Man Tries To Pitch Stop Sign With LED Lights To Investors and more...

This very well might be the worst "invention" that the Dragon's Den investors have ever come across. With that being said, you've gotta feel for the guy. Even though the idea might be ridiculous, he clearly passionately believes in its potential.

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Customer States Turn Signal Is Broken, It's Definitely Not

How on earth did it never occur to this customer to try out her turn signal without that little contraption dangling off of it? Some people are too ready to throw money at something they see as a problem, that could ultimately be solved with a little common sense.

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Tagged: customer service , FAIL , cringe , driving , ridiculous , dumb , Video

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Compilation Of Every Time Dad Says "Huh?"

This is way funnier than it should be. If anything, maybe this'll inspire other people out there to create their own compilations of their dads' common sayings.

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Karen Wants $1K Cash for $10 Coupon Sent to Wrong Address

We're not sure what Karen was thinking on this one. She took what was otherwise a low key coupon designed to help anyone in need, and turned it into a whole situation where she was paying even more money in legal fees than she ever could've imagined in the first place. A definite loss. Check out some more juicy Karen content with this story about Karen threatening an employee with a write-up and getting a lesson in management.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/TheBreakUp2013 •· 1y Karen Wants $1,000 Cash for $10 Coupon Sent to Wrong Address - Pays More in Legal Fees (Re-Posted with Names) This story is from a few years ago when I worked in the legal department of a 1,000+ store national retailer. As part of my job, I handled customer complaints that elevated when the customer threatened legal action. Our customer service call center forwarded Karen's call to me after she threatened legal action. Karen left a message claimi

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Text - Karen back. It turned out, we had an old address associated with her rewards account. No big deal, right? I spoke with Karen and offered to send her the original $10 coupon and an additional $25 for her trouble to the correct address. That did not satisfy Karen. She claimed we should have known her address and threatened to sue us if we didn't pay her $1,000 in cash. Her rationale was that it would cost us at least $1,000 to defend the suit (she was in a state in which our company did not

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Text - I contacted outside counsel, our Awesome Attorney, explained the situation to him and I $hit you not he said (in a Southern drawl): "I get to sue Karen? I should be paying you guys. There are a lot of lawyers in this legal community who would love to sue her as she is reckless, unpleasant and a total pain in the ass to deal with. I'll gladly take your case." He agreed to defend us at a reduced rate. Part of our defense strategy was to counter-sue her under the state's frivolous lawsuit st

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Text - I talked with Awesome Attorney about continuing our claim, but he advised it would probably be worth settling and being done with it rather than being vindictive. Although vindictive would have been fun, courts tend not to like that so I agreed. My company ended up paying Awesome Attorney $900 in attorneys' fees. Awesome Attorney later called and told us that the attorney Karen engaged charged her $1,700 to defend the suit. Although I would have liked to continue with our suit, I think he

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Tumblr Thread: People Who Ask vs People Who Guess

As it turns out, there are different ways people try to get the things they want, and they don't always line up perfectly. There are people who ask for stuff even though they'll accept no as an answer, while there are people who try to guess what other people should want as to avoid that awkward no. For another thread that airs things out, here's tumblr's explanation of the USA. And for something more colorful about human nature, here's a thread on how humans will pack bond with anything.

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Text - mefitours-blog-blog Ask Culture and Guess Culture "One of my wife's distant friends has attempted to invite herself to stay with us, again," writes the exasperated owner of a prime 2 bedroom apartment in New York City in this Ask MetaFilter question. "She did this last March, and we used the excuse of me starting a new job and needing to do x, y, and z as well as the "out of town" excuse for any remaining dates. This got us off scot-free, but we both knew the time would come again... and

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Text - The first few answers give this poster very direct advice: Just say no. No need to give an explanation, it's her who's being rude by asking. Others give him advice that was probably more like what he was expecting: other ways to be vague like claiming that it's “One of those random 'Life in NYC things." Another thread of discussion popped up around whether or not the woman asking for a place to stay was being rude. Some posters couldn't understand how simply asking to stay in someone's ap

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Text - In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you're pretty sure the answer will be yes. Guess Culture depends on a tight net of shared expectations. A key skill is putting out delicate feelers. If you do this with enough subtlety, you won't even have to make the request directly; you'll get an offer. Even then, the offer may be genuine or pro forma; it takes yet more skill and delicacy to discern whether you should ассept. All kinds of problems spring up around the edge

