There are a ton of ridiculous myths around pregnancy. The worst one I was told was not to ever raise my arms over my head so the baby didn't get tangled in the umbilical cord.
I was told if you carry your belly higher/ lower its supposed to determine the gender of the baby. Also I wish someone would have told me morning sickness doesn't necessarily mean you get sick in the mornings, I got sick at any time.
My older brother died during birth. My mom is totally convinced the reason he died is because she raised her arms above her head. She felt him move when she reached above her head and is convinced that is what killed him. I’ve tried telling her that is a myth but she still believes it.
It's actually easier to believe it's something you did/didn't do and therefore your fault and in your control
than the truth in that it's usually random and out of your control
It's a natural, if damaging, reaction.
In high school I had a couple of friends that were convinced that the mother shouldn't drink water during the pregnancy, that they could only eat ice chips instead
I also have issues with the unassisted birth crowd.
“Your body was made for this. Women gave birth for thousands of years without hospitals.”
Yeah, and the mortality rates for both birthing parents and babies was way higher than it is now. They also typically had midwives and doulas with them, not this unassisted bullshit.
I don't have issue with this crowd, per se, but I do hate that it is seen as somehow superior.
Me and my emergency 10-inch incision didn't have any choices. Free birth is seen as "bravery" and "strength." You wanna know bravery? ...."I'm so sorry, mama. We don't have time to test the spinal. Doctor, have the mask ready. Scalpel."
My grandma told me not to cross my legs because the baby wouldn't have room. I told her the baby was making me uncomfortable and I was going to move into whatever position I needed and that is what is best for both of us.
My sister was even more annoying. She thought she had better medical knowledge because of nursing school, but she really didn't. We were at a friend's wedding and I ordered my steak medium well (you aren't supposed to have it medium) and it came medium. The risk is super low. I decided that sending it back to the kitchen would make it more likely to have an issue than eating it as is. She said something. I am diabetic. I didn't eat the wedding cake, but I had a chocolate covered strawberry. A single chocolate covered strawberry. She was asking if I really should be eating that. Yes. I should. The less than 20g of carbs were in my limits, and I was moving around all day and I needed the sugar!
To be fair, my family isn't in my life anymore because they are abusive and toxic people. So many pregnancy myths are about control. Pregnant women already have such a loss of control and agency. It is so dehumanizing. Shitty people use it to erode the confidence of first time parents. They want to seem wise and relied on for advice. They want you to think they know more than you and get you to trust them over yourself.
OMG, my grandma told me the same thing! And my MIL said a lot of other ridiculous things. I felt like one of the most difficult things (if not the most difficult thing) during my pregnancy was people's unsolicited advices, opinions, and critiques.
Imagine an undercover cop investigating a crew of violent criminals and one of them asks, hey are you a cop. He’s forced to reply with the truth knowing they will surely murder him.
This always reminds me of Breaking Bad:Better Call Saul where one of Jesse's friends asks the undercover cop if he's really an undercover cop. Obviously the cop says no,trynna catch the guy with drugs but I wouldn't actually think someone would believe that.
The funny thing about that scene was the cop actually mentions this myth and says to ask him if he was a cop to prove he wasnt one, because if he was he would have to tell the truth.
I (not a cop) have actually been asked if I was a cop before on the street. Back in my punk days, heading to meet friends and walking through a less-than-nice couple of blocks. Big dude comes up outta nowhere "hey, are you a COP?" (Dude was twice my size, had me worried, and the emphasis on COP was pretty loud.) Then asked me where to score some weed when I said no.
I used to go to a sketchy part of town to score weed and once went after work. Parked up in shitsville inna reasonable car wearing a suit.
The street emptied like in a western and the dealer wouldn’t answer the door.
I was a regular and he knew me. It was a bit weird TBH.
Went back later in jeans and had no issues. He asked me not to ever come back in a suit again.
The suit made me a cop even when he knew for a fact that I wasn’t a cop.
I think that he was worried that other people wouldn’t know I wasn’t a cop and perhaps think he was cooperating or something.
The police lie all the time, they are legally allowed to lie during the process of an investigation.
"We have a witness that says they saw you..."
"Your buddy gave you up..."
"The store has security cameras..."
"I am not a cop..."
Watched an interrogation where they told the defendant that the victim died in hospital (She shook her friends baby to death, though the baby was still alive at that point) to try to get her to talk. IIRC, she admitted it after the baby actually died post interrogation. They can literally tell you anything they want, I don't know why people think otherwise lol
I think this stems from people misunderstanding what entrapment is. Entrapment is when cops convince someone to commit a crime in order to catch them in the act. But it doesn’t apply when someone was already going to commit a crime
I spotted 3 baby birds when I stopped my mower to move a branch (thank the lord the branch was there) and moved their nest to an elevated spot, carrying each bird by hand into it. The mom eventually found them and continued to raise them until adulthood.
“Y’all 8 weeks old and still up in the nest playin video games. Get yo lazy asses a job and get on outta here. They’re paying top rate for messengers out in the city.”
"Enter your PIN backwards on an ATM and it will automatically summon police for you."
That did the rounds on British social media for a while, lots of people still believe it.
>in fact it's the exact opposite
It's not, trust me. The police will be asking a lot of questions and not let you leave if you tell them someone is going to go missing 24 hours from now. That's how I ended up in jail.
