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That's only partly a joke -- yes, Tucker Carlson is now a believer in chemtrail conspiracy theories now, too.

So here's my rule on conspiracy theories:

I think everyone gets one or two free conspiracy theories. If you don't have any unconventional beliefs, you're kind of boring. You do not have, as Michael Scott said, a "child-like sense of wonder."

If you have three to five conspiracy theories, then I'd say you have a preference for the fantastical and dramatic and you prefer action-thriller movie plots to pedestrian but much more likely explnations. You like big, bold, often-gibberish theories that are more interesting than dull reality.

If you believe in six to ten conspiracy theories, well, now I think you're kind of a loon and maybe a bit credulous and low-IQ. Now I think you just believe in conspiracy theories because they're pretty simple.

But, if like Tucker Carlson, you now believe in ALL OF THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, I don't think you're a loon.

I think you're a grifter playing the loons for Paranoia Clicks.

I think I mentioned this once or twice, maybe just in the comments, but I kind of liked Joe Rogan -- I don't really watch him, I just see clips every once in a while -- precisely because he was so open-minded that his brain sometimes falls out. He'll believe anything. Has no working bullshit detector at all, except for the bullshit detector that tells him everything, anything "The establishment" or "conventional medicine" or "leading authorities" tell him must be a lie.

While I think that's moronic, I also do enjoy being a little irresponsible once in a while. No I do not believe, as frequent Rogan guest Graham Hitchcock (or whatever) claims, that there were world-traveling ancient civilizations that fell and completely disappeared before the earliest known civilizations like Babylon.

I don't believe that... but I'd kind of like to, because it's a silly Pulp Fiction conceit which, if true, would make the world a more magical, goofier place.

So I don't mind when people toss around basically-harmless conspiracy theories. The "archeological establishment doesn't want you to know of unknown ancient civlizations that crossed the seas in advanced oceangoing ships and had cultural exchange with each other! They're covering up the evidence because it would be TOO SHOCKING to realize that human civilization once rose and fell and completely vanished from the earth!"

Nonsense, but fun. And if you believe that, there's not going to be any bad consequences.

Maybe we didn't have to be so serious all the time and obsessed about the Right Answers but we could sit back, untuck the shirt, unbutton the top button, and just have a nice harmless Bullshit Session.

So I didn't mind when Tucker Carlson started with the UFO crap. I figured he was doing it for ratings, being some kind of modern-age PT Barnum. And if people believed in flying saucers, so what? And maybe it was some kind of sharp critique on modern media myth-making. Who knows.

But now Tucker Carlson embraces every paranoia and every primitive subterranean fear and hatred and packages it up for a (largely foreign!) internet audience.

And now it doesn't seem so funny.

And now it doesn't seem so harmlessly, friskily irresponsible.

Now it seems like a very cynical and nasty and greedy operator is peddling fear and hatred to confused and spiritually-lost people looking for answers and oh yeah, the answer is always Israel and Jewish Perfidy.

Maybe it's time to tuck our shirts back in, because, as usual, nasty, stupid, evil-minded people ruin every party.

People are too quick to forget the price that some people paid for being correct early on about Antifa, BLM, and leftist evils. Many in the center remained completely silent as others were expunged, injured or beaten. https://t.co/85qZdMLTdM
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) November 11, 2025

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“I’m just a MOM! I’m SHAKING!”

She reportedly camps out to spy on…
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"Mixed" tape?

Let's just say I got a score high enough that I could put three initials on to the scoreboard.

Posted by: Ace at 05:45 PM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:45 PM (XKYub)

2 2nd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:45 PM (XKYub)

3 3rd

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:45 PM (XKYub)

4 Now to nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:45 PM (XKYub)

5 5th?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:46 PM (XKYub)

6 6th!

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:46 PM (XKYub)

7 He's a nut.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:46 PM (vFG9F)

8 No, not you Thanatopsis.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:46 PM (vFG9F)

9 Aw, hell. I've killed the thread.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at November 11, 2025 05:47 PM (XKYub)

10 I hold to one conspiracy theory:

2 or more shooters in Dallas TX 11/22/63

Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 05:47 PM (AOsQT)

11 Lol.

'Use the force, Harry.'
-Gandalf (picture of Patrick Stewart)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:47 PM (zZu0s)

12 The movie Conspiracy Theory was, I thought, a good movie

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (HXT0k)

13 19 out of 20. Didn't use AOL

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (dtajH)

14 18. And I've made mix CDs, does that count?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (a+4eV)

15 I turned 70 last week. I'm so old, I remember writing letters and paying cash for stuff.

Posted by: huerfano at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (98kQX)

16 My favorite 'conspiracy theory''''

The CIA released the covid19 virus in China.

Posted by: davidt at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (Q+gd/)

17 You like big, bold, often-gibberish theories that are more interesting than dull reality.
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I prefer theories under gambrel roofs and gibbous moons.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (krQz2)

18 \Which one did you miss?

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (1wjle)

19 I never had an AOL address. I had earthlink.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (zZu0s)

20 I don't have any conspiracy theories. Everything I believe is true.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (vFG9F)

21 20 for 20. What do I win?

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (wVcYX)

22 I never had an AOL address. I had earthlink.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (zZu0s)
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Geocities FTW!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (IBQGV)

23 Let's just say I got a score high enough that I could put three initials on to the scoreboard.
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Heh. Yup. Me too, and I ain't that old.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (zxP/x)

24 The only one I didn't do or have was an AOL addy.

Am I old?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (HXT0k)

25 I turned 70 last week. I'm so old, I remember writing letters and paying cash for stuff.
Posted by: huerfano at November 11, 2025 05:48 PM (98kQX)

Credit card machines with the carbon paper.

*toss glove*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (zZu0s)

26 thanks for "gambrel roof." Never knew that word.

Let me return the favor: "Mansard roof."

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (1wjle)

27 What Flavor-aide is Tucker drinking and what is the color of his sky?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (uvAV5)

28 Tucker looks like he’s hankering for some nazi beef jerky.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (Dxn3F)

29 All 20 of them... Yeah... I'm old....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (VE6XX)

30 20 for 20.

Time to start measuring for that gunny sack they'll incinerate me in.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (UJMvS)

31 Let me return the favor: "Mansard roof."

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Very French!

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (g47mK)

32 Geocities FTW!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 05:49 PM (IBQGV)
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:: pushes glasses up nose ::

ACKSHUALLY, GeoCities was for hosting personal websites, not E-Mail

Posted by: That Guy at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (zxP/x)

33 I rate conspiracy theories by likelihood. My #1 for the JFK hit is that Allen Dulles gave the order in an off-the-books operation.

JFK had fired CIA director Dulles over the Bay of Pigs fiasco and other sins.

Dulles had people handling Lee Harvey and Marina. They got him the job at the Texas Book Depository before he arrived in Dallas. Easy to have a real shooter take the shots from the Depository and frame Oswald for it.

History doesn't repeat but it can rhyme. Dulles wanted a war over Cuba but was thwarted by JFK. LBJ gave him Vietnam.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (dtajH)

34 Saved by never having had an AOL account!

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (rO4EG)

35 20 points not breaking a sweat. Bonus points should be for manual transmission, no power steering (rack and pinion), large reel to reel recording tape, 8 track, and Big Wheel! Others?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM (QkSg2)

36 What happened to tucker carlson? He was fine one day and then he literally snapped and went crazy.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (0N4FZ)

37 I haven't watched Winston Marshall videos in a while but he has good videos

Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (+qU29)

38 19 points. 18 if you have to have a brand name "walkman".

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (krQz2)

39 Bigfoot spills the tea? As if.

Everyone knows the real insider scoop comes from Nessie.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (wVcYX)

40 As for the age thing, aren't checkbooks still a thing?
And record players are big with hipsters, so are also still a thing.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (gKWVE)

41 Not all conspiracy theories are equal. Some are just utterly moronic. The Jewish theories are bad, but, okay, there are a lot of intelligent Jews, so it can be strung together in a plausible plot (if not examined carefully). I find others just mind-numbingly stupid. Owens' insistence that Macron's old lady mom-wife is a man is one. Okay, ha-ha...wait, you're serious?

Honestly, I feel the same way about the Obama Birther conspiracy. It was so dumb it could only do more damage to those who espoused it. Yes, I know Trump trolled Obama into finally disproving it, but that has a feel of the exception that proves the rule.

Posted by: John Lawrence at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (zbyzH)

42 I think the term conspiracy theory is too vague and generally gets used as "something the FNM says is wrong"

So the FNM will conflate all of the following as conspiracy theories:

White devils stole black people magic energy so they couldn't make more pyramids (stupid)

"The Jews" control American foreign policy (a broad swath of the public support Israel not just Jews, but not surprisingly including Jews)

COVID was made in a lab in China under the direction of one of Tony Fauci's flunkies (100% proven)

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (sKqQm)

43 20, ugh

Posted by: mot at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (fIPNY)

44 Waterbed and maybe phone booth. (Assuming the mix CD counts)

I wasn't old enough for the former, and I can't remember if there was a phone booth active the last time I had to call my Dad for a ride, or if I borrowed the police station's phone.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (a+4eV)

45 Kinda sorta willowed:

am I really the only one who saw Immaculate?

I thought we had some horror-hounds here.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:17 PM (1wjle)

Hi Ace,

I saw it. I miss labeled it as "Incarnate" downstairs...

Anyway, YES, it's double, super, extra-crispy pro-abortion.

I like Sydney Sweeney as eyecandy that seems to have her head on straight,

but I doubt her personal views are very conservative.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (iJfKG)

46 H2O is one of the primary reaction agents from combusting hydrocarbons. You make water which you see as vapor. Engines shoot out water plus some other boring stuff. I hated propulsion class but I remembered that much.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (NW+2e)

47 Anyone who mocks paranoid conspiracy-mongering is prima facie evil!

Posted by: C. Tarlson at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (zW3tl)

48 I probably get 19 points because I never could into cursive (and every form they made me fill out said PLEASE PRINT anyway).

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (gKWVE)

49 That's only partly a joke -- yes, Tucker Carlson is now a believer in chemtrail conspiracy theories now, too.

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Tucker Carlson himself is now a joke, he is done. He will now continue getting worse trying to remain relevant or "edgy" but all it will do is confirm his loopiness. I am being kind here in simply not tagging him as malevolent.

Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (unUNN)

50 19/20

Never owned a waterbed. But, I did use an ex-girlfriend's quite a bit.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 05:52 PM (rO4EG)

51 I never had an AOL address, but I did receive all those CD ROMs in the mail. Otherwise, I score 19.

Posted by: John Lawrence at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (zbyzH)

52 >>>12 The movie Conspiracy Theory was, I thought, a good movie

I was very disappointed. I was so psyched for that movie, and I did like the Catcher in the Rye bit, but overall... very meh.

And a Richard Donner movie too! I love richard donner and I love the sheen and lens-flares he gives his movies.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle)

53 And here is one of my benchmarks for an unconventional theory...is it logically self consistent?

So, for example, is Trump an anti-Semite also controlled by the Jews?

Well, no that's not self consistent.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (sKqQm)

54 Still use a checkbook, landline and dial up.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (zzXla)

55 20 out of 20.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (L/fGl)

56 I've been meaning to tell you Olds:

You better Swatch yourselves.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle)

57 In my Family My Parents had mid century furniture... New From the store

Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (VE6XX)

58 but I doubt her personal views are very conservative.

If she looks down that's a nice personal view.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (3BDA1)

59
Credit card machines with the carbon paper.

You just watched Airplane! again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 05:54 PM (uvAV5)

60 20

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

61 Well, if that's not proof positive of the patriarchy, I don't know what is!

Kim Kardashian Fails California Bar Exam Even Though 4 Psychics Told Her She'd Pass

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 05:54 PM (L/fGl)

62 Dang... We're a bunch of Oldies here....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (VE6XX)

63 Tucker Carlson is now the Jimmy Kimmel of reporters.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (uvAV5)

64 Add a manual transmission to the list and you get a Blackjack!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (Dxn3F)

65 20, but I don't remember my AOL address unless it was something like bakelite at aol dot com. I think you had to have something even to sign up for the free 200 hrs or whatever.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (vFG9F)

66 I could be convinced that the WEF and billionaires interested in population control went to China, convinced them to let them have a ghost city - the Chinese make work projects - and then took several thousands of homeless, orphans, criminals and experimented on them with the Covid vaccines.

If they started in the 1990's or so, they'd have a nice idea how long it would take the jabs to kill a large portion of the population which would allow them to plan accordingly.

But that's just crazy.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (Sco7b)

67 18 out of 20 for me.
I did know a woman who is a true believer in chemtrails. Refused any arguments against them. She also got quite upset with me when I told her I'd believe in Bigfoot when someone brought a body to the sheriff. There is way too much strange shit out there that is real.

Posted by: Winston AKA Pops at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (+iIfu)

68 I plead guilty to being intrigued by the "ancient civilization" stuff. Graham goes a little too far, but Randall Carlson (no relation to Tucker) is excellent. He makes a compelling case that humans have been around a lot longer than we traditionally have thought, based on geologic and other natural evidence. Plus, he's super-based and thinks the global warming freaks are freaks.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (bNf8H)

69
Next thing you'll be trying to convince people the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was a Imperial Russian forgery.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (Y8DZL)

70 I never had an AOL address. But I did have compuserve.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 05:56 PM (NW+2e)

71 Ace, you're right about Joe Rogan. I don't regularly watch him but what I do like about him is that he seems almost permanently stuck at age 13 or 14 when he has guests on and he just goes with it, like "No way, you're saying there are tunnels and tunnels and more tunnels in the Pyramids, and we *still* don't know where some of them GO?".

Enthusiasm is a very entertaining trait!

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 05:56 PM (TN0g+)

72 Latest Tucker Guest Bigfoot Reveals How Mind-Controlling Chemtrails Are Sprayed Over The Flat Earth By The Jews

9/10. Needs "Moon Landing=Hoax" and "Building 7" to be 10/10.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 05:56 PM (D0HYP)

73 I didn't stay on AOL long because along came Compuserve and it did not have that suckass AOL interface.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 05:56 PM (vFG9F)

74 I prefer maps over gps because I want to see more than a tiny square at a time. I want the big picture.

Posted by: NCKate at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (uQzkA)

75 The den was paneled in dark wood veneer. Shag rug. The furniture was upholstered in orange. The kitchen appliances were harvest gold and avocado green.

It's okay though. Got to lick the beaters when mom finished making icing for the cake.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (wVcYX)

76 It's me donna, you would never know it at all MoMe. I have seen these people sing and dance.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (zzXla)

77 >>>I plead guilty to being intrigued by the "ancient civilization" stuff.

Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (1wjle)

78 ~2018, I believed in -0- conspiracy theories. It fact sounding like a conspiracy, was enough to shelve it.

And then I saw the government conspired against the elected President. And the more clearly I've seen that, I discovered that the only President forced out of office also seems to have been a deep state conspiracy. (Woodward is a spook.)

I don't know about 9/11. But I have a lot more conspiracies that I'm open to.

The fact that sounds like a conspiracy theory is that the term "conspiracy theory" was not in popular use until the IC propagated around JFK's assassination.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2)

79 I saw aluminium Christmas trees.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (EyfuW)

80 Shocked it wasn't "Not the Bee".

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (f1kZG)

81 That Tucker fellow is a bit of a twat, isn't he?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (yKmBH)

82 I never missed Tucker's Fox show but only listened to one podcast after he left and that was it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (pkeXY)

83 That Show Your Age list, I tricked all of them. I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.

Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (unUNN)

84 Does acing the quiz mean I'm 20 years old? I'll take that.

Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (+2PTH)

85 Off topic, I'm a bad person. I do not care porch pirates appear to be getting some serious hurt when they try to steal exploding boxes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (UJMvS)

86 >>>Ace, you're right about Joe Rogan. I don't regularly watch him but what I do like about him is that he seems almost permanently stuck at age 13 or 14 when he has guests on and he just goes with it, like "No way, you're saying there are tunnels and tunnels and more tunnels in the Pyramids, and we *still* don't know where some of them GO?".

Enthusiasm is a very entertaining trait!

yes, well-put: It's the enthusiasm, the gee-wilickers reaction.

I mean sure it's because he's bonged out of his goard on weapons-grade cannabis but still...

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (1wjle)

87 I used to like Tucker... Something's off here with him...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (VE6XX)

88 I never wrote a post card, but I received them. I guess that means 19/20.

Posted by: bonhomme at November 11, 2025 05:58 PM (Yp6az)

89 Tucker should make an attempt to pry the "Coast to Coast AM" host position away from George Noory.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (5yDGQ)

90 Dang... We're a bunch of Oldies here....

Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (VE6XX)
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TJM should stay off ALL our lawns!

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (krQz2)

91 I never had an AOL address. I had earthlink.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Same here. 19/20.

Posted by: scampydog at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (2bFN5)

92 I never had an AOL address or a waterbed.

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (TN0g+)

93 Next thing you'll be trying to convince people the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was a Imperial Russian forgery.
Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (Y8DZL)

Yeah! No, wait...no! I mean, yes! Wait...fuck.

Posted by: So confused right now at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (TbWk/)

94 62 Kim Kardashian Fails California Bar Exam Even Though 4 Psychics Told Her She'd Pass
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Call me lazy, but if I had a net worth close to 2 billion bucks I'd be kicking back at the pool with a Mai Tai.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (Y8DZL)

95 Chem trails... question mark. But is anyone denying that (Congressional agency) DARPA and some billionaire weather-experimenting start-ups have been firing 'cloud seeding' missiles in the air for years to manipulate the weather? That's pretty public (albeit not broadcast) information. I was in China in the 2000's when it was heftily rumored that China had been experimenting with cloud seeding missiles. I spent a lot of time in Beijing and never saw the sun (just a haze with a glow), much less the mountains where the Great Wall was (from the city). I don't believe for a second that Beijing having super clear sky for the 2008 Olympics and seeing the mountains from the USA vs. whoever baseball game like you'd see the Rockies from Denver was just a natural coincidence... Once you accept that people are firing rockets to create rain clouds etc., the notion of chem trails isn't too far-fetched. Maybe not for mind control (is that the theory?), but weather manipulation... Totally believable IMHO

That said, flooding the zone with conspiracy theories true and false to confuse and manipulate... That's a psy-op probably not beneath the evil a-holes funding Tucker...

Posted by: bearski at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (Bhsk7)

96 Skateboards with steel wheels.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (wVcYX)

97 >>> I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.

