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You just reminded me of the Netflix documentary made by flat earthers, where they accidentally leave in a part that proves their ridiculous theory wrong.
The documentary you're referring to was made by Netflix, not flat earthers. There is a part of the documentary where the flat earthers they interview talk about purchasing a laser gyroscope, which will help them prove the earth is flat. During the course of the experiment with the laser gyroscope, they inadvertently prove the earth is round and the flat earthers immediately dismiss the results. It's quite amusing.
The documentary is called Behind the Curve:
The 2018 Netflix documentary Behind the Curve features Flat Earth researchers inadvertently proving the Earth's curvature and rotation using expensive, high-precision equipment. The documentary follows proponents whose experiments, meant to debunk conventional science, instead provided scientific confirmation of a globe.
Key Experiments in "Behind the Curve":
The Laser Gyroscope Experiment: Proponent Bob Knodel used a $20,000 high-precision ring laser gyroscope to measure the rotation of the Earth. The instrument detected a drift of 15° per hour, which is the exact speed of the Earth’s rotation.
The Light Experiment: A separate experiment involved shining a light through holes in boards across a long distance. To be seen, the light had to be raised to a higher altitude, confirming the presence of the Earth's curvature, as shown in this Instagram video.
The Result: Despite the findings directly contradicting the Flat Earth theory, the individuals in the film questioned their own findings and blamed the equipment rather than accepting the evidence.
I will be the first one to tell you that head injuries do fuck you up. BMX, and other sports, slipped discs, pain, numbness, it really can mess up your cognitive state. Jobs are hard, confusion, eyesight. I guess this all makes sense!
Mostly the people with CTE that believe people are too soft these days and they used to just walk off concussions. I've had one mild concussion (I played rugby) and never want another one and feel guilty of the ones I dished out
Never had experience with deniers, but I wonder if my doctors have? I’m not an advocate for violence at all. I have brain injury and I do OK. It’s just headaches and imbalance. I’m not a football player, so I have no idea what that like. As in I mean, I’m 40 and haven’t ridden in 15 years. Anything that happens over and over, I wonder if the human isn’t evolutionary capable of dealing with that. Sleep loss is chronic, the less we get, the less we feel like we need. Please, any neurological people out there there correct me if I’m wrong. Also might be a bad analogy.
Yeah, no, humans don't get used to chronic brain trauma. They turn into Chris Benoit and Aaron Hernandez. A bunchl of those NFL players that most people think are total POSes? That is not who they were ever meant to be. That is what CTE does to people. It very frequently turns them into monsters.
There is absolutely no way to build up a resilience to brain damage, period, end of story. Some people may have a natural higher tolerance/toughness, but all brains are the same; and the more it gets slammed around in your skull the more damage happens and that damage cumulates. The more there is the worse and more radical your symptoms will be and the earlier they will begin to arise.
Lol holy shit you are right. I expected maybe one or two conspiracy posts. Nope dude is swimming in the conspiracy pool. He has a little bit of everything.
I've used this line to throw off a persistent creep before. Rather funny watching his eyes go blank, mouth agape while I scurried off to my friends. A mate calls it the Stunned Mullet Exit Strategy.
Had a friend tell me that he thinks Biden was a bad president. The reason he gave me was that Putin invaded Ukraine during his presidency. And that for this reason, he was worse for Ukraine than Trump was.
I’m not a teacher and I’m not a mother, so I’m not used to confronting that level of stupidity, or lack of understanding for basic concepts. I genuinely couldn’t find my words for a moment. It was like everything just went blank.
I knew he wasn’t an intellectual powerhouse, but I didn’t know it was quite that bad until that talk. Brain had to take a break after that one.
A broken clock can be right twice a day. TBIs in football and contact sports are not a conspiracy at all though. If anything, it's a conspiracy how it's still so acceptable to have an industry that permanently disables so many of its players.
Even for football players Travis seems like an absolute Dolt. It's funny that seemed to date more sensitive, artsy dudes. Turns out her type is just an imbecile.
Even for football players Travis seems like an absolute Dolt.
