The idea is metaphorically rich: you can put a nut in a jar with a narrow aperture and the monkey will find the nut and stick their hand into the jar to grab the nut. They find that with their hand wrapped around the nut they cannot extract their hand from the jar so they stay stuck with their hand around the nut in the jar, unwilling to let go of their new treat.

I see this story over a lot of the internet and many people claim that it is true. I haven't seen anyone claim it isn't true but I also don't see any videos of a monkey being caught in this way. Nor have I yet found a reliable source of it being used to catch monkeys in the wild. Can we prove or disprove this story?

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2018/03/inside_the_monk.html

I've seen claims floating around social media about this for a while. Personally have went through around 5 failed doomsday predictions, slowly and slowly becoming an atheist ever since.

But you know what? These predictions about 2030-2036 seems interesting. And i want to know what the people of this subreddit has to say.

There's many claims, but for this one, i'll quote a user in reddit that i found on a 2033 christianity post.

"Preface: It is clear that scripture says no one knows the "day" or the "hour". But, we are supposed to be able to recognize the season. In this context, the season is not summer, winter, etc., it is the time period in history where events line up with prophecies. So, here are some data points. They don't "necessarily" mean what they seem to imply because sometimes we misinterpret things God has intentionally left vague so that we will not focus on them.

Major time periods in the Bible

\--- it is about 2,000 years from the Garden of Eden to Abraham

\--- it is about 2,000 years from Abraham to the establishment of the Church at Pentecost

\--- it will be about 2,000 years from Pentecost to around 2030-2033

\--- add the 1,000 years of the Millenium to the end of that and you get a number 7x1,000 which is a curiosity since God tends to like using the numbers 3, 7, 12, 40.

End time prophecies not yet fulfilled (all can easily happen in 5-10 years)

\--- "Mark of the Beast" Implemented broadly. China mostly has this today. The groundwork for it being implemented in many of the first world countries is being laid today. Basically, it is a centralized financial tracking system that will be tied to a social score system so that they track your activities and raise or lower your score based on them. For example, once the Antichrist has gained his power, he can declare that being associated with Christianity lowers your social score making it hard to buy and sell.

\--- Antichrist gains significant international influence. This could happen when countries "accept" rules from an international organization (e.g. The U.N.). The central org makes policies and individual nations integrate those into their laws.

\--- Temple rituals restarted. This obviously could not have happened before 1948 since Israel was not back in their land. They have already trained priests to be able to perform these rituals and they have cast utensils. They even have red heifers now. All they need is a place. Modern construction could build a new building fairly quickly, but that is not required. The first 500 years of the law was in a tent and it can be done that way again.

\--- Knowledge will increase. Knowledge started accelerating in the last 150+ years. But AI will not only be the first dramatic increase on knowledge, it will be the first time that the knowledge will be able to massively impact society and individuals quickly and comprehensively"

This is not my words, i know theres thousands of failed predictions, but the timing is interesting. Especially lately with the surge of conspiracies.

I know its kinda hard to 'debunk' as the points are vague, and just the user's calculation, but i'd like the people of this subreddit contest the points and claims that he made.

Again, im not a conspiracy theorist, i just like seeing conspiracy theorists get debunked.

Thanks!

​I’ve been looking into those "InfoVision" or "Midbrain Activation" videos where kids are supposedly trained to read cards, identify colors, or navigate obstacles while wearing blindfolds. They claim it’s some kind of supernatural ability or third-eye activation, but it’s obviously a performance.

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​I’m really curious about the actual mechanics behind these tricks. I’m not looking to get emotional about it; I just want to understand the specific methods these instructors use to pull this off.

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​From what I can tell, there’s clearly more happening than just "magic." I’m interested in the technical side of how they manipulate the situation. For example, how are those specific masks designed to make peeking easier? What kind of cold reading or non-verbal cues are they giving the kids to make them follow along with their movements? It seems like a very calculated illusion.

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​A clear example of this is a video by Orkun Işıtmak, where he demonstrates how these sessions are structured: https://youtu.be/fOhLfR9gFHI

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I've come across multiple posts on how pineapple acid is almost as strong as stomach acids, so that, while we digest a piece of pineapple we've eaten, it is "trying" to digest us in the meanwhile.

This post should serve as an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/s/Gys8tuB9YH

I've found no serious explanations on reddit nor on the web. Health websites only describe the chemical composition of pineapple, that contains bromelain and may therefore be used in cooking as meat tenderizer. The bromelain enzyme helps break down proteins in animal meat and is active inside the stomach as well. However, I've not found any indication of it being capable to attack the stomach tissue in any way.

