manager, she said that the reason she was told it was disabled was because people outside of our company could use it to break into our servers and do nefarious things with our info. For reference, we are a medical clinic so security and HIPPA is huge. I can't find anything online that says people can hack use using task manager so...is it bullshit?

Watched a couple of shark videos on YouTube, and some of the comments said that humans appear too skinny for sharks to waste their energy to try and eat. That sharks are aware that it would net a loss in calorie expenditure/gain if they try to.

Is it bullshit? A plumber just tested my home's tap water quality and said the chlorine level is 2.5 ppm and that it is too high (however, Center for Disease Control's website says if it's less than 4ppm, it's safe) and I should pay him to install a special $2,200 chlorine filtration system even though I had a water softener system installed a year ago. I also have a reverse osmosis filter system already, but it's only filtering drinking water. I feel like he is just looking for a way to make money off of me. But he says that high chlorine levels can cause our baby to have respiratory problems like asthma, itchy skin and prolonged exposure to too much chlorine causes cancer according to him. Seems a bit extreme since we are only talking about 2.5ppm of chlorine. What do you guys think?

Edit: I’m using city water, not well water.

Read it from an old article...

"Human beings are strongly biphasic, as can be measured by an EEG during the day. We see a dip in measured attention and alertness around 7-8 hours after waking, when a short nap would be ideal!

SuperMemo has seen a near 50% increase in alertness in afternoon nappers from just a 20-minute siesta."

Apparently, they are sprayed with chemicals for transportation and storage, and it is safer pouring the drink to a glass or cleaning the can before drinking.

There are so many different hydration boosting powders like Drip Drop, Liquid I.V., and Needed (for pregnant women) Is it bullshit or is there some science behind it making hydration better?