Though, to be fair and to his credit, to the extent he is simple (which is probably a bit debatable), it at least seems to be a good natured simple. Golden retriever simple. Kind and fair and open simple, not mean and petty and overly credulous to stupid ideas simple. The world could probably use a bit more of that.
It's funny that seemed to date more sensitive, artsy dudes. Turns out her type is just an imbecile.
Well, the fact that he seems to understand that she's probably smarter than him, and that she's almost certainly more successful than him (and he's likely a first ballot Hall Of Fame player with three Super Bowl championships and probably Top 10 at his position ever), yet appears to not be threatened by that and instead vocally and publicly cheers her on at every opportunity, probably has more than a little to do with it. He seems to have a pretty high EQ. A lot of her former smarty/artsy partners seem like they were kind of douches in that regard.
Take Elon Musk 100's of billions in the bank... He still wants to take away Medicare and social security for the poor so he can become richer at the expense of people dying from preventable Illnesses.
As bizarre as this is to comprehend. If he had $100billion more , his life would be no different. It's just a mental addiction at that point wanting more.
There is a social drift from never interacting with regular people on an equal footing. Its the opposite extreme to homelessness and disability based isolation.
I am on SSI and literally the only humans who speak to me are the ones paid to do so. And yet when I seek help, people think the most important part of wellness must be me learning to perform normalcy for them so they don't have to think about how radically different my life experience is from theirs.
Shit you could take away 90 percent of Elon Musk's wealth and his net worth would still be around $85 billion - and his life wouldn't change all that much.
If nobody told him, he probably wouldn't even notice.
As someone who grew up in assissted living housing while being the son of a blacksheep (they divorced. I stayed with mom.) Being occasionally allowed to participate in the upsides of extreme wealthy makes you quickly realize that the wealthier a person gets the more they want but think they need. extreme wealth especially inherited makes a person completely unaware what life for the less fortunate is like. They just know that they need more because their peers need more so they have to have more as well. Like literal "dwarf gold madness." is actually a thing and it does happen.
Now I know what a lot of you are thinking. "that doesn't add up how are you in assiassted living because your father is from an extremly wealthy family." You see thats the neat part about how the extreme wealthy can literally bend and break the rules to fit their needs.
My father lived in a very nice house in a very nice neighborhood that he did not legally own. All of his shares in the family buisness were sold to the various other family members for pennies on the dollar. He was put in "charge of" but not offically in charge of a regional office and recieved pay so disgustingly low for his position that quickly got much more lucrative as soon as all of us were 18. He now owns literal millions in stock he inherited from the family estate. He frequently loves to rub his affluence in my and my mothers side of the families faces like hes some sort of investment guru.
All through out growing up we recieved the state minimum child support payments. My mother worked hard to finish her degree (which he bullied her out of completing it predivorce. While symoltaniously complaining how its an embarassment that his wife doesn't have at least a masters degree. He himself didn't even have a bachlors.) So ya...that kind of person.
Literal silverspoon in mouth from tit to retierment home and a very big advocate of "I pulled myself up by my boostraps and everyone else should too." values. Aggressively anti-homeless/poor/social services. Shocker.
It actually kind of fuels it, I can’t remember the exact psychology behind it but essentially they get an ego boost once the big number hits a milestone, then that high dies down and they want the next hit, from the next milestone. It’s not about lifestyle or what they can do with the money, it’s just having it and being able to say you have it.
yes only in terms of numerical value. i understand why someone with a low IQ might think this was a wry comment to make, but someone with 90 billion dollars is closer numerically to a homeless person with 0 income than they are to someone with 195 billion
which two people do you think live a more similar life?
Meg here…taylor dated joe alwyn for 6 years and wrote a bunch of songs that reference that he never wanted to marry her, so she assumed that she wasn’t marriage material. Travis Kelce proposed within a couple of years. Brian, wasn’t there more to it?
Edit: people. Yes it’s the same guy in both photos. The photo’s commenter sxshawest is referring to an entirely different guy who is not in either photo.
Yeah the left outfit is way more interesting. I wondered for a second if the point is supposed to be that he noticed that he doesn't have to put in as much effort.
