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Post by foltik »

hnfong wrote: post #354
mrandish wrote: post #346

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I think it takes time. I can only imagine the hours required to research, develop and shoot such well-evidenced explanations, given that part of his audience is true believers searching for any gap through which they can sustain their beliefs. But look at his website: https://www.metabunk.org . A quick search there for "Transients" returned several pages of posts, some from Mick himself. Frankly, I don't follow it th…

> Because, apparently, a consistent trend of 100 consecutive falsifications implies nothing about the likelihood of #101. And at the end of the day, it's impossible to conclusively prove a negative. That's right. Not sure why you sound a bit unhappy with this. In particular, a source can become more untrustworthy over time if the source is repeatedly proven to lie or be reckless about the truth. I'm not sure you can…

If a “category of claims” has shared causal structure, then the category’s track record absolutely does tell you something about the next claim in it.

It’s not arbitrary. Alien UFOs, Chem-Trails, and Flat Earth are obviously all generated from the same distribution of bullshit: ambiguous or misunderstood phenomena explained by positing a vast hidden conspiracy.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by newZWhoDis »

mrandish wrote: post #281

For anyone else who has a UFO-crazy uncle, I've found Mick West's YouTube channel to be invaluable https://www.youtube.com/c/mickwest . Mick is a retired video game programmer (Spider Man, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk), who does extremely well-researched videos analyzing UFO claims. He's not flashy or trying to be entertaining, just thorough, evidence-based and scientifically rigorous. He'll even do controlled experiments,…

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Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by ComplexSystems »

Arodex wrote: post #132
angelgonzales wrote: post #72

This is so cool. For instance the asset FBI SEPTEMBER 2023 SIGHTING - COMPOSITE SKETCH indicated that “Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.” https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1…

>I wonder if there’s satellite imagery of this event, or maybe if in the near future we’ll have greater satellite coverage so we can corroborate these claims with imagery. The more cameras we have (in everyone's pocket, in the streets, in the sky), the less "sightings" we have (of UFO and cryptids). Tells you something.

People can and do see unidentified things and take plenty of photos of them.

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Post by gosub100 »

qup wrote: post #316
andyjohnson0 wrote: post #226

So with The War having ground to an unsatisfactory halt, they're now releasing distraction #2. I wonder how many will be needed between now and November? Convince me I'm wrong.

What are they distracting us from?

Epstein Files

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Post by gosub100 »

vkou wrote: post #272
Hikikomori wrote: post #240

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The distraction is not releasing them. If there was enough shit in the files for a conviction, the previous administration would have prosecuted. They were sealed from the public not from the DOJ. The reality is that there's no shortage of dirt in them (that likely doesn't pile up to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt), but his base doesn't care, and will never care.

> If there was enough shit in the files for a conviction, the previous administration would have prosecuted.

not so fast. There is new info coming out about Kerry being implicated.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by vkou »

tardedmeme wrote: post #308
vkou wrote: post #272

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The distraction is not releasing them. If there was enough shit in the files for a conviction, the previous administration would have prosecuted. They were sealed from the public not from the DOJ. The reality is that there's no shortage of dirt in them (that likely doesn't pile up to guilt beyond a reasonable doubt), but his base doesn't care, and will never care.

It's possible releasing the files would have negative consequences on both the current and previous administration, which is why neither of them did it.

The previous administration didn't need to release any files to selectively prosecute anyone who they wanted to.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Post by dylan604 »

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #360
dylan604 wrote: post #330

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Kimmel does the Trump-Epstein Files (TM), but as we've been repeatedly told, he's not funny and has abysmal ratings and should be fired. He's so bad, he's put his entire parent company's broadcast license up for review. You realize how bad you must be for that to happen?

I actually don't find Kimmel all that funny, but fuck I'm glad he's doing what he's doing. Colbert and Jon Stewart are more my flavor. Shame Colbert is coming to an end.

I'd agree with your ranking while putting Fallon below Kimmel. It is funny to watch each of their stand up routines on YT the next day to compare how often they all have very similar jokes. They, along with John Oliver, like to do supercuts of things where everyone is reading the same script, yet I've never seen them do the same thing to themselves. The only thing different is they are not reading the same script. Sometimes, the jokes literally write themselves and not a coordinated effort.
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