Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Nothing exemplifies the riddle of CVS better than the Airborne poster inside the vaccination booth. The booth is where you enjoy the fruits of science keeping you healthy, right next to this fake immune boosting snake oil poster on the divider. 2/2 040
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Somehow, despite the Forces of Stupid running everything, I just got my Covid shot and a flu shot at CVS. They do a wonderful job at vaccinating the public and a terrible job by ripping the public off with their pointless and costly cleanses and immune boosters and other quackery. 1/2 030
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 27/08/2025In other news, the local ham radio group is advertising upcoming events that took place last March. 020
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Barre chord drudgery has been holding the world back. This is just what we, or at least I, need. 120
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 29/04/2025It starts off responses with “Ah” more than seems necessary. 000
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Right what a gig. Is that a fairlight they’re playing I can’t remember. 110
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 14/03/2025I routinely re-watch the scene from Close Encounters where Roy sets zapped in his utility truck at the train crossing. Best scene in the film IMHO. Why oh why can't that happen to me? 110
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Right-o! That's why they're unidentified aerial phenomena. 010
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025That wacky Brian made a whole dang movie about UAPs. He likes to draw in true believers with his titles. skeptoid.com/episodes/4866skeptoid.comWhat THEY Don't Want You to Know About UFOsSome great ways to think about all the current UFO craze. 110
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Jake, in the world of music theory, you, Tyler Bartram and Adam Neely are the shizzle. In the world of UAPs, it's Mick West and Brian Dunning. I'm guessing that you, with your analytical skills, might enjoy the world of scientific skepticism. Take it away, Mick! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev9Q...youtube.comSolved: Mile-Long Mothership UFO (Starlink)YouTube video by Mick West 310
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025And get the eggheads triumphed in the end, didn’t they? By providing definitive, evidence based explanations for all these things rather than the easy scary story and arched eyebrows, and what are they hiding from us and so forth. 100
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I guess I might be piling on a little bit by pointing out that the fiery rocks were explained by the storytellers of the day as all kinds of things right? Angry gods, fairies, you name it. Today it’s giant spaceships. 110
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025That’s right. The exact nature of this fiery rocks was eventually proven by scientific method. I do take your point about the supernatural though. Once it’s verified, it becomes natural. 110
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Yeah, and all of those legit observations that were marked and called crazy were proven by guess what? Scientific method. Yay science! 100
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025 It is indeed worthy of scientific inquiry. That inquiry is known as the Fermi paradox. It asks, why is there no proof of any of this? Given scale of the universe of habitable planets, where is everybody? 110
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025You know what would end that? Any sort of unambiguous evidence of some supernatural phenomena. It just never happens. 100
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I’ll just make a point again that I, and I’m sure other skeptics, with thoroughly well to see some kind of unambiguous indication of supernatural phenomenon. I’m sure I would literally jump for joy. It just never happens. All we get is this weak sauce of half seen half baked nothingness. 100
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025That would be fine if we did in fact, lack conventional explanations. We don’t. This like most of all the other UAP observations is fully explainable by everyday phenomena, and it has been explained. 100
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025The principals might be wearing suits or uniforms or sitting in marbled halls of government with wood paneling and so forth. But the storytelling never rises above unverifiable anecdotes that amount to basically “someone seen something!” 010
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I don’t think there’s anyone who would love to interact with an alien being or a ghost or a reptoid more than those of us who subscribe to the world of logical fallacies and skepticism. It just never happens. All we get are more campfire stories. 010
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025I don’t mean to have an answer for everything here and I’m sorry if I’m coming off like I know it all. It’s 2025. We millions and millions of cameras, radars telescopes, satellites and sensing devices. What do we have that unambiguously indicates the existence of extraterrestrial craft? Zero. 010
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Right that’s one of the basic problems with this giant spaceship. We can either reproduce the result nor falsify it. In other words there’s no way to prove this wasn’t a giant spaceship. So what we have is uncontrolled observations with no control group no reproduceability and no falsifiability. 100
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Well, I’m going to be one of those tedious people that always places their confidence in scientific method. 🤷 100
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025What I’d like to know is with regard to this giant spaceship and Bigfoot and spirits and so forth is why they’re always half-seen in ambiguous fashion usually with a prosaic explanation. Why don’t these entities ever just walk into the room sit down pour a cup of coffee and say yeah hi it’s me? 110
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025What are the real facts? The only fact that we know is that lot of people claim to have seen something that they didn’t understand. I don’t really think you have to be glib to dismiss the notion of a giant spaceship hovering around Phoenix based on that, but that’s just my opinion. 100
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025So in the world of logical fallacies, that’s an appeal to authority. And authorities tell stories too. The other portion of this tale is attributable to the bandwagon effect. 000
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025But when you think about it, all we have are anecdotes. Stories. A lot of them. Which is pretty much the usual case when it comes to all uaps, ghosts, cryptozoology etc. In my opinion, the core debate is why we are so eager embrace the mystical and counterfactual. 110
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 13/03/2025It would be so lovely to believe in things like this. And ghosts and magic and all kinds of other phantasmagoria appealing phenomena. However, the Phoenix lights has been well and truly debunked. Here’s the relevant Skeptoid episode. Mick West has also analyzed it. skeptoid.com/episodes/4041skeptoid.comThe Alien Invasion of Phoenix, ArizonaDespite what many UFOlogists want, the famous Phoenix Lights were not alien spacecraft. 220
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 12/03/2025I really worry about string trimmers everywhere. All that plastic string doesn’t just disappear. It’s kind of left right where it’s used. 020
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 10/03/2025No, what happens is, once you learn to pronounce it, it becomes harmless. That’s just science. 🤔 000
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Come on God, you can come up with something less shopworn and hackneyed than that. I mean, you are God right? Surely you don’t need to repeat the tiredest joke on earth. 000
Reposted by KevpodOfficial Account of Puzzle in a Thunderstorm @piatpod.bsky.social · 03/02/2025#GodAwfulMovies 492: “The Earthing Movie” (2018) with special guest masochist Steve Novella is ready on @Patreon. 🔊: www.patreon.com/posts/121423... This week, Dr. Steve Novella joins us in learning that medicine has been a waste of time all along.patreon.comThe Earthing Movie | God Awful MoviesGet more from God Awful Movies on Patreon 1312
Reposted by KevpodKleber Victor #followback @kleber-victor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025A stars massive outburst captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. 📽: NASA/ESA 773673439
Reposted by KevpodUniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Just simply wow 💫😲💫😲💫😲💫 Millions of galaxies using real data from the DESI telescope (Dark Enegy Spectroscopy) mapping entire superclusters of the observable Universe. 1376785
Kevpod @kevpod.bsky.social · 01/12/2024This is sort of like something I’m trying to do right now on my first classically instrumented excursion in logic pro 11.1. 110
