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    SmrtnikSmrtnik job boli zub Registered User regular
    Ringo wrote: »
    Lizard people have shaped us to look to the skies for the source of our problems

    Wake up sheeple

    (Why the fuck does autocorrect suggest sheeple as a real word..)

    Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1013/

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    HevachHevach Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    Ringo wrote: »
    Lizard people have shaped us to look to the skies for the source of our problems

    Wake up sheeple

    (Why the fuck does autocorrect suggest sheeple as a real word..)

    Google's autocorrect and translation and most of their other stuff is basically an AI that's been trained by making it read the internet, so it's very good at picking up slang and neologisms.

    Fun fact: Every movie AI that read the internet immediately declared that humanity had to die.

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    Mild ConfusionMild Confusion Smash All Things Registered User regular
    Reminds me of a few years ago, where it took trolls less than a day to turn a social media AI racist and sexist.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)

    We’re not gonna survive the singularity...

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    HevachHevach Registered User regular
    https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-51284326

    Wolfgang Halbig, father of the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, who ruined a career harassing Leonard Posner, has been arrested for being an incredibly persistent asshole.

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    RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    Smrtnik wrote: »
    Ringo wrote: »
    Lizard people have shaped us to look to the skies for the source of our problems

    Wake up sheeple

    (Why the fuck does autocorrect suggest sheeple as a real word..)

    Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1013/

    Clearly only the sheeple can bring the hidden reptoid menace to battle

    Sterica wrote: »
    I know my last visit to my grandpa on his deathbed was to find out how the whole Nazi werewolf thing turned out.
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    DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-51284326

    Wolfgang Halbig, father of the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, who ruined a career harassing Leonard Posner, has been arrested for being an incredibly persistent asshole.

    Out on $5,000 bail though

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    Stabbity StyleStabbity Style He/Him | Warning: Mothership Reporting Kennewick, WARegistered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-51284326

    Wolfgang Halbig, father of the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, who ruined a career harassing Leonard Posner, has been arrested for being an incredibly persistent asshole.

    What a fucking scumbag.

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    HevachHevach Registered User regular
    DarkPrimus wrote: »
    Hevach wrote: »
    https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-51284326

    Wolfgang Halbig, father of the Sandy Hook conspiracy theory, who ruined a career harassing Leonard Posner, has been arrested for being an incredibly persistent asshole.

    Out on $5,000 bail though

    For one time I kind of hope he does one of his little field trip to the school or one of the victims' homes.

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    MrVyngaardMrVyngaard Live From New Etoile Straight Outta SosariaRegistered User regular
    So, for all of the Jim Jones retro-enthusiasts out there... the Qanon crowd just latched onto the taste of a previously deceased generation in order to do battle with this brand new viral threat.

    Think they'll notice the difference once we swap out their usual brand with this spicy popular alternative to Clorox?

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    HozHoz Cool Cat Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    I don't know what this Qanon is but it sounds like a conspiracy to incite mentally challenged people to suicide.

    Edit: I'm changing dumb to "mentally challenged" because it really does seem like this is an online gang just preying on people with low critical thinking abilities.

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    ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    Hoz wrote: »
    I don't know what this Qanon is but it sounds like a conspiracy to incite dumb people to suicide.

    Qanon is the “Trump is secretly a genius who’s locking up all America’s enemies” conspiracy.

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    GiantGeek2020GiantGeek2020 Registered User regular
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    Hoz wrote: »
    I don't know what this Qanon is but it sounds like a conspiracy to incite dumb people to suicide.

    Qanon is the “Trump is secretly a genius who’s locking up all America’s enemies” conspiracy.

    This is why Qanon is both less believable and less comprehensible than TimeCube.

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    PohtHehdPohtHehd Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    PohtHehd was warned for this.
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    Hoz wrote: »
    I don't know what this Qanon is but it sounds like a conspiracy to incite dumb people to suicide.

    Qanon is the “Trump is secretly a genius who’s locking up all America’s enemies” conspiracy.

    This is why Qanon is both less believable and less comprehensible than TimeCube.

    I'm with stupid over here. Like the shirts? It was awhile back.

    Suicide. Hell of a thing. Breaks some people just to see it. I denounced someone a long time ago before any of this was even a dream. Like that TimeCube guy did. For a reason that is really petty. It was my decision though. A friend and a disciple. He killed himself by placing his drunken body on train tracks. But, that wasn't the truth. Some guys who didn't like him were hanging out close by. When my friend was super wasted these guys grabbed him and put him on the train tracks. By morning he was dead. Completely demolished, actually. I never found the guys who did it though. Because they don't exist. Because the lie is the truth.

