Second story I’m so glad the person remembered and reached out years later that they were wrong. So many people will just stick their heads in sand to preserve their pride
When my younger brother was 13, i knew he was going to be the one to get caught in trouble the most. My parents said no way, he's 19 now and he's: Taken a BB gun to school after a mass shooting Punched another kid in a city soccer match Got jumped by the group of girls he was messing around with Kicked off his senior trip after paying $500 and no refund, not allowed to walk the grass, and suspended the lady month of school for getting caught having sex with a girl under the stairs in school Got fired for flirting with a married woman after he was told at work to stop flirting with his co-workers Lying about how with many hours he's worked Dining and smoking in a public park
I saw that too, back in January 2020 all conspiracy youtube channels of my country started to show China virus and some obscure videos of chinese people collapsing on streets , China building hospitals ,etc etc while all conventional media was like " this is conspiracy and not facts , this is not dangerous because China said so " and I was like : that will be a mess , better stock my house with food ,lol , I never watched conspiracy channels before but now I am more open hahahahaha
I was the one at work an everyone around me telling em all that, what was coming was going to just change the way we live. Umm they all looked at me like i was crazy. Now they've almost all caught up with the world wide trend an yeah they said its no joke
@@____trazluz____9804 same here. And now I'm so confused at all those same media outlets trying to act like they actual take this seriously. And then people believe them and get mad when i point out those outlets used to say this is a conspiracy theory.
@@____trazluz____9804 ikr?? I brought it up and people said "Dark dont be paranoid, its in CHINA, we'll just lock down before it ever gets here" until people started coming back with "wierd flu-like symptoms" I NOPED tf out of there, i grew up joking about Pandemics and Zombie outbreaks, so i took it seriously, the people calling ME crazy are usually the ones that subscribe to whatever psycho-bullshit of the day. Now its QAnon and 10 years ago it was being Anti-Gay/Anti-Trans before that was more mainstream.
When my boyfriend told me that his best friend (girl) won't be a problem for us, because she was like a sister to him... She kept being super intrusive to the point that I felt like the third weel in my own couple and it created a lot of problems between him and I. Talked to him about the fact that maybe she had feelings for him and that they should talk about it, he denied. Two months later (together for ~6months at this point) she asked him to choose between herself and me, when I asked her to give us more space ... He choose me, now we're together for almost 2 years and she's out of our lives.
People will disagree(because they don’t want to believe it’s true or because they are in a similar situation on either side) but listen to me. It is the EXCEPTION and not the rule that a straight boyfriend having best girl friend, especially who he spends time with often, are now or will stay strictly platonic. It’s not a matter of the opposite sex not controlling themselves or something. A dude is not going to let a girl he’s really into EVER feel like another girl is a threat. If he wants his girl, the other girl will become an afterthought. If he’s a cheating creep OR if he really isn’t that into you, he will *ACCUSE YOU OF BEING INSECURE* as he hangs out with his “friend” for the 3rd weekend in a row. There are other reasons additionally, like in your case where the girl was hanging on either until he started to like her romantically or to just get the piece of his love she could get. This happens a LOT. Again, people like to believe that each of the 7-8 billion humans on the planet behave and react to similar situations in 7-8 billion ways. They do not. People TEND to do similar things. Women TEND to view relationships wholistically. Those hanging on “best friends” are in a relationship with the dude: they spend time together, they have inside jokes, they know each other’s schedules, they might be liked or loved by each other’s families, they share each other’s dreams. They just don’t kiss(maybe). I hate to tell you but your boyfriend CHOSE you, meaning, there were 2 equal choices, which means that she wasn’t in the same position as just an actual friend. He was doing SOMETHING that made her feel like YOU were a rival. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you. Doesn’t mean you don’t have a lovely beautiful relationship. It just means that, at THAT point in your relationship, he wasn’t 100% in. Which makes sense at that point. It was not just her being crazy or overzealous. Believe that.
@@germyw i believe & trust what you’re saying. I also feel like sometimes one may like the other more than the other one does and when one demands , implants themselves and becomes the one who’s over stepping the boundaries that the other person has to decide if it’s time to have them take a step back and give them some space . If they wanted to be together then they wouldn’t have gotten a girlfriend or boyfriend in the first place . I’m on the fence with the one in question ???
Thats great because i had something like that happened and well i (male) and my boyfriends bestfriend (also male) he liked him and well he kissed him and i was also in the room and he said to pick between him (( his best friend for years)) or i ((who had dated him for over a year)) and he chose me and now we are going to get married in a week and guess who tried to get in invite? the Ex best friend and i happly said no and then told my boyfriend and he was a little sad but happy so yeah!
Eating dinner at a friend’s house, they have a new puppy, fairly large breed (German Shepherd-ish), we’re eating bone-in chicken and I notice they’re throwing the bones away in the open trash can. I say “We should probably set the bones aside so we keep them out of the trash can, (puppy name) may get in there.” I grew up with dogs, you never leave the trash open or accessible regardless of training or breed. I’m summarily dismissed with an “Oh it’s fine.” Not ten seconds later the puppy nose-dives into the open trash can and in the span of two heartbeats I instinctively grab her, yank her out, see something gray vanish into her mouth, force her mouth open, and yank a full-sized chicken bone out from her throat. I hold it up as the adrenaline still courses through my body and declare “Don’t worry! I got it!” to the deafening response of avoided gazes and silence that is heavy with the texture of embarrassment. The puppy is now a full grown mischief maker and living her best life. I don’t fish for praise, I don’t aim to shame, I want people to learn and improve.
Adulting! Most kids wanted to grow up but I knew to enjoy my time as minor. Definitely want to emphasize that to my children. You will be an adult much longer than you will be a child; enjoy this time.
Same! Wanted to be Peter Pan my entire childhood and still. Told everyone of all ages I’m enjoying my childhood to the fullest despite the pure pressure and bullying. Actually suffered Heartbreak after turning 18 lasted a year and a half before it finally ended.
Used to live in Venezuela. I told my family that we should leave because things were going to get much worse. They didn't want to because we would have to start over at a lower life level in another country. Seven years after that, and we ended up moving, and starting over in another country. If we had moved earlier, not only would we have started up better than we are currently, but we could have improved further in that timeframe.
At least you took the chance!! Too bad you didn’t do it sooner but at least you did it !!! Things will improve and your life will be what you make it !!!
I had friends there. They could not believe that things would get so bad that they would have to flee from their homes, until it did. I know your pain.
Had a few shady friends that had been having relationship issues & suddenly the girl announced she was pregnant with twins and they got engaged immediately. I looked at my roommate at the time and said "she's faking it, give it a month or two and she's going to claim to have a miscarriage." Really wish I had bet money on it. Kinda felt bad for the guy but at the same time he was so dumb to believe anything she said since nothing about her "pregnancy" made sense.
Last summer my uncle was over helping us get our garden started, and when he started his truck to get ready to leave I heard what I was certain was an idler pulley going out (had one go out on my pickup years ago, the sound of a failing bearing is pretty telltale). I let him know and he swore "nah it's fine". 2 weeks later his camping trip up the mountain was cut short when his engine overheated and he blew a head gasket, costing a total of $6K in towing and repairs. The cause? His idler pulley blew and threw the belt.
Not quite. If the belt list. He should have noticed it overheating, shut it down then. The driver ruined the engine. I have blown a hose, water pump, belt. Shut things down, find issue... maybe limp to help after it cools. (If water pump still working but fan fails) turn on in vehicle heat. Gives you a few more minutes. (I have also popped hood first notch, let it roll with engine off as far as it goes.)
@@larsharris apparently his son was driving at the time so there's that, but they were going up the pass with turnoffs few and far between. It honestly crept up on em quick. By the time they had a chance to pull over it was pretty well cooked.
For the story about the dog whose skin melted... if OP was so sure about what happened, why didn't he switched vet/doctor whom will agree with him instead of choking his dog with wrong medication?
Don't remember all of this video, since I watched it a few days ago, so maybe this was mentioned in it. This skin condition sounds like canine toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome.
because while he thought it was that, it would be better to trust the expert in that sort of situation. He switched when it was obvious it wasnt working. Either the OP lied or he wasnt nearly as sure as he thought he was, and im assuming its the latter.
What makes you think the second doctor will do better? It is normal for people to switch and doctors to rely information if they know to who you are switching to sabotaging you. If they string you along and sell you wrong meds as long as possible it is more money. In other cases they might even DENY letting you switch or give information to the other which suggests that you're being deceptive and should go back to the original.
Hahah we don’t have to worry about that in the UK We don’t really ever have cheerleaders lol. I have never seen any cheerleaders ever, even on tv (unless it was a movie not set in the UK)
OMG I feel like I can see this since I'm in 7th grade, and we constantly get reminded of the dangers. And some of my classmates have been in that situation. So can we cancel him?
Engineering and architecture jobs. The demand for them was so big that almost all of my classmates wanted to be engineers, well not a year after there were so many graduates of engineering that they're all paid less than before.
I'm sad society doesn't have a better way to deal with this. When the market is short on something, it takes years of college to fill the demand, and then the supply is too high. There's no really good way to solve it, the job market changes unpredictably with technology and demand for different services and products.
@@annana6098 There is a way to solve it. That way is for American society and teachers to stop pushing college college college and instead make it easier and less of a burden for companies to train people. This whole 4 year college thing isn't working. By the time people get out of college they've been out of the job market for years and technology has changed.
I predicted this woman getting bucked off a horse. The horse was kind of scrawny and we were working on exercises him to build back his muscle, but when I saw that today this large woman would be riding him I had a feeling that she was going to be bucked off, she was just to heavy for him. Sure enough as soon as she gets on off she goes. Edit: I didn’t say anything because I have bad anxiety and I didn’t want anyone to think I was fat shaming her. Luckily she was ok and didn’t even break any bones. Edit: that same woman got bucked off a different horse one that I have ridden many times and is a sweetheart
I used to be a security installation professional I got called out to a job at a high school I get up there and start looking at the camera wiring and this thing has been not on so terribly I'm surprised it still sort of worked since I couldn't proceed with installations cuz of safety violations and company policy I told the people and they refused because" it was too expensive" about a week later about 18 of 20 cameras went dead I warned them Tldr: I warned a school that their security system was damaged they didn't listen and it broke
Prince Hans being the Villain. That Musicals like Mean Girls, Heathers, Spongebob, & Prom wouldn’t last. 5 years later it comes true. Me telling confused friends I told you so. One at least admitted they were wrong. Edit: I was wrong on spongebob but the staging like BeetleJuice had saved it. Figures.
Same on that Hans one. "I have [absurd amount of older brothers] , I'll never get to be king." Me: ...that sounds like a motive. Why is he giving us a motive?
