re: Was Demar Hamlin really at the Bills v Bengals game?

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I do like to travel

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You don't use YouTube for pre-travel plans?

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You don't use YouTube for pre-travel plans?

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Should I be? I’m boarding a plane now. Didn’t watch a Second of YouTube. What did I miss?

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How is it race baiting?

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You telling ME that I was using "the race card" when I had not even so much as MENTIONED race.

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Dogmatists want to slam the door shut; Cynics want it opened for examination.

Which is healthier?

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Good post. I tend be "particularist" on conspiracy theories in that I think they should each be judged on its merit, but a lot of these end up bolting-on to well-established and implausible CT's like NWO/illuminati. I say they're implausible, not dogmatically saying they're not true in a similar way that I'd say parapsychology and alchemy are implausible. There was a lot of research that didn't progress to knowledge and as a result those fields are barren. To open up ideas like "Damar not being able to be clearly identified during an NFL broadcast bears discussion of this being a manifestation of NWO/Illuminati" is sort of like posing some alchemical explanation for a physical observation. Could it be right? Yes. Is it likely misleading people to bring up when the chances are astronomical given the range of better explanations (including simple conspiracies, btw)? Also yes, IMO.

There's a lot of conspiracy propaganda out there that's meant to disillusion people from valid sources of knowledge, and it does actually harm people sometimes, so that's another aspect of the ethics of conspiracy-theorizing. This is actually a mirror-image of what I take to be your ethics of conspiracism which might hold that bringing up alternatives to well-accepted but false (or even faked) knowledge may protect them from harms of accepting it.

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YouTube has completely replaced travel agents for me, idk about y'all.

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For sure. We spend a good chunk of the year in the RV these days and usually jump on YouTube in the evenings to check out next stops.

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YouTube has completely replaced travel agents for me, idk about y'all.

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Tripmasters if you’re going to Europe. Seriously. We did 14 days in Italy. Business class airfare round trip. First class train rides between cities. (4 cities total). Airfare, trains, and 14 nights in hotels (at least 4 star) was 11k total for two. The plane tickets alone would have been more than that if I booked personally.

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Quick little check before you get some rack, then you're off and running for the next day.

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Yep, and we usually stock up on ideas when the weather isn't cooperating for a hike or a fire.

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Yes, whenever I see you post, I will always remember that you believe bricks could not be transported by boat in the 19th century.

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As is your wont, you invent a detail in your head. Magnify it. Then still will never get over it. (I believe that's clinically referred to as OCD)


Ok, now that we've confirmed you are *still* psychologically scarred for life over insisting a *supposed* 16,000,000 millions bricks was *supposedly* transported TO Fort Jefferson, Florida all the way from Maine. And yes, the hoax-record says, *supposedly* BY BOAT -- so we should obviously believe it. For the record, ANYTHING is possible -- yes, even THAT obvious 99.999% bullsh*t.

(You can now rest easy now, Sparky. )

Thanks for bringing it up -- Fort Jefferson will always be one of my favorite "hoax-history" narratives to laugh at.

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Ok, now that we've confirmed you are *still* psychologically scarred for life over insisting a *supposed* 16,000,000 millions bricks was *supposedly* transported TO Fort Jefferson, Florida all the way from Maine. And yes, the hoax-record says, *supposedly* BY BOAT -- so we should obviously believe it. For the record, ANYTHING is possible -- yes, even THAT obvious 99.999% bullsh*t.

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Ah yes. Please double down. Transporting bricks by sea in the 1840’s is a borderline impossible task according to Liberator.