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Text - Obviously she's an Ask and you're a Guess. (I'm a Guess too. Let me tell you, it's great for, say, reading nuanced and subtle novels; not so great for, say, dating and getting raises.) Thing is, Guess behaviors only work among a subset of other Guess people – ones who share a fairly specific set of expectations and signalling techniques. The farther you get from your own family and friends and subculture, the more you'll have to embrace Ask behavior. Otherwise you'll spend your life in a

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Text - After this comment many users, including the original poster himself, began to use these terms in discussing the issue. And why wouldn't they? Ask Culture and Guess Culture describe two valid yet opposing ways of interacting with the world with very little value judgment given to them. Framing the argument as such was a stroke of utter genius by tangerine, broadening the perspective of many who participated in the discussion and adding to the general lifebuzz.

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Text - Thoughts: -I wonder how many failed relationships and divorces have mixed ask/guess culture as a component? -I wonder how many other like me there are- trained in both cultures due to a mixed marriage-and what this does to our own relationships. -why is this not a widely known thing? Good god it seems a HUGE facet of effective communication and I'm only just hearing about it at 51 years old? Is there a book about this somewhere? Dammit...

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Text - aeveee This is fascinating. My mom was, I think, a variety of Guess culture. She disliked telling her kids no to reasonable requests. We learned to make flat/information statements like "I'm going to need a ride after school on Friday," and if she responded with another flat stament like "I have to work until 5 on Friday," then we knew we had to problem solve an alternative. My parents divorced when I was 12. One summer spent with my dad when I was 16, he blew up at me. "Why don't you jus

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Text - ford-ye-fiji My mother is an asker and my dad is a guesser and sometimes I have to butt in and translate what each other is trying to say XD I didn't even know there was a word for it!! tellmevarric I learned to give people permission to say no to me. A lot of people, more than I ever expected, have trouble saying no, especially when, like in the original post, it's because they just don't want to, not because they have a reason. (As if not wanting to isn't a valid reason... but I digress

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Text - When I was a teenager visiting family, apparently my aunt got tired of having to ask me and my sisters what we wanted all the time and asked us to speak up and said 'if you don't ask, you don't get. At the time I thought this was partly a lesson in gaining self confidence but at the same time I realized if I just ask and not expect everyone to guess, I can get more of what I need out of life with less stress. Fast forward to now. My mother is still an extreme Guesser and three of my siste

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Text - And if they say no, I don't ask why, I don't get passive aggressive and I don't get angry or upset. I don't dwell on it. They've said no and that's final. I thank them, then I move the conversation on. Two of the most valuable things you can learn is how to say no and how to accept no.

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People's Best Clues that We're Living in The Matrix

There are universal moments that people experience, some weird hard rules about our universe, and just some straight up weird coincidences that would give anyone reason to believe that we're living in a poorly run simulation. People see what they consider to be glitches in the matrix all the time, and it's extremely tempting to believe that it's all a simulation, man.

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Text - ambivalenttypewriter 397 points · 20 hours ago edited 10 hours ago I once went two whole weeks plugging USB cords in the right way on my first attempt.

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Text - Chinpokomono 30.6k points · 23 hours ago 5 2 3 e23 The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. When you learn something new it seems like you see it everywhere right after that. Like a video game when you learn some new move then it is immediately applicable to your life. RectumPiercing 18.7k points · 21 hours ago O 82 8 A & 7 More Motherfucker I was just telling someone about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon a couple of hours ago.

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Text - himalayanpine 27.4k points · 22 hours ago A e2 3 3 2 When your pen gets lost as soon it hits the floor. And then appears right there after some time.

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Text - banditk77 25.4k points · 21 hours ago · edited 17 hours ago 3 S Before cell phones I accidentally misdialed a & 2 More persons number and got them at someone else's house with the wrong number being three numbers off. (Edit- thanks for the awards! I talked to her for about a minute and she asked me how I got her uncles number. I said I didn't have his number, I dialed hers. We both fell deadly silent thinking about how bizarre it was).

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Text - matthra 25.2k points · 22 hours ago * E 2 3 & 4 More MCAfee The quantum eraser O MEURE . Quantum physics as a whole feels like a huge dev shortcut, things only exist in a definitive state when they are interacted with, kind of like a GPU only rendering things when your character is looking at them.