    Now I do what he wanted. That's how it works. That's how society works. I loved him and it wasn't enough for anything. So it goes.

    The joke? I hope my death makes more cents than my life. Get it? For them? We do it for them.

    Now, and sorry for interrupting the show, it'd be better if the audience was quiet for a little longer. The credits are rolling.

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    MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited January 2020
    Like with most of these more visible conspiracy theories, it's hard to tell how much is performative and how much is sincerely held belief.

    I don't doubt some QAnons believe this crap, but I'm betting a lot of people partake in this stuff for fun.

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    HozHoz Cool Cat Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    PohtHehd wrote: »
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    Hoz wrote: »
    I don't know what this Qanon is but it sounds like a conspiracy to incite dumb people to suicide.

    Qanon is the “Trump is secretly a genius who’s locking up all America’s enemies” conspiracy.

    This is why Qanon is both less believable and less comprehensible than TimeCube.

    I'm with stupid over here. Like the shirts? It was awhile back.

    Suicide. Hell of a thing. Breaks some people just to see it. I denounced someone a long time ago before any of this was even a dream. Like that TimeCube guy did. For a reason that is really petty. It was my decision though. A friend and a disciple. He killed himself by placing his drunken body on train tracks. But, that wasn't the truth. Some guys who didn't like him were hanging out close by. When my friend was super wasted these guys grabbed him and put him on the train tracks. By morning he was dead. Completely demolished, actually. I never found the guys who did it though. Because they don't exist. Because the lie is the truth.

    Now I do what he wanted. That's how it works. That's how society works. I loved him and it wasn't enough for anything. So it goes.

    The joke? I hope my death makes more cents than my life. Get it? For them? We do it for them.

    Now, and sorry for interrupting the show, it'd be better if the audience was quiet for a little longer. The credits are rolling.

    I want to understand what you're trying to communicate. Is this real or are you just messing around?

    Hoz on
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    GvzbgulGvzbgul Registered User regular
    Drinking bleach to cure ills is a pre-QAnon alternative medicine belief. It's not good for you and has no health benefits, but it's not suicide either.

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    Phoenix-DPhoenix-D Registered User regular
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Drinking bleach to cure ills is a pre-QAnon alternative medicine belief. It's not good for you and has no health benefits, but it's not suicide either.

    Depends on the concentration. Someone is eventually going to go "more pure, better" and drink the industrial stuff.

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    ArbitraryDescriptorArbitraryDescriptor changed Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    daveNYC wrote: »
    It's weird to say that the FSB couldn't have pulled this off because they lacked funding and training when the bombings were eventually blamed on Chechen rebels, who aren't exactly slackers but probably don't have as many resources as the successor to the KGB.

    Whatever happened, it's clear the K[*]
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Drinking bleach to cure ills is a pre-QAnon alternative medicine belief. It's not good for you and has no health benefits, but it's not suicide either.

    Qanon is a conspiracy katamari, it makes perfect sense that every dumb scam and wive's tale on the internet will eventually be incorporated somewhere in it's ever expanding cork-board map of insanity.

    *[Draft Edit] Why did I stop typing there? Why did they let me post it at all!

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    MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    Phoenix-D wrote: »
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Drinking bleach to cure ills is a pre-QAnon alternative medicine belief. It's not good for you and has no health benefits, but it's not suicide either.

    Depends on the concentration. Someone is eventually going to go "more pure, better" and drink the industrial stuff.

    Drinking bleach is usually something people inflict on others, such as their autistic children.

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    VeeveeVeevee WisconsinRegistered User regular
    edited January 2020
    Phoenix-D wrote: »
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Drinking bleach to cure ills is a pre-QAnon alternative medicine belief. It's not good for you and has no health benefits, but it's not suicide either.

    Depends on the concentration. Someone is eventually going to go "more pure, better" and drink the industrial stuff.

    While you are probably correct, it only takes following the directions to poison yourself to death hours after ingestion

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/potentially-toxic-miracle-cure-touted-fringe-church-back/
    Marketed under names like “Miracle Mineral Solution,” “Master Mineral Solution,” “MMS” or “CD protocol,” the potentially toxic mixture was ingested by Sylvia Nash, 56, shortly before her death in 2009, according to her husband, Doug Nash, a planetary geologist and former investigator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Apollo Lunar Sample Analysis Program.