@@Psychwriteify Exactly. I figured it out 3 months before the release due to a sneak peek. Aka the boat scene. Strike 1.) Not taking notice of Anna until he found out she’s a Princess. Strike 2.) Having 12 older brothers Strike 3.) Singing “I’ve been dreaming my whole life to find my own place. Strike 4.) Sense the beginning it looked like he was playing/mirroring her, that made me question him more (before I realized he’s the mirror as a character). Strike 5.) He asks her to marry him so quickly knowing she meets another man later in the film. By that point it was self explanatory.
The student debt crisis. I got my first summer job when I was 15. It was a paid internship for a major bank, which eventually turned into a career that spanned almost 20 years. But one of the first things I learned about was student loans. I realized that due to the interest rates, student loans were a huge financial trap that had to be avoided at all costs. So, I decided not to get them. Everyone thought I was crazy, of course; back then, it was something you just did when you started college, no extra thinking required. But I knew better. I ended up putting myself through college without loans or help from my folks. It was a brutal, ruthless lesson in discipline and focus. I learned the difference between wants and needs very quickly. I had to work 3 jobs, ate nothing but canned food, and sacrificed my social life as well as my physical and mental health. By the time I walked across the stage, I was exhausted in every way a person can be. _But I didn't owe anyone a cent._ So unlike the vast majority of my peers, I don't have any debt. I went back to work full-time, but eventually had a nervous breakdown due to severe depression and suicidal ideation. There's a lot of reasons for that, but that's another long story. I lost my career, but I suddenly had tons of free time. So I ended up traveling the world; I've been to 25 countries / 5 continents so far. It should've been at least 26/6, but COVID screwed everything up. I've used the pandemic downtime to go back to college remotely for degrees in Environmental Science and Geography. What I'm learning now will be essential knowledge in the future, and much, _much_ sooner than most people think. Oh, and due to wage stagnation and loopholes that allow colleges to raise tuition and not pay taxes, higher education in the United States will eventually implode if things aren't changed soon. TLDR: I didn't get student loans as a teenager, because I realized that the interest rate would've left me in debt for decades. I barely scraped by and got it done, though at great personal cost. Now I live with no debt, traveled all over the world, and even recently went back for a couple more STEM degrees. However, what I did would be completely impossible to do today due to wage stagnation and loopholes colleges use to raise tuition. If things aren't changed soon, higher education in the United States will eventually implode.
Trade school and community college is where it's at. The combo of boomers and gen X's insisting that all their kids go to college (despite not being able to afford it) and the age of technology making kids not want to do physical labor jobs- now everyone is in debt from loans, unable to get a job in their field that pays off said loans, and the blue collar jobs are wide open with no one taking them. Not to mention the amount of debt the federal government is in from it all. Right now, if you're willing to do the hard jobs, you WILL get a job, and you WILL get paid well to do it. Electricians, plumbers, carpenters, welders, etc. I did early college and got an AA for free and then my extended family paid for my bachelor's in marine biology (useless) so I figured I might as well finish a BS since it was paid for. Hasn't helped me at all. Graduated and switched to a gem of a community college for marine technology and am having so much fun and learning so much. 98% of graduates from the program get a good paying job in the field *within 2 weeks of graduating or sooner.* That's *unheard* of. Still waiting to hear from a fisheries job I applied to but I think I have a good chance of getting it.
@@violetpatina708 Wow, that's so awesome to hear! The success rate of that program is insane. My Environmental Science course briefly covered fisheries. What region do you want to work in, and what's their outlook on the population over the next couple of decades? What's being done to handle the declining numbers? And yeah, I know what you mean. Community colleges are the way to go; a lot of folks dump on them for no reason, but they're very practical. I got into UC Berkeley straight out of high school, but couldn't afford it even 20 years ago. So I gave up and went to a nearby CC. Took care of all the lower division stuff, and then transferred to a state university later. It saved me a fortune. Now that I'm back there, I think I might stay an extra semester and finish off the GIS Certification, just for the sake of having it on the resume. It'll especially come in handy as infrastructure and manufacturing are drastically overhauled to address the effects of climate change and energy efficiency. Between that and the stuff I'm learning about the energy sector, I'll be positioned very well for what's coming within the next decade or so. Things are about to go crazy, and there's going to be a ton of jobs out there. I just hope that enough career-minded folks will be thinking that far ahead to take advantage of it.
@@Polymathically Definitely do the GIS! I'm just now starting a class in GIS and it's both fun and useful as heck. It's becoming increasingly useful in the modern day as technology advances. It's also a great backup plan in case too many people go the same route as you and you struggle to find a job in environmental work. As for me, technically the place I want to work is a hatchery not a fishery, but it's still labelled under the fisheries name. It's a company in Prince William Sound, Alaska that works with salmon. As the salmon return to the freshwater in mating season, they catch them, breed them, and raise them to ensure enough of the baby salmon survive to replenish the population and support the salmon fisheries industry. During catching season they also work as fisheries observers to keep data on what's being caught. It's a non-profit organization and it is directly supported monetarily by the salmon fisheries catch.
Met Bill Nye and told him he was the reason I became an Engineer (he's an Engineer btw not a scientist). He was so condescending and disinterested. That really sucked.
I had these bad vibes of a teacher who seemed nice. I couldn't really tell at the time but I knew to avoid this man no matter how nice he acts. A few months into my second semester, he's been caught for possession of illicit material featuring minors. Everyone was shocked, but it didn't really surprise me.
I've only ever predicted two things notably ahead of time: That Sonic The Hedgehog would one day be on Nintendo systems, and that there would be a Coup attempt in the United States if Trump were to lose the election.
My best friend started to date this girl and i told him he was going to go full simp and get depressed He has been struggling with horrible depression and is angry at me because his girl wants me now.
I was in high school when the new seizure rules for finding drugs came out. I told everyone it would be abused from hell and back. I told I was an idiot because police are all absolutely honest. Several of them lost nice cars due to 'found' weed in them.
I predicted a pop quiz once, felt smug as all hell when five classmates looked at me as soon as it was announced, two high-fived me and the other three had the "why didn't I listen" face. I predicted it because I noticed our teacher had a habit of giving us pop quizzes on thursdays, and there was always a quiz two weeks before a major project's due date. Only predicted one because I figured that pattern out after the third-to-last project, confirmed it with the second-to-last one, and so only publicly (as in, to a few friends) predicted it for the last project. The two who high-fived me nearly aced it, the other three bombed, and I aced it. Study groups FTW, I guess.
My ex-husband is also an engineer that noticed, when 9/11 struck, the buildings wouldn't stand. He was at the office, when it happened, and said all the engineers noticed the same thing, that it wasn't structurally sound to handle that amount of heat.
Was at work and see management setting a table out front to promote their credit card (it's a windy day off and on) I recommend they set up on the side of the wall so it breaks the wind based on the way the wind was going. The lady gave me the yeah okay, whatever dude. Disregarded everything I said. Not even 10 minutes pass and I see them chasing their papers and signs rolling in the street....it was actually very satisfying to see it play out Lol
March 12th, the day before lockdown began. Both my mom and I made predictions that day that came true. Nobody really thought that there would be a problem that day, but my mom went out to the grocery store late at night for last minute shopping and told me not to tell my siblings. She asked me if there was anything I thought we would need. My response? Toilet paper. She called the lockdown, but I called the toilet paper shortage.
I had a situation similar to this, I was at a club when I saw this lady on the dance floor. I had a bad feeling but I approached anyway, some guy told me to step aside and let him have her. So I did, I even bowed and gestured toward her. He approached, I couldn't hear the conversation but she told him to leave very rudely and her boyfriend stepped in to beat the crap out of the dude, I just stood there with my invisible popcorn enjoying the show! I completely called it (it's more acurate to say i dodged a bullet!)
@@repentorperish1386 saying I told you so after getting sick from a virus from another continent when you haven't even left your province/state before in your life is such a hollow feeling. Maximum bruh moment
@@iamrazor9831 yeah i agree. Its been a strange feeling. I told my mom step by step what would happen and it has and now she won't admit i was right lok
In 1987, when I was a senior in high school, I told my political science teacher that the Soviet Union would break up by 1992. She and the entire class laughed their heads off. In 1991, the Soviet Union broke up.
In '78 my dad was taking classes to write programs (his company had bought hardware from IBM) he came home and told me, "any book in any language at any time" I miss him.
Monster high was the best, my 12th birthday party was monster high themed. The show had episode/Movies talking about *racism* (wolves vs vampires) (the movies ghouls rule) and *sexism* (the movie Friday night frights) I thought it was better Barbie because Barbie made different movies scenarios about her being a superhero or princess etc. Monster high brought up real topics that even the reboot failed to do. Monster high was actually making billions more than Barbie and it’s crazy because Barbie has been around since 1959 and monster high came out in 2010.
This dude joined my frat, as soon as I met him I could tell he was a little off, turns out he was academically pretty smart but took a bunch of LSD and had developed somewhat of a god complex and later reported us for hazing.
Me neither. I spent hours as a kid roaming and reading in those comfy little nooks with the bean bags. At the end I'd choose a book to go home with. Remember going up the stairs and landing on that carpeted floor that had that hollow feeling to it? That soothing hush as people just got lost in their own little world? The smell of the books lingering in your nose when you left? How the noise from the outside world was completely muffled by the layers of paper contained in that sweet little store?
Robin WIlliams' death. It was an interview with (I think) the show 60 Minutes, though I can't find it anymore. The interviewer asked him something along the lines of "Some people say you're the happiest person in the world, what do you have to say about that?" Robin replied with something to the effect of "you show me the happiest person in the world, and I'll show you someone who has real problems". His smile fell a little; from joy and happiness to a sad and wistful one. Right then I knew he wasn't going to have a peaceful death. I didn't know if it was going to be in a car accident, heart attack, or some other freak of nature incident...but I KNEW he wasn't going to "pass from old age".
Smug grandma reminds me of a story I saw on another Reddit thread. They were with their grandma in the car as a child and she wasn't going forward when the light was green. The dude behind them was getting upset but just then a huge truck plowed through and would have killed them all. Grandma was in some military Field I don't remember and knew how to sense vibrations of things moving toward her
Yeah, older people seem to have the ability to sense vibrations. My dad can sense when it’s about to rain, thanks to his bones feeling weird. (He has psoriatic arthritis).
I listen to these when I play solo games just put the headphones in and play best thing to do when playing alone to make it feel like someone’s with u😢
The tech bubble crash in 2000. I worked in a tech support office with 1100 others people. Suddenly we were down to 50 people and our main client was Hewlett Packard. Boom.