I remember a "Remote control" but jokes on you, it's connected to the tv by a curly-cue telephone wire and only extends ten feet.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (1wjle)

98 Malls. For socializing. Hanging out at Taco bell.

Cigarettes everywhere. *sigh*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s)

99 But, if like Tucker Carlson, you now believe in ALL OF THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES, I don't think you're a loon...

What if he believes in only one conspiracy theory? The Grand Unified Theory of Global Jewery?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (ycI94)

100 >>Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (1wjle)
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Have you ever listened to Randall Carlson? His podcasts are looooong, but he does a really nice job of explaining things.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (bNf8H)

101 I always liked how the Ron Paul people were chemtrail people and were called Paulsamics. Because they thought spraying vinegar into the air at sea level caused vapor trails at 25K+ to dissipate.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (NW+2e)

102 Tucker is a CIA OP.

Posted by: davidt at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (Q+gd/)

103 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (Zz0t1)

104 >>The movie Conspiracy Theory was, I thought, a good movie

And ironically enough based loosely on fact.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (viF8m)

105 Had an aunt who lived with my grandmother, got a monthly magazine called "Fate", small 6x8", book bound style.
Entire magazine was all ancient civilizations, ghosts, poltergeist, ufo. This was late fifties.
Used to love reading those when we visited. Weird shit.
Probably not unrelated, in my huge extended family she was the only one who ever worked a government job, except a cop or two.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (sl73Y)

106 The problem with conspiracy theories is that the definition has been diluted. Now it's like Racism, Rights, Sexism, or a Phobia... ie anything I want to try to dismiss, I can use that label to dismiss it.

Soooo... like Covid being created in a Lab was labeled a Conspiracy theory BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT, to try to hide the truth.... to try to dismiss those who were actually well informed and trying to spread the truth.

I'm no longer really using that term at all... now there is Cray Cray like the Fake Moon Landing crap... or potentially valid like some of the Deep State stuff coming out.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (mP0Kj)

107 an easy 19 because I don't know what "mixed tape" is.
I recall AOL sending everyone 3 or 4 CDs to sign up for their service. I had it briefly ... in like early 90's I think.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (vbXSk)

108 >>87 I used to like Tucker... Something's off here with him...

i think one day we'll find out he had a brain event, like a stroke.

From watching House, MD, I know these can cause permanent changes in personality.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (1wjle)

109 After all these years of finding some truth to conspiracy theories, I'm open to chemtrails.

It's on the back burner.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (krQz2)

110 One thing that goes back to the cold war is that what we'd now call conspiracy theories were rife behind the Iron Curtain.

And the reason was pretty straight forward. Leaders in communist countries lied constantly and endlessly. If you were an average Ivan then how did you know where the lies ended?

We've seen some of that here in the west were again leaders lie constantly about all sorts of things. If the government can lie about COVID and the COVID shot why not chemtrails?

Now...there is plenty of information you can get as Average Eddie in America that you couldn't get in the old USSR, so you should be able to establish on your own why chemtrails are silly. BUT as long as political leaders lie about big things with impunity some segment of the population will take the short cut of assuming they are lying about everything

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (sKqQm)

111 Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (1wjle)
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The maps for both the Hyborian Age and Middle-Earth bear a passing resemblance to Europe...That's all the connection I need.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (IBQGV)

112 "No they don't. The government wouldn't do that."
Posted by: No One Likes the Truth at November 11, 2025 05:57 PM (vRBMQ)

Most conspiracy theories about the government assume the government can find its ass with both hands.

You will notice that the various illegal activities that took place during the Biden coup have come to light rather easily, because even if the government can figure out how to do something, they can't figure out how to hide it. They weren't conspiracy theories, just plain old conspiracies, and everyone saw them while they were happening.

This is the same government that runs the post office.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (yKmBH)

113 15 I turned 70 last week. I'm so old, I remember writing letters and paying cash for stuff.
Posted by: huerfano

You never wrote to me! Or took me out to dinner.

Posted by: Waiting By the Mailbox at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (oftw2)

114 19 out of 20. Didn't use AOL

It's "Used AOL Address". Have you ever emailed someone with an AL address?

Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (D0HYP)

115 I absolutely believe in the whole chemtrails thing.

They're poisoning us all while trying to 'deflect the sun' to 'slow the warming of Earth.'

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (Zz0t1)

116 It doesn't say you had to own any of those objects, just that you have used them.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (vFG9F)

117 Rogan provides information and entertainment, and to borrow from Glenn Beck, enlightenment. As far as the world traveling ancient civilizations, you just have to read a little.

The physical evidence of such exists, as it does in many old books, now long forgotten. How far back in time you care to go, I will leave to others discretion. I like that Graham Hancock is bringing the topic into the public consciousness, although I don't know how many of those old books he has actually read.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (MZ+PY)

118 Bumper jacks.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (wVcYX)

119 I was wrapping Christmas gifts for my friends kids. The family is coming over tomorrow because the kids like to decorate the Christmas tree and Canadian Thanksgivihg is over.

Anyway, among the wrapping paper, I found tinsel.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (Sco7b)

120 What happened to tucker carlson? He was fine one day and then he literally snapped and went crazy.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (0N4FZ)

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I think he went nuts about the time he went to Russia and interviewed Putin.

Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (unUNN)

121 >>>> I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.

And Rabbit-Ears

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (rO4EG)

122 I did know a woman who is a true believer in ---. Refused any arguments against them. She also got quite upset with me when I told her I'd believe in --- when someone brought ---- to the sheriff

This is a lot of women, unfortunately, including "conservative" women. They bring up some obvious bullshit, you point out it ain't true and they'll go on a tirade about how "arrogant" it is to say you have the evidence. Because weighing the evidence doesn't go into the spirit world or whatever.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (gKWVE)

123 I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.
Posted by: Decaf

We had one that had a knob on a stick that you pulled out to turn it on, and pushed it in to turn it off.

(... that sounds like the beginning of a dirty joke)

I had nightmares about the knob not working and the TV refusing to turn off. Which in hindsight seems an odd thing to have nightmares about.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (a+4eV)

124 "Call me lazy, but if I had a net worth close to 2 billion bucks I'd be kicking back at the pool with a Mai Tai."

I wish my Mom had pimped out my sisters with a "leaked" video.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (dtajH)

125
Tucker should make an attempt to pry the "Coast to Coast AM" host position away from George Noory.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle

He could fill-in on the weekend.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (pkeXY)

126 >>>And ironically enough based loosely on fact.

what, the MK ULTRA plot?

Here's my conspiracy theory: There never was an MK ULTRA program. The CIA made it up at the behest of deep-pocketed Hollywood producers to provide a never-ending series of plots for action and sci-fi movies and books.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (1wjle)

127 108 >>87 I used to like Tucker... Something's off here with him...

i think one day we'll find out he had a brain event, like a stroke.

From watching House, MD, I know these can cause permanent changes in personality.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (1wjle)

I expect that somebody has his nuts in a vise.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (yKmBH)

128 Age and experience make you all some if the wittiest people on earth.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (zzXla)

129 My favorite conspiracy theory is that China conspired with the US deep state to get rid of trump by intentionally releasing covid

Posted by: Tom at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (kS6W9)

130 56 I've been meaning to tell you Olds:

You better Swatch yourselves.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle)

There's a Fossil joke here.

Is Fossil still around?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

131 Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to.

I suspect in the next decade or so we are going to learn a lot more about the period immediately before written history and its going to change a lot of interpretations around things like how civilization started (and when) and how the Americas were settled and by which groups of people...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (sKqQm)

132 Tucker's denial of Big Penguin's goal of worldwide conquest is obvious proof of it's existence.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (vFG9F)

133 97 >>> I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.

I remember a "Remote control" but jokes on you, it's connected to the tv by a curly-cue telephone wire and only extends ten feet.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:59 PM (1wjle)

Remember remote control? I WAS the Remote Control...

Son! go change the channel!

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (mP0Kj)

134 I guess I'm boring because I can't think of a conspiracy theory that I think is probable.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (EYmYM)

135 I like Rogan when he doesn't have fucked up comedians on or ufo shit. That's about 75% of his pod casts.

Posted by: NCKate at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (uQzkA)

136 >>>Coast-to-Coast

in one podcast I did with Mollie Hemingay, I talked about one of the only Coast-to-Coast episodes I ever heard, about "The Shadow People."

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (1wjle)

137

20 out of 20, lol.

yep, I'm old, lol.

Posted by: four seasons at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (3ek7K)

138 I'm such an old luddite that I still write in cursive on my paper checks

Tucker was useful during the Biden and back to Obama admins because he would explore some of the many "cant go there" topics that most of the FNM pretended did not even exist. Now with Elon converting twitter to X and no Biden admin pressuring all media to parrot the commiecrat narrative I guess Tucker is reduced to pushing every conspiracy theory or something. I don't really care, I never followed him directly, only stuff of his that Ace links.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (292AH)

139 80 ~2018, I believed in -0- conspiracy theories. It fact sounding like a conspiracy, was enough to shelve it.

And then I saw the government conspired against the elected President. And the more clearly I've seen that, I discovered that the only President forced out of office also seems to have been a deep state conspiracy. (Woodward is a spook.)

I don't know about 9/11. But I have a lot more conspiracies that I'm open to.

The fact that sounds like a conspiracy theory is that the term "conspiracy theory" was not in popular use until the IC propagated around JFK's assassination.
Posted by: Axeman
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Healthy attitude. Skepticism is an underrated quality.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (WDjG6)

140 I remember a "Remote control" but jokes on you, it's connected to the tv by a curly-cue telephone wire and only extends ten feet.
Posted by: ace

How about a remote that would hit chimes for channel up/down and volume up/down? And could also be triggered by jingling keys?

Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (D0HYP)

141 and Big Wheel! Others?
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie

Big wheels?
Bud, I was finishing college when big wheels came about.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (sl73Y)

142 >>>Is Fossil still around?

The brand is dead and buried.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (1wjle)

143 >>Here's my conspiracy theory:

The entire 'Indian Music Influence' movement of the late 60s early 70s was because George Harrison's wife once went to a Pier One Imports and bought a Sarong and some Nag-Champa.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (rO4EG)

144 It would be very awkward to own a phone booth.

Unless you are Clark Kent.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 06:03 PM (uvAV5)

145 I wrote a check and sent a postcard in 2025.

I did all those other things, ever, except the AOL account.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (jYRYu)

146 I got 19/20 but only because I had temu Prodigy email instead of high falutin AOL due to poverty at the time.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (WDjG6)

147 The oddest MKULTRA fact is that the unibomber while in college was one of their experiments/victims

He's been asked about it and said he didn't think it actually had much of an impact on him but...it does make you wonder

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (sKqQm)

148 I also remember we had a TV with knobs for channels and volume.

Posted by: Decaf
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That's for the Lizard people.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (krQz2)

149 I asked the same question that many are , what happened to Carlson? Did research, went back a bunch to see whether he was always like that ? Is it because in the dark days of DEI and Covid any sane utterance in the big media from any talking head was treated as manna and all else was overlooked ? Or did he always have editorial guardrails, even at CNN and PBS , that did not allow him to off the cliff? Looking at the stuff he was saying 8 years ago, I deduced that he was always a wealthy populist, who is the first to be shot by the sans-culottes. An archetype of a condescending prick from liberal college who tosses around lofty ideas he heard from someone else. His metamorphoses into a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood might be tied to the fact that he is not a smart man, but an angry man, who cannot accept responsibility for a loss, a reactive and emotional loser.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (g47mK)

150 >>>How about a remote that would hit chimes for channel up/down and volume up/down? And could also be triggered by jingling keys?

I don't know anything bout that, Oldy McOlderson.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (1wjle)

151 >>in one podcast I did with Mollie Hemingay, I talked about one of the only Coast-to-Coast episodes I ever heard, about "The Shadow People."

I used to do a lot of Cross Country Driving. Coast to Coast was a Godsend on those. Also, Loveline.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (rO4EG)

152 Tucker should make an attempt to pry the "Coast to Coast AM" host position away from George Noory.
Posted by: Curly Shuffle

He could fill-in on the weekend.
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He's got enough money--he could buy it (and probably should).

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (TN0g+)

153 The youngest kid was the remote control.

During the flood a coupke of years ago, we had to get rid of the console tv. That was kind of sad.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (Sco7b)

154 George Harrison's wife once went to a Pier One Imports and bought a Sarong and some Nag-Champa.
Posted by: garrett
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At the time, she looked good in whatever she was wearing.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (WDjG6)

155 Coast to Coast had better horror movie material on a nightly basis then your average hollywood horror big budget movie...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (sKqQm)

156 I remember the sweet smell of freshly printed copies of homework sheets.

Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (9H7EW)

157 >>I wrote a check and sent a postcard in 2025.

I saw a guy write a check for a VCR at Best Buy about 4-5 years ago.

It was simply amazing to behold.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (rO4EG)

158 Tucker Carlson wore a bow tie. You got to know a red flag when you see one.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (EYmYM)

159 " "The Shadow People."
Posted by: ace "

That was a good one. Had you looking at the shadows, didn't it?

One of my favorites is Mel's Hole. And of course the guy that flies a small plane over Area 51.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (vFG9F)

160 The Unabomber was dumped into college as a teen and then encountered a professor who set about using him as a psyche warfare guinea pig.

And Ted didn't become Lazlo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (uvAV5)

161 56 I've been meaning to tell you Olds:

You better Swatch yourselves.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle)

There's a Fossil joke here.

Is Fossil still around?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:02 PM (zZu0s)

Bob Fossil went to direct the big show stopper for the roast of St. Peter in September 1987.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (wVcYX)

162 You fake old people. Or going senile.

Remember when the knob on the TV broke and you had to pressure turn the knob or use 'what' implement?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (zZu0s)

163 And then I saw the government conspired

A good portion of this blog's content is dedicated to showing that the media is conspiring against us all the time, every day. Lying, manipulating, presenting false realities as the truth. In a very coordinated way.

People who don't believe in conspiracies at this point suffer from some sort of impenetrable normalcy bias. It's not the mark of sophistication they think it is. Some of the more extravagant conspiracy theories likely are an op in a different way: to discredit the idea of conspiracy theories.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (guCHD)

164 >>At the time, she looked good in whatever she was wearing.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (WDjG6)

And EVERYONE was fucking her.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (rO4EG)

165 I've been meaning to tell you Olds:

You better Swatch yourselves.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:53 PM (1wjle)
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That will probably just whiz past younger Popeil.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (krQz2)

166 Tucker Carlson is now the Jimmy Kimmel of reporters.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 05:55 PM (uvAV5)

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Good one, and makes fun of both of them.

Posted by: Decaf at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (unUNN)

167 yup, all 20 ... still use several of them to this day, lol

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 06:06 PM (kHop/)

168 The key to working the tv knob was to sit watching eight inches from the screen.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (NW+2e)

169 Oh, the insanity. I pay some bill in cash!

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (zzXla)

170 Carlson with bow-tie - human

Carlson without bow-tie - tool of They Live!.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (uvAV5)

171 There have in fact been experiments in "cloud-seeding," Mostly done by the russians but I think we did them too, to see if we could seed the clouds with chemicals that would make the skies form clouds and drop rain.

HOWEVER, what is trailing jets is just contrails, ice crystals forming out of their jetwash. Period.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (1wjle)

172 sending everyone 3 or 4 CDs to sign up for their service. I had it briefly ... in like early 90's I think.
Posted by: illiniwek

t was 3-4 a week for a long time. I thought about using those cds for plate mail!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (uWSFJ)

173 >> but Randall Carlson (no relation to Tucker) is excellent. He makes a compelling case that humans have been around a lot longer than we traditionally have thought,

Ditto. Carlson is doing his "search for Atlantis" tour in the Azores right now, and I'm looking forward to the clips.

If not familiar, look up the whole Younger-Dryas Impact Hypothesis -- very controversial, but the evidence keeps piling up. In fact, I'm pretty sure it happened.

Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (w6EFb)

174 Call me lazy, but if I had a net worth close to 2 billion bucks I'd be kicking back at the pool with a Mai Tai.

I'd be working on doubling my money by buying a Senator. The stock tips alone would do it.

Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (+2PTH)

175 Tucker's a complete cynic. He knows he's peddling bullshit. How's this for a conspiracy theory? Is he doing it at anyone's or anything behest? The possibility cannot be excluded.

Posted by: occam's brassiere at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (AkkXw)

176 I suspect in the next decade or so we are going to learn a lot more about the period immediately before written history and its going to change a lot of interpretations around things like how civilization started (and when) and how the Americas were settled and by which groups of people...
Posted by: 18-1

What, and have the tribes give up all the advantages that "being on the land from time immemorial" gives them?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (a+4eV)

177 I remember the sweet smell of freshly printed copies of homework sheets.
Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:05 PM (9H7EW)

The wet sheets from a mimeograph machine.

The smell of copier fluid (which seems to have gone away.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (zZu0s)

178 I never found Tucker to be that interesting in whatever he was doing from Crossfire Bow Tie boy to now.

Like Shapiro even less--both are self aggrandizing pricks because controversy sells and gets clicks.

Fuentes and Owens are basically dogshit brained trained seals for whoever is funding them. Milo is only barely a cut above them as well.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (WDjG6)

179 Overhead projectors.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (zZu0s)

180 I had what I thought was the coolest Swatch -- black band, absolute black face, no numbers, black hands.

I could literally not tell the time but I was STEALTH.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (1wjle)

181 Fossil is still around, with over a billion in revenue for 2024 (per wikipedia).

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (TN0g+)

182 19/20 - Same, no AOL. I've got two words for kids nowadays to see if they can flex their mind muscle:

Thomas Guide

Literally the bible of anyone who delivered anything Pre-Internet, and at least my kids could figure it out. Way to go!

Posted by: SkinnerVic at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (JIGPW)

183 And I scored all the points.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (Zz0t1)

184 Anything that says Conan and Middle-Earth might possibly be real, I'll give a fair hearing to.

I remember showing LIVs videos of Joe Biden groping kids straight from CSPAN. And the argument was, "well this can't be real or the media would be making a big deal about it"

Some of the more extravagant conspiracy theories likely are an op in a different way: to discredit the idea of conspiracy theories.

The government heavily fed friendly media sources a line about UFOs back in the 70s/80s to hide information about stealth tech. And the more recent government revelation that "aliens are sort of real" is I assume cover for drone tech experiments...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (sKqQm)

185 What, and have the tribes give up all the advantages that "being on the land from time immemorial" gives them?
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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I think the era of plenty giving way to the era of poverty is going to put an end to a lot of woke behavior. An era of Rectification is upon us.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (WDjG6)

186 Remember when the knob on the TV broke and you had to pressure turn the knob or use 'what' implement?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

ooh! ooh! *waves hand in air* Needle-nose pliers!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (a+4eV)

187
fucking POLAROID Instant, baby!

Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (A/n7m)

188 Do you get bonus points if you owned any or all of the devices listed?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (Zz0t1)

189 The key to working the tv knob was to sit watching eight inches from the screen.
Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (NW+2e)
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The amazing thing about early remote channel changer? There were only 4 channels available, yet we still channel surfed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (UJMvS)

190 whig, so glad to see you feeling well enough to be here.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (zzXla)

191 fucking POLAROID Instant, baby!

Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (A/n7m)

I think I have 2 Land Cameras.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (Zz0t1)

192 Many have called for Trump and Vance to disavow their Nazi buddy Tucker Carlson. Is that so difficult, to disavow a Nazi pig and take a stand on this issue? Or are there “good people on both sides?”

Posted by: Tucker Carlson is an antisemitic racist at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (CowIf)

193 "And I scored all the points.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer "

I guess that makes you first.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (vFG9F)

194 What, and have the tribes give up all the advantages that "being on the land from time immemorial" gives them?

We saw this fight with Kennewick man - 5K years old and not an American Indian...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (sKqQm)

195 Carlson with bow-tie - human

Carlson without bow-tie - tool of They Live!.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (uvAV5)
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Now I can see Roddy Piper wrestling Tucker to force him into the bow tie.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (krQz2)

196 James, 67, bought the $137,000 home for her grandniece Nakia Thompson, 37, and her three kids to live in in August 2020.

According to records obtained by The New York Post, cops have been called to the residence 12 times since, sometimes even multiple times a day.

Looks at calendar. No PoPo has been called to may house in 15,155.
i think she be profiled.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (gbOdA)

197 I think everyone gets one or two free conspiracy theories. If you don't have any unconventional beliefs, you're kind of boring. You do not have, as Michael Scott said, a "child-like sense of wonder."

The universe is a simulation.

Posted by: Turtles at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

198 Fossil is still around, with over a billion in revenue for 2024 (per wikipedia).
Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:08 PM (TN0g+)

They just released a line with one of the Jonas Brothers in collaboration.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (Zz0t1)

199 Allen Dulles also ran MK Ultra. It was real. Convicts would volunteer to get reduced sentences. Once was Whitey Bulger.

See #33 above. Dulles took out other elected leaders before he took out JFK.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (dtajH)

200 speaking of old things:

Years back, I bought old copies of the Time-Life series on The Old West, and then I went and bought the Time-Life Civil War.

Never read them. Nice curios though. If you're an Old.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (1wjle)

201 anything "The establishment" or "conventional medicine" or "leading authorities" tell him must be a lie.

While I think that's moronic

This is the "They Can't Be Lying To Us About EVERY Thing!" theory. I used to believe in that. Now I'm not so sure.

Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (+2PTH)

202 Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?
Posted by: publius,
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I trust yours and AOP's hot takes on scientific evidence far more than whatever Tucker has on as a guest.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (WDjG6)

203 As for the age thing, aren't checkbooks still a thing?
And record players are big with hipsters, so are also still a thing.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM (gKWVE)
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Actually, not that people buy much music anymore - they rent it via stream services as opposed to buying digital copies, which has its own ownership issues. But vinyl is the number one medium for specific music purchase.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (UVyKP)

204 Service Merchandise.

Putting shit on layaway, yo!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

205
I guess that makes you first.
Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (vFG9F)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (Zz0t1)

206 May it be that because he was unceremoniously tossed by the establishment , he decided to "burn it down" , as revenge. Just asking. Of course even a decade ago he was peddling that US committed atrocities ...in WWII. That bombing of Hiroshima was the greatest evil, as was the bombing of Dresden. And similar shite. Very conservative...

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (g47mK)

207 I don't do conspiraty stuff...all the time. Just some of the time.

Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (8uzBS)

208 Anyway, among the wrapping paper, I found tinsel.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:01 PM (Sco7b)

But did you find any colored aluminum flowers to go around the C9 lights bulbs?
How did all our houses not burn down from Christmas?

18- no AOL, and never had a Walkman.

Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?

Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (f+FmA)

209 Is a "mixed tape" the same as a "mix tape"?

A "mix tape" was just a bunch of liked (by someone) songs put together on one (cassette) tape. People would make them to play for themselves or at parties.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (vbXSk)

210 The amazing thing about early remote channel changer? There were only 4 channels available, yet we still channel surfed.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (UJMvS)

My rich cousin had the clacker remote. I could do a cough and choke sound and it would change.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (gbOdA)

211 Why the Schumer Shitstorm Shutdown failed.

Dem Rep Summer Lee complains that legacy media isn't helping Democrats nearly enough:

“We need the media, and we rarely have the media."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (L/fGl)

212 Never read them. Nice curios though. If you're an Old.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (1wjle

Mom has always been big into that stuff. She got some of the paranormal series ones and the fantasy/mythology ones.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (zZu0s)

213 Western Union wasn't always for sending money to Mexico and points beyond.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (zzXla)

214 Many have called for Trump and Vance to disavow their Nazi buddy Tucker Carlson. Is that so difficult, to disavow a Nazi pig and take a stand on this issue? Or are there “good people on both sides?”

Posted by: Tucker Carlson is an antisemitic racist at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (CowIf)
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Carlson is *not* a racist. Even when he was talking with Megyn Kelley about the Fuentes interview, he was talking about the value of things that weren't about the color of skin.

World can be too complex for some people.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (krQz2)

215 Mimeographs. Teacher would head over, crank out a few and we’d get high.
Not as nice a high as Bondo

Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (9H7EW)

216 If not familiar, look up the whole Younger-Dryas Impact Hypothesis -- very controversial, but the evidence keeps piling up. In fact, I'm pretty sure it happened.

Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (w6EFb)
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The Biblical flood took out an advanced society, with cities and metal. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)

217 To continue the little Tropic Thunder theme from last thread: You never go Full Retard.

Posted by: ballistic at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (3BwY8)

218 Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (w6EFb)

I love reading history, and I've been on an ancient history kick over the past year. It is remarkable how much has changed in just the past 25 years concerning what we know and how we know it from, say, 2,000 years BC to the rise of the Roman Empire. So much has been uncovered and so much published that it nearly puts what I learned in college in the dust.

We will always find new information. While it is true that there is nothing new under the sun, there's a whole lot we haven't found out yet.

The most remarkable part about studying history is how little human behavior has changed.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (yKmBH)

219 "Carlson nodded along with his guest genuinely interested in what it had to say about Ben Shapiro."
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Yeah that about sums it up for Tucker.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (A0sqA)

220 google says:

What year did the Polaroid instant camera come out?

1948

On November 26, 1948, the first “Land Camera”—better known today as the instant Polaroid camera—goes on sale at Jordan Marsh department store in Boston for $89.75. The invention of Edwin H. Land.

Double Whammy! Jordan Marsh, too!

Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (A/n7m)

221 TOP THIS! Indeed they did. SF, 450ft statue.
https://tinyurl.com/forWARd-TwilightsLastGleaming

what-might-have-been
If IceKingJOE were president, they would model it after Hunter Biden, who stood there at the pinnacle of it all -- to piss it all away.

what-wuz
A 40ft statue of Hillary with Bill on a leash, pissing all over the American Flag, while she read Newsweek, listens to Sean Penn's Death to America broadcast live from Tehran, while she aptly cleans up Bill's business with the front page of the NY Times. Remembering who did this...

Imagine how Prez.Gavin and VP/AOC could modify it's design before it's public reveal.

Posted by: MANFRED the Heat Seeking OBOE at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (3Whrj)

222 I def believe Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams From My Father"

the frequent nautical metaphors are proof positive. Obama never went on the water, Ayers was a merchant marine before he was a terrorist.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (1wjle)

223 Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?
Posted by: publius,

Gobeki is about 13k old.
Where did the 8000 years go?

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (gbOdA)

224 The amazing thing about early remote channel changer? There were only 4 channels available, yet we still channel surfed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (UJMvS

I'm near Detroit so we had a LOT of channels. ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CBC, and about 2 independent stations from each country.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (Sco7b)

225 I saw some chem trails out the windows (probably from, uh, jets? or the AF?) this morning. That explains why I have felt weird today!

I "know" some people from another blog who believe in chem trails and are also freaked out about dog food...some sort of RNA additive that will shed proteins. And that flu vaccines (not mRNA) shed proteins. They are so freaked out most of the time that I come here to be with normal people! Vs arguing with them, I just abandon them to their fears.

I am still waiting for the falafel pita sammich I had today to clear the chem trails and everything else from my system.

I also ordered two new cashmere sweaters, which made me feel better...and, no, I do not "need" them but I "want" them.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (MAl//)

226 I did everything on that list AND a pager!

Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (8uzBS)

227 Surprising absolutely nobody.

>>@EricLDaugh
·
1m
>>🚨 BREAKING - SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP: SCOTUS has EXTENDED their pause of an activist judge order requiring Trump pay out full SNAP benefits despite the government being shut down.

>>The Left lost AGAIN.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)

228 186 What, and have the tribes give up all the advantages that "being on the land from time immemorial" gives them?
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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I think the era of plenty giving way to the era of poverty is going to put an end to a lot of woke behavior. An era of Rectification is upon us.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:09 PM (WDjG6)

If I give my money away, it's charity.

If the Government takes my money, with threat of force, and gives it away... it's theft.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (mP0Kj)

229 Why was the - I'm just a mom that gives law enforcement the finger and doxes them and also speeds thru red lights - get to drive herself home?
Was she charged with anything?

Posted by: old chick at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (F3Dlr)

230 One thing Rogan got me to do was sign up for Spotify where I haven't listened to him since. But following a number of podcasts there

Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (+qU29)

231 The Biblical flood took out an advanced society, with cities and metal. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)
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Watchers.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (krQz2)

232 The maps for both the Hyborian Age and Middle-Earth bear a passing resemblance to Europe...That's all the connection I need.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 11, 2025 06:00 PM (IBQGV)
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Robert E. Howard wrote a history of his Hyborian Age establishing it as a mythic pre-history for Earth, and the map he created for it was overlaid on Europe / the Middle East, with the Hyborian Age countries having cultures based on actual ones from around the same geography.

Posted by: Zombie REH at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (zW3tl)

233 Just think for a second, Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan. Is it a surprise that he invited some kook pseudo historian who is just axing whether Churchill is the real villain of WWII ? No.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK)

234 Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (f+FmA)

Real ones or should we include the fakes?

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (yKmBH)

235 “We need the media, and we rarely have the media."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (L/fGl)
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If these dumbfucks had any ability to self-reflect, they'd say "Holy shit even Jake Fuckin' Tapper isn't helping us push this rock up the hill...have we gone too far?"

But they can't, because they're retards.

Posted by: ballistic at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (3BwY8)

236 He makes a compelling case that humans have been around a lot longer than we traditionally have thought, based on geologic and other natural evidence.
Posted by: Frasier Crane

There's a doc series on Netflix by Graham Hancock, I believe, who has long postulated an advanced culture destroyed by the Younger Dryas period when the oceans rose 400 meters. I found it fascinating and learned a lot. I'm embarrassed I didn't know about all the sites in the US.

Also, I remember using AOL but never had an account. So19/20. Let's add one! Who had cable?!

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (yjljJ)

237 An era of Rectification is upon us.
Posted by: whig

Glad to see you here Whig!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (uWSFJ)

238
>>The Left lost AGAIN.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)

ALRIGHT! Blows kisses!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (MAl//)

239 The serious problem is that watching Tucker to find out what Tucker thinks is a two episode task. It is like watching Joe Rogan Experience to find out what Joe Rogan thinks. The real reason to watch either of them is to find out what the guest thinks.

All this to pressure Vance in two years. And give Levin a greater media control like he was William F Buckley.

Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (rbvCR)

240 My ex-wife fervently believes the one about the USA being converted to a corporation and we people are the pledged assets against its debts. Our SSNs are inventory control numbers. Hush hush stuff out of England.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (wVcYX)

241 >> far more than whatever Tucker has on as a guest.

There is a great gulf between Randall Carlson, Graham Hancock, and that ilk, and then Moon Hoax, Flat Earth and other absolute lunacy. The antisemitic garbage is something else entirely, absolute evil, but there is overlap.

I stumbled on the Flat Earth stuff a few months ago, and couldn't take my eyes off of it, like rubber-necking a train wreck or something, but damn. There is overlap with that absolute lunacy and the Evil Joos conspiracy. So the loon end of the conspiracy wing, does seem to be an attractor for the evil.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (w6EFb)

242 I scored a perfect 20. Now get off my lawn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (A0sqA)

243
On this day in 1942...

Hitler put an end to the vichy fag govt and occupied France.

Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (A/n7m)

244 That list seems kind of limited.

No 8 track? In fact, we had an 8 track recorder with dual (L/R) volume controls.

Banana seat?

I could go on.

Posted by: Turn 2 at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (CyFyf)

245 TOP THIS! Indeed they did. SF, 450ft statue.

That'd be pretty cool.

He should probably find a different island to put it on though.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (a+4eV)

246 191 whig, so glad to see you feeling well enough to be here.
Posted by: Ben Had
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Appreciate the sentiment.

I am on steroid shots right now (saw hand surgeon yesterday and heading for carpal tunnel surgery on the left hand) which eases the arthritic pain in the hands. On the bad side of steroids, cardboard boxes taste like food--real easy to gain weight and bloat taking it. Eating a few cashew clusters from Costco as we speak and drinking decaf coffee to fill stomach.

Neuro surgeon's appt tomorrow and Thyroid biopsy sometime after that in the next week.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (WDjG6)

247 I believe there are corrupt powerful people who try to do corrupt things in secret. What I don't believe is that any plan that involves over 10 people to conduct can stay secret for any length of time.

These 50-100 year old 'conspiracy theories' just don't jive.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (EYmYM)

248 My grandma only had one channel that showed Lawrence Welk, Hee Haw, and soaps. I absorbed a lot of culture at grandma's house.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (vFG9F)

249 A dog goes into a brothel and says 'Hey, where is everybody?'

Posted by: World's Oldest Joke at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (jc0TO)

250 Honestly, I feel the same way about the Obama Birther conspiracy. It was so dumb it could only do more damage to those who espoused it. Yes, I know Trump trolled Obama into finally disproving it, but that has a feel of the exception that proves the rule.

Posted by: John Lawrence at November 11, 2025 05:51 PM

The obama birth certificate thing was a hillary op from 2008. Trump had nothing to do with it except troll obama like you said.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (0N4FZ)

251 My one conspiracy theory is the whole Mandela effect thing. I definitely have alt timeline memories. Counterpoint, I am old, so there’s that too. But like I remember Bob Dylan dying and Tom Petty being interviewed about it. But then the next week it was completely switched.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (NW+2e)

252 Glad to see you here Whig!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
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I'm like a bad penny, eventually I will turn up again.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (WDjG6)

253 Neuro surgeon's appt tomorrow and Thyroid biopsy sometime after that in the next week.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (WDjG6)

We will keep on praying for you, sir.

Godspeed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (Zz0t1)

254 Tucker now recording from the trailer park in Pahrump, NV

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (O38oM)

255 >>Gobeki is about 13k old.
Where did the 8000 years go?
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One of the more fascinating of Randall Tucker's hypotheses is that civilizations have arisen, flourished, been destroyed, and then rebooted, many, many times. Sort of like "Groundhog Day" for mankind.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (bNf8H)

256 Apparently Sydney Sweeney was valedictorian of her high school. Voluptuous IQ is correct.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (1Nv0l)

257 Columbia records, 12 for a penny, etc.

Posted by: Kingsman at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (ehY6c)

258 Surprising absolutely nobody.

>>@EricLDaugh
·
1m
>>🚨 BREAKING - SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP: SCOTUS has EXTENDED their pause of an activist judge order requiring Trump pay out full SNAP benefits despite the government being shut down.

>>The Left lost AGAIN.
Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (viF8m)
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I never understood what the judges were saying Trump should do. Act like Congress had passed the CR, thus nullifying Congress? Can a low federal judge do that?! (No, of course they can't.)

Apparently, behind the scenes this is getting Roberts hot and bothered. He's accusing these judges of throwing the whole judicial function into doubt.

Which he should. Because Jay explained that it was an "experiment".

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (krQz2)

259 If I give my money away, it's charity.

If the Government takes my money, with threat of force, and gives it away... it's theft.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:13 PM (mP0Kj)

I have thot for many years that every tax or fine or use bill should have the words
Or we will kill you.
Should be in Constitution.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (gbOdA)

260 254 Neuro surgeon's appt tomorrow and Thyroid biopsy sometime after that in the next week.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (WDjG6)

We will keep on praying for you, sir.

Godspeed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (Zz0t1)

Count me in too...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (VE6XX)

261 >> Gobeki is about 13k old.
Where did the 8000 years go?

Again, read up on the Younger-Dryas Impact stuff. The meltwelter pulses and rising sea levels during that transition from the Pleistocene to the modern Holocene epoch. The North American megafauna extinctions and the Clovis culture that existed then. Something very interesting happened.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (w6EFb)

262 21/20. I claim a bonus point for 8-inch floppies.

Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (+2PTH)

263 You're probably pretty old if you ever tried to watch squiggly line earliest cable porn as a teen.

ON tv was our earliest cable provider.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (Sco7b)

264 The universe is a simulation.
Posted by: Turtles at November 11, 2025 06:10 PM (jc0TO)

Not according to physicists -
youtu.be/k6AddqLIbJA

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (gKWVE)

265 Also, I remember using AOL but never had an account. So19/20. Let's add one! Who had cable?!
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (yjljJ)
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I'm at 19/20 but my father had (and still has!) an AOL account and I messed with it back in the day, so I'm going to give myself half a point.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (ZOv7s)

266 The Biblical flood took out an advanced society, with cities and metal. Just sayin'.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)
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I took a cursory glance at population numbers, and, the math says our current population lines up with the flood at the time listed in the Bible.

I got the idea from the old kernel of wheat and doubling based on a chessboard story.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (UJMvS)

267 The only two I did not get on the list was AOL account and dial-up internet. Everything else is a solid yes. Hell, even now I prefer my atlases over gurgle maps. I will use it in some instances, but I prefer maps. And I have a record player, a really nice one, the kind I wanted when I was a kid.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (0aYVJ)

268
Speaking of jews...

Have we ever discussed The Great Schism, here, yet?

We should, some day.

Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:18 PM (A/n7m)

269 Sasquatch
Loch Ness Monster
9/11 was an inside job.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (W2Pud)

270 Oh, ot.

Among old had a clip with Ben Shapiro where his sister is in the thumbnail modeling nursing maternity clothing. They just keep getting bigger.

As someone said 'jewbs.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (zZu0s)

271 Vacuum tube testers at the drug store. And hardware store.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (wVcYX)

272 Back and to the left.

Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (AOsQT)

273 Only one I did not get was the AOLNE mail addresses

Posted by: Steven at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (HS1/y)

274 and I had a minibike with a Briggs and Stratton edger engine on it...with no brakes and a fishing line string to the throttle!

kids today have no idea

Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (8uzBS)

275 Count me in too...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (VE6XX)

Me third or fourth in a very long line.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (Sco7b)

276 One or two conspiracy theories? It's gotta depend who is defining "conspiracy theory. Covid lab-origin is a conspiracy theory. Russia russia russia as a deep-state-op is a conspiracy theory.

By that standard I have about 100. Almost all of which are certainly true.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (1Nv0l)

277
Sally Kirkland is mortadell.

Posted by: Soothsayer plays etymologist at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (A/n7m)

278 248 I believe there are corrupt powerful people who try to do corrupt things in secret. What I don't believe is that any plan that involves over 10 people to conduct can stay secret for any length of time.

These 50-100 year old 'conspiracy theories' just don't jive.
Posted by: the way I see it
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Contra, the secret of cracking the Purple and Enigma codes was held until the 1970's which required substantial rewriting of all WWII histories afterwards. Thousands of people were involved including future Supreme Court Justice Stevens as a WWII courier.

Penalties have to be severe enough if you defect to dissuade assholes. It helps if most of the people involved were still centered on patriotism.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (WDjG6)

279 I stumbled on the Flat Earth stuff a few months ago, and couldn't take my eyes off of it, like rubber-necking a train wreck or something, but damn. There is overlap with that absolute lunacy and the Evil Joos conspiracy. So the loon end of the conspiracy wing, does seem to be an attractor for the evil.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (w6EFb)

Most people can see Sun and Moon in North America this time of year. How does that work on flat errff.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (gbOdA)

280 The Biblical flood took out an advanced society, with cities and metal. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)

Did it have stone giant monsters too?

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (EYmYM)

281 The cloud seeding thing, I recall that flood in Texas, maybe two years ago?, some company said "yes, we do cloud seeding, but we had not done any in that area around those times."

There are also pics of some huge jet with cannisters for some sort of cloud seeding, I think it was a government thang. But yes, most contrails are just water vapor, frozen I guess.

(mix tapes were replaced with "playlists" I suppose)

Posted by: illiniwek at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (vbXSk)

282 Let me return the favor: "Mansard roof."
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 05:50 PM

Ooh...Second Empire. Just not as the second story. Has to be the attic, or the house looks like a mushroom.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2025 06:20 PM (Wnv9h)

283 TWA 800 was a Navy training exercise gone wrong.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:20 PM (dtajH)

284 151 >>>How about a remote that would hit chimes for channel up/down and volume up/down? And could also be triggered by jingling keys?

Ka-chunk Ka-chunk Ka-chunk...

Son, get up on the roof and turn the antenna a little to the right...

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:20 PM (Y8DZL)

285
I meant to post something about that on the ONT the other day. Yep, a paper is out purporting a proof that our universe CANNOT be a simulation. Basically, stuff happens that is not computational.

It depends on Godel's Theorem, I think and extension of that, along with other principles.

We cannot be a finite computational simulation. This world and its lunacy is all real, baby. All real!

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb)

286
People conspire all the time. I'm sure Hillary conspired in some way to score that big commodity trade she made back in the day, meaning that she and the broker made a shady deal. No one has been able to prove it, so is that a conspiracy theory? It doesn't seem to quite arise to it.

So although I favor tons of little conspiracy theories like that one, I think my big conspiracy theory is the obvious one:

Some damn lefties sat down ages ago and figured out that they could corrupt this country by getting their ideas into the education system, entertainment, and news media.

Exactly who they were, what their first steps were, what their method was, that kind of thing, are unknown to me.

Oh, one more conspiracy theory coming up...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (0lgzA)

287 His metamorphoses into a mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood might be tied to the fact that he is not a smart man, but an angry man, who cannot accept responsibility for a loss, a reactive and emotional loser.
Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:04 PM (g47mK)
==
He's getting paid.

Posted by: Black JEM at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (UVyKP)

288 When I was a teen working construction I was sometimes sent with the truck to get supplies. When that happened, the boss gave me a voice pager.

One time I stopped to get a hamburger on the way back and was standing in the line when the pager suddenly started shouting 'Toby! Get your fucking ass back here!'.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (jc0TO)

289
We cannot be a finite computational simulation. This world and its lunacy is all real, baby. All real!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb)
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That's just crazy talk!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (UJMvS)

290 270 Sasquatch
Loch Ness Monster
9/11 was an inside job.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (W2Pud)

We had Fouke Monster in South Arkansas.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (gbOdA)

291 Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal

8 unless you get to count Trump twice, then it's 9.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (L/fGl)

292 Wait. You mean the Haunted Tank was not real ?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (FIXtj)

293 HOWEVER, what is trailing jets is just contrails, ice crystals forming out of their jetwash. Period.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:07 PM (1wjle)

The amount of official de-bunking, pre-bunking and outright silencing of discussion on certain subjects is amazing. It could be that contrails is something dreamed up to suck up all the oxygen from another issue that someone with money and pressure to bear doesn't want discussed.

I am following a number of issues about vaccines, Andrew Wakefield, and (unrelated to medicine) Project Gladio disclosures that showed what the NATO countries were doing with their spare time during the cold war. These made me want to start questioning everything.

Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (rbvCR)

294 284 TWA 800 was a Navy training exercise gone wrong.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:20 PM (dtajH)

Hate to say but yes

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (gbOdA)

295 I'm like a bad penny, eventually I will turn up again.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (WDjG6)

Prayers that all will be well for you.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (MAl//)

296 Still playing records and finally have a good turntable using a Denon Dl 103 cartridge; low price great value.

Posted by: Kingsman at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (ehY6c)

297 We will keep on praying for you, sir.

Godspeed.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 11, 2025 06:16 PM (Zz0t1)

Count me in too...
Posted by: It's me donna
========
Thanks.
To quote Reagan, To surgeons, as he entered the operating room: “Please tell me you’re Republicans.”

With current insanity among Dems, I think that is not entirely a joke nowadays.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (WDjG6)

298 Just think for a second, Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan. Is it a surprise that he invited some kook pseudo historian who is just axing whether Churchill is the real villain of WWII ? No.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:14 PM (g47mK)
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But why would "racist Tucker" concern himself about Japs?

As nearly a fan of Fox-Tucker, I really don't know where post-Fox Tucker's head is at.

I told my wife that I find laughable, the guy who's nationwide tour had him confessing that he was one of the least religious guys you might know, but he was starting to see a more central role for religion, is now calling evangelicals "heretics" (to my understanding).

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (krQz2)

299 TUCA can go piss up a rope.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (qZdIZ)

300 An explanation of the Mandela effect stuff is there’s a mental disorder, one that gets worse as you get older, related to aphasia, that causes glitches in long and short term memory. What you remember isn’t what you really experienced.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (NW+2e)

301
Yeah, the Schism.

Somehow, I don't know how, but the Jews managed to split the Roman Catholic Church in 1378 AD.

In the years to follow, there were, get this, THREE Popes, each with their own rival following.

Posted by: Soothsayer Carlson at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (A/n7m)

302 BREAKING - SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP: SCOTUS has EXTENDED their pause of an activist judge order requiring Trump pay out full SNAP benefits despite the government being shut down.

>>The Left lost AGAIN.
Posted by: JackStraw

My bet: After the House passes the revised CR tomorrow, this case will be dismissed as moot. Any takers?

Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (D0HYP)

303 I'm 20/20 for The List

I never owned a waterbed, but I have enjoyed coitus on a waterbed, so I'm claiming that

Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (AOsQT)

304 10 points for each one you STILL USE

3 ENCYCLOPEDIA
11 CURSIVE
12 CHECK BOOK
16 PAPER MAP
18 POSTCARD
21 FLIP PHONE

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (UjdFS)

305 293 Wait. You mean the Haunted Tank was not real ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (FIXtj)

Only the reboot with the BLACK Tank Commander in a modern tank.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (mP0Kj)

306 The past is a long time ago.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (jc0TO)

307 anybody else drown your sister's Chatty Kathy? I renamed her 'Mumbles" after that

Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (8uzBS)

308 >> How does that work on flat errff.

It doesn't. They don't understand basic geometry nor physics at all. In fact they reject it and all part of the conspiracy. They even deny gravity exists (I'm not joking in the slightest) Here is one of their leading lights on X:
https://is.gd/Zn76YK

Scroll through that train wreck if interested in this nonsense. I was fascinated by it for a while, but it's getting tiresome now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (w6EFb)

309 The dilemna when you got your first top 10 of the day on Stargate or whatever was: Do you assume you'd hit your peak for the day and do LED or have confidence you'll beat it and do the ZEP.

Posted by: Fritz (not fritz) at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (rc1jl)

310 I listened to an interview Allie Beth Stuckey recendly did with a former green beret - Nick Freitas. Those from VA will know who he is. The episode is called "Muscular Christianity: Debunking the Manosphere's Lies | Nick Freitas". He is doing some excellent work there 'splaining how he raises his childrens, what could be done with lost boys. Because majority of zoomers have shit for brains and are now heavily into the nazi crap. But that is how NSDAP started, with the disillusioned and aggrieved. I do not sympathize with Z. A bunch of cuddled cry babies. But their "concerns" need to be looked at. He is offering something constructive at least.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (g47mK)

311 The main issue with government conspiracy theories is you have to believe in a hyper competent federal government. I've worked with fedgov drones most of my adult life. I'm not seeing a whole lot of 'hyper competent '.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (sAmhv)

312 Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:19 PM (WDjG6)

30 years is a good run but it also wasn't a conspiracy theory trying to trick people. I also remember my father having the book Ultra Secret when I was a kid which would be early 70's. People knew before the book.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (EYmYM)

313 Hey. I’ve been to a few MoMes.
Everyone here is 22 out of 20.

Posted by: RI Red at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (vPwMB)

314 I never owned a waterbed, but I have enjoyed coitus on a waterbed, so I'm claiming that
Posted by: Don Blac
......

Was it with Amy Farrah Fowler?

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (UjdFS)

315 True fact, there are more years between the building of the Great Pyramid and Cleopatra's reign then there are between us and Cleopatra.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (jc0TO)

316 If bounties were put on illegals the left would explode. Any bounty hunter would make a target that people wouldn't dare do with ICE.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (bfwj/)

317 is the list about what you owned? I thought it was just about what you recognized/knew about/had experieced.

I never owned a waterbed, but I think Larry on THree's Company was always talking about getting one.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (1wjle)

318 Paul died years ago. John buried him.

It's why The Beatles broke up. The couldn't get along with the fake guy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (dtajH)

319 "Just sayin'" is what disingenuous liars say. It's a passive aggressive move to shift the conversation from the facts into a free speech conversation.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (gKWVE)

320 anybody else drown your sister's Chatty Kathy? I renamed her 'Mumbles" after that
Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (8uzBS)

No, but LOL

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (wVcYX)

321 Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal

Eisenhower
JFK
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush the Elder
Clinton *spits*
Bush
B Hussein *double spits*
Trump
Biden *pukes up a lung*
Trump

13

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (gbOdA)

322 You cannot prove the world is not a simulation.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (1Nv0l)

323 oh -- "each one you used." Okay.

well I didn't use some of them but I'm familiar with them all.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (1wjle)

324 Prayers that all will be well for you.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

Thanks. But my problems are painful and debilitating, there are people here that have fought much greater problems like Grammie Winger, Teresa from FW and people watching their health like Sponge's wife.

I'm more like the rusty F100 pickup that needs putting back together with bondo and perhaps a good paint job. Ugly, barely running and sputtering at times but I gotta stay running as best I can for my wife and mother in dementia care.

After all, I'm the cook of the house.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (WDjG6)

325 241 My ex-wife fervently believes the one about the USA being converted to a corporation and we people are the pledged assets against its debts. Our SSNs are inventory control numbers. Hush hush stuff out of England.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:15 PM (wVcYX)

I've never heard this one ... and I love it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (guCHD)

326 But why would "racist Tucker" concern himself about Japs?

==

He does not care about the "Japs", silly. His point was that US IS COMMITTING ATROCITIES EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (g47mK)

327 Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan

Hell, Curtis LeMay said that. That's why it is extremely important to actually *win* the war.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (D0HYP)

328 19/20
Never had AOL.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (W2Pud)

329 Too bad Carlson went nuts he can do a good interview.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (dveO7)

330 Still have a check book. No way I want to pay the $30 fee to process our property tax payment.

When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps.

Just in case.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (UJMvS)

331 If it is a "mix tape" - taping multiple songs on a cassette then I have em all. If it is mixing tracks on a reel to reel then I have not done that one.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (8avO+)

332 303 BREAKING - SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP: SCOTUS has EXTENDED their pause of an activist judge order requiring Trump pay out full SNAP benefits despite the government being shut down.

>>The Left lost AGAIN.
Posted by: JackStraw

My bet: After the House passes the revised CR tomorrow, this case will be dismissed as moot. Any takers?
Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:23 PM (D0HYP)

Supremes may try, but Trump needs them to rule on this crap otherwise it will just come up again.

Judges setting Policy. Judges making decisions that belong to the Executive branch CITING POLICY, not law.

Like the Judges telling the Commander in Chief when he can deploy troops? Because THEY don't think its an emergency? Uh... Toots? we elected HIM to decide those things, not you.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (mP0Kj)

333 I gave my friends a tape recorder I still had unopened in a box and I found a few tapes for them to use.

I wanted them to see how things were done old school.

As it is, I have 3 CD players for CD's. Some music. Some meditation.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (Sco7b)

334 205 Service Merchandise.

Putting shit on layaway, yo!
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (zZu0s)

Montgomery. Fucking. Ward.

Posted by: Damn I'm old at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (TbWk/)

335 Never had AOL.
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (W2Pud)
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There is no way you're old enough to go 19/20 on that list. Remember, I've met you.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (UJMvS)

336 We cannot be a finite computational simulation. This world and its lunacy is all real, baby. All real!
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (w6EFb)
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The "Simulation Theory" sounds like it's kinda-sorta hard. But it fails in terminology at first blush: simulation of what?!.

The way it presupposes the reasonableness of levels of "simulation" like an infinite number of clerical monkeys.

Although it's reasonable to speculate the non-specialness of human life--it's something almost completely un-evidenced.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)

337 331 Still have a check book. No way I want to pay the $30 fee to process our property tax payment.

When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps.

Just in case.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (UJMvS)

I write two checks every month, one to my Yard guy, one to pay the Water and Trash Bill.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (mP0Kj)

338 Wait. You mean the Haunted Tank was not real ?
------

It was the single best military comic of all time!

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (TN0g+)

339 The Walrus was Paul.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (MXjT6)

340 Carlson at Fox had guardrails set forth by the network. He's now on his own and the real Tucker is showing

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (bfwj/)

341 292 Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal

8 unless you get to count Trump twice, then it's 9.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:22 PM (L/fGl)

Oh, I didn't consider that. Should it be just persons? Regardless of terms?
I have 14- but I caught the last months of Truman, the Kennedy assassination and the Nixon resignation.

Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (f+FmA)

342

Woman sitting on a bench at a train station in Shitcago stabbed in the chest. She is in good condition at a hospital.

This shit won't end until we get the crazies off the streets, but that will never happen.

Posted by: four seasons at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (3ek7K)

343 Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal

Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush the Elder
Clinton *spits*
Bush
B Hussein *double spits*
Trump
Biden *pukes up a lung*
Trump

11

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (1Nv0l)

344
Real Question:

Who believes Voyager actually reached Saturn?

Does anyone really believe in ANY of that Voyager bullshit?

Posted by: Soothsayer Carlson is just axing Questions at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (A/n7m)

345 Ike was President when I was born.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO)

346 Yup, all 20. fuuuuckkkk...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (snZF9)

347 Still have a check book. No way I want to pay the $30 fee to process our property tax payment.

When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps.

Just in case.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (UJMvS)

That's the way, my boy!

Posted by: Professor Henry Jones at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (wVcYX)

348 When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps.

Just in case.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (UJMvS)

Nav system in my phone does NOT work in some of the Mountain places I go to ski... so... yeah.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (mP0Kj)

349 I did 17 out of 20. I don't think I ever had a film camera -- oh, wait, do they mean the "still pictures" kind of camera? Okay, 18 out of 20. Never had a waterbed or an AOL account.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (wzUl9)

350 314 Hey. I’ve been to a few MoMes.
Everyone here is 22 out of 20.

Posted by: RI Red at November 11, 2025 06:24 PM (vPwMB)

21. Paying a nickel for a bottle of pop.

Posted by: Gref at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (5rh/l)

351 Yeah that about sums it up for Tucker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (A0sqA)

My favorite interviews is when the interviewer spends fifteen minutes haranguing his guest and then either bitchslaps him or knocks him to the ground and kicks him a couple of times.

I see you agree with me.

Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (rbvCR)

352 You cannot prove by me that Antarctica exists. It could be a hoax by National Geographic.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (jc0TO)

353 But why would "racist Tucker" concern himself about Japs?

==

He does not care about the "Japs", silly. His point was that US IS COMMITTING ATROCITIES EVERYWHERE.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (g47mK)
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But if they're lesser people, then it's not as bad, is it?

The argument itself evokes sympathy for Japanese, however he is "using" it.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2)

354 Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan

Hell, Curtis LeMay said that. That's why it is extremely important to actually *win* the war.
Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (D0HYP)

Nah. Rules of War allow shelling/bombing defended enemy positions. Or places the enemy is hiding behind civilians. Terrorism on the other hand is not allowed.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (8avO+)

355 TOP THIS! Indeed they did. SF, 450ft statue.

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I'd've thought Dionysus would go better in Frisco. Prometheus in Seattle or Portland maybe.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Why Do the Heathen Rage? at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (L/fGl)

356 We had Fouke Monster in South Arkansas.
Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (gbOdA)

The basis for one of my all-time favorite cheesy movies (via MST of course): Boggy Creek II, and the Legend Continues.

