CaptainLibertarian

Could it be a mishapen number 4?

Hey, just made it here because I was looking to see if anyone had noticed the similarities I had just noticed.

It might be Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder you're looking for; it sounds so much like a rip-off of Green Onions, it hard to assume it wasn't in some form. (Intentional or otherwise).

Oh, that is a big boy!

Uh, I'm pretty sure it was meant as either '6 foot 2 inches', or '6 foot 4 inches, too'.

What would 6 4 2 mean in this instance?

Haha, I love it.

The campaign I'm in has been going for years now and we're still not even halfway, so that campaign is still going!

Uh, yeah, up until they start winning tournaments with their custom disc.

It's like those fisherman a while back who got caught adding lead weights to their catches to cheat at weigh-ins. After winning a number of tournaments with below average total numbers of fish, people started to catch on. Up until that point, no one was checking for shoving things inside fish! (And I don't know if they've started since.)

There are untold numbers of things you can get away with if you stay under the radar, but until they impact the overall outcome, probably no one will either notice or care.

I did actually run down this line of thought a little further once. One of the more interesting possibilities I came up with, is that supermassive bodies such as back holes might have impacts which extend beyond the plane we're interacting with. That or similar considerations could allow for ghosts to interact with the same forces being acted upon the planets, without necessarily being the same mechanisms which would otherwise require them to interact with walls. (In that theory though, would ghosts then also need to be commensurately dense in some form?)

Yay for random theoreticals!

... Unless, the Earth is actually the true center of the universe, and everything else is moving relative to it! Lol

Nah. If ghosts are just floating around, unaffected by gravity, then with the constant movement of the planet and solar system ... we're littering our ghosts across space.

Pivoting off this, old railroad ties might be a solid choice and not too difficult to come by?

When I was 10 or so, a family of shrews kept burrowing under our front step. My dad would fill it with expanding foam, and then they'd burrow into the foam ... it was a fued that lasted a couple seasons.

Anyway, for a while my dad had a squirrel trap set up to see if he could catch the shrews. One morning when I popped out the door to head to the bus stop, the cage was rattling something fierce. That opossum was probably trapped in there for at least 6 hours and whoo buddy was it mad! First and only time I've seen one, but it was fairly bright out and rather up close.

Well, I think it's really just another sign of his ever slipping cognitive abilities. His mind is more and more often struggling to make the connections it used to, and as a result more often accidentally tying together things which aren't actually related. His internal structures for separating concepts are slowing crumbling and it'll flash itself every once in a while.

It's perfectly reasonable his brain would store 'asylum seeker' and 'insane asylum' near each other ... for example, that's the exact type of connection you might expect to see from someone experiencing 'word salad'. Similarly for him to link insane asylum and Hannibal Lector, as well as Hannibal Lector and Actor. And, what do you know, in public comments lately, he is consistently jumping between those otherwise unrelated ideas, increasingly in nonsensical ways.

I've witnessed people of every age occasionally link unrelated items, come up with an idea, and then realize it makes no sense, usually from being tired. We already know he can't cop to misspeaking, he'll just say 'and' then the originally intended thing as well, as though he always meant to say both the right and wrong thing. Often then doubling down and saying he's heard it both ways!

As such, it is also perfectly reasonable that as he weaves in and out of confusion, he'd try to play it off as intentional. His comments that make no sense, which are later undercut by him seemingly recognizing what he said before was nonsense, is bizarre until you look at it as cognitive decline.

Yeah, except they aren't purging voter rolls in the backwater burgs where they're counting on getting those 'groupies' votes.

The messed up way federal elections operate, don't require an actual majority, merely majorities in enough key regions. The cynical politicians target low population density areas which are expectantly not able to afford quality education, and their propaganda is more effective. It's also less costly because they don't need to reach as many total people to reach the majority of people in the region.

It's a disingenuous swipe at power by obscuring access to accurate information.

History has shown us time and time again that humans are inherently curious, and getting between them and knowledge is not a sustainable way to maintain power, but it can be an effective way to achieve it.

Eventually these 'groupies' voting against their own interests will wise up enough to in some form overthrow the charlatans they themselves chose to instill, but unfortunately not before their choices have hurt everyone.

The key is, them existing isn't the problem on it's own, uneducated 'groupies' will always exist. "A sucker is born every minute". Them being the minority which they are, shouldn't be able to dictate policy to the majority who understand better, as they currently can.

We are but left to observe in hope and horror.

Get wayyy too into card tricks.

Except, mostly not that ... The trick here is perspective based, it only works for the audience in front; anyone to the side or behind would instantly see it not as a card, but a card/watch gadget built for the trick.

The trick is to make sure everything you don't want the audience to see, happens behind what you do. That nearly 20 minute video could have just as easily been only 20 seconds and still shown you how to build such a simple device.

Hide watch behind card, flip it quickly to hide card behind watch. There's basically just the one step, get a card to fold into a smaller profile, while a watch is otherwise unrolling like it would.

Yeah, but, I also feel like he found unusually low ceilings to film under. Like, if he's just over 7 foot, and the ceiling is that close when he looks up, that looks like a 7 1/2 foot ceiling.

Building code minimums are typically 8 foot, with 9 and 10 being extremely common.

Door frames are usually a little over 6 1/2 foot, so definitely still the same sorts of annoyances shown, but appears to be more a view of the worst it can be, than an accurate depiction of the overall reality.

Just pop some glow tape on it. 😉