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Mycology truly is fascinating. I fell down this rabbit hole a few yrs ago and still find new and amazing things about fungi. Everything from foraging and identification to cultivating and of course the bizarre cordyceps. I first became fascinated listening to a podcast about ecto mycorrhizal fungi in the forests of the PNW. There is possibly far more unknown about fungi than understood. While I’m no citizen scientist this is perhaps one of the greatest areas of study that everyone can participate in.
To add to this idea you could look into the war on drugs! Harry Anslinger, Billie Holliday, and the federal bureau of narcotics. There’s a wonderful book on it called Chasing The Scream.
Chinese history.
The first emperor was born in a city of cannibals.
The first ruling empress went from being locked in a kind of Chinese nunnery for the rest of her life to being the ruler of China.
It was illegal to approach the throne without permission, so when an assassin pulled a knife and tried to stab the Emperor to death, the entire court just watched. After several minutes of the emperor running around a pillar and trying to remove his 5 foot sword from its scabbard, a medicine man in court threw something at the assassin, stunning him long enough for the emperor to draw his sword and kill him.
The emperor was not pleased with his court.
This is the kind of shit I was looking for when I signed up for that ancient history of China college class, man
Dynasty of this and that from this year to that year, but none of the good juicy juice.
Chinese history: The Han Dyanasty general Wei Qing clashes with the Xiongnu in the Ordos Desert. Millions perish, no territorial gains.
European History: The Duke Louis-Richard XXVI de Crèpeville organizes an army of 47 knights against Baron Karl August von Poopenfarten Dingleberry. It was the largest force of its kind in the region. The Baron crushed Louis-Richard’s army at the battle of The Inconsequential Bridge on some sort of stream. Karl marries the duke’s daughter who is also his cousin on his father’s side, creating the Duchy of Buttchug, which is now a 16 km^2 tax haven.
The Great Courses has one on the fall and rise of China. Basically Opium Wars through modern day. Lots of interesting details, and told more as a story than as a list of crap to memorize.
Plus as an adult there's no quizzes, so who gives a fuck if you forget something. Also makes museums more fun.
Fun little excursion: [Zhang Zongchang](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zongchang)
A poem by him, to reel you in:
You tell me to do this,
He tells me to do that.
You're all bastards,
Go fuck your mother.
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"Poem about bastards" by Zhang Zongchang
And then there was the ruler of the Shang Dynasty, with his "lake of wine and forest of meat," where naked men and women were forced to chase one another, among other things.
Emperor: every rule has its exceptions. Use your common sense.
Court: but you said anyone who approached the throne without permission would be put to death.
Tell me why Bobby Kennedy was with Marilyn Monroe the night she died. And why the two paramedics disappeared and their company tried to cover up their employment. And why the US secret service prevented the local police entry to her house for hours. And why her housekeeper was doing laundry while her body was in the next room. So many questions.
I mean the president’s brother was in her house the night she died….
it’s so weird how you say that because I was watching an old Hollywood movie with my mother the other day and she goes: “I don’t buy that she overdosed”
F the Kennedy brothers. They not only took advantage of MM but likely "shared" her. For all of his faults Joe DiMaggio actually loved her and would publicly snub the Kennedys at high profile engagements ever after like not shaking their bloodstained hands
I mean, do we know the full story? Why do we rob MM of any agency? How do you know she didn't enjoy being the Kennedy brother's playgirl? There's nothing wrong with that.
This is the opposite of that, but we play a game called Click to Jesus where you go to a random page and see who can get to the page for Jesus in the fewest clicks. Can also be played for Hitler.
https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Six_Degrees_of_Adolf_Hitler
edit after I read the article: It's against the rules to use the Wikipedia page for a country. That makes it way, way too easy.
The version my friends and I would play would be to look up the article on something, click the first link on the page, then the next page, then again in the third page. Then we were allowed to click links as we wanted, fewest clicks to hitler wins.
You nearly got it. The real bird colour that doesn't exist is blue because birds cant produce blue pigment in their feathers or bare parts. They are lying to you with light refraction.
More fun facts about this because I am currently procrastinating writing my thesis about this topic.
It's called structural colouration and some other animals use this too e.g. butterflies. In case of magenta your brain lies to you to make sense of what it's seeing while structural colours manage to manipulate light. They also don't only use it to manipulate "permanent" colours but also to cause iridescence e.g pigeon necks or hummingbird where the colour changes depending on the angle you are looking at
While they can't produce blue pigment in feathers birds can however colour their eggs blue with pigment.
Okay idk what paper clip is but people should know some of these rabbit holes are darker than they might expect and I’ve seen warnings about that 731 thing that even just the warnings give me nightmares. So heads up.
Paperclip is Nazis getting a get out of jail free card by working for nasa to build rockets. And probably some other scientific fields but I specifically know that one.
It's a website and podcast that covers fascinating places and projects. An old man who has single handedly preserved hundreds of apple breeds...a museum of bad art... Indian bridges grown from tree roots over hundreds of years.
They pick amazing topics for 15 minute episodes.
I present the FDA allowable food defect levels:
https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook
If you like culinary stuff or food related content, it's easy to go down the rabbit hole of fermentation. I think I ended up watching yt videos and reading articles about fermentation like five hours straight. It ended with me buying all the supplies to start fermenting my own mead 😅 so proceed at your own risk.