Two of the reasons I love that one so much is the two chicks were HAWT! Also, the stellar screen presence of Old Man Crenshaw.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (0aYVJ)

357 Montgomery. Fucking. Ward.
Posted by: Damn I'm old at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (TbWk/)

Monkey Wars
JayCEE Pennae

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (gbOdA)

358
If Voyager is/was real, then why is every single image they've given us touched up to crystal-clear perfection?

Where are the RAW images?

Posted by: Soothsayer Carlson is just axing Questions at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (A/n7m)

359 Skipped right over the Tucker hate. The man's career died for our sins.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (wBaIH)

360 30 years is a good run but it also wasn't a conspiracy theory trying to trick people. I also remember my father having the book Ultra Secret when I was a kid which would be early 70's. People knew before the book.
Posted by: the way I see it

People can keep secrets for a very long time, it just requires buyin from those keeping the secrets and harsh punishment for those that don't. The Chicago Tribune just about scuttled the cracking of Purple when covering the Midway victory attributing it to codebreaking. They got their fingers stomped in private and the Japanese apparently never found out.

The hotel over the Greenbriar Hotel in WV was another rumored conspiracy theory that turned out to be true and so on.

Then there was the Black Hand in Yugo land, and Mafia in Sicily, etc. etc.

Conspiracy theories is generally what the existing regime calls things that they don't want people to know about rather than the humble factual thesis that may or may not have any evidential truth.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (WDjG6)

361 346 Ike was President when I was born.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO)

Yup.... born 1959.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (mP0Kj)

362 346 Ike was President when I was born.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (jc0TO)

me 2

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (gbOdA)

363 >Was it with Amy Farrah Fowler?

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (UjdFS)
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exact opposite, really
nice lady from the entertainment business

Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (AOsQT)

364 Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush the Elder
Clinton *spits*
Bush
B Hussein *double spits*
Trump
Biden *pukes up a lung*
Trump

11

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (1Nv0l)

Yup, same list.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (snZF9)

365 Rules of War allow shelling/bombing defended enemy positions. Or places the enemy is hiding behind civilians. Terrorism on the other hand is not allowed.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM

The Rules are what the victors say they are.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO)

366 304 I never owned a waterbed, but I have enjoyed coitus on a waterbed, so I'm claiming that
Posted by: Don Black

I have a patent for a soft-sided waterbed (Preens, buffs fingernails, smirks.)

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (Y8DZL)

367 >>The main issue with government conspiracy theories is you have to believe in a hyper competent federal government. I've worked with fedgov drones most of my adult life. I'm not seeing a whole lot of 'hyper competent '.

If there were no government conspiracies how come we know about them? The conspiracy to keep Trump out of power is real, we all know it, and it came about an inch from working. That's just 1.

I don't think it requires hyper competence when you control the investigatory and prosecutorial agencies and the media and social media. Lots of people just give up because it's hard to beat them but it doesn't mean the conspiracies aren't true and they we don't know about them. Getting justice is a different story.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (viF8m)

368
I def believe Bill Ayers wrote "Dreams From My Father"

the frequent nautical metaphors are proof positive. Obama never went on the water, Ayers was a merchant marine before he was a terrorist.
Posted by: ace

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This relates to my "one more conspiracy theory coming up...(Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:21 PM (0lgzA)

I read years ago, can't remember where, about how Obama was groomed from a very early age to be our destroyer. I can't remember the details, but he was rejected by Harvard as a transfer student from Occidental. It was only when some lefty mucky-muck intervened by placing a personal call to some mucky-muck at Harvard and pressuring the shyte out of him to take this wunderkind. Maybe also said "Don't let him flunk out."

It's DAMN hard to transfer into a school like Harvard, but Obama did it, apparently with a mediocre record. He was the Great Black Hope for lefties from that far back. I'm sure that if someone sat down to trace his career, they'd find hidden helping hands at all points, steering him to undeserved victories and picking his wingmen for him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (0lgzA)

369 Ike's Kids are a large cohort.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO)

370 I started listing presidents in my lifetime. Holy cow, am I old.

Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (UJMvS)

371 Carlson at Fox had guardrails set forth by the network. He's now on his own and the real Tucker is showing
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (bfwj/)

yes

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (g47mK)

372 >>> Does anyone really believe in ANY of that Voyager bullshit?
Posted by: Soothsayer Carlson is just axing Questions at November 11, 2025 06:28 PM (A/n7m)

Lieutenant Ilia is patiently waiting for you to visit and “complete her circuit”

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (NW+2e)

373 One man's conspiracy theory is another man's seditious conspiracy.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (/lPRQ)

374 Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM (D0HYP)

Nah. Rules of War allow shelling/bombing defended enemy positions. Or places the enemy is hiding behind civilians. Terrorism on the other hand is not allowed.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Tucker would not be able to discuss Just War theory and its implications on WWII conduct if he had a brain transplant. He ain't got the mental horsepower.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (WDjG6)

375 LBJ.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (MXjT6)

376 Ha ha blake!

Sweet man. I’ll make sure you get extra bacon next year.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (W2Pud)

377 Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (krQz2)

Civilized War is an oxymoron. War should be horrific, so horrific that it is the last resort...

Not this perpetual War crap we have going on now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:32 PM (mP0Kj)

378 I was born in the Johnson years.

Andrew Johnson.

Just kidding.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (0aYVJ)

379 blake, Ford was in there too.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (zzXla)

380 Also an Ike kid.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (wVcYX)

381 Here’s my conspiracy theory: the cosmological constant, Λ is zero. The 2011 Physics Nobel prize for the accelerating expansion of the universe was given in error. It’s sad that recent observations of 3000 type Ia supernovae give a 5.5 standard deviation result that the earlier work was wrong, and the universe is not, just now, beginning a runaway accelerated expansion. I always doubt that just now is a special time, just like Ptolemaic theories held that right here is a special place. I call it temporal Ptolemaicism, and my doubts rise accordingly.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (uGI3N)

382 Caldors.

Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (9H7EW)

383 304 I never owned a waterbed, but I have enjoyed coitus on a waterbed, so I'm claiming that
Posted by: Don Black

I have a patent for a soft-sided waterbed (Preens, buffs fingernails, smirks.)
Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (Y8DZL)

With or without actual reduction to practice?

Posted by: They ever make one? at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (TbWk/)

384 Art Bell was probably the GOAT when it comes to interviewing guests with....non-consensus versions of reality in a non-confrontational way.

He got me through a lot of night shifts, back in the day.

He is missed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (IG3/x)

385 Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM

You said Trump twice.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (jc0TO)

386 After my mother passed away several years ago, my daughter and I were down in Mom's basement, sorting through her stuff, salvaging whatever could be salvaged for Goodwill or whatever and throwing the rest away. Amidst all that, my daughter came across the Royal typewriter I used in college. Maggie looked like an archeologist discovering a strange, mysterious artifact--perhaps alien in origin.

"You actually used this, Dad?"

"Damn straight. Those were the days, daughter, when cut and paste meant, well, cut and paste. Here, allow me regale you with other tales of the Before Times."

Posted by: troyriser at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (DPeYO)

387 Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Blake, 1952 was a great year.
For me, at least.

Posted by: RI Red at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (vPwMB)

388 370 Ike's Kids are a large cohort.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (jc0TO)

371 I started listing presidents in my lifetime. Holy cow, am I old.

Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.
Posted by: blake
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You got the cameo for Ike's kids in Porky's in the principal's office scene. Even the picture of ole Ike was grinning at Miss Ballbricker.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (WDjG6)

389 blake, Ford was in there too.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (zzXla)
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shoot, how did I miss Ford?

Oh, wait, I'm old.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (UJMvS)

390 Is Justin Castreau even a conspiracy now? More like a scientific axiom I’d guess.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (NW+2e)

391 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:31 PM (0lgzA)

Obama was also an editor of the Harvard Review... yet never wrote anything...

Funny that.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (mP0Kj)

392 vic held John Wilkes Booths' horse.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (jc0TO)

393 Homo sapiens sapiens (Man the wise, the really wise, hah!) has been around for what, 180K years conservatively, if not longer. And our known history is what, 5000 years old?
Posted by: publius,

Gobeki is about 13k old.
Where did the 8000 years go?
Posted by: r hennigantx

Speaking of "tohu va bohu" I've heard the hypothesis that it's more accurately understood "The earth was rendered formless and empty", and implies that everything that existed was deliberately destroyed and the current world created from that.

Like the ending of The Last Battle when everyone is watching through the stable door as Narnia is consumed by giant saurian monsters and then covered by water and all the lights go out.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (a+4eV)

394 8 unless you get to count Trump twice, then it's 9.

I think I'm at 12 counting Trump once

Big E
JFK
LBJGTQ+
Dick
Peanut
REAGAN
HMS Bush
Bill STD
'lil bush
obummer
Trump the Truth (2)
Bribem'
I don't count carmela

Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (8uzBS)

395 > The 2011 Physics Nobel prize for the accelerating expansion of the universe was given in error.

Wouldn't be the first one. Barky-O got a Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing, then proceeded to spend eight years bombing and cruise-missiling the fuck out of multiple countries on a weekly basis.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (IG3/x)

396 Let me give you an example of Carlson't concern for little people, in one interview some years ago he literally said that he wants a guy with a 100 IQ and a 80K annual salary to have a good life. Thank you massa Tucker. May we have another.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (g47mK)

397 I did 17 out of 20. I don't think I ever had a film camera -- oh, wait, do they mean the "still pictures" kind of camera? Okay, 18 out of 20. Never had a waterbed or an AOL account.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 11, 2025 06:29 PM (wzUl9)

I never had a waterbed, or an AOL account, but I did use them. I think the question was "used" not "owned". My brother had AOL and I popped on to see what the fuss was all about, but when I decided to go internet it was cable out of the gate. And as far as the waterbed goes..well...

Hmm though, not sure about the mixed tape thing. If thats a tape with all different songs, yeah. Gotta learn the song sets somehow. If its some gay disco thing...no..hell no.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (snZF9)

398 299:I told my wife that I find laughable, the guy who's nationwide tour had him confessing that he was one of the least religious guys you might know, but he was starting to see a more central role for religion, is now calling evangelicals "heretics" (to my understanding).
Posted by: Axeman

That's because Evangelicals regard the Bible as the Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17). Israel and the Jews are somewhat prominent in the Book. I don't know what happened to Tucker. Follow the money? Find out who or whom are paying him, probably find the answer there.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (sAmhv)

399 That's only partly a joke -- yes, Tucker Carlson is now a believer in chemtrail conspiracy theories now, too.
_____________________

I'm not a chemtrail guy, BUT I do think the Dept. of Ag. does a bunch of spraying without acknowledgment or notification of potential health hazards.

I'm pretty in tune with various insect infestations due to a lot of fruit trees. I keep track of volume etc. And, the comparison last year to year was like night and day for Spotted Lantern Flies. They are a hardy breed that isn't going to tone things down just based on weather patterns. So, I think there was unadvertised spraying taking place. My neighbor runs a Vineyard, and he's come to the same conclusion.

So, no on chemtrails....and yes on sneaky government programs "for the better of people" that should be a hell of a lot more transparent.

Posted by: Orson at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (dIske)

400 Theory: "The Manchurian Candidate" was plan to put a commie twink like Obama into the White House.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (UJMvS)

401 20/20

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (1Nv0l)

402 ok 13...forgot Ford

Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (8uzBS)

403 My one conspiracy theory is the whole Mandela effect thing.
Posted by: banana Dream

I have two: 1) the Ford Motors logo is not what I remember, and 2) The movie was always "All's Quiet on the Western Front", now it's "All".

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (yjljJ)

404 You cannot prove the world is not a simulation.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:25 PM (1Nv0l)
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You don't have to prove negatives. And then, define "simulation", to even have a start. If something is taken as belonging to the world of "Proof", it needs testable definitions. Not just extrapolations of ideas.

We know how Grand Theft Auto simulates the physics of our world. But there are obvious limitations to that level of "simulation".

And really, if you get "simulation", why can't we go back to Berkeley's idea that things are held in common because of the Mind of God?

Because "computers" sound more real and Sciencey than a regulating mind.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:36 PM (krQz2)

405 shoot, how did I miss Ford?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:34 PM (UJMvS)

Also said by Squeaky Fromme

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (wVcYX)

406 Robert A. Heinlein invented the water bed, but never patented the idea. Your welcome!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (uGI3N)

407 >> It’s sad that recent observations of 3000 type Ia supernovae give a 5.5 standard deviation result that the earlier work was wrong,

I read that with great interest. The jury is still very much out on that, but that will be a YUGE thing if it pans out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (w6EFb)

408 East of the Rockies, you're on the air...

Posted by: Zombie Art Bell at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (5yDGQ)

409 pay lawn guy: cash
pay bills: checks via mail
auto deposit SS and paychecks
NO autopay any bills
NO Smartphone
I call it the Simple Life. Worked fine so far.

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (v0R5T)

410 THEN WHO WAS BED

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (jc0TO)

411 The "Simulation Theory" sounds like it's kinda-sorta hard. But it fails in terminology at first blush: simulation of what?!.

The way it presupposes the reasonableness of levels of "simulation" like an infinite number of clerical monkeys.

Although it's reasonable to speculate the non-specialness of human life--it's something almost completely un-evidenced.
Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:27 PM (krQz2)

Simulation Theory or Disproving it is just malarkey. If its complex enough it could be made and started running we couldn't tell. And we can't rule it out either. Its just sophomoric crap to justify a publication on the CV.

Asimov wrote a story "The Last Question" about computers being given the task to reverse entropy and after billions of years and improvements the answer is "Let There Be Light" out of the bible.

Much science has degraded these last decades to dumb theory variants that can't be proven, talk of knowing everything to the first billionth of a second since the big bang that have been invalidated massively by new telescopes. I'm tired of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (8avO+)

412 >>>everything, anything "The establishment" or "conventional medicine" or "leading authorities" tell him ~~must~~ might be a lie.

Now it's true.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (syz1S)

413 383 Caldors.
Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (9H7EW)

Man, I hated that store when I was a kid.

And yet I got one of the best flannel shirts there when I was in middle school, that I wore well into my thirties before it finally gave up the ghost.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (06Hmj)

414 407 Robert A. Heinlein invented the water bed, but never patented the idea. Your welcome!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit
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And it took Keith Moon to try to put one in the elevator but it burst before he and his roadies could fit it in.

Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (WDjG6)

415 You said Trump twice.
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM

He likes Trump.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (Wnv9h)

416 19/20 too, and I'm somewhat younger than the average 29 year old around here (I infer).

I take most of those criteria to be Gen X at the latest.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at November 11, 2025 06:38 PM (guCHD)

417 11 presidents in my lifetime if you count Trump’s 2 terms as one president

Amazing

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (jYRYu)

418 Conspiracy theories is generally what the existing regime calls things that they don't want people to know about rather than the humble factual thesis that may or may not have any evidential truth.
Posted by: whig at November 11, 2025 06:30 PM (WDjG6)

You just have to hide and confuse things long enough for people to stop caring, or there is something big enough to take away any need to find out about it.

In 1916 the Rockefeller Institute was trying to get some understanding of Polio in a lab in NYC by a procedure of "serial transmission" in monkeys. Surprisingly enough a polio epidemic broke out in Brookland causing a panic in the people in NYC and in the US. All this was concealed by dramatic public health actions, and lots and lots of panic.

This makes me wonder if the Rockefeller Institute had been doing any work for the US Army near or about Fort Riley at the outset of the first world war.

Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (rbvCR)

419 What if gravity is the aether?

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (jc0TO)

420 Hmm though, not sure about the mixed tape thing. If thats a tape with all different songs, yeah. Gotta learn the song sets somehow. If its some gay disco thing...no..hell no.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (snZF9)
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There was definitely an art to making a mixed tape. Regular people record songs and not worry if they had Nazareth next to Steely Dan.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (UJMvS)

421 I would have never had a cell phone if my ISP had not fucked up my service.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (zzXla)

422 I never had a waterbed but I slept in one on occasion. Not recommended.

I did have an aol account, way back when aol messaging was the only game in town.

I used a 300 baud modem.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (1Nv0l)

423
Manufactured and sold a ton of "hybrid" waterbeds in the 80's that looked like regular mattresses.

Couldn't make 'em fast enough for a while then couldn't give 'em away.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (Y8DZL)

424 You all know this

Every Chinaman in school in USA is a lie.
Fake grades
Fake SAT (paid someone to take)
Fake education (paid for test and papers)

They will be building your bridges next year.

https://x.com/KCtoFL/status/
1988272940782084129

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (gbOdA)

425
Eisenhower baby here
I was born in black & white

Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (AOsQT)

426 They even deny gravity exists (I'm not joking in the slightest)

Hey, you don't know that. It could be magnetism and static cling!

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (a+4eV)

427 Trump 2 is a different animal than Trump 1.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (dtajH)

428 Many grifters on X and general internets space too. For some reason majority are generation Z. I suspect they figured out that working is too hard for them and full grown, healthy men instead of having real jobs are doing the manosphere version of OnlyFans - pontificating on the internet, peddling giberish nazi shite and thinking they are awesome.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (g47mK)

429 I scored 20. Must've been a millennial or younger writer. No mimeographs, slide rule, punch cards, manual transmission car, ...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (38+mr)

430 Gen. Curtis LeMay gets unfairly characterized as a psychotic “bomb ‘em back to the stone age” kinda guy (he never actually said that, go figure) and was in part the character based in Dr. Strangelove aka General Jack D. Ripper iirc.

LeMay figured the Cuban Missile crisis was an opportunity to get rid of Castro, and he was probably correct.

His “philosophy” was, that going to war is a very serious matter and should not be taken lightly. However if that decision is made, then there is no half stepping or “limited war” like the Whiz Kids and McNamara thought they could do. Hit ‘em with everything you got. “Stop swatting flies, and go after the manure pile” was his advice about Viet Nam. He saw the same problems in the Korean war.

He was a very intelligent individual, and completely mischaracterized by the Press, and Academia.

Ever notice, we’re supposed to be deferential to The Experts? They know stuff!

Yet curiously, this never, ever applies to the Military. Ever. Civilian Control! Civilian Control!

Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (Gjeit)

431 #222 that's a very ghey Prometheus.
But San Francisco, so they do them.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (sl73Y)

432 Hey, you don't know that. It could be magnetism and static cling!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (a+4eV)
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Heh, reminds me of the Far Side comic about the janitor sneaking into the nursery at the hospital.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (UJMvS)

433 407 Robert A. Heinlein invented the water bed, but never patented the idea. Your welcome!
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:37 PM (uGI3N)

Stanger in a Strange Land (Sex motion sickness)
Moon is a Harsh Mistress (Anal be like hard n shit)

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (gbOdA)

434 Yeah that about sums it up for Tucker.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 11, 2025 06:12 PM (A0sqA)
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Reminiscent of Well, That About Wraps It Up For God.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (krQz2)

435 I got ‘em all.

I must be old.

