MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Really not.....

> saw that video a while back. very interesting stuff, and i think it explains some of
> the familiarity experiences i had with weed. i had no clue that severing the brain
> connection used to be a medical procedure... what dire circumstances promoted
> attempting THAT!? yikes. must have been some life-threatening epilepsy.

Yeah I knew a couple of people that had it that bad where they were considering doing just that. Its pretty debilitating. They have drugs now that help instead of cracking open the skull

I got into these ideas thru NPR funny enough. Just not thru one of their stories about something like this. It was a cross country trip where I heard the same story over and over. It was presented as if the local NPR station had wrote it. That got me into looking into the ways news media is created and presented. Conan makes has some good segments to very nice comedic effect about it. That lead me into what I call 'non news stories'. These are basically press releases from companies presented and written as news, sometimes with videos and pics pre canned to run as-is. That lead me to researching sales techniques. Confirmation bias is a *huge* way that salesman use to convince you that you are making a good decision buying something, or even better *you* decided to buy it and he is 'just helping out'. It is also a way that con men use to bilk people out of money. It is unfortunately dead easy to do once you know the tricks. We even do it to ourselves every day with little things. Like 'i deserve to have that chocolate'. I am by far no expert on this. I just find it interesting.

I once saw my dad who is a pretty good salesman sell a christmas lightbulb on a garagesale to a guy in the middle of the summer. He not only did he convince the guy he needed it but he convinced him that was what he was looking for. The whole box of junk was probably worth 50 cents. He sold that one bulb to the guy for that. If I remember right by the end of the day my dad had sold most of the junk in that box including the box.