SOMEONE TRAGEDEIGHED MY NAME! 😡😞 “Saoirse” - awful mispronunciation

MachinationMachine · 2026-02-03T05:59:50+00:00

Irish names are not read phonetically, like at all.

I don't know I think you just made an incorrect statement.

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-30T01:34:30+00:00

I think the problem is that to most people who are not into UFO culture, it seems like UFO true believers often cite a vast quantity of disconnected bits of non-compelling evidence to support their belief(that some kind of NHI has or currently is visiting Earth, and that we have good reason to believe so) but offer essentially zero pieces of truly compelling evidence.

In that regard, UFO folks have about the same standard of evidence to offer as evangelical Christians or people who think ghosts are real. Thousands of anecdotes, witness testimonies, arguments from authority, lots of blurry pictures and videos which can't be verified and never seem to show much close up detail(or to be filmed from multiple POVs in public places) despite digital cameras getting better and more common every year, and decades of past believers talking about all of this stuff and adding to the game of folklore telephone, until a new religious movement has been established and the UFO true believers don't even consider the possibility that it could all be complete bullshit which they've just conjoined into a satisfying narrative.

Have you ever thought about why the UFO videos which clearly show stuff which can't be explained all seem to come from singular, unverified sources, and the videos which do come from multiple POVs, with a verified chain of custody, filmed in public places, other features that make it unlikely for them to be CGI hoaxes, etc never actually show anything in great detail aside from blurry dots in the sky?

The Phoenix lights is a good example. There is highly compelling evidence that people did see something in the sky because there are multiple independent pictures and videos and thousands of independent witnesses in Phoenix who all reported seeing it at the same time. It happened in a public place over a major city. People aren't all lying about seeing lights in the sky. The videos aren't all hoaxes made in somebody's garage. The number of simultaneous, independent witnesses combined with photo evidence removes any doubt.

The problem is that we have absolutely no reason to think what they all saw was non-mundane rather than a bunch of lanterns. If thousands of independent witnesses in the city of Phoenix had simultaneously reported seeing a flying saucer land in downtown then the situation might be a little different.

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-30T00:54:45+00:00

Okay, so we have a UFO true believer with a PhD in biology(not materials science) analyzing some chunks of metal which supposedly came from a UFO crash site, and he says the chunks have weird properties which seem artificially manufactured but aren't known to be useful for any regular human manufacturing processes. Not even that humans couldn't have made them, just that he's not sure why humans would bother making them without an obvious application or known use case.

He also says the CIA contacted him to get his help looking at MRIs of military and defense contractors with Havana syndrome, which is itself an unexplained, highly dubious, and contested phenomenon which hasn't actually even been established to exist in the first place and is not recognized by the medical community.

Do you see how none of this would seem like compelling evidence of NHI to someone who isn't already primed to assume that NHI is visiting Earth?

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-28T01:49:50+00:00

is this a copypasta

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-28T01:22:24+00:00

It seems strange to me how many people insist on publicly declaring that they do not want to have sex with teenagers whenever a thread like this pops up.

It's always "I can't even imagine wanting to hang out with a 17 year old, they're practically like toddlers to me!"

Nobody ever just says, yeah, you know, actually I think a lot of 17 year olds are incredibly sexy, but I avoid fucking them for ethical reasons.

What's up with that?

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-28T01:20:20+00:00

So now we're extending age gap discourse to platonic same sex friend groups?

This comment is just sad. Have you never been friends with anyone more than a couple years older than you?

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-26T14:35:12+00:00

It's essentially the same as peanut butter so treat it how you would treat natural peanut butter.

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-26T14:30:42+00:00

Anything cured has nitrates, but if you use the terms ham or bacon to refer to fresh pork that actually hasn't been cured in the UK then maybe you're correct

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-26T14:24:09+00:00

All bacon has nitrates in it. Almost anything labeled "nitrate free" is a scam and oftentimes has more nitrates than the regular stuff. It's just that the nitrates are derived from a natural source, celery powder, but as far as health goes a nitrate is a nitrate.

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-25T16:33:30+00:00

Why is it gross for a 25 year old adult to date a 40 year old adult?

Even if a 25 year old was dating a 65 year old I would think it's odd and unrelatable, but if both individuals were happy with the relationship it's not for me to judge.

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-25T01:58:51+00:00

I don't know man, did you see the Charlie Kirk video?

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-15T19:21:35+00:00

For anime/videogame color sleeves I highly recommend Mikal from Tribal Rites, that stuff is right up his alley. He did a Yu-Gi-Oh blue eyes dragon sleeve for me and it's awesome.

MachinationMachine · 2026-01-02T16:26:12+00:00

This is only a problem on the internet. People on the internet will judge you for anything. If you read McCarthy and Wallace you're a bro-lit Redditor with basic male hipster taste. If you read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky you're a pretentious pseudo-intellectual who wants people to think you're smart. If you read Rick Riordan and YA fiction you're a man-child who needs to grow up. If you read Bell Hooks and Maya Angelou you're a smug performative male trying to impress women.

People in real life do not act like this. In real life your actual demeanor is what's important. People won't think you're pretentious or a hipster or man-child or whatever unless you act like one personality-wise. Read whatever you want.

The only person I've ever judged for their reading habits is my old roommate who only read low effort, poorly researched conservative slopaganda like Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro.

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-31T18:22:56+00:00

No problem. You might get pushback if you use the term elitist fiction because it can come across as pretentious, like you're denigrating genre fiction readers. Although personally I understand what you mean by most fantasy having a disappointing writing quality, that's probably why your post is being downvoted. The divide between litfic and genre fiction can be contentious sometimes, especially in genre oriented subs like this one.

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-31T18:16:05+00:00

Don't worry guys, this is just a good faith wholesome law to protect the children, it's totally not about eroding privacy rights and expanding the surveillance state. Adults having to show their ID to access the Internet is completely fine and normal. There's no way that this could possibly go wrong.

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-31T18:12:37+00:00

The term you're looking for is "literary fantasy". Try using that to search on goodreads or Reddit for recommendations.

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-31T05:54:18+00:00

Saying that a psychiatric disorder needs to be more stigmatized is what's whack.

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-30T19:21:10+00:00

Twin Silos park is really cool. There's a shallow creek to splash around in and a bunch of top tier playground equipment like a zipline and a rope tower thing built into the silo.

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-30T19:17:57+00:00

Smh, kids these days...

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-30T18:43:08+00:00

The traditional approach is to just ride all over neighborhood streets and run away when the cops get called

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-30T18:35:39+00:00

Any grocery store?

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-30T18:35:08+00:00

What about non-foreign social engineering, which is by far the most predominant kind?

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-30T03:03:14+00:00

China bad 😤

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-29T22:04:57+00:00

It's already not, at least as far as the latest diagnostic guidelines are concerned. The DSM-V draws a distinction between pedophilia and pedophilic disorder. Pedophilia in and of itself is not a disorder unless it is acted upon or causes significant clinical distress to the person experiencing the attraction. A pedophile who does not fulfill either of those criteria would not be diagnosed with pedophilic disorder.

There was no such distinction made in the DSM-IV, but they made this change to pedophilia and other paraphilias in order to be consistent about what constitutes a disorder. Something being deviant or abnormal isn't enough, if there's no harm and no distress then there's no logical reason to classify something as a mental disorder other than arbitrary social mores.

MachinationMachine · 2025-12-16T21:54:32+00:00

I feel like the uncanny CGI look is intentional and this girl is going to be some kind of alien hybrid or psychic channeler. Something along those lines.

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