Topic: The Chit Chat Thread

What have I missed? Anti-Matter is quite the character, I've been exposed to many things that were not age appropriate as a kid and turned out fine, as have many others I know.

There is something wrong with you if you only limit yourself to pre-School entertainment, that stuff is more likely to drive people insane when viewed 100's of times a day. Glad I'm an uncle and not a parent, you poor souls watching the same episode of Peppa Pig on repeat daily 😂

I knew something was about to happen when someone made that self-moderation comment😬.
Probably not worth catching a ban over this. You won’t get through to him. He’s banned me for some reason, but he does believe this stuff.

@MightyDemon82
I prefer Paw Patrol. ☺

Could have sworn this debate was largely disproven around Columbine.

@nessisonett Flat Earthers still believe all that nonsense. Even with tons of evidence to disprove most of it. No offence, but i don't have much time for people with that kind of mindset.

Looks really well made. Is it laminated?

@MatthewJP
Nope, it printed on Art paper 260 gsm without laminated coat so it keeps the natural reflection.

@roadhog
Well, I'm glad you like my art design. 😀
But if you take a look closely on INFO, I used Indonesian public holiday as I am Indonesian people but I added with some USA holiday for non holiday event just for information.
Btw, do you mind if I posted my files of Calendar 2023 with watermark on it ?
Also, I cannot post more than 10 images in a row here so I will post 2 images first.

@roadhog
Okay, I have uploaded all 13 files of Calendar 2023 Boxing Tunes 3 on Deviantart, with some watermark on it.
Check my gallery here.

https://www.deviantart.com/fascidevvion

Also, you can check my Skyboxer under section Skyboxing from my Deviantart gallery.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika I think with global warming or any slow moving issue most people don't really care. Probably down to our hands to mouth evolution. Global warming is way down the list compared to say feeding your family or paying the bills. It's a big issue. We aren't capable of seeing the big picture.

@JohnnyShoulder flat earthers need to jump on a plane. Case closed. One of my good mates (bottom group in school for most subjects) started getting into conspiracies. He had all the arguments parroted from online. It was funny actually, there's apparently a big cabal of super people living past the south pole who control everything via birds. As you say, no point in conversing with him. One thing I will say is the general and rightful distrust of modern politicians doesn't help, fascism /cronyism / job for the boys. It creates a perfect atmosphere for these kinds of conspiracies to take on a life of their own.

@themcnoisy I don't think they would ever get on a plane in the first place, as they would be scared of falling off the edge of the planet. Or something.

Global warming has been known about for longer than 20 years. I literally learned about GW, the ice caps melting and climate change in general when I was in primary school in the 90s and it didn't even seem like a new thing then. I dont think I even knew there were "deniers" until Trump ran for president and I still find it really weird that it's even a thing.

One positive thing that came about that I didn't know happened for ages until after it happened was that they fixed the hole in the ozone layer. It was a massive thing at my primary school school, I remember there was this (I think?) religious song they made us sing, the first lines were "Don't know much about the ozone layer, rainforests seem miles away" before it started talking about religious stuff. Anyway, I wondered why I didn't hear about it for ages so I looked it up and it turned out the hole was caused by something in aerosol cans and at some point they changed that ingredient so it stopped going into the atmosphere and the ozone layer healed itself.

On the topic of conspiracies, I'm about as countercultural as you can get without being delusional. Conspiracies were a good read when I was younger and they are very entertaining but that's about all they are good for. I like movies and TV shows based on conspiracies, I find all the nazi occult stuff that is integral to Hellboy and Captain America very interesting. The flat earth map is about as interesting as any video game map. I think I find these things less appealing nowadays because people actually believe it and I don't want to feed their delusions. (Or they are just massively over used like Nazi zombies)

I literally know somebody who believes in Nibiru and anunaki and the Mayans ever changing end of the world dates etc. He said it was real because it was on the History Channel. I suspect the History Channel changed a lot of their content to be more fantastical from when I was a kid, then again I probably was watching a lot more Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network so I never really watched History Channel. But he's a nice enough guy and I don't mind talking to him, I'm quite interested in his beliefs and not vulnerable enough to get indoctrinated by them.

It always seemed like a bit of fun. A local story to drum up interest and tourism. The Loch Ness Monster, the Mothman, Springheeled Jack, crop circles, Bigfoot, the Chupacabra, the Bermuda Triangle etc. It's a work and the originators will keep it going because it's good for local business. But seriously? How likely is it that any of it is real, or at least not so grossly exaggerated that it's completely removed from the truth of the original story.