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Text - Hank_from_accounting 17.5k points · 22 hours ago you could say the strict laws of physics that govern our reality. if we were in, say, a video game, we'd eventually start wondering why the rules seem absolutely rigid/mathematical. maybe the speed of light is just the speed limit for transmitting information within the network of our simulation

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Text - raredomme 14.2k points · 19 hours ago O 2 93 @4 & 11 More Deja Reve. It's similar to Deja vu but it's where you've dreamed of a future moment. It's weird and for me it hasn't been useful. But one moment I'll be experiencing life and know what's going to happen, because I saw it in a dream. I'll even know about my futile attempts to change it from the dream. It only lasts a couple minutes at most and is at mundane moments but it is freaky.

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Text - FrogginBullfish_ 13.4k points · 22 hours ago When you run into someone you don't know and you both stare at each other saying, "You look familiar. Do I know you?" and then ask a million questions trying to figure it out and come to the conclusion that you don't in fact know each other. Then walk away still wondering why that person looked so familiar.

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Text - Yosef616 8.2k points · 20 hours ago Welp, yesterday while driving with my daughter in the car, she says "Dad? I'm starting to feel that this whole human thing isn't real." So I guess that would be confirmed as my first hint.

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Text - ville-v 7.9k points · 22 hours ago 2 2 3 & 5 More There have been numerous hints every day, but you have ignored them all. No, I'm not talking to OP. I'm talking to you. I bet you will read this post and still not realize you are the only real person on the planet. We are increasingly frustrated that you are ignoring the main questline.

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Text - Gingrpenguin 7.3k points · 22 hours ago · edited 18 hours ago 2 S Why physics appears to operate under different rules depending on whether you are looking at very big things or very small things. If it is a simulation they simply faked the big things to save processing power which is why quantum physics doesn't fit neatly in our understanding of the universe and likely why we are "detecting" dark matter

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Text - DarkNinjaPenguin 7.0k points · 23 hours ago Millions of years of evolution and we can still accidentally bite our own tongue? That's some bullshit.

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Text - hdvjufd 6.9k points · 22 hours ago That thing where you go into a room for something and then forget why. Like a Sim who had their action cancelled. That can't be for no reason, that was someone in our simulation cancelling our action.

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Text - Binary_wolf 5.8k points · 22 hours ago - edited 17 hours ago The "Observer effect" in quantum mechanics. When something is in multiple states at the same time and when you measure/watch it, you force it to take a state. Just looks like a computer saving ressources by not loading useless shit

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Text - its_no_game 2.6k points · 22 hours ago Children who are convinced that they've lived before, and know sometimes verifiable facts about the person they think they were.

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Text - peon47 1.6k points · 20 hours ago 2 The dual slit experiment. Basically, light acts like a wave when you look at it But if you look at light really really closely, you see it's not a continuous wave but made of teeny little particles called "photons". These photons, when there's loads of them, affect each other so they act in waves. Seems simple. However, when you fire photons one at a time at a piece of card with two slits in it, they still act like they're being affected by lots of othe

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Text - melting_trash04 1.2k points · 21 hours ago · edited 17 hours ago Sometimes you get out of your house and walk past the same people a lot of times. Like, you are going to the market and walk past a dude walking the opposite direction. Then, you leave the market a couple of minutes and walk past the same dude, again in the opposite direction. This shit happens A LOT with me and its like a ton of people at the same time. It makes me feel like there arent enough models of NPCS to throw around

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Text - paladinchiro 806 points · 20 hours ago S The fact that the moon and the sun can just about perfectly eclipse each other. What are the odds that the moon and sun would be the sizes they are and distances from the earth that they are to allow that to happen?

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Text - Decent-Alternative 727 points · 22 hours ago The need to sleep. Gotta reset the system or it slows down, has glitches and deteriorates because it can't clear out the useless junk and runs out of space.

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Text - everybodysheardabout 527 points · 20 hours ago Look around the room you're in. Choose any random object within the room. What does it feel like to lick that object? You know what it feels like to have licked it, but have you ever? Single biggest glitch in my book.

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Wholesome Memes to Help Wade Through the Muck

The world can seem like a hard place to live in at times. There are moments when negativity surrounds us, and disappointment isn't an irregular novelty but it becomes the standard. That's why at times it's healthy to get a dose of wholesome memes for a little boost. Most of us could use a shot of niceness to keep things afloat.