Took my dog to the vet, she was really sick wasn't drinking water hardly losing weight rapidly and her paw pads were really hard, told the vet that I'm pretty sure it's distemper because there were other dogs around that time getting distemper in the county, vet said I was crazy that's not what it was $1,000 later she dies in my arms at home from distemper. She went through 7 days at the vet trying everything that they could think of except for the distemperor treatment that if she had gotten seven days prior she would have lived.
Yea, I'd like to see what studies dude read who brought up Lance Armstrong and his PED usage cause I didn't know stuff like test, gh, epo were direct links to ball cancer....lol
Pro bike riding is very stressful to male genitalia, add to that carcinogenic PED, and you are lucky not to lose both balls and need a prosthetic taint!
Co-workers and I were seated at a cafeteria table one day in 2004 and we got onto the subject of the house-flipping on HGTV and other channels. I predicted in that conversation that we would see a shakeout / burst in the real estate market like we had never seen in our lifetimes. Too bad I hadn't invested against the market at the time.😅😂😂
I already knew who the Villain was on the Zootopia movie because these high budget movies tend to stop introducing characters in the first 33% of the movie and then as the Story unfolds more and more, it just leads to cliche that the “little guy” gets tired of feeling small or the Prey wants to turn the tables on the Predator.
In 1998 I worked for an economist in DC who testified that the merger of Citibank and travelers would not have a negative effect on the U.S. economy, and the Glass-Steagell act was soon declared dead. I told them that you have just caused a future huge crisis. The former chairman of the FDIC and RTC told me that regulators were smarter now. In 2006, i called him to warn him that a recession was underway as he owned four banking magazines and was on CNBC weekly and didn't want him caught with his pants down, he joked that nothing he saw indicated a problem. In 2008 he called me to ask how i knew and if i wanted to come work with him again, i agreed and he died shortly before I was able to return too work. I also tried to raise funds to make a device that would allow people to read their newspaper on their phone and was told that no-one wants to look at a screen, they like the feel of paper, and i also tried to raise money to start an internet only grocery store, and was told no to that also. ( i worked with investment bankers and Saudi money at the time) ( no I'm not forest Gump, and yes this is all real) the next big ideas are green.
@@RamiroR13 no because I'm working on it now...lol. How you buy electricity will change drastically if you live in cities and how your electric car is recharged is going to change dramatically. The technology isn't new, but who has access to it will be expanded.
@@RamiroR13 There is cost savings of having one company maintain the lines, and this cost should be shared by everyone, even those who are "off-grid". Many ways to tackle this problem and every jurisdiction has different solutions. Likewise, with schools, you pay if you have kids or not. However, that's not really what I'm talking about and that won't change, they will always get their money, don't worry about that.
Oooh so that's why Lenovo computer sales tanked so much. And I remember they were contracted to supply a lot of computers for banks. If they installed that malware how many important banking data are sold to third party companies
A possible death by drowning In 8th grade, i really wanted to go to the swimming pool with my classmates. My dad says no, saying that; "the last time i allowed you in 4th grade, you and your classmate almost drowned". Despite my best efforts of persuasions, he didnt comply. So i have no choice but to face defeat. Well at that fateful day, My classmate drowned. The news quickly spread like wildfire in my town because some ahole girl posted his lifeless body at facebook. My father called me while i was sleeping at 3 PM and told me about the news. Really sucked that it happened to him. R.I.P. Elton
12:00 Integra Hellsing : Anything else? Alucard : A seventy-inch... plasma widescreen TV. Integra Hellsing : Really? Alucard : With Netflix. Integra Hellsing : [sarcastically] Should it also be 3D? Alucard : No, that's a stupid fucking gimmick and everyone knows it!
Excellent point about mortgage brokers getting paid up front instead of an annuity. 👍🏻 You didn’t just point out the liabilities of the current situation but provided a change to address it.
Long ago, I spent an afternoon helping a friend move his brother's hot new wife into an apartment with his brother's best friend, so she could share expenses and such while brother was away at boot camp. I was really surprised that no one but me thought it was an amazingly bad idea. It went about like you'd expect.
@@rondameravella2885 The thing that surprised me was the speed; she was pregnant literally five WEEKS later. I guess under some circumstances this set up might work, but there were a lot of issues here: they had only been together for about 6 months before they got married; they rushed because he had to go to boot camp (not deployment, sorry). She also just stayed home and watched TV all day, living off his paycheck. No goals, no plans to go to college or join up herself, just weed and daytime TV. And she really was attractive in a trailer-park sort of way. The "friend" was unemployed but living off a settlement of some sort, and shared her weed and Maury Povich habits. So it was basically a guaranteed failure.
When I was a little guy, I wanted to play in the ball pit at the McDonald's in my hometown, my dad told me I'd get sick if I did but I insisted, he later said "I give it three days before you get sick" two days later I woke up one morning and puked my guts out
My friend's aunt. She knew her son was a screw up. She put in her will that his money would be received as a monthly annuity because if he got it in a lump sum he'd be broke within a year. She passed away. He got a lawyer. He got his lump sum. He now complains about being broke.
3:00 i didn’t know leishmaniasis was uncommon in certain places... lived in South America as a kid and all three of my childhood dogs have/had it. Lost one of them to it and poor diagnosis as well as a lack of treatment. Love you Susie
My friend was one of the kids who started the UK's scoobies craze in the early 2000s. She'd been to a church camp and one of the youth pastors had picked it up from a youth pastor in a different country. So they taught this close-knit circle of kids at church camp, the kids went off to their little corners of the UK, and okay, Scoobies spread like wildfire. But our whole county got started by this one friend of mine. She taught thirty of us in form period and we all just taught everyone we knew. Stores sold out, teachers had to confiscate them, people were exchanging them like wedding vows. Problem was, my friend was deeply unpopular in our school and the craze spread like wildfire, but sometimes we'd still talk about that time she helped kick-start a nationwide craze with maybe 10 other kids.
@Default Nothing, he's doing the same work he's always done. He just doesn't cuddle the sensibilities of hyper-sensitive conservative culture warriors that deny climate change or other a-scientific stances,
Wanted to make a research / thesis paper about "Social Media Literacy" back in 2015-6 for college (communication major). At that time soc med was heavily used for personal branding, image building, and maketing -- influencer culture was just for the elite (think Kardashians or children of business tycoons) and news was just transitioning to social media. Kind of rejected by my head prof saying lack of background -- that it was more of a psych or social sciences thing. Either she planning on using it own for her doctorate's or I had less than ideal plans or academic foundation for such research. In my mind, my reaearch will be a guide for highschoolers, how to fact check content, understand the differnce of paid/sponsored/marketing vs fact checked content. So they learn when they are being sold something vs given quality info. 2 years later, the idea of "fake news" bombed politics and social media. People then (or at least most) learned to fact check the best they can when find when hearing / seeing / reading things online. And around 2019 - 2020, social media platforms started purging accounts and pages with fraudulent and suspicious identities and activities. Rules and T&Cs has been updated to ensure a stricter fact checking on contents as well. Really regretted that one, could have been a great achievement if I was able to publish a research about understanding fake news on social media before it became relevant again. PS. the idea of fake news has been on since print media, also in broadcast, and came back with social media more dangerously because of lack of rules against it -- until the recent changes were made.
It's not all that uncommon of a reaction. When people get scared, they buy things that last for a long time, like cleaning supplies, paper products, gasoline, and canned goods. My guess is it has something to do with survival instincts.
I’ve got a science degree and knew trump was lying from day one. I bought extra alcohol , hand sanitizer & Lysol in January 2020 . No masks were available to buy but I had a few from my job because I was late getting my flu shot. Spent the next year in the epicenter of the pandemic in NYC watching people die.
I was thinking CoVid19 might be a problem so I bought a few 50rd boxes of 9mm, .357sig, .40S&W. I had a odd feeling if 😷 gets worse, ammunition will get tough to find. As expected, 2020, went 🥜🥜🥜 & guns, ammunition became scarce. 😟 To save up a few boxes during a scare is ✔.
The entries about the housing crisis reminds me of a story from right before the day the stock market crashed in 1929. I forget who, but some rich guy was getting his shoe shined and the kid shining the shoes had a bunch of stock tips. The rich guy knew the market was going to collapse and pulled all his money out.
reading a book with my mom (Gregor and the underlanders... something something idk) they were on this underground river and this character could smell stuff. the character was talking about smelling something worriesome but couldn’t describe it. i said to my mom “its a whirlpool!” my mom kept reading and then at the end of the chapter like 2 seconds later, a charcter yelled, “WHIRLPOOL” and my mom just looked at me with this shocked face
I saw a two line article about a large earthquake in Indonesia one day. The article was buried in the weather section of the newspaper. Being a Californian I immediately thought of the risk of tsunamis and wondered what steps were being taken to warn the locals. Over the next few days we saw and heard how bad it was for these people. My sister lost a friend who was vacationing there on the beach in Banda Aceh.
When my friends and I watched Parks and Rec, I looked at Andy Dwyer and said "That guy would be a hilarious super hero." Then Guardians of the Galaxy came out.
When the oil boom crashed in 2015, I told my boss it was the last boom there would ever be. He laughed out loud and told me I should be working for Suncor (oilsands, Ft McMurray, Alberta). I said I don't think they need me to tell them; the signs are obvious. I said there'd be a gradual recovery, but what drives booms just doesn't exist anymore. 6 years later we've had the mega crash from covid, but no boom. Longest run between a bust and a new boom in my lifetime - and still no sign of one, even with recovery from the covid crash. Because you know what fuels a boom? Oil-dependent industrial development as a bloc in some other country. The last three cycles were caused by China; the two before that by India. Who's doing massive oil-dependent industrial development right now? No one. Who's going to? No one. Everybody's working to reduce their oil dependency, not massively increase it. And you know what caused the 2015 crash? Saudi Arabia turned on the taps, full throttle, precisely 6 months after newly developed batteries demonstrated the capacity to discharge electricity at industrial rates - thereby enabling future industrial development to be at least partly green-fueled, instead of oil-dependent. Oil dependency will continue for the lifetime of the industrial infrastructure /that /has /already /been /built. But there will never be another boom, because there will never be massive growth of that kind of development again. Not even actual rocket science; just knowing what stage the technology has reached, instead of pretending it's hasn't changed since I toured a synthetic oil research lab and saw a prototype of a solar panel, on the same day, in 1978. (Synthetic oil is what is made out of the bitumen produced by the oilsands, btw).
