only the very occasional YouTuber will acknowledge that “sometimes people just do weird shit for no reason” is the most likely explanation for the MAJORITY of famous “mysteries” including extremely disturbing or creepy stuff like apparent crime scene photos. that big SOS sign in the woods made of logs? that’s something someone, even a normal person, spends a few days doing for no reason because it’s fun, never thinking of the potential negative downstream effects and then if they hear it became a problem later?? the majority of normal people will NEVER admit to it because they don’t want to get yelled at. it’s impossible to prove that’s what happened but it’s a strong, strong contender
other stuff i think is usually or often just stuff people did for no reason or for reasons so esoteric they are functionally meaningless: most paleolithic art. most runic inscriptions. many henges of various kinds. most large scale modern day art mysteries including the Toynbee tiles. the guy who made a huge throne in a storage locker out of candy wrapper foil. Henry darger’s work but in a complicated way i can’t really explain. DEFINITELY the voynich manuscript like i take one look at that thing and immediately think “a weird guy had a nice time on this project for his own personal amusement” like that is the vibe absolutely.
call this Gauger’s Razor: until the artist admits to or can be proven to have been doing something intentionally, assume they were just fucking around
if you look at a list of discovered inscriptions (on Wikipedia or one of the online rune databases) the majority of runic inscriptions are shit like “comb” scratched into a comb. in fact the most recent inscription discovered appears to be someone doing the equivalent of loopily practicing their own signature on a big rock, complete with just deciding to stack up the B rune in multiple locations on the boulder for no reason (not a bindrune or mirror rune, just someone who thought BBB looked cooler than B). the runic inscriptions that are curses, grave markers, etc, are significantly in the minority
A few years ago, archeologists discovered a previously undocumented standing stone assembly in a field in Scotland. Later, it was discovered that it was actually built in the 90s by a bored farmer, who did such an exceptional job replicating the regional style as to fool trained archeologists, and then never told anyone about it for thirty years.
I mean the pyramids were fundamentally some fucks stacking up blocks in a way they thought looked cool
The increased ratio of parents I see walking their kids home past my window vs. plausible adolescents is accounted for by learning the nearby school has gone from K-8 to K-6
Girlboy with a he/him pin on one sleeve and a she/her pin on the other. Two people sitting on either side of her aggressively correcting each other on his pronouns
Alright great, the one part of the mimosa I wanted to have trimmed around power lines the power company just sent some guys by with a bucket truck to chop
This incidentally means that for the first time since moving in, all the trees on the property are up to date on trimming and will just need new growth pruned every year (and I guess like the occasional culling of 1 of 3 major subtrunks serving a patch of canopy once 2 develop enough to split it between them)
They did take off a horizontal branch I was enjoying developing, but their reasoning was clearing the way for a pole to be tilted up as replacement and yeah that was in the way
Alright great, the one part of the mimosa I wanted to have trimmed around power lines the power company just sent some guys by with a bucket truck to chop
This incidentally means that for the first time since moving in, all the trees on the property are up to date on trimming and will just need new growth pruned every year (and I guess like the occasional culling of 1 of 3 major subtrunks serving a patch of canopy once 2 develop enough to split it between them)
And oh, this last week with symptoms echoing I’ve been rather brusque with people and honestly a little instrumentally minded with girls, I wonder if that isn’t further evidence that one of the cases symptoms I hadn’t pinned down was increased testosterone
That one might even have been there since the first case, would give some context to that time I brought three different girls home from the bar in a week despite never doing that before
For most intents and purposes, I was infected by Manliness, really
Honestly, have you thought of telling one of the universities in town?
“I, an academically uncertified nonspecialist, have self-derived insight into this major medical issue” seems to be the kind of thing institutions are specifically armored against, really
Like, talking about it here, where I know I’m upstream of some people who are upstream of a lot of things, is probably the most useful thing I can do to spread anything
And oh, this last week with symptoms echoing I’ve been rather brusque with people and honestly a little instrumentally minded with girls, I wonder if that isn’t further evidence that one of the cases symptoms I hadn’t pinned down was increased testosterone
That one might even have been there since the first case, would give some context to that time I brought three different girls home from the bar in a week despite never doing that before
For most intents and purposes, I was infected by Manliness, really
Honestly, have you thought of telling one of the universities in town?
“I, an academically uncertified nonspecialist, have self-derived insight into this major medical issue” seems to be the kind of thing institutions are specifically armored against, really
"Alright great, the one part of the mimosa I wanted to have trimmed around power lines the power company just sent some guys by with a bucket truck to chop" Good ah great or sarcastic ah great, good or bad because they're going to chop all of it or too much of it or something?
Like no, it’s great. A professional crew prepared for that exact task showed up for free without requiring any initiative on my part.
Alright great, the one part of the mimosa I wanted to have trimmed around power lines the power company just sent some guys by with a bucket truck to chop
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