I don't want to be a psychic, but I kind of want to dress like a psychic. I wish it was socially acceptable for regular people to wear robes.
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2025
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Sometimes I knowingly check the mail on Sundays.
Amazon delivers on Sundays and puts shit in our mailbox most of the time.
Knowing that I didn't bother to check it for 5 days in a row?
It's not seeing through the box, it's a Discworld-style future prediction paradox.
She already knows that when she get there, there will be nothing in the mailbox.
But she has to check anyway, because if she doesn't, causality is broken and she shouldn't be able to know it will be empty, since checking inside is not in her future anymore.
According to Discworld rules, it won't break the universe or anything but it'll give her a massive headache.
Schrödinger's Mailbox
you dropped this: ʃ
ẞrœdiŋer?
eszett is not appropriate there, no
The metal on the mailbox act as a faraday cage so psychic cannot penetrate.
If that's a sequence of radio signals, can I capture it and resend it the next day and the day after, and maybe build an automated cron job out of it?
Somewhere an advertisement company is already trying to flood psychic waves with spam, just in case.
"mmmm...i see...i see...coca cola?"
You just need a HackRF with Portapack!
I like it.
On the one hand, if people are fully willing and consenting to spend their money to pay for an entertainment experience akin to folks paying to go into a "Haunted Mansion" during Halloween for the spooky ambiance, then go for it. I think those types of "psychic" are, in their own way, kind of neat. They figured out a way to make money as an entertainer, an artist, and that's great.
I don't like the types that seem to prey on peoples' desperation and misery, and there is/was a lot of that type. Those folks aren't talking to your dead relatives nor are they going to reliably and accurately tell you where your murdered daughter's body was hidden by the killer. They aren't going to cure your "demon possession" because that shit isn't real. They're not going to make nice with the local ghosts living in your attic because those are a figment of your mental illness. But once the psychic dives into those types of scenarios, they're just pure pieces of shit and deserve all the ridicule one can muster.
I think you are severely underestimating the intentions of people when they visit places like this. There is 100% a religious or spiritual element that causes these people to go and seek answers at places like this.
And I have seen multiple times where people get hooked on these types of practices or make really bad life decisions because of the bull crap they hear from them. I know one lady who even divorced her husband after cheating on him because of the advice of some of these people. Another landlord I knew up in the Pacific Northwest would consistently visit one of these false people. She would get told that she was someone extra special in a previous life or that a friend of of hers was secretly being punished because he was a Nazi who executed her or something stupid.
Like I really want you to understand how demonic and outright cringy these things are. The people who go to them are not simply looking for a Disney-haunted mansion experience
Well, those religious nutjobs deserve to be exploited. If you are, as an adult with a somehow sane mind, actually believing in such absurd fairytales, then you're just asking to be plucked from the tree of profit.
So it's either a fun-ride with the psychics, or a psychic making a living from someone that's too brick-faced to notice. Fine by me.
You sound like a wonderful person. I appreciate how there is no hiding your own religious hangups and inner tension and the way you superimpose this struggle onto others.
She's just going to the mailbox and checking to maintain a "normal" image, get some minimal exercise during her job that requires mostly sitting, and to sometimes "accidentally" run into other people. But to make this actually seem accidental, you have to sometimes go out when there is no mail/person.
A great truth of employment: being liked matters more than productivity.
Also looking like you are being productive is a lot more important than really being productive.
Yep! The skill is right up there with not volunteering and never asking for more work. Those things shouldn’t happen because you always are busy.
This is the truth.
If you are wondering why: nobody wants to work with an asshole, no matter how good he is at his job.
You're gonna spend so much time with your coworkers, like 7-8 hours a day, five days a week, these are some of the people you will spend the most time in your life. You really don't want to hate their guts.
It's not always the disliked person's fault.
Yeah. Dealing with this as we speak. I’m friendly, get the job done, money where my mouth is “work ethic”. I’m not an asshole. But I did get hired for my role over an internal employee. An employee with sway, and has actively used that sway to secretly disparage me and the work I was doing. If he likes you, golden. Promotions, new friends groups, the works. But if he doesn’t, you’re done.
He’s managed to get me fired (next Monday) and yesterday came out gloating on a call with just me to let me know. This truth being verified by a 2 week payslip direct deposit pending on Monday (payday was today). My “crime”? Getting the work done he felt wasn’t “the right work”. He said, “I could have forgiven you taking my job I wanted, but you chose to ignore my project work I wanted done and implement things we don’t need (with list)”. I was hired to do just that, but I guess it wasn’t enough or the right thing. I’ll find out “why” (or how) I’m being fired Monday.
Politics is insane in enterprise. They’ll spend millions on consultants to get work done. One person with power can sabotage another out of pure spite. They have no interest in progress, they just want the status quo where they’re on top. Or an employee who just wants to get the work done without more effort to do it right.
On more positive news, I was already interviewing elsewhere. Final interviews today on one. Next place I’ll just play the game better.
Thanks, I just learned that lesson this tuesday 😥
And since they can't say "you're getting fired because nobody likes you" they had to lie about it.
Ouch. Sorry about that. This is frustrating because there’s always been some useless employees every place I’ve worked. Humans are just not very efficient, so really, the work isn't the reason.
Psychic: I can read people's thoughts, not mailbox content.
Should've read the mail carrier's thoughts smh
Psychic: yeah, what can be more exciting than constantly monitoring the thoughts of random people around?
I didn't see that coming.
What if not good at anything? I'm just "OK", nothing impressive, but adequate.
Born to be mild.
Roberta Sparrow
Garantee you it's a psychic journey for her, going "I must be focused on getting a message for some reason". Eventually someone will come into the shop and she'll be convinced they bare a message for here. She'll explain with lebgthy references to intricate coincidences, from Jungian theory, to numerology, to personal symbology.