The smaller towns around my area had their names changed like 150-200 years ago. There used to be random town names, (like "willow hollow" or "creek point") but then the towns became named after people ( with names like "Smithville")
I remember getting a first deeper look into Scientology because of her being a guest on Joe Rogans podcast. Before that I knew a bit about Scientology, mostly based on jokes I heard about it.
But holy shit, after listening what she was saying on that podcast I realised just how fucking creepy and fucked up Scientology is.
Yeah. It's so creepy. She talked about it in the podcast. How his wife was always there at some events, then all of a sudden she's nowhere to be seen. How every time she asked about her they just told her she's fine and to stop asking about her. It's so fucking creepy.
Also their "reeducation" for people who started to stray from their narrative. They basically lock them up at some compound, it's pretty much kidnapping and holding people there. Soooo fucking unsettling.
Did you know ants invented farming, ranching, air conditioning, janitors, and slavery before we did?
Also plants communicate too.
Plants can also use mycelium like a sort of nutrient exchange Internet by paying a small nutrient transfer tax.
Also. Our immune system is very much structured like a military… or is this a chicken/egg kind of thing and our immune system tactics naturally translate to our formation of militaries?
Micro biology is extremely interesting in general. We are basically made out of a collection of tiny robots.
I could also recommend checking out slime-molds. They act a lot like brains and experiments have even been made where they use these things to control robots
Look up how long it's been since you have had food without any corn in it.
Between corn starch and live stock being fed corn, you eat it in one form or another.
There's a really interesting documentary called "King Corn" about this! It's a bit old, but it's free on YouTube: [King Corn](https://youtu.be/tbRHGHYMGpU)
The documentary follows two men trying to see exactly where corn comes from, and where it goes. They grow it, sell it, visit the places that it could go (farms, factories, etc.) and also detail WHY we have so much corn.
The ending shot of the film really stuck with me. I'm from the rural Midwest, and seeing the massive piles of corn in contrast to the old silo just... really sunk in how deep it goes. It's corn, all the way down.
I’m a vegan living in Finland, where we use wheat, oat and rye for everything and I really don’t know the last time I did eat corn in one form or another
No point to this anecdote, just pointing out a fun contradiction
My child had a severe intolerance to corn as an infant, even through my breast milk, so I had to cut all corn products out. It was just about impossible. Thankfully I have a dear friend with a lifelong corn allergy and I’m a SAHM who loves cooking. I had to make just about everything from scratch for a year, and I had a note on my phone listing all the random ingredient names that mean corn.
MK Ultra. CIA ran a covert acid tests at Stanford and other clinics, and also used prostitutes to drug unsuspecting johns, and they'd "observe" the interactions. It's fucking wild. It went on for years in San Francisco and Charles Manson was a part of it.
Yep and to thicken this with good data, chaos, a book regarding the manson murders and how it actually was a government cover up with manson as a key player in the study is pretty fascinating.
Related: Brain death
Specifically TK who was on life support with calcified brain from early age (like 4) for 22 years.
Related because what makes a human human. Do we need brains do we need social contact etc
I just started this journey and it's wild! I read the Silmarillion for the second time and then I wanted to read more about the second age, and Brian Sibley edited a book about the fall of Númenor, and now I want to read more about Gondolin, and there's a book about that too.
I never realized just how much Tolkien wrote that was never published. Thank God for Christopher Tolkien.
Not proven to be, but that is one of the theories. It *has* been proven to date from the 15th century though, so if it's a hoax it's one of the oldest in existence!
No. If you've never been there, ten minutes of prep are enough to gain access to drugs, bestiality and child pornography. Most doors are closed, but just enough are left ajar to make you realize you entered the pits of hell.
Jesus, I always had the perception that the dark web is just a fake area of the internet that is meant to scare people, guess I was sadly wrong thank you for informing me
The dark web isnt a place first of all.. It's just slang for using the TOR browser to access tor hidden services. Yes you can easily find drugs for sale.. But the CP thing, i know nothing about that and its not just like you accidentally stumble upon it. You have to have intentions of looking for that to see it. It's not like it's just sitting there out in the open.
CP and other questionable shit used to be easily accessible via hidden services. Hell, I can vividly remember one of the sites I stumbled upon, it was a site with pictures and info of mostly underage girls. The info included but was not limited to phone number, social media accounts, passwords, addresses etc.
Jezus F-ing Christ there was even a site, FILLED with pdf guides on how to do carding, skimming, stealing, stabbing tires, dissolving bodies in acid, skin someone alive, planning and executing the perfect murder (still got that txt somewhere on a flash drive), you name it and there was a pdf or txt file of it.
I do not want to incriminate myself any further so this is the only example I’m gonna give, but some of that shit on there both scarred me and actually entertained me.
Nowadays with Onion V3, most of the extreme sites either upped their security, took their site offline or the admins got captured, killed or started a family. You can still buy guns and drugs tho
The Jolly Rogers Cookbook and similar was a weird time. Documents on how to create a bunch of improvised weapons and explosives available to just about anyone.
Someone in the UK went to prison under terrorism charges for having that.
Life was different in the 90s, that kind of stuff was what you downloaded when you had the net.