Note: the Saudis turned on the taps specifically to drop the price/barrel so low that infrastructure projects - particularly pipelines - would become uneconomical and therefor delayed or cancelled. This was because any purchasers who were locked into projects wouldn't be available to purchase Saudi oil, but if they weren't contractually obligated they'd take the superior product at a lower price in a heartbeat. Not just "now", but in the future. Think the Saudis picked their timing by accident? They've been planning for the post-oil-age since at least 1972; so was our premier in 1972, and for the duration of his multiple terms. Sadly, every premier SINCE then (especially the one right after and the one right now) have done everything in their power to undo everything he did. And it's too late to plan ahead, now.
story time, my brother dump his girlfriend because she was sleeping around, later he got back together because she was pregnant, first thing I said was "how do you know it yours", later the girl was born and everyone insisted she looked like him even though she looked nothing like him, I knew that wasn't his baby, but everyone else insisted it was his baby, DNA test came back and to everyone's (expect mine) surprise, it wasn't his kid, then I said to everyone "I told you so"
Some Malaysian writer wrote A Dead Crow. It was scary reading remembering about it when the C19 became a problem in China. I still think about this poem.
Way back at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic (mid-March to April), I was the one saying to everyone that this would likely become the next super-flu and pick up again around next winter, especially since the virus can withstand cooler temperatures. People doubted me at first, but then winter came around.
That comment about the Australian taxi industry is spot on. Here in Western Australia the taxi companies wanted to charge a $10 fee for turning up on time.
2:54 my dog had something similar happen! Also 6 months for my poor baby to recover, in her case it was non-dermal staph which had somehow mutated into a dermal staph infection, and on top of that she was allergic to many of the topical treatments... She's fully recovered but I was so scared :(
Mother eñnabled brother in doing horrendous things to hurt others. At the end she found she could not count on him. She tried to tell the truth about lies she had told to make him feel important. Now so many still believe her original lies and acts like she's mistreating him, which is exactly what the little fake victim wants.
On Friday, March 13, 2020 My friend told me that she will see me at school on Monday. For some reason, I felt that wasn’t true. I turned to her and said “No, you won’t” and walked away. Later that day, school was shut down.
On top of having 6 month coverage, while all vaccines not actually being a coronavirus thus not building antibodies for a coronavirus, but building immune system strength towards a formation of a spike protein, on top of people believing this a magical made up conspiracy, on top of certain states lifting quarantine regulations, on top of 98% of people never once reading a dissertation or case study from any epidemiologist, on top of people thinking 1% of 7.2 trillion people dying(72 billion people.... BILLION) isn't "that deadly", on top of people not realizing most scientists suggest the mortality rate is more, on top of people not understanding post-infection complications are also a cause of concern, on top of everyone and their mother thinking they "know" more without fucking researching for more than 10 minutes on a Facebook feed that their uncle's girlfriend's brother-in-law's niece posted, on top of world leaders around the globe not listening to multiple scientists talking about for years now that we are bound to see another global influenza pandemic as seen in 1918ish with the "Spanish" flu (not even from Spain, Spain was just the only one allowed and brave enough to report on it at the time).... We. Are. Fucked.
Last year my friend started hanging out with these new people and don't get me wrong, I honestly don't care that my friends have other friends(although internal me strongly disagrees but i dont listen to her), but those people were... different? I told her that I didn't like them very much and she was like "fair, you don't have to like everyone". Later in the year they friggin left her at the entrance waiting for them. smh
In 1990 I bought my first computer (windows computer system) I asked the store: “Aren’t all the computers connected to each other somehow?” They thought that was a crazy Idea. I was only 3-4 years ahead of modems and the Internet.
I got into an argument with Washington Mutual over some credit card issues. When it finally got straitened out I wrote them that they needed to do a better job or they would be out of business. They didn't do a better job.
Without knowing it, my mom called Tinder in 2010. Tinder was released in 2012. My mom told me she had a dream that and friend and I both became web/app developers, and we "made a website for your phone that lets you match with singles in your area." However, she really emphasized how it would be mobile-optimized and aimed towards a younger generation, and use current social media tools (like linking to FB for your photos) for additional support. She didn't quite word it as eloquently since she's a boomer with little tech knowledge, but that was the gist of it. My friend and I were in high school at that point, so we just laughed it off. We also weren't knowledgeable about web or app development and couldn't do anything to make it happen. In 2017, I used Tinder to match with my now fiance! This one was just so crazy to me because my mother is so out of touch with tech. She calls me nearly every time she wants to post a photo on Facebook to ask me how. She's also been happily married to my dad for 20-30 years. She may have seen a commercial for Match or OK Cupid, or heard of a friend using those platforms. But I don't know how she was able to dream up the specifics on how it would function.
After watching Heath Ledger’s amazing performance as the Joker, I told my boyfriend that Heath was suffering with mental health issues in real life. I said he had either: *1.* FULLY embraced an already existing unhealthy dark headspace _and_ painful struggles to successfully create such a haunting, unique portrayal of Joker’s complete apathy and instability or... *2.* intentionally created or strengthened an unhealthy mindset by fueling it with negative, harmful thoughts in order to _realistically_ (almost _too_ realistically) play such a deranged character. I was so sad when I found out that I was correct. 😞 Edit: I do not keep up with celebrity “current events” so was completely unaware of whether or not any of his struggles were made public before his death. My guess was based on only the performance with no prior knowledge about his life.
The way the pandemic would go out of control. I was warning everyone back when it was raging mostly only in China. It was like watching a giant mushroom cloud from very far away, but you try to warn everyone about the coming shockwave that will eventually reach you.
My family bought our current house, built in 1939, for just about 70k euros here in sweden, in september 2008. It was worth way more than that, and now that the market has stabilized more, and with our renovations, it's worth between 110K and 140K depending on which appraisal from the last 4 years you go after. I would say, for my family and housing situation, we could not have choose a better time to move out of our old apartment and swap towns and live in this house.
I was a buyer for a luxury retailer in Houston. We got a call to a high profile investment company that had just spent millions of dollars remodeling a small 3 story office building in the Post Oak area. There was a massive fountain outdoors. Inside there were bronze statues, including a gigantic eagle soaring in a stair well suspended with cables. We were given a tour by the onsite chef. We were there to present china, crystal and silver for the executive dining room and the staff dining room. The company was incorporated on a Caribbean Island, where the CEO had built a hospital as a gift to the Government. He was very tight with the island's President. As we walked through the building, my boss and I kept trading looks with each other, as it was clear that money was no object, they had shot the lock off the strongbox, and pissed away huge amounts of cash. As we left, we conversed about the business. I asked "Ponzi Scheme or money laundering?" It took more time than it should have for the Federal Government to charge the CEO with a slew of financial crimes, perhaps because the business was protected by the government of the Island it was incorporated on. If I could immediately know that something was very wrong just walking in the door and looking around, why didn't everyone else? People lost millions! I have known many very, very wealthy people (as in never having to work unless they just feel like doing something, rich). One thing they never do is spend money like it is worthless. One group of acquaintances, bought race horses as a tax shelter. Unfortunately the horses kept winning. To lose money on them a couple of the investors flew to Switzerland to buy the most outrageously expensive horse tack they could find. Losing money makes money in the world the rich inhabit. In my experience (I was 30 in 1980, the big cocaine use decade) the ONLY people to spend money as if it has no value are drug dealers and other criminals. They spend big because they can't legally account for it, it can't go into a bank. They can spend $20,000.00 on a party without blinking. This wasn't the last obvious Ponzi Scheme I witnessed masquerading as a paragon of virtue!
The one @5:55 totally reminded me: When I was watching the Michael Jackson interview with Martin Bashir in 2003, he's on a settee with this very good looking kid, their hands clasped, the kid laying his head on MJ's shoulder while MJ is saying "It's the most loving thing you can do, sharing your bed with someone." but then a little too quickly Michael interjects that he slept on the floor that night. I said, out loud, "Just you watch. That kid's going to accuse him!" And it was indeed this kid whose accusations resulted in MJ's trial the next year.
'They never drug test here, it'll be fine.' -chops hand off in machine- 'Oh no insurance won't cover it cuz I was high' Smooth, dude, you just threw away your entire future over a hit on a $10 blunt.
Second story I’m so glad the person remembered and reached out years later that they were wrong. So many people will just stick their heads in sand to preserve their pride
Or just forget🙃
I agree. it's always important to admit when your wrong. it shows maturity
yes, major props to the professor for remembering the paper and finding the person
Yeah, and it's wild that the professor remembered that specific essay and had his contact info.
When my little brother does something stupid and doesn’t see mom sprinting across the field with a look of rage.
😂😂😂
Lol. That's amazing.
When my younger brother was 13, i knew he was going to be the one to get caught in trouble the most. My parents said no way, he's 19 now and he's:
Taken a BB gun to school after a mass shooting
Punched another kid in a city soccer match
Got jumped by the group of girls he was messing around with
Kicked off his senior trip after paying $500 and no refund, not allowed to walk the grass, and suspended the lady month of school for getting caught having sex with a girl under the stairs in school
Got fired for flirting with a married woman after he was told at work to stop flirting with his co-workers
Lying about how with many hours he's worked
Dining and smoking in a public park
When I first heard about Covid over in China I said, "it's coming over here (US)"
I saw that too, back in January 2020 all conspiracy youtube channels of my country started to show China virus and some obscure videos of chinese people collapsing on streets , China building hospitals ,etc etc while all conventional media was like " this is conspiracy and not facts , this is not dangerous because China said so " and I was like : that will be a mess , better stock my house with food ,lol , I never watched conspiracy channels before but now I am more open hahahahaha
I was the one at work an everyone around me telling em all that, what was coming was going to just change the way we live. Umm they all looked at me like i was crazy. Now they've almost all caught up with the world wide trend an yeah they said its no joke
I was tracking covid 19 when there were 30-70 cases because I kept checking on a daily update by a TH-camr called doctor shaym
@@____trazluz____9804 same here. And now I'm so confused at all those same media outlets trying to act like they actual take this seriously. And then people believe them and get mad when i point out those outlets used to say this is a conspiracy theory.
@@____trazluz____9804 ikr?? I brought it up and people said "Dark dont be paranoid, its in CHINA, we'll just lock down before it ever gets here" until people started coming back with "wierd flu-like symptoms" I NOPED tf out of there, i grew up joking about Pandemics and Zombie outbreaks, so i took it seriously, the people calling ME crazy are usually the ones that subscribe to whatever psycho-bullshit of the day. Now its QAnon and 10 years ago it was being Anti-Gay/Anti-Trans before that was more mainstream.
When my boyfriend told me that his best friend (girl) won't be a problem for us, because she was like a sister to him...
She kept being super intrusive to the point that I felt like the third weel in my own couple and it created a lot of problems between him and I. Talked to him about the fact that maybe she had feelings for him and that they should talk about it, he denied. Two months later (together for ~6months at this point) she asked him to choose between herself and me, when I asked her to give us more space ...
He choose me, now we're together for almost 2 years and she's out of our lives.
