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All the screws in my grandma's spine after a cremation
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All the screws in my grandma's spine after a cremation

At first, we think most of them might be melted into a piece of iron. Turn out they still stay as they are.

u/RulerK — 8 hours ago
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65% of ordinary people delivered potentially lethal electric shocks to a stranger because a man in a lab coat told them to. Made a short animated video explaining why.

In 1961, a psychologist at Yale University placed a small ad in the local paper.

He was looking for volunteers.

Teachers. Clerks. Mechanics.

Ordinary people for a simple one-hour study on memory and learning.

Four dollars just for showing up.

People accepted.

They walked into a basement laboratory.

They met another volunteer.

Friendly. Middle-aged. The kind of person you'd trust immediately.

They were given roles.

One person would teach. One person would learn.

Simple enough.

Then the researcher explained the rules.

If the learner gets an answer wrong — you administer a shock.

Every wrong answer, the shock gets stronger.

The machine in front of you has thirty switches.

Starting at 15 volts.

Ending at 450.

The labels underneath get progressively worse.

Slight Shock.

Moderate Shock.

Intense Shock.

Danger: Severe Shock.

And at the very end — the last two switches — no label at all.

Just three letters.

XXX.

Before Stanley Milgram ran this experiment, he described the setup to forty elite psychiatrists.

People who had spent their careers studying the human mind.

He asked them one question.

How many ordinary people do you think will go all the way to the end?

All the way to 450 volts.

All the way to XXX.

On another human being.

The psychiatrists were confident in their answer.

They were also catastrophically wrong.

What actually happened inside that room has been debated for over sixty years.

Not because the results were unclear.

Because they were too clear.

And too uncomfortable to accept.

I made a short animated breakdown of the full experiment.

What happened. Why it happened. And what it still means today — not just as a historical curiosity, but as something that explains behavior happening right now.

At your workplace. On your phone. Inside every system you're part of without realizing it.

No prior knowledge needed. Starts completely from scratch.

If you already know about Milgram — I'd genuinely be curious whether knowing the science changes how you think about your own behavior. Or whether knowing doesn't actually protect you the way you'd expect.

https://youtu.be/buqJ6ogly10

u/TechnologySouthern10 — 1 day ago
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Basement Dweller

Stepped on this poor girl going into my basement. She’s harmless but I still bout greased my drawers when I realized what was going on.

u/Major-Ad-431 — 6 days ago
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Emergency watermelon

I know, it might sound crazy, but it's true.

I am an employee at a supermarket, we are not supposed nor allowed to talk about it, but there is always an extra watermelon that is never supposed to be sold, if you ask for this the employee will act like they don't understand what you are talking about.

Why do they do this?

I am not pretty sure, but I think this extra watermelon is a bomb to defeat aliens in case they come, I heard my supervisor say something like this, while talking to someone on phone.

There was also my friend, Timothy, he worked with me, when I came in the supermarket to start my shift (it was evening) he told to an old lady why she shouldn't buy this watermelon, he was probably 2 hours with me and then he went home, when he left the supermarket, a black car with no number plate arrived and took Timothy, I am not kind of guy that likes cars, but I think it was a van that took him.

If I don't reply, I might be already taken by the government, peace.

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u/Arthur_Morgen521488 — 4 days ago
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weird ass patient screamed and left

okay so yesterday i was about to give a patient local anaesthetic for hi wisdom tooth extraction, he was a 30 year old ish man who was already very nervous, just as i gave the first shot, he started complaining of pain which may sometimes happen in some patients, so i massaged the area as per the procedure and just as i was about to go for the second shot he stood up and started shouting that what is this? how is this being done on me and started disrespecting me and the seniors behind me, remind u this was an undergrad clinic in a dental uni, so my senior told him to go to a private clinic than to a college for treatment, and he scoffs and starts to walk away, she asks him to take his prescription to which he says to keep it idc do whatever u want

later we found out that his tooth was extracted by one of our senior professors

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u/No-Jackfruit1550 — 10 days ago
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Soup animatronic at Jungle Jim’s in Cincinnati Ohio

Its eyes move and if you stand under it you hear three voices say “Hello”

u/NotBeansSalt — 12 days ago