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starfyredragon t1_it9okiv wrote

My wife has a supposed cursed/blessed/echanted/something (I guess the term is blursed?) doll for Christmas. It's not possessed in the Chucky sense, but it's a little singing mouse doll that whenever she's activated it, without exception, there has been heavy precipitation within a week. Usually, she'd play it before Christmas and she'd get a white Christmas. When she was a kid, she once decided to play it during summer ten times in a row, and they got floods shortly thereafter.

After a week of smoke, I half-jokingly suggested to her that maybe she use it for good instead of chaos, and use it to end the smoke. I hadn't seen her use it often before (mainly just heard stories from her and her family), other than her playing it for Christmas (and we usually did get snow on or around Christmas).

Me, being the scientific minded person that I am, decided I'd test it if she decided to use it (she did, a few days ago). I brought up the weather station as she did, and watched it. The prediction was Friday (today), there would still be smoke. She pressed it, I refreshed the page... 3% chance of rain. She pressed it again, 6% chance of rain. Next press, also 3% chance of rain on Saturday popped up. This kind pattern kept up without skipping a beat until Friday (today) had a 90% chance of rain for Friday and Saturday, and the following days showed chance for rain, too. Now, I don't see any mechanism by which this could actually work, but by all appearances, it worked (granted, it could just be a coincidence, however unlikely).

But, just thought I'd share the story. Here's a picture of the blursed mouse.

https://imgur.com/a/9z1tMoy

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