    "She had decided to try MMS because she succumbed to the arguments of its proponents that MMS could aid in protecting the two of us against malaria in our [then] current travels on our sailboat in the western Pacific Islands," he told the FDA in a report he submitted to the agency about his wife's death. While doctors who performed the autopsy did not conclude a cause of death, Nash is convinced it was MMS.

    Nash said that she initially suffered diarrhea, nausea and vomiting -- but those were all symptoms that proponents of MMS say are not uncommon and can be an indication that the treatment is working, Nash said at the time.

    "But it didn't get better," he said. "It got worse and worse."

    Spoilered for heart breaking

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    ZibblsnrtZibblsnrt Registered User regular
    Hoz wrote: »
    I don't know what this Qanon is but it sounds like a conspiracy to incite mentally challenged people to suicide.

    Edit: I'm changing dumb to "mentally challenged" because it really does seem like this is an online gang just preying on people with low critical thinking abilities.

    It's a product of 4chan and 8chan, so it's safe to assume some malice on top of the paranoia.

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    marajimaraji Registered User regular
    Veevee wrote: »
    Phoenix-D wrote: »
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Drinking bleach to cure ills is a pre-QAnon alternative medicine belief. It's not good for you and has no health benefits, but it's not suicide either.

    Depends on the concentration. Someone is eventually going to go "more pure, better" and drink the industrial stuff.

    While you are probably correct, it only takes following the directions to poison yourself to death hours after ingestion

    https://abcnews.go.com/US/potentially-toxic-miracle-cure-touted-fringe-church-back/
    Marketed under names like “Miracle Mineral Solution,” “Master Mineral Solution,” “MMS” or “CD protocol,” the potentially toxic mixture was ingested by Sylvia Nash, 56, shortly before her death in 2009, according to her husband, Doug Nash, a planetary geologist and former investigator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Apollo Lunar Sample Analysis Program.

    "She had decided to try MMS because she succumbed to the arguments of its proponents that MMS could aid in protecting the two of us against malaria in our [then] current travels on our sailboat in the western Pacific Islands," he told the FDA in a report he submitted to the agency about his wife's death. While doctors who performed the autopsy did not conclude a cause of death, Nash is convinced it was MMS.

    Nash said that she initially suffered diarrhea, nausea and vomiting -- but those were all symptoms that proponents of MMS say are not uncommon and can be an indication that the treatment is working, Nash said at the time.

    "But it didn't get better," he said. "It got worse and worse."

    Spoilered for heart breaking

    These kinds of scams are utterly infuriating.

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    VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    whoops

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    webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    Yea theres a good Behind The Bastards on the whole bleach drinking scam. Its infuriating.

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    yossarian_livesyossarian_lives Registered User regular
    Hoz wrote: »
    PohtHehd wrote: »
    Elvenshae wrote: »
    Hoz wrote: »
    I don't know what this Qanon is but it sounds like a conspiracy to incite dumb people to suicide.

    Qanon is the “Trump is secretly a genius who’s locking up all America’s enemies” conspiracy.

    This is why Qanon is both less believable and less comprehensible than TimeCube.

    I'm with stupid over here. Like the shirts? It was awhile back.

    Suicide. Hell of a thing. Breaks some people just to see it. I denounced someone a long time ago before any of this was even a dream. Like that TimeCube guy did. For a reason that is really petty. It was my decision though. A friend and a disciple. He killed himself by placing his drunken body on train tracks. But, that wasn't the truth. Some guys who didn't like him were hanging out close by. When my friend was super wasted these guys grabbed him and put him on the train tracks. By morning he was dead. Completely demolished, actually. I never found the guys who did it though. Because they don't exist. Because the lie is the truth.

    Now I do what he wanted. That's how it works. That's how society works. I loved him and it wasn't enough for anything. So it goes.

    The joke? I hope my death makes more cents than my life. Get it? For them? We do it for them.

    Now, and sorry for interrupting the show, it'd be better if the audience was quiet for a little longer. The credits are rolling.

    I want to understand what you're trying to communicate. Is this real or are you just messing around?
    At least part of the post appears to come from the joker movie. Maybe the whole thing does?

    "I see everything twice!"


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    augustaugust where you come from is gone Registered User regular
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    ZibblsnrtZibblsnrt Registered User regular
    I'd buy that autobiography.

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    HozHoz Cool Cat Registered User regular
    I bet there's a lot of conspiracies floating around in the online swamps about the coronavirus. But now that we're at the point where we can manipulate the genetic code of viruses it is becoming far more plausible. With a moderately more lethal version of a flu you get to manipulate economic markets and elections within the span of half a year, and as a nice bonus your pension payrolls are cleared somewhat which is great for countries with aging populations like China.

