FuglyDuck
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- Comment on so cozy 🐟 2 hours ago:
So one thing, if you haven’t seen, his son Robert is more or less following in his footsteps. his photography is insanely good.
- Comment on so cozy 🐟 7 hours ago:
I still haven’t forgiven the stingray.
I know that Steve would say it wasn’t the stingray’s fault, that he was the one intruding and it was just defending itself, as stingrays do.
But I’m not nearly as good a human as Steve.
- Comment on psssst 2 days ago:
This explains the crabs…
- Comment on Do RICH people of color ever get harassed by ICE? 2 days ago:
Here is a tracker by Project Salt Box
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
who is telling you there’s specific dna?
if you’re talking about a ancestry dna kit, it’s probably fair to say it’s bunk.
- Comment on In the Movie Sinners, how are the vampires able to attack them without being invited in? 3 days ago:
perhaps you can explain why correcting a myth (that folklore creatures were always allegory an not literal belief,) means I was hurt?
or perhaps you can address what I said.
belief in folklore predates blaming the creatures in folklore for things. things like nocturnal emissions, as an example. they’d have blame something else if they didn’t already believe in demons. (specifically succubi.)
these beliefs weren’t allegory. it was literally a demon haunted world. And for many, it still is.
- Comment on I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization] 3 days ago:
Technically, yes. And SCOTUS found a bit of a spine and upheld that.
They would also stay citizens if their other parent was one.
- Comment on I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization] 4 days ago:
As others have said, if you have citizenship solely through your mom, and she got that citizenship though fraud (let’s say she concealed the fact that she was a criminal or something,) the she’s have her citizenship revoked.
It would be as though she never had it.
Which means it would be as though you never had it.
For a more specific case… Musk lied on his citizenship docs. He was here on a student visa and was not attending school.
If he gets his revoked (which he won’t coz he’s rich.) any of his kids could lose theirs- if their mothers weren’t also is citizens.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 5 days ago:
Even if not, there’s more than a few retroreflectors (fancy mirrors)up there, installed so we can get laser distance measurements.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 5 days ago:
Mock him for being incurious, stupid and failing google-fu.
Or show him some of these links, your call.
rmg.co.uk/…/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debu…
starwalk.space/en/news/was-the-moon-landing-fake
askanexpert.asu.edu/earthspace/…/moon-landing
For the Artemis vs Apollo stuffs:
spaceinformer.com/artemis-vs-apollo-comparison/
apollo11space.com/apollo-vs-artemis-how-technolog…
And just to see how stupid he is, maybe ask if the earth is flat. If they say yes… just have him go watch this entire channel…
The reason I’m calling him stupid is because he’s either never actually searched or done any kind of research beyond conspiracy theory memes, or has immediately discounted the vast majority of people patiently explaining why he’s wrong.
- Comment on Final words revealed? 6 days ago:
“Release the Epstein Files you Rancid shitsack!”
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 6 days ago:
What do you enjoy doing that’s not work and not “adulting”?
Find a hobby. Then find a group that shares that hobby. Clean up a park day, maybe.
Or find a charity or nonprofit that needs volunteers.
The local library probably has things going on, too.
Find a third space whether it’s the magic the gsthering shop and shop tournies or church or a knitting circle ran by the local yarn shop.
- Comment on psssst 1 week ago:
It’s all fun and games until the scatologist shows up.
Then it’s all poop jokes.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’ve never met a swan, have you?
“Mild annoyance” are the seagulls stealing your food.
(Yes, that swan dunked the seagull so it couldn’t fly away.)
Swans don’t steal food. You give it to them hoping they don’t murder you.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’d say ‘nope!’ But they kinda look tasty…
- Comment on ard 1 week ago:
Most people do. Not her fault
- Comment on ard 1 week ago:
Ye daddy was a 2 pump chump!
- Comment on ard 1 week ago:
So…
What is Dast?
(The word that means what we typically use Bastard for is Dastard.)
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
desert rock rust
You mean Desert Varnish?, it’s caused by dew and clay or silicates dusting the rock and the heat of being in the sun.
- Comment on Why is Iran attacking Dubai and Kuwait? 1 week ago:
Apparently Aldo hotels Americans are know to stay at or something.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
I’d avoid planetary alignments pixies. maybe starwberry milkshakes, but those are hard to pass up.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
remind me… was it caltech or MIT that had an infamous light switch that, was hooked up to nothing but could shut down servers?
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
Many animals do, yes. Even mice whose sole offense is skittering about.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
and I’m sure you’re the one who is going to find the evidence.
it is not as though humanity hasn’t been looking for evidence of the supernatural since… well… probably before hommo sapiens were a thing…
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
yes.
the utter lack of convincing evidence that ghosts are real is evidence that ghosts are not real.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
not proof, no. but it is evidence.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
Can a horse become a ghost?
IIRC native americans have some myths of ghostly horses who lived on after death as spiritual beings.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
they did that for Christopher Pelkey, so he could testify at his killer’s sentencing. For some travesty of justice, the judge was an idiot and allowed it as a “victim impact statement”.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
I’m now a manager, but I work in contract security, and have been in more buildings that were supposedly haunted than I care to count. Including buildings that have numerous stories of freaky shit happening.
Doors closing “randomly” or very-not-randomly. Spaces suddenly getting cold. puddles showing up in bathrooms that someone supposedly drowned in. Stairwells that sound like people walking down them at specific times of night.
odd noises. Freaky noises.