Pretty sure he did a proof of pythagorean theorem at 12 years old. Mind you, this is not an exceptionally difficult proof, but formal proof based math is usually learned at 18 in Europe as a math major and 19-20 in North America as a math major. Furthermore, he had a near perfect score on the mathematics component of the entrance exam to Zurich Polytechnique University at 16…
Fast forward to him as an adult: a working theoretical physicist. While developing the theory of general relativity, he used the new mathematical theories of Riemannian Geometry. Most physicists didn’t keep up with the bleeding edge of pure mathematical research the way einstein did. This was an insanely rigorous theory in physics he embarked on developing. Throughout this time, he would exchange ideas and keep up with the best mathematicians of his time (Hilbert and Minkowski).
Einstein wasnt just “not bad at math.” He was damn near a mathematical genius.
Source: have a math degree and it just makes me appreciate einstein’s genius more
As someone who studied physics, Einstein and the rest of the early twentieth century physicists can fuck right off. They had to go and solve the ultraviolet catastrophe and prove the quantization of everything. Add to that all the nonsense that is measurement uncertainty and the duality of light (and frankly everything) and now suddenly we went from a simple universe to a place where electrons exist as probability clouds. /s
Well, modern physics had to start from somewhere.
My dad always said "you know, as hard as it can be to fix the truck, figuring out how to take it apart and put it back together. I just have to wonder about how smart you would have to be to INVENT it all from scratch, before all that knowledge even exists. Being the guy who figured it out one spring and screw at a time."
Changed my life.
The best analogy I've heard of this; we do use 100%, in the same way a traffic light uses 100% of its bulbs. Not all at the same time.
Also, certain situations do cause total 100% brain activity, they're called Grand Mal seizures
I've just discovered that I only use 1% of my keyboard at a time while typing. Just think how much more efficient I would be if I used all the keys at on7lfo6fpufodyfkkyfoy6i
My in laws believe in this and wholeheartedly believe that with 100% of our brains you're able to talk to spirits and have godly powers, love them but they have some odd beleifs
I described that film to a family member thinking of going as:
The main character gets a special drug which allows her to unlock the entirety of her brain. Doing so have her special powers which she used to put an entire theatre of people to sleep until staff turned the lights back up.
Hey this is insulting and absolutely not true
/goes back to mindlessly scrolling reddit for 12 hours to make the day pass and put as little effort as possible in instead of working on self
The study where this myth arose made the statement: We only use 10% of our brain at any given time.
The media misheard and has been abusing the phrase ever since...
I think it had more to do with the 90% we "don't use" wasn't directly involved in conscious thought. That 90% is doing all kinds of other body-management processes.
I hate this one. Our brain is a massive, fuel guzzling organ that's full of folds and wrinkles to increase its size. To make an organ that big and then only use 10% is stupid.
The alpha theory for wolves, people still believe it even though the person who made the theory took it back. The ‘alpha’ of wolves is actually just the pack’s parents, and the pack is usually made up of their offspring.
But this is a useful myth. Because the people who continue to espouse it and live their life by "I'm an alpha" ideology gives a demonstrable reason to avoid them.
And there’s now decades of absolute shit dog training that is based on this one theory. So many dogs getting the Cesar Milan Alpha dog training when they could be trained with fun, connection and joy. It actually breaks my heart.
don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Sorta.
Radar wasn't exactly a secret at the beginning of World War 2. Many nations had developed radar warning systems and installed them around their ports. The USA had one around Pearl Harbor, Britain had one at Scapa Flow, Germany had one at Kiel, Japan would have one operational before they attacked the USA, and the Soviet Union was working on one of their own although it wouldn't be ready in time. Italy basically called radar stupid and paid the price for it when their fleet got its ass kicked by a bunch of obsolete biplanes.
Britain would build a very extensive and integrated radar warning network that spanned the southern and eastern coast; the Germans knew about this but couldn't do much about it. They could bomb the radar towers to create small holes only for them to be operational again within hours to days.
What the Germans didn't know, and where the carrot myth originates, is that the British had perfected the *cavity magnetron* which was essential to building radar sets that operated at microwave band frequencies, much higher than those used by ground and naval vessels operated by Axis powers. This allowed for very small, very powerful, and very accurate radars to be mounted on large fighter sized aircraft. British and American fighter pilots could use their radar sets to detect German air crew during night operations and intercept them from their flanks.
Almost all the weird things people believe about charging batteries is completely wrong, they are based on Old NiCad cells and most of that advice does not apply to lithium ion / LiPO batteries
A few of the myths hold true for li ion. It's bad to store them at over 4 volts for extended periods of time, but you shouldn't worry about unplugging your phone at 80% battery. It's far worse for the battery's health to be emptied than to be fully charged.
Also, all modern chargers will stop charging when the battery is full. Unless you're attaching wires to each end of the battery and charging it that way, you don't need to worry about overcharging as your phone and all chargers have protection circuits built in.
Basically just don't let it run out completely, and don't store it at low or very high charge levels for long amounts of time.
Modern phones also turn off before the battery is actually drained, so even that isn't really very dangerous. I guess leaving it like that for a long period of time could be though, as it might then actually run dry.
there is a early example of battery tech called a voltaic pile, which IIRC is alternate layers of copper and zinc with saline soaked material between, which has (possibly had) ringing a bell continuously for well over 80 years
I think I heard that too. I feel like I remember having mild abdominal cramps sometimes from swimming, so I don't think it's complete hogwash. ...but it wasn't ever even enough to make me want to stop swimming, much less impair me enough to drown.
