chat

The odds would have to be much longer for it to be effective. Sure when it's one in one hundred million there's almost no chance that *you" will win, but with millions of players playing every day there's practically a guarantee that someone will win eventually.

The SEC are the real time cops. They're a front for the Hyperextended Interval Temporal Legislation and Entropic Reduction Society (don't panic about the acronym, they started as private bodyguards and then their mission expanded as chronological abuse became more widely known). It's a lot easier to vet people buying Amazon and Apple stock at IPO. If you've got no history until 1980, then buy 10,000 shares of apple on IPO day, then do absolutely nothing else in the market for decades, then dump all 10k shares at peak that's a pretty easy to spot profile of a time traveler.

John Harvey Kellogg was a surgeon who performed circumcisions. He believed they were an effective treatment for "addiction to masterbation".

There are conspiracy theories (misconceptions?) that he popularized circumcisions in America. Or that Corn Flakes were created to curb masterbation urges - because they are so bland that obviously no one would want to jerk it after eating that.

Idk where I'm going with this, but John Harvey Kellogg was a weird fucking dude.

Is Toby Keith considered the typical pro-USA pro-war country star post 9/11? Or is there another famous guy who is even more emblematic of that?

The healing factor is actually just what you get from finding a cool rock

I would like to point out that a lot of these crystals are poisonous pls don't eat them.

Go on

Agreed, but it also works both ways. If you think your card has 50 dollars but it only has three, you go and buy 55 dollar item and have to give 'em a ton of money without first realising.

This is explicitly the logic behind gift cards. Like this is explicitly why the exist and what they're designed to do. Companies make vast, vast amounts of money on gift cards that are purchased and not redeemed or not completely redeemed. If anything, I'd say the conspiracy part is the idea that it's somehow rude or gauche to send cash. Fuck that, 1.) No I do not want to be locked in to getting a stomach illness at Chili's, and 2 please do send me cash I love cash cash is great.

United flight 93

Idea for a bit: Hexbear passengers on United Flight 93 having a struggle session on whether it's okay to critically support our hijackers if they really do intend to fly the plane into the Capitol building.

I think that's the general academic consensus, that Koko probably had some simple psudo-signing behaviour to communicate single concepts (perhaps even as complex as "sad"), but had no real language capability and was just randomly stringing these concepts together at best and signing whatever got her food at worst, likely somewhere between the two.

I remember seeing someone deboonk it once, but I won't say I think animals can't learn language-based communication. Like dogs can learn commands, they can learn that a sound conveys a meaning. Surely animals can then also learn that a motion conveys meaning.

The claim she 'knew language' or could 'speak sentences' is obvious nonsense. But there's no doubt that animals like dogs can indeed learn hundreds of words and associate them with real-world concepts. I've seen videos where someone has a hundred different stuffed toys in another room, and they can tell the dog to get a specific item with complete reliability. So I've no doubt a dog could convey a desire for a specific object, for example. Conveying any abstract concepts, or stringing any sentences beyond a single word, I certainly haven't seen done with any objectively measurable success.