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I'll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was "Kitty."

Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of "if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!" or there's some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Sinatra got the mob to murder JFK because of his relationship with Marilyn Monroe.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Determinism

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

r/cat was like that for a while. Imagine being the database admin being responsible for a billion iterations of the word cat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Years ago I had fun with "what if the US never actually went to the moon". I did not believe it, it was just a nice plot idea, we even made a pen & paper oneshot about it. Nowadays I have no whatsoever fun in thought experiments like this, because the real threat of someone believing it to be true. I want to enjoy "birds aren't real" or "giraffes do not exist" or ... the worst is flat earth. It started out as a joke and now idiots try to proof the earth is flat, proof by accident it isn't and then question rather their methods than their belief system. We just can't have nice things.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I swear I remember flat earth being about questioning science and coming to conclusions yourself... As it's a pretty simple thing to figure out...but I can't find any information and no one has even mentioned it even starting as something not crazy...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Then somehow flat earthers arrived at designing actual good experiments which demonstrated the earth is indeed round and then rejecting the data they themselves collected.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I got another one (that's pretty much a fact) in order to get facial recognision, fingerprint sensors, etc working you have to login with your ms/apple/google acc, on windows 7 you didn't have to... now why would you need an online connection to setup a piece of physikal hardware with local sofyware??? It's pretty simple: apple, google and microsoft know your face, your fingerprint, your voice, your location, etc

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Tinfoil hats on? Alrighty then:

All these Verizon outages are intentional and part of the plan to invalidate the 2024 election.

We'll see it happen again on and around election day, maybe xitter will go down too.

Whole voting districts in Georgia won't report in, citing system crashes, security breaches, whatever they feel like making up. Republican Secretaries of State will declare the election compromised before vote counting even starts.

Obviously there's also a hurricane and massive flooding, hence the tinfoil hat, but let's not forget where and when we are in history, and that The Business Plot was a real thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That covid hijacks people's brains with a parasite that makes them act like it doesn't exist or isn't a big deal if it does.

I don't actually think it's true, it's just that if it were, nothing would be different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

the stargate movie/show is "plausible deniability" soft disclosure of the real thing. they "hang a lantern" on this fact with the wormhole xtreme gag in the show.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The highest quality fruits, veggies, and meats go to restaurants leaving only mid stuff at the grocery store. Which makes cooking at home seem inferior to restaurant food even for home chefs. Pushing people to spend more going out and drive capitalism

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

the feds and big corpos are spying on you and the only reason you're still alive is because

a) you're a small fish

xor

b) you help them in some way by being a usefull idiot

xor

c) you're part of the conspiracy

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Kary Mullis didn't invent PCR, his then-gf Jenny did. Matilda effect

Other theory: a staff member at Neopets is messing with in game economy to sell digital items irl on ebay

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Bin Laden killing was a hoax. That guy died year ago because he was on dialysis machines that wouldn’t really function well somewhere deep in the Pakistani mountains. Or maybe he was actually in that house they raided at some point. But the message came out of nowhere like around the time of the reelection campaign. And they never showed a body. But then they even came up with some BS excuse that a sea burial would be Islamic tradition. Also if they really found him why wouldn’t they just arrest him and give him a process? I’m not buying it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

There are photos and a DNA test that were not shared publicly. It'll be a good FOIA request in 50 years.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i agree. it's very strange they immediately disposed of his body and never showed proof. and then a few years later there was that scandal where multiple people were claiming to be the seal that shot him. seems fishy to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

never showed proof

Do… do you think that these forces always snap a pic of the body they just killed and post it to social media and msm? When was the last time you saw proof of death for one of these targets taken down by special forces. I’ll wait.

[–] RandomVideos 0 points 5 months ago

The world was created somewhen between 2012 and 2 weeks ago by everyone and everything ever called alien(that i know of)

From ancient egyptians, ancient dacians, to cats and Hitler were involved in the creation of the world

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The RTO push is designed to keep the commercial real-estate market from crashing. I've never seen any good proof of this, but believe it. I don't exactly know why CEOs of big companies would really care that much about commercial real-estate. Perhaps their large shareholders (hedge fund managers?) also own commercial real-estate and are putting pressure on CEOs? Perhaps at that level it's just a big club, and all the wealthy just help eachother out, out of solidarity? Dunno.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If the value of corporate real estate falls then that had a material impact on the balance sheet of companies owning their own offices. It's in their own best interests to keep demand high.

Companies that rent don't enforce RTO.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know how some people believe Paul McCartney is dead and was replaced with a body double? I think that happened to Jontron at some point before the incident.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Well now I'm curious the last thing of his I saw was the flex tape video.

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