Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Truth is scarier than fiction

 


LOL. I knew it!!!

YouTube skeptic paid by logging industry?!

Punditry

 


The year was 2012. I think. Unfortunately, I didn´t take any notes. But one newspaper pessimistically predicted that by the year 2020 (or thereabouts) all chocolate would be gone in the world. Cuz climate change will destroy all cocoa plantations. Another newspaper (or maybe the same one!) also optimistically predicted that by the year 2020 (or thereabouts) the world would have abundant energy from fusion power. Assuming somebody pays something like a trillion euros for developing such power plants.

What we really got was...more of the same. I can still buy chocolate in my supermarket. And I can turn on electricity from fission power or hydro. 

But yeah, it´s gotten more expensive. Much more, actually. They also missed a couple of crises which did happen. You know, the demographic crisis, the migrant crisis, a dude named Trump becoming US president, that kind of stuff. Nothing to worry about, just some slight oversights, I´m sure.

And now sports!

Never trust a convert

 


Here we go again...

Uncle Eddie is skeptical of religious conversions. Do people really change? As in really-really? A propos Russell Brand´s alleged conversion to Christianity.

Climate crisis?

 

Credit: Traroth 

So I just saw a Christmas decoration here in Sweden which associates Santa Claus with...fallow deer?! Ahem, surely *everyone* knows that Santa should be paired with reindeer! You know, caribou. That kind of thing. Any connection to climate change?

What´s next, I wonder? Unicorns? LOL. Merry Xmas, btw.  

Your shopping mall is sentient

 


Thomas Sheridan is "back on track" with something he calls VoN-X. Yes, it´s fringe Forteana. On New Year´s Day 2024, the Miami police investigated an incident at the Bayside Marketplace shopping mall. Rumor has it that space aliens had invaded! And so on. Sheridan originally believed that it was a psy-op (in itself a fringey belief) but now thinks that shopping malls are sentient and that the building itself somehow "created" paranormal entities and poltergeist phenomena. Our man also claims that he and a friend once made themselves invisible using magick (I think I remember that video). 

Sheridan might return with an X-file video on the New Jersey drone flap, but personally I think that was just people going bazooka over completely regular drones, not some kind of Fortean event. 

That being said...make of this content whatever you wish!

Wednesday

 


I assume Diwali is still being celebrated down in India...?

Hemma till jul?


Och ändå finns det personer på nätet som tror att Ryssland har enorma reserver (av kanonmat?) som gör att de kan besegra NATO? Till jul? 

Rysslands förluster har nått abnorma nivåer

Urheimat

 


Det här är tydligen något slags glada nyheter för de här typerna...

Studie visar: Sverige är de germanska språkens urhem

Medan du sov

 

Credit: Odisha State Museum 

Och så var det med det! 

Många regioner redan 1,5 grader varmare