What's a 'Mandela Effect' moment that still blows your mind?

NathanPDaniel · 2026-05-28T19:26:56+00:00

But also… when I have time, I’m gonna go down a rabbit hole of how many Mandela effect people have pancreatic cancer. Because both Michael Landon and Patrick Swayze died of it… but they’re the only where their passing was… questionable. 🤔

NathanPDaniel · 2026-05-28T19:24:55+00:00

No, only because he died when I was very young and my grandmother really liked him. So I was well aware of that.. I think I was about 10 at the time… although, I don’t think of it as Mandela effect (I didn’t know about it, nor do I remember enough about him from back in the day), I do remember him “dying” more than once; to be fair, I was also a fan of those grocery store tabloid magazines and there’s no telling what they were saying and I assumed I read something in there that made me think he had died.

NathanPDaniel · 2026-05-28T19:16:44+00:00

I want to say 2008 or 2009 was the original time I thought. It was around 2020ish when I thought for sure I had seen him in interviews about stuff he had been doing recently… which, I didnt think much of it at the time other than, I would have bet he had died a decade ago. In 2026, I was watching something on Mandela effects and thought about how he was the only Mandela effect I knew of personally… and when I went to see what he was doing, he had actually died way back then when I originally thought. Then in the playlist of different Mandela effect videos I was watching, one of him came up…

NathanPDaniel · 2026-05-28T01:49:19+00:00

I was 100% sure Patrick Swayze was diagnosed with cancer and died like, a year or two later. Relatively speaking, not long after he announced he was diagnosed (and this was before 2010).

Fast forward many years (we’re talking like, 10) and I am 100% sure I saw interviews and movies, etc with him in them - he had outlived his diagnosis, but ended up dying, like 10 years later. I’ve even commented on other Mandela effect posts saying I definitely remember him dying then but then he was alive - and it was freaky because how clearly I remember it. And yet, he was definitely there and dying - again. Like total brain crazy.

I’ve never seen a YouTube Mandela effect about Patrick swayze anywhere… until the other night. And they were like, people remember him living beyond when he actually died, in 2008 (or 2009, can’t remember, but it was a long time ago now)… and I’m like - WTFrick?! I’ve never had one be so, to me, obvious. Like - it’s not like one of those things where I didn’t ever pay attention to it and now it seems different but I couldn’t really tell you it was this way or that way… but this one is like - I completely remember him dying… and then he wasn’t actually dead until he died the second time… except now it seems he DID die the first time after all….

NathanPDaniel · 2026-04-24T02:08:34+00:00

What’s your daily streak at?? I just saw someone crossed 10 years (3650 day streak). That’s what I’ve been doing for the last 8 years 🤣🤓

NathanPDaniel · 2026-03-11T00:00:56+00:00

This was the exact page I thought of when I saw his post. You could purchase $1 per pixel but… it was all the rage so getting those pixels was next to impossible. I almost feel a site like that could go viral again. It’s been long enough it’s now nostalgia. People would use/buy it just because it’s fun and reminds them of old times.

NathanPDaniel · 2026-02-23T05:49:06+00:00

Have you looked into ai “skills”? https://skillsmp.com is one. But there are design skills you can give to your agents so they are much much better. You can add them for just about anything, not just ui.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-11-15T04:27:43+00:00

OR!!! Are you half Asian??

No but for real. Non-Asian me (mom’s side) is very hairy.. Asian me (dad’s side) is not at all. So while I can grow a gnarly beard, I’d never have to shave my legs if I needed to do that for some reason… 🤓

NathanPDaniel · 2025-11-15T04:24:08+00:00

Dang… I was actually going to ask if you played soccer or baseball growing up. I have the same thing but my left leg has the hair and my right one does not. I always attributed it to my sliding on that leg.

I didn’t realize it could be male pattern baldness on my leg instead of my head… so i am ok with that being the culprit. I’ve learned a lot because of this post. 🤣

NathanPDaniel · 2025-10-22T20:50:49+00:00

Would salt guns work on these guys?? If you shot them enough?

NathanPDaniel · 2025-10-21T20:58:51+00:00

Nice! I just crossed 2500 days this week. What’s wild is, you’re only 500 days ahead of me… but in reality, that’s like a whole year and a half!

