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NobodysHome wrote:

One of the reasons conspiracy theories and other false beliefs exist is confirmation bias: You're more likely to notice things that confirm your beliefs than things that contradict them.

Today's an interesting case. It seems like every semester there's a smurfstorm of midterms, assignments, and obligations just as concert season rolls into full swing. Tomorrow night we're off to see Sabaton at the Fox theater in Oakland. Typically, Impus Major would have a major exam the day after the show, GothBard or I would have some major project, and I'd be tirading about how things always seem to work out terribly.

Except Impus Major and Impus Minor have their midterms today, GothBard is getting her design challenge for another job she wants today, and by tomorrow evening we'll actually all be free to enjoy the concert, in direct contradiction to my beliefs and biases.

You just have to pay attention. Most drivers are decent. Many bicyclists obey the rules of the road. Things usually go just fine. You simply don't notice when things go right, and remember when things go wrong.

All I heard was "Grassy knoll purple monkey moon landing".

That's what THEY want you to think. Wake up, Satan's brainwashed cattle!

Happy birthday, Captain!

Today is also the day Ghenghis Khan died, by the way. A strange coincidence!

OR IS IT?!

The Wonders of High Finance:

I have been informed on more than one occasion that I've had credit history building since I was two years old.

Which is utterly ridiculous.

Ridiculous? Certainly not! What has happened - obviously - is that Reverse Future Twin Syrus has travelled back from the year 4010, making wise investments in Martian real estate as he does so, and thus built up a robust credit score with the Pan Galactic Imperial Space-Bucks Rating Agency, so Forward Present Twin Syrus, when you meet your future self, shake him by the hand, unless that would cause the universe to blow up, which it might.

I don't know, but if you get enough of those wind farms going in the same direction and you'll change Earth's rotation!

Which means that, when the sun dies, we'll be able to point all the wind turbines one way and fly off to a glorious shiny future orbiting Betelgeuse! We're saved!

captain yesterday wrote:

My zoo pet peeve, ignorant a*#&$%@s pushing their ignorance on the next generation.

But OWLS CAN keep turning their heads in circles!

Lemmings commit mass suicides!
Bats are Blind!
Ostriches hide their heads! The stupid birds!

* The Wallachian Rotary Owl can.