I think the best quote I can think of when it comes to conspiracies is "Roswell was a smokescreen" from The X Files. The point being that I suspect a lot of this fantasy about alien abductions etc is probably put out there for people to obsess over to distract the general public from the truly horrible things that certain governments do domestically and in the global arena. Of course they have got a lot smarter with that these days and tend to feed real and shocking stories to the press while doing much worse that does still get reported on but isn't the focus or the "headline news". Or most recently, the worse thing they do to distract us is make us hate eachother by saying controversial things that polarise the public so we end up hating eachother for our different opinions instead of them.

Bit of a strange world we live in these days.

I would really really love to be wrong and for aliens on earth to be real. It would be really interesting in many ways. I like how it's depicted in fiction, both the harrowing scenarios and the peaceful and also political examples. But yeah, while there is or was certainly extra terrestrial life in our universe, it sounds like time dilation etc would make it nearly impossible for them or us to make contact with eachother.

Female M&Ms aren't a new thing either, I remember one from adverts when I was a kid (again, the 90s). These things get reused and recycled throughout the years. And who cares anyway. The M&M characters are marketing gimmicks made to sell gross American chocolate made slightly better by the sweet shell. I like m&ms on occasion but they are vastly inferior to cardboard flavoured Smarties (even without the E numbers)

FEMALE M&MS?!?!

@ralphdibny Yeah, the ozone thing is interesting. It’s an example of science, legislation, and basic world-citizen personal responsibility all making a difference. I tend to oppose most government intervention into my personal life and many corporate affairs, but I can’t deny that things like the ban of CFC’s from aerosols needed to happen to protect the greater good. We’re likely seeing the enforced move away from combustion fuels toward electric vehicles to be of similar import for long term earth viability. Probably should have been done long ago. I’m as guilty as anyone else with my petroleum fuel based car that I drive daily, but I look forward to having an electric car eventually when the grid and infrastructure can support it.

I watched that documentary somewhere about how quickly the earth started to “heal” during the COVID shutdown when all the cars weren’t on the road for just a few months. It was mainly showing the affects in Los Angeles (a city known for its awful pollution) and their air quality and wildlife. How quickly the earth can reclaim itself! It’s impressive that without constant human intervention the ecosystem automatically moves toward its own balance. Which reminds me — I can’t wait to watch The Last of Us next week 😅. I enjoy Naughty Dog’s artistic representation of a world without modern society’s bustling infrastructure.

@Th3solution it's a bit mad ain't it? They should have really bigged up the ozone layer thing when it happened. Maybe if more people knew of the small victory, they'd be more inclined to do everything else to get toward the larger victory!

I really want an EV when it becomes viable (I live in a flat so no charger and I'm broke AF). A) they are actually really cool and look cool as hell and B) it would make me feel slightly better about driving. I also drive a petrol car, a 2L beast of a Qashqai.

I think the thing with research, science and what's best for the planet is that it's hard to believe what is actually true. And that does make me sympathise with the hard line conspiracy theorists even if I don't share their fringe beliefs. I think it's obvious we need to put less junk air into the atmosphere but what's better? Hydrogen or battery powered? They seem to be going the way of the battery but there are some who have suggested that lithium mining for batteries isn't great. I'm not educated enough on the matter to know. (I don't care to be either because it's not like I am going to change the way the world is going so I'd rather not fill my brain with useless knowledge that will frustrate me through my inability to act)

Lobbyists on both sides and scientific research funded by corporate interests make it hard to trust something one way or another because the conclusion is always biased. Whichever tech they choose, it's got to be better than fossil fuels though so the solution might not be perfect but certainly the lesser of two evils until humanity can figure out something better.

I feel like recycling could be better in England too. Better, clearer and more unified among borough councils. It feels like there is a fair bit of recyclable stuff that has to go into general waste because my council can't recycle it. Stuff like Tetra Paks (that we get through a fair amount of because of oat milk) can't be recycled where I live. There might be a drop off point I can drive them to but then I'd have to store a stack of empty cartons for ages in my already small and cluttered flat and drive them somewhere in my petrol car and I do wonder if any of that is worth it.

@LN78 They also found some lying around the garage in his home in Delaware.

It's an American tradition. Everyone is granted a few confidential intelligence documents to do with as they like. I might still have some stashed in the library next to the last few issues of Nintendo Power. I should check.

@LN78 I've remarked to my sister numerous times in the past few years that the Watergate scandal looks like nothing now. Watergate is a random Tuesday in the modern American political landscape. The depravity of our politics is truly stomach-turning.