Yes but at the same time we used to have all the evidence in the world indicate that planet Vulcan was just behind the sun, and then it turned out that no it wasn’t. If Dark Matter can’t be found no matter what experiment we do. Then maybe we are mistaken about its existence
It was a weird time for women in media… we were being written for the first time as something other than a housewife… but most writers are men and have no idea how to do that.
So there was this idea early on that a housewife is “Normal” and any deviation is an oddity that needs to be explained.
In media for adults this tended to be rape in media for kids it was more subtle…
You had the “Dumbass In Distress” character, an evolution of the damsel where she is competant and badass in the first two acts but once we get to the third… “Time to forget everything I know about common sense and fighting prowress so that someone with a penis can save me!”
A great example of this is Sonya Blade in the 95 Mortal Kombat flick. Throughout most of it she is a badass hypercompetent take no prisoners character who even kills her rival Kano… something she keeps trying to do and failing in the games.
But in the third act? Nope fuck that. Shang Tsung kidnaps her and takes her to Outworld so that Earthrealm will be tempted to give up to save her… even though she’s supposed to be just as good of a fighter as Johnny Cage…
This isn’t even something you can blame on the games as Sonya only had the damsel role once, and it was in MK2 where not only was Kano also in the exact same predicament, but we got Mileena and Kitana neither of whom are damsels. Heck Mileena is even a rare example of a female villain that DOESN’T wind up joining the good guys (Until the most recent reboot, but basically everyone did a Heel Face Turn in that so it really isn’t misogyny)
I’ve exhausted things I can sleep to on Netflix, and it’s literally impossible to sleep to things on Prime (so I barely watch anything there; it’s not worth falling asleep to something I like, since I might be punished for it), so I’ve started putting on YouTube in the evenings since it won’t wake me with silence at...
Doesn’t suddenly make Walmart innocent, plus unlike walmart, Amazon can actually be helpful to a small community that doesn’t have specialty shops. That said I recommend not using Amazon if what you are looking for can be found on a different site, actually I recommend using Amazon to browse products, and then finding another site to buy the product. I make sure to almost never buy computer parts from amazon, because there was one time I bought a motherboard from Amazon thinking it was a reputable dealer, instead it fried out and my protection plan was fucking worthless because I actually bought it from a bootlegger who filed off the serial number of the motherboard he copied. I was able to still make it out, but tech support told me what actually happened when I came to me number.
So I buy from Newegg unless the Amazon price is just that much better.
Bro if Dowsing Roads could actually find water, it wouldn’t matter if people thought it was magic, there’d be something there to study and figure out why.
Hypnotism is a fun card to play, because it’s the new meditation in some ways. In that you can basically tell Skeptics from pseudoskeptics depending on how quickly people try to debunk it.
This one has been sighted five times in the past 2 years, with four of them being from this year alone.
There are people who love science, and there are people who know science. You have outed yourself as the former.
Bro my therapist uses hypnosis to calm down erratic patients, it isn’t her main card, but it is a weapon in her Arsenal that has shown to work. She is the director of Behavioral Health at her practice.
She is also an atheist and a self-proclaimed rationalist.
Meditation used to be considered “woo woo” nonsense too but that’s not really how the peer review worked out.
Hypnotism is real, it doesn’t actually let you control and it certainly isn’t Magic or some kind of psychic power like it is in Pokemon, but it has been documented as a effective treatment for irritable bowel syndrome and smoking addiction.
If there is no absence of evidence, then we can’t disregard it as bullshit now can we? It sounds more like we haven’t found the right applications or we need to develop better methods of using it.
As for it’s not working as a standalone treatment, does anything these days? I’m on medication for bipolar and anxiety but I still need to regularly see my therapist. The medication by itself isn’t going to fix anything.
Actually that is something I have wanted to ask about but I haven’t really found the right person to ask or the right forum, that being, how many instances do we see in which something that was previously completely written off of pseudoscience turn around and actually become established science.
Off at the top of my head the only thing I can think of is how the existence of germs was originally thought of as complete Insanity, and the paranoia of one addled individual who swore up and down that these invisible creatures where everywhere and were making everybody sick.
There is the matter of the Earth revolving around the sun being the reverse at one point, which is mistaken for a religious claim however at the time of galileo, other scientists came to completely different conclusions with their own telescopes and had refused to endorse his position due to a lack of evidence.
If I remember correctly, Galileo had an obsession with pillars that would have been even stronger evidence than what he thought he saw in the telescope had he just looked a little closely. One of those crazy little ironies I suppose.
And finally, the Big Bang Theory in a weird inversion of expectation was actually established by a priest, who was mocked by scientists who came up with the name Big Bang as a way of writing off his idea as a uniquely Catholic perspective that no way resembled good science. And then the steady state universe theory kind of collapsed and was replaced by the Big Bang Theory that had been so mocked. If I were correctly I believe Albert Einstein had his photograph taken with this priest.
But outside of that, I can’t think of anything, it would be cool to find a list of these somewhere.
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Which YouTuber's voice can lull you to sleep?
I’ve exhausted things I can sleep to on Netflix, and it’s literally impossible to sleep to things on Prime (so I barely watch anything there; it’s not worth falling asleep to something I like, since I might be punished for it), so I’ve started putting on YouTube in the evenings since it won’t wake me with silence at...
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What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?
So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.
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