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Further proof of our devolution. Phone "upgrades" are now going backwards.

The FBI sometimes ends up being the "goalie" in US law enforcement. That's often good, sometimes not so much. Their resources and power are vast. The ship is very much in US territory. The NTSB is investigating, but they are not law enforcement. The National Transportation Safety Board deals...

Old soul that you are, I don't doubt it.

Monday's apocalypse as seen from space. https://www.space.com/solar-eclipse-2024-satellite-moon-shadow-video-photos

"How about we ask someone who has actually run a cargo ship?" "Naw, where's the fun in that?" This guy knows what he's talking about, and is not having any of the bullshit spewing from every direction. Comments are interesting too.

I have found that to be very true, more than once. I'll give, as an example, something that happened to me after I began to take a serious interest in UFOs. Like many other people, I decided that if I put some effort into finding out what was really going on, I'd learn enough to form a useful...

Someone sent this to me today. https://www.religimarole.com/post/anarchy-as-flat-earth-dome-halts-christians-ascent-during-the-rapture

Here is a very well done video showing how shipping containers are secured in and on cargo ships. Interesting stuff for us nerds.

You know you are in serious trouble when God starts sending eclipses.

I hope that, if nothing else, all that tampering lands me back in the timeline where Archway still makes Black Walnut Icebox cookies. Man, I miss those.

Could have been one of my neighbors, off his meds again. Sorry you mods have to put up with this trash, but I'm very grateful for you doing it.

Been meaning to post about something my sister told me many years ago. Some of the details escape me, and I don't recall just when all this happened, but it's an interesting story and I have no reason to doubt it. One night, Sis woke from a dream, feeling disturbed and a bit frightened. She had...

It looks as though I've missed out on whatever it was that EA interpreted as "anti-American". It's puzzling to me, as it seems we are well tolerated here, especially considering our odd and persistent tampering with the English language. Not to mention the more odious cultural baggage we inflict...

I once encountered a toddler who lived around the corner from us, walking along the sidewalk, carrying a bag. He was not far from his house, but there were no adults in sight. I asked him where he was going. He said he was on his way to school. He was probably three years old. I pointed out to...

From the Time and Punishment segment of The Simpsons Halloween Special V One of my all time favorite Simpsons bits.

Miss a ramp, and you might end up in Oklahoma before you figure out what happened.

Not all Texans are obnoxious, of course. Many of them are pretty cool. The loud, boorish, ignorant ones make enough noise for all of them though. One time on a two week tour, one of the passengers was a recently retired highway engineer from Texas. He had some interesting things to say about...

DFW is a bowl of spaghetti I do not miss! I'm sure it's only gotten worse since I was there last. Here's a bit of it:

Haven't been behind the wheel of a commercial bus in decades. I loved the job, but I was single and pretty much never home. I have a couple of buses of my own now, both built originally as motorhomes. That's an expensive hobby that I've only recently indulged, and I'll probably get it out of my...

This morning, for some reason, I was thinking about one of the weirdest traffic episodes I ever saw. It would have been about 1993 in Florida. I was driving a tour bus down I-95. There was very little traffic. The road was wide, smooth and straight. The weather was sunny and warm. Florida is...

If he were in prison, where he belongs, he'd be able to eat all the ass he wants.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Hoo boy. My school experience was much like the above anecdotes. I suppose it fits in the High Strangeness thread. In my two years as a prisoner in the local Catholic school, I sat at the back of the room because I was tall. Fortunately, there was a set of World Book encyclopedias on a table...

We have so much of that "Hey, look at me!" nonsense here it's ridiculous. Youtubers and others love to show themselves "overlanding", which is nothing more than car camping, something that has been popular for as long as there have been automobiles. In our little part of the sticks, it seems...

We have lots of abnormalcy here in the Various States. It gets quite a lot worse during leap years, for some reason.

"Whatta you lookin' at?"

She encourages her fans to register and vote, which is very upsetting to some people.

Just when I thought it was as idiotic as it could get, I learn that it was already even sillier years ago. Holy shit, this stuff is killing brain cells.

Back when we lived closer to Utah, I would go out that way on bike rides, hikes, or just fooling around when work was slow. Eastern Utah is almost entirely empty of people, or so it seems when you are not close to a town. Which was most of the time, for me, when I was on these jaunts. One time...

I know what you mean. Some of that AI stuff is getting pretty good.

You fellas have sussed it. As it happens, I just saw this the other day. Ranty does a good job of explaining the psychosis.

Here's some information from the City Data website. http://www.city-data.com/cemeteries/Sullivan-County-TN/1/

Damn. And I'm still two time zones away. I thought we had more Murricans here. Dr Wu is in Indiana, I think. Same time zone, at least part of the year, if memory serves. At least that's how I think of it. It's the Eastern time zone, but they don't do daylight time, so they effectively shift...

Here's another good one. Wow.

Heh! Not the first time I've encountered a knee jerk reaction to an opinion. Doubtless not the last. If you like your religion, then fine. I'm not going to pretend I think it's a valid way of dealing with reality, but I don't see any reason to fear my opinion. I'm certainly not going to try to...

The Google says I'm 1568 miles away, or a 23.33 hour drive. It would take me right through my old home territory and all those distractions, too. Bummer. I would like to visit, though I seldom visit graves.

Meaning that beliefs like those of the flerfs resemble religious beliefs more than anything. I make no secret of my disdain of religion in general. I see things like flerf "reasoning" as being a substitute for religion, or gang membership, or whatever. A cult is a cult is a cult. As PeteByrdie...

The Pope said that? Wow! There may be hope for humanity after all.

Who hates the silly gits? I find them endlessly annoying, like the dips promoting other religions, but I don't hate them. I can't watch more than a couple of videos showing how dumb they are, in the same way a couple of videos about sovereign cidiots make me want to do something less irritating...

Yeah, same old crap year after year. I have a hard time taking any of them seriously, even though I know how stupid some people can be. They apparently do the same amount of actual investigation as the Apollo deniers, all the while telling us to do our "own research", which apparently means...

Here's a doofus getting trolled hard by some professionals. Funny! They proved he just parrots whatever claptrap hits his inbox. SciManDan had fun with this one.

We'dve felt like we were in the lap of luxury if we'd had Jack Frost. We didn't even have windows in our rolled-up newspaper in the middle of the road!

Or maybe it was BS and she thought you were calling her out.

Yikes. That does not sound like fun.

Holy shit. That one is just painful.

I think of him now and then when I come across something I think he would find interesting. Usually, I post it here anyway, since he was far from the only one who would want to see it. It's just not the same without him.

Everyone has opinions. I'm very familiar with Friedman's biases. I believe the description of the sessions with Doc Simon in the book I linked are the most detailed ones available. Friedman was wrong about a lot of things, and he could be an asshole, but I really don't think he made things up...

One problem that has plagued searches for the plane over the years is the abundance of wrecked planes from WWII in that general area. Some of the artifacts pulled out of the water in the 60s turned out to be from Japanese planes, if memory serves. The technology of the time was similar in a lot...

I think hypnosis has its place, and I think there have even been a few UFO investigators who have used it responsibly and with good results. That said, though, yes it's usually the typical shitshow with questions like "Did these beings have big, glassy, black slanted eyes?" Sometimes the subject...

Yup. There is no end to such nonsense. I had a friend on a UFO discussion board who loathed any mention of "Nordic" aliens. "White people from space, here to save us," he'd say whenever the angelic astronauts would show up in the discussion. He and a few others were a refreshingly sane presence...