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I'll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was "Kitty."

Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of "if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!" or there's some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Anti-perspirant causes breast cancer. You look at data for Japan back in the 90's-2000s and breast cancer was like 80 times less prevalent in Japan vs the US. Now Japanese are starting to use it more and breast cancer instances are raising to be more on-par with the US. The NIH did a study that was inconclusive so everyone assumes its not true. However, if you read the study you realize exactly how inconclusive it is, and that the answer was truly more along the lines of: "We don't know".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The RTO push is designed to keep the commercial real-estate market from crashing. I've never seen any good proof of this, but believe it. I don't exactly know why CEOs of big companies would really care that much about commercial real-estate. Perhaps their large shareholders (hedge fund managers?) also own commercial real-estate and are putting pressure on CEOs? Perhaps at that level it's just a big club, and all the wealthy just help eachother out, out of solidarity? Dunno.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the value of corporate real estate falls then that had a material impact on the balance sheet of companies owning their own offices. It's in their own best interests to keep demand high.

Companies that rent don't enforce RTO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps. I guess the companies could use their campus equity in a beneficial way. Not sure how beneficial this is to most companies though. With the companies I'm thinking of, I'd guess campus equity is pretty minor (compared to their "human resources"). I may be wrong though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yes, offices will be a small proportion of total assets. But there is still profit to be made.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Kary Mullis didn't invent PCR, his then-gf Jenny did. Matilda effect

Other theory: a staff member at Neopets is messing with in game economy to sell digital items irl on ebay

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think there are secret grades of retail products and stores get these differently graded products based on the "tier" of store they are. So Dollar General candy maybe didn't pass QA to be sold at, say, Harris Teeter. I'm not talking about selling a package with less candy in it. I mean, for example, that the candy at the Dollar General may inexplicably have a higher percentage of adulterants or slightly off on flavor so it gets assigned C grade so it goes into packages of candy sold at C grade markets.

It's probably not a conspiracy so much as I don't know what industry jargon to search for to find out more information.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know that some of them have their own in-house brands, which can actually be pretty good especially given the price. But like, they've also got national brands in there, like say M&Ms, you think the Mars company sells the M&Ms with off-center Ms to the dollar stores and the centered Ms to Whole Foods?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Or maybe it has more rat parts in the chocolate, but yes that's the gist of my theory.

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