• Transporter Room 3
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      Legitimately would invite them to chill with me on the porch. I’m not inviting them in though

      Vampires ain’t gonna trick me a third time.

        • Transporter Room 3
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          53 months ago

          on?

          I am Transporter Room 3. Or I might just be an amalgamation of all the consciousnesses Chief O’Brien has stored in the pattern buffer uhhhh beamed up… Yeah beamed up.

          You’d be surprised how much silver is in a transporter though. Vampires just slide right out.

    • Rose Thorne(She/Her)
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      523 months ago

      Do we have to stop at science?

      I’m totally down to welcome in strangers who want to talk history or philosophy, too. Roving bands of people, seeking shelter by paying with their special interests.

      • southsamurai
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        333 months ago

        Terry Pratchett kinda did this in one of his discworld sub-series.

        There were teachers that would roam from town to town teaching for small amounts of money, or eggs, or carrots, or whatever. It was like tinkers only with information.

        • @gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          I guess this is somewhat historical? Norway had wandering “singers” that went around and told stories, in exchange for a meal. The stories were partially educational, partially entertainment. Basically infotainment of the time.

          Edit: I think the name was “scalden” iirc.

      • @Fermion@feddit.nl
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        83 months ago

        Just go hang out in the student union or in the mall of your nearest state university. You’ll find plenty of people eager to talk about all sorts of topics.

      • RuBisCO
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        23 months ago

        This sounds somewhat like the end of Fahrenheit 451.

    • @Poots@mander.xyz
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      There’s a couple of science-based social groups (usually ‘skeptics’ is in the name, a la Skeptics Society) where I live (SLC) so might be a very good place to start recruiting ‘sales’ people in your own areas…

  • Jo Miran
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    I don’t let anyone in my house but I would gladly setup a few chairs, picnic umbrella, folding table and a tray if frosty beverages on the front lawn. Why the front? Maybe some neighbors will join in and we can have a science block party with music, balloons, and Mr. Wizard/Bill Nye style physics demonstrations.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      113 months ago

      Cool idea in theory, will be immediatly overrun with people trying to discuss phrenology in reality

    • @Monument
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      I have this notion that one day it would be nice to be neighborly enough to just put out a sign that says “fresh coffee”, “brunch”, “Beer on tap” or whatever as a signal that people should drop by for a chat.
      But I’m not really in my neighborhood’s demographic. It’s an older neighborhood, and the only folks close to my age seem like extreme introverts.

      • Jo Miran
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        83 months ago

        You know how some people are really into.putting up flags? Some hang pride flags, others political flags or country flags, etc. I say you should hang a flag of your favorite hobby (assuming PG rated). Into D&D? Hang a D&D flag. Maybe one of those introverts will be curious enough to say “nice flag”, and you take it from there.

  • @frezik@midwest.social
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    453 months ago

    As a former Jehovah’s Witnesses turned atheist, you all have fun, but I’m not spending my Saturday knocking on doors anymore.

    • @Logical@lemmy.world
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      103 months ago

      I’m genuinely curious about how the average interaction went, given that you weren’t immediately turned away.

      • @frezik@midwest.social
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        133 months ago

        I’ll second what QuantumSparkles said. Mostly uninterested or feign interest so you go away. Rarely actual anger. People have an inherent politeness that kicks in here.

        Not that someone inside could say it, but you tend to hope that people won’t come to the door. Lots of doorbells either don’t work or you can’t hear them from the outside, so you learn tricks to pretend to press it.

      • @QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works
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        103 months ago

        I was raised that way and got out in my late 20’s (way too long). 7/10 doors nobody answers, most of the people who do either say “no thank you” or “thanks but I have my own religion”, a fair amount of the time you’ll get someone who feigns interest and takes the material just so you’ll leave and they don’t have to feel impolite (it’s not impolite to say no). Sometimes you’ll get someone legit interested. Sometimes you’ll get someone who a n g e r y

        • @khannie@lemmy.world
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          That’s fascinating. If you don’t mind me asking what percentage would you say were angry? And where were you knocking? (Approximately).

          I worked in a call centre for a summer (no hard sell but it was an awful job) and location and politeness were directly correlated.

          I’ve only had one JW call to my door. I’m atheist a long time now. Well over thirty years but we had a very nice interaction. He called back a second and third time, bless his heart.

          • @QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works
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            23 months ago

            Very small percentage were angry, hostile, or adversarial. I’d say less than 10%. And we preached everywhere. That was the point. Suburban, rural, city, houses, apartments, even businesses

  • magnetosphere
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    This sounds fascinating. I would totally invite them in.

    It also reminds me of a horror story I read that had been written before heavier-than-air flight became possible, but seemed within reach. The story had been written just a few years before the Wright brothers success at Kitty Hawk.

    The author imagined ferocious jellyfish-like creatures that lived in the upper atmosphere, and kept themselves aloft with gas-filled bodies. Interesting idea.

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    “Let’s talk about Klingons around Uranus.”

    – herp-a-derp

  • @LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
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    I’d tell them there is almost no water on venus, that it’s like thousands of times dryer than the sahara. Until they have a scientific explanation for an alternative biology that is not water based and can survive in air, it’s far more likely phosphine is created by some abiotic process.

    I do find it funny because this whole hysteria about life on venus is so silly. There is no reason to assume phosphine is being created by a completely alien, non water based biology. But they want to believe and/or sell clicks.

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    This would be my ideal dating app idea.

    Meaning approaching me and starting this conversation. So much better than the current online apps ive tried.

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    133 months ago

    If there’s a way to make buckets of money and secure obscene amounts of power by going door to door and talking about phosphene, then I guarantee you someone will do it.

  • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    123 months ago

    Been saying this for years. I’m supposed to be fine when someone wakes me up on a Saturday morning to shove Jesus up my orifice, or sends my preschooler home from school with bible pamphlets, but if I did that to them with atheism, they’d riot.

    And yet somehow they’re being persecuted. Fuck them.

    • @USNWoodwork@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      knock knock Excuse me, Do you have a minute to talk about NASA’s Psyche mission and the possible impacts of its success?

  • @x4740N@lemm.ee
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    103 months ago

    I would tell them to leave because any unsolicited person at my door is a complete stranger and potential threat

    I don’t let strangers in my home