Or Gen X.

Posted by: Czech Chick at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (vK/Ja)

436 I got 20 for 20 although I called it a “mix” tape, not mixed.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (uGI3N)

437 Caldors.
Posted by: Accomack at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM

Zayre.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (Wnv9h)

438 They even deny gravity exists (I'm not joking in the slightest)

Hey, you don't know that. It could be magnetism and static cling!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (a+4eV)

Static cling??!? Oh the horrors. What comes after that is ring-around-the-collar!

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (wVcYX)

439 There was definitely an art to making a mixed tape. Regular people record songs and not worry if they had Nazareth next to Steely Dan.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:39 PM (UJMvS)

My current "mix tape" is all the music I have on my computer. Somewhere in the vicinity of 6000 songs. Maybe more. I always get a chuckle when a Slayer song is followed by a Chris Ledoux song.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (0aYVJ)

440 I have a cousin who believes literally every conspiracy theory. I think he thinks it's cool to have some sort of secret knowledge. You'll talk to him about some normal topic, and then he gets to tell you what's really going on.

The only conspiracy theory I believe is that Fruit of the Loom absolutely used to have a cornucopia in their logo, and efforts to convince people otherwise and say "oh that's just the Mandela effect" are a psyop to see how much everyone's memories and knowledge of the past can be rewritten.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (BGygK)

441
I'm old
your modern world frightens and confuses me... but I DO know this:

It is unwise to have a cat AND a waterbed

Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (AOsQT)

442
371 I started listing presidents in my lifetime. Holy cow, am I old.

Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.
Posted by: blake

#MeToo

I don't remember Ike. I do remember JFK. My 6yo brother took a poll around the neighborhood (widows...we lived in an apt with my grandmother). Everyone voted Nixon so he already suspected voter fraud.

My husband is 5wks younger than I am. He thought the Nixon/JFK race was for a bus driver. He does not know why. I married an eejit when it comes to his childhood...and I am the redneck!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (MAl//)

443
Four-thousand and 5 years ago today in 1620...

the Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact.

(they didn't come ashore until a month later, December 11th)

(I suspect they got a glimpse of the barren, colorless November landscape and said WTF have we got ourselves into -- and then kept sailing the coast looking for something better.)

Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (A/n7m)

444 20 pts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 11, 2025 06:43 PM (LjSYW)

445 Here’s my conspiracy theory: the cosmological constant, Λ is zero. The 2011 Physics Nobel prize for the accelerating expansion of the universe was given in error. It’s sad that recent observations of 3000 type Ia supernovae give a 5.5 standard deviation result that the earlier work was wrong, and the universe is not, just now, beginning a runaway accelerated expansion. I always doubt that just now is a special time, just like Ptolemaic theories held that right here is a special place. I call it temporal Ptolemaicism, and my doubts rise accordingly.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:33 PM (uGI3N)

From what I recall the CC was a factor Einstein tried to use to negate the expansion of the universe which he didn't like. What part it played after that I don't remember.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:43 PM (8avO+)

446
What a fun thread. Thanks Ace!

Posted by: four seasons at November 11, 2025 06:43 PM (3ek7K)

447 I scored 20. Must've been a millennial or younger writer. No mimeographs, slide rule, punch cards, manual transmission car, ...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM

*inhales deeply*

Mmmm...mimeograph.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (Wnv9h)

448 >>>420 What if gravity is the aether?

in a way, yes? As I understand it, only a fraction of particles' mass is actually due to the mass of the particles. Most of the mass is provided to it by interaction, via the now famous Higgs boson, with the Higgs field. It is this field that provides most of the mass in the universe, not the particles of matter themselves.

Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (1wjle)

449
I bought old copies of the Time-Life series on The Old West

Shot a man just for snoring too loud!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (pkeXY)

450 My current "mix tape" is all the music I have on my computer. Somewhere in the vicinity of 6000 songs. Maybe more. I always get a chuckle when a Slayer song is followed by a Chris Ledoux song.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (0aYVJ)
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Heh, same.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (UJMvS)

451 Yeah, I used to compete in slide rule contests. Looking back number sense competitions would have helped me more later in life.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (uGI3N)

452 He was a very intelligent individual, and completely mischaracterized by the Press, and Academia.

Ever notice, we’re supposed to be deferential to The Experts? They know stuff!

Yet curiously, this never, ever applies to the Military. Ever. Civilian Control! Civilian Control!
Posted by: Common Tater at November 11, 2025 06:41 PM (Gjeit)

Note, the last War that actually made positive change for the US??? WW2... which was total War.

Since then, every 'war' has just been either to get back to a status quo, OR, US Politicians did not allow us to actually FIX the issues.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (mP0Kj)

453 (I suspect they got a glimpse of the barren, colorless November landscape and said WTF have we got ourselves into -- and then kept sailing the coast looking for something better.)
Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (A/n7m)

4 hundred not thousand.

The Plymouth colonists couldn't be too loose about sailing south, the crown colonies were down that way and they wanted to be as far as they could within reason.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (8avO+)

454 He is missed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

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I've been listening to some episodes of Art Bell's final radio show, Midnight In The Desert, on YouTube recently.

He was a master of the late night talk radio format.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (5yDGQ)

455 I perfected the skill sets of The Credulous Interviewer.

Posted by: Zombie Art Bell at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (47/pr)

456 Firebombed Tokyo caused more casualties than the nukes.

Still, justified. Only today's modern see anything wrong with it.

Romans would call everyone for the past 500 years a bunch of pussies including the Nazis. Why, they never sold a single woman or child into slavery.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (zZu0s)

457 Tucker Carlson years ago said that US committed atrocities in WWII by bombing the nazis and Imperial Japan

Hell, Curtis LeMay said that. That's why it is extremely important to actually *win* the war.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 11, 2025 06:26 PM

I vaguely recall him giving an interview after the war saying that if we had lost the war he would be tried as a war criminal for ordering the firebombing of Japan. He was not wrong.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (0N4FZ)

458 If we live in a simulation then data centers are simulated and in those data centers could be simulated universes with simulated data centers and -oh man- maybe it's just data centers all the way down!

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (vFG9F)

459 Yeah, I don't know about 'mixed tape' either. I assume that it means putting together a mix of recordings? Never did it at any rate.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (XeU6L)

460 Who is hotter, Ranae Holland or Sydney Sweeney?

Posted by: Sasquatch at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (R/m4+)

461 vic held John Wilkes Booths' horse

miss 'ol vic, that picture of him next to his Maverick GT was cool. We had a luxury version with a white vinyl top and a 6 cylinder engine...that's why me and my hair didn't get a picture next to it

Posted by: DanMan at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (8uzBS)

462 >>>420 What if gravity is the aether?

in a way, yes? As I understand it, only a fraction of particles' mass is actually due to the mass of the particles. Most of the mass is provided to it by interaction, via the now famous Higgs boson, with the Higgs field. It is this field that provides most of the mass in the universe, not the particles of matter themselves.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM

So a Heechee drive is possible.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (jc0TO)

463 Hey, you don't know that. It could be magnetism and static cling!
Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (a+4eV)

Static cling??!? Oh the horrors. What comes after that is ring-around-the-collar!
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (wVcYX)

Sun creates lights wave that when moved thru Ether become sound.

I can show you transverse waves for about 9 dollars.
Show me longitude waves with a pair of cheap sunglasses.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (gbOdA)

464 451 My current "mix tape" is all the music I have on my computer. Somewhere in the vicinity of 6000 songs. Maybe more. I always get a chuckle when a Slayer song is followed by a Chris Ledoux song.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (0aYVJ)
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Heh, same.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (UJMvS)

Yeah, but it's the Christmas songs mixed in that get skipped a lot...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (mP0Kj)

465 Conspiracy theories are not a conspiracy is they are true, of course. I probably should have added that to my above post. Alas, no editing function here. I blame the Joosss.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (sAmhv)

466 There's some Truman babies on this site.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (LjSYW)

467 Who is hotter, Ranae Holland or Sydney Sweeney?
Posted by: Sasquatch at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (R/m4+)
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Probably Sydney but only because she knows the difference between disc and drum brakes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (UJMvS) at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (UJMvS)

468 428 Trump 2 is a different animal than Trump 1.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (dtajH)

Trump 1 was pretty good except he let that whole COVID shutdown happen.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (jYRYu)

469 miss 'ol vic, that picture of him next to his Maverick GT was cool. We had a luxury version with a white vinyl top and a 6 cylinder engine...that's why me and my hair didn't get a picture next to it
Posted by: DanMan at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM

Yeah. Every guy of a certain age knew, or was, that guy in the photo.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (jc0TO)

470 Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.
Posted by: blake

Started with Johnson.
First political memory - Shut up you kids! Watergate is on!

At first thought it was some soap opera

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (/lPRQ)

471 CBS...107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (Sco7b)

472 If Germany wasn't bombed, Japan too we still might be fighting WWII

Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (+qU29)

473 'Nice' war can't happen

Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (+qU29)

474 A recent cosmology issue has arisen because of the latest microwave mapping of the Universe.

It kind of points to the Earth actually being the center and of the Universe.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (EYmYM)

475 His “philosophy” was, that going to war is a very serious matter and should not be taken lightly"

This. I chuckle when I'm called isolationist or worse bc I oppose the half wars. Do it or don't. Half measures get men killed...

Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (9Ehkn)

476 I'm old
your modern world frightens and confuses me... but I DO know this:

It is unwise to have a cat AND a waterbed
Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (AOsQT)

I bought a leather chair and ottoman once with cats. They never touched it until the day I wore through an arm myself then they assumed it was fine and I let them do it.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (8avO+)

477 Mandela effect: the monopoly dude has a monocle. I definitely have that one. My kids pointed it out.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:48 PM (1Nv0l)

478 All 20 points. I still own some of those things.

Fuck.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 06:48 PM (sVOFR)

479 CBS...107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (Sco7b)

I think we can manage to grind wheat on our own, even with our poor technology. And we have water.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (8avO+)

480
Obama was also an editor of the Harvard Review... yet never wrote anything...

Funny that.
Posted by: Romeo13

===============

President, not Editor, but still inglorious. None of his issues are cited. I only know what I read, but I read that the number of citations from a law journal is the criterion of its quality. His HLR presidency may have been the worst ever.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (0lgzA)

481 I heard that one can make pasta at home. Maybe it's a conspiracy theory.

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (g47mK)

482 For any noobs, this is the vic photo

https://tinyurl.com/4z32ya8n

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO)

483
Yes, but None of us were around when All Men wore Hats.

Rights?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (A/n7m)

484 >>107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.

Oh, Noes...

where will we ever find Semolina and the Technology to fabricate Pasta!?

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (rO4EG)

485 The thing about the Simulation theory is that it is adopted often by hedging materialists.

Yeah, everything is 100% matter in motion--and matter in motion explains it's regularity--unless, it's all 1s and 0s and software and VR!!!

Can we just accept the baby step away that maybe matter in motion doesn't "explain" the universe?

If you believe that both things are "possible"--or more accurately is it undecided which is the case--your're just stating which models you have allegiance to. And that the materialness of computers is simply your seduction into accepting that cases exist that the everything is more than matter in motion.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (krQz2)

486
When I was a kid, most of the Old Men still wore Hats.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (A/n7m)

487 Trump 2 is a different animal than Trump 1.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (dtajH)

Just playing it closer to the chest, and depending on non-neocons for staff.

Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (rbvCR)

488 Started with Johnson.
First political memory - Shut up you kids! Watergate is on!

At first thought it was some soap opera
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (/lPRQ)

Lol. My one very deaf grandmother discovered closed captioning during Clinton's impeachment. She'd call my aunt at work and ask about fellatio. My aunt would have to yell into the phone loudly, "Mother! I will talk to you when I get home!"

Then the pubic hair on the Coke for SCOTUS Thomas threw her off again.

The other grandmother we sort of lived with (an apt in her large house) was more normal and demure.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (MAl//)

489 478 Mandela effect: the monopoly dude has a monocle. I definitely have that one. My kids pointed it out.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:48 PM (1Nv0l)

I, with a straight face, asked my optometrist if I could get a monocle.

The expression on his face said it all.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (sVOFR)

490
Nobody wears Hats, today.

I mean real hats. Adult hats. Not stupidfucking baseball caps.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (A/n7m)

491 Oh no, it's a pastastrophe.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (vFG9F)

492 Hey, I'm older than 20. OK?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (dveO7)

493 Romans would call everyone for the past 500 years a bunch of pussies including the Nazis.

I learned that in Latin class, too, but the rape of the Sabine women held more interest for me at the time.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (Y8DZL)

494 Biggest winner of the shutdown.....???

I'd think Fetterman.

When you're surrounded by ape-shit crazy and you've proven you're not ape-shit crazy....

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (Sco7b)

495 Yes, but None of us were around when All Men wore Hats.

Rights?
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM

You're not from Texas.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (jc0TO)

496 >> From what I recall the CC was a factor Einstein tried to use to negate the expansion of the universe which he didn't like

The CC (capital Lambda) was a fudge factor Einstein put in to cancel gravity at cosmological scales and allow for a *static* universe. Back in 1916, it's easy to forget, it was before Hubble. The true size and nature of the universe, with galaxies flying away was unknown at the time. What we now know as galaxies, like our close neighbor Andromeda, were dubbed "nebula".

Einstein called Lambda his greatest blunder, as he could have *predicted the expansion of the universe* via General Relativity decades before Hubble. It sat on the shelf, never a part of any cosmological EFE spacetime solutions until the purported accelerating expansion was discovered.

As mentioned above, there are now observations that call into question that accelerating expansion, which will be a total game changer -- again! -- if they pan out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (w6EFb)

497 Mandela effect: the monopoly dude has a monocle. I definitely have that one. My kids pointed it out.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:48 PM (1Nv0l)

I believe that is because subconsciously people mix it with Mt Peanut and other Top Hat characters who frequently have a monocle.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (EYmYM)

498
Like, a hat with a decorative feather, and shit.

Hat Check Girls were a thing! Hat Check Girls existed!

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:51 PM (A/n7m)

499 Yeah, I don't know about 'mixed tape' either. I assume that it means putting together a mix of recordings? Never did it at any rate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 11, 2025 06:45 PM (XeU6L)

Well in the music biz they used to mix reels of different playings to produce a final sound. never did that. Recording stuff off the record player or radio to cassette is lower tech.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (8avO+)

500 107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.
---
did they pinch their fingers together and wave when they said this?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (0aYVJ)

501 Ok, but what happens when you take an objective, intellectually honest approach to a conspiracy theory and realize the theorists were right? You then have to put your ego aside and admit that you are not one of the despised conspiracy theorists, but you have no choice because the truth is the truth.

And then that one theory unravels many conventional assumptions you've been told. It becomes an umbrella that contains a whole lot of other connected conspiracy theories. Then you're like "Everyone will think I'm a crackpot but I cannot unsee what I've seen."

Then you try to show friends and family the complicated body of evidence but they're not having it because they have no interest in taking a walk on the wild side into truth-land that will leave them a hated conspiracy lepper. They are too scared to know the truth because of what it will turn them into.

This is what happened to me. As ridiculous as the theory was, and the solid evidence that supported it, I had to humbly admit that I had previously been intellectually dishonest and the crackpots were right.

Posted by: Brisco County Sr at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (6wHqY)

502 "459 If we live in a simulation then data centers are simulated and in those data centers could be simulated universes with simulated data centers and -oh man- maybe it's just data centers all the way down!"

-- Can I buy some marijuana from you?

Posted by: Larry Kroger, Pinto at Delta Tau Chi at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (q3u5l)

503 Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump. I'm old.

Posted by: Tuna at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (lJ0H4)

504 Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM (f+FmA)

Started with Truman, who I don't remember.
But had lunch in front of the telly watching Big Brother Bob Emery, who's show started with a pledge of allegience to the flag hanging on wall, with a small table with a picture of President General Eisenhower in his military hat.

Posted by: From about That Time at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (sl73Y)

505 Best I can make of "mixed tape" is that it could reference back when we used to make our own music tapes with our favorite songs. Heck, I even remember being so lame, I'd use my cassette recorder and record songs as they were playing on the radio.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (qBdHI)

506 483 For any noobs, this is the vic photo

https://tinyurl.com/4z32ya8n
Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (jc0TO)

Thank you.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (Sco7b)

507 A recent cosmology issue has arisen because of the latest microwave mapping of the Universe.
.....

The Big Bang was actually a frozen burrito left in for 6 minutes

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (v0R5T)

508 Trump 2 is a different animal than Trump 1.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:40 PM (dtajH)

Trump 1 was pretty good except he let that whole COVID shutdown happen.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis

But, SCIENCE !!!!

Trump is probably very embarrassed that he got rolled so badly and wishes it would just go away

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (/lPRQ)

509 Must open a pasta mill.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (MXjT6)

510
Is vic not of this world anymore?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (0lgzA)

511 480 CBS...107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:46 PM (Sco7b)

I think we can manage to grind wheat on our own, even with our poor technology. And we have water.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:49 PM (8avO+)

We made apple pie mac and cheese
We should be banded from pasta for at least 3 years.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (gbOdA)

512
Cowboy hats don't count. I said adult hats. Cowboy hats are like baseball hats.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (A/n7m)

513 So, if the world is a simulation, how do I know whether or not I'm an NPC?

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (mADJX)

514
Eisenhower baby as well, old enough to remember the WW1 guys.

You behaved yourself around them or they'd slap you with your parents approval.

Posted by: Auspex at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (Y8DZL)

515 >>Like, a hat with a decorative feather, and shit.

>>Hat Check Girls were a thing! Hat Check Girls existed!

There's always one dude with a stupid hat fetish.

Like there is always some asshole with a waxed mustache.

And, I would rather they brought back cigarette girls.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (rO4EG)

516 CBS...107% tariffs on Italian Pasta may cause it to disappear from US stores."

I thought the chemtrail thing was stupid...

Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (tubbA)

517 Since then, every 'war' has just been either to get back to a status quo, OR, US Politicians did not allow us to actually FIX the issues.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM (mP0Kj)
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Korea was never going to be a win. Even with nukes. The US was not going to mobilize to free Chiang Kai-shek.

The key is knowing when to quit, which was what Ike did.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (ZOv7s)

518 This. I chuckle when I'm called isolationist or worse bc I oppose the half wars. Do it or don't. Half measures get men killed...
Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 06:47 PM (9Ehkn)

In my case it was because you blamed the entirety of the national debt on having a military.