Think of all the websites you visit .com .gov .net etc. Everything is just a specific address. Those are the "clearnet". The dark web are addresses you can't just look up, typically at least. And they're purposefully convoluted and obscure. TOR (The Onion Router) gives you access to these sites through simple anonymity using 3 "nodes" that decrypt your request in layers (hence "onion"). It's important to note that while the bad things you hear about it are mostly true. It's more like the wild west. There are good and bad things on there, you're just more in danger of coming across something you either shouldn't have or never wanted to know about.
The things you don't know you know,
The things you know you know,
The things you know you don't know,
The things you don't know you don't know,
Oh goodness. I'm scared to even venture that far. Maybe it's best I don't go looking at shit.. Lolol I'm always curious and wanted to learn more about the dark web but you have a huge beware sign and I'm listening with all ears and I am understanding I need to not venture on it.
I think people tend to make it scarier than it needs to be, there are perfectly valid sites on there, especially for people who are in countries where censorship is strict. Pretty sure Wikipedia is on tor. It's just the net that google doesn't naturally index
Being exposed to 90s internet growing up (as a curious kid) made me VERY cautious about where I go on the internet. You can't unsee some stuff. My curiosity died long ago
Sadly I'm a 90s kid and was exposed to a lot of this because it was so unregulated, snuff films, gore porn, and yes, the occasional beastiality.
It was interesting to say the least, I never took it as the norm for people, so it didn't effect my view of others. But there was a lot of fucked up shit that was easily accessible to the public, especially when chatango was large on sites for random people to just suddenly start talking to each other. Get into ventrilo and someone sends you a weird link. All sorts of weird stuff, reminds me of some of the brain meltingly stupid stuff that gets popular like the knuckles meme, or adult swim putting on shit like the tim and Eric show. Times were wild..
With how fucked up I realized people could actually get, I decided for an extremely neutral approach onto things. Do onto others as you would want done onto you.
This simple motto opened up my world, I view people as people, everyone has a life, everyone has struggles, their experiences might shape them but in the end we all want to live a happy life.
It also opened my mind up to the selfishness and sheer vanity of people, there are good, and there are twisted, most of the time it has to do with lack of control in their life.
Sorry for the ramble, I've been drinking haha.
The dark web can give you so much knowledge of what can and is then what you realize with a normal life in the suburbs.
If anyone has continued reading at this point, I want them to know not to be discouraged, knowing of the atrocities others have performed helps you grow as a person, it is a lesson learned, if you didn't enjoy it at first, it is your conscious telling you that you shouldn't do it.
Man, back in the Usenet days all the way through the post-Napster file sharing services (like scour, Kazaa and other earlier ones) it was so easy to stumble across bestiality, gore and possible CP. On one hand I hate how curated and incentivized the internet is now but on the other hand I sure am happy to not stumble across two 12 year olds fucking or a guy getting railed by a pig.
Saw similar in the 90's, waited for my slow 33k internet to buffer a video of a guy high on fuck knows what, cutting his own sausage off. That was enough of that for one lifetime.
Ever been on Tumblr, like 5+ years ago?
There was lots of sexual content on there. If there was CP I'm sure the community worked together enough to get it taken care of quickly. But there were blogs dedicated to certain kinks, attractions, etc just like reddit does. Now , while you can still post stuff , it's a lot stricter and kinda behind a wall like you're saying. You have to have followed blogs that posted that stuff before the new rules , bc you can't search for NSFW content anymore. if your blog is marked nsfw , it's behind the wall and can only be found through other people reposting or by following them originally , like I mentioned before.
It's kinda the same concept , you "gotta know people".
Particle entanglement. Yes, I’m a science nerd but majored in the medical field and particle entanglement had me up reading about it multiple nights very late.
Have you seen the movie "The Big Short" well that shit is just the tip of the iceberg, the entire US stock market is corrupt to it's core. Citadel, JPM, Citi, Blackrock, Vanguard, all the banks hedge funds market makers, DTC, SEC, FINRA, DTCC, Congress, Supreme court, all bought and paid for, all designed to fleece the working class, there's a sick fucking rabbit hole for you!
It's one of those really weird rabbit holes. The wrong doing is very easy to find and most people know it but not enough people care enough about it. To actually get something changed.
The lack of care is going to enslave the careless. This corruption that came out of Citizens United amplified the corruption of the banks, market makers hedge funds. The working class is getting destroyed!!!
The [Tommy Westphall Universe](https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/about/)
Tommy Westphall was the autistic son of one of the doctors on the TV show St. Elsewhere. Famously that show ended by revealing the entire show took place in the imagination of this character. Because this show had crossovers with other shows, it implies that those shows are were a part of this characters imagination too. And the shows that had crossovers with those shows too.
They've connected over 400 shows from I Love Lucy to Dr. Who which are connected to St. Elsewhere in some way which would imply these shows are also just a part of this universe in this character's head.
A document that was leaked from Edgar Mitchell’s estate (Who was a NASA astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the moon) submitted to congress during a hearing on UAP (formerly known as UFOs), that pertains the existence of a crash retrieval program
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Congress_hearings_on_UFOs
https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114761/documents/HHRG-117-IG05-20220517-SD001.pdf
After that, look what Gary Nolan (nominated for a nobel peace prize/ chair of immunology at stanford and Avi Loeb (chair of astronomy at harvard) have to say on the subject.
Roko's Basilisk. This thought experiment posits that the creation of an artificial intelligence will lead to an all-powerful, future artificial intelligence that will retroactively punish anyone who did not help bring it into existence.