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Bridezilla Tries To Bail On Catering Day Before Wedding

Clearly, this is the kind of contract designed by someone who has dealt with these unfortunate bridezilla situations in the past. In this case though, the bridezilla ended up learning her lesson the hard way. Yeah, we're talking like paying three times the amount that she would've paid if she'd just stuck to the catering agreement as it was set up.

Check out some more juicy pro revenge drama with this customer who nuked a business from orbit for selling them a counterfeit textbook.

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Text - r/ProRevenge u/madpandaswag • 3y + Join 1 Bridezilla Catering Rage I posted this on pettyrevenge, but I think it belongs here as well. I use to manage a catering company for my boss while he was undergoing chemotherapy. This is one of my first gigs where I was in charge. The bride calls me at 1 in the afternoon the day before the wedding and decides she wanted a cheaper menu. She and her husband already paid for almost everything and it's far too late to change anything. I told her that b

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Text - demanded we either serve chicken or charge her the price of the chicken and she will not be paying for anything extra. I informed her that according to the contract she is to receive 150 steak lunches at a price of 50 per plate and it also states that she can't change the menu unless she does it at least a month before the wedding. When she hears this she flips the hell out and starts screaming at me calling me illiterate and telling me her fiance is a lawyer and they will sue me etc etc.

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Text - They end up firing me at the moment and I inform them that the cancellation fee is 90% of the cost of catering (which I was already paid for) and they start screaming at me telling me that I ain't shit and they can get anyone to cater for them and they are going to make me pay for it etc. They end up hanging up on me (thank god) and I had an inkling that I should probably keep making the food incase they call tomorrow and they want us to cater. So we finish cooking and the next day at 7am

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Text - he didn't say anything but I can feel how mad he is over the phone. After a moment of awkward silence I inform him that if he would like us to cater the event, he has to do same day catering (which is 3x the original price I charged him), he has to pay all fees in advance and the food depends on what we have available and ready and we also reserve the right to refuse service. He gets really pissed off at this point telling us this is extortion, he already paid for food so he didn't have t

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Text - As soon as we got to the venue, before I got anything out, i made the bride and groom sign the new contract and pay me completely in advance (22k) and left to deposit the money. While I was gone they harassed my caterers and threatened someone with deportation even though they were legal. He tried to sue us later and the judge heard the recorded phone calls, saw the contract and told him to pay my legal fees. I looked them up on Fb recently, apparently they are divorced now. It's only bee

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Quick Tumblr Thread on Chill Frog Bro

Sometimes it's the small details in life that give us immense satisfaction. What we've got is a pretty smart frog and a dad who knows the value of it. It just goes to show that humans will pack bond with just about anything, even Roombas. The thing is, they can also make enemies out of other things, like this dad and his spite cow.

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Text - baltazar-the-evildemonllamma S pangur-and-grim anonymous asked My dad has motion detectors with built-in cameras along his driveway, and there's a frog that has figured out that if it jumps in front of the detector, the infrared light that turns on will attract bugs. So my dad frequently gets a bunch of pictures of the frog jumping around,

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Text - and he's really fond of the frog now. He refers to it as his frog, enjoys getting pictures of it, and is always super, super careful in the driveway to check for the frog to make sure it's safe. A goosegoblin Anon. Please listen to me. I would not tell you this if it was not very important to me. PLEASE get me a picture of this frog.

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Text - A goosegoblin anon. where is the frog, anon. we need the frog anon. A goosegoblin THE FROG!!!!

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Business Sells Customer Counterfeit Textbook, Gets Nuked From Orbit

It's businesses like these that ultimately need to be taken out. After this enraged customer realized they've been sold a counterfeit textbook, they did what anyone determined to take their revenge would do: they internet stalked that business, and eventually managed to nuke them right out of orbit. It was the only way to be sure that this business wouldn't put any other poor students through the ringer.

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/AbortRetrylmplode • 3y Nuked a business from orbit because I got a D- This revenge story is two years in the making and is long, so my apologies. Two years ago I started a distance PhD program. My very first full semester in the program consisted of an intro course which is basically "Welcome back to school. Here's how to do research. Here's how to do APA citations." A LOT of it focused on proper APA writing and one of the first assignments was just doing a simple ab

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Text - By this time I was thinking I was out of my mind. I sent a Strongly Worded Letter (tm) to the APA that basically said, "What the hell is wrong with you guys selling a book like this?" They wrote back and did the business equivalent of patting me on the head and saying, "We're sorry you don't like our book." Then I started REALLY looking at the book. And I started noticing a lot of typos. Eventually everything clicked and I realized "Holy shit.these are OCR (optical character recognition)