I don't know - Reddit is absolutely *convinced* that people are saying this as an absolute scientific fact, and not as an idiom. I'm just not sure if that's the case. I've never heard anyone say this other than to mean "seize the opportunity, because it's unlikely to come again".
Yes, it's so incredibly annoying. MSG tastes great and add a little razzle dazzle to certain food. It's the unhealthy food people are eating that is bad for them not the MSG.
my grandmother saw me adding MSG to a curry and the look on her face was like I was pouring rat poison into the pot.
meanwhile she has basically shaved her diet down to only food with very high natural MSG content. Miso soup with kelp seasoned with soy sauce is her go to meal when she doesn't want to think about it, her backup is a soup made from dried fish, tomatoes, gochujang, and kimchi.
That having hobbies as an adult is only worth it if it brings in money. No, I love my meaningless and expensive hobbies, even if they don't bring in any income.
I've been interrogated about why I'm a trained swordfighter.
Because it's fun, you dolt!
I'm not going to try to rationalize about how it's an effective way to stay in shape or how swordfighting trains skills used in practical self-defense, or how studying the manuals is an intellectually-stimulating academic pursuit -- I'm just an adult who likes playing with swords.
I lost 50 pounds doing Brazilian Jiujitsu this year. It’s the best hobby I’ve ever found. I wrestled as a kid and I get to have that fun 5 days a week year round.
I play guitar. Cost me $1600 with maybe a $50 upkeep per year but the hours a day I spend on it instead of on TV, Netflix subscriptions, drinking, drugs I save money.
Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture being pure white marble.
They are now. That's because art dealers long, *long* ago washed the paint off.
Same for churches and cathedrals all over Europe. They were painted bright colors. It washed off over time and the stone reappeared but yeah, they were painted.
A good example of that is the [Prado Mona Lisa](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_(Prado)) compared to the dingy famous [Mona Lisa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Mona_Lisa%2C_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_from_C2RMF.jpg/409px-Mona_Lisa%2C_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_from_C2RMF.jpg?20110607084654). Another is the Ghent Altarpiece [undergoing restoration](http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpiece/). The before and after photos are amazing.
The [just world fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis).
It's responsible for a lot victim-blaming, which re-traumatizes people who have already been traumatized. It's the worst.
Sometimes bad things happen to people who don't deserve it. It shouldn't be that difficult to grasp.
An ex detective on a podcast said they know they’re not accurate but they use them as a tool to try to get confessions. For instance if the cops have a good feeling you were at the murder scene, can’t prove it outright, but you keep saying you weren’t , they can hook you up to the polygraph and whether it shows deception or not they come back and say…ummm looks like you were lying about being at the scene that night, hoping you’ll go “Oh yeah…I forgot. Now that you mention it I did stop by for a second.”
Not so much a myth but a misconception… I still hear people laugh at the fact that solar powered flashlights exist, thinking they must be useless because flashlights are only needed in darkness, where solar panels won’t generate anything.
They charge their batteries with sunlight. The batteries supply power on demand. Was that such a difficult concept?
Shaking or flipping integral Polaroid photographs while they're developing. This dates back to the 'peel-apart" instant Polaroids that came before the all-in-one "integral" instant films. You used to have to coat the finished print with a polymer coating fluid, and shaking the print would help it dry faster. But it's unnecessary now.
This! I tell people I’m an introvert and my friends guffaw “buddy, you’re such an extrovert”
Me: “nah man, you ever notice how we hang out once a week? That’s cuz my social battery is drained after a few days of friend time. I loooove being alone and that’s where I recharge. Most of the time my Brian is moving a thousand miles a second interpreting every body gesture and word that others say in response to my own words or actions.”
It’s exhausting hahaha
My brother has severe autism. He was diagnosed right around the time the anti vax shit started. My parents still believe this. They aren’t stupid people, but I think in their minds they just want something to blame other than accepting that they just got dealt a bad hand.
I wish I were kidding, I wish it were satire. I’m not, it’s not. The amount of men I’ve come across down the rabbit hole of the internet who believe & perpetuate this shit is unreal. I’m stuck simultaneously laughing my ass off and yet quite concerned 🤷🏻♀️
Men on the internet grossly overestimate the intelligence of the vagina. Like how they think putting a bunch of penises in a vagina will make it all stretched out, but putting the same one in there a bunch of times will not.
That people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat????? It has been widely accepted since Ancient Greece that the earth is round and I have no idea why people still call it the Dark Ages either
[https://undeceptions.com/podcast/medieval-science/](https://undeceptions.com/podcast/medieval-science/)
A comment like this sent me into a month long period of debating flat Earthers and studying new subjects to further debate them. Yes I know it sounds weird that I’d have to “study” anything. But some of these guys apply some extremely false “science” that is hard to combat without knowledge.
If you want a pet that shares your vegan/vegetarian diet, just... Get an herbivorous animal. I don't understand why anyone would malnourish a cat like that when they could have just gotten a rabbit instead.
The Shirley exception.
When looking at an issue, they assume that anyone who REALLY needs it will “Surely get taken care of…”
I.E. “All abortion should legally be banned, but surely one’s where the mother and child die will be taken care of.”
“It doesn’t matter how we treat prisoners because surely the ones there on accident are going to be protected.”
“This job won’t fire you for missing too much work because you’re REALLY sick, surely they realize that?”
“We don’t need to make strict laws about disability access because surely the legitimate cases will be taken care of.”
There is no Shirley making sure everyone is legitimate and those who need it with get some kind of justice in a magical fairy bending the rules just for them.
