The most profitable asteroid is...

DrJulianBashir · 7 days

Key word: "Estimated"

estimated value of over $100 trillion and estimated profit of $9.53 trillion

ServerGeek · 7 days

It's not really a "dirty secret" anymore. It's more of a standard business practice and everyone in the industry just assumes it works that way now.

Actors can negotiate for higher up-front payments because they won't be receiving any royalties these days.

bobfrumpet · 14 days

Lots of redditors hate Leno because of what he did to Conan. Never forget.

chsssstp · 14 days

Call the gym up, and ask whoever is on the phone?

hearnrumors · 14 days

I'm not a PETA Nazi but I doubt there is much point to having your dog do this unless you really think the dog is having fun.

libertyfighter · 16 days

We could do without a lot of the safety ones as well.

Perhaps if doctors weren't required to spend $200k+ (plus 8+ years of lost wages) on their education, and whatever $millions on malpractice insurance, medical care could be cheap enough that people wouldn't ask for national healthcare.

You could still go to the expensive, highly trained, insured doctors if you can afford it. But why not let poor folks without insurance have options?

AbouBenAdhem · 20 days

This is not balloons

Fragsworth · 20 days

Good for you, bro.

pippinbarr · 20 days

Care to explain?

that_electric_feel · 28 days

Eating "maintenance" means you're eating just enough food to supply all of your energy expenditures, which results in no energy storage (and no weight change).

You can't "eat maintenance" and then "burn to a deficit" at the same time. Either you ate maintenance or you ate a deficit.

Ziptyze · 1 month

Yes. And not because they'll cause tooth decay - it's something like nails on a chalkboard when chewing/crunching them.

AntiBeta · 1 month

What the shit is this MFA everyone is talking about? I tried Google and I see Mercy for Animals shirts... Music for America...?

NefariousBanana · 1 month

It's a shame that Osama didn't get that title.

Two wars that cost Americans and Europeans (but mostly Americans) trillions of dollars are almost directly because of him. Don't tell me we would have gone to war with Iraq anyway - the voters had to hate on Muslims enough. Also, the U.S. made sweeping changes to the structure of its executive branch. Additionally, we've lost countless freedoms and rights and it's now assumed by everyone that privacy pretty much no longer exists.

I can't think of any single person who has influenced the world greater than that in recent history.

dpeteuil · 1 month

They might not need more artists at the moment?

I prefer to believe everyone's a liar on reddit, though. Even for pretty mundane stuff like this.

ChibiHobo · 1 month

Accdntly dwnvted. Sry, Mobile

strategyguru · 1 month

Can someone explain why this logic is wrong?

I can explain why the logic is right?

I mean we didn't have Facebook, cars, phones or anything - if you wanted to meet someone, you pretty much had to walk. This limited the groups we interacted with to much smaller numbers.

So, historically, for the majority of us there was really only a small group that we stuck around with. It wasn't often that you'd change groups. So all that mattered was your status in the group. "The majority of society" was largely irrelevant back then.

strategyguru · 1 month

Would you rather earn $50,000 a year while other people make $25,000, or would you rather earn $100,000 a year while other people get $250,000? Assume for the moment that prices of goods and services will stay the same. Surprisingly — stunningly, in fact — research shows that the majority of people select the first option.

Actually, this kind of thing is not entirely irrational. It actually makes perfect sense coming from an evolutionary perspective.

Consider the well-known fact that higher relative social status in a group will improve your chances of reproducing within that group.

EvaSylvestre · 1 month

My gym is kind of disgusting, and there's piss on the floor of the bathrooms more often than not. The same people who step in that piss also run on the treadmills.

That's all I have to say about that.

IThinkImFunny · 1 month

I had just started working out in college and I spent about 1.5 hours at the gym doing much more exercise than I'd ever done previously in my life. On my way home (in the car) I suddenly realized that I might throw up. I don't throw up often, and I thought I'd have enough time to find a bathroom - so I pulled over at the next place I could find - an Applebees.

I walk inside. The place is packed, and the hostess asks me "Party of how many?" to which I responded by vomiting profusely all over the floor in the center of the crowd of waiting customers. When I was done, I promptly exited the facility.

ahtr · 1 month

Why does everyone go straight into stuff like this without easing into it?

You don't have to be that hardcore. Shitting white doesn't make you cool.

EquanimousMind · 1 month

Everybody loses

YouthInRevolt · 1 month

Yeah - even if half of the money is spent on research towards making weapons, a much smaller portion of it ends up being useful in other non-related fields. This guy tries to make it sound like half the money is helping us out - it's not. Think of it as 1.45T for toys, and if we're lucky some trickle-down research effect helps the rest of the world out.

It would be far better to spend 1.45T directly on research to solve life's little problems. The argument that the research helps us out is BS.

YouthInRevolt · 1 month

How is it possible to be in a situation where we actually need to use these 2,443 fighter jets... without having the entire world destroyed by nuclear weapons?

error9900 · 2 months

But it's not about how hard you work. It's about how skilled you are. You are presuming that anyone has the skills and experience to do any job.

Just_Venting · 2 months

Have you heard of the word "and"? It's handy sometimes

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