09-20-2019, 12:52 PM | #2101 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
How would you go about proving something doesn't exist? How do you prove a conspiracy doesn't exist either?
It reminds me of what 3 year old I gave as an excuse for why my bed was wet. King Kong. My parents would ask more and more questions for which I had a quick answer for why he was never seen or left any other proof.
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09-20-2019, 11:20 PM | #2102 |
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Re: Real-Life Weirdness
OK, this is/was weird, or at least unusual, and might be useful for a period game or a time travel game.
Once upon a time, meaning 1961, the Goodyear company developed a new material for their tires, called Neothane. It had several useful properties, but a couple of nasty weaknesses, including bad performance under heavy sudden braking. But the interestingly weird aspect of it was that it was translucent, and could be used to make brightly glowing tires in various colors. Glowing Tires
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09-21-2019, 04:46 AM | #2103 |
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09-22-2019, 03:10 PM | #2104 | |
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It's interesting how the term has shifted. When I was a kid, (1970s), ne had to preface with "space" for it to be understood not to be just foreigners. By the time I was in college (90s), the "person from another nation" was only understood as humans if prefaced with "legal" or "illegal".... Due to the popularization of UFO as a term for space alien ships... the USN term Sky quotes is "unidentified aerial phenomena" ... We might not be changing the spellings of the words, but we sure as hell are changing the common connotations, and in some cases, primary denotations of words... And that's a real life weirdness all its own. |
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09-23-2019, 08:09 AM | #2106 |
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There's a TV show, The Alienist, about such early psychologists set in the 19th century. I haven't seen it, but that's where I learned the term.
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09-23-2019, 09:51 AM | #2107 |
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Does that mean, to a certain extent, that alien conspiracy theories are quite literally insane conspiracy theories? That seems so terrifyingly appropriate I suspect time travelers may be involved.
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09-24-2019, 09:42 AM | #2108 | |
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09-24-2019, 10:32 AM | #2109 | |
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"Mr. Meyer do Jews control the banking industry", "Do I look like I control the banking industry". Of course That's What They Want You To Think answers everything.
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09-24-2019, 04:32 PM | #2110 | |
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A better response would probably be something like "I couldn't say, since I know less than half the people in control of banks, and frankly I wouldn't say that even they completely control their own companies. Even CEOs answer to a lot of other people, from shareholders to regulators. Of the CEOs I do know, there are only a few that are Jewish anyway." |
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