StormWatch7177

Likes to draw and write occasionally Uni student

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

[bobbiflekman]

june 10

happy 57th, bill burr

[enki2]

[ms-demeanor]

This comic was published in 2010 and I remember going to a talk at Cal Tech presented by Dr. Lucy Jones (LA's favorite celebrity seismologist) in 2012ish where half of the audience question portion of the presentation was accusations that scientists were covering up earthquake predicting technology because we finally had somewhat effective earthquake warning systems as a result of faster data transmission technologies and the widespread adoption of cellphones.

[morlock-holmes]

One thing that fascinates me is conspiracy theories where there is no obvious competing narrative, merely an attack on the existing narrative.

Like, what's the conspiracy theory? That we have earthquake prediction technology, and we use it, but we pretend that we don't? Why?

9/11 was the first time I started to notice conspiracy theories that didn't seem to have an alternative narrative of the facts, simply a scatter shot assault on the existing narrative. The official White House stance on covid is another.

[weevil-mastermind]

The conspiracy theory here is that the earthquakes are man-made. That’s the competing narrative. The person in the original tweet thinks it’s suspicious that there are warnings before there are visible signs of an earthquake, and is implying that earthquake was a planned event.

[morlock-holmes]

Why would you plan an earthquake? I guess I just end up on the second order questions of, "Why would you want to kill a bunch of people in an earthquake, that's a really inefficient way to kill people that involves a lot of logistical headaches."

And then a second's thought further is "If your goal is to kill a bunch of people in an earthquake why even send the warning out at all? Wouldn't it be better to pretend that Earthquakes are so unpredictable that sometimes we just don't know they're coming?"

Also, of course, "Earthquakes are manmade" and "We have earthquake prediction technology that we hide" are two totally different claims, more or less incompatible with each other.

[machine-elf-paladin]

A lot of people, quite possibly the majority of people, have as a sort of default explanation "things happen because somebody made them happen." This is doubly true if there is someone that said in advance it would happen, and triply so if they didn't put the blame for it on someone else when they did so - now you're almost sure who did it, and what happens next is trying to come up for an explanation of why.

[tredekim]

— "The Alt-Right Playbook: You Can't Get Snakes From Chicken Eggs" by Ian Danskin

[teaboot]

What's your thoughts on vegan zombies?

I mean like. The abrupt, tragic loss of one's individual identity, memory, and morality, replaced only by hunger, is kind of like. The principal thing about zombies. In my opinion

[teaboot]

fUCK

[spicymochi]

sleepy kitty and hat thief

[frogmp3]

i don’t know who needs to hear this but you do not need to wear makeup

[lil-miss-crazy]

But you can if you want to

[yooterus-deactivated20220126]

[wizardarchetypes]

one time when i was specializing in whales a guy came in and asked where the whales were right that instant (southern resident killer whales could be anywhere between alaska and california at any given moment) and as soon as i started explaining that he loudly interrupted "I'LL GO ASK A MAN" and stormed off to one of my employees and from a distance i watched him ask the same question and then the employee point back at me.

[wizardarchetypes]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[rromanz]

recently i watched a documentary about horror & they interviewed r l stine & he referred to himself as a “stephen king training bra” and i can’t stop thinking about that

[mlarayoukai-archive]

Be careful. Any of us could be screenshotted and posted to r/curatedtumblr at any moment

[niceinchnails]

What the hell man

[niceinchnails]

[roaldamundsen]

never ask a woman her age a man his salary your mutual how late it is in her timezone when she starts posting about that bisexual man

[roaldamundsen]

?

[roaldamundsen]

can people stop saying insane things on this post

[wizardarchetypes]

tonight on my true crime podcast i’m covering the disappearance of a coworker. ripp grunt

[thirtyskeletons]

Any day now

[thirtyskeletons]

people have suddenly started reblogging this post of mine from february 8th, 2012. great bit everybody

[thirtyskeletons]

[depsidase]

[trickstertime]

The way its cropped is perfect

[asteroidtroglodyte]

I love how these are from an Unreality subreddit but to my eye they just read like regular Tumblr shitposts. Did we cross-pollinate or something

[ich-bin-khzar]

Glam kitchen woman and that twink who makes old dessert recipes are on different ends of the same spectrum I just don’t know what that spectrum is yet

[pocketfull-of-pebbles]

[lordzekkoz]

[selkiesparrow]

Zoozve, my beloved