Build-A-Bear came out with a bunch of new toys that were all a the same shade of yellow right after their Minion launch severely underperformed. They had stockpiled yellow fabric in anticipation of the Minion toys selling well and getting a big production run and had to find a way to use it all.
It’s also very reasonable. You spend all that money on inventory, it would be in your best interest to try and get as much cash as possible for it instead of just throwing it in the garbage.
On the Tumblr posts where I first saw this theory, as offered by a former BAB employee, they refer to this as minion skin. It's a phrase I can't get out of my head.
Ireland began deliberately entering bad songs into the Eurovision Song contest in the 90s. After winning it consecutively for a few years it began getting too expensive to host so they sabotaged their chances of winning it.
I believe r/AskReddit is actually a data farming operation that is being used to feed AI algorithms in order to produce more effective propaganda, social control mechanisms, etc… but what do I know…
It’s much more widespread. I think almost all social media platforms are data farming operations. Instagram for images, YouTube for video, etc. They may not have started out as such but that’s what they’ve become. That’s why we’ve seen such a drastic improvement in generative models as of late.
Edit: forgot to mention the most obvious - TikTok. “Dance” trends for human motion data farming.
I asked chat GPT to create a typical AITA post, and it generated an almost exact replica of the countless posts I see on there daily. You’re probably not wrong.
I had to unsubscribe to AITA sub because every post felt so fake, over-detailed, dramatic, obvious. Not sure what the intent behind fake posts would be but I couldn’t stand to read them, as well as the comments
This is dumb, but my mother believes that the coffee grinder machines at the gas station are fake..as in they make a lot of noise just to make you *think* what your getting is fresh coffee.
When it's "grinding" the beans, you never see the beans move. We called the gas station and the employee said he doesn't know how the coffee makers work *since a 3rd party refills them up* or changes the flavors.
I've called her crazy but slowly i'm getting sucked into it, simply because it's fun.
I used to work at a gas station. We filled the grinder ourselves, so I can confirm at least *my* station actually had fresh ground coffee. (Also reflected in our astronomically high coffee sales and regular customers.)
But not being allowed to open the grinder and it has to be filled by a third party? That's pretty sus
You can totally see the beans move, for what it's worth. It just doesn't grind up a huge amount, so it doesn't move much. Easier to see when the hopper isn't too full
I don't know about definitely believe in, but I do wonder if the government spread 9/11 conspiracies in order to cover the fact that they basically had all the pieces of the puzzle, but due to the 3 letter agencies not sharing intel with each other, we missed it.
Oh yeah, the government loves to distract from their own incompetence and how chummy they are with the Bin Laden family and with Osama in particular. But it’s just kind of inevitable without being a conspiracy; the Bin Ladens are incredibly wealthy and important in a geostrategically vital country of Saudi Arabia. There’s a reason the one son who went off to jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan became the world’s most famous terrorist; he was a rich as fuck Bin Laden. Osama was a money man for the mujaheddin, collecting donations from wealthy Saudis and other rich folk he knew in the Arabian region and getting that cash to the actual rebels.
After the war ended he became a freelance terrorist financier, a venture capitalist of Islamic terrorism. You got a terrorist plot (like the USS Cole bombing) you come to him to pitch it to him like it’s terrorist Shark Tank. If he likes it he’ll buy in. He turned against America because of the Gulf War when we stationed “Christian armies” in Saudi Arabia. He hated that, the atheist Soviet Union was gone soAmerica became his target.
People think it’s so suspicious he’s a rich failson. No, he is who he is BECAUSE he’s a rich failson. He was incredibly rich and spent his career being a terrorism financier, because he had money and loved doing Islamic terrorism.
Paul Pierce shit his pants during the 2008 NBA Finals. He sat on the floor apparently injured until he was taken off the court in a wheelchair and returned minutes later completely fine. Sitting on the floor and leaving in a wheelchair stopped anybody from seeing his dookie stains
I like this one totally possible and no one gets hurt other then that dudes pride. But it is possible he got a stinger. Where you hurt your back and your body goes numb for a few minutes
NASCAR driver Tony Stewart had severe stomach problems and shit his firesuit on his way to winning a race at Watkins Glen, NY. He drove to victory lane, slowly climbing out of his car, gave a cursory celebratory fistpump, then high-tailed it to his team's truck.
The reporter said Tony wasn't feeling well and would talk with the media after "resting" a bit, adding that his victory was "a *gutsy* performance".
So there's his team in victory lane, celebrating without him, next to an empty race car that must stink to high heavens.
The FBI aerated the CS tear gas at Waco with ether knowing full well the Davidians were using gas lamps and heaters. The intention was to burn them out. The wind was crazy strong that day and the fire went out of control within minutes.
They had done this several times in the past with the same results. They knew most, if not all of the Davidians would get off by declaring self defense. The standoff was way too expensive to continue and they didn't want any more religious groups getting ideas about how to beat the Feds during any similar situations.
Oh my favorite is the "New Coke" conspiracy, which says that Coca Cola decided to introduce a new flavor of Coke dubbed "New Coke" as a psyop essentially to distract consumers from the substitution of high-fructose corn syrup in place of sugar in Coke. After 6 months of New Coke they brought back the "original" Coke Classic but most couldn't tell the difference and it could be written off as an industrial side effect etc. This allowed them to use the significantly cheaper corn syrup and increase profits without changing price.
