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  • K so I helped build that transporter room. And I helped build the one we built inside it because this one didn’t look star-trek enough. Look closely at the Discovery’s transporter room.

    Also fun story: when I was working on this (with hundreds of others) one job that took forever was the rectangular black tiles that make up the back wall. I spent days, I think it was close to 1500 of them, plywood laminated to some sort of firm sound foam, run through the table saw for each of the beveled edges… Carefully mounted to this bracket thing that the welding guys must have built. It was one of the earliest sets they wanted done, and they ended up using it for some early promo pictures of our hero…

    One of the earliest released shots of Michael were in the transporter room, and dead centre behind her on the wall of a hundred tiles, is one super crooked tile. I can’t find the pic right now, but it’s obvious… I don’t know how nobody saw it during the shoot, or at least in post…

    I facepalmed so hard. All our hard work and we looked like we hired a toddler last minute.












  • I think human memory and recollection is too inconsistent to apply that label fairly.

    If the cops had been around the corner when it happened and then claimed they saw it then you are right, they should face equal consequences for lying.

    But if they were near enough (and the video shows some of them? Than a combination of the sounds and movement and immediate aftermath can and does totally shift your perception of reality.

    Quick story: I was at work and I heard someone say something angry behind me. I turned around and “Bob” suddenly shoved “Alex”. Alex shoved back and they started screaming. I got in between and broke it up, facing Bob and basically keeping him from continuing after Alex. The bosses showed up and Bob started going off screaming about how his was gonna kick Alex’s ass and let’s go outside and blah bla blah he shoved me!

    I barked at him “You shoved Alex first you need to calm down!”

    And he stopped dead and looked at me. “FUCK YOU YOU LIAR.” And a rant about how I was best friends with Alex (I wasn’t, but sure did like him more than Bob) and I would like to get him fired ect ect.

    Now Bob was (probably is) an asshole. He ended up getting fired for berating a coworker and then coming to blows with a supervisor who told him to knock it off.

    But after I dismissed his accusations and moved on with my day, I started to think about what happened.

    I didn’t see anything before I turned around. But I did hear a yell, like a yelp… Like someone being hit…

    So I was 100% convinced of what happened, until I gave it some deep thought much later. If Alex had have stepped up and said “yeah! That’s what happened!” I don’t think I would have ever second guessed it, I would have put my career and reputation on the line…

    Anyways, they may be fully lying and colluding, but there is a non-zeeo chance they “remembered” it like the victim claims.






  • Chip_Rat@lemmy.worldtoFunny@sh.itjust.worksSo true
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    5 months ago

    Toronto had Zanta, a guy who wore red boxers, black boots and a Santa hat and did pushups on top of mailboxes and flexing while shoutting at passersby. If you knew him it was a fun spectacle but for most people he was aggressive and basically a creep.

    He was mentally ill for sure, and had a pretty long sad story.

    Any Zanta experts please speak up if you’d like to add more context. Pretty sure someone wrote a book or comic about the guy.