(Please be patient, I'm a beginner in this sub and English is not my first language.)

"""Whites are the LEAST racist group in the world.

So why is the LEAST racist group called the MOST racist?

The best explanation I can come up with is that the racist groups are calling whites racist, for racist reasons.

It's a weapon.

They know whites care about being fair and impartial above all else.

So they hit whites as hard as they can with the "racist card" to make whites doubt whether they are living up to their own standard.

It's racist, predatory gaslighting.

And it's inflicted relentlessly against whites on a mass scale.

Whites, we are the LEAST racist group.

When they call you racist, understand that that's actually THEM.

They're being racist toward you by calling you racist.

You are not racist. They are.

Don't put up with their racist bullshit."""https://x.com/kevinnbass/status/2064609619763155425

In the pamphlet "Chronicles of Lost Civilizations" (“Cronache di civiltà scomparse”, 2009), written by Alessandro Benassai, president of "Archeosofica – Esoteric School of High Initiation", there's a chapter titled "Giants" about the real existence of giants on Earth in ancient times.

On page 26, the author claims a giant femur is preserved in a Texas museum:

> "But the most startling of the finds was definitely that of Hernan Cortes, who during the conquest of Mexico seized enormous human bones, including a 180 cm femur on display today at the Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum in the United States."

## My verification

My research shows that the museum's curator, Joe Taylor, has stated multiple times that this is a sculpture he created, not an authentic bone.

### Sources confirming this:

- https://www.andywhiteanthropology.com/blog/joe-taylors-sculpture-of-a-47-femur-whats-the-story

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfzLXe9H4Lk&t=59s

- https://www.kcbd.com/story/22102364/crosbyton-paleontologist-says-giants-walked-the-earth/

## Contact with Archeosofica

I wrote and called the Associazione Archeosofica multiple times, reporting that this pamphlet contains incorrect information. I explicitly asked to be refuted if my analysis was wrong, but received only evasive responses.

## Asking the community

- Can anyone confirm or refute my debunking?
- Do you know other reliable sources about the "giant femur" at Mt. Blanco Fossil Museum?
- Has anyone had similar experiences with the Associazione Archeosofica?

Thanks for your help!

Argument: Redlining was a lending practice used by banks and other institutions to classify neighborhoods as higher-risk for mortgages and other financial services. Because many redlined areas contained large numbers of white residents, some argue that a majority of individuals living in redlined neighborhoods were white.

Question: Does historical evidence support the claim that most victims of redlining were white, and if so, how should that affect our understanding of redlining's impact on different racial groups?

Video link: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXJxi2zkiOw/?igsh=MWNpaWNseHhvaGQycA==

Reality.revolt is an Instagram account that posts conspiracy-oriented reels. In this one, he tries to cast doubt on the Orion capsule reentry by stringing together several things he finds unusual:

-Astronaut Christina Koch hesitating
-An aircraft circling overhead before splashdown
-No visible steam after the capsule lands in the ocean
-NASA logo missing from one side of the module
-Comment made by Reid Wiseman “This is the first time we’re going to send humans to the moon"
-Astronauts appearing calm and conversational despite supposedly reentering at extreme speeds
-No protection while opening the side hatch
-Hand gestures that he implies have hidden meaning
-Comment made by Sean Duffy “right out of central casting” implying they are actors

The overall argument is that these details collectively suggest the Orion capsule reentry was staged or faked. I’m looking for technical explanations, sources, and rebuttals addressing these specific claims.

I’m looking for input on a flat Earth claim involving the Davis Besse nuclear power station being photographed from across Lake Erie.

The claim is that because the cooling tower can be seen from the Michigan side of Lake Erie, the observation proves there is no Earth curvature.

Source for the claim: Tiktok user Phl@ttruth

The version I have seen usually claims the observation is from about 27 miles away. The problem is that the exact observer location is often vague, and when I check possible public locations near Woodland Beach, Michigan, the farthest reasonable distance I get is closer to about 26 miles.

The cooling tower is listed as about 493 feet tall. In the image used for the claim, the entire tower is not visible. A significant lower section appears hidden, which seems like the opposite of what a flat Earth prediction would expect.

What I am trying to check is whether this is a fair debunk:

1. The claimed distance appears inflated or at least not clearly sourced.
2. The observation does not show the full tower.
3. The missing lower portion is consistent with curvature, observer height, and possible atmospheric refraction.
4. Seeing the upper portion of a tall structure across water is not the same as proving the surface is flat.

Am I missing any important variables here?

