• SaraTonin@lemmy.world
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    The Mandela effect is for people whose ego is so large that they believe that being catapulted into a parallel dimension without having noticed is a more plausible explanation than that they’re slightly wrong about something insignificant

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      the panel on the right is in fact right, the weird logo stuff bothers me because.

      1. who cares ?
      2. counterfeit/fakes exist
      3. misprints
      4. actual logo changes

      The typos? You better believe it, you read that wrong, but see point 3 as well.

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      as much as I want to think it’s only ego, there’s absolutely no way SO many people independently of each other remember the fruit of the loom logo had a cornucopia

      …granted there’s absolutely no way the solution to this conundrum is an alternate universe lmao

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        I’m with you on the cornucopia, there’s no way that logo didn’t exist somewhere.

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    The cornucopia was there. I swear on my life I saw it.

    I’m now convinced that there was a knock-off brand that posed as Fruit of the Loom for years with the altered logo. That’s the only explanation I’ll accept. Mandela effect my ass.

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      That is literally how i learned what a cornucopia was. I asked my mom what fruit it was

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        Literally the same for me, except it was my father. Not that I believe the Mandela effect per se, but I really wish I had a proper explanation for that one.

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    I can confirm the current universe chick fil a because I’d never seen or heard it until I was an adult, which was before they got infamous for being anti LGBT. When I first drove past the sign I asked the people I was with “WTF is chick feel ah?” If it’d been “chic” I would’ve pronounced it like the French loanword (ie “sheek”).

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    Froot Loops has always been that way. Back when I was a kid, they only had three colours - red, orange, and yellow - and I remember being bothered that they had to repeat one of them. Problem got solved when they rolled out green.

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    19 hours ago

    Chic fil a is a new one, and I know for a fucking fact it used to be chic! Iv remember being a kid and thinking “that’s a strange way to spell it”

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    Thar reminds me how I misread “Disney” as “Disnep” in their cursive logo for a long time in my childhood. Does that mean there is a Disnep dimension out there? :P

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    I’d rather believe in unconscious interdimensional travel then accept that my memories might be wrong.

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      The flip side of this that that you can be lied to without consequence. I’m not saying most of these are real, but pretending like this has never happened is asking for an additional serving of boot.

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      I’d rather believe in unconscious interdimensional travel

      The Organization is out to deceive you

      El Psy Kongroo

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      My two acceptable hypotheses:

      • We are in a simulation and these are remnants from server migration/discrepancies in the instances.
      • These are dry runs of the man seeing what history they can get away with rewriting and convince us was true.

      No. I cannot create false memories. Nope. I can’t do it. I won’t listen to you. It’s not true! Nonononononononooooooooooooooooooooo! This isn’t my fault! 👉😫👈 lalalalalala

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      Motherfuckers… is this why i’ve been remembering shit that other people say never happened? or remembering something people said and then them saying they said something different? wait i recently saw a movie about some guy trying to break out of his reality by flying a rocket to the edge of the universe and has been dimension hoping the entire trip, this is trippy…

      Edit: i can’t find the name of the movie but the plot is as described and he realises he is dimension hoping because his partner is suddenly alive after he killed him or he died in an accident on the ship, can’t remember what happened and at the end he also realises he is in a loop and after he crashes into the edge he chooses the dimension in which he never went into space and escapes the loop, anyone have an idea of what the movie might be called or am i just trippin balls and that movie doesn’t exist in this dimension?

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        is this why i’ve been remembering shit that other people say never happened? or remembering something people said and then them saying they said something different?

        I mean, if you want the real answer, it’s just that it is incredibly easy to create false memories. Then add in all the social pressure fun that can warp your viewpoint, and you’re off to the races.

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        ANy other info? New film? Old? Any notable actors? US film or from elsewhere? I dug around, but nothing I could find in ten minutes fit your description. Am interested in knowing too as I love these types of films.

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            Nice find! Rated 3.6/10 on imdb. Is it really that bad? Meh, I’ll watch it anyways.

            Edit: Alternate title is “ISRA 88”. Adrienne Barbeau has a bit part in it. The film is a bit middling, but maybe not 3.6. Maybe a 4.5/10.