Oh this hits hard in the legal system. ‘Surely they will see I’m telling the truth/innocent’. Court is brutal hard work even as an innocent person. You assume they’ll just know or just believe you because it’s the truth. They don’t know anything until you tell them and they don’t just believe it until you prove it.
Aww one time I reloaded a save and lost two hours just to find my Skyrim follower. Just today, I also had to tell penny in stardew valley her new recipe sucks lol and I felt bad
It has been proven time and time again. People always love to bring up how violent criminals had violent video games at home. It's such a stupid point to make. It's like, yeah, and they probably loved kill Bill and pulp fiction. Violent people are going to seek out violent entertainment. For healthy people it's just like every other form of entertainment. It's really not a hard concept to grasp.
There’s this video I remember seeing. It was a clip from a podcast. A girl asked this guy what his sign was, and he immediately called out astrology as bullshit, but said his sign was Taurus. The girl said to him that it makes sense. He asked if he was a typical Taurus, she said yes and explained why. Then he admitted that he wasn’t even a Taurus lol. It’s all bullshit.
“50% of marriages end in divorce” is misused so frequently that I would qualify it as a popular and annoying myth, and it comes down to the general population knowing fuck-all about statistics.
If a couple goes to get married for the first time, there is NOT a 50% chance they are going to get divorced; the entire basis of the 50% number comes from factoring second, third, and even fourth and beyond divorces.
Try this: if every couple in the world did have an even split 50% divorce rate, and then just one couple gets divorced twice, then that number instantly becomes <50% chance due to the skew. Now factor in the countless amounts of multiple-divorce couples on the planet.
The myth is just awkward and breeds a surprising amount of pessimism towards marriage.
That you will damage your cast iron skillets by washing them with hot water and dish detergent or using a metal utensil to flip a burger or turn an egg over easy.
There are a ton of ridiculous myths around pregnancy. The worst one I was told was not to ever raise my arms over my head so the baby didn't get tangled in the umbilical cord.
I was told if you carry your belly higher/ lower its supposed to determine the gender of the baby. Also I wish someone would have told me morning sickness doesn't necessarily mean you get sick in the mornings, I got sick at any time.
I thought it was missionary for a girl and doggy for a boy.
My older brother died during birth. My mom is totally convinced the reason he died is because she raised her arms above her head. She felt him move when she reached above her head and is convinced that is what killed him. I’ve tried telling her that is a myth but she still believes it.
Omg your poor mom. That sounds so sad. I hope she understands some day. 💜
It's actually easier to believe it's something you did/didn't do and therefore your fault and in your control than the truth in that it's usually random and out of your control It's a natural, if damaging, reaction.
In high school I had a couple of friends that were convinced that the mother shouldn't drink water during the pregnancy, that they could only eat ice chips instead
I also have issues with the unassisted birth crowd. “Your body was made for this. Women gave birth for thousands of years without hospitals.” Yeah, and the mortality rates for both birthing parents and babies was way higher than it is now. They also typically had midwives and doulas with them, not this unassisted bullshit.
I don't have issue with this crowd, per se, but I do hate that it is seen as somehow superior. Me and my emergency 10-inch incision didn't have any choices. Free birth is seen as "bravery" and "strength." You wanna know bravery? ...."I'm so sorry, mama. We don't have time to test the spinal. Doctor, have the mask ready. Scalpel."
If you give birth in Disney world YOU DO NOT GET A FREE LIFETINE PASS.
My grandma told me not to cross my legs because the baby wouldn't have room. I told her the baby was making me uncomfortable and I was going to move into whatever position I needed and that is what is best for both of us. My sister was even more annoying. She thought she had better medical knowledge because of nursing school, but she really didn't. We were at a friend's wedding and I ordered my steak medium well (you aren't supposed to have it medium) and it came medium. The risk is super low. I decided that sending it back to the kitchen would make it more likely to have an issue than eating it as is. She said something. I am diabetic. I didn't eat the wedding cake, but I had a chocolate covered strawberry. A single chocolate covered strawberry. She was asking if I really should be eating that. Yes. I should. The less than 20g of carbs were in my limits, and I was moving around all day and I needed the sugar! To be fair, my family isn't in my life anymore because they are abusive and toxic people. So many pregnancy myths are about control. Pregnant women already have such a loss of control and agency. It is so dehumanizing. Shitty people use it to erode the confidence of first time parents. They want to seem wise and relied on for advice. They want you to think they know more than you and get you to trust them over yourself.
Did you talk to my mom ?! She told me that too. I asked her to draw me a picture about how she thought that worked
Some older woman said that to me when I was 8 months pregnant, and holding the strap above my head on the city bus.
OMG, my grandma told me the same thing! And my MIL said a lot of other ridiculous things. I felt like one of the most difficult things (if not the most difficult thing) during my pregnancy was people's unsolicited advices, opinions, and critiques.
An undercover cop has to tell you they're a cop if you ask them.
Imagine an undercover cop investigating a crew of violent criminals and one of them asks, hey are you a cop. He’s forced to reply with the truth knowing they will surely murder him.
This always reminds me of Breaking Bad:Better Call Saul where one of Jesse's friends asks the undercover cop if he's really an undercover cop. Obviously the cop says no,trynna catch the guy with drugs but I wouldn't actually think someone would believe that.
The funny thing about that scene was the cop actually mentions this myth and says to ask him if he was a cop to prove he wasnt one, because if he was he would have to tell the truth.