People will disagree(because they don’t want to believe it’s true or because they are in a similar situation on either side) but listen to me. It is the EXCEPTION and not the rule that a straight boyfriend having best girl friend, especially who he spends time with often, are now or will stay strictly platonic. It’s not a matter of the opposite sex not controlling themselves or something. A dude is not going to let a girl he’s really into EVER feel like another girl is a threat. If he wants his girl, the other girl will become an afterthought. If he’s a cheating creep OR if he really isn’t that into you, he will *ACCUSE YOU OF BEING INSECURE* as he hangs out with his “friend” for the 3rd weekend in a row.
There are other reasons additionally, like in your case where the girl was hanging on either until he started to like her romantically or to just get the piece of his love she could get. This happens a LOT. Again, people like to believe that each of the 7-8 billion humans on the planet behave and react to similar situations in 7-8 billion ways. They do not. People TEND to do similar things. Women TEND to view relationships wholistically. Those hanging on “best friends” are in a relationship with the dude: they spend time together, they have inside jokes, they know each other’s schedules, they might be liked or loved by each other’s families, they share each other’s dreams. They just don’t kiss(maybe).
I hate to tell you but your boyfriend CHOSE you, meaning, there were 2 equal choices, which means that she wasn’t in the same position as just an actual friend. He was doing SOMETHING that made her feel like YOU were a rival. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t love you. Doesn’t mean you don’t have a lovely beautiful relationship. It just means that, at THAT point in your relationship, he wasn’t 100% in. Which makes sense at that point. It was not just her being crazy or overzealous. Believe that.
@@germyw i believe & trust what you’re saying. I also feel like sometimes one may like the other more than the other one does and when one demands , implants themselves and becomes the one who’s over stepping the boundaries that the other person has to decide if it’s time to have them take a step back and give them some space . If they wanted to be together then they wouldn’t have gotten a girlfriend or boyfriend in the first place . I’m on the fence with the one in question ???
Thats great because i had something like that happened and well i (male) and my boyfriends bestfriend (also male) he liked him and well he kissed him and i was also in the room and he said to pick between him (( his best friend for years)) or i ((who had dated him for over a year)) and he chose me and now we are going to get married in a week and guess who tried to get in invite? the Ex best friend and i happly said no and then told my boyfriend and he was a little sad but happy so yeah!
Eating dinner at a friend’s house, they have a new puppy, fairly large breed (German Shepherd-ish), we’re eating bone-in chicken and I notice they’re throwing the bones away in the open trash can. I say “We should probably set the bones aside so we keep them out of the trash can, (puppy name) may get in there.” I grew up with dogs, you never leave the trash open or accessible regardless of training or breed.
I’m summarily dismissed with an “Oh it’s fine.”
Not ten seconds later the puppy nose-dives into the open trash can and in the span of two heartbeats I instinctively grab her, yank her out, see something gray vanish into her mouth, force her mouth open, and yank a full-sized chicken bone out from her throat.
I hold it up as the adrenaline still courses through my body and declare “Don’t worry! I got it!” to the deafening response of avoided gazes and silence that is heavy with the texture of embarrassment.
The puppy is now a full grown mischief maker and living her best life.
I don’t fish for praise, I don’t aim to shame, I want people to learn and improve.
Adulting! Most kids wanted to grow up but I knew to enjoy my time as minor. Definitely want to emphasize that to my children. You will be an adult much longer than you will be a child; enjoy this time.
On my 17th birthday my uncle told me.
“This is the last year you get to fuck up intentionally and only get a slap.”
Same! Wanted to be Peter Pan my entire childhood and still. Told everyone of all ages I’m enjoying my childhood to the fullest despite the pure pressure and bullying. Actually suffered Heartbreak after turning 18 lasted a year and a half before it finally ended.
Already knew that I had to use my childhood the most I can but with school I could not do anything
@@musicallydisneyamvs6731 So happy, you're in a better place
Ya same I'm 17 and lots of kids my age want to be adults but I want to cherish my childhood so badly
Used to live in Venezuela. I told my family that we should leave because things were going to get much worse. They didn't want to because we would have to start over at a lower life level in another country. Seven years after that, and we ended up moving, and starting over in another country. If we had moved earlier, not only would we have started up better than we are currently, but we could have improved further in that timeframe.
At least you took the chance!! Too bad you didn’t do it sooner but at least you did it !!! Things will improve and your life will be what you make it !!!
I had friends there. They could not believe that things would get so bad that they would have to flee from their homes, until it did. I know your pain.
That story about the dog and it’s skin melting...
Jesus Christ. I can’t even imagine how scared that dog must’ve been.
Had a few shady friends that had been having relationship issues & suddenly the girl announced she was pregnant with twins and they got engaged immediately. I looked at my roommate at the time and said "she's faking it, give it a month or two and she's going to claim to have a miscarriage." Really wish I had bet money on it. Kinda felt bad for the guy but at the same time he was so dumb to believe anything she said since nothing about her "pregnancy" made sense.
Last summer my uncle was over helping us get our garden started, and when he started his truck to get ready to leave I heard what I was certain was an idler pulley going out (had one go out on my pickup years ago, the sound of a failing bearing is pretty telltale). I let him know and he swore "nah it's fine". 2 weeks later his camping trip up the mountain was cut short when his engine overheated and he blew a head gasket, costing a total of $6K in towing and repairs. The cause? His idler pulley blew and threw the belt.
Not quite. If the belt list. He should have noticed it overheating, shut it down then. The driver ruined the engine. I have blown a hose, water pump, belt. Shut things down, find issue... maybe limp to help after it cools. (If water pump still working but fan fails) turn on in vehicle heat. Gives you a few more minutes. (I have also popped hood first notch, let it roll with engine off as far as it goes.)
@@larsharris apparently his son was driving at the time so there's that, but they were going up the pass with turnoffs few and far between. It honestly crept up on em quick. By the time they had a chance to pull over it was pretty well cooked.
@@knote4958 Mmm toasted truck sandwich 👁👄👁
For the story about the dog whose skin melted... if OP was so sure about what happened, why didn't he switched vet/doctor whom will agree with him instead of choking his dog with wrong medication?
People lie all the time I guess
Don't remember all of this video, since I watched it a few days ago, so maybe this was mentioned in it. This skin condition sounds like canine toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome.
self-doubt is a thing
because while he thought it was that, it would be better to trust the expert in that sort of situation. He switched when it was obvious it wasnt working. Either the OP lied or he wasnt nearly as sure as he thought he was, and im assuming its the latter.
What makes you think the second doctor will do better?
It is normal for people to switch and doctors to rely information if they know to who you are switching to sabotaging you. If they string you along and sell you wrong meds as long as possible it is more money.
In other cases they might even DENY letting you switch or give information to the other which suggests that you're being deceptive and should go back to the original.
1:47 I admire that professor for admitting his fault.
My seventh grade vice principle got suspended for touching the cheerleaders he was the third in a row for the same thing
What school has cheerleaders in the 7th grade???
@@darqangelle5478 uhh a lot of them??
@@darqangelle5478 almost all my school had them since like first grade
Hahah we don’t have to worry about that in the UK
We don’t really ever have cheerleaders lol. I have never seen any cheerleaders ever, even on tv (unless it was a movie not set in the UK)
OMG I feel like I can see this since I'm in 7th grade, and we constantly get reminded of the dangers. And some of my classmates have been in that situation. So can we cancel him?
Engineering and architecture jobs. The demand for them was so big that almost all of my classmates wanted to be engineers, well not a year after there were so many graduates of engineering that they're all paid less than before.
I'm sad society doesn't have a better way to deal with this. When the market is short on something, it takes years of college to fill the demand, and then the supply is too high. There's no really good way to solve it, the job market changes unpredictably with technology and demand for different services and products.
@@annana6098 There is a way to solve it. That way is for American society and teachers to stop pushing college college college and instead make it easier and less of a burden for companies to train people. This whole 4 year college thing isn't working. By the time people get out of college they've been out of the job market for years and technology has changed.
That's basic supply and demand lol
I predicted this woman getting bucked off a horse. The horse was kind of scrawny and we were working on exercises him to build back his muscle, but when I saw that today this large woman would be riding him I had a feeling that she was going to be bucked off, she was just to heavy for him. Sure enough as soon as she gets on off she goes.
Edit: I didn’t say anything because I have bad anxiety and I didn’t want anyone to think I was fat shaming her. Luckily she was ok and didn’t even break any bones.
Edit: that same woman got bucked off a different horse one that I have ridden many times and is a sweetheart
I wonder how many times a horse has bucked off uh “wide” women
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That duggar one at 12:25 aged even better these last few days lol
I used to be a security installation professional I got called out to a job at a high school I get up there and start looking at the camera wiring and this thing has been not on so terribly I'm surprised it still sort of worked since I couldn't proceed with installations cuz of safety violations and company policy I told the people and they refused because" it was too expensive" about a week later about 18 of 20 cameras went dead I warned them
Tldr: I warned a school that their security system was damaged they didn't listen and it broke
In all fairness they were just teaching the students why you listen to professionals
@@rhysturner7922 LOL
Prince Hans being the Villain. That Musicals like Mean Girls, Heathers, Spongebob, & Prom wouldn’t last. 5 years later it comes true. Me telling confused friends I told you so. One at least admitted they were wrong.
Edit: I was wrong on spongebob but the staging like BeetleJuice had saved it. Figures.
Same on that Hans one.
"I have [absurd amount of older brothers] , I'll never get to be king."
Me: ...that sounds like a motive. Why is he giving us a motive?
@@Psychwriteify Exactly. I figured it out 3 months before the release due to a sneak peek. Aka the boat scene. Strike 1.) Not taking notice of Anna until he found out she’s a Princess. Strike 2.) Having 12 older brothers Strike 3.) Singing “I’ve been dreaming my whole life to find my own place. Strike 4.) Sense the beginning it looked like he was playing/mirroring her, that made me question him more (before I realized he’s the mirror as a character). Strike 5.) He asks her to marry him so quickly knowing she meets another man later in the film. By that point it was self explanatory.
@Parker Moss NICE
ProZD had a funny video called something like "Meeting the video game character you know is going to betray you".
The trolls are fucked though
The student debt crisis. I got my first summer job when I was 15. It was a paid internship for a major bank, which eventually turned into a career that spanned almost 20 years. But one of the first things I learned about was student loans. I realized that due to the interest rates, student loans were a huge financial trap that had to be avoided at all costs. So, I decided not to get them. Everyone thought I was crazy, of course; back then, it was something you just did when you started college, no extra thinking required. But I knew better. I ended up putting myself through college without loans or help from my folks. It was a brutal, ruthless lesson in discipline and focus. I learned the difference between wants and needs very quickly. I had to work 3 jobs, ate nothing but canned food, and sacrificed my social life as well as my physical and mental health. By the time I walked across the stage, I was exhausted in every way a person can be. _But I didn't owe anyone a cent._
So unlike the vast majority of my peers, I don't have any debt. I went back to work full-time, but eventually had a nervous breakdown due to severe depression and suicidal ideation. There's a lot of reasons for that, but that's another long story. I lost my career, but I suddenly had tons of free time. So I ended up traveling the world; I've been to 25 countries / 5 continents so far. It should've been at least 26/6, but COVID screwed everything up. I've used the pandemic downtime to go back to college remotely for degrees in Environmental Science and Geography. What I'm learning now will be essential knowledge in the future, and much, _much_ sooner than most people think. Oh, and due to wage stagnation and loopholes that allow colleges to raise tuition and not pay taxes, higher education in the United States will eventually implode if things aren't changed soon.
