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[–] athos77@kbin.social 76 points 10 months ago (2 children)

lmao. There was some show I saw, I think it was on the History Channel. They were at some river in the South and they spent the entire episode with some guy who insisted that there was a giant 10-foot catfish in the river (maybe multiple giant catfish? I can't remember), and that the catfish was responsible for the various pets and occasional people who went missing and were never found. They went off and talked with ichthyologists who talked about limits on catfish sizes, and I forget who else, exploring all the edge cases which might allow a giant ten foot catfish to live in the river. And at the end of the episode, they're talking to the guy again, going over their findings that it's possible, theoretically at least, that at a very very edge case, this giant catfish might exist, and the guy was like, "I knew it! Everyone around here keeps sayin' it's the alligators, but I jes' knew it was th' catfish!"

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All an idiot needs is the teeniest tiniest iota of plausibility and all their preconceived notions are true and correct in their mind.

[–] don@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Confirmation bias, it’s the new drug.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

That is facebook's entire algorithm, and the reason why so many look at White Nationalists and don't see Nazis these days.

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Of all the "crypto" type stories out there, the giant fish ones are the ones I'm most inclined to believe. Unlike a lot of other categories, there's actually hard evidence for us pulling giant fish out of the water.

If the Detroit River can harbor sturgeon approaching 7ft long in this day and age, I'm not about to totally shoot down anyone's fish story.

[–] TheMinions@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you mean cryptid fyi.

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, I'm uhm verifying my Bigfoot report integrity with blockchain.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The likelihood that Bigfoot exists and that block chain will ever be actually useful are about the same... So seems legit to me.