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Do NOT say the "Q" word at work. It's the one that is a synonym for silent. I will in fact beat you when it hits the fan.

Eating boogers strengthens your immune system.

I mean, it's plausible, because the idea of building your immune system is exposure to some of those things. Not trying to invalidate the other methods because those should be a better alternative. Some studies suggested boogers can help.

When I drop something on the floor and then blow on it in short soft bursts, it's suddenly clean enough to consume.

Digital/no pressure buttons are completely unreliable when used to control a physical thing.

I am convinced that I will come down with cold/flu if I breath too much cold air. When I walk in the cold, I always wrap a scarf around my mouth and nose. If I don't, the cold air will give me a sore throat. That sore throat will act as a Petri dish for illness to develop and spread into my lungs or nose.

I know plenty of medical professionals and all of them tell me that that is not how it works, but I have a datum of proof. In my first year of university, I had a nasty, persistent respiratory infection during the late fall/early winter. To keep my throat warm while it was recovering, I started wearing a scarf and my illness went away quickly. After that, I started wrapping up whenever I was walking to class in the cold and never got sick again.

I am now used to wrapping my face in the cold and feel wrong without it. When I don't, it seems like I am more likely to come home with a scratchy throat. I can definitely say that many of my flus start in the throat (though it could just be that the first flu symptom I tend to notice is the sore throat).

Demons are real - negative entities that attach to humans and feed off misery, pleasure, and anger.

If I step on a crack, I'll break my Mama's back.

Not answering directly the post, but something in line with it: I believe not all (maybe most of) knowledge is scientific, but that doesn't invalidate it. A lot of things can't be studied by the scientific method, but people intuitively understood and learned about it along the centuries.

This should be common sense, but society has gone crazy about considering only science as knowledge and now ignores valuable learnings that sometimes are more right then science itself.

This should not be confused with negating science (like global warming deniers): when you can study something by the scientific method normally you will get deeper and with less mistakes with it. But when you don't, you can still have knowledge by other methods

I fully understand that it's correlation, not causation, but I believe some inanimate objects want to work well, and others want to work poorly. In that same vein, there are people that inanimate objects respect and work well for, and there are people that inanimate objects dislike or enjoy aggravating.

I can tell American society is getting exponentially more stupid by how many more cheeky vanity license plates I see as time goes on.

The reason the Space Force has woodland camouflage is because SG1 is real and every planet looks like British Columbia

The soul is a thing, and it's what gives you consciousness

Just psychological failings, self-confidence issues and such I know are wrong. Firmly held, but wrong.

…Otherwise it feels like an oxymoron.

The moment you become rich, you will absolutely be contacted by the shadowy ring of other rich people so they can force you in one way or another not to out their pedo ring. Even going as far as assassinating you if blackmail doesn't work.

People using genAI without a care came about as a result of the genAI companies making millions of fake accounts across all of mainstream social media and performing the greatest astroturfing ever, in their favor.

The majority of actual human interaction in the future will be secretly held in spaces run under things like Usenet, I2P, Gopher, etcetera. A way to detect bots/genAI will become a game of whack-a-mole and it'll help keep these treasures safer than 99% of the internet.

Anubis ( or whatever it's called ) becomes a government funded project, with the goal being that government websites are spared from rampant AI bots crashing their sites. The downside is that it would most likely become closed source in order to ensure genAI companies cannot come in and use the source code to break through it.

Wikipedia joins one of the alternate internet things ( maybe I2P ) and poisons its own services, leaving ample notice of what they're gonna do, but not where they're going, to keep safe from the bots. It'll become a race to find where and when Wikipedia becomes available again. This is more of a firm pipedream, but I hope they do it for their own good.

Visiting the clear web essentially becomes a crime amongst all tech savy people and you'll absolutely be casted out of the safe spaces if you venture out of a genAI free Haven.

Or most likely out of everything, in a decade or less, the clock strikes midnight and once the dust settles, everyone left alive will be afraid when the wind blows.

Flames on the side makes things go faster

Sad tummy+lemon lime soda = healed

Once your poop and pee hit the inside of my toilet, its legally my property.

The Costanza Rule is real, but any attempt to utilize it is a paradox.

Rule: any decision I make is the wrong decision because I made it therefore I should always do the opposite.

But to do the opposite is also a choice I am making and therefore it too will be the wrong choice.

JESUS WAS AN ALIEN, AND WE STAPLED HIM TO A TREE.

NOW THEY AIN'T GON COME BACK.

Hopefully none. I do hold some that you could call a-scientific, or something, because existing science has no impact either way. Like what kinds of foods are good or bad. Or morality.

We have higher dimensional organs and we can't see them because, well, they're from a higher dimension. The soul is one of these organs

In countries with over a few million citizens, the political hierarchies quickly get too far away from the people there, accumulating corruption.