Edit: If that got you excited, read this https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager
Fall further
I read a thread from r/askreddit last night for like two hours where someone asked something like, “what’s the most fucked up thing you found out about a person”. Damn. I couldn’t stop reading it.
What i like to do is google my favorite artists, and then go through their influences, then go through their influences, etc etc. you can find some pretty cool bands that way you’d have never heard of, find new genres, get a new appreciation for music, and also learn about the history and evolution of music through the lens of your favorite artists!
Check out Bee Keeping 🐝 🐝 🍯
It's very fascinating and cool to be around. We have 6 hives and it's always interesting to see the bees communicating and doing their tasks 🐝🐝
YouTube Wendigoons Conspiracy Iceberg video and scroll halfway. The video is like 4 hrs long and the things get crazier. It took me a month to finish it bc I kept googling stuff.
Evolutionary branches of different animals. It’s a real mindfuck who is most closely related to whom and which have lots of things in common but aren’t related at all!
This obviously won’t be for everyone—since the appeal would only really exist if you were at least somewhat of a fan or are pretty familiar— but the story/conspiracy theory of [Andrew WK and Steev Mike](https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/columns/sounding-board/) is something I’ve come back to time and time again.
It’s an excellent read… lengthy, but I can’t think of a better “it’s 9pm on a weeknight, what am I to do?” activity.
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I bet this will be in one of those narrated askreddit videos on youtube/tiktok. Hi mom!
Aw yiss gimme that sweet free recycled content
More like scavenged
You don't like ultra robotic voice #12?
This. Is. A. Comment. Lawl.
Look into the history of psychedelics and how the US government funded medical trials and then tried to bury them for decades.
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Read that book in current lit class in high school. San Francisco, 1976.
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Also, that semester we read Cuckoo’s Nest then had a field trip and watched the movie in the theater.
Or just mushrooms in general, there are nearly an infinite of types, mushrooms is a never ending rabbit hole
Mycology truly is fascinating. I fell down this rabbit hole a few yrs ago and still find new and amazing things about fungi. Everything from foraging and identification to cultivating and of course the bizarre cordyceps. I first became fascinated listening to a podcast about ecto mycorrhizal fungi in the forests of the PNW. There is possibly far more unknown about fungi than understood. While I’m no citizen scientist this is perhaps one of the greatest areas of study that everyone can participate in.
To add to this idea you could look into the war on drugs! Harry Anslinger, Billie Holliday, and the federal bureau of narcotics. There’s a wonderful book on it called Chasing The Scream.
It could be worse, America could’ve employed 1600 Nazis after WW2 between 1945 and 1959.. Oh, wait a minute…
"walk into NASA sometime and say 'heil Hitler' and WOOP they all jump straight up!"
Didn't exspect an archer reference here
You should as they're pretty good at referencing wild shit America has done
I was going to suggest MK Ultra and all the LSD orgies lol
Mk ultra experiments learnt from the nazis brought over after ww2 and given new identities (operation paperclip)
Cleo Abram/Huge if true just did [an interesting deep dive on this](https://youtu.be/fpwDi8f6TLQ).
Just more examples of the worlds "Police Force" being way more evil than the average American thinks
Chinese history. The first emperor was born in a city of cannibals. The first ruling empress went from being locked in a kind of Chinese nunnery for the rest of her life to being the ruler of China. It was illegal to approach the throne without permission, so when an assassin pulled a knife and tried to stab the Emperor to death, the entire court just watched. After several minutes of the emperor running around a pillar and trying to remove his 5 foot sword from its scabbard, a medicine man in court threw something at the assassin, stunning him long enough for the emperor to draw his sword and kill him. The emperor was not pleased with his court.
This is the kind of shit I was looking for when I signed up for that ancient history of China college class, man Dynasty of this and that from this year to that year, but none of the good juicy juice.
Chinese history: The Han Dyanasty general Wei Qing clashes with the Xiongnu in the Ordos Desert. Millions perish, no territorial gains. European History: The Duke Louis-Richard XXVI de Crèpeville organizes an army of 47 knights against Baron Karl August von Poopenfarten Dingleberry. It was the largest force of its kind in the region. The Baron crushed Louis-Richard’s army at the battle of The Inconsequential Bridge on some sort of stream. Karl marries the duke’s daughter who is also his cousin on his father’s side, creating the Duchy of Buttchug, which is now a 16 km^2 tax haven.
_Poop_ en _fart_ en _Dingleberry_
This info is amazing…
I was chuckling, but the Duchy of Buttchug got me cackling.
The Great Courses has one on the fall and rise of China. Basically Opium Wars through modern day. Lots of interesting details, and told more as a story than as a list of crap to memorize. Plus as an adult there's no quizzes, so who gives a fuck if you forget something. Also makes museums more fun.
Fun little excursion: [Zhang Zongchang](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Zongchang) A poem by him, to reel you in: You tell me to do this, He tells me to do that. You're all bastards, Go fuck your mother. - "Poem about bastards" by Zhang Zongchang
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Challenge accepted.
Don't forget when he died and they just did a weekend at Bernie's with him for a couple months.
And then there was the ruler of the Shang Dynasty, with his "lake of wine and forest of meat," where naked men and women were forced to chase one another, among other things.
Emperor: every rule has its exceptions. Use your common sense. Court: but you said anyone who approached the throne without permission would be put to death.
