Dr. Kacy TillmanI sat by an election denier on the airplane and he started poking me in the arm to be emphatic about his views on people stealing ballots secretly and the airplane was full and I couldn’t move anywhere so I started explaining the yellow fever in very great detail, all the way down to telling him about the bloody vomit that looks like coffee grounds and it worked. He stopped talking to me. The moral of this story is you can’t out-weird an academic; our toolset is too vast. #vastearlyamerica
Gigawatt121@kacytillman I love this story so much. And that is brilliant. I guess I'd have to opt for explaining the molecular mechanism of smell in such detail as to bore him to death
Aphrodite (recharging)Don’t forget to mention the olfactory markers emitted by those with certain conditions.. and act quizzical after mentioning them.
“5-α-trifluorophosphene is a reliable indicator of..”
(sniff)
“Hmm. Thought I smelled it..”
(sniff)
“wait - there’s that weird tingle… Um, nevermind.”
(sniff)
“oh f… Completely unrelated, do you have your affairs in order?”
Shush🗽WearADamnMask😷💉💉💉@Aphrodite @Gigawatt121 @kacytillman
Aphrodite, see, you'd have me asking questions, like I'd ask Gig, too!🤣🤣🤣
Now this makes me wonder about if cultists would be curious about unrelated cultists talking points, as these...🤔😅