This feels like it was written as a satire based on the screenplay of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"
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)
#72Timely, given the "lights in the sky" fever.
I don't get why someone would see lights in the sky and jump to anything other than "domestic/commercial aircraft". Why would aliens or foreign powers light their vehicles up for easy spotting? I would really start to worry if I spotted an aircraft at dusk/night with no lights on it.
Same reason people hearing moose or coyotes think they're about to get attacked by a skin walker: ignorance and being primed by social medias
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#73The 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 seed oil thing is so funny to me because, like, yeah. also, no.
it's actually true. they cause serious inflammation which aggravates serious downstream health problems. like, you shouldn't be eating seed oils in any large quantity that you would get from regularly eating deep fried foods
oh but wait, eating foods with beef tallow and other saturated fats also causes health problems. except, those problems only show up when you eat large quantities of them, such as if you were regularly eating deep fried foods
so what if it wasn't the seed oils that were the problem for many people, but rather, consuming lots of seed oil - as you might find if you ate a lot of deep fried food?
what if it's not the seed oils that are causing you to get fat and feel like shit all the time? what if it's the quantity of fats that you're consuming? and, what if not eating seed oils is actually an easy an effective way to avoid eating deep fried foods as a second order effect?
that'd be crazy. better just jump on the new fad diet.
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
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The consumption of which itself is driven by an unscientific scare about animal fat.
It's not unscientific, there is a very direct link.
The real issue, as I see it, is that there was a huge change in pattern in availability and consumption of those fats in the last 50 years.
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
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This happens all the time. See: drone sightings right now. Previously: Havana syndrome.
Another good one is the "Mad Gasser Of Mattoon" incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Gasser_of_Mattoon
But the "Illinois Enema Bandit" was real:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_H._Kenyon
(coincidentally, the "Mad Gasser" was also in Illinois).
I only know about this because of Frank Zappa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=352dVmsn7y4
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
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the seed oil thing is so funny to me because, like, yeah. also, no. it's actually true. they cause serious inflammation which aggravates serious downstream health problems. like, you shouldn't be eating seed oils in any large quantity that you would get from regularly eating deep fried foods oh but wait, eating foods with beef tallow and other saturated fats also causes health problems. except, those problems only sh…
I remember last year when fats were "good" and carbs were "bad", good times.
I mean, it could all be a psy-op by the animal agriculture lobby to get people to eat even more meat and less veggies.
brb frying broccoli and noodles
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#78This was literally my first thought for the anomalous drones like 2 weeks ago, and it was immediately obvious that the entire NJ police department should not be incompetent enough to fall for something so obvious. The mayors and governor should not be dumb enough to stake their reputations on this when the null hypothesis of "mass hysteria" is easier and safer. Even back then, we knew the sightings do not appear on flight radar apps that show every commercial flight and which any civilian can access.
But since then we've also had airport shutdowns, incursions over airforce bases, drones in no-fly zones. These are easy to Google:
https://www.recordonline.com/story/news/2024/12/16/stewart-a...
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/us/us-air-force-base-closes-a...
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/article297295919.ht...
Also NJ police report the anomalous drones give off no heat signature like normal drones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K98A4CLMwf4&t=209s
There's a lot more I could post about, but most importantly Chuck Schumer is trying to get Robin drone radar detectors deployed, and I'm predicting that he's the smart guy in the room who will get us answers.
Re: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954 (2003)
#79Timely, given the "lights in the sky" fever.
I don't get why someone would see lights in the sky and jump to anything other than "domestic/commercial aircraft". Why would aliens or foreign powers light their vehicles up for easy spotting? I would really start to worry if I spotted an aircraft at dusk/night with no lights on it.
The problem is that too many people don't know what 'normal' is and nobody can pay attention to everything all of the time. When attention is drawn to something, and without the ability to judge if something is unusual, the inclination is to believe that noticing for the first time is the same as occurring for the first time.
The additives added to tap water to make them generate rainbows is a good example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIYZvr3ueGw
There is a BBC Radio program called More or Less, which covers analysis of statistics in the media. They have a motto "Is that a big number?" which is a great starting point for any investigation, essentially asking if the observation is what you would expect if nothing newsworthy were occurring. It's worth keeping that idea floating in your head.
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#80The 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.
Slippery slope. I posit that there are news items that deserve real cause for concern, but because we're so overwhelmed with information, we throw it into the same "gossip" bucket with the rest of the slop.