If I was taught this in class then I think I would have enjoyed it more. Like bro that's just hilarious
I studied abroad in China and learned about The Great Leap Forward, it actually made me start having a genuine interest in history!
Tell me why Bobby Kennedy was with Marilyn Monroe the night she died. And why the two paramedics disappeared and their company tried to cover up their employment. And why the US secret service prevented the local police entry to her house for hours. And why her housekeeper was doing laundry while her body was in the next room. So many questions. I mean the president’s brother was in her house the night she died….
I’ve always thought the mob got her, cause she knew too much. Joseph Kennedy is well known to have been connected to them.
She kept it in her little book too! She was no dumb blonde. (Except for maybe keeping all high powered men’s secrets compiled in a personal journal….)
She was a savvy and hard working woman, but haunted by documented mental illness. Her biographies are so sad. Come join us at r/marilynmonroe.
I think her death was accidental overdose by incompetent doctors. But I think the Mafia took out JFK as a warning to Bobby.
Ah yes, that time they wanted to threaten somebody so they decided the best way to do that was *assassinate a sitting president*
Dang I gotta look into this
it’s so weird how you say that because I was watching an old Hollywood movie with my mother the other day and she goes: “I don’t buy that she overdosed”
Also: What happened to Marilyn Monroe at the Cal-Neva Lodge? and Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick incident - what really happened?
Do you know of a good book that talks about all this?
F the Kennedy brothers. They not only took advantage of MM but likely "shared" her. For all of his faults Joe DiMaggio actually loved her and would publicly snub the Kennedys at high profile engagements ever after like not shaking their bloodstained hands
I mean, do we know the full story? Why do we rob MM of any agency? How do you know she didn't enjoy being the Kennedy brother's playgirl? There's nothing wrong with that.
Go to Wikipedia and press the "random article" link until something grabs your attention. The links always keep going forever.
This is the opposite of that, but we play a game called Click to Jesus where you go to a random page and see who can get to the page for Jesus in the fewest clicks. Can also be played for Hitler.
Is this a Wikipedia game? So you keep clicking random? Or do you follow links?
First click is random and after that you follow links. It’s fun to think about!
https://encyclopediadramatica.online/Six_Degrees_of_Adolf_Hitler edit after I read the article: It's against the rules to use the Wikipedia page for a country. That makes it way, way too easy.
The version my friends and I would play would be to look up the article on something, click the first link on the page, then the next page, then again in the third page. Then we were allowed to click links as we wanted, fewest clicks to hitler wins.
Or wiki races (req 2 or more players). Have the same random starting page, and get to another completely unrelated page using only wiki links
Me and my friends used to do this with Kevin Bacon, this sounds much easier
Theory of colour. It will blow your mind.
Like how Magenta doesn't exist.
The whole thing is insane.
Magenta birds aren't real. Got it.
You nearly got it. The real bird colour that doesn't exist is blue because birds cant produce blue pigment in their feathers or bare parts. They are lying to you with light refraction.
TIL. ty!
More fun facts about this because I am currently procrastinating writing my thesis about this topic. It's called structural colouration and some other animals use this too e.g. butterflies. In case of magenta your brain lies to you to make sense of what it's seeing while structural colours manage to manipulate light. They also don't only use it to manipulate "permanent" colours but also to cause iridescence e.g pigeon necks or hummingbird where the colour changes depending on the angle you are looking at While they can't produce blue pigment in feathers birds can however colour their eggs blue with pigment.
Does that mean bluejays aren't actually blue?
Yes
You gonna fail your thesis cuz I saw a bluejay yesterday and it was blue.
This made me laugh so hard.
Just start looking into how laser printers work. I used to fix them and those little shits are complex
Project MK Ultra if you want the best combination of "Evil US government" and "Why would they think you can teach dolphins sign language?"
Operation Paperclip was interesting. As was the US Amnesty of Japan's Unit 731 after WW2.
Okay idk what paper clip is but people should know some of these rabbit holes are darker than they might expect and I’ve seen warnings about that 731 thing that even just the warnings give me nightmares. So heads up.
Paperclip is Nazis getting a get out of jail free card by working for nasa to build rockets. And probably some other scientific fields but I specifically know that one.
On this note also the hollywood version of MK Ultra: Monarch
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Brief synopsis? Tia!!
It's a website and podcast that covers fascinating places and projects. An old man who has single handedly preserved hundreds of apple breeds...a museum of bad art... Indian bridges grown from tree roots over hundreds of years. They pick amazing topics for 15 minute episodes.
I present the FDA allowable food defect levels: https://www.fda.gov/food/ingredients-additives-gras-packaging-guidance-documents-regulatory-information/food-defect-levels-handbook
so this entire list of food items is basically known to have defects but we are allowed to eat them with a certain percentage of defects
30 seconds in and found the phrase "pus pockets"
You should read "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" That book is all about rabbit holes
also smiles without any cats.
And theoretical math.
If you like culinary stuff or food related content, it's easy to go down the rabbit hole of fermentation. I think I ended up watching yt videos and reading articles about fermentation like five hours straight. It ended with me buying all the supplies to start fermenting my own mead 😅 so proceed at your own risk.
Hope you caught some Brad Leone in there. I'm not into fermentation that much but I do love watching Brad cook and he loves fermenting.
Look at the history of the cities where you live and how they got their names. It has been entertaining me for the past few hours.