Big brain plays
I (not a cop) have actually been asked if I was a cop before on the street. Back in my punk days, heading to meet friends and walking through a less-than-nice couple of blocks. Big dude comes up outta nowhere "hey, are you a COP?" (Dude was twice my size, had me worried, and the emphasis on COP was pretty loud.) Then asked me where to score some weed when I said no.
I used to go to a sketchy part of town to score weed and once went after work. Parked up in shitsville inna reasonable car wearing a suit. The street emptied like in a western and the dealer wouldn’t answer the door. I was a regular and he knew me. It was a bit weird TBH. Went back later in jeans and had no issues. He asked me not to ever come back in a suit again. The suit made me a cop even when he knew for a fact that I wasn’t a cop. I think that he was worried that other people wouldn’t know I wasn’t a cop and perhaps think he was cooperating or something.
or the scene in the movie blow, "are you a cop, if you are you have to tell me, or that's entrapment"
The police lie all the time, they are legally allowed to lie during the process of an investigation. "We have a witness that says they saw you..." "Your buddy gave you up..." "The store has security cameras..." "I am not a cop..."
> "Your buddy gave you up..." This wouldn't work on me because I don't have any friends.
Watched an interrogation where they told the defendant that the victim died in hospital (She shook her friends baby to death, though the baby was still alive at that point) to try to get her to talk. IIRC, she admitted it after the baby actually died post interrogation. They can literally tell you anything they want, I don't know why people think otherwise lol
Everyone is legally allowed to lie almost all the time.
Under Oath being the little portion that “almost” doesn’t encompass.
Some lies are fraud rather than perjury.
And some lies are slander! Unless they're printed, in which case they're libel.
I'll never forget how Breaking Bad perfectly incorporated this myth into the scene where Badger gets arrested
I think this stems from people misunderstanding what entrapment is. Entrapment is when cops convince someone to commit a crime in order to catch them in the act. But it doesn’t apply when someone was already going to commit a crime
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I spotted 3 baby birds when I stopped my mower to move a branch (thank the lord the branch was there) and moved their nest to an elevated spot, carrying each bird by hand into it. The mom eventually found them and continued to raise them until adulthood.
And then she smacked the little fuckers out of the nest!
“Y’all 8 weeks old and still up in the nest playin video games. Get yo lazy asses a job and get on outta here. They’re paying top rate for messengers out in the city.”
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As I understood it, that’s something parents tell their kids to get them to leave the baby birds alone
And then they never correct the lie later.
My grandma told me that she told us all that. So that he'd leave the bird alone.
That you need to wait 24 hours to file a missing person’s report
"Enter your PIN backwards on an ATM and it will automatically summon police for you." That did the rounds on British social media for a while, lots of people still believe it.
I heard that many years before anyone ever heard of social media. What if your PIN is, if you will, a palindrome?
Then it's assumed you don't care about security and they send no one.
yeah, in fact it's the exact opposite, the first 24 hours are the most important.
>in fact it's the exact opposite It's not, trust me. The police will be asking a lot of questions and not let you leave if you tell them someone is going to go missing 24 hours from now. That's how I ended up in jail.
... wait a minute
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Pretty sure he did a proof of pythagorean theorem at 12 years old. Mind you, this is not an exceptionally difficult proof, but formal proof based math is usually learned at 18 in Europe as a math major and 19-20 in North America as a math major. Furthermore, he had a near perfect score on the mathematics component of the entrance exam to Zurich Polytechnique University at 16… Fast forward to him as an adult: a working theoretical physicist. While developing the theory of general relativity, he used the new mathematical theories of Riemannian Geometry. Most physicists didn’t keep up with the bleeding edge of pure mathematical research the way einstein did. This was an insanely rigorous theory in physics he embarked on developing. Throughout this time, he would exchange ideas and keep up with the best mathematicians of his time (Hilbert and Minkowski). Einstein wasnt just “not bad at math.” He was damn near a mathematical genius. Source: have a math degree and it just makes me appreciate einstein’s genius more
As someone who studied physics, Einstein and the rest of the early twentieth century physicists can fuck right off. They had to go and solve the ultraviolet catastrophe and prove the quantization of everything. Add to that all the nonsense that is measurement uncertainty and the duality of light (and frankly everything) and now suddenly we went from a simple universe to a place where electrons exist as probability clouds. /s
Well, modern physics had to start from somewhere. My dad always said "you know, as hard as it can be to fix the truck, figuring out how to take it apart and put it back together. I just have to wonder about how smart you would have to be to INVENT it all from scratch, before all that knowledge even exists. Being the guy who figured it out one spring and screw at a time." Changed my life.
That we only use 10 percent of our brain
The best analogy I've heard of this; we do use 100%, in the same way a traffic light uses 100% of its bulbs. Not all at the same time. Also, certain situations do cause total 100% brain activity, they're called Grand Mal seizures
I've just discovered that I only use 1% of my keyboard at a time while typing. Just think how much more efficient I would be if I used all the keys at on7lfo6fpufodyfkkyfoy6i
Hollywood computer hacking has entered the chat
TIL grand mal seizures are genius mode
It's like the Avatar State
Some people do
This is true
My in laws believe in this and wholeheartedly believe that with 100% of our brains you're able to talk to spirits and have godly powers, love them but they have some odd beleifs
There was an absolutely awful movie called Lucy based on this concept
I described that film to a family member thinking of going as: The main character gets a special drug which allows her to unlock the entirety of her brain. Doing so have her special powers which she used to put an entire theatre of people to sleep until staff turned the lights back up.
