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Not directly relevant, but: I think M. Night Shyamalan's movie Signs would have been better if it had turned out that wearing aluminum foil caps really did hide your thoughts from those aliens. I mean, it wouldn't have been any stupider than aliens invading a planet full of a substance that killed them (water) and not being able to figure out how doorknobs work.
My favourite foil cap trope reference is Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series. It has several characters with supernatural abilities that can affect other people's emotions, and aluminum happens to block all kinds of magic powers in Sanderson's larger book universe. So a lot of rich and important people wear hats that are lined with aluminum foil on the inside to protect them from emotional influence.
We all got our limitations, man.
Invading a place that wants to kill you is not that unheard of. Some of us explore flanks of erupting volcanoes, abysses, or want to go to space/the Moon/Mars.
Going there naked, and with absolutely no idea what you're exposing yourself to, is bonkers though. Especially absurd for the crew of a spaceship with interstellar capability. How the hell did they reach Earth without killing themselves a thousand times on their travel?
at least art bell never took himself seriously
Issue is, that the "trees are fake" people want to cut all trees.
Can you blame them? You are honest to god worker at one-person company hired by coroporation to cut down trees en masse and then you cut one of them and it goest bzzt and suddenly someone is speaking of illegal tree cutting and damaging state infrastructure...bollocks, I tell ya, trees are meant to be cut, if they didn't want their fancy-schmancy antennas cut they should't look like them trees!
I knew OJ was behind it all.
The scaleies are out there
That's why all the Great Replacement nutters should get special treatment.
A Jewish plot to replace all white people, who have armed their genocidal ethnostate without question for the last 70 years, with that famous ally of the Jews who they get on so well with: Muslims.
See that's why I specify "the government" or "the big corporations." Also they're not conspiracy theories. As in "the pharma companies could sell you a cure for a million bucks, or a lifetime of treatments for a thousand a month, so they'll do both depending on your income bracket, and they will keep updating the formula to endlessly delay the sale of a cheaper generic that your insurance will actually cover." Because they actually do shit like that.
yeah, pretty much. if the conspiracies are grounded in reality, the ones to blame are usually the oligarchs.
...fuck.
Yes, we do have a bit of a situation.
Tak does not require we think of him, only that we think
-Thud, Terry Pratchett
This feels like how it was reading Harry Potter as a kid vs as an adult.
-Which platform?
-9 and 3/4 platform.
-9 and 3 what?
-9 and 3/4 pla...
-Alright, I'm going watch something else.
Is there some hidden meaning in missing here?
Nothing. It's just that I am too old for this mystery component. Something can sound magical and mysterious to me, but not like a stupid platform number. In my opinion it's more children orientated.
I was talking more about JK Rowling's right wing rhetoric in the Harry Potter books.
Why does he do that?
It's when he remembers that Jews exist.
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No no he's onto something, jewelers invented trees to sell more tree-themed jewelry
Trees are obviously made up by Canadians to disguise where maple syrup Really comes from.