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            Alternative title is “ISRA 88”. Just watched it. It’s interesting, but a little clunky. Maybe not as bad as the 3.6/10, but I feel it misses the mark. They didn’t make the alternate realities portion of the story as compelling (or real) as they could’ve. It could be a stage play with how low-tech the sets/environment are, but I can overlook that, so nbd. Just didn’t have enough oomph. ;)

            Oh, and Adrienne Barbeau is in it!

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    Wait until people watch old shows from the 90s set in NYC, and there’s these two buildings in the skyline. But when you go to NYC, those buildings DON’T EVEN EXIST!!!

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    It’s interesting that when you see them laid out like this you can more easily see the reasons people could have come to remember this way.

    For instance, conflating Jif and Skippy as essentially the same product, or getting an association of missing letters from the “eat mor chik’n” cows ad campaign.

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      Agreed, also by putting so many together like this, you’re gonna have some people who don’t remember it that way. Like the Monopoly guy is half-convincing to me, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a mix-up with Mr. Peanut.

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      My personal reason for messing up Chick Fil A in my head is because there used to be a different chicken restaurant chain where I grew up called Krispy Chic. Not sure if any are still open, but all the ones in aware of closed down decades ago.

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      I think a lot of these can be explained as wires being crossed with mixed memories. Memories of the Jiffy boxes in the cupboard next to Jif peanut butter might have mixed things up to where people misremember whether there was ever a Jiffy peanut butter.

      Chick-fil-A, same thing. Being a kid and thinking “wow that’s a weird way to spell it” about the “fil-A” part and somehow blending it into believing it was about the “Chick” part. Looney Tunes, Froot Loops, Berenstain Bears, all similar processes.

      The Sinbad Shazaam movie is almost certainly a mashup of a memories of Shaq’s Kazaam, the Sinbad cartoon movie from 1992, and Sinbad dressing like a Mediterranean/middle eastern pirate in All That.

      The thing I cannot explain, though, is the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. I remember it that way, and I can’t find anything like that.

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      pro-tip: putting image URLs in your comment like this: ![](URL) makes the image show up in your comment rather than just the URL

      I ended up making a quick tampermonkey script to convert image links to image elements

      this probably needs some work on the isImageUrl function but it works for this instance at least haha

      (function() {
          Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a')).filter(e => isImageUrl(e.href)).forEach(imageLink => {
              var imageElement = document.createElement('img');
              imageElement.src = imageLink.href;
              imageLink.after(imageElement);
              imageLink.style.display = 'none'
          });
      })();
      
      function isImageUrl(input){
          var url = new URL(input.toLowerCase());
          return url.pathname.endsWith('.jpg')
              || url.pathname.endsWith('.png')
              || url.pathname.endsWith('.gif');
      }
      

      oh and I guess it needs to be re-executed for when more comments are loaded by scrolling. in that case the already created image elements would double up, but you could just delete the original image link… it is quick and dirty after all

      edit: V2 is here

      (function() {
          console.log('script loaded');
          setInterval(findAndReplaceImageLinks, 10);
      })();
      
      function findAndReplaceImageLinks(){
          Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a')).filter(e => isImageUrl(e.href)).forEach(imageLink => {
              if (imageLink.classList == 'fst-italic link-dark link-opacity-75 link-opacity-100-hover'){ return; }
      
              //console.log(imageLink)
              var imageElement = document.createElement('img');
              imageElement.src = imageLink.href;
              imageLink.after(imageElement);
              imageLink.remove();
              console.log('image replaced');
          });
      }
      
      function isImageUrl(input){
          var url = new URL(input.toLowerCase());
          return url.pathname.endsWith('.jpg')
              || url.pathname.endsWith('.png')
              || url.pathname.endsWith('.gif');
      }
      
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        That’s Mandalorian. You’re thinking about the band that backed up Mike when he sang the 1980s hit song “All I need is a miracle”

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              That’s Manitoba. You’re thinking of a person who is not loyal to their own country or political party because they are under the control or influence of another country or party.

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                That’s manchurian. You’re thinking of the largest, strongest and only movable bone in the human face.

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                  That’s mandible. You’re thinking of the chains that go around the hands and feet of prisoners.

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                  That’s mandible. You’re thinking of a two player board game where people take turns moving beads around small holes to capture one another’s pieces.