    My question to any lurking experts is: if a virus was manipulated in some way, would evidence be left behind in the genetic code?

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    autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    Zibblsnrt wrote: »
    I'd buy that autobiography.

    Absolutely

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    VishNubVishNub Registered User regular
    Hoz wrote: »
    I bet there's a lot of conspiracies floating around in the online swamps about the coronavirus. But now that we're at the point where we can manipulate the genetic code of viruses it is becoming far more plausible. With a moderately more lethal version of a flu you get to manipulate economic markets and elections within the span of half a year, and as a nice bonus your pension payrolls are cleared somewhat which is great for countries with aging populations like China.

    My question to any lurking experts is: if a virus was manipulated in some way, would evidence be left behind in the genetic code?

    Generally, yes.

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    HevachHevach Registered User regular
    On that subject, there was a denied patent in 1996 for a deactivated Coronavirus, one theory I've seen floated was that this was revenge 25 years after the fact.

    That was a different Coronavirus - there's been a number of them in humans, most of which are lumped in with rhinovirus as the common cold, while some others like SARS and MERS are comparatively serious.

    The patent was for one of the minor ones, and was one part of an ambitious and ultimately failed attempt to make a cold vaccine similar to the flu shot where you'd get an annual vaccine targeted at the best guess for rising strains.

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    ZibblsnrtZibblsnrt Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    That sounds less like a gengineering thing and more like a product of that period where it was possible to attempt to patent naturally-occurring genes willy-nilly. That led to a fun mess where something like a quarter of the human genome was patented, so you couldn't even work on a treatment for such-and-such a thing unless you paid licensing fees to the guys who owned the appropriate genes.

    Thank heavens that tomfoolery got swatted out of existence back in 2013. Gah.

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    HevachHevach Registered User regular
    It was absolutely not the kind of engineering that people like to think, but most people believe we could bake up diseases from scratch fifty plus years ago when even talking in hypotheticals, we can barely do it now.

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    Kipling217Kipling217 Registered User regular
    Creating bio weapons isn't as easy as people think it is and most research is dedicated towards finding vaccines for rare diseases that a military might come into contact with. The military being more likely to come into contact with such things then the average suburban housewife.

    Why they haven't just used essential oils instead is a mystery.

    Probably Big Rare Disease Vaccine Research keeping the truth down again.

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    evilmrhenryevilmrhenry Registered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    It was absolutely not the kind of engineering that people like to think, but most people believe we could bake up diseases from scratch fifty plus years ago when even talking in hypotheticals, we can barely do it now.

    We can still create giant monsters by exposing ordinary animals to radiation, though, right?

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    HevachHevach Registered User regular
    Hevach wrote: »
    It was absolutely not the kind of engineering that people like to think, but most people believe we could bake up diseases from scratch fifty plus years ago when even talking in hypotheticals, we can barely do it now.

    We can still create giant monsters by exposing ordinary animals to radiation, though, right?

    Oh, absolutely. My mother-in-law, for example.

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    Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    daveNYC wrote: »
    It's weird to say that the FSB couldn't have pulled this off because they lacked funding and training when the bombings were eventually blamed on Chechen rebels, who aren't exactly slackers but probably don't have as many resources as the successor to the KGB.

    Whatever happened, it's clear the K[*]
    Gvzbgul wrote: »
    Drinking bleach to cure ills is a pre-QAnon alternative medicine belief. It's not good for you and has no health benefits, but it's not suicide either.

    Qanon is a conspiracy katamari, it makes perfect sense that every dumb scam and wive's tale on the internet will eventually be incorporated somewhere in it's ever expanding cork-board map of insanity.

    Look on Qanon's works, ye mighty, and despair.

    https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5b67dbea25bf02623f27bbec/t/5c3eb767032be46f5acb7297/1547614136130/GreatAwakeningMap_11x14_V10_Lotus_Hi-Res.jpg

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    ZibblsnrtZibblsnrt Registered User regular
    Dammit, I'd successfully forgotten that existed.

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    BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited January 2020
    Psilocybin mushrooms is in there at least twice and I'm beginning to understand how that map came into being

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    marajimaraji Registered User regular
    Zibblsnrt wrote: »
    Dammit, I'd successfully forgotten that existed.

    I ... I think it’s worse than the last time I saw it... Larger, and more tortured.



    Did it just move?

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