mike805

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Developer of https://TheUncloud.co which is the easiest way to chat off the record and transfer large files to anyone. Working on an Android app.

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juergen_hubert, to folklore
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Modern vampire lore will tell you that you should use a stake to dispatch of a vampire.

But German folklore tells us that a peat spade will do in a pinch.

@germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/murderous-dead-82182322

mike805,

@juergen_hubert @germany @folklore Every now and then they find a corpse chained into the coffin. People took this stuff very seriously.

freemo, to random
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Oh good, I can finally sleep at night!

mike805,

@freemo Trying to figure out a good large scale financial scam around the Rapture. The problem is that non-Christians don't believe in it and Christians are outta here and don't have to care.

I suppose you could sell Rapture insurance to Christians, so non-Christian family members would be taken care of. Even throw in an I-told-you-so video that would be sent to the recipient along with the insurance payout.

Is getting Raptured "death" and does it trigger life insurance?

mike805,

@freemo The one that interests me is the idea that a lot of people won't believe even after the Rapture.

So it has to happen in such a way as to be deniable. I'm thinking some sort of supernatural phenomenon draws the most devout Christians all to one place and then either a giant meteor or a nuclear attack hits that spot.

Investigators find surprisingly few bodies.

A few people were on video calls with people in the disaster zone, and swear the person disappeared BEFORE the flash...

mike805,

@freemo yeah but that would be obviously outside the normal laws of nature, if a huge number of people disappeared individually. I want something, for a thriller, where it is quite possible for the skeptics to be skeptical and the believers to believe.

So there is a mysterious video uploaded to Youtube a couple days later showing people disappearing. The person who uploaded it swears that mysterious burglars took the original.

mike805,

@freemo Like the NDE phenomenon or the kids with past life memories phenomenon. There is plenty of evidence for someone who wants to take it seriously. And plenty of room to be skeptical.

For psychic phenomena two theories I like:

  1. They are enabled by belief and blocked by doubt, so a skeptic can actually jam the signal. Thus all the star psychics who zeroed out when a doubter was brought in to observe.

  2. The entities producing the phenomena don't want to be understood by us.

mike805,

@freemo Yes that's almost the definition of a supernatural phenomenon. Those things for which evidence exists, but which will not perform under controlled conditions in the lab.

UFOs are in that category too. It's clear now that every high-tech sensor built in the 20th and 21st century detected a variety of anomalies, but nobody can get to the bottom of it.

I think the "big secret" is that spook world has studied the hell out of this stuff, got nowhere, and they are afraid of it.

mike805,

@freemo I've read some of Charles Fort's stuff from the 19th century. He had all kinds of cases that read just like modern UFO reports aside from the archaic language.

So it's definitely not RADAR or nuke tests that attracted the aliens to Roswell, and it's not experimental aircraft either. It's been there forever.

The Spiritualists of the 19th century also collected a lot of cases from the pre-telegraph era where someone knew real-time details of a death hundreds of miles away.

mike805,

@bluGill @freemo It's been going on too long to be humans playing with experimental tech. Never mind that anyone who had such tech could take over the world tomorrow.

So if not aliens it must be a spiritual phenomenon or a natural phenomenon? One of those things where the answer does not necessarily have to make sense.

mike805,

@freemo @bluGill Scientists would like to think they have the universe pretty well figured out. Four known forces, Big Bang, evolution. We know how it works, now we're just filling in the details.

The combination of the spiritual phenomena and the UFO thing leads one to think there is a lot going on that science just has no instruments to detect yet.

cloudguy, to random
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This pretty much explains the Fediverse

mike805,

@cloudguy That is the basic contradiction of the current system. It promises to make us happy by selling us stuff. But people who are happy don't need to buy anything. If the system keeps its promise it kills itself.

dschier, to bookstodon
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What to change? - What to change to? - How to change?

Have you ever heard of these questions? Not? Then it is time for another book on your shelf. If you know „The Phoenix Project“, you might like the format of „The goal“ from Eliyahu M. Goldratt.

It’s a super interesting novel about a plant that is in trouble and how it avoids to get closed.

@bookstodon

mike805,

@dschier @bookstodon I read this book when I worked in IT at a manufacturing company. The argument is there are a few machines or processes or people that limit your overall throughput, and you need to concentrate on optimizing those first. Same mindset as TQM but for throughput instead of quality.

Manufacturing is ahead of tech in this sort of thing. In any IT department there is probably one person who is the limiting constraint because everyone comes to them with problems.

Private
mike805,

@heroineinabook @bookstodon So is that Elon Musk's ultimate goal? To fully fund the right wing Internet crowd which is always begging for donations on their podcasts?

mike805,

@heroineinabook @bookstodon If so, he should perhaps read about the history of that enterprise.

Back in the 80s there was a gang of right-wing bank robbers called "The Order." They got some hundreds of thousands of dollars, and handed it out to other "far right revolutionaries" thinking they were going to start things off.

Turned out the revolutionaries were a bunch of drunks, and most of the money was literally pissed away!

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