Tissues

Have you ever noticed the little bits of dust on tissues? That’s put there by the companies so it gets up your nose when you use them and need to use more tissues, hence needing to buy more. Don’t even get me started on toilet paper.

Food

A tiny portion of the food we eat every day is made of insects, animal excrement, and human digits.

Caffeine Feedback Loop

If you have a busy schedule where you have no down time and only get the bare minimum of required healthy sleep, you are at risk for a caffeine feedback loop. It starts by having caffeine right before bed one time. You have trouble falling asleep and end up getting less sleep than normal. As a result, you’re tired throughout your busy day so you use caffeine to stay awake through the day and right up until you need to go to sleep. Because of the caffeine, you, again, have trouble falling asleep and must use caffeine the following day.

Bug Spray

Bug sprays and repellents actually attract insects, which causes you to apply more and more in the hope of ridding yourself of the winged pests. Soon you run out and buy more, thus making the repellent companies quite rich.

Why Some Small Items Are Shipped in Giant Boxes

So frequently when you order a small item, it shows up at your door in a giant box, floating in the middle of a large quantity of packing material. This is because these companies hire the shipping companies to pack their products as well as ship them, and the shipping companies pack them in larger boxes so they can make more money.

Quantum Mechanics is Fake

Certain physicists who failed to make it big in Mechanics or Electricity & Magnetism needed some way to get funding so they invented a completely fake field of physics to get grants and such and to torture college students.

High Priced Electronic Books

With the availability of various high quality ebook readers, ebooks are finally becoming a commercially viable form of reading with a number of advantages—you can carry hundreds or thousands of them with you in a tiny device, you can search the books, you can rapidly look up words in a dictionary without having to have a physical dictionary with you, etc. It is also advantageous for the publishers. Aside from the small initial investment of formatting the text for publishing as an ebook, there are no publishing costs. They don’t have to buy paper and ink or run their printing presses. This breakthrough should drop the cost of books.

The problem is, many publishing companies have instead increased the price of ebooks over the cost of paperbacks, and in some cases, hardcovers. Some are so extreme as to have paperback versions for $6 and ebooks for $20.

I suggest this is because they don’t really want ebooks to succeed. They’re well established in the old ways of publishing. They have all their printing equipment they spent millions on and they don’t want to give it up. Additionally, ebooks, if allowed to succeed, end up making the publishing companies irrelevant as all it takes to publish a book now is for authors to make deals directly with the large ebook distributers, which is very easy and generally requires no up front costs.

The Absence of Certain Drink Flavors in Certain Cultures

The U.S. and other countries with a broad cultural mix tend to have the full spectrum of drink flavors, but in certain cultures, there is a significant lack of certain flavors. Japan, for example, lacks root beer. Cherry flavored drinks in other countries, despite their availability, are less popular than others. This is due to the fact that the flavors are used for medicinal flavoring in those countries, and people associate medicine with a bad taste.

Most Animals in Captivity Are Better off Than Living in the Wild

Take dogs for example. In the wild, they mostly scavenge for food and rarely eat anything good. They’re filled with disease, sleep in the cold and are at risk of injury or death from predators. But as pets, they are loved and cared for, fed good food and clean water, given places to play and explore safely, taken to doctors when they are sick, and generally live a much happier, healthier and longer life than they would’ve on their own in the wild. This doesn’t apply to all animals, but it does for many.

If Pregnancy Did Not Exist and Someone Invented It Now, Conservatives Would Oppose It

Conservatives tend to be opposed to all sorts of things relating to modifying or preventing natural human reproduction—contraception, abortion, use of embryos, genetic engineering, etc. In addition to their moral oppositions, they often have claims about health risks to the mother. I posit that if, somehow, reproduction did not exist naturally and was something invented by humans in modern times, conservatives would find a way to oppose it altogether, with an assorted collection of claims: it’s dangerous to the mother, it causes great discomfort and weight gain, it affects the mother hormonally, it creates new life and people don’t have a right to do that…