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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 76 points 1 year ago

I'll tell you when I discover it's a lie.

[-] u202307011927@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thankyou! Was excited about if someone would get the irony :D

[-] PeWu@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I'm such a dumbo that I didn't get the point of the question...

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 56 points 1 year ago

"It'll get better, just gotta get through the week"

[-] Loki@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

I told myself the same lie, week after week, until some day I realised it wasn't a lie anymore.

[-] ratz@chatsubo.hiteklolife.net 10 points 1 year ago

Hang in there, three unicorns

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[-] peter@feddit.uk 49 points 1 year ago

That we'll solve climate change and I'll get to live past 50

[-] Secret_Duck@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

We probably won't solve climate change. We might be able to make huge air conditioned complexes with just a single basic bed for everybody with insect farms underground for us to eat?

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

That just sounds like Fallout with extra steps.

[-] Secret_Duck@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

As long as the insects aren't radroaches we will be okay

[-] atlasraven31@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

There are some ideas to terraform the Earth to keep it habitable. It's just very expensive and challenging and if we screw it up, we'll be worse off than when we started. We likely won't get a 2nd chance and as a species we don't typically nail it on the 1st try.

[-] u202307011927@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

No one knows what happens in the future. We can make assumptions and calculation based on statistics and probability. But ultimately we don't know.

[-] Krulsprietje@lemm.ee 42 points 1 year ago

“You can buy a house with your own money” someone told me when I was a kid.

Last week I calculated that if I save every penny and dont spend a thing for the next 47 years I might have just enough to get myself a small house (hoping of course that inflation doesn’t happen otherwise it would be a shame to save +500.000 euro 😂)

[-] u202307011927@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago

They didn't say where though. I bet in some country you can buy a house for less than 10k

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I recently bought my own house. I had to move to a rural area 2000 miles away from all my family and friends. But I did it.

[-] Krulsprietje@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Congrats! Did you do it with your own money? (So no borrowing! Not that that is bad)

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[-] Krulsprietje@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

That if you work are, be kind, play fair everything will work out fine.

[-] u202307011927@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

Oof. Yeah man.

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 25 points 1 year ago

That I will own a house big enough to raise kids.

[-] kaitco@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Correction: That I’ll be able to buy a house.

[-] Raisin8659@monyet.cc 18 points 1 year ago

Well, not that I believe in it. Representative democracy. It's like, we have the right to elect representatives, who seem to more often than not represent corporate/money interests, not really the interest of the majority.

[-] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Congratulations. You now understand politics.

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[-] ChapolinColoradoNZ@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

That there's hope for humanity...

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[-] greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago

That I have any sort of meaningful future or purpose ahead of me.

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[-] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

That leadership (politicians and ceos) is competent, and have our best interest in mind and we shouldnt revolt agains them.

[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

My wife gets multiorgasms almost every time.

[-] cowfodder@unilem.org 12 points 1 year ago

She does, you're just not there to see it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[-] DJDarren@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

"Flushable wipes"

I'm at an age where moist arse wipes are a godsend, and I stubbornly cling to the lie that they're flushable and fine.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

Just dispose of them in the trash

It really is bad to flush them

[-] PeWu@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

That there's good and honest companies in this world.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve worked for companies that are good and honest

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[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That anyone should be allowed to vote.
I mean, obviously I believe in democracy, don't get me wrong... My idea is that you should have a chance to be allowed to vote. Like you have to at least pass a reading & comprehension test before you get like a voting license or something.
You don't get to drive if you're incapable to see the road, you don't get to vote if you're incapable to understand what a politician is saying to you.
I'm sorry

Edit: I'm not from the USA, so I didn't know that there was already something similar back then.
Still, I believe that basic comprehension is foundamental in the voting process and there should be a way to check it. Otherwise there is no failsafe to populism taking over

[-] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

at least pass a reading and comprehension test

That's banned in the US under the Civil Rights Act of 1965 because it was used to cut racial minorities out of the voting process. I can also think of a bunch of other ways this could be abused.

[-] hallettj@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

You're probably already aware that there have been literacy requirements to vote in the past in some places in the US, but those were actually an excuse to disenfranchise black people. https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/right-to-vote-suffrage-women-african/voter-registration-literacy

Literacy tests were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1965. There have been recent attacks on that law including the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v Holder which overturned election oversight in jurisdictions with a history of racist disenfranchisement; and Allen v Milligan from a couple months ago was an attempt to overturn gerrymandering restrictions, but thankfully it failed. Combine that with continuing voter disenfranchisement (for example far too few polling places in Atlanta leading to black voters waiting in line many hours to vote), and there is no doubt in my mind that if literacy tests were legal again they would be used the same way they were in the 60's.

Personally I think history has shown that we get better leaders when more votes are counted.

[-] counselwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

The hard part about this is who gets to decide what the criteria is needed to be allowed to vote? It can easily be taken advantage.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

It’s less important because votes are averaged.

It’s well established that smarter people are just as likely to get caught up in bullshit. Maybe reading is a handicap to voting.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago

That I progressed past my teenage years and cake

[-] luthis@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 year ago

I still listen to Cake, they're good.

[-] RustedSwitch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The cake is a lie

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's not a lie if I believe it's true.

[-] Mandy@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

That ill live past 50

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Despite all logic pointing to the falsity of it, I cannot stop seeing the past and future as places that exist.

[-] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

In a certain way of thinking the past still exists as light waves traveling away from earth. You just need an impossibly large telescope to see anything of detail.

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