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.
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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...
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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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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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.
WafflePwn's brother (the kid who tried shoving a remote up his ass because of Warcraft account cancellation) actually documented a true and genuine freakout. The parents forced the older brother to produce subsequent videos as a means of making it look like they were just making candid freakout videos all along, in order to protect the younger bother's shattered public image (and probably social life).
Anti-perspirant causes breast cancer. You look at data for Japan back in the 90's-2000s and breast cancer was like 80 times less prevalent in Japan vs the US. Now Japanese are starting to use it more and breast cancer instances are raising to be more on-par with the US. The NIH did a study that was inconclusive so everyone assumes its not true. However, if you read the study you realize exactly how inconclusive it is, and that the answer was truly more along the lines of: "We don't know".
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
years ago I gamed the casinos on an old Intel II that was slow a shit online. The cup game was the easiest to beat. because of this, I had collected over 7 million bottles of sand that were worth like 1np.
ffw a few years and I sign in and these things were some kind of quest item and were selling for like 40np.
I flooded the market with my stock at 5np each, caused a run on the bottled sand market and caused a market crash.
got my account banned. they refused to activate my account and said I hacked their system because there was no other way to get that many bottles.
and that's how I tried to usurp the corrupt neopet kingdom and never played again.
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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.
There are photos and a DNA test that were not shared publicly. It'll be a good FOIA request in 50 years.
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
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.
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
xor of n values ia true if odd number of them is true, so in your statement it means either one or three should be true
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
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.
Well now I'm curious the last thing of his I saw was the flex tape video.
Shortly before the flex tape video, he announced he was going to appear in a debate with another Youtuber named Destiny. In this debate, he claimed that "Rich blacks commit more crimes than even the poorest of whites" (direct quote, I shit you not), and that Donald Trump had never said anything racist. It was completely out of left field and shocked pretty much everyone.
My theory is kind of a joke, but I seriously have trouble believing that these are the same person. It was so sudden and so random that I want to believe that there is some other explanation as to why it did. Up until this point, Jontron had stayed fairly apolitical. On the very rare occasion he'd share an opinion on Game Grumps, it would be the most milquetoast moderate thing you've ever heard. To jump from that to retweeting actual Nazis for praising him for saying what they believe feels completely insane. It's easier to accept that there is some sort of sussy imposter imitating him than to believe this just happened.
Turning the serious off for a second, I think that if anyone knows the truth, it would have to be Arin. I don't think Danny was involved. He might just be blissfully ignorant.
Well what the actual fuck. Did not expect that from him.
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.
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.