Everyday anomalies

exchemist said:
So Google is reading your posts and/or my replies on this forum. Creepy or what?
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That message was on my phone, and my Google feed pops up as default home screen in Chrome. So it probably read my test as I was typing/posting.

Yes, creepy.

What's even spookier (cuz ghosts! - gotta stay in-topic) is when I get ads on social media about things I have only talked about in-person (getting a cat), not on my phone.

Subsequently, the mystery was solved when it was revealed that, after talking about cats (with my wife), she had Googled local rescue centres. Facebook figured out (without our help) that we are close in real life, and its algorithm thinks that, if she's Googling something, I should too.

These social media algorithms have incredibly rich and sophisticated port folios about us that we don't even know about ourselves.

I'd say that's even creepier.

(I once had Facebook make a friend suggestion to me out-of-the-blue: a past shrink / career coach. I was shocked and livid that it knew and leveraged such confidential behaviour and posts it on the feed.

The only way I think it could possibly have known is by watching my GPS when I visited their office - which is a private residence - ten miles away.)
 
DaveC426913 said:
That message was on my phone, and my Google feed pops up as default home screen in Chrome. So it probably read my test as I was typing/posting.

Yes, creepy.

What's even spookier (cuz ghosts! - gotta stay in-topic) is when I get ads on social media about things I have only talked about in-person (getting a cat), not on my phone.

Subsequently, the mystery was solved when it was revealed that, after talking about cats (with my wife), she had Googled local rescue centres. Facebook figured out (without our help) that we are close in real life, and its algorithm thinks that, if she's Googling something, I should too.

These social media algorithms have incredibly rich and sophisticated port folios about us that we don't even know about ourselves.

I'd say that's even creepier.

(I once had Facebook make a friend suggestion to me out-of-the-blue: a past shrink / career coach. I was shocked and livid that it knew and leveraged such confidential behaviour and posts it on the feed.

The only way I think it could possibly have known is by watching my GPS when I visited their office - which is a private residence - ten miles away.)
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Hmm. I really don't like this stuff. I got out of Linked In when I realised it was reading my address book without permission. It was jolly difficult to extract myself too. They don't make the process easy, just as Amazon makes it hard to dodge accidentally signing up for Prime, and even harder to unsign if you do make that mistake. So now I only use Amazon when all other options have failed, which is about twice a year. And I'm a Faecebook/X/What's App refusenik and intend to stay that way. The only social media I subscribe to are 2 science forums, plus YouPube, on which I do occasionally post comments. That's a Google product so it's probably risky. So what I do there is (counterintuitively) use my real name, which makes me very circumspect about what I respond to and how. And I use Duck Duck Go as my search engine, on the possibly naïve basis that it won't track me, or not so much. These guys and their algorithms can stay the F out of my personal life. Grrr.
 
DaveC426913 said:
I find Bigfoot/Yeti/Saskatchewan far more plausible than ghosts and aliens.

We are encountering new species all the time that have been hiding right under our noses.

Cryptids require no new aspects of nature (such as other dimensions or alien critters) we don't already observe.

Don't get me wrong, this doesn't mean I actually do believe they exist - I still like extant evidence - simply that their implausibility factor is much much lower than more paranormal claims.

(Besides, I read Crichton's "Eaters of the Dead", and I know how recent are the extinctions of hominid cousins to H.sapiens)

Heh. This just showed up in my Google feed:
https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/sapiens-neanderthal-interbreeding/
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That’s interesting. I guess there are more tangible/physical “findings” for these claims, even though it’s been refuted as evidence for Bigfoot, as opposed to the anecdotal evidence around paranormal activity and alien spacecraft sightings. And the idea of aliens visiting Earth is a bigger leap to make than there’s a mysterious creature lurking in under-explored forests. (Yet someone still manages to snap a blurry pic.) But, I still think it’s rooted in folklore.
 
Dr. Jane Goodall weighs in on Bigfoot sightings..

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wegs said:
I guess there are more tangible/physical “findings” for these claims, even though it’s been refuted as evidence for Bigfoo
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Sure, but evidence isnt what I'm basing it on. None of these have any credible extant physical evidence, so it's even there.

But there were nonhuman hominids in our very recent past. This is fact. So the stretch is merely: have they survived? It's a small stretch, way way smaller than ghosts or alien UFOs.
 
Would HSS recognize HNS as being a "different species"? I suspect they wouldn't, because there wasn't that much difference between the two and as cross-breeding wasn't impossible the mixed blood people would hardly be differentiated.
 
DaveC426913 said:
They can interbreed, yes.

And, in fact, have. We have between 1% and 4% HN DNA in us right now.
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Yes. People with European and Asian ancestry have the most Neanderthal DNA. People of African descent have very little. This fits the “out of Africa” hypothesis for the evolution of homo sapiens sapiens, whereby they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals on leaving Africa.

(Don’t suppose the white supremacists will find this congenial :biggrin:)
 
exchemist said:
Yes. People with European and Asian ancestry have the most Neanderthal DNA. People of African descent have very little. This fits the “out of Africa” hypothesis for the evolution of homo sapiens sapiens, whereby they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals on leaving Africa.

(Don’t suppose the white supremacists will find this congenial :biggrin:)
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The Y-donor was a Kluxxer so I can say "Yeah, you'd get buried somewhere remote."
 
Ghostly figure captured on video near Bear Creek NC. No one else around when the video was taken. And not a vape cloud as it can be seen moving behind a tree. Figure begins to vanish at the end of the video. Solid proof ghosts manifest in the daytime too.

 
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Full body apparition caught on IR video walking in some trees in a graveyard. A comparison is made with video of an actual person to show that the apparition is not solid like they are. Excellent evidence! Happy Ghostober!

"The TAPS Team from Syfy's show Ghost Hunters captured a possible ghost in a graveyard on IR camera. On the surface, this seems to be some pretty good evidence, but the video quality is so poor it is hard to say for sure. what does everyone think?"

 
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