TLDR: I didn't get student loans as a teenager, because I realized that the interest rate would've left me in debt for decades. I barely scraped by and got it done, though at great personal cost. Now I live with no debt, traveled all over the world, and even recently went back for a couple more STEM degrees. However, what I did would be completely impossible to do today due to wage stagnation and loopholes colleges use to raise tuition. If things aren't changed soon, higher education in the United States will eventually implode.
Trade school and community college is where it's at. The combo of boomers and gen X's insisting that all their kids go to college (despite not being able to afford it) and the age of technology making kids not want to do physical labor jobs- now everyone is in debt from loans, unable to get a job in their field that pays off said loans, and the blue collar jobs are wide open with no one taking them. Not to mention the amount of debt the federal government is in from it all. Right now, if you're willing to do the hard jobs, you WILL get a job, and you WILL get paid well to do it. Electricians, plumbers, carpenters, welders, etc. I did early college and got an AA for free and then my extended family paid for my bachelor's in marine biology (useless) so I figured I might as well finish a BS since it was paid for. Hasn't helped me at all. Graduated and switched to a gem of a community college for marine technology and am having so much fun and learning so much. 98% of graduates from the program get a good paying job in the field *within 2 weeks of graduating or sooner.* That's *unheard* of. Still waiting to hear from a fisheries job I applied to but I think I have a good chance of getting it.
@@violetpatina708 Wow, that's so awesome to hear! The success rate of that program is insane. My Environmental Science course briefly covered fisheries. What region do you want to work in, and what's their outlook on the population over the next couple of decades? What's being done to handle the declining numbers? And yeah, I know what you mean. Community colleges are the way to go; a lot of folks dump on them for no reason, but they're very practical. I got into UC Berkeley straight out of high school, but couldn't afford it even 20 years ago. So I gave up and went to a nearby CC. Took care of all the lower division stuff, and then transferred to a state university later. It saved me a fortune. Now that I'm back there, I think I might stay an extra semester and finish off the GIS Certification, just for the sake of having it on the resume. It'll especially come in handy as infrastructure and manufacturing are drastically overhauled to address the effects of climate change and energy efficiency. Between that and the stuff I'm learning about the energy sector, I'll be positioned very well for what's coming within the next decade or so. Things are about to go crazy, and there's going to be a ton of jobs out there. I just hope that enough career-minded folks will be thinking that far ahead to take advantage of it.
@@Polymathically Definitely do the GIS! I'm just now starting a class in GIS and it's both fun and useful as heck. It's becoming increasingly useful in the modern day as technology advances. It's also a great backup plan in case too many people go the same route as you and you struggle to find a job in environmental work. As for me, technically the place I want to work is a hatchery not a fishery, but it's still labelled under the fisheries name. It's a company in Prince William Sound, Alaska that works with salmon. As the salmon return to the freshwater in mating season, they catch them, breed them, and raise them to ensure enough of the baby salmon survive to replenish the population and support the salmon fisheries industry. During catching season they also work as fisheries observers to keep data on what's being caught. It's a non-profit organization and it is directly supported monetarily by the salmon fisheries catch.
Met Bill Nye and told him he was the reason I became an Engineer (he's an Engineer btw not a scientist). He was so condescending and disinterested. That really sucked.
I heard he used to be super friendly. I think he's just burned out and disillusioned.
@@idatethefatkid that’s what I’ve heard too. Used to be an honest good guy. But over time, he became an asshole.
Didn't he get busted for being a cokehead???
I had these bad vibes of a teacher who seemed nice. I couldn't really tell at the time but I knew to avoid this man no matter how nice he acts. A few months into my second semester, he's been caught for possession of illicit material featuring minors. Everyone was shocked, but it didn't really surprise me.
I've only ever predicted two things notably ahead of time: That Sonic The Hedgehog would one day be on Nintendo systems, and that there would be a Coup attempt in the United States if Trump were to lose the election.
That was hardly a coup attempt
1977 while at high school I saw some containers being stacked up and thought wow imagine using two or three of them to make a house.
My best friend started to date this girl and i told him he was going to go full simp and get depressed
He has been struggling with horrible depression and is angry at me because his girl wants me now.
LOL
I was in high school when the new seizure rules for finding drugs came out. I told everyone it would be abused from hell and back. I told I was an idiot because police are all absolutely honest.
Several of them lost nice cars due to 'found' weed in them.
I predicted a pop quiz once, felt smug as all hell when five classmates looked at me as soon as it was announced, two high-fived me and the other three had the "why didn't I listen" face.
I predicted it because I noticed our teacher had a habit of giving us pop quizzes on thursdays, and there was always a quiz two weeks before a major project's due date. Only predicted one because I figured that pattern out after the third-to-last project, confirmed it with the second-to-last one, and so only publicly (as in, to a few friends) predicted it for the last project. The two who high-fived me nearly aced it, the other three bombed, and I aced it. Study groups FTW, I guess.
My ex-husband is also an engineer that noticed, when 9/11 struck, the buildings wouldn't stand. He was at the office, when it happened, and said all the engineers noticed the same thing, that it wasn't structurally sound to handle that amount of heat.
But everyone knows the (fill in group) prepositioned explosives months in advance...
@@larsharris
Exactly.
Was at work and see management setting a table out front to promote their credit card (it's a windy day off and on) I recommend they set up on the side of the wall so it breaks the wind based on the way the wind was going. The lady gave me the yeah okay, whatever dude. Disregarded everything I said. Not even 10 minutes pass and I see them chasing their papers and signs rolling in the street....it was actually very satisfying to see it play out Lol
March 12th, the day before lockdown began. Both my mom and I made predictions that day that came true. Nobody really thought that there would be a problem that day, but my mom went out to the grocery store late at night for last minute shopping and told me not to tell my siblings. She asked me if there was anything I thought we would need. My response? Toilet paper. She called the lockdown, but I called the toilet paper shortage.
Props to the professor that actually went back and apologized for being wrong
11:51 THIS IS WHY "811" CALLS ARE MANDATORY BEFORE DIGGING! I see sooo much of this going on as a surveyor. "Oh, I KnOw ExAcTlY WhErE EvErYtHiNg Is"
I had a situation similar to this, I was at a club when I saw this lady on the dance floor. I had a bad feeling but I approached anyway, some guy told me to step aside and let him have her. So I did, I even bowed and gestured toward her. He approached, I couldn't hear the conversation but she told him to leave very rudely and her boyfriend stepped in to beat the crap out of the dude, I just stood there with my invisible popcorn enjoying the show! I completely called it (it's more acurate to say i dodged a bullet!)
The pendemic being a bigger issue than people initially believed
Nope
I remember telling my mom what the government was going to do...
@@repentorperish1386 saying I told you so after getting sick from a virus from another continent when you haven't even left your province/state before in your life is such a hollow feeling. Maximum bruh moment
@@iamrazor9831 yeah i agree. Its been a strange feeling. I told my mom step by step what would happen and it has and now she won't admit i was right lok
In the UK, I told everyone in February 2020 that we would be locked down in March. None of them would have it.
In 1987, when I was a senior in high school, I told my political science teacher that the Soviet Union would break up by 1992. She and the entire class laughed their heads off. In 1991, the Soviet Union broke up.
In '78 my dad was taking classes to write programs (his company had bought hardware from IBM) he came home and told me, "any book in any language at any time" I miss him.
When they told it was just going to be a 2 weeks quarantine. I said "that shit is gonna last at least 6 months".
I was still wrong, but less wrong.
The coal one literally sounds like putting all your eggs in one basket...
I predicted when monster high would end
Oof...
Holy shit so many memories old TH-cam i was watching monster high like in 2012 and im male lol
A very sad fall :*( I love monster high
Monster high didn’t end it just rebooted and turned to shit.
Monster high was the best, my 12th birthday party was monster high themed. The show had episode/Movies talking about *racism* (wolves vs vampires) (the movies ghouls rule)
and *sexism* (the movie Friday night frights)
I thought it was better Barbie because Barbie made different movies scenarios about her being a superhero or princess etc. Monster high brought up real topics that even the reboot failed to do. Monster high was actually making billions more than Barbie and it’s crazy because Barbie has been around since 1959 and monster high came out in 2010.
This dude joined my frat, as soon as I met him I could tell he was a little off, turns out he was academically pretty smart but took a bunch of LSD and had developed somewhat of a god complex and later reported us for hazing.
Tbh if your frat was hazing he was right to report you
@@idatethefatkid I get it but but our hazing consists of like quizzes and shit for school, I forgot to mention this was a business frat
RIP Border's. I'm still not over it
Same I love any and all bookstores
Me neither. I spent hours as a kid roaming and reading in those comfy little nooks with the bean bags. At the end I'd choose a book to go home with. Remember going up the stairs and landing on that carpeted floor that had that hollow feeling to it? That soothing hush as people just got lost in their own little world? The smell of the books lingering in your nose when you left? How the noise from the outside world was completely muffled by the layers of paper contained in that sweet little store?
Robin WIlliams' death.
It was an interview with (I think) the show 60 Minutes, though I can't find it anymore. The interviewer asked him something along the lines of "Some people say you're the happiest person in the world, what do you have to say about that?" Robin replied with something to the effect of "you show me the happiest person in the world, and I'll show you someone who has real problems". His smile fell a little; from joy and happiness to a sad and wistful one.
Right then I knew he wasn't going to have a peaceful death. I didn't know if it was going to be in a car accident, heart attack, or some other freak of nature incident...but I KNEW he wasn't going to "pass from old age".
A turtle approved what you saw coming
i saw this coming
A ferret approved what you saw coming
HEHE
Smug grandma reminds me of a story I saw on another Reddit thread. They were with their grandma in the car as a child and she wasn't going forward when the light was green. The dude behind them was getting upset but just then a huge truck plowed through and would have killed them all. Grandma was in some military Field I don't remember and knew how to sense vibrations of things moving toward her
Yeah, older people seem to have the ability to sense vibrations.
My dad can sense when it’s about to rain, thanks to his bones feeling weird.
(He has psoriatic arthritis).
