ok well we’re bringing that back obviously
me latibulating
Sam Reich latibulating
Look, if you're starving in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and suddenly someone is like 'oh I have tons of food and it just happens to be meat do you want some lol' you CANNOT act surprised when it's people. You simply CANNOT.
There are times and places where it is realistic to expect NOT to be served people. For example, in a pie shop underneath a barber shop. THEN you can be all 'OH GOD IT'S PEOPLE.'
If you are in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and are suddenly served a really good meat pie, you have to know it's people. Do you see any cows? No, they all apocalypsed. It's your neighbor.
If you're served food in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, ask yourself these questions first:
- Do I trust the person feeding me?
- Is this meat fresh, and if so, have there been any livestock non-apocalypsed recently?
- Have I seen Kevin within the past week?
- Am I willing to commit the penultimate culinary taboo? (The ultimate culinary taboo is putting pineapple on pizza, a crime I regularly commit)
5. how much did i even like kevin, really
Detail from the cover of ‘Dynamic Science Fiction,’ June 1953, Volume 1 No 3, illustrated by Milton Luros
Judgment League Avengers Unlimited.
pencils and colors: Mayday Trippe
inks: Diego Moreno
I'm glad that My Adventures with Superman is having fun and gave us a magical girl-esk transformation sequence.
But it does make me think of the nearly 30 second transformation sequence we got with Green lantern in Green Lantern: First Flight (2009) That was just was just not magical girl-esk, but full magical girl transformation.
Someday I'm gonna open a free seminar on "How To Identify A Liar Or A Thief On Sight" and once the seats are all full I'm gonna open up a PowerPoint and the first slide is gonna just say "You Can't"
like yeah there are some highly effective methods of spotting when someone is lying to your face or planning to pocket something but absolutely none of them are as simple as "refusing eye contact" or "Fidgeting" or "Being homeless" or "Using narcotics" and if you genuinely believe that every single red flag is 100% reliable then what you're doing is actually called Profiling and not only is it unreliable but it's also kind of shitty
MYTHS AND FACTS:
MYTH: Unusual eye contact indicates dishonesty
Strong eye contact is a sign of respect and earnestness in some cultures. It's also a sign or disrespect and defiance in others. Some people change their normal eye contact patterns when they're nervous- but are they nervous of being caught, or of being falsely accused? Neuroatypical people may not instinctively guage how much eye contact is expected or appropriate, or may find that too much or too little eye contact is painful or distracting. This is not a useful meter by which to judge strangers.
MYTH: Twitching and fidgeting is a sign of a guilty conscience
There are a lot of reasons why someone might make sporadic movements like twitching, fidgeting, hand wringing, flapping, bouncing, etc. These can be self-soothing gestures, tics, stims, palsies, disorders, or spasms, and can be due to medical conditions, illnesses, or drug use. None of these things are definitive signs of dishonesty.
TRUTH: You can sometimes spot a lie by lying.
If you wash the dishes, then thank someone for washing the dishes, and they accept the praise, it could be that they're in the habit of lying about that sort of thing, and are caught in that they don't know that you know.
Or, alternatively, they may have a memory issue, or may misunderstand, or may have washed other dishes earlier in the day. They may just not be listening or fully understanding what you've said. Maybe they habitually doubt themselves, or maybe they're trying to appease you.
BUT, I you have enough of your variables covered, a well-placed lie can sometimes, SOMETIMES, catch someone else in one of their own.
This is a difficult method to use on people you aren't familiar with, though, and even if it's someone you know pretty well, it's an incredibly damaging thing to dive into with full confidence- it's manipulative, really, and given that there's a non-zero chance that you're just wrong, I don't reccomend it
TRUTH: The most reliable way to spot a lie is by gathering evidence.
People do all kinds of odd things for all kinds of weird reasons. The easiest and most accurate way to spot a liar or a thief is to observe and record them doing something, then ask them about it, and observe them declare a conflicting statement of events. Only then, after proving that they are of sound mind with full faculties and awareness of their actions, you can safely conclude that they are lying.
Which is part of what makes it so hard.
You cannot record someone without their consent, and being willing to do so over small stakes is.... sort of a weirdly obsessive thing to do, and not something I'd be willing to support unless someone is in physical, mental, or financial danger.
TRUTH:
Every kind of person lies, cheats, and steals, and the ones you watch are the ones you catch.
you know what? fuck you. *unionizes your salt*
hmm. well this was supposed to say uniodizes but i guess im a champion of the salt working class now
it's wild that virtually all modern digital infrastructure is built to constantly spy on us and harvast our data for advertising yet online advertsing is still basically worthless and nobody seems to actually be benefitting from all this
a vast rube goldberg machine of privacy violations all working together to deliver the most precisely targeted ads straight into my adblocker
