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[–] nothing@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell has happened to policing?! They used to invent crime skeletons. And now? Nothing.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two things. People used to be insanely superstitious and many still are.

Second, nowadays almost everyone has seen an X-Ray but they were still rare for the public in 1930. People only saw bones in cemeteries so it was associated with death. (When Röntgen took one of the first X-ray pictures of his wife’s hand, it’s said she fainted as it was like seeing her own corpse.)

[–] boringbisexual@lib.lgbt 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not superstitious, but if I woke up in a dark room with a skeleton with glowing red eyes telling me to confess my sins...

Maybe add a fog machine and voice distortion.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Have the skeleton be rigged by Amalgamated Dynamics and I'll confess to every single thing