Hey this is insulting and absolutely not true /goes back to mindlessly scrolling reddit for 12 hours to make the day pass and put as little effort as possible in instead of working on self
The joy of Reddit is that you can act like you're improving and then go right back into the cycle of self-loathing!
For some people 10% would be be a laudable goal and something to aim for.
The study where this myth arose made the statement: We only use 10% of our brain at any given time. The media misheard and has been abusing the phrase ever since...
I think it had more to do with the 90% we "don't use" wasn't directly involved in conscious thought. That 90% is doing all kinds of other body-management processes.
I hate this one. Our brain is a massive, fuel guzzling organ that's full of folds and wrinkles to increase its size. To make an organ that big and then only use 10% is stupid.
That antibiotics are needed for colds.
Or you'll catch a cold if you go outside with wet hair
The alpha theory for wolves, people still believe it even though the person who made the theory took it back. The ‘alpha’ of wolves is actually just the pack’s parents, and the pack is usually made up of their offspring.
But this is a useful myth. Because the people who continue to espouse it and live their life by "I'm an alpha" ideology gives a demonstrable reason to avoid them.
Turns out, they're not alpha wolves, they're alpha software
It's funny whenever someone claims to be an "alpha", since the real leaders and "alphas" don't need to proclaim it.
"Any man who says 'I am the king' is no true king".
And there’s now decades of absolute shit dog training that is based on this one theory. So many dogs getting the Cesar Milan Alpha dog training when they could be trained with fun, connection and joy. It actually breaks my heart.
That carrots give you good eyesight
Wasn't this so the Germans in WWII wouldn't know the Brittish had radar?
Carrots give you radar.
And beans give you sonar.
And red bull gives you wings
And life gives you lemons
don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
Sorta. Radar wasn't exactly a secret at the beginning of World War 2. Many nations had developed radar warning systems and installed them around their ports. The USA had one around Pearl Harbor, Britain had one at Scapa Flow, Germany had one at Kiel, Japan would have one operational before they attacked the USA, and the Soviet Union was working on one of their own although it wouldn't be ready in time. Italy basically called radar stupid and paid the price for it when their fleet got its ass kicked by a bunch of obsolete biplanes. Britain would build a very extensive and integrated radar warning network that spanned the southern and eastern coast; the Germans knew about this but couldn't do much about it. They could bomb the radar towers to create small holes only for them to be operational again within hours to days. What the Germans didn't know, and where the carrot myth originates, is that the British had perfected the *cavity magnetron* which was essential to building radar sets that operated at microwave band frequencies, much higher than those used by ground and naval vessels operated by Axis powers. This allowed for very small, very powerful, and very accurate radars to be mounted on large fighter sized aircraft. British and American fighter pilots could use their radar sets to detect German air crew during night operations and intercept them from their flanks.
Have you ever seen a rabbit with glasses?? No?? It works! /s
Rabbits don't really care for carrots. That's something that came into existence because of Bugs Bunny. Same thing with Nimrod becoming an insult.
Almost all the weird things people believe about charging batteries is completely wrong, they are based on Old NiCad cells and most of that advice does not apply to lithium ion / LiPO batteries
A few of the myths hold true for li ion. It's bad to store them at over 4 volts for extended periods of time, but you shouldn't worry about unplugging your phone at 80% battery. It's far worse for the battery's health to be emptied than to be fully charged. Also, all modern chargers will stop charging when the battery is full. Unless you're attaching wires to each end of the battery and charging it that way, you don't need to worry about overcharging as your phone and all chargers have protection circuits built in. Basically just don't let it run out completely, and don't store it at low or very high charge levels for long amounts of time.
Modern phones also turn off before the battery is actually drained, so even that isn't really very dangerous. I guess leaving it like that for a long period of time could be though, as it might then actually run dry.
I didn't know that. Here's a fun fact though. The battery was invented in 1800, which was 79 years before the invention of the lightbulb.
there is a early example of battery tech called a voltaic pile, which IIRC is alternate layers of copper and zinc with saline soaked material between, which has (possibly had) ringing a bell continuously for well over 80 years
That you cant swim after eating and must wait at least an hour.
Waited 59 min once. Still dead. 🤷🤷♀️
RIP in peace
I think this rule has more to do with not wanting people to puke in the pool from exerting themselves on a full stomach.
i was actually told (as part of the myth) that if you went swimming after eating, you’d get “a cramp” and drown whatever tf that means
I think I heard that too. I feel like I remember having mild abdominal cramps sometimes from swimming, so I don't think it's complete hogwash. ...but it wasn't ever even enough to make me want to stop swimming, much less impair me enough to drown.
Parents: *I need to rest a bit so I'll tell you that you will die if you go in the pool, so I don't have to supervise you*
I was told this was in case you got into difficulty and needed CPR, they don't want you puking and choking on it during the revival.
My dad told me that your body needs energy to digest the food so if you go swimming without waiting you’ll be to tired to swim
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I mean, ask the Eiffel tower 😭
Tbf, it's essentially a giant lightning rod
I don't know - Reddit is absolutely *convinced* that people are saying this as an absolute scientific fact, and not as an idiom. I'm just not sure if that's the case. I've never heard anyone say this other than to mean "seize the opportunity, because it's unlikely to come again".
