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Does anyone else feel like we've been living in a comic strip lately?

by smoyer 7y ago

nradov 7y ago
I've felt like I'm stuck in some alternate history timeline since 2001.
- sixQuarks 7y ago
  It feels like Elon Musk is correct about our universe being a simulation.
  - 93po 7y ago
    Don't mention Elon on this website unless you want a horde of incels bringing up their misdirected anger
- techsin101 7y ago
  Mayans?
- parsimo2010 7y ago
  Since 2001? The CIA was actually trying to spy on the Russians via psychic powers in the late 1970's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project (edit- I suppose it was the US Army and the CIA) There was a group of people that committed suicide to try and get their souls on a magical spaceship in the early 1970's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_gro... Weird stuff has been going on forever, it's just that our capacity to report meaningless stuff has grown over time. A few decades ago you would have never heard about two ships colliding with zero casualties unless you worked in the shipping industry or maybe the Venezuelan government.
  - nradov 7y ago
    That reminds me of a funny story. Back in the 90's before they all killed themselves, the Heaven's Gate UFO cult actually tried to recruit at my college by passing out flyers titled "Last Chance to Advance Beyond Human". Of course we all thought it was hilarious. Next week some guys threw a kegger and put up flyers to advertise: "One More Chance to Advance Beyond Human!"
  - perl4ever 7y ago
    "A few decades ago you would have never heard about two ships colliding with zero casualties unless you worked in the shipping industry or maybe the Venezuelan government." "You" being someone who didn't read printed material like newspapers and magazines before the internet became mainstream.
yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
Comics usually have a semblance of thought. We are living through the "reality is stranger than fiction" version.

Does anyone else feel like we've been living in a comic strip lately?

by smoyer 7y ago

Does anyone else feel like we've been living in a comic strip lately?

nradov 7y ago

I've felt like I'm stuck in some alternate history timeline since 2001.

sixQuarks 7y ago
It feels like Elon Musk is correct about our universe being a simulation.
- 93po 7y ago
  Don't mention Elon on this website unless you want a horde of incels bringing up their misdirected anger
techsin101 7y ago
Mayans?
parsimo2010 7y ago
Since 2001? The CIA was actually trying to spy on the Russians via psychic powers in the late 1970's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project (edit- I suppose it was the US Army and the CIA) There was a group of people that committed suicide to try and get their souls on a magical spaceship in the early 1970's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_gro... Weird stuff has been going on forever, it's just that our capacity to report meaningless stuff has grown over time. A few decades ago you would have never heard about two ships colliding with zero casualties unless you worked in the shipping industry or maybe the Venezuelan government.
- nradov 7y ago
  That reminds me of a funny story. Back in the 90's before they all killed themselves, the Heaven's Gate UFO cult actually tried to recruit at my college by passing out flyers titled "Last Chance to Advance Beyond Human". Of course we all thought it was hilarious. Next week some guys threw a kegger and put up flyers to advertise: "One More Chance to Advance Beyond Human!"
- perl4ever 7y ago
  "A few decades ago you would have never heard about two ships colliding with zero casualties unless you worked in the shipping industry or maybe the Venezuelan government." "You" being someone who didn't read printed material like newspapers and magazines before the internet became mainstream.

yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago

Comics usually have a semblance of thought. We are living through the "reality is stranger than fiction" version.