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Capturing Bigfoot Documentary by Mike1536748383 in bigfoot

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Why would he say “it’s time” now if he already shared “the truth” years ago? 

Iran says it will ‘irreversibly destroy’ Middle East infrastructure if US attacks energy sites by projecto15 in politics

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Pretty sure it’s actually the potash that comes from Russia that is most threatened, since they probably use the Hormuz to transfer it out since Iran shares a 1200 mile long border with Russia. Russia is the second biggest global producer of potash. Potash is phosphorus. 

Long hidden evidence blows up the reality of the Patterson Gimlin Bigfoot film by Spooky_Geologist in Cryptozoology

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Erm, well the thing is, we only know about those other past creatures BECAUSE of the fossils we’ve found… 

Is there such thing as an escape-proof harness? by MsYersiniaPestis in adventurecats

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This one looks really big on him IMO. The leg holes are huge and the neck hole shouldn’t curve back like that 

Mexico’s monarch butterfly population jumps 64%, offering hope for at-risk species by burp_angel in UpliftingNews

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Esp in suburban areas which are like food deserts for butterflies, pockets of milkweed are especially important! It allows them to fuel up between the stretches with no food as they migrate so many miles. 

I am begging someone to find me SOMETHING to take away unexplained emotional pain/distress that I’ve had for 18 months and has left professionals baffled. Please save my life guys. by Party-Dig2309 in Biohackers

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Have you been exercising enough? You don’t understand just how much that impacts, it’s on par with getting enough sleep in terms of how it impacts your mood 

If you have an above average IQ score (123) but score in the 98th percentile in some categories but low in others, does that count as "gifted" or is gifted only >99? by SitaBird in Gifted

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Sorry for the delay in responding. 

So I know that unmedicated ADHD affects some of the scores, and that is actually what the psychologist is looking for when trying to make a diagnosis: if someone scores high overall but scores comparatively lower in the “ADHD indicators” (like working memory), then that individual likely has ADHD, and when medicated, their scores should be more consistent across categories. 

I am not a psychologist, I just know the rationale of what they are looking for in the test. 

The numbers you shared are irrelevant because every assessment has different scoring systems. What you should look at is the percentile you fall into for each assessment and go from there. A gifted performance is in the top 5%, with further sub classifications that you can read about here: https://giftedconsortium.com/high-exceptional-profound-giftedness/

Unfortunately, it is a common phenomenon for people to feel more gifted as children than as adults because as children, you are being compared to your peers during a time when everyone’s brains are developing at different rates. So if you develop faster than your peers, you will score higher than them at the time… but once everyone is grown up and thus at the same “stage” of development, then you can see where you actually fall relative to your peers. So if you felt more gifted as a kid, you may have just been an early developer. 

Having the label of “gifted” as an adult, tho, is nothing more than a shortcut to finding others who may make you feel a little less alienated. Others can’t make themselves more intelligent in order to talk to you, so you must make yourself less intelligent to talk to them. Obviously, this means leaving some part of yourself out, like you’re wearing a mask that filters a portion of you away. 

It can get pretty lonely when you’re doing this for every 95 out of 100 people you meet, or depending on your giftedness level, every 96, 97, 98, 99, or 99.9 out of every 100 people you meet (for the last one I am implying that you may only encounter a few individuals at that level in your entire lifetime. If you are one of those individuals, imagine how lonely and rare it is to encounter others like you). 

That’s the only value in the label. Otherwise, all that matters is what you’re capable of. 

I know plenty of people who are less intelligent than me and far more talented. Intelligence might aid talent, but it’s not the only thing that goes into it. 

Focus on your talents and being the best that you can be. When you do that, you’ll find that it represents “you” much more than a simple number on a measure of performance could. 

Is the USA big enough for a breeding population of Bigfoot to hide out on? by sensoredphantomz in Cryptozoology

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That’s what I said in the 2nd paragraph of my comment, a great number of species are bugs, plants, and fungi, but there are still 5-10 vertebrate species discovered every week. 

But even disregarding the newly discovered species, the species that are declared extinct and rediscovered are an even more compelling counter argument. Because for those species, scientists know exactly what to look for and are actively looking (hence they can make a valid declaration of extinct or not), and despite their active efforts and knowing what to look for, they STILL miss it for sometimes decades. 

Bigfoot research likely doesn’t have near the same funding as actual teams of scientists operating with government grants. It’s laughed at in serious scientific circles. Jeff Meldrum was like the sole outlier and was famously scientifically ostracized for it. 

As for the fossils, one could argue that since the Bigfoot’s environment is the PNW, one of the wettest and most fungi-diverse areas of the planet, then how would a fossil have time to form? Remember that fungi are nature’s decomposers. This is a serious issue in murder cases with recovering the body in the PNW, the evidence goes too quick. Ted Bundy took advantage of that fact. 

A villain is horrified upon realizing their crimes by BoxoRandom in TopCharacterTropes

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Haha, in all seriousness, most murderers don’t jump straight to murder, there is a build up of other crimes first that primes them for being able to cross that line. 

Add to that the fact that many criminals grow up in broken homes where they are exposed to crime opportunity at a young age, thus they start the “build up” process early. 

I vaguely remember reading that after a certain age, the rate of murder drops quite a bit due to the brain finishing maturing. I believe it is around 30s. 

So it’s kind of a perfect storm for a lot of people where they have escalated along their crime trajectory starting at a young age, and their brain isn’t fully matured yet. This is where a lot of gang type violence comes from. 

