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@thestrangelet

I'm not just being annoying and making fun of spells. This works and it FEELS like magic. Whenever I can't find something at school I start drawing it. Then I find it a moment later.

@thestrangelet

I have a magic ritual to find a lost object.

1. Carefully draw the lost object, every detail, think about it carefully and render it as best you can on paper.
2. Hang up the paper with the words "has anyone seen this? I can't find it."
3. You will soon find the object.

(And it may not be because someone finds it for you. You will be better primed to spot it by doing the drawing exercise.)

magic!

@nazokiyoubinbou @FediThing

I think this was the thing that made me a dowsing hater.

I forgot about the event but the hate remained. Charging people MONEY to feel safe from bombs over this BS.

Throw them all in a pit.

@FediThing

"tactical black" dowsing rods. I'm so mad.

@FediThing

OMG

I read about this. I remember reading about it *now* but I was so annoyed and upset about it that I blotted it out of my memory.

@michaelgemar @alexwild

Yes they have depth perception.

(found a better link where you can see a pdf of the paper which is very cool... not just the abstract)

However I was pretty confident this would be the case because of the way some ants can jump over gaps. How could you jump over a gap without knowing how wide it is?

ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable

(www.researchgate.net)

@michaelgemar @alexwild

So maybe not the best word choice. But her eyes are specialized.

@michaelgemar @alexwild

Not really? I think most of them can get both eyes on you at once, it's more that her eyes are bigger and better positioned to target things in-front of her rather than just providing a general sense of what's around her.

@MedeaVanamonde @alexwild

Poor Myrmecia have resting grumpy face.

@alexwild

This is a nice angle that shows her binocular* vision. She is a little hunter.

*see rest of discussion

@alexwild

Do you think they recognize you? It's gotta be like getting photographed by Steve McCurry or something.

@allrite

"The West"

@josh0

I don't know what I expected.

Nonsense never dies I guess.

IDK why dowsing in particular makes me angry. I will listen to someone tell me about how they saw bigfoot with far more patience. (Won't believe it, but I'll be nice about it. )

@josh0

oh

ok.

Are there still people who think dowsing works? It used to be rampant in the UK and US... and lingered on for longer than you'd think (there are two Time Team episodes where they gently debunk it, rather than either ignore or body slam it as I'd expect.)

But I also know it was big in the US.

Are people still creeping around claiming they can find things with bendy sticks?

There is some lesson about LLMs in the fact that my cat didn't care about the plastic cat until I *treated* it like it was a cat.

Then she wanted to get involved.

It helps that I have a very faint natural white stripe and a few gray hairs around. But I want the full stripe.

Just re-did my white stripe dye job. My nephew said "you look like a mad scientist with that" and I've never been so complimented and pleased in my life.

It is NOT easy to dye black hair gray. I have to bleach it three times then do color correction. But it lasts for 6 weeks so worth it.

@subjacentish

Gambling is destroying The Family and also why fast food is expensive.

@Ambulocetus @jetlagjen

"I can't use it anymore, identity theft."

Never had anyone push back on this one.