I have never once been in a building where I could not identify a perfectly natural cause. Here’s a few incidents off the top of my mind that I remember very specifically. There are some few commonalities to people who see ghosts. or demons, or any other supernatural entity.
- they’re incurious and don’t care to find out what really happened.
- they’re frequently (usually?) tired or otherwise in an altered state of mind. or incredibly bored.
- They already believe in supernatural things… and what they see generally conforms to their world view.
One example was a guy who claimed ghosts were always going around closing every fire door every night at 23:00. On the dot. Every night.
And yeah. doors were being closed as described. Guess what? All the doors had one thing in common. They were being held open by magnetic door holders. they’re fire doors. Building code here requires that they be self-closing in the event of a fire alarm to prevent the spread of fire. But that’s really rather inconvenient in long hallways where people don’t want to be opening big heavy doors everytime they’re bringing a cart of shit through. Thus, the electromagnetic door holders that turn off whenever a fire alarm goes off. Well. if you guessed that the fire system had been programmed to turn off all the door holders at 23:00 each night, just long enough to let any being held open close… you’d be right. All it took to verify that was to send a five minute email to the facility engineer, who spent all of ten minutes checking settings on the fire alarm system and turned it off.
Another example of doorholder mayhem is one in which the doorholders were slowly going bad.
This was when I was a manager, and I was doing a sort of covert investigation where I go in and have them train me on the site. there were problems. those problems all stemmed from a fundamental lack of curiosity. Which stemmed from a fervent belief in the supernatural. Voices in spaces that are supposed to be empty? they weren’t teenagers smoking dope, it was spirits. One example of spirits that loved to fuck with him? one hallway had firedoors that sectioned off a t-shaped hallway, that was lined with businesses (mostly offices.) he was supposed to go down the hallway, checking and locking all the doors and generally making sure everything was in good order. the firedoor in the middle of the hallway, kept closing on him. Rather than looking into what the issue was, he wrote it off as demons fucking with him, specifically. The reality was that the doorhoder was going bad (probably had been for a long time. as that happens their holding power gets weaker. this door holder’s holding power was just strong enough to hold the door when it was static, but any kind of touch or slight pressure was enough for it to close. Including changes in the air pressure as you walked past. When I pointed this out to him. Well. Lets just say he’s no some other company’s problem.
another example is voices in unusual places
Guess what? walls be thin, yo. Frequently, office buildings with multiple tenants are remodeled in strange ways. especially if they’re older- things get partitioned weierd. spaces get remodeled and lighting and power doesn’t be as you’d expect. In any case, in this particular building, the idiot in question didn’t realize that the very short custodial closet didn’t go all the way “back” from the hall- she should have, though. She’d also never gone into the space that wrapped around the maintenance closet to run beside the space that she kept hearing voices in “that shouldn’t be there!” Those voices were caused by people working late.
my personal favorite, ghost steps coming down stairs.
this particular building is historic- that is to say, it was a tire warehouse built in the 1890s. It’s really quite a lovely building. Giant limestone block foundation, old tan brick. cedar beam construction. one of two stairwells that hit ever floor has fire sprinkler stand pipes running through each landing. not surprising, considering. the building is old. It’s drafty as fuck. And at night, in order to save energy, because it literally predates central air, they turn the system off at night (or run it to a lower set point.) This results in a fairly consistent rate at which it cools off. the fire stand pipes cool off at a different rate, though, and clunk against the landings the pass through. They do so in a way that sounds like someone walking down the stairs. Incurious guards just wrote it off as some ghost or something, but all of the long term tenants will tell a story about how there was a guy that died from a tractor tire falling on him. (didn’t happen, by the way. Though numerous people did die here. mostly jumpers.)
Radiators make some creepy noises.
I mean. Seriously. gurrgle gurrgle. burble burble. Tickety tick. still not ghosts.
big cats sound like screaming women.
yeap. okay, need to clarify, I mean, our local lynxes and bobcats, as well as the occasional mountain lion passing through. If you ever saw Annihilation, with the “help me” bear. yeah. it’s like that. Randomly. Out of the dark woods. and not coherent words so much as screams. (that account happened to border a large statepark that had some cats living in it.)
Sudden changes of temperature
So, most office building’s HVACs work on positive pressure. This way, when a door gets opened, the hot air goes out rather than the cold air coming in. (or cold air going out, hot air coming in. Depends on where you are and the season.) for whatever reason, one of the office spaces just had massive open vents (I personally suspect this was a remodel that got left in the wall. the vent just connected the main lobby/entryway to the space (above a plenum ceiling) Another feature of building HVAC systems are the airlock doors as you come and go. Guess what happens when you open both airlock doors and have a window you’re not supposed to have open, open? All your air rushes out, getting replaced by cold air.
::: spoiler Puddles in Bathrooms Okay. so, water goes from high places to low places, and tends to follow the ‘easiest’ path, even if its somewhat convoluted. If you have an inexplicable puddle somewhere, you have a water leak somewhere.
what you don’t have is some kind of poltergeist taking a bath. Doesn’t matter if a person committed suicide in the bathroom. the water has to come from somewhere, which if it’s not supposed to be there, that’s a leak.
Turns out that the rooftop had a leak, and that was travelling down through 8 floors to show up in a bathroom. because that’s where the pipes the water was following kinda sorta came out.
- Comment on Slingshot is a nice detail 😁 2 weeks ago:
it’s a caustic relationship.