Things everybody should know but for some reason, most don't.
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Too many things.
Recent one it the pervasive idea that bisexuality doesn't really exist and that if a man EVER has sexual interest in a man, he is Gay and that if a woman ever has sex with a man, she is heterosexual... regardless of habitual tendencies.
Recent one it the pervasive idea that bisexuality doesn't really exist and that if a man EVER has sexual interest in a man, he is Gay and that if a woman ever has sex with a man, she is heterosexual... regardless of habitual tendencies.
Everyone knows that to some significant extent.Blunderboy said:That companies exist to make money.
*ahem*
Yes I went there.
What people don't know is how much they do it for their personal wealth and how much they do it for there reasons, like progress of technological capability. Is it possible that Apple makes the iPad both for reasons of profit and as a matter of pride?
I'm sorry, I can't let this slide. To put it bluntly, Gravity is not a theory. Gravity is a law. It's been proven so many times, can be confirmed with induction, and isn't specific. Wikipedia for more, there's some other stuff, like laws are limited in that they can only be applied under certain circumstances, but I hope you get the general idea.Don Savik said:
Yes, there may be some things we still can discover about gravity, but there is no way to deny that it is a natural phenomenon. That's part of what makes them a law. Evolution is still a theory because it doesn't meet those criteria, and is a little bit specific.
Just wanted to clear this up. Might as well kill two birds with one stone and make this my contribution.
I know that, but that doesn't change the fact that gravity is a law. It used to be a theory, but it was proven so many times and met all the criteria to be declared a scientific law that it is. Evolution is still a scientific theory because it has been proven, but it doesn't meet the requirements to be called a law.Don Savik said:
If you are human, you are not as smart or rational as you think you are. Your mind uses fallacies casually, most of your critical thinking takes place on an unconscious level, and anything in your thought process that resembles logic is a tool to confirm what you already believe.
People are not smarter than they were several thousand years ago. There was never a time in which the intellectual community as a whole believed that the earth was flat, and practically every modern scientific theory has an ancient analogue that was arrived at without the benefit of the scientific method.
In spite of this, you are currently communicating with individuals around the world whom you have never met with a language spoken by roughly by one and a half billon people. You eat food that you likely didn't work to produce and you casually travel in a vehicle capable of moving faster than the fastest land animal. It is considerably likely (though not certain) that you live in a country that has little danger of being conquered by a foreign power.
And no one has been able to come up with a universally accepted explanation for what all of it means.
People are not smarter than they were several thousand years ago. There was never a time in which the intellectual community as a whole believed that the earth was flat, and practically every modern scientific theory has an ancient analogue that was arrived at without the benefit of the scientific method.
In spite of this, you are currently communicating with individuals around the world whom you have never met with a language spoken by roughly by one and a half billon people. You eat food that you likely didn't work to produce and you casually travel in a vehicle capable of moving faster than the fastest land animal. It is considerably likely (though not certain) that you live in a country that has little danger of being conquered by a foreign power.
And no one has been able to come up with a universally accepted explanation for what all of it means.
ANZAC Day confuses me. So, what, we're celebrating landing on the wrong beach during a war and getting the absolute shit blown out of us for days on end? Is that what we want to remember every year? That a fuck-up caused the Ottomans to brutally kill thousands of people? How is that something worth celebrating or even commemorating? Ah, well.thaluikhain said:
OT: The fact that most reality shows are staged. It baffles me that people think Operation Repo is real.
EDIT: Oh, and "literally" is not used to emphasise a point (ie. "That literally blew my mind")
triggrhappy94 said:
Actually in Evolutionary terms Intelligence is often a very bad move , it raises the bodies requirements for nutrition by a lot and it requires a incredibly complex and efficient heating/cooling system so is very rarely worth it.
It took the combination of us going bipedal and a paradigm shift in the climate and amount of food about to allow us to expand the amount of resources we could use and of course the opposable thumb issue for us to make the leap. very specific and rare circumstances. the otehr 99.99% of the time it would of been a death sentence. but it Fit the niche of the time so it worked
Holy shit!!! May I ask whereabouts your school is because well, that's ridiculous? I'm in year eleven in Sydney's Northern Suburbs and even the dunces in the year could explain it to some degree. I think my parents were correct in blocking Nickelodeon, Disney channel etc so I had only Discovery, History and Net Geo to watch when I got home.Mazza35 said:
Well, I'd like to hope that it was supposed to be more remembrance than celebration, as in "fucking hell, let's make sure never to do something like that again".CyanideSandwich said:
But, nowdays it's an excuse to wear flags as capes and get drunk to celebrate. And don't get me started on the drunken rock concerts on the battlefields.
In England in the 90's, we were taught more about Iranian history than we were English or British history.
The only piece of English history I EVER recall from school and college was the battle of Hastings. That's it.
No Pre-history. No Roman conquest. No Viking invasion. No Norman conquests. No royalty. No civil war. No Industrial revolution. No Empire glory days. No Empire fall days. And No world war I. It generously picks up at World War II though, which is helpful. But after that, modern history might as well go fuck itself. No boom time 50's, no swingin' 60's, no anarchist 70's, no reign of Thatcher 80's... Sigh.
As a result, my class mates grew up not even knowing that England has it's roots set deeper than 50 years ago... They know absolutely nothing about their own country. I literally fucking bet you that none of my classmates can name the previous monarch. Or that we were the most powerful country in the world. And that we went and blew it all because of a single man named Gandhi. They don't know of all the epic conflicts in times gone by. The crusades, wars against the French, the Scottish, the Spanish, the Irish, Infact... Every country ever. And the fact that we've had our fair share of being the '*****' to the Italians and the Scandinavians.
But hey, at least we know the 5 pillars of Islam of by heart, and the entire freaking odyssey of Iran and Persia in general. It's a blatant ploy to get us to relate the the middle east in spite of recent... erm, tensions. The education ministers try desperately to get us to understand the culture we're really angry at for one reason or another, so that we don't discriminate. Yeah, great.
The only piece of English history I EVER recall from school and college was the battle of Hastings. That's it.
No Pre-history. No Roman conquest. No Viking invasion. No Norman conquests. No royalty. No civil war. No Industrial revolution. No Empire glory days. No Empire fall days. And No world war I. It generously picks up at World War II though, which is helpful. But after that, modern history might as well go fuck itself. No boom time 50's, no swingin' 60's, no anarchist 70's, no reign of Thatcher 80's... Sigh.
As a result, my class mates grew up not even knowing that England has it's roots set deeper than 50 years ago... They know absolutely nothing about their own country. I literally fucking bet you that none of my classmates can name the previous monarch. Or that we were the most powerful country in the world. And that we went and blew it all because of a single man named Gandhi. They don't know of all the epic conflicts in times gone by. The crusades, wars against the French, the Scottish, the Spanish, the Irish, Infact... Every country ever. And the fact that we've had our fair share of being the '*****' to the Italians and the Scandinavians.
But hey, at least we know the 5 pillars of Islam of by heart, and the entire freaking odyssey of Iran and Persia in general. It's a blatant ploy to get us to relate the the middle east in spite of recent... erm, tensions. The education ministers try desperately to get us to understand the culture we're really angry at for one reason or another, so that we don't discriminate. Yeah, great.
No, ANZAC day was originally to remember those who lost their lives in WWI, but no it's extended to all ANZACS.thaluikhain said:
Yes some people are disgracefull to it, but this year I'm marching in full uniform (WWI) and hopefully taking part part in volley shots.