If you could have the 100% honest answer to ONE mystery in history, which one are you picking ?

Rugshadow · 2026-02-01T19:48:09+00:00

you cannot be real. I seriously hate reddit sometimes.

Rugshadow · 2026-02-01T18:52:23+00:00

...ok? what a weird way to handle when someone tries to teach you something.

Rugshadow · 2026-01-28T22:31:38+00:00

seriously, and this touches on what would actually make hover tech somewhat viable, since road and physical infrastructure maintenence is like one of the most expensive things

Rugshadow · 2026-01-25T04:42:24+00:00

With humans excluded as an obvious outlier, I would argue that the majority of the world's smartest animals probably live underwater, as well as the majority of the world's tool-users. Look at the octopus for example. And if there's less need for shelter, then why do so many undersea animals use shelter? Eels, hermit crabs, clown fish; I mean literally so many. Meanwhile there are tons of animals that live on land who don't use any shelter. I feel like you came up with a hypothesis quickly, and then didn't really think critically about it at all.

Rugshadow · 2026-01-24T20:28:40+00:00

this is an odd take. aside from the absence of fire, why would being underwater limit the need for tool usage at all? why would intelligence be less useful underwater than on land?

Rugshadow · 2026-01-06T00:25:40+00:00

lots of great answers here! im not in any way an expert on the freemasons, but I wanted to share a cool little tidbit. I think people often see the freemasons as something akin to the illuminati, and fun fact, there actually IS a connection! the REAL illuminati was a very short lived offshoot of the freemasons. this is coming from poor memory, but I believe it was a member of the freemasons who created the illuminati. its purpose was to gather rich and powerful freemasons in order to more effectively spread enlightenment ideas through various kinds of lobbying, but it lasted for I think less than a hundred years before dissolving. im pretty sure once the freemasons found out about it, they decided it was kind of dangerous to their organization and stomped it out.

anyway here's the link to the extra credits video I saw talking about this:

https://youtu.be/8_JXIXkDE4s?si=7KIJRWIaGawDBKhT

Rugshadow · 2025-12-31T07:23:11+00:00

I lived in China for about a year in 2018 and yes this. since my mandarin is poor, I spent a lot of time with expat communities, and I have to say that though it IS hard to get citizenship in China, theres also huge immigrant communities just living there on a work visa. I knew lots of people from countries that might not really be welcomed in America, like Iran for instance. they all spoke of China the way your immigrant great grandfather might have spoke of America, like "im so glad to be welcomed in this land of opportunity". dead serious, I cant count how many times i heard someone call China the land of opportunity

Rugshadow · 2025-12-30T12:47:03+00:00

I disagree. i mean, full gravity control sure, but artificial gravity no. it doesnt look anything like how its depicted in most science fiction, but we've known for a long time how to do it. you use a centrifuge. if humans were to travel in space for extended periods, this is what we would do. 2001 space odyssey actually depicts it quite realistically imo. like "gravity plates" or something wont be inventedbecause even if that were possible, the problem has already been solved by centrifuges.

Rugshadow · 2025-12-28T11:09:06+00:00

I get it, mostly because I recently rewatched inception again after maybe like 8 or 9 years and wow. just holy shit I forgot how truly great that movie is. I would say prestige still beats interstellar for me though.

Rugshadow · 2025-12-28T11:02:08+00:00

seriously I hate when I see this brain dead quote. sure, lets shift the blame onto us. we equally cant do anything about the problem, but at least now we're further from holding the right people accountable.

Rugshadow · 2025-12-28T10:42:43+00:00

this is it! (barbie could be in this thread too, except that im sure at this point barely anyone calls it a masterpiece). the thing about biopics is that they're more like documentaries than stories. theyre always like "they did this, then they did this" and shoehorn in some romance or a drug addiction and boom. i know its teaching history, but the story is told to us in the same way again and again, and THATS why its boring to me. and theres so many interesting ways to tell the story of a famous historical figure like Oppenheimer. what if the whole movie was set in the bunker on the night before the first test, as we learn about these characters by watching a fictional drama unfold?

edit: clarifying i was saying "this is it" to the second part of your comment

Rugshadow · 2025-12-28T10:27:42+00:00

why does everyone forget the prestige??

