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[Great Order]

What kind of half-arsed coup are they running in South Korea?

[pisskop]

That's the fun part.  Is China doing a thing?  Is Kim Jung Awesome smarter than all the haters?  Will we ever get another Gungam Style?

[heydude6]

So, I was watching a youtube video discussing the history of unethical government experiments in America, and inevitably it got to a discussion of Project MK Ultra, the CIA's attempt at inventing mind control.

As you hopefully know, one subset of those experiments involved the CIA dosing hundreds of people with LSD without their consent and then observing the effects. One account in the video described someone being trapped in a chamber with bright lights and interrogated while on LSD.

And suddenly it clicked for me.

American UFO abduction stories were just survivors of MK Ultra who were too disoriented by the drugs to see what really happened! People have historically described abduction stories sounding similar to LSD, only to then to be confused about how those people got LSD in the first place. But now we have an explanation! Project MK ULTRA! Obviously the CIA targeted lonely nobodies whose story would be impossible to verify! The time periods line up! You don't hear stories about alien abductions during the great Depression!

Your standard "Grey" alien is just a guy wearing sunglasses whose head is being distorted by the fish eye effect caused by some psychedelics!

It makes perfect sense! And if Google is to believed this theory isn't widespread knowledge. How has nobody stumbled upon this solution to one of the 20th Century's greatest mysteries sooner?

EDIT: According to ChatGpt (seriously, google has fallen so much that I have to rely on AI these days), many alien abduction stories post-date the end of Project MK Ultra. That's pretty damning evidence against my theory. Some abductions do line up with MK Ultra though, maybe these were the originals that inspired copy cats. I do still believe there is a link, if perhaps only an indirect one.

I'm still leaving this up because I do still think the insights here are valuable.

[wobbly]

I wonder what the record for shortest period of martial law is? Because 155 minutes has to be up there.

[King Zultan]

Damn it South Korea you're supposed to be the sane one!

[Yoink]

Omg, Hellmoo was mentioned a page ago! That's crazy.

[anewaname]

I'm not sure South Korea was ever the sane one. Their law and society may be more democratic, but because of the frozen conflict with the north, they have to be ready to go from "just living" to "fight or flee" in a moment, so they cope by putting higher ratios of drama in everything. It is a national side-dish...

[Starver]

I wonder what the record for shortest period of martial law is? Because 155 minutes has to be up there.

There was an entire war that was a quarter of that length... (Though I can't find a definitive list of ML declarations that might include any other "I declare... Oh. Never mind..." instances.)

[wobbly]

I'm not sure South Korea was ever the sane one. Their law and society may be more democratic, but because of the frozen conflict with the north, they have to be ready to go from "just living" to "fight or flee" in a moment, so they cope by putting higher ratios of drama in everything. It is a national side-dish...

Now I'm trying to remember whether Korea is one of the countries where you can find footage of massive punch-ups/brawls in parliaments.

[JoshuaFH]

I thought that was Taiwan. Yeah, just typing in Taiwan autocompletes to Taiwanese Parliament Fight.

[Loud Whispers]

Please remember, coup d'etads are illegal. Getting overthrown by a dictator? Just vote NO. Dictators cannot coup you without your consent



In other news, ppl have been shitposting about the health insurance CEO who got shot. Ex-military anons conjectured that the way the shooter attacked in broad daylight, cycled his gun's chamber manually (indicating subsonic ammunition) and used what looked like a reproduction welrod silencer meant this was premeditated by an actual assassin and not just a random attack. Real Boeing whistleblower level shenanigens. The CEO's family say it's hard to tell who killed him or why given that he received so many death threats related to people denied health coverage that there are too many suspects

[Great Order]

Had a weird tickle in my ear, the one that's clogged. Took off my headphones, gave it a gentle prod with my finger, and dark amber liquid, I assume super liquidy earwax, was on the end of it.

I can only assume some of the earwax softener got caught and managed to steadily dissolve its way through over the course of the day, but still a bit weird.

[Akura]

I just noticed I've got a ringing in my ear. Doesn't appear to be wax, either.

[Great Order]

Might just be tinnitus, most everyone gets it sooner or later.

[JoshuaFH]

I've been thinking up "Social Anxiety Curses" that I think would be too awful to live through:

Curse of the Ignorant Outsider: a new social more/tradition is created, and everyone, including newborn babies, automatically knows it... except for you, and nobody will EVER tell you. This new more is something complex and cannot be easily discerned through observation or trial-and-error. If you don't adhere to the social more, people will be irrationally upset to the point of straining friendships and ruining your professional life. People will think you're utterly stupid or purposefully inflammatory for not adhering to the more. If you ask, nobody can or will explain it to you; if you capture someone and torture them to force them to explain it to you, the best answer they'll ever give you is "IT'S OBVIOUS! EVERYONE KNOWS! HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW?!?!?". The moment you do figure it out, a new more is created and you start back over from zero.

Curse of Telepathy for Humanity: This curse is that everyone, except you, has a form of telepathy that lets them communicate perfectly without speech over any distance. You have to live the rest of your life adapting this new world where nobody exchanges words any more, and finding that they have to use their old language to communicate with you, you find that they're slowly forgetting how to speak. So as the decades pass, the small pool of people you can still communicate with can only speak with increasingly deteriorating verbal skills, until they're like infant children that only remember a few words at best.