Insomaniac Kills Sleep

2) this is a very badly-conceived question unless you're literally only asking like. KIDS. Because that is such a HUGE gap to the point of the question being laughable. A 13yo, the youngest age someone can have an account on tumblr to vote on this poll, would need to have a 52yo friend to vote "yes". By the time they're 16, they'd need to have a 64yo friend. the 18-24 demo is (i believe) the largest on the site. I don't think most 18-24yos have friends in the 72-96yo range.

I'm not saying that's impossible, obviously, but like... it's VERY unlikely. Plus once you pass 29, you officially can simply no longer have a friend 4x your age, given that the oldest (age independently verified) living person is 116.

(side note but shout out to Jeanne Calment of France, 1875-1997, oldest recorded and independently verified person to ever live, at 122 years. She lived on her own until she was 110, met van Gogh when he moved to her hometown of Arles, France when she was a teenager, and recorded a spoken word musical album shortly before she died. Absolutely fantastic.)

- species that all have the same or both genitalia

- species/characters that can change their genitals to be whatever they want at will

- species/characters that change their genitals situationally

- aliens that can reproduce asexually or with anyone from the same species

INTERSEX IS:

- a person/animal/organism/character that is part of a species with two or more distinct sexes (at least within the social constructs of the species), who exists between these binaries (mixed, ambiguous, lacking, or incomplete genitalia, hormone differences, chromosome differences, or differences in/mixed sexual characteristics)

Instead, here are some terms currently being used/proposed:

- Cosexual (both sets of reproductive organs- in current use in biology and botany)

- Bigenital (both sets of genitalia)

- Unigenital (one singular set of genitalia, same across all of the species)

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

Sightings - S3E06 - “Making of a Hoax” - October 16th, 1994

“On past episodes, Sightings investigated video tape of an alleged UFO supplied by an anonymous source known only as ‘Guardian’. At first the so-called Guardian tape of what appears to be a UFO crash-landed looked very convincing. But as we moved deeper into the investigation, our questions started to outnumber the answers...”

Hell yeah we're back in Ontario for another look at my favorite UFO case of all time, Guardian, and how it was a hoax

“What you have is a little rural community in eastern Ontario close to Ottawa called Manion Corners...in 1991, somebody decided they would put together this UFO hoax and put out a video.”

After the mysterious tape was sent to the Sightings offices...

...and also sent to the Unsolved Mysteries offices, who beat Sightings to the air by a week everything looked convincing. Then Guardian sent more "evidence" that...didn't.

The alien photos? Bad. The documents...?

This segment doesn't get into the even more ludicrous claims made in the documents, such as a conspiracy by the aliens to conquer Earth with China's help.

And so an experiment is convened.

First, we're shown how easy it is to generate a convincing looking flying saucer image. Then we proceed to the full demonstration of how to recreate Guardian.

The alien photos, Tim White notes with scorn, are easy to recreate...

...while they use fog machines, a tarp-covered truck, and a model helicopter to try to recreate Guardian.

The result? Not 100%, but not too bad. Later in 1995, MUFON Canada would release a full report claiming the hoax was accomplished with lights strapped to a truck and fingering a local named Bobby Charlebois as the likely identity of Guardian.

We talk with Michael Lindemann of the 20/20 Group; Google pulls up references to this group hyping up legends about underground tunnels, reposted on websites with names like Reptilian Agenda, and differ on if his group is the 2020 Group or the 20/20 Group. He influences Tim White's conclusion, a healthy dose of rationality:

"Some experts now believe Guardian was part of the UFO government's rumored UFO disinformation program. They believe that hoaxes and absurd tabloid headlines are planted by the Pentagon to discredit UFOlogists and to keep the prying eyes of the public away from what they're really doing."

There is very little intrinsic institutional power in queenship. The power a consort, dowager, or queen mother has depends mostly on how much the reigning sovereign (usually a man) is willing to grant her. Needing a queen to serve as regent is exceptionally rare, and the regent is more often a male relative.

Queen regnant: woman who rules in her own right, not on behalf of someone else.

Regent: Someone who temporarily assumes the powers of the monarch on account of the monarch being too young or too incapacitated to govern.

Queen consort: Woman who is married to the monarch.

Dowager queen: Woman who was married to the monarch. The monarch is dead, and she is owed support as his widow.