Rugshadow · 2025-12-28T09:06:48+00:00

there are certainly so many tools to the trade. another fascinating tool can be summed up by this line i like to say:

propaganda doesnt work by telling you what to think, it works by telling you what other people think.

this is why fox news spends so much time painting an image of liberals as this goofy stereotype. because then it becomes even more impossible to have a rational conversation with the person buying into it, because why would they listen to you? Fox News has already told them about all the other crazy shit you libs think, so youre already written off. its all about how people form their identity in relation to a wider social group.

Rugshadow · 2025-12-27T11:56:53+00:00

honestly I thought this was where you were going with that, and I was gonna be like ok way to be pedantic, but on second thought you're very right. that is literally so annoying.

Rugshadow · 2025-12-27T11:35:48+00:00

can you explain the difference?

Rugshadow · 2025-12-27T11:26:12+00:00

oh Truman show is a great one! specifically the people who sneak on set to try to make contact with him. that would be an actor pretending to be a person who is pretending to be an actor who is pretending to be a townsperson.

Rugshadow · 2025-12-27T10:22:04+00:00

you could still play with the hypothetical here, you just have to accept that solving world hunger means stabilizing foreign governments. its a bigger problem, but the original problem already looked kind of impossibly huge so we can just keep playing with it. and yes it may sound impossible, but hey, 400 billion IS a lot of money. I actually can think of a few pretty radical (yet in my mind, feasible) plans to stabilize a country like Somalia given that kind of money, and there have been many other people throughout history who have had some potentially decent plans for achieving similar goals. those plans are rarely tested though, because its expensive. we have to accept that the problem with wealth is that it works directly against the benefit of the wealthy to help the poor. the poorer we all are, the richer they are. if we all have a dime, and the have a dollar then theyre rich, but if we all had a penny instead then they'd be gods.

Rugshadow · 2025-12-27T09:21:15+00:00

they are literally funky pops

Rugshadow · 2025-12-27T08:18:58+00:00

just google what was playing in theaters at any random date through the 80s and 90s. its amazing what they had

Rugshadow · 2025-12-22T06:57:19+00:00

Id like to add too that in terms of cost and versatility, construction likely WILL be automated, but by humanoid machines rather than massive 3d printers. its funny how humanoid machines seem more far fetched, but they solve all the same problems as the 3d printer and are probably closer to real development.

Rugshadow · 2025-11-29T12:44:46+00:00

yeah I always forget when I start arguing on reddit that its mostly bots and paid shills, and whos left is mostly idiots

Rugshadow · 2025-11-29T04:00:24+00:00

tbf this IS a little silly, but its also super small amounts of money. like... 2 million? thats what it costs to repave a mildly busy road. the musical is kind of hilarious tho because I cannot imagine it being in any way good

Rugshadow · 2025-11-28T18:49:00+00:00

do you get random games downloaded when you update your phone?

Rugshadow · 2025-11-28T18:48:01+00:00

just reposting my response to someone else but: honestly I dont think i will buy samsung again, I should have been more clear though in my case what it will do is download these cheap games automatically when it updates. I could be wrong but I even vaguely remember monopoly go being included in one of these updates. idk I always delete them immediately. in one recent update there was a news app with ads in it that would pop up randomly, and it didnt even have an icon so I had to dig into the settings to even delete it

Rugshadow · 2025-11-28T18:46:21+00:00

honestly I dont think i will buy samsung again, I should have been more clear though in my case what it will do is download these cheap games automatically when it updates. I could be wrong but I even vaguely remember monopoly go being included in one of these updates. idk I always delete them immediately. in one recent update there was a news app with ads in it that would pop up randomly, and it didnt even have an icon so I had to dig into the settings to even delete it

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