@@beastmaster0934 I can smell the rain
I listen to these when I play solo games just put the headphones in and play best thing to do when playing alone to make it feel like someone’s with u😢
The tech bubble crash in 2000. I worked in a tech support office with 1100 others people. Suddenly we were down to 50 people and our main client was Hewlett Packard. Boom.
Man that Duggars prediction was eerie in how right it was. God damnit Josh…
Took my dog to the vet, she was really sick wasn't drinking water hardly losing weight rapidly and her paw pads were really hard, told the vet that I'm pretty sure it's distemper because there were other dogs around that time getting distemper in the county, vet said I was crazy that's not what it was $1,000 later she dies in my arms at home from distemper. She went through 7 days at the vet trying everything that they could think of except for the distemperor treatment that if she had gotten seven days prior she would have lived.
Tom Clancy predicted the use of commercial planes as a weapon
Role of Honor 📚. I read that Clancy novel.
There was an episode of the _X Files_ spinoff, _The Lone Gunmen,_ where the twin towers were the target. People have forgotten that.
Yea, I'd like to see what studies dude read who brought up Lance Armstrong and his PED usage cause I didn't know stuff like test, gh, epo were direct links to ball cancer....lol
Pro bike riding is very stressful to male genitalia, add to that carcinogenic PED, and you are lucky not to lose both balls and need a prosthetic taint!
Co-workers and I were seated at a cafeteria table one day in 2004 and we got onto the subject of the house-flipping on HGTV and other channels. I predicted in that conversation that we would see a shakeout / burst in the real estate market like we had never seen in our lifetimes. Too bad I hadn't invested against the market at the time.😅😂😂
I already knew who the Villain was on the Zootopia movie because these high budget movies tend to stop introducing characters in the first 33% of the movie and then as the Story unfolds more and more, it just leads to cliche that the “little guy” gets tired of feeling small or the Prey wants to turn the tables on the Predator.
01:47.
Can we please take the time to appreciate a Professor admitting he was wrong?.
In 1998 I worked for an economist in DC who testified that the merger of Citibank and travelers would not have a negative effect on the U.S. economy, and the Glass-Steagell act was soon declared dead. I told them that you have just caused a future huge crisis. The former chairman of the FDIC and RTC told me that regulators were smarter now. In 2006, i called him to warn him that a recession was underway as he owned four banking magazines and was on CNBC weekly and didn't want him caught with his pants down, he joked that nothing he saw indicated a problem. In 2008 he called me to ask how i knew and if i wanted to come work with him again, i agreed and he died shortly before I was able to return too work. I also tried to raise funds to make a device that would allow people to read their newspaper on their phone and was told that no-one wants to look at a screen, they like the feel of paper, and i also tried to raise money to start an internet only grocery store, and was told no to that also. ( i worked with investment bankers and Saudi money at the time) ( no I'm not forest Gump, and yes this is all real) the next big ideas are green.
Can you please elaborate on the next big ideas are green part?
@@RamiroR13 no because I'm working on it now...lol. How you buy electricity will change drastically if you live in cities and how your electric car is recharged is going to change dramatically. The technology isn't new, but who has access to it will be expanded.
@@markfairbanks3533 What do you think about the hurdle of local/state governments facilitating utilities monopolies?
@@RamiroR13 There is cost savings of having one company maintain the lines, and this cost should be shared by everyone, even those who are "off-grid". Many ways to tackle this problem and every jurisdiction has different solutions. Likewise, with schools, you pay if you have kids or not. However, that's not really what I'm talking about and that won't change, they will always get their money, don't worry about that.
The Duggar molestation scandal. Saw it coming because was familiar to the “cult” they were part of.
Oooh so that's why Lenovo computer sales tanked so much. And I remember they were contracted to supply a lot of computers for banks. If they installed that malware how many important banking data are sold to third party companies
A possible death by drowning
In 8th grade, i really wanted to go to the swimming pool with my classmates. My dad says no, saying that; "the last time i allowed you in 4th grade, you and your classmate almost drowned". Despite my best efforts of persuasions, he didnt comply. So i have no choice but to face defeat.
Well at that fateful day, My classmate drowned. The news quickly spread like wildfire in my town because some ahole girl posted his lifeless body at facebook. My father called me while i was sleeping at 3 PM and told me about the news. Really sucked that it happened to him. R.I.P. Elton
The Wuhan virus , when they QUARANTINED a major city I was like ' OH SH#T ! '
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Integra Hellsing : Anything else?
Alucard : A seventy-inch... plasma widescreen TV.
Integra Hellsing : Really?
Alucard : With Netflix.
Integra Hellsing : [sarcastically] Should it also be 3D?
Alucard : No, that's a stupid fucking gimmick and everyone knows it!
Excellent point about mortgage brokers getting paid up front instead of an annuity. 👍🏻 You didn’t just point out the liabilities of the current situation but provided a change to address it.
Long ago, I spent an afternoon helping a friend move his brother's hot new wife into an apartment with his brother's best friend, so she could share expenses and such while brother was away at boot camp. I was really surprised that no one but me thought it was an amazingly bad idea. It went about like you'd expect.
Why can't people keep their legs closed
@@rondameravella2885 The thing that surprised me was the speed; she was pregnant literally five WEEKS later.
I guess under some circumstances this set up might work, but there were a lot of issues here: they had only been together for about 6 months before they got married; they rushed because he had to go to boot camp (not deployment, sorry). She also just stayed home and watched TV all day, living off his paycheck. No goals, no plans to go to college or join up herself, just weed and daytime TV. And she really was attractive in a trailer-park sort of way. The "friend" was unemployed but living off a settlement of some sort, and shared her weed and Maury Povich habits.
So it was basically a guaranteed failure.
When I was a little guy, I wanted to play in the ball pit at the McDonald's in my hometown, my dad told me I'd get sick if I did but I insisted, he later said "I give it three days before you get sick" two days later I woke up one morning and puked my guts out
The whole world collectively called it when Red Hood was the Arkham Knight
My friend's aunt. She knew her son was a screw up. She put in her will that his money would be received as a monthly annuity because if he got it in a lump sum he'd be broke within a year. She passed away. He got a lawyer. He got his lump sum. He now complains about being broke.
3:00 i didn’t know leishmaniasis was uncommon in certain places... lived in South America as a kid and all three of my childhood dogs have/had it. Lost one of them to it and poor diagnosis as well as a lack of treatment. Love you Susie
:( at least theyre pain-free now
My friend was one of the kids who started the UK's scoobies craze in the early 2000s. She'd been to a church camp and one of the youth pastors had picked it up from a youth pastor in a different country. So they taught this close-knit circle of kids at church camp, the kids went off to their little corners of the UK, and okay, Scoobies spread like wildfire. But our whole county got started by this one friend of mine. She taught thirty of us in form period and we all just taught everyone we knew. Stores sold out, teachers had to confiscate them, people were exchanging them like wedding vows. Problem was, my friend was deeply unpopular in our school and the craze spread like wildfire, but sometimes we'd still talk about that time she helped kick-start a nationwide craze with maybe 10 other kids.
Bill Nye was a great part of my childhood. It's sad to see that's he's gone down the drain...
@Default Nothing, he's doing the same work he's always done. He just doesn't cuddle the sensibilities of hyper-sensitive conservative culture warriors that deny climate change or other a-scientific stances,
@Default he pretty much preaching about stuff he's not even good at including gender
@@zotaninoron3548 my pen1s has its own voice, dammit!
@@kos2919 preeeety much
@@zotaninoron3548 it's not that. He's getting preachy/condescending on subjects he's not well informed on.
Wanted to make a research / thesis paper about "Social Media Literacy" back in 2015-6 for college (communication major). At that time soc med was heavily used for personal branding, image building, and maketing -- influencer culture was just for the elite (think Kardashians or children of business tycoons) and news was just transitioning to social media. Kind of rejected by my head prof saying lack of background -- that it was more of a psych or social sciences thing. Either she planning on using it own for her doctorate's or I had less than ideal plans or academic foundation for such research.
In my mind, my reaearch will be a guide for highschoolers, how to fact check content, understand the differnce of paid/sponsored/marketing vs fact checked content. So they learn when they are being sold something vs given quality info.
2 years later, the idea of "fake news" bombed politics and social media. People then (or at least most) learned to fact check the best they can when find when hearing / seeing / reading things online. And around 2019 - 2020, social media platforms started purging accounts and pages with fraudulent and suspicious identities and activities. Rules and T&Cs has been updated to ensure a stricter fact checking on contents as well.
Really regretted that one, could have been a great achievement if I was able to publish a research about understanding fake news on social media before it became relevant again.
PS. the idea of fake news has been on since print media, also in broadcast, and came back with social media more dangerously because of lack of rules against it -- until the recent changes were made.
I called trump winning in 2016 as soon as I heard he was running. Also called him losing in 2020.
The asbestos in the towers during 9/11 really worries me because my mom was a few blocks away when it happened
I bought masks and toilet paper in mid January. People didn't know till now how bad a virus can spread.
How'd you predict toilet paper tho? most people only bought that because other people made it scarce.
It's not all that uncommon of a reaction. When people get scared, they buy things that last for a long time, like cleaning supplies, paper products, gasoline, and canned goods. My guess is it has something to do with survival instincts.
I’ve got a science degree and knew trump was lying from day one. I bought extra alcohol , hand sanitizer & Lysol in January 2020 . No masks were available to buy but I had a few from my job because I was late getting my flu shot. Spent the next year in the epicenter of the pandemic in NYC watching people die.
I was thinking CoVid19 might be a problem so I bought a few 50rd boxes of 9mm, .357sig, .40S&W. I had a odd feeling if 😷 gets worse, ammunition will get tough to find. As expected, 2020, went 🥜🥜🥜 & guns, ammunition became scarce. 😟 To save up a few boxes during a scare is ✔.
The entries about the housing crisis reminds me of a story from right before the day the stock market crashed in 1929. I forget who, but some rich guy was getting his shoe shined and the kid shining the shoes had a bunch of stock tips. The rich guy knew the market was going to collapse and pulled all his money out.
reading a book with my mom (Gregor and the underlanders... something something idk) they were on this underground river and this character could smell stuff. the character was talking about smelling something worriesome but couldn’t describe it. i said to my mom “its a whirlpool!” my mom kept reading and then at the end of the chapter like 2 seconds later, a charcter yelled, “WHIRLPOOL”
and my mom just looked at me with this shocked face
I saw a two line article about a large earthquake in Indonesia one day. The article was buried in the weather section of the newspaper. Being a Californian I immediately thought of the risk of tsunamis and wondered what steps were being taken to warn the locals. Over the next few days we saw and heard how bad it was for these people. My sister lost a friend who was vacationing there on the beach in Banda Aceh.