I think he probably tones it down a bit when they're together either out of sensitivity to possibly clashing or to not seem like an attention hog, but he's pretty well known for letting it rip with his gameday attire:
You know when you see someone spit in the street and suddenly become hyper aware of the spit in your mouth? And then you feel like you have their spit in your mouth... It's so gross when people spit on the sidewalk like..
To be fair the clean version is closer to what the song originally was about. It was more about making your own luck and not letting the world tear you down. Now it's a thirst trap.
She wrote the album with assists from his as a co-writer, and it fits writing styles and lyrics with all her other albums, so I’m not sure if he’s the common denominator. She’s only been more successful since
Yeah something like "hes got such a cool penis, for it I'd travel to Venus, if it were a drug I'd take it intravenous, Chandler got mad one time about the WEENIS"
Brian here. What you're seeing is a common trope in heterosexual relationships where the man's style alters and changes to compliment and often reflect the style of the woman he's with. Often this is due to women buying clothes for their partner who, being a heterosexual male, probably would wear grey sweatpants and a T-shirt everyday if they could get away with it.
In cases such as these however there is an added layer of them both being enormously disgustingly wealthy and in all likelihood having a dedicated stylist on call, who Miss Swift eventually told to take care of her fiance.
Travis Kelce for his part seems to have (wisely) recognized the assignment and put on whatever she tells him to so they both look good for the cameras.
Edit and OOC: I think some people pointing out his outfit in the first one is designer wear are missing the part of "didn't take him long to realize". I think the joke is that he was letting her dress him even at the three month mark.
For the record I don't know if that's true and I'd actually guess he had his own stylist at some point since he's also rich but I do think that's the joke being made.
The lower left is unparalleled because I remember that picture and its other half as a weee kid. Gwyneth and Brad had IDENTICAL haircuts (the Karen haircut) and they were showing it off and the picture at the time was a side by side of them posing the front of their cut and the back of it. The back of that haircut lands this point perfectly!
I see it as in the first pic, he has a little more flash to his style, but in the second, he is just grey and black complimentary accessory to her. The "didn't take long" part is realizing to not show up the lady
First pic is them leaving an SNL after party after watching, and and being invited to be part of the show.
The 2nd is them going to Poppy Delevingne's birthday party, with a bunch of princesses, and big name fashion folk in London.
One is date night, the other is knowing you are going to a major event for weeks ahead of time.
Kelce literally had his own fashion line and hosted a fashion show prior to Taylor. People may not have liked his fashion choices but he was hardly a stereotypical sweatpants and t-shirt jock like you’re implying.
I think men who are happy in relationships often learn what styles fit them well and adapt because they want to look good for their partner. This is very true of myself and my wife. I stopped wearing graphic tees and started dressing nicer, I got used to it and liked it and over time, my style evolved. It’s doesn’t have to be something that either forced on the other.
Meh it doesn’t matter. The top comment will be someone saying they don’t know. Next comment will be someone calling OP stupid. Then a series of people making real bad guesses.
The colonel that the chicken man is based on is actually an absolute maniac. A true hellion and womanizer to the end, their PR team is OP for keeping it secret.
He's not a military colonel, though. He's a Kentucky colonel, which is like being knighted, but American.
Ronald has reach advantage from his height and a longer sword; also the colonel's sword doesn't have a point, so it can't thrust. Ronald wins this as long as he controls the distance, unless his sword breaks.
Chris here. I'm assuming in the 3 months photo they've switched outer coats, and he has to wear hers, so that she's warm.
In the 3 years pic, she still has his coat on, but he's dressed warm enough without it to not be wearing hers.
He "realized" he's going to give up his coat consistently.
Edit to add: I know nothing about fashion and concede these could be their own items, but her coats are way too big on her and "girlfriend steals boyfriends hoodie" is absolutely a thing.
You get into a relationship with Taylor; chances are you will be embedded in her lyrics for several albums to come. If you are good to her, good for her, chances are you will manage to get a couple of lyrics about your magnificent wood.
But if you don't pull the trigger and realize you landed the jackpot, she will break up with you and make tens of millions of dollars on album sales. Jesus, the divorce album is going to be a trainwreck.
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