alekwithak @ alekwithak @lemmy.world

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The Berenstain Bears mandela effect definitely predates Harambe. And though I certainly believe I remember the cornucopia, I'm willing to admit there could be a valid explanation for that. But The Berenstain Bears... That one keeps me up at night.

I know it is actually Bearenstain and if it was ever any different then there would be evidence, and that mandela effects are just a version of urban legends that play on peoples susceptibility to implanted memory, but I know it was Bearenstein.

I was an extremely pedantic and detail oriented child who loved to read and only had so many books. I still vividly recall many nights spent secretly awake studying the covers of those books, tracing the letters and reading and rereading the stories, thinking the bears must be Jewish like me even though they act very Christian. I had a few tapes as well and if they had a different title I was exactly the child who would notice and be upset about it. And speaking of I also remember the day my world was rocked by this revelation. Prior to it becoming a meme, back before the name 'mandela effect' was coined I came across one of the books and immediately caught the spelling. I dug up as many items as I could find and they all had the same spelling. I never felt so betrayed by my reality. I turned to the Internet for support but there wasn't much discourse on it at the time, at least not that I could find. Now I'm being told I'm misremembering, but there is not a doubt in my mind they were The Berenstein Bears.

Most purported mandela effects are clearly just people misremembering, but I will die on Berenstein hill.

That's the narrative pushed by Russia anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

I love to read. I have picked up Walden multiple times. I cannot for the life of me get through it. Thoreau is thorough in his writing, if nothing else.

Lol, I swear I posted mine at least slightly before yours. I was looking up an image of the original hat to reply to another user in that thread when I saw our joke.

And besides...

But you can have half the upvotes this post received if you feel wronged.

Eternal September:

"A cultural phenomenon during a period beginning around late 1993 and early 1994, when Internet service providers began offering Usenet access to many new users."

"The flood of new and generally inexperienced Internet users directed to Usenet by commercial ISPs in 1993 and subsequent years swamped the existing culture of those forums and their ability to self-moderate and enforce existing norms. AOL began their Usenet gateway service in March 1994, leading to a constant stream of new users.

Hence, from the early Usenet community point of view, the influx of new users that began in September 1993 appeared to be endless."

Avert your eyes, beast!

Finally a decent gift idea for all the maga chuds in our lives.

I believe it's a hat making fun of this popular hat (wtf???):

But your loose translation works for either.

Funny, this is the first I've heard of it.

32-19. Still gross.

The internet of my childhood was pretty awesome. All the TV channels I liked to watch had a bunch of amazing games that were absolutely free, sometimes you could join a kid-friendly chatroom with a big celebrity like Vitamin C. You could download whatever song or movie you wanted and half the time it was even labeled correctly. You didn't have to search for anything, just type what you want and add a ".com" to the end and nine times out of ten it's exactly what you are looking for. If you couldn't find it Jeeves or Lycos could help. You could chat with your friends and 'meet' their friends, or just show off how cool the lyrics to the music you listen to are. The internet wasn't free of idiots or trolls, but most of the riff-raff of humanity had not yet discovered it, or it was too "nerdy' for them. When Myspace first came on the scene there were only three pages of people 'near me' and I knew half of them irl, and this was in massively overpopulated South Florida. Later I would come to know almost all of them IRL because the Internet used to bring people together. Now I don't even want to use any social media that's used by people I know IRL. There is nothing free without heavy microtransactions and/or data collection. It was never a great place for kids, but now I wouldn't let a kid near it unsupervised. The only thing that's really improved much is the piracy. I almost never accidentally download Shrek anymore.

No but RVs and Campers do and they keep the drain plugs attached via plastic.

Ah, the HTC Evo 4G. The GOAT.

Yep, the feature was introduced in Froyo*, but there were third party apps that enabled the functionality even before that. It's how I got through college.

Not even remotely true. Disney pulled the episode in March 2019 after the HBO documentary Leaving Neverland premiered.

I literally did lol

"I heard one of the mums say "why did you do that in front of my child?" and he said "it's vermin, you should teach your children about vermin"

I said 'why did you do that' and he just shrugged his shoulders and walked away'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5969923/amp/Pensioner-KILLS-seagull-grabbing-feet-swinging-wall-stole-chip.html

Sounds like a great guy. He's lucky to have you here defending him for some reason.

Wtf is this argument? Swinging things applies other forces besides your own power and speed, and since you brought up those two forces you must realize there's a minimum of both that must be applied in order to swing an object properly and you'd also know full well as Newton's third law of motion dictates that when said swinging object meets the object at rest that the sum of those forces will be exerted back onto the swinging object. Every choice made equals bird death. He didn't flick it on the nose, he didn't show it up slightly, he didn't swing it into some software brush or a beach ball or an elastic fence, he swung it into a brick wall. A + B = C. Anything else is just conjecture on your end, made in some vain attempt to justify brutish thuggery just because the victim was an animal you don't respect.

Try it yourself. Get about two feet of rope or something. Tie an egg to the end. See exactly how much speed and power you have to use to get it to properly swing. Then swing it into a brick wall and try not to break the egg. Make sure to film the attempt, I'd love to see it.

Because killing animals, especially over petty shit, and especially especially in front of others while disregarding their reactions is literally psychopath shit. Your insistence that this is some kind of 'Phy Op' just makes you look like one, too. Edit: and to call people out for 'glowing' is not helping your case, either.