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Text - This is the part where I went full Internet stalker. I searched for their company name and found it was a registered LLC. I got the address from their state's listing of small business registrations (which turned out to be a fairly nice looking house per Google Maps) then looked up property tax records on the house to get the owner's name. I found the owner on Facebook and found they had a business website listed under a completely different name that they'd shared all over their FB timel

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Text - Today I happened upon my old APA manual and I started wondering whatever happened to them so I dug up the emails with the info and went looking. They no longer have seller profiles on any of the sites. Their website has been taken over by a domain re-seller. The house appears to have been sold last year (which may not be related, but l'd like to think it is.) And the owner's Facebook page lists them as now working at a place that turns out to be a PayDay lender. I dug through their timeli

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Text - "How did those minor errors cause you to get such a bad grade?" Because part of the assignment was doing the citations for the abstract and because of the incorrect italicizing (caused by following the APA guide) and my own error on the abstract of leaving off the running head I got the D-. This professor is a great professor but she's also a hard ass that goes all or nothing on us on our APA style. I've got her again this semester so pray to the spaghetti monster to intercede on my behal

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Text - "Grad school is a waste, online school sucks, etc." Cool story. I work in academia and my field has no upward mobility without a PhD. I'm doing this through a major university, not a degree mill. You're entitled to your opinion though. "I don't believe you." Again, you're entitled to your opinion. I dumped all the info I could easily find that wouldn't put my personal info or the seller's personal info out there. If you want to call BS then that's fine. 10.3k 338 ↑, Share

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Cheap Musician Claims Artist's $35/HR Rate Is Robbery

Man, this musician was horrendously entitled from the very start. After being told by the designer they'd reached out to that the rate was fixed at a firm $35/hr, they proceeded to lash back out with pure rudeness. Some entitled people in this world just refuse to accept the rejections they're rightfully dealt. For another case of a ridiculous choosing beggar, check out this choosing beggar that claimed a knife had the "wrong energy" about it, and wanted to return it.

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Text - Неу I saw you're back on the scene again My band and I are heading up to a big release and my label said they're gonna handle all the promotional side of things 10:14 PM but I want you to design us a few album covers, we choose which one we like and then we'll get our label to cover the costs 10:28 PM Thanks for reaching out, l'd love to help you out with that! I don't have any projects at the moment so l'd be able to get it done pretty fast.

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Text - If you share some more creative details so that I have more of an idea of what you're looking for I could get started on concept art tonight. 10:31 PM / m.youtube.com/watch? V=Z here's a snipped of one of our songs just to get the general vibe of it the albums called btw 10:36 PM it's basically deep house with edm elements if you can sort that out 10:38 PM

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Text - I had a listen and I think I have a good idea of where I wanna go with it, I've got a few ideas that I wanna pursue but first I gotta talk pricing for a large scale project (which i'm assuming it is) like this, I charge a €10 deposit fee on top of my other service charges, for a project like this I can give you the option of paying me by the hour (€35) or paying me a fixed amount in advance. 10:52 PM /

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Text - Ok... I mean 35 euros is pretty expensive, it runs out to be something like 40 dollars. Not to mention the extra 10 on top of that, can we go lower? 10:54 PM I know our label is paying for it but I don't wanna rob them lol 10:57 PM I understand, I try to work efficiently so as to not have huge time delays or cost overruns, I can try to limit the amount of time I spend on it if you'd prefer (maybe giving fewer album covers to choose from for example).

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Text - But my hourly rate is firm. Listen, I don't appreciate being treated like complete dirt over here, my band didn't work tirelessly on our new album for the past 9 months to have it disrespected by some stuck up soy boy So are you gonna offer me the same service for a reduced rate or am I gonna have to go give this project to some Indian on fiverr? 11:03 PM You can take your project wherever you want, I'll take this to r/choosingbeggars 11:06 PM /

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Tumblr Post: House Guest Discovers Secret Staircase

There's something just plain old spooky about discovering a hidden staircase or suspect deadbolt that someone at some point in history went out of their way to hide from everyone. In this case, we're encouraged by the fact that those scratch marks apparently indicate this was likely some tomfoolery. For some more gold from the world of Tumblr, check out this Tumblr post about how spiders rule the world's cranberry bogs.

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Text - O stephrc79 So l'm staying at a friend's house in Boston And in their guest room is a door.

