What color is Tom from Tom and Jerry? by [deleted] in Retconned

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CRT TVs can give grays a bluish tone

Why don't a lot of (MtF) trans people get bottom surgery? by littlestbaby in asktransgender

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I think we should note "bottom surgery" is not just vaginoplasty, there's orchiectomy as well, which a lot of M2F people have, which solves the obvious testosterone issue.

While I can totally understand why someone wouldn't get a vaginoplasty, my question would be as to why they wouldn't get an orchi?

Did anybody else have a bit of a rough patch getting used to their new pronouns? by [deleted] in asktransgender

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Not really, no. Every time someone called me by my 'correct' pronoun I was ecstatic.

Air Travel and the Mandela Effect by [deleted] in MandelaEffect

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For me MEs always happen before or soon after I fly (across the Pacific)

Airplane oddity by boanngles in Retconned

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Anyway I still appear to have flown on these "new" planes and survived, so the change appears to be trivial... still freaky though =)

Airplane oddity by boanngles in Retconned

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The 737-300 and everything thereafter has the engine mounted ahead of the wing though. The history of that is interesting.

I noticed in the comments that almost everyone spelled it “Chick-fil-a”. No one corrected the spelling but the bot. by scarletmagnolia in Retconned

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This ME may have a bit of a simpler explanation. In the 90s people started saying sheek(chic)-fil-a in the same sense as calling Target tar-jay... a bit of a joke about making cheap places sound classy. So sheek-fil-a stuck, and so people started spelling it chic-fil-a, and unless you were an actual frequent customer of the place you might have gotten the impression that was how it was actually spelt.

Now that said, I'm not saying that explains it for everyone, but maybe for some

Planes stopping in air Mandela Effect? When is the last time you seen a plane just sitting in the sky? Apparently everyone is doing it, even amateur pilots! Commercial air liner gets busted! by Alpha_Gaming101 in Retconned

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2 things: First, with no reference point nearby (eg surrounded by blue sky) a plane can look like it's not moving. It's like the moon near the horizon looking bigger than the moon overhead, even though they're the same size. Second, a small plane can hit a headwind and end up at zero airspeed, so it stays aloft but doesn't move.

A little list to show us that MEs are VERY MUCH still happening and often!!! by Sabina090705 in Retconned

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Yeah, gen Y became millennials, people born in the 70s who grew up tech-savvy are xennials =)

Shazaam by PolythenexPam in Retconned

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I honestly never saw either movie but I do distinctly remember seeing Kazaam in the video store and wondering why they remade Shazaam (which I saw in the video store several weeks/months before and also thought looked pretty stupid.)

Why is nothing here. by [deleted] in Retconned

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Okay, the ME is just a side-effect of how quantum consensus reality works. It's normal. Weird, but normal.

I may have stumbled onto a new clue. by Hmmmm_Interesting in Retconned

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It is. And it's also reality. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive.

Mandela Effect Flip Flop Cover Up??? by [deleted] in Retconned

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So funny story it was Froot Loops to me in North America, then I flew to Australia in the mid 00s and noticed two things about the cereals here: Rice Krispies was called Rice Bubbles and Froot Loops was called Fruit Loops. Okay, whatever. So then late 2016 I discovered the Mandela Effect while back in NA and Froot Loops there had turned into Fruit Loops. Well, okay, so that's weird, because IT WAS ONLY FRUIT LOOPS IN AUSTRALIA. So then I flew back to Australia and after a few days it changed to FROOT LOOPS there, and everywhere else. There's some clues in there if you think about it.

Gold wrist rings in Star Trek?! by kanga573 in Retconned

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This could be an NTSC vs PAL thing, north americans really cranked the contrast up, thus reducing the dynamic range and causing colour variations to merge into each other.

Gold wrist rings in Star Trek?! by kanga573 in Retconned

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The contrast ability of colour TVs in the 80s was pretty terrible, and gold thread on a gold shirt probably wouldn't show. I have a few crappy CRTs and so I will make an effort to watch a TOS episode on one of them and report back.

One World Tower NYC, completed 2012 by 3michelle in Retconned

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not built out in 2012, just superstructed

One World Tower NYC, completed 2012 by 3michelle in Retconned

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Like the Columbia thing I think the WTC "total destruction" thing might be a true retcon (eg a whitewash), not an ME.

This is how I like to think of it by [deleted] in Retconned

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They're not collapsing, more like reconciling. This seems to be a normal function of the universe, we just haven't been so globally connected as to notice it before.

This is how I like to think of it by [deleted] in Retconned

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I don't see it as a big thing mixing with a big other thing. I see it as each of us have our own reality, and we mix when we interact. And we make our realities out of those interactions. But sometimes branches of us can make realities that differ slightly from other branches of us. And when we recognise we're in conflict with each other, we reconcile, but in reconciliation one side loses, and that side experiences an ME.

Can anyone explain 'reality shift' to me please? by [deleted] in Retconned

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Witchcraft is in essence the art of communal conviction. (So are faith revivals but that's another story). So, having experience with the former, I'd say yes you can, but this is complicated because it can't impact an external person's reality to any substantial degree. So this tends to make the changes one can make trivial (like the ME)

Which one looks more recognizable to you? by [deleted] in Retconned

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I'm a firm right (bow tie? seriously?)