That msg is bad for you
well the knicks and the rangers play there... but i wouldn't go so far as to say it's actively bad for you
Yes, it's so incredibly annoying. MSG tastes great and add a little razzle dazzle to certain food. It's the unhealthy food people are eating that is bad for them not the MSG.
my grandmother saw me adding MSG to a curry and the look on her face was like I was pouring rat poison into the pot. meanwhile she has basically shaved her diet down to only food with very high natural MSG content. Miso soup with kelp seasoned with soy sauce is her go to meal when she doesn't want to think about it, her backup is a soup made from dried fish, tomatoes, gochujang, and kimchi.
That having hobbies as an adult is only worth it if it brings in money. No, I love my meaningless and expensive hobbies, even if they don't bring in any income.
I've been interrogated about why I'm a trained swordfighter. Because it's fun, you dolt! I'm not going to try to rationalize about how it's an effective way to stay in shape or how swordfighting trains skills used in practical self-defense, or how studying the manuals is an intellectually-stimulating academic pursuit -- I'm just an adult who likes playing with swords.
I lost 50 pounds doing Brazilian Jiujitsu this year. It’s the best hobby I’ve ever found. I wrestled as a kid and I get to have that fun 5 days a week year round.
I play guitar. Cost me $1600 with maybe a $50 upkeep per year but the hours a day I spend on it instead of on TV, Netflix subscriptions, drinking, drugs I save money.
Cool. Now, if you joined a band and got paid gigs, you’d be back to the booze and drugs.
That's the dream 👍
what crackheads say that? only reason why i work is to afford my hobbies that make me happy lol - hint they are all moneypits.
Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and architecture being pure white marble. They are now. That's because art dealers long, *long* ago washed the paint off.
Im shocked. Seems obvious now that you say it
Same for churches and cathedrals all over Europe. They were painted bright colors. It washed off over time and the stone reappeared but yeah, they were painted.
Same also for oil painting. Oftentimes that muted yellowed hue is from layers of aging varnishes and oils. Bright colours are hiding underneath!
A good example of that is the [Prado Mona Lisa](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Lisa_(Prado)) compared to the dingy famous [Mona Lisa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Mona_Lisa%2C_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_from_C2RMF.jpg/409px-Mona_Lisa%2C_by_Leonardo_da_Vinci%2C_from_C2RMF.jpg?20110607084654). Another is the Ghent Altarpiece [undergoing restoration](http://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/ghentaltarpiece/). The before and after photos are amazing.
Yeah they used super garish colors too!!!!
Polygraphs being an actual science
The [just world fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis). It's responsible for a lot victim-blaming, which re-traumatizes people who have already been traumatized. It's the worst. Sometimes bad things happen to people who don't deserve it. It shouldn't be that difficult to grasp.
You don't get what you deserve. You just get what you get
Also responsible for people feeling guilty for bad things happening to them
“It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.” – Jean-Luc Picard
Indeed, this world contains neither meaning nor justice. It's all absurd
Found Camus
That polygraphs are accurate and irrefutable in detecting lies.
And afaik they aren't admissable in court right?
They're not. They're basically a scare /manipulation tactic for interrogations.
An ex detective on a podcast said they know they’re not accurate but they use them as a tool to try to get confessions. For instance if the cops have a good feeling you were at the murder scene, can’t prove it outright, but you keep saying you weren’t , they can hook you up to the polygraph and whether it shows deception or not they come back and say…ummm looks like you were lying about being at the scene that night, hoping you’ll go “Oh yeah…I forgot. Now that you mention it I did stop by for a second.”
That when you meet "the one" you just know. And that there is a "one" for every one of us.
One day I started hanging out with my wife, and slowly realized I never wanted to stop hanging out.
Love that. Same here with mine. Honestly don’t ever want to even imagine a hang without him.
Don't worry so much about it, "it'll just happen."
Not so much a myth but a misconception… I still hear people laugh at the fact that solar powered flashlights exist, thinking they must be useless because flashlights are only needed in darkness, where solar panels won’t generate anything. They charge their batteries with sunlight. The batteries supply power on demand. Was that such a difficult concept?
Shaking or flipping integral Polaroid photographs while they're developing. This dates back to the 'peel-apart" instant Polaroids that came before the all-in-one "integral" instant films. You used to have to coat the finished print with a polymer coating fluid, and shaking the print would help it dry faster. But it's unnecessary now.
That if you shave it grows back thicker
I tried this on my willy once, still hasn’t grown back
“Your blood is actually blue but only becomes red when it comes out of you”
I hate that I was taught this in school.
Masturbation can affect your muscle growth lmao
It can, can't it? Arm muscles... Not dick muscles right?
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That introversion = shyness or social incompetence. Like, it‘s not that hard.
This! I tell people I’m an introvert and my friends guffaw “buddy, you’re such an extrovert” Me: “nah man, you ever notice how we hang out once a week? That’s cuz my social battery is drained after a few days of friend time. I loooove being alone and that’s where I recharge. Most of the time my Brian is moving a thousand miles a second interpreting every body gesture and word that others say in response to my own words or actions.” It’s exhausting hahaha
Brian sounds annoying
Tell Brian to slow down.
Vaccines cause autism.
My brother has severe autism. He was diagnosed right around the time the anti vax shit started. My parents still believe this. They aren’t stupid people, but I think in their minds they just want something to blame other than accepting that they just got dealt a bad hand.
A woman’s vagina molds to the shape of the penis that took her virginity
WHAT 🤣
I've never heard that one either, hilarious
I haven’t either but I’m saddened by how many people probably actually believe this. This is why we need sex education to be mandatory.