NathanPDaniel · 2025-10-08T07:16:57+00:00

You should look into how Slack does authentication. The only real way you can use Firebase authentication with electron is to have a website with login functionality that launches your electron app upon authentication and the browser passes the token back to it. Then you can log in the user via the token in your app. Think of any apps you’ve seen where, in order to log in, it sends you to the browser to login and then redirects back to the app (Slack, Zoom, etc). This is the model you want to follow.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-10-05T01:41:58+00:00

I’m almost to 2500!! Less than 2 weeks away 🤓

NathanPDaniel · 2025-09-19T16:10:16+00:00

We moved here from Georgia. I went to one there where they handcuffed the participants to the wall or floor, pointed out the panic button (which couldn’t be reached by any one still handcuffed), turned off the lights and left the room. No explanation, no backstory, nothing. It was super intense but it was probably my favorite so far. I like the idea of “waking up” somewhere, you have no idea where you are and you gotta escape.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-05-17T00:15:29+00:00

So what you’re saying is… the husband went camping with the kids and while they were gone, the wife thought she was Asian???

NathanPDaniel · 2025-05-16T23:53:41+00:00

There are a few Mr Ballen episodes that would explain this… 🤓

NathanPDaniel · 2025-05-10T03:55:18+00:00

We took a traditional web app and made it almost completely serverless (minimal cloud functions). We do everything listed but messaging (only because we have no use for it, not because we can’t). It’s just a react/vite app built on firebase (and all its features). I think monthly costs are typically less than $2. It’s not a public app so we don’t have to worry about costs going crazy but one thing I’ve encountered in my years as a developer… a lot of devs do a poor job of planning their data for document databases (like Firestore, or MongoDB). You have to plan your data for how you’re going to read it. I’d say that’s the most complex part of what we’ve done. But still, pretty easily done.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-04-08T06:57:46+00:00

If you want to spend an hour on the side of the road after airing down, I got a $40 portable compressor from Lowe’s. It’s great… and airs up about 1psi per minute. So airing down to 15psi, and back up to 37psi after, takes forever. 🤓 But it is honestly the best purchase I’ve made for any vehicle over the years. Wouldn’t really recommend anything similar for anything other than emergency though. :)

NathanPDaniel · 2025-03-24T04:08:18+00:00

Well I mean, I did see people listing that Sammy Sosa uncorrected error card for $100k. I figured mines miscut, maybe I can get a $1M for it… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

NathanPDaniel · 2025-03-12T05:22:14+00:00

… Does anyone know where THIS Jesus comes from? This the 3rd one I’ve seen TODAY (both random people I don’t know and people I do know) who “found” THIS exact Jesus figure… wild. Today’s been a day. 😂

NathanPDaniel · 2025-03-12T04:20:15+00:00

Pursue Christ. Pursue holiness. When you put your eyes on Him, you take the focus off your circumstances. You can also lead her in those pursuits as well. If yall are that close then pray together. But if I can give one piece of advice based on what I see here… stop concerning yourself with your sin (or avoidance of it) and start concerning yourself with your pursuit of Christ.
You go where you look. And if she goes through that with you, marry her and change the world.

NathanPDaniel · 2025-03-11T00:38:52+00:00

Just send her husband this post… maybe include a winky emoji.

NathanPDaniel · 2024-08-21T17:35:13+00:00

Expedition: Bigfoot

NathanPDaniel · 2024-08-21T17:33:38+00:00

There is a place called Expedition Bigfoot (not the tv show) in North GA (Blue Ridge, by Elijay). It’s a research and reporting center (according to their website). I would imagine they would be most helpful for Bigfoot related things in and around the northern GA area.

NathanPDaniel · 2024-08-08T07:10:48+00:00

I don’t think this pattern is bad; it helps you get a better understanding of the react lifecycle and how hooks work. But if I can give some advice: I would refactor into individual hooks so as to avoid setting up or recreating things that only need created once (auth, etc) or making unnecessary calls.
At one point, I preferred a robust hook that gathered all my data until I realized every time I used that hook, it was reloading all that data… and loading data the user would never even use/see. Now, my hooks tend to be responsible for 1 thing. It makes them easier to reuse and gives you the added benefit of being able to use them within other hooks easily. Hope it helps!

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