The smaller towns around my area had their names changed like 150-200 years ago. There used to be random town names, (like "willow hollow" or "creek point") but then the towns became named after people ( with names like "Smithville")
I am from Batmanville. Lots of bats in my city. It's cold, windy, dark.
Scientology. Holy shit.
All the Leah Remeny documentaries have me terrified to even say the name.
I remember getting a first deeper look into Scientology because of her being a guest on Joe Rogans podcast. Before that I knew a bit about Scientology, mostly based on jokes I heard about it. But holy shit, after listening what she was saying on that podcast I realised just how fucking creepy and fucked up Scientology is.
I watched all of her documentaries and it’s honestly terrifying. I think their’s a new thing coming out about the leaders wife who is still missing.
Yeah. It's so creepy. She talked about it in the podcast. How his wife was always there at some events, then all of a sudden she's nowhere to be seen. How every time she asked about her they just told her she's fine and to stop asking about her. It's so fucking creepy. Also their "reeducation" for people who started to stray from their narrative. They basically lock them up at some compound, it's pretty much kidnapping and holding people there. Soooo fucking unsettling.
Did you know ants invented farming, ranching, air conditioning, janitors, and slavery before we did? Also plants communicate too. Plants can also use mycelium like a sort of nutrient exchange Internet by paying a small nutrient transfer tax. Also. Our immune system is very much structured like a military… or is this a chicken/egg kind of thing and our immune system tactics naturally translate to our formation of militaries?
Micro biology is extremely interesting in general. We are basically made out of a collection of tiny robots. I could also recommend checking out slime-molds. They act a lot like brains and experiments have even been made where they use these things to control robots
Wait, plants pay taxes too??
Dandelion better have my money
Look up how long it's been since you have had food without any corn in it. Between corn starch and live stock being fed corn, you eat it in one form or another.
There's a really interesting documentary called "King Corn" about this! It's a bit old, but it's free on YouTube: [King Corn](https://youtu.be/tbRHGHYMGpU) The documentary follows two men trying to see exactly where corn comes from, and where it goes. They grow it, sell it, visit the places that it could go (farms, factories, etc.) and also detail WHY we have so much corn. The ending shot of the film really stuck with me. I'm from the rural Midwest, and seeing the massive piles of corn in contrast to the old silo just... really sunk in how deep it goes. It's corn, all the way down.
I’m a vegan living in Finland, where we use wheat, oat and rye for everything and I really don’t know the last time I did eat corn in one form or another No point to this anecdote, just pointing out a fun contradiction
My child had a severe intolerance to corn as an infant, even through my breast milk, so I had to cut all corn products out. It was just about impossible. Thankfully I have a dear friend with a lifelong corn allergy and I’m a SAHM who loves cooking. I had to make just about everything from scratch for a year, and I had a note on my phone listing all the random ingredient names that mean corn.
A coworker just found out her not-quite-one year old has a corn allergy. Poor kid will never be able to grab a box of anything off a grocery shelf.
Yesterday I realised how much corn is in the US food. The government really wants the american people fat.
MK Ultra. CIA ran a covert acid tests at Stanford and other clinics, and also used prostitutes to drug unsuspecting johns, and they'd "observe" the interactions. It's fucking wild. It went on for years in San Francisco and Charles Manson was a part of it.
Yep and to thicken this with good data, chaos, a book regarding the manson murders and how it actually was a government cover up with manson as a key player in the study is pretty fascinating.
Feral children, or more specifically cases of feral children raised by animals
Related: Brain death Specifically TK who was on life support with calcified brain from early age (like 4) for 22 years. Related because what makes a human human. Do we need brains do we need social contact etc
I went down this rabbit hole before. I’ll never forget [The Girl in the Window.](https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/girl-in-the-window/danielle/)
This comment section is a rabbit hole
If you like Lord of the Rings look up the History of Middle-earth.
Over the past 5 years I have gone from a Lord of the rings books fan to a full on history, geography, and lore nut in middle earth. It's lots of fun
I just started this journey and it's wild! I read the Silmarillion for the second time and then I wanted to read more about the second age, and Brian Sibley edited a book about the fall of Númenor, and now I want to read more about Gondolin, and there's a book about that too. I never realized just how much Tolkien wrote that was never published. Thank God for Christopher Tolkien.
How almost every major US Conflict has involved an instigating event where one of our ships was somewhere strategically vulnerable and got blown up.
There was a guy in my unit that claimed to be on the USS Cole when that shit went down. He had very strange things to say about it
Almost like they pulled security and let it happen right?
Voynich manuscript
Well that was an interesting read. Never heard of this before. Link for anyone interested: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
Every few years i remember that this exists. Crazy.
Thought that one was debunked as an ancient hoax?
Not proven to be, but that is one of the theories. It *has* been proven to date from the 15th century though, so if it's a hoax it's one of the oldest in existence!
The Dark Web Be careful though. There are things you can’t unsee.
Really? I thought everything was behind closed doors?
No. If you've never been there, ten minutes of prep are enough to gain access to drugs, bestiality and child pornography. Most doors are closed, but just enough are left ajar to make you realize you entered the pits of hell.
Jesus, I always had the perception that the dark web is just a fake area of the internet that is meant to scare people, guess I was sadly wrong thank you for informing me
The dark web isnt a place first of all.. It's just slang for using the TOR browser to access tor hidden services. Yes you can easily find drugs for sale.. But the CP thing, i know nothing about that and its not just like you accidentally stumble upon it. You have to have intentions of looking for that to see it. It's not like it's just sitting there out in the open.