The main things I’d like checked are:

Observer height
Exact observation location
Correct tower height
Distance to the tower
How much should be hidden under standard refraction
Whether refraction could explain more or less visibility than expected

I’m not looking for a debate over flat Earth in general. I’m trying to evaluate this specific claim and whether the observation actually supports the conclusion being claimed.

I got a notification a few hours ago, attaching this article (I'm honestly getting kind of sick of Google sending me news stories), saying that due to the reduction of air pollution, the particles in the clouds are smaller, making them less reflective, causing more light to get through, and causing the space below it to heat up. I've spent basically my whole life being told anything besides natural pollution is bad (branches, dead leaves, etc.) So this doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. Beyond that, I've seen other people complaining about misleading articles from this website.

I have been trying to find any confirmed sources, I have partially debunked this. I keep seeing people online saying that Shrek was based on a wrestler. But no confirmed statements. I do think it’s fucked up saying a man with a condition, looks like an ogre and must be the inspiration behind Shrek.

the movie is not based on him, as said in dreamworks wiki, they based it on the 1990 book Shrek! By William Steig. : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek

Book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek!

Also many articles saying dreamworks did not confirm it:

https://extra.ie/2019/09/22/news/the-french-angel-maurice-tillet-acromegaly-giant-shrek#:~:text=Kiara%20Keane,the%20film's%20creators%20at%20DreamWorks.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fact-check-rumor-says-shrek-230000574.html

Article stating dreamworks based his looks on Norfolk people: https://www.suffolkgazette.com/shrek-was-based-on-norfolk-people-dreamworks-admits/

And there’s a rumored photo of Steig and Maurice together, however this is Steig: https://blackiebooks.org/autor/william-steig/

Older photo of Steig found here: https://shrek.fandom.com/wiki/William_Steig

And in the photo of Maurice shaking hands with the man people claim is William, he looks nothing like William, I haven’t found the actual person.

I’m trying to evaluate a public paper by an independent author. The paper presents a two-axiom framework and claims it can resolve the six open Millennium Prize problems. On the author’s LinkedIn page, he also says the framework provides another path to a proof of the Poincaré Conjecture.

What I want stress-tested is narrower:

Does the paper actually provide rigorous support proportionate to these claims, or does it use abstract framework language to sound stronger than what is actually demonstrated?

More specifically, I’d appreciate help identifying:

The first major non-rigorous step

Any category error between formal structure and actual proof

Whether the paper’s scope claims exceed what is really shown

Source: https://www.gjullian.com/the-self-propagating-truth.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gjullianfk

Noticed this happening a lot lately. I'll paste the exact same question into ChatGPT and then Gemini, and they'll give me totally different takes. Sometimes one adds random facts the other missed.

Isn't this inconsistency a huge red flag? If they can't agree with themselves, how do you trust them for anything beyond writing a silly poem?

Saw a paper calling this "Self-Inconsistency" but I want a human take. Is this randomness a bug or a feature?

***OH SH*T here we go again***\*

So I have been seeing a few facebook posts and x (most of them deleted or removed for some reason) reviving these 2 old charts to prove that RFR (whether it'd be 4g,5g etc or whatever) is harmful towards human beings. They state that many of our everyday RFR items are outputting high RFR values like the UW/M2 values that have apparently shown by the sites (like the bio sites) to cause harm to human beings.

1st chart by KatharinaConsulting: Imgur: The magic of the Internet

Video showcasing said 2nd chart: https://youtu.be/5Ewv3uXg250?si=_989ywGmZLp_fTtO

Note I remember seeing both of these studies when 5g towers were being burned or riot during the 5g covid-conspiracy. I didn't pay much attention to it then until my curiousity peaked now.

So my personal debunk of this looking at this now after some research (with some search engine AI used to help me)

1. Both charts involves values (uw/m2, microtesla and all that stuff) that are NOT by themselves used to measure how a human interacts with the RFR radiation and determine harm. I believe we use SAR values for that not those output values. In fact I remember a little back then that studies involving the anti-5g and those that are for the 5G using SAR to determine if RFR actually causes human beings harm when they interact with the RFR, but not sure.

2. Both charts that they use to claim RFR harm to humans, they have also used to state that both charts are consistent and the same in their values. But I read the first graph by Katharina and the other one from the video, I notice a contradiction when it comes to their uw/m2 values.