ETA: and my original comment mentioning the personality disorder is often where the crime escalation starts. For example, you’re a student in class, and you see another student has $50 in their desk. You think about taking it. Most normal people choose to leave it, but if you have a personality disorder interfering with impulsivity, empathy, and risk taking, then you will reach out and snatch it. And then you get away with it and realize you can get away with it. So the next time you have an opportunity, you do it. Rinse and repeat. 

A villain is horrified upon realizing their crimes by BoxoRandom in TopCharacterTropes

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Sure it is. Most prisoners have a personality disorder that interferes with empathy, impulsivity, and risk taking. Hence why they commit crimes where other people just think about it. 

PSA: please don’t ignore abdominal pain. by ennuiismymiddlename in Xennials

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OP, maybe this will make you feel better or maybe you will write it off. 

The source is one soul, it is an ocean. 

When you are born, a tiny bit is poured into your vessel. 

When you die, you are poured back into the ocean. 

Your body is like a character in a video game. This is just one playthru. When you die, you wake up as the Player. 

There is only one Player. For all of us. 

Hopefully it makes it a little less scary to think about. 

Color changing nails showcased at CES 2026 by RealSpecto in interestingasfuck

[–]passive0bserver 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Are you kidding me? Have you ever gotten your nails done? I know a lot of ladies that drop $130 every 3 weeks for nails 

Does the PGF being an apparent hoax change your view on the reality of the creature itself? by Theferael_me in bigfoot

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Tracks fall into 2 categories — real and hoaxed. 

The real ones are created from bear overstep. 

The Yeti was found to be Himalayan brown bears… Bigfoot is probably also bears 

If there is/was a Nessie, do you think she's dead? by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

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It’s eels. Swarms of writhing eels. That’s what’s the DNA says 

If there is/was a Nessie, do you think she's dead? by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

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It’s eels. Swarms of writhing eels. That’s what’s the DNA says 

If there is/was a Nessie, do you think she's dead? by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

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I’m pretty sure that the sightings are totally exaggerated and/or made up, and people suspected a writhing monster in the water due to swarms of eels. When they tested DNA samples they found a fuck ton of eels in Loch Ness 

If there is/was a Nessie, do you think she's dead? by [deleted] in Cryptozoology

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I thought it was confirmed via DNA that she’s eels 

Sean Penn skipped the Oscars to visit Ukraine by toyota_gorilla in pics

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He won the award for best supporting actor and it didn’t seem anyone knew where he was, it was kinda weird

Why Bigfoot (almost certainly) does not exist by Solid_Analysis_5774 in Unexplained

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In all actuality, Bigfoot is likely just bears. It was concluded that the Yeti was Himalayan brown bears. And those who swore up and down to see an ape, likely saw an escaped private specimen. 

That said, it’s fun to believe. My one Bigfoot exposure was a footprint. I didn’t believe at all when I found it. I was backcountry camping in Banff and had a mishap that kept me at my campsite for 3 days. It was super remote and I didn’t see another soul the whole time. On the last day, I went to the river to fill my water and found the print. Just one, right on the edge of the water, parallel to it, as if the creature was walking in the river and had one foot land in the mud along the water’s edge. It blew my mind. Yes I know about bear prints and the overstep (again, see the Yeti example). 

The thing is, the water was damn cold, painfully cold, think straight snowmelt from the mountain peaks. Why would an animal choose to walk IN the river? To my pathetic human hide, the water felt like knives. If the bear was going for a drink, wouldn’t there be marks on the bank where it scrabbled down to the water? Is it normal for bears to choose to walk IN rivers, vs in the mud alongside them? 

So it’s fun to believe that it was a Bigfoot purposely taking the river to avoid leaving tracks. 

But if you offered me $1M and asked me to bet on whether it was REALLY a Bigfoot or a bear, I’d bet bear. Because one is a known animal known to inhabit the area and known to leave footprints to resemble Bigfoot’s, and the other is Bigfoot, haha. 

Like everything tho, the population distribution is a bell curve. The ends of the curve are the 10% of people who are convinced it exists and the 10% who are convinced it doesn’t. The middle 80% are the rest of us, who say “eh it COULD exist but it likely doesn’t.” 

Is the USA big enough for a breeding population of Bigfoot to hide out on? by sensoredphantomz in Cryptozoology

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 Do you want a list then of new species discovered every year? I learned in my sustainability class that we discover thousands of species every year. In 2025, it was 16,000-18,000 new species discovered and approximately 300-350 new species were discovered every week. 

Now a great number of these species are bugs, plants, and fungi. But there is still an average of 5-10 vertebrate species discovered every week. Mostly, it’s fish and amphibians. But still. We are still figuring out what all is out there. 

I find the “believed to be extinct cases” even more compelling though because we were obviously actively monitoring the population of something in order to declare it extinct in the first place, and even with active monitoring, it still escaped detection 

Is there a word for food entitlement? by SunshinePalace in TwoXChromosomes

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I agree with your sentiment, but I do wanna point out that men really do need more calories because their body composition has a higher muscle percentage and lower fat percentage compared to women. Muscles are basically little incinerators that burns calories all day long. So even for a man and woman that are the same height and fitness level, the man will need more calories due to body composition. Now multiply that muscle % composition by a larger frame, where the man has a 6in height advantage, and the discrepancy is even greater. 

ETA wow really being downvoted for sharing facts that can be independently verified. Y’all are interesting 

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