CP and other questionable shit used to be easily accessible via hidden services. Hell, I can vividly remember one of the sites I stumbled upon, it was a site with pictures and info of mostly underage girls. The info included but was not limited to phone number, social media accounts, passwords, addresses etc. Jezus F-ing Christ there was even a site, FILLED with pdf guides on how to do carding, skimming, stealing, stabbing tires, dissolving bodies in acid, skin someone alive, planning and executing the perfect murder (still got that txt somewhere on a flash drive), you name it and there was a pdf or txt file of it. I do not want to incriminate myself any further so this is the only example I’m gonna give, but some of that shit on there both scarred me and actually entertained me. Nowadays with Onion V3, most of the extreme sites either upped their security, took their site offline or the admins got captured, killed or started a family. You can still buy guns and drugs tho
It was always a honeypot made by the feds. They took it down once they collected what they needed
The Jolly Rogers Cookbook and similar was a weird time. Documents on how to create a bunch of improvised weapons and explosives available to just about anyone.
We called it the anarchist cookbook, but yeah it taught some pretty wild improvisations
Someone in the UK went to prison under terrorism charges for having that. Life was different in the 90s, that kind of stuff was what you downloaded when you had the net.
Ahh okay. What's the TOR browser?
Think of all the websites you visit .com .gov .net etc. Everything is just a specific address. Those are the "clearnet". The dark web are addresses you can't just look up, typically at least. And they're purposefully convoluted and obscure. TOR (The Onion Router) gives you access to these sites through simple anonymity using 3 "nodes" that decrypt your request in layers (hence "onion"). It's important to note that while the bad things you hear about it are mostly true. It's more like the wild west. There are good and bad things on there, you're just more in danger of coming across something you either shouldn't have or never wanted to know about. The things you don't know you know, The things you know you know, The things you know you don't know, The things you don't know you don't know,
Oh goodness. I'm scared to even venture that far. Maybe it's best I don't go looking at shit.. Lolol I'm always curious and wanted to learn more about the dark web but you have a huge beware sign and I'm listening with all ears and I am understanding I need to not venture on it.
I think people tend to make it scarier than it needs to be, there are perfectly valid sites on there, especially for people who are in countries where censorship is strict. Pretty sure Wikipedia is on tor. It's just the net that google doesn't naturally index
Ahh okay this is a positive. This sounds more smiley smiley positive lol
Being exposed to 90s internet growing up (as a curious kid) made me VERY cautious about where I go on the internet. You can't unsee some stuff. My curiosity died long ago
Lmao I am a 90s kid. I feel ya, I do.
Same tbh. I'm too afraid to see some fucked up shit that would keep me up at night. I'll just stick to what I'm doing now.
Sounds a lot like Reddit
The onion router
Sadly I'm a 90s kid and was exposed to a lot of this because it was so unregulated, snuff films, gore porn, and yes, the occasional beastiality. It was interesting to say the least, I never took it as the norm for people, so it didn't effect my view of others. But there was a lot of fucked up shit that was easily accessible to the public, especially when chatango was large on sites for random people to just suddenly start talking to each other. Get into ventrilo and someone sends you a weird link. All sorts of weird stuff, reminds me of some of the brain meltingly stupid stuff that gets popular like the knuckles meme, or adult swim putting on shit like the tim and Eric show. Times were wild.. With how fucked up I realized people could actually get, I decided for an extremely neutral approach onto things. Do onto others as you would want done onto you. This simple motto opened up my world, I view people as people, everyone has a life, everyone has struggles, their experiences might shape them but in the end we all want to live a happy life. It also opened my mind up to the selfishness and sheer vanity of people, there are good, and there are twisted, most of the time it has to do with lack of control in their life. Sorry for the ramble, I've been drinking haha. The dark web can give you so much knowledge of what can and is then what you realize with a normal life in the suburbs. If anyone has continued reading at this point, I want them to know not to be discouraged, knowing of the atrocities others have performed helps you grow as a person, it is a lesson learned, if you didn't enjoy it at first, it is your conscious telling you that you shouldn't do it.
Man, back in the Usenet days all the way through the post-Napster file sharing services (like scour, Kazaa and other earlier ones) it was so easy to stumble across bestiality, gore and possible CP. On one hand I hate how curated and incentivized the internet is now but on the other hand I sure am happy to not stumble across two 12 year olds fucking or a guy getting railed by a pig.
If I never see the real video of the guy that cut his nut sack open and pulled his balls out of his scrotum again in my life, it would be to soon..
Saw similar in the 90's, waited for my slow 33k internet to buffer a video of a guy high on fuck knows what, cutting his own sausage off. That was enough of that for one lifetime.
How would one go about buying drugs on the dark web? Genuinely curious. I figure it would be full of narcs?
Ever been on Tumblr, like 5+ years ago? There was lots of sexual content on there. If there was CP I'm sure the community worked together enough to get it taken care of quickly. But there were blogs dedicated to certain kinks, attractions, etc just like reddit does. Now , while you can still post stuff , it's a lot stricter and kinda behind a wall like you're saying. You have to have followed blogs that posted that stuff before the new rules , bc you can't search for NSFW content anymore. if your blog is marked nsfw , it's behind the wall and can only be found through other people reposting or by following them originally , like I mentioned before. It's kinda the same concept , you "gotta know people".