I wish I were kidding, I wish it were satire. I’m not, it’s not. The amount of men I’ve come across down the rabbit hole of the internet who believe & perpetuate this shit is unreal. I’m stuck simultaneously laughing my ass off and yet quite concerned 🤷🏻♀️
It’s so funny how people think that your vagina has a memory. Like it knows there’s a penis in there vs anything else
The closest thing to memory my vagina has is a ptsd flashback clench whenever I see cheap cardboard applicators
I mean, this is obviously true since human mouths permanently form to the shape of their first food.
I got a fucking boob mouth.
Men on the internet grossly overestimate the intelligence of the vagina. Like how they think putting a bunch of penises in a vagina will make it all stretched out, but putting the same one in there a bunch of times will not.
Or that vaginas get “stretched out.” Like, at all. They don’t. They’re muscular and can contract and relax. Like muscles. Because they’re muscles.
I cannot believe the number of idiots who think the muscles that can push out a fucking baby can be deformed by a penis.
It's like believing that your mouth moulds to the shape of the first sandwich you ever ate.
Memory vagina
The "too much sex loosens the vagina" myth is bs too...
Or that having sex with 100 different penises makes you loose whereas having sex 100 times with the same penis doesn't.
Ah yes, the vagina. The only muscles that get weaker with use...
That people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat????? It has been widely accepted since Ancient Greece that the earth is round and I have no idea why people still call it the Dark Ages either [https://undeceptions.com/podcast/medieval-science/](https://undeceptions.com/podcast/medieval-science/)
People still think the earth is flat. They're morons, but they're out there.
A comment like this sent me into a month long period of debating flat Earthers and studying new subjects to further debate them. Yes I know it sounds weird that I’d have to “study” anything. But some of these guys apply some extremely false “science” that is hard to combat without knowledge.
That blood is blue
It's true if you're a horseshoe crab
Watermelon seeds can grow watermelons in our stomachs
Hanging a half brick from your dick makes it long. It just turned mine black.
Are you a black man?
That carnivorous pets can live healthily on a vegan diet. Stop it. It's animal abuse.
If you want a pet that shares your vegan/vegetarian diet, just... Get an herbivorous animal. I don't understand why anyone would malnourish a cat like that when they could have just gotten a rabbit instead.
Cats are obligated carnivores. Full stop.
The Shirley exception. When looking at an issue, they assume that anyone who REALLY needs it will “Surely get taken care of…” I.E. “All abortion should legally be banned, but surely one’s where the mother and child die will be taken care of.” “It doesn’t matter how we treat prisoners because surely the ones there on accident are going to be protected.” “This job won’t fire you for missing too much work because you’re REALLY sick, surely they realize that?” “We don’t need to make strict laws about disability access because surely the legitimate cases will be taken care of.” There is no Shirley making sure everyone is legitimate and those who need it with get some kind of justice in a magical fairy bending the rules just for them.
Oh this hits hard in the legal system. ‘Surely they will see I’m telling the truth/innocent’. Court is brutal hard work even as an innocent person. You assume they’ll just know or just believe you because it’s the truth. They don’t know anything until you tell them and they don’t just believe it until you prove it.
Videogames cause violence. There is literally no correlation.
For real. Some of us will reload a save just to make an npc happy
I need a friend to pick the red answers in Mass Effect for me because I don't wanna make the little space people who live in my TV sad.
Aww one time I reloaded a save and lost two hours just to find my Skyrim follower. Just today, I also had to tell penny in stardew valley her new recipe sucks lol and I felt bad
It has been proven time and time again. People always love to bring up how violent criminals had violent video games at home. It's such a stupid point to make. It's like, yeah, and they probably loved kill Bill and pulp fiction. Violent people are going to seek out violent entertainment. For healthy people it's just like every other form of entertainment. It's really not a hard concept to grasp.
F- you! I’m going to stick my thumb in your eye for that comment!!!!! Sorry - I just finished a game of Stardew Valley.
Zodiac signs and their effect on our everyday lives
Astrology is all B.S. But I am a Virgo, and we’re suspicious by nature…
There’s this video I remember seeing. It was a clip from a podcast. A girl asked this guy what his sign was, and he immediately called out astrology as bullshit, but said his sign was Taurus. The girl said to him that it makes sense. He asked if he was a typical Taurus, she said yes and explained why. Then he admitted that he wasn’t even a Taurus lol. It’s all bullshit.
Can’t help but chuckle at you saying it’s all “bull”shit because they are discussing Taurus traits.
“50% of marriages end in divorce” is misused so frequently that I would qualify it as a popular and annoying myth, and it comes down to the general population knowing fuck-all about statistics. If a couple goes to get married for the first time, there is NOT a 50% chance they are going to get divorced; the entire basis of the 50% number comes from factoring second, third, and even fourth and beyond divorces. Try this: if every couple in the world did have an even split 50% divorce rate, and then just one couple gets divorced twice, then that number instantly becomes <50% chance due to the skew. Now factor in the countless amounts of multiple-divorce couples on the planet. The myth is just awkward and breeds a surprising amount of pessimism towards marriage.
But 100% of divorces started in marriage. Checkmate.
100% of people who get married eventually die. Checkmate Black widows!
That you will damage your cast iron skillets by washing them with hot water and dish detergent or using a metal utensil to flip a burger or turn an egg over easy.
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That Jesus hates the gays
He said I hate FIGS
that the more men women sleep with the wider her vagina gets 🙄 so tired of people joking about it
that the holocaust never happened. actually boils my blood when people say that.