This is starting to sound kinda... anty.
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I'm astonished by the responses to my post about dowsing. -
Like many places aliexpress has made their search worse.That is probably a bulk set of 12 or something.
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Like many places aliexpress has made their search worse."Maybe it is bad that some of our customers are doing gymnastics to avoid our 'help' ?"
"No they just don't know what they want."
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Like many places aliexpress has made their search worse.This method also circumvents the "regional search parameters" that can often make some of the more interesting products hidden depending on where you are in the world.
I use it to find teapots. Aliexpress assumess since I'm in the US I don't want to see good clay teapots. It shows me what's popular in the US which is generally some of the worse teawares.
This "old school" search gives much better results.
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@futurebird Interesting graphic 👀Where are her middle legs!
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Like many places aliexpress has made their search worse.I think they just have not "updated" this hidden search and that's why it still works.
Excellent for finding electronic parts.
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Like many places aliexpress has made their search worse.Like many places aliexpress has made their search worse. It's cluttered with "promoted items" and it tries to second-guess.
What if you just want to see every product similar to one you are considering? (In particular those being sold at lower prices by sellers who have not paid to have their items promoted?)
There is an easy work around!
Image search.
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I'm astonished by the responses to my post about dowsing.And if it did work, you could harness that power (let's say that dowsing was better than random chance by just a few percent) by simply increasing the number of dowsers. Have 100 people out there with the rods and through the power of statistics you could squeeze certainty from the noise.
No one does this.
One must wonder why.
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I'm astonished by the responses to my post about dowsing.That is why I don't feel like going through the debunking. And there hasn't just been DEbunking. There has also been desperate proper bunking too. People trying their best to show that it works. Because if it did work, even just a little wouldn't it be wonderful?
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I'm astonished by the responses to my post about dowsing.I have a soft spot for rituals. I have a soft spot for myths. I struggle with the ways to keep them around, to treat them with respect without allowing them a place in material decisions that might put us in peril.
I would love it if someone would teach me the art of dowsing. I want to know all about it and buy in for the experience.
But seeing no way it can work, and no evidence but the inconclusive? It shouldn't be taken as a science.
Is that too much to ask?
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I'm astonished by the responses to my post about dowsing.I could chase down the studies on dowsing (which have been done)
I could explain about confirmation bias, gambler's paradoxes and the workings of the human mind.
I could enter the debate.I don't want to do this.
The interface between the mythical and the material can be porous in our minds. Pretending that this isn't the case is a kind of self delusion.
But if there is a hypothesis that can be tested, as with dowsing, I don't have much tolerance for the myth.
We need to let it go.
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I'm astonished by the responses to my post about dowsing.I'm astonished by the responses to my post about dowsing. Not only is dowsing alive and well, it's wormed its way into the work of police departments and water sanitation.
Likewise many people swear up and down that the experience of dowsing is intrinsically compelling and if I'd just try it I'd feel this and maybe be a bit less certain that it is nonsense.
After all we do not know everything about the world.
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These men would be so much happier and things would be better generally if there were some way to enforce a rule so that all wars had to be fought only with technology from before the industrial revolution.These men would be so much happier and things would be better generally if there were some way to enforce a rule so that all wars had to be fought only with technology from before the industrial revolution.
There is no sensible way to do this. And too much is at stake. So warfare will continue to "modernize" that is we find ways to make each other dead for a lower cost, more efficiently.
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By far the largest ship graffiti yet found on Anglesey (see my foot, at upper right, for scale).Why is there graffiti of ships in particular?
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Funny part is the camera motion classification kept labeling the bugs as "pet"@Em @Alice_Swaggen @gnomon @lmorchard @nev
Japan is more likely.
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Funny part is the camera motion classification kept labeling the bugs as "pet"@Em @Alice_Swaggen @gnomon @lmorchard @nev
Soon after the following advances through the door.
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Are there still people who think dowsing works?OK but I get "blown away" when I do my magic spell to find things even though I know exactly how it works.
myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)
@thestrangelet@beige.party 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!
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Another water drop done and another silly saguaro en route. -
How old would you guess this girl is? -
Funny part is the camera motion classification kept labeling the bugs as "pet"