When my friends and I watched Parks and Rec, I looked at Andy Dwyer and said
"That guy would be a hilarious super hero."
Then Guardians of the Galaxy came out.
When the oil boom crashed in 2015, I told my boss it was the last boom there would ever be. He laughed out loud and told me I should be working for Suncor (oilsands, Ft McMurray, Alberta). I said I don't think they need me to tell them; the signs are obvious. I said there'd be a gradual recovery, but what drives booms just doesn't exist anymore.
6 years later we've had the mega crash from covid, but no boom. Longest run between a bust and a new boom in my lifetime - and still no sign of one, even with recovery from the covid crash. Because you know what fuels a boom? Oil-dependent industrial development as a bloc in some other country. The last three cycles were caused by China; the two before that by India. Who's doing massive oil-dependent industrial development right now? No one. Who's going to? No one. Everybody's working to reduce their oil dependency, not massively increase it.
And you know what caused the 2015 crash? Saudi Arabia turned on the taps, full throttle, precisely 6 months after newly developed batteries demonstrated the capacity to discharge electricity at industrial rates - thereby enabling future industrial development to be at least partly green-fueled, instead of oil-dependent.
Oil dependency will continue for the lifetime of the industrial infrastructure /that /has /already /been /built. But there will never be another boom, because there will never be massive growth of that kind of development again.
Not even actual rocket science; just knowing what stage the technology has reached, instead of pretending it's hasn't changed since I toured a synthetic oil research lab and saw a prototype of a solar panel, on the same day, in 1978. (Synthetic oil is what is made out of the bitumen produced by the oilsands, btw).
Note: the Saudis turned on the taps specifically to drop the price/barrel so low that infrastructure projects - particularly pipelines - would become uneconomical and therefor delayed or cancelled. This was because any purchasers who were locked into projects wouldn't be available to purchase Saudi oil, but if they weren't contractually obligated they'd take the superior product at a lower price in a heartbeat. Not just "now", but in the future. Think the Saudis picked their timing by accident? They've been planning for the post-oil-age since at least 1972; so was our premier in 1972, and for the duration of his multiple terms. Sadly, every premier SINCE then (especially the one right after and the one right now) have done everything in their power to undo everything he did. And it's too late to plan ahead, now.
story time, my brother dump his girlfriend because she was sleeping around, later he got back together because she was pregnant, first thing I said was "how do you know it yours", later the girl was born and everyone insisted she looked like him even though she looked nothing like him, I knew that wasn't his baby, but everyone else insisted it was his baby, DNA test came back and to everyone's (expect mine) surprise, it wasn't his kid, then I said to everyone "I told you so"
Fall of NYC. Saw it coming years ago. Streets have been a ghost town for many years before COVID Panic.
Some Malaysian writer wrote A Dead Crow. It was scary reading remembering about it when the C19 became a problem in China. I still think about this poem.
Taxi story - same in Poland. I still remember seeing signs 'uber=hiv'.
The Capitol Riot: it happened sooner than i thought, but i knew it was coming.
Way back at the start of the Coronavirus pandemic (mid-March to April), I was the one saying to everyone that this would likely become the next super-flu and pick up again around next winter, especially since the virus can withstand cooler temperatures. People doubted me at first, but then winter came around.
That comment about the Australian taxi industry is spot on. Here in Western Australia the taxi companies wanted to charge a $10 fee for turning up on time.
2:54 my dog had something similar happen! Also 6 months for my poor baby to recover, in her case it was non-dermal staph which had somehow mutated into a dermal staph infection, and on top of that she was allergic to many of the topical treatments... She's fully recovered but I was so scared :(
Mother eñnabled brother in doing horrendous things to hurt others. At the end she found she could not count on him. She tried to tell the truth about lies she had told to make him feel important. Now so many still believe her original lies and acts like she's mistreating him, which is exactly what the little fake victim wants.
I don't know why but just the phrase "the end of Twinkies" said by the robo voice made me laugh out loud. 😂
On Friday, March 13, 2020
My friend told me that she will see me at school on Monday. For some reason, I felt that wasn’t true. I turned to her and said “No, you won’t” and walked away. Later that day, school was shut down.
Something I see coming is this year's fatal summer, the 4th wave of covid is a mutant variant that didn't get less deadly.
On top of having 6 month coverage, while all vaccines not actually being a coronavirus thus not building antibodies for a coronavirus, but building immune system strength towards a formation of a spike protein, on top of people believing this a magical made up conspiracy, on top of certain states lifting quarantine regulations, on top of 98% of people never once reading a dissertation or case study from any epidemiologist, on top of people thinking 1% of 7.2 trillion people dying(72 billion people.... BILLION) isn't "that deadly", on top of people not realizing most scientists suggest the mortality rate is more, on top of people not understanding post-infection complications are also a cause of concern, on top of everyone and their mother thinking they "know" more without fucking researching for more than 10 minutes on a Facebook feed that their uncle's girlfriend's brother-in-law's niece posted, on top of world leaders around the globe not listening to multiple scientists talking about for years now that we are bound to see another global influenza pandemic as seen in 1918ish with the "Spanish" flu (not even from Spain, Spain was just the only one allowed and brave enough to report on it at the time)....
We. Are. Fucked.
Tracer being a lesbian. When I first saw her on the Overwatch cover, I thought it was a guy
Last year my friend started hanging out with these new people and don't get me wrong, I honestly don't care that my friends have other friends(although internal me strongly disagrees but i dont listen to her), but those people were... different? I told her that I didn't like them very much and she was like "fair, you don't have to like everyone". Later in the year they friggin left her at the entrance waiting for them. smh
Oh man that entrance, nobody likes to be left at that entrance
So the people youhad a bad feeling about...ditched someone one time? oh, the humanity
mmm I feel like I'm detecting a lot of sarcasm in the replies but its fine
In 1990 I bought my first computer (windows computer system) I asked the store: “Aren’t all the computers connected to each other somehow?” They thought that was a crazy Idea. I was only 3-4 years ahead of modems and the Internet.
I got into an argument with Washington Mutual over some credit card issues. When it finally got straitened out I wrote them that they needed to do a better job or they would be out of business. They didn't do a better job.
Without knowing it, my mom called Tinder in 2010. Tinder was released in 2012.
My mom told me she had a dream that and friend and I both became web/app developers, and we "made a website for your phone that lets you match with singles in your area." However, she really emphasized how it would be mobile-optimized and aimed towards a younger generation, and use current social media tools (like linking to FB for your photos) for additional support. She didn't quite word it as eloquently since she's a boomer with little tech knowledge, but that was the gist of it.
My friend and I were in high school at that point, so we just laughed it off. We also weren't knowledgeable about web or app development and couldn't do anything to make it happen.
In 2017, I used Tinder to match with my now fiance!
This one was just so crazy to me because my mother is so out of touch with tech. She calls me nearly every time she wants to post a photo on Facebook to ask me how. She's also been happily married to my dad for 20-30 years. She may have seen a commercial for Match or OK Cupid, or heard of a friend using those platforms. But I don't know how she was able to dream up the specifics on how it would function.
I correctly predicted Ken, Isabelle, and Steve coming to Smash Bros. Ultimate
Wait you mean to tell me. That swords on a set will be used? *gasp* it's sort of like a toilet on a house being used.
After watching Heath Ledger’s amazing performance as the Joker, I told my boyfriend that Heath was suffering with mental health issues in real life. I said he had either:
*1.* FULLY embraced an already existing unhealthy dark headspace _and_ painful struggles to successfully create such a haunting, unique portrayal of Joker’s complete apathy and instability
or...
*2.* intentionally created or strengthened an unhealthy mindset by fueling it with negative, harmful thoughts in order to _realistically_ (almost _too_ realistically) play such a deranged character.
I was so sad when I found out that I was correct. 😞
Edit: I do not keep up with celebrity “current events” so was completely unaware of whether or not any of his struggles were made public before his death. My guess was based on only the performance with no prior knowledge about his life.
The way the pandemic would go out of control. I was warning everyone back when it was raging mostly only in China. It was like watching a giant mushroom cloud from very far away, but you try to warn everyone about the coming shockwave that will eventually reach you.
My family bought our current house, built in 1939, for just about 70k euros here in sweden, in september 2008. It was worth way more than that, and now that the market has stabilized more, and with our renovations, it's worth between 110K and 140K depending on which appraisal from the last 4 years you go after. I would say, for my family and housing situation, we could not have choose a better time to move out of our old apartment and swap towns and live in this house.
I was a buyer for a luxury retailer in Houston. We got a call to a high profile investment company that had just spent millions of dollars remodeling a small 3 story office building in the Post Oak area. There was a massive fountain outdoors. Inside there were bronze statues, including a gigantic eagle soaring in a stair well suspended with cables. We were given a tour by the onsite chef. We were there to present china, crystal and silver for the executive dining room and the staff dining room. The company was incorporated on a Caribbean Island, where the CEO had built a hospital as a gift to the Government. He was very tight with the island's President.
As we walked through the building, my boss and I kept trading looks with each other, as it was clear that money was no object, they had shot the lock off the strongbox, and pissed away huge amounts of cash. As we left, we conversed about the business. I asked "Ponzi Scheme or money laundering?" It took more time than it should have for the Federal Government to charge the CEO with a slew of financial crimes, perhaps because the business was protected by the government of the Island it was incorporated on. If I could immediately know that something was very wrong just walking in the door and looking around, why didn't everyone else? People lost millions!
I have known many very, very wealthy people (as in never having to work unless they just feel like doing something, rich). One thing they never do is spend money like it is worthless. One group of acquaintances, bought race horses as a tax shelter. Unfortunately the horses kept winning. To lose money on them a couple of the investors flew to Switzerland to buy the most outrageously expensive horse tack they could find. Losing money makes money in the world the rich inhabit.
In my experience (I was 30 in 1980, the big cocaine use decade) the ONLY people to spend money as if it has no value are drug dealers and other criminals. They spend big because they can't legally account for it, it can't go into a bank. They can spend $20,000.00 on a party without blinking. This wasn't the last obvious Ponzi Scheme I witnessed masquerading as a paragon of virtue!
The one @5:55 totally reminded me: When I was watching the Michael Jackson interview with Martin Bashir in 2003, he's on a settee with this very good looking kid, their hands clasped, the kid laying his head on MJ's shoulder while MJ is saying "It's the most loving thing you can do, sharing your bed with someone." but then a little too quickly Michael interjects that he slept on the floor that night. I said, out loud, "Just you watch. That kid's going to accuse him!" And it was indeed this kid whose accusations resulted in MJ's trial the next year.
'They never drug test here, it'll be fine.'
-chops hand off in machine-
'Oh no insurance won't cover it cuz I was high'
Smooth, dude, you just threw away your entire future over a hit on a $10 blunt.