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Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
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Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
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Yes, probably -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
Nice. That probably explains why, say, we start seeing a model car everywhere the moment we decide to buy one.
This article was likely posted because of the drone sightings. People started looking more.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Havana syndrome can have a far less charitable explanation. There is no objective test for Havana syndrome, but being diagnosed with it grants significant financial and non-financial benefits.
The veterinary world has a specific term for a condition they can’t diagnose, and I appreciate the intellectual honesty behind that.
do you know the specific term, or does your intellectual honesty prevent you from saying that you do?
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#64The difference these days seems to be that the frequency of the hysterical events has gone up. One every other month, rather than every other year. What happens to a society that has been desensitized to mass-hysteria, where no single event can evoke a reaction? Is it a horseshoe, where we're so vigilant that nothing fazes us anymore? Do we lose our humanity in the process?
Some just learn to ignore news gossip.
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#66Since we all know what this is actually commenting on, I'll answer that directly. The noise on the UFO topic has reached a massed hysteria pitch. When that happens, the overall signal to noise ratio of internet sourced sightings goes from "very poor" to "nearly invisible." I blame a lot of that on the recent congressional hearings bringing stories to the public's front of mind. But. And I think its a very very import…
> maybe those are targeting drones and the rocket missed. but then why are they dripping?
They're balloons carrying flares for target practice. You can see lots of falling embers in https://youtu.be/XHDXk9THJZM?si=CKSBB3AuslBizXxh&t=179 from a military flare.
> if they're flares why does the second one seem to fly away when the first is struck?
Because that's the maneuvering target drone (something like a QF-16, probably; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16_Fighting...) that's dropping the flares.
> maybe thats just a commercial drone modified to be super bright. But why fly it there, as a hoax?
Asked and answered. We live in a world where "flashlight enthusiast" is a real niche thing; "bright drone" is not an implausible thing. https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#67The conclusion is terrifying in my opinion. A not yet explained phenomenon or even something as far fetched as "aliens" would have been a more comforting answer than "essentially we can all start losing our mind at once, and it takes very little to trigger it".
> The conclusion is terrifying in my opinion. And this is why "conspiracy" theories exist. I prefer to call them Low Information High Satisfaction theories, as I fee that is a more accurate name. I am do not intend to pass judgement on this commentor or on people who believe in these theories; in fact, I think that if you tell yourself "I am too smart to believe in conspiracy theories", you are making yourself MORE l…
Apart from the fact that conspiracies also do exist. Before serious reporting was done, people would've called you a crackpot for talking about half the things that the CIA got up to under Allen Dulles, such as with Operation Gladio, MKUltra, PBSuccess, Propaganda Due, etc., or mass surveillance under the NSA and GCHQ.
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#68The conclusion is terrifying in my opinion. A not yet explained phenomenon or even something as far fetched as "aliens" would have been a more comforting answer than "essentially we can all start losing our mind at once, and it takes very little to trigger it".
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The consumption of which itself is driven by an unscientific scare about animal fat.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The conclusion is terrifying in my opinion. And this is why "conspiracy" theories exist. I prefer to call them Low Information High Satisfaction theories, as I fee that is a more accurate name. I am do not intend to pass judgement on this commentor or on people who believe in these theories; in fact, I think that if you tell yourself "I am too smart to believe in conspiracy theories", you are making yourself MORE l…
> I prefer to call them Low Information High Satisfaction theories If you called them Low Information Excessive Satisfaction theories instead you'd end up with a much more satisfying acronym! :)
I like it.
Another tweak: Low Information Extra Satisfying
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#70The conclusion is terrifying in my opinion. A not yet explained phenomenon or even something as far fetched as "aliens" would have been a more comforting answer than "essentially we can all start losing our mind at once, and it takes very little to trigger it".
I think that people, on the whole, vastly underestimate the degree to which humans are animals.
Although there is one part of my brain which tells me I and other people are rational beings, my own behavior tells me otherwise. Why else would I eat a candy when I rationally know I don’t need it?
For people interested, I can highly recommend Our Inner Ape by Frans de Waal. It tells many interesting stories about social interactions between apes that look surprisingly human. By the way, did you know that apes pick their nose, just like humans?