r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 40m ago

Live tracking at bus stops is all part of a plan to cut services.

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Think about it: in the past, people would look up the timetables and they'd know when buses were due. Since the invention of those "live tracking" screens which tell you, not when the bus is due, but how far away it is; people have stopped checking timetables and only relying on the due time on the screen.

As a result, bus operators can start removing timetables and begin quietly cutting services. We won't notice it happen until it is too late.

Evidence: I was waiting for my bus this morning, and it came 4 mins ahead of schedule (yay!)...think about the people that know the timetables and needed the extra 4 minutes to get to the bus stop: they missed it.

Operators will start doing this more often, breaking down the traditional timetable system and when we don't have one to check: BAM! Services cut, longer waits at stops, everyone is late for work. And the worst part? We won't have any recourse: only the time on the "live tracker" that the bus operator tells us.

Wake up sheeple! Defend your trusty timetable! Don't let them take away the 0733 service and replace it with the 0737!


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1h ago

The reason America still hasn't banned guns is because it would make Hollywood unable to feature them so prevalently in their movies

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1h ago

When cats purr, it's actually an orgasm, and scientists have known this for decades - but they don't want to say it and ruin our feline friendships

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 2h ago

Witness Protection doesn't exist, they just take them off in a van and end them - it's much, much cheaper

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 3h ago

Big True Voltarol is just diluted toothpaste

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If a pain is fixed by that stuff, it's not a big pain. It just makes you gooey.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 3h ago

Hot Take It's funny how all the problems with EVs went away as soon as diesel hit £2 a litre.

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 4h ago

Weird how no one ever comes up with a theory about what the 'jump the shark moment' of Happy Days was..

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Psyop.

....wait🤔


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 4h ago

Hot Take The astonishing career of goal machine Erling Haaland is just so that THAT Keane tackle isn't the main thing associated with the Haaland name.

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It's essentially SEO manipulation.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 5h ago

Blue Eyes

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 8h ago

Certified Fact Gravity isn't acrualy real. What we call "gravity" is actualy the power of friendship.

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Why does planets orbit around stars? So called "Scientists" will say it's gravity, but no such thing exist. The real reason is that they are friends!! Glaxies too, they are just huge friend groups.

Try it yourself, if you have friends, don't you wanna be close to them? Maybe not all the time, but that explains elliptical orbits!


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 8h ago

The 'Kelly Clarkson / Brooklyn Store Drama' is just an attempt to turn mechanical singing birds into the new NFTs, complete with ridiculous pricing.

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 9h ago

Certified Fact The fun, festive Holiday themed shapes that candy companies make are actually a way to trick you into paying more for less product.

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I noticed this at my local gas station but it's true on retailers online as well. The regular Twix here is 3.02 oz for $2.78, or $0.92 an ounce. The Halloween one is 2.12 oz for $2.50, which comes out to $1.18 an ounce.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 11h ago

Gal Gadot's recent movie 'The Runner' was titled similarly to 'Runner' (starring Alan Ritchson), and released around the same time, purposefully. To trick people into watching Gadot's movie by accident. To inflate the viewership figures on her movie

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I believe this to be true because she is a terrible actress, and 'The Runner' was a terrible, terrible movie.

But 'Runner', while not great, was entertaining and a good viewing experience.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 17h ago

Extreme Conspiracy Enrique Inglesias released the ping pong song to smear the internet and hide his secret...

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He was caught going to or participating in a ping-pong show...you know the ones i mean.

So he released a hit with the same name to hide leaks of the truth getting out.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 19h ago

What if all fish are secretly gay

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We would never know


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 19h ago

Certified Fact iPhone ads feature people with huge hands so the phones don’t look as stupidly huge and unwieldy to hold as they have actually become.

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In the long run acclimatising us to humongous phones with this false image of holdable-ness enables more phone snatching and falling out of pockets and smashing, which means we all buy more new phones.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 19h ago

Big True The 1939 Europe vs 2026 Africa is a ploy to get us to Google more about modern Africa.

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I said what I said. It worked on me.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 19h ago

This story is planted in the media by the Jehovah's Witnesses to increase recruitment NSFW

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Big True Freestyle rap battles aren't real

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they prepare everything in advance and look deep in thought while it's not their turn.

they write and memorize all the things they're gonna say about their opponent and just throw it in whenever they feel like it.


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

The grass is actually always greener on the other side. The problem is you. You're the shadow blocking the sun from it

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

All the daytime adverts for "if you got injured at work" solicitors isn't to advertise solicitors, but is propaganda to make people sick off work think that most people who aren't working that day are also ill or injured. So that they don't quit working.

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r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Big True Ads don't work. The idea (and even metrics) have been perpetuated by big ad to sell more ads since the first carving was done advertising a little hole in the wall the local hunter gatherers already knew about.

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Little ad spent 10% of their initial proceeds buying their first customer's product, "Just look at last quarter's growth, Zug!"


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Extreme Conspiracy Getting an emergency, same day passport at the Newport Passport office takes exactly 4 hours. No more no less. This causes anxious travellers to hang around Newport all morning. I think that the Asda store manager and the Newport chamber of commerce are in cahoots with the HM Government to increase Spoiler

210 Upvotes

....the sale of coffees and English breakfasts around the Newport Passport Office area.

Because there is no way it takes exactly 4 hours to print a passport


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Big True Google is making search results worse to make Gemini more appealing

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Search results are getting worse; it’s not just me? I mean I’m having to go through multiple pages when before what I wanted was often on the front page. I also mean that often I give up after 5 pages of results and see what Gemini said. I think they’re actively making search worse to make Gemini look better. It might just be there isn’t enough compute to do both and search is suffering. 🤷


r/LowStakesConspiracies • • 1d ago

Hot Take Yellow car owners are sadists

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They know when they buy their car, them driving down a road is going to result in someone being punched and they revel in spreading violence.

(For those unfamiliar, see Yellow Car game)