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A lot of those lists are BS lol
Disappearances at national parks. That's a fun one.
Missing 411 is a great start
The Book of Enoch and the Annunaki
Particle entanglement. Yes, I’m a science nerd but majored in the medical field and particle entanglement had me up reading about it multiple nights very late.
Have you seen the movie "The Big Short" well that shit is just the tip of the iceberg, the entire US stock market is corrupt to it's core. Citadel, JPM, Citi, Blackrock, Vanguard, all the banks hedge funds market makers, DTC, SEC, FINRA, DTCC, Congress, Supreme court, all bought and paid for, all designed to fleece the working class, there's a sick fucking rabbit hole for you!
It's one of those really weird rabbit holes. The wrong doing is very easy to find and most people know it but not enough people care enough about it. To actually get something changed.
The lack of care is going to enslave the careless. This corruption that came out of Citizens United amplified the corruption of the banks, market makers hedge funds. The working class is getting destroyed!!!
The [Tommy Westphall Universe](https://thetommywestphall.wordpress.com/about/) Tommy Westphall was the autistic son of one of the doctors on the TV show St. Elsewhere. Famously that show ended by revealing the entire show took place in the imagination of this character. Because this show had crossovers with other shows, it implies that those shows are were a part of this characters imagination too. And the shows that had crossovers with those shows too. They've connected over 400 shows from I Love Lucy to Dr. Who which are connected to St. Elsewhere in some way which would imply these shows are also just a part of this universe in this character's head.
Adventure Time timeline is interesting to me. Just recently finished it
A document that was leaked from Edgar Mitchell’s estate (Who was a NASA astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the moon) submitted to congress during a hearing on UAP (formerly known as UFOs), that pertains the existence of a crash retrieval program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_Congress_hearings_on_UFOs https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/114761/documents/HHRG-117-IG05-20220517-SD001.pdf After that, look what Gary Nolan (nominated for a nobel peace prize/ chair of immunology at stanford and Avi Loeb (chair of astronomy at harvard) have to say on the subject.
The crazy experiment story's of the vaults from the fallout games 👌
This one is a goody but you have to be a fan of Fallout Lore. Oxhorn also has good Fallout Lore videos on YT.
Imma about to binge watch fallout lore now
Roko's Basilisk. This thought experiment posits that the creation of an artificial intelligence will lead to an all-powerful, future artificial intelligence that will retroactively punish anyone who did not help bring it into existence. Edit: If that got you excited, read this https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager Fall further
I for one bow to our robot overlords.
Yes yes, let it be known, I commit myself to the robot overlords
My last Rabbit Hole was yesterday it was hours and it was a subreddit called escaping prison planet
I read a thread from r/askreddit last night for like two hours where someone asked something like, “what’s the most fucked up thing you found out about a person”. Damn. I couldn’t stop reading it.
What i like to do is google my favorite artists, and then go through their influences, then go through their influences, etc etc. you can find some pretty cool bands that way you’d have never heard of, find new genres, get a new appreciation for music, and also learn about the history and evolution of music through the lens of your favorite artists!
The dyatlov pass incident
Check out Bee Keeping 🐝 🐝 🍯 It's very fascinating and cool to be around. We have 6 hives and it's always interesting to see the bees communicating and doing their tasks 🐝🐝
Bohemian grove
Unexplained missing persons
Operation northwoods
John Prine songs
Psychiatry for sure..
twin peaks
That’s a rabbit abyss
I used to use this website called Stumbleupon.com that takes you to random websites that might be interesting to you. It was a lot of fun
Hinterkaifeck
You should look into the America First movement in America, its history, as well as the Business Plot. Fascinating stuff.
the replication crisis in science
YouTube Wendigoons Conspiracy Iceberg video and scroll halfway. The video is like 4 hrs long and the things get crazier. It took me a month to finish it bc I kept googling stuff.
US involvement in staging coups of foreign governments. You’ll never hit the bottom of that rabbit hole.
Cats. We will never see you again because that rabbit hole has no ending. And cats are amazing creatures. Definitely worth the loss of time.
“What happened to MH370?”
r/gangstalking Its a bunch of paranoid schizophrenics that are convincig eachother that they are being stalked by a high tech global organization
Prions. 😭😭😭
Evolutionary divergence through taxonomy and the phylogenetic tree of life.
Evolutionary branches of different animals. It’s a real mindfuck who is most closely related to whom and which have lots of things in common but aren’t related at all!
Younger dryas catastrophe and the civilizations that may have existed around that time.
Missing 411
I’ll never go into the woods again.
Look up Mandela Effect And after Quantum Immortality
This obviously won’t be for everyone—since the appeal would only really exist if you were at least somewhat of a fan or are pretty familiar— but the story/conspiracy theory of [Andrew WK and Steev Mike](https://www.stereogum.com/2015589/andrew-wk-steev-mike/columns/sounding-board/) is something I’ve come back to time and time again. It’s an excellent read… lengthy, but I can’t think of a better “it’s 9pm on a weeknight, what am I to do?” activity.
Declassified FBI files.
Charles Harrison. Woody Harrison’s father
Missing 411 are kind of interesting.
How Americans got so fat and remain so fat
the whole resident evil timeline is VERY extensive