I would be considered a hawk by some here but that’s not the case. Peace Through Strength, DIME, power projection, deterrence. You do those things, maybe we don’t have to fight at all.

Si desiderat pacem, praeparat bellum.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (sVOFR)

519 I got 20 for 20 although I called it a “mix” tape, not mixed.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit

19/20, I never had an AOL address. My first online address was my university-student email, way back when.

I do have an AOL "1025 hours free" CD right here on my desk, though. Makes a good drink coaster. (c) 2001.

Posted by: mikeski at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (nhCoE)

520 One of my most cherished gifts was a mix tape a boy made for me in college.

Every song was something special to us. And fun.

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (W2Pud)

521
Best I can make of "mixed tape" is that it could reference back when we used to make our own music tapes with our favorite songs. Heck, I even remember being so lame, I'd use my cassette recorder and record songs as they were playing on the radio.
Posted by: Lady in Black

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Yes, and I believe that was a "mix tape." A tape with a mix of bands, sounds, etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (0lgzA)

522 The CC (capital Lambda) was a fudge factor Einstein put in to cancel gravity at cosmological scales and allow for a *static* universe. Back in 1916, it's easy to forget, it was before Hubble. The true size and nature of the universe, with galaxies flying away was unknown at the time. What we now know as galaxies, like our close neighbor Andromeda, were dubbed "nebula".

Yes it was surprisingly late that we were able to prove that Andromeda actually was made up of stars and was a second galaxy

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (8avO+)

523
That's why I couldn't stand Yellowstone, anymore. They all walked around cosplaying as cowboys.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (A/n7m)

524 >>Must open a pasta mill.

We grow a lot of Semolina throughout the northern tier.

I am guessing this about Italy having high tariffs on Export Wheat. Just Trump doing his thing.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (rO4EG)

525 Then you try to show friends and family the complicated body of evidence but they're not having it because they have no interest in taking a walk on the wild side into truth-land that will leave them a hated conspiracy lepper. They are too scared to know the truth because of what it will turn them into.

This is what happened to me. As ridiculous as the theory was, and the solid evidence that supported it, I had to humbly admit that I had previously been intellectually dishonest and the crackpots were right.
Posted by: Brisco County Sr at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM

The web of yarn always freaks people out.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:54 PM (jc0TO)

526 I heard that one can make pasta at home. Maybe it's a conspiracy theory.
Posted by: runner
......

only when there's gravity.

Posted by: wth at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (v0R5T)

527 I believe progressives have been taken over by Triffids.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (kTd/k)

528 >>That's why I couldn't stand Yellowstone, anymore. They all walked around cosplaying as cowboys.

Having lived out West for the majority of my life...that's about 95% of Cowboying.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (rO4EG)

529 Truman
then
FDR
then
Hoover
then
Harding??
then maybe TR

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (gbOdA)

530 As I understand it, only a fraction of particles' mass is actually due to the mass of the particles. Most of the mass is provided to it by interaction, via the now famous Higgs boson, with the Higgs field. It is this field that provides most of the mass in the universe, not the particles of matter themselves.
Posted by: ace at November 11, 2025 06:44 PM

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Not quite. Most of the mass of stable composites like nuclei (and to a lesser extent, atoms), comes from the binding energy of the strong force between the particles, rather than the mass of the particles themselves (which does comes from the Higgs mechanism).

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (1Nv0l)

531 The family in generational order, Pres-wise:
Truman, Truman
Carter, Carter, Reagan, Bush I
Bush II, Bush II, Obama, Trump, Biden

Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (f+FmA)

532 Wokacolypse hitting video game industry.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (MXjT6)

533 Is vic not of this world anymore?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM

The old one has faked his death and moved on to a new identity.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (jc0TO)

534 I remember listening to the radio, and having a cassette ready to record if a good song came up.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (0aYVJ)

535 did they pinch their fingers together and wave when they said this?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (0aYVJ)

Network news.
This MIGHT happen.
But not until January.

20 minutes a night is a LOT of time to fill on quiet days.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 18.1% at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (Sco7b)

536 In my case it was because you blamed the entirety of the national debt on having a military."

I think you mistake me for someone else...

Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (tubbA)

537 The key is knowing when to quit, which was what Ike did.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at November 11, 2025 06:53 PM (ZOv7s)

It was a win in that the border didn't change.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (EYmYM)

538 "Joe Rogan -- I don't really watch him, I just see clips every once in a while."

It is never clear to me if Rogan agrees or is simply indulging the madness of others. I think it is mostly the later. He lets people go on and encourages them to talk. He's actually an amazingly good interviewer, and good at calibrating his tone to is guest. And he often has good fucking questions.

Progressives hate him because they look like idiots on his show - he'll ask one question they can't answer and they get flummoxed. Conservatives, being used to be attacked, always have a good answer to every question.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (gDhA9)

539 Having lived out West for the majority of my life...that's about 95% of Cowboying.
Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 06:55 PM (rO4EG)

North Louisiana and East Texas is about 95% cowboying and 100% selling gas rights.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (gbOdA)

540 Obama was an editor who got elected president over a highly qualified woman. Obama mailed it in, so the woman had to do all that work with no credit. I bet she voted for him.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (dtajH)

541
Nice' war can't happen
Posted by: Skip

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How about a more sensitive war?

Posted by: John Kerry at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (0lgzA)

542 371 I started listing presidents in my lifetime. Holy cow, am I old.

Eisenhower, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden*, Trump.
Posted by: blake

Have to add Truman (and Ford) for me.

Posted by: javems at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (8I4hW)

543
Anyone watch the series called Mobland with Remington Steele & Tom Hardy?

It is Sons Of Anarchy...without motorcycles...in Ireland. Which is funny because Sons did several episodes in Ireland.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (A/n7m)

544 >> Yes it was surprisingly late

Yes, it's sort of hard to believe it's only been about 100 years for the universe as we know it today was known.

There's an argument that if Einstein had stepped out and predicted expansion via what's basically known now as the basic FLRW equations, that would've been way too radical at the time -- they might have laughed it off, and not gone on to try to verify some of the less radical predictions (gravitational lensing of late, which Eddington verified famously during the 1919 eclipse).

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (w6EFb)

545 505 Next up- how many US Presidents have there been in your lifetime?
Posted by: sal at November 11, 2025 06:11 PM

In my one year of teaching I decided to confound my students. They kept asking how old I was. So I said, “when I was born, Harold Wilson was PM of the UK.”

Damnit, they all broke out their laptops. : )

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (sVOFR)

546
I bet she voted for him.
Posted by: Ignoramus

==============

I bet she wanted to fvck him but he glanced down at her crotch and said "You're not my type."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (0lgzA)

547 533 Wokacolypse hitting video game industry.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (MXjT6)

Thats old
about 4 years ago they have fag demons and people said fuck that

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (gbOdA)

548 The CC (capital Lambda) was a fudge factor Einstein put in to cancel gravity at cosmological scales and allow for a *static* universe.

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He called it his "biggest mistake", but it turns out to be non-zero after all. That's what dark energy is.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (1Nv0l)

549 I had a couple of cassettes I recorded back in college that amounted to a collection of songs by Black Sabbath, Bad Company, The Scorpions, Rainbow, Billy Squier, etc. I needed cassettes like that because me and my friends liked to drive 15-20 miles outside of town and build bonfires at a lake and party. Radio reception was sometimes spotty, so the tapes came in handy.

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 06:58 PM (TN0g+)

550 Skinners makes pasta and are a fan of this site since forever.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (zzXla)

551 There were home pasta machines at the clubs a decade ago.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (MXjT6)

552 Instead killing the nazis the allies should have sent battalions of mental health professionals!

Posted by: runner at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (g47mK)

553 Nobody wears Hats, today.

I mean real hats. Adult hats. Not stupidfucking baseball caps. - soothsayer

I retired 8 years ago, but I wore fedoras and double-breasted suits to work at my job in D.C. for 20 years. I decided a long time ago that male fashion reached a peak of elegance around 1947, and that's what I went with (fortunately, I didn't think that way of 18th century fashion; a powdered wig, bottle green, swallowtail coat and knee-breeches might have excited comment).

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (mADJX)

554 Anyone watch the series called Mobland with Remington Steele & Tom Hardy?

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (A/n7m)
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Yeah, I saw it. Any Ritchie production is worth a watch, IMO.

Helen Mirren plays an absolutely batty mob queen.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (krQz2)

555 I think Tucker has just lost focus and keeps platforming this stuff for ratings.

I also think that Candace Owens is an actual fucking lunatic.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (lCHt6)

556 It was a win in that the border didn't change.
Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 06:56 PM (EYmYM)

The cease fire line of 1953 was different from the 38th Parallel.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (sVOFR)

557 This is what happened to me. As ridiculous as the theory was, and the solid evidence that supported it, I had to humbly admit that I had previously been intellectually dishonest and the crackpots were right.
Posted by: Brisco County Sr at November 11, 2025 06:52 PM (6wHqY)

The only honest position, intellectually honest, is "what do I need proven for me to consider this thesis to be possible"

If the answer is "there is no proof that will sway me" then you can be assured that it is an article of faith, and has nothing to do with science

Wild-side thinking is "if this were true, what would it indicate in the rest of the field" but most people won't go there because that makes the earth shift beneath their feet, and most people need that security.

Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (rbvCR)

558 Anyone watch the series called Mobland with Remington Steele & Tom Hardy?

It is Sons Of Anarchy...without motorcycles...in Ireland. Which is funny because Sons did several episodes in Ireland.
Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (A/n7m)

I watched part of the first episode. I didn't hate it. But I left it, because I thought, fuck, just what I need, another binge-watch. And I am a huge Tom Hardy fan. It looked compelling, though.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (0aYVJ)

559 Today was a great day.

Amazing weather for a Mt Bike Ride. Still just a bit frozen at the beginning but by the time I got up to the top of the ridge it had climbed to 46 or so.
One downed tree and a spaztic whitetail that nearly got clipped. Never saw a soul from the time I hit the singletrack until I got back to the access road.

I might be able to squeeze in one more ride this year, tomorrow. Then the snow comes down into the valleys.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (rO4EG)

560 Can we just accept the baby step away that maybe matter in motion doesn't "explain" the universe?

If you believe that both things are "possible"--or more accurately is it undecided which is the case--your're just stating which models you have allegiance to. And that the materialness of computers is simply your seduction into accepting that cases exist that the everything is more than matter in motion.
Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 06:50 PM (krQz2)

The first mistake is thinking you can or should explain the universe. Instead you need to describe it, as the universe is a real thing.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (8avO+)

561
51 year old (1974, Ford era) tv spot for Polaroid instant camera:

https://is.gd/wOoQSP

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (A/n7m)

562 This has been a fun thread.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (zZu0s)

563 Nobody wears Hats, today."

Can't. No hat racks, and I'm not setting it on the floor...

Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (tubbA)

564 Obama mailed it in, so the woman had to do all that work with no credit. I bet she voted for him.
Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 06:57 PM (dtajH)

If you looked at corrupt on a scale and found a Clinton.
It is the -458 of corruption.

Posted by: r hennigantx at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (gbOdA)

565 I wear hats. In a valley. Rains can blow in anytime.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (MXjT6)

566 In my one year of teaching I decided to confound my students. They kept asking how old I was. So I said, “when I was born, Harold Wilson was PM of the UK.”

I'm so old that Queen Elizabeth was the Queen!

Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (+2PTH)

567 I also think that Candace Owens is an actual fucking lunatic.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (lCHt6)

She and Shapiro flounced out of Breitbart over the whole Cory Lewindowski / Michelle Fields foofooraw, and the accusation in the MFM about the crudeness and violence of the Trump Rallies.
It is hard to make a decent career when you start out with a lie.

Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:02 PM (rbvCR)

568 I came across a cassette of a "band" I was in. Gawd we were awful. Inspired at times, just terrible at others. No wonder the ghosts moved out of that house.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:02 PM (vFG9F)

569
Mobland is good.
Two years between "seasons," at least. Then, maybe, another 10 eps.

Fuck that.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:03 PM (A/n7m)

570 I retired 8 years ago, but I wore fedoras and double-breasted suits to work at my job in D.C. for 20 years. I decided a long time ago that male fashion reached a peak of elegance around 1947, and that's what I went with (fortunately, I didn't think that way of 18th century fashion; a powdered wig, bottle green, swallowtail coat and knee-breeches might have excited comment).
Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 06:59 PM (mADJX)

I wore a replica Civil War felt slouch hat in winter in Chicago for many years, still have it. Surprisingly warm with the brim keeping snow off your face.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:03 PM (8avO+)

571 People weren't wearing enough hats way back in the early 80s--it was discussed in a feature film.

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 07:03 PM (TN0g+)

572 Shapiro at least has a sister with mammoth tits. Owens does not even have that small fig leaf of interest.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (zZu0s)

573
This is what happened to me. As ridiculous as the theory was, and the solid evidence that supported it, I had to humbly admit that I had previously been intellectually dishonest and the crackpots were right.
Posted by: Brisco County Sr

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Spit it out, man. What was it?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (0lgzA)

574 Truman was president when I was born. So I have 14 presidents, and you'd have to go some to get beyond 15 because of FDR.

I never had AOL because I was on the federal net at work.
We had to use dial-up for some things and it sucked SO BAD that I decided they were going to pay me to chat on a computer, and I wouldn't do it on my own time until the SOB actually worked.

I got on this thing after I retired. I may have jumped too soon.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (zdLoL)

575 obody wears Hats, today."

Can't. No hat racks, and I'm not setting it on the floor... - man

No problem. In D.C., I had a hat rack in my office that dated to the FDR era.

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (mADJX)

576 Conservatives, being used to be attacked, always have a good answer to every question.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law

And conservatives generally have a coherent worldview that's not based on infantilism. That makes answering questions easier.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (1Nv0l)

577 Mobland is fantastic. It's one of Hardy's best.

It's set in London but the Family is Irish.

UK critics ridiculed Brosnan's accent, not realizing he did a Kerry accetn, not the Dublin accent they were familar with.

Posted by: Ignoramus at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (dtajH)

578 567 In my one year of teaching I decided to confound my students. They kept asking how old I was. So I said, “when I was born, Harold Wilson was PM of the UK.”

I'm so old that Queen Elizabeth was the Queen!
Posted by: t-bird at November 11, 2025 07:01 PM (+2PTH)

Right about the time of that incident, the Queen left the mortal coil.

Posted by: Cow Demon at November 11, 2025 07:04 PM (sVOFR)

579 Sheesh!

Tucker obviously picked one of the West Coast Sasquatches since they're much more likely to be smoking some of that weed that is grown out there.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (uNMpE)

580 Would anyone under 50 know what a haberdashery was?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (zzXla)

581 20 out of 20 and used a fax machine, check book and cursive today.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (R86kT)

582 Four and a half hours of Bruckner:
youtube.com/watch?v=30Inf9Ax9RI

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (7imtn)

583 I wear a baseball cap almost everyday but casual hat wear doesn't count for hat snobs.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (EYmYM)

584 As to hats - like the Brazilian Tarp hats... nearly indestructible...

Posted by: man at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (tubbA)

585 If you haven"t watched Slow Horses you should.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (MXjT6)

586 I wear ball caps, mostly to keep the sun off my bald head. But I remove my cover in restaurants. I'll leave on the booth seat next to me, or drape it over my knee.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (0aYVJ)

587 Wait, isn't Brosnan Irish?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (zZu0s)

588
Yeah, and Helen Mirren's character is pretty much "Jemma" from Sons of Anarchy, played by Peggy Bundy.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (A/n7m)

589 490, like the look the surgeon who took a squamous-cell whatchamacallit off my cheek gave me when I asked him if he could give me a Heidelberg scar ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (kHop/)

590 So we’re with Jon Stewart and Wikipedia today? Is it Eurasia or Eastasia that we are at war with? But Tucker Carlson is Goldstein, I get that. Just want to keep up.

Posted by: Jmg at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (1WSVq)

591 481
Obama was also an editor of the Harvard Review... yet never wrote anything...

Funny that.
Posted by: Romeo13

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President, not Editor, but still inglorious. None of his issues are cited. I only know what I read, but I read that the number of citations from a law journal is the criterion of its quality. His HLR presidency may have been the worst ever.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Editor has to work, he'll have none of that.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (dveO7)

592 Mad as a hatter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (MXjT6)

593 571 I wore a replica Civil War felt slouch hat in winter in Chicago for many years, still have it. Surprisingly warm with the brim keeping snow off your face. - Oldcat

There you go! Wear what pleases you, I say.

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:07 PM (mADJX)

594
Editor has to work, he'll have none of that.

Posted by: Braenyard

============

Exactly. I've heard President is more of a figurehead, far more suited to him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 07:07 PM (0lgzA)

595 Missed any earlier postings of Vic but you know ? Fits perfectly what I would imagine it would be.

Posted by: Skip at November 11, 2025 07:07 PM (+qU29)

596 Would anyone under 50 know what a haberdashery was?
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (zzXla)

do not take haberdashery if you are allergic to haberdashery or its ingredients.

Kidding aside, being over 50, I do know what it is.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, I Have Become Comfortably Lame at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (0aYVJ)

597 Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (znHU2)

598 The first mistake is thinking you can or should explain the universe. Instead you need to describe it, as the universe is a real thing.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:00 PM (8avO+)
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"Completely simulate environment X" is almost certainly a super-Turing computation.

So you need the computation power that machines can't do and requires intervention of a human-like mind. Which wouldn't likely be super-Turing if it was a machine with regular parameters. So you need software generated by a intervening agent.

The only reason that compels us to believe that extra-Turing computation is possible, is that it is undecidable whether human computation is reducible to a Turing model.

However, the only fully-comprehensible models of computation we have are Turing compatible.

That's one of the difficulties of saying our awareness emerges out of machine-like regularity. Which was a problem unaddressed by matter in motion.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (krQz2)

599 CONtrails, those things first popularized by fleets of Allied bombers in the cold, this air above Germany in the 40's. And now...they're CHEMtrails. Yikes.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (33efi)

600 Posted by: ChemDan at November 11, 2025 06:35 PM (8uzBS)

cough cough

Posted by: Gerry F. footballer before helmets at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (R86kT)

601 Mad as a hatter.
Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:06 PM (MXjT6

Mercury is too cool to have it anywhere near kids.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (EYmYM)

602
There's an argument that if Einstein had stepped out and predicted expansion via what's basically known now as the basic FLRW equations, that would've been way too radical at the time -- they might have laughed it off, and not gone on to try to verify some of the less radical predictions (gravitational lensing of late, which Eddington verified famously during the 1919 eclipse).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

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Maybe, but we already had black holes within months of Einstein's general relativity publication (Schwarzschild: wrote the paper on black holes from the frontline in WW1.)

