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Men in Black is a documentary
never seen men in black
Cool, you really have to see the first one!
Panspermia
uhhh should i google this
Fractional banking is fraudulent.
what does fractional banking mean
@5c508c34 just saw this. I should have been more clear and stated “fractional reserve banking”. That said, here is a definition from Investopedia: “What Is Fractional Reserve Banking? Fractional reserve banking is a system in which only a fraction of bank deposits are required to be available for withdrawal. Banks only need to keep a specific amount of cash on hand and can create loans from the money you deposit. Fractional reserves work to expand the economy by freeing capital for lending. Today, most economies' financial systems use fractional reserve banking.” The key point being that banks ‘promise’ depositors (creditors) they can withdraw ‘on demand’, but then only keep a fraction available lending it out to others for a period of time (locking it up in time). The conspiracy: This is actually a fraudulent practice as the bankers are effectively stealing the depositors time. The market will self correct through ‘bank runs’ but then the State often bails these out. So, is it actually a fraudulent practice and should be outlawed?
I dunno if it’s considered a conspiracy, but I like the idea of the nine worlds (realms) in Norse mythology. The Poetic and Prose Edda are on my TBR pile 🙏🏽
The world really needs a Stephen Fry re-telling of the Edda, like what the Hellenic myths received in Mythos and Heroes. Eshara, you're in his city, please make this happen :p
That Disney made the movie frozen because when you google ‘Disney frozen‘ you don’t get result about Walt’s frozen head
There's no way dinosaurs could have supported their body weight in current gravity. Just look at an elephant, it can barely manage. Dinosaurs were 10x the mass, and elephant sized ones were supposed to be agile hunters. The basic problem is that mass scales as a cube while strength scales with the cross section area of muscles, ie a square. Not just dinosaurs either, plants and insects were far more massive. Most plausible explanation I've heard is that the earth has expanded since - picking up mass from space and increasing gravity. This would also explain a bunch of unanswered questions in geology.