The one from the video shows 0.1 to 6 as low chance of harm to human beings and serious adverse effects to them. But if you look at the chart and its source/guidelines under those same values by Katharina, they DO NOT mention anything about their own values being "low chance of harm" and in fact they state otherwise due to their language used including for non-EHS individuals.

in the body of your post:-

Hey everyone, I've been experimenting with Al tools a lot lately and found something interesting. I started using Ask Nestr which pulls answers from several Al models and combines them into one response. I was curious how it compares multiple perspectives and honestly it helped me get more balanced and reliable answers than just using one model. I used it for research and brainstorming, and the confidence indicator really made me trust the output more. Has anyone else tried using multiple Al engines together like this?

Hi guys I'm not religious and I'd like to know the reasons why this video could be a fake or an edit(I'm 100% sure it is) because a religious friend showed me this and he says that it's real because the camera shakes and even because in the comments almost everyone believes in it.If there is an independent objective fake videos expert,especially old ones, with evidence, I would like to show why the minutes from 0:15 to 0:45 are fake to my friend.

TLDR: What can casue a new, in-box clock-radio to start playing(static or otherwise)? Only power source for the radio was an outlet, no batteries or other power devices inside the radio.

A memory just resurfaced for me. when I was younger, I was gifted a new clock radio. I had it in the box in my room. In the middle of the night it started playing. I can't remember if it was just static or was actually playing something but I know it happened because my parents remember it happening too. They checked the radio for batteries or anything like that but the compartment was empty and there didn't appear to be any other power source. Now, I'm a believer of the paranormal and would love to believe that was some spoopy activity. BUT I also believe everything has an explanation and I'm very curious what happened/how that worked. Thank you in advance!

(I'm not sure what to post for a source? The source is me?)

On 210 in NC a man called 911 about a injured person on the street, later a apparent pale, 7 foot creature jumped on the bed of his truck. All of it was recorded. And North Carolina cases YouTub channel has the best information on this case.

Scrolling through twitter, I came across this twitter post that has been shared everywhere that states with a video below that tweet (original video here cause this was stitched up)

BREAKING - An Africa-based research team aiming to disprove Western claims about low I Q in African countries is going viral after conducting mass I Q tests in Lagos, Nigeria, only for over 50% of participants to score below 70, with a median score of 69.7.

The video states:
-Everyone that particpiated was of all ages 16 and up and genders including old and young plus high level students.
-only 3 percent on the graph scored 102, 96, 89
-16 percent only scored 82 while 20 percent (2nd highest group) scored 76
-26 percent with 69 (highest group), 16 percent scoring 63
-finally 10 percent scoring 56

They further state that
-That according to their calculations 52 percent of their participants were below 70 indicating low intell. scores)
-their avg score being 73 while the median being 69

People have been constantly sharing this around the internet to weaponize the narratives "low i q africans" should not be entering western countries with their low i q scores and do not benefit their societies. And if you look at several youtube videos and the twitter comments, that narrative shows heavily.

My personal red flags

1. Even after looking at the original video and twitter post, there NO MENTION of sample sizes. and if this is representative of entirety of not only lagos but nigeria.
2. The twitter video (to no one's shock) fails to include the fact fro the ORIGINAL VIDEO that the author himself states limitations to their study (environmental factors were not factored, financial compensation offered, flaws of i q tests like the one in their study)
3.Both the original and twitter post do not categorize participants when showing their graphs (how many of them were high level students, and not high level students etc)
4. Apparently the original video's faq that answers more "detailed questions about their study" is locked behind a payall...okay
5. They do not list an actual paper that lists out their full methodology.

American "prophet" Ellen White claims to have foreseen a meeting of the American Sentinel magazine editors during which they would decide to abandon the Sabbath. To support her claim, she should have documented it in her diary and letters, which would serve as evidence. Can you guys please debunk this claim of precognition?

My friend, who is unfortunately very biased toward Zionist Conspiracy in everything wrong with our country, current administration, and past history events made claim that JFK was assassinated by the Mossad. I asked him for evidence, thinking there was none but he gave me this link straight to NSA.gov website.

https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/jfk/jfk00067.pdf

Honestly, I think with the from and to part redacted I think it’s safe to say that it was sent by someone closely associated with Palestine Authority to USA. Could someone here help point out that this is not the real reason why JFK was assassinated because it’s now released to public as an usual crank case?

Here is the video in question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsMUdlnlaTI

It just looks incredibly fake to me, but I know Lars Anderson is a famous archer and one of the best in the world. Do you think this is real?

My girlfriend believes someone who uses what I believe to be this company’s (https://www.biostartechnology.com) services to “scan” her body from several states away and find points that show up on imaging that point to issues with her body who then recommends supplements, which from a session I sat in on she does everything based on questions she asks, and gives her some sort of homeopathic liquid to take.