So shit was already getting pretty crazy. That said, people didn't understand the full implications of black holes until much later.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (1Nv0l)

603 >>I wear a baseball cap almost everyday but casual hat wear doesn't count for hat snobs.

I've got a closet of them. A fedora doesn't work that well when I'm on the water.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (viF8m)

604 >>Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?

I miss cigarette lighters and ashtrays in cars.

Posted by: garrett at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (rO4EG)

605 Would anyone under 50 know what a haberdashery was?
Posted by: Ben Had at November 11, 2025 07:05 PM (zzXla)

I did when I was below 50

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (8avO+)

606 Remember when you were a kid and got impatient with the rotary dial and forced the wheel to go as fast as your finger could make it go? I'm sure those nanoseconds of time saved were worth it.

Posted by: Lady in Black at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (qBdHI)

607 >> but it turns out to be non-zero after all. That's what dark energy is.

If you take the EFE (Einstein Field Equations) of GR, you can move the Lambda term to the right, and note, hey this looks like a source term. That's dark energy.

But the other view is, it's just geometry, a feature of spacetime. Empty spacetime is deSitter, not Minkowski.

But playing around with the idea of dark energy, some strange form of matter, you can do far more with it, the equation of state, than a mere constant term multiplying the metric tensor. It can be real stuff that does more strange things that a mere cosmological constant. The current view of dark energy is the latter, it's some sort of real stuff that behaves like Lambda.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (w6EFb)

608 >>>When traveling long distance, I try to print out maps and put them in a binder. I also take paper road maps.

Just in case.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
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Buy clear contact paper at Wally or where ever. Times past one could purchase crystal clear plastic 8x11 sheets. Put one on each side and it will come out of a plate of spaghetti clean.

Also you can mark it up with a grease pencil then wipe it away when finished.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:10 PM (dveO7)

609
Heidelberg scar and a monocle woulda so rocked, amirite?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at November 11, 2025 07:10 PM (kHop/)

610 But I did see at least three black panthers (of the feline variety) prowling about the woods behind the house. Probably huntin' 'squatches or other cryptids.

Posted by: Erik In Texas at November 11, 2025 07:10 PM (33efi)

611 I remember when the "brights" switch for a car headlight was on the floorboard.

Posted by: Crusader at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (TN0g+)

612 Black holes are also the point man on why Theory of Relativity and quantum mechanics aren't compatible.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (EYmYM)

613 20 for 20. And yeah, I sit on the Boomer/Gen X divide.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (/HDaX)

614 Maybe, but we already had black holes within months of Einstein's general relativity publication (Schwarzschild: wrote the paper on black holes from the frontline in WW1.)

So shit was already getting pretty crazy. That said, people didn't understand the full implications of black holes until much later.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:09 PM (1Nv0l)

Once the speed of light becomes a limit and light is affected by gravity something that light can't escape is obviously possible.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (8avO+)

615 Headlight dimmer on the floor.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:11 PM (vFG9F)

616 I still prefer the dimmer on the floor.

Posted by: fd at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (vFG9F)

617 You're not going to get the chemtrail conspiracy genie back in the bottle now that several governments have fessed up to cloud seeding, and Canada was busted spraying roundup and other broad spectrum plant killers from planes over their eastern forests coinciding with their "you can't go into the wooooods!" panic.

Remains to be seen whether America's hat was doing that to facilitate timber harvesting, or just plain wanted to (literally) watch the world burn, or some other stupid milk-in-a-bag reason.

I don't buy any of the wacky chemtrail theories but unfortunately we have now progressed from "Governments secretly spraying things from planes is silly" to "... yes, but they don't secretly spray THOSE things"

Posted by: heya at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (3897l)

618 >> So shit was already getting pretty crazy

And then Godel famously came along and told Einstein "Hey, your equations allow for time travel". Einstein said that's nonsense, Kurt. Godel said "I'll prove it!".

And he did, the Godel Metric. Einstein said, well, shit fire. When Godel said he could prove something, you'd better look out. He generally did.

He was bat shit crazy, but an absolute master of logic and mathematics.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (w6EFb)

619 When you burn hydrocarbons, the products are CO2 and water. Jet fuel is a mix of hydrocarbons.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (b4o9z)

620
I did when I was below 50
Posted by: Oldcat
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In Kansas, Stetson leads the way.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (dveO7)

621 I can imagine trying to explain that we used to find phone numbers that you could call for a recording. And they would allow multiple people to be on the call at the same time. And you would just yell stuff to each other.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (znHU2)

622 The only conspiracy theory I believe is that Fruit of the Loom absolutely used to have a cornucopia in their logo, and efforts to convince people otherwise and say "oh that's just the Mandela effect" are a psyop to see how much everyone's memories and knowledge of the past can be rewritten.
Posted by: Cave Johnson

I was in line at the Unemployment Office in Spring Valley, NY around 1978 with the original grape from the Fruit Of The Loom commercials.

Posted by: Brush With Greatness at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (oftw2)

623 >If you haven"t watched Slow Horses you should.
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should what

Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (AOsQT)

624 Buy clear contact paper at Wally or where ever. Times past one could purchase crystal clear plastic 8x11 sheets. Put one on each side and it will come out of a plate of spaghetti clean.

Also you can mark it up with a grease pencil then wipe it away when finished.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:10 PM (dveO7)

you can also just buy a plastic 'pocket' for your map sheet and slide it in. A little more risky to get wet, but reusable.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (8avO+)

625 The Great Schism, more commonly called the East-West Scism, occurred in 1054 A.D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Schism

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (uGI3N)

626 CONtrails, those things first popularized by fleets of Allied bombers in the cold, this air above Germany in the 40's. And now...they're CHEMtrails. Yikes.
Posted by: Erik In Texas at November 11, 2025 07:08 PM (33efi)

I wonder what chemicals could be run through a jet engine with the jet fuel that would not injure the engine?

Any guesses? It would be something that would aerosol well, or bind with the combustion gasses.

Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (rbvCR)

627 "615 Headlight dimmer on the floor."

First time I had to take a company car on a business trip: "Hey, where's the dimmer switch?" Blinded hundreds of drivers until, at the next tollbooth, the toll guy set me straight. Brave New World.

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (7imtn)

628 583 - Four and a half hours of Bruckner - gp

Try a few minutes of Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray doing Beethoven's Fifth. Masterful.

https://tinyurl.com/hp7cyufw

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:14 PM (mADJX)

629
Now, even if the accelerated expansion turns out to be not true, you've still got Inflation (the exponential expansion spurt of the early Big Band) to deal with.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:14 PM (w6EFb)

630 The current view of dark energy is the latter, it's some sort of real stuff that behaves like Lambda.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Yes. But I'm a geometry guy myself. It's just spacetime doing spacetimey things.

The fact that *time* ends at the center of a black hole convinced me that gravity is plenty wild enough on its own to justify that viewpoint.

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:14 PM (1Nv0l)

631 "If you haven"t watched Slow Horses you should."

I will, but is it OK if I watch it at 1.5X playback speed?

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:14 PM (7imtn)

632
If you haven"t watched Slow Horses you should.
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should what
Posted by: Don Black

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Buy clear contact paper at Wally or where ever.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (0lgzA)

633 The Great Schism, more commonly called the East-West Scism, occurred in 1054 A.D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Schism
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (uGI3N)

Just 12 years before William the Conqueror and Battle of Hastings.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (EYmYM)

634 I have 2 vehicles with the dimmer on the floor.

Posted by: Ol' Codger at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (oftw2)

635 >The only conspiracy theory I believe is that Fruit of the Loom absolutely used to have a cornucopia in their logo,
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true

https://shorturl.at/JXj9P

Posted by: Don Black at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (AOsQT)

636 My #1 central "conspiracy theory" is that the elites are trying to make fewer of non-elites.

The Lanai fire buggers belief.

Posted by: Axeman at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (krQz2)

637 I watched 5 seasons of Slow Horses in three days.

Posted by: Boss Moss at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (MXjT6)

638 Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (rbvCR)

Re nic

Are you trying to say you're Angela merkel?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

639 "I have 2 vehicles with the dimmer on the floor."

I have a dimmer switch on the floor. It's still laying there after I replaced it with a new one. Never got around to throwing it away.

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:16 PM (7imtn)

640 Nood. Cafe.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (zZu0s)

641 So shit was already getting pretty crazy. That said, people didn't understand the full implications of black holes until much later

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How much more black could it be? And the answer is none. None more black.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (vrsjf)

642

That black lesbo who got kicked out of golds gym because she didnt like a tranny that looked like a guy showing his dick confronted Scott Weiner another dick.

Its on Ian Chongs twotter.

She was spitting fire at that degenerate.

Posted by: E Buzz at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (et1vG)

643 You guys dim your headlights?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (b4o9z)

644 604 >>Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?
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Ever press the plunger barefoot after the knob has fallen off?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (dveO7)

645 The Great Schism, more commonly called the East-West Scism, occurred in 1054 A.D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East–West_Schism
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (uGI3N)

Also the year the Crab Nebula (S/N 1054AD) was born.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (/HDaX)

646 noood

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (7imtn)

647 And then Godel famously came along and told Einstein "Hey, your equations allow for time travel". Einstein said that's nonsense, Kurt. Godel said "I'll prove it!"...

But only in one direction.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (EYmYM)

648 Here's something that has stumped me for quite awhile: how is it that, when cowboys -or gangsters or anybody else wearing hats - in old movies, get into a fist fight, their hats don't come off?

Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (mADJX)

649 Born under Truman, not that I remember the guy at all.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (q3u5l)

650 643 Ha!

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:18 PM (7imtn)

651 And then Godel famously came along and told Einstein "Hey, your equations allow for time travel". Einstein said that's nonsense, Kurt. Godel said "I'll prove it!".

And he did, the Godel Metric. Einstein said, well, shit fire. When Godel said he could prove something, you'd better look out. He generally did.

He was bat shit crazy, but an absolute master of logic and mathematics.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
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Deriving Godel's metric was one of the problems on my General Relativity final. We hadn't covered it during lectures.

(Not as impressive as it sounds: 90% of the problem is realizing that such a solution exists. So if you're told: derive this solution with these properties, you've been given a big leg up).

Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at November 11, 2025 07:18 PM (1Nv0l)

652 Are you trying to say you're Angela merkel?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 11, 2025 07:15 PM (zZu0s)

ANNALENA BAERBACH, PEASANT!

Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:18 PM (rbvCR)

653 I wonder what chemicals could be run through a jet engine with the jet fuel that would not injure the engine?

Any guesses? It would be something that would aerosol well, or bind with the combustion gasses.
Posted by: Kindltot - I will put Ukraine first no matter what my German voters think or how hard their life get at November 11, 2025 07:13 PM (rbvCR)

Do the idijit chemtrails people say it comes out of the engine? Thats crazy. If it happened you'd be using some spray device coming out of the body or wings. The jet engine would either burn up a chemical, or fail and crash the plane.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:19 PM (8avO+)

654 FTR: My conspiracy theory is that the CIA wound up Oswald and he got out of their control. I've seen too many government-sanctioned nutjobs to believe that most government conspiracies can be kept under wraps.

Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to purrr-cussion practice at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (Wt5PA)

655 Here's something that has stumped me for quite awhile: how is it that, when cowboys -or gangsters or anybody else wearing hats - in old movies, get into a fist fight, their hats don't come off?
Posted by: Paco at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (mADJX)

Because the actors aren't punching each other.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:20 PM (8avO+)

656
>>>I don't buy any of the wacky chemtrail theories but unfortunately we have now progressed from "Governments secretly spraying things from planes is silly" to "... yes, but they don't secretly spray THOSE things"
Posted by: heya
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Chemtrail would be an easy way to hide climatemodeling/cloud seeing/whatever spraying.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 07:21 PM (dveO7)

657 I believe the person(s) who put that quiz together scored around zero. The comments so far have had much better options (like paying for groceries with a check, or owning a car with ash trays).

Posted by: Raoul Ortega at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (iDFVA)

658 How much more black could it be? And the answer is none. None more black.
Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at November 11, 2025 07:17 PM (vrsjf)

The fun part is they aren't black. They emit radiation.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (8avO+)

659 "Again, read up on the Younger-Dryas Impact stuff. The meltwelter pulses and rising sea levels during that transition from the Pleistocene to the modern Holocene epoch. The North American megafauna extinctions and the Clovis culture that existed then. Something very interesting happened.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 06:17 PM (w6EFb)"

There is some really wild deposits of frozen mangled megafauna in the permafrost, up north. Entire herds all wiped out in a single go.

I think the Carolina bays and their Nebraskan counterparts are mis-dated and probably from an ice sheet impact ~13k years ago, and that the Saginaw impact hypothesis is also questionable on dating (a lot of the Younger Dryas researchers think that was ~60k years ago, and they seem to be having a bit of a tiff with others who think it coincided with the YDB impacts)

IIRC they are up to evidence of several impacts (3+?) the the YDB stuff, and think it was a comet that had broken up associated with the Taurids.

There are also some cool instances of dead critters in the permafrost from another time period that have microscopic evidence of supernova cosmic ray impacts in them, also

Posted by: heya at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (3897l)

660 "Just in case.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing"

Anyone who doesn't have a basic road atlas in their vehicle is, at best, suffering from a temporary case of being an idiot.

Posted by: heya at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (3897l)

661 Add an ammonia blue print maker.

The moonshot conspiracies wouldn’t exist without one.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (/bt5i)

662 I can imagine trying to explain that we used to find phone numbers that you could call for a recording. And they would allow multiple people to be on the call at the same time. And you would just yell stuff to each other.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 11, 2025 07:12 PM (znHU2)

We had a party line with someone across the street when I was a kid.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:24 PM (8avO+)

663 "meltwelter pulses"

Sea level rose like 250ft in 800 years in one of them, IIRC.

Posted by: gp at November 11, 2025 07:25 PM (7imtn)

664 The amazing thing about early remote channel changer? There were only 4 channels available, yet we still channel surfed.
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Even when you had a subscription to TV Guide.

Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (kUdqB)

665 Posted by: Soothsayer Historic Facts at November 11, 2025 06:42 PM (A/n7m)

Thanks for the historic fact. My ancestor was on the Mayflower . He was not a Pilgrim. He was an indentured servant to a Pilgrim family , but his name is there .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (QW8Jv)

666 There are also some cool instances of dead critters in the permafrost from another time period that have microscopic evidence of supernova cosmic ray impacts in them, also
Posted by: heya at November 11, 2025 07:22 PM (3897l)

I remember in the 80s being annoyed how meteors were answering every question under the sun about why things died out. From what little I have seen the most likely explanation for most of it is just peeps discovering fire and burning out the big predators and game animals.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 11, 2025 07:27 PM (8avO+)

667 Never had a walkman or a waterbed . Still use cursive and still have a checkbook.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 11, 2025 07:29 PM (QW8Jv)

668 >> IIRC they are up to evidence of several impacts (3+?) the the YDB stuff, and think it was a comet that had broken up associated with the Taurids.

There were several recent papers showing shocked quartz at the YDB layer. I'm pretty convinced it happened. Now my synthesis of what I've read so far, with possible errors and misinterpretations is thus:

There was a big comet that came through and broke up, and that's the progenitor of current comet Encke and the Taurid stream. It broke up, and Earth, lo so 12,000 years ago, plowed right into the debris stream. We got a shotgun blast of low density icy impacts. Now that could've been stretched out, multiple passes through that debris stream, or all at once.

Massive airbursts all over NA and the ice sheets.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 11, 2025 07:30 PM (w6EFb)

669
17

No AOL, no waterbed, no "mixed" tape

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) - what makes you think you are in charge?h hil at November 11, 2025 07:30 PM (xG4kz)

670
I remember when the "brights" switch for a car headlight was on the floorboard.
Posted by: Crusader

And when the ignition switch was a simple on/off, because there was a pedal to the right of the throttle that physically engaged the starter bendix to the flywheel...

Posted by: BifBewalski - at November 11, 2025 07:35 PM (Gjh8j)

671 >>Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?

I miss cigarette lighters and ashtrays in cars.
Posted by: garrett

Ashtrays in the back for the kids.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 11, 2025 07:43 PM (/lPRQ)

672 Do we get bonus points for having a car with a starter button on the floor? Or the pushbutton auto transmission?
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A car you could start with a crank.

Posted by: clarence at November 11, 2025 08:17 PM (kUdqB)

673 20 points.
They forgot a “3 on the tree” manual transmission

Posted by: Coelacanth at November 11, 2025 08:44 PM (i5B/J)

674 So am I some sort of black swan or something, or is that quiz aimed at very young people?

I answered “yes” to every single item, and I’m still in my mid-30s. I’m a friggin Millenial.

And no, I did not grow up penniless in a rural area. Middle class, suburban upbringing.

Am I really that ‘old’?!?!

Posted by: Blorp at November 11, 2025 08:46 PM (FZ/dm)

675 667 Never had a walkman or a waterbed . Still use cursive and still have a checkbook.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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Had a waterbed and want another one. They are easy on old bones. Tree man looked at the check and said, I can't read this.
I said, look at the numbers.
He said, OK.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 08:50 PM (dveO7)

676 What happened to Cafe?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 11, 2025 08:51 PM (dveO7)

677 Does the waterbed count if you only used it one time? And didn't sleep?

Posted by: Diogenes at November 11, 2025 08:57 PM (CiZaq)

678 Deal to end US shutdown would also allow some Republican senators to seek $500,000 for January 6 probe

Posted by: SMOD at November 11, 2025 08:59 PM (GITLP)

679 I get the joke, Ace..Since Nov 22, 1963(or before) we haven't been given all the information to make up our minds.

The gummint makes more money when we don't know anything, brother.

Posted by: Danimal28 at November 11, 2025 09:28 PM (mNOhh)

680 "...there were world-traveling ancient civilizations that fell and completely disappeared before the earliest known civilizations like Babylon."

It seems worth pointing out that the number of believers in this idea is likely measured in the 100s of millions, if not billions worldwide, between the Jews, Christians, and Muslims who take the biblical account of Noah's flood and the antediluvian world literally.

Intelligent people with differing beliefs can discuss the significance of the geologic/archeologic record, but this is not a wacky, fringe theory.

Posted by: Dr. Lurker at November 11, 2025 09:30 PM (+NKAW)

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