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Property - And my first thought was closet. Just an ordinary, tiny, New England closet. But no!

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Door handle - Why yes, those ARE scratch marks on the inside of the door. Which, one might think dog because they're so low on the door (only a third of the way up).

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Patient Physics Professor Calmly Dismantles Flat Earthers

The flat earthers really have their work cut out for them on this one. Sometimes you've got to meet the irrationality of this world with a hearty serving of cold, hard facts. This physics professor certainly brought his A game.

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Text - Let's say I don't believe the world is round. How can one prove the world is round to me? Pedro Teles, PhD Physics, University of Porto (2007) Updated Wed Buy a ticket to Paris. Say you arrive at Charles de Gaulle airport. Take the RER B to Gare du Nord. At Gare du Nord, switch from the RER to the metro and take line 4, direction Mairie de Montrouge. Get off at the station Réaumur- Sébastopol. You’ll now be on Boulevard Sébastopol, take a left (or a right, depending on where you exit) to

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Text - 自 LTE 29% 9:36 And... congratulations!! You've just arrived at the Musée des Arts et Métiers 2. Go inside (don't be afraid now), go to accueil, and buy yourself a ticket (8 euros). Ask the receptionist to tell you where the Foucault's pendulum z is - it's not the original one, that one is inside the Pantheón, but this way you’ll get the chance to visit the rest of the museum, which is great! 关

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Text - Now, how does this help? Because this pendulum was designed and built by Léon Foucault in 1851 precisely as an easy-to-build proof of Earth's rotation along its axis! It's a basic concept - the pendulum is long enough to observe the Earth's rotation along its axis 2, and the Coriolis effect z. So go there, sit, and observe the pendulum as it swings back and forth. After a few minutes you will notice that the swing of the pendulum has rotated clockwise!!!! (yep! You upvoted this Upvote 1.9

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Text - pendulum has rotated clockwise!!!! (yep! Notice the marks on the floor around it!). If you wait long enough, and if the security guards allow you to do it, stay there for a bit longer than one day (around 1 day and 7 hours, as Paris is at a latitude of about 49 degrees north of the equator (see below), and you'll see the pendulum undergo a full rotation (360 degrees). While you're waiting, make sure to read the above links, and try to understand what is at stake.. Was this enough??

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Text - Ok, ok, so maybe you're still sceptical. Everything is rigged and it's all a conspiracy... ok then, do this - go back to your hotel, and get some well-deserved sleep. Before you fall asleep though, make sure you book a flight to Oslo, Norway. From there contact this company 2. They will take you to the North pole. On the North pole you will need to reproduce the same experiment as the one You upvoted this Upvote 1.9k 00

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Text - company 2. They will take you to the North pole. On the North pole you will need to reproduce the same experiment as the one you've just seen in Paris, so warn the organizers that you need to do just that. It won’t be easy of course, but it’s not impossible either! You want your proof so you have to work a bit to have it, right? So, mount your experiment, and after you do so, observe the pendulum again rotating clockwise on and on about its axis. Measure the time it takes for it to underg

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Text - But don't lose your stamina because we are not done yet. Get a good night sleep again, but before that remember to book yet another flight, this time to São Tomé and Principe, an archipelago near the Equator. O You upvoted this

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Text - flight, this time to São Tomé and Principe, an archipelago near the Equator. Arrive in São Tomé, and ask someone to take you to where the Equator line goes through. Again find a way to reproduce Foucault's experiment. this will probably prove to be the most difficult part of this whole experiment, but hey, you're the one asking for proof!! Now after you finish installing your Foucault's pendulum in São Tomé, observe the pendulum again. This time, the pendulum will not rotate along its swi

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Text - How is this possible??????? What have we observed here? In fact, because we live in a spheroid which is rotating along an axis, the Coriolis force will affect the movement of the pendulum, and is responsible for the rotations you’ve just

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Text - witnessed. This force is dependent on latitude, and so the angular speed at which you will observe the rotation obeys the following law: w = 360° * sin($)/1day where that angle there () is latitude. This explains why full rotation of Foucault's pendulum you observed in Paris took longer than a day, exactly one day at the North pole, and zero at the equator.

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Text - Now there - you've just witnessed in full, the effect of the Earth's rotation about its axis, and proved that the Earth is round (spheroid) and that we dwell on its surface! Congrats! PS: For extra-credits, ask yourself the question: what happens in the South pole? You upvoted this Upvote 1.9k 00

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