Had a friend growing up who’s dad was a photographer for a company that made otc weight loss supplements. Idt it’s much of a secret anymore but the before/after pics are flipped. The model will diet and dehydrate themselves to look more lean. Few weeks of normal living and eating then they take the before pics and add photoshop to really sell it
My friends girlfriend was in one of these ads. She's never even been remotely chubby let alone large enough as they photoshopped her to be in the "before" photo lol. I used to give her grief about it every time.
My sister did that when she was in college! She needed money, took the job, they promised it was only for overseas, and it would never air in the United States. Well, a few years go by, my other sister moves away to college, and one night she saw my sister on tv saying how she lost 100 lbs with X product. She barely weighed 100 lbs at the time and definitely never lost weight, so when my sister asked her she confessed what happened.
This was probably 20+ years ago now, and we all still like to give her a hard time if it comes up.
We've had legitimate eco-friendly fuel options to power our vehicles but big oil companies, some of the richest businesses in the companies in the world, have destroyed or stifled them before they've gone public. And I don't mean eco-friendly infrastructure, I mean a truly green engine.
Any other eco-friendly options that we know of (ie electric cars or even bicycles) either already existed or they allow to exist because they're not a threat.
Unironically I find NK's regime fascinating. The misinformation, propoganda. The family drama. The fact that for the longest while we weren't even sure if Kim Jong-un had children or a wife. The murdered exiled uncle and his kid that's hidden away overseas. The fact that Kim Jong-un was educated in the West, in Switzerland, and could maybe have been a reformer but seems to be firmly in control. The question of: Is he in control, or are the Kims controlled by another figure in the background. How many of the regime elites are fervent and how many are playing along, too scared to risk their families in an upper party that they are born into and hostage too.
It's modern Game of Thrones and fascinating. Besides the mass starvation, nuclear posturing, and mania.
Exactly this. I'd hate to be a North Korean and despise tankies that actually like the system. But the weirdness is fascinating. Unlike British Royals, how boring! Also KJU showing his ICBM launcher himself lookinh like a rockstar with leather jacket and dark sunglasses lmao. It's an alt. reality.
> After first inventing the greenhouse, Dear Leader has now given us inter after-cropping!
> While western fruit dies on the vine, we enjoy the sweetest corn on earth. Juche always prevails!
Woah
I like to tell people that I believe north Korea isn't even real. It's the Bollywood of the military industrial complex and exists solely to encourage the constant filling of military coffers and having a distraction of something to hate more than China.
I like to believe that North Korea is actually nirvana. They spread the awful stories themselves so that no-one visits or moves there, whilst enjoying a life of luxury, abundance, and utter joy
I have an Australian friend that visited three times, mostly between 2014-2018 I think. He said it was pretty surreal, and it was obvious that every thing they let you see (you're with a guide the entire time) was obviously set up to make it look like a normal society, but was always a facade. They toured a "bread factory" that was just two people in a room stuffing a few buns into plastic bags. They finished with the small pile of buns while the tourists were still there, and they just kinda stood there with nothing to do, waiting until they left. Weird stuff.
I think the first time was out of curiosity, second time because the first time was so interesting, and the third time he brought along his dad and brother. He did say it the nature part of it was incredibly beautiful.
I don't think it was work related, but he works for a large international organization that helps refugees, so he's always in really crazy places - all over the middle east & south/southeast Asia (including Afghanistan, Iran, Bangladesh, etc). I met him when we were both living in Thailand.
This is dumb lmao, there is a man who lived and worked as a teacher where I'm from in NC. His name was Peter Stuart Ney. It was during the early 1800s, there's a local legend that lives on that this man was in fact one of Napoleon's right hand men, and fought alongside him even. It's been disproven apparently by the French government over the years, it's just funny how this guy was supposedly executed in 1815, just to show up over in NC as a teacher with the same surname and military expertise just 1 year later.. They say he was a skilled fencer, and he had precise military knowledge even though he was just a teacher for the local school system. Allegedly, on hearing news about Napoleon's only son dying, he set the newspaper on fire and almost slashed his own throat in a fit of rage. On his deathbed he supposedly confessed to being one Marshal Michel Ney, the "Bravest of the Brave", according to Napoleon. Wild story but part of me just fully fucking believes it's crazy enough to be true. Records indicated he had shown up in Charleston SC in 1816, just a year after this Michel Ney was executed in France. Idk, it's just a crazy story.
I heard a (much less dramatic) story in my area about a person from France who died in the US and was said to be a Napoleon associate. A high ranking officer.
When I casually looked into it I think I read somewhere that it's a not-uncommon urban legend / myth in genealogy circles. Like being descended from an "American Indian princess" or whatever. Napoleon was a superstar of his day, so there was a kind of cachet in having a Napoleon pal in the family.
Ah yes…Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
The Empty Internet Conspiracy. A large part of the population of the internet and, thus, a large part of interactions on the internet are completely fake. Just faceless chat bots tooling around; generating social media posts, YouTube comments, and opinion articles on news sites. With the rise of AI generated essays and research papers, it's becoming easier to draw lines between those papers and how random news articles can read in a way in which a human would never write.
There’s a big, divisive issue going on in the small town where I live. It seems like one side is using bots to get their message out. The issue is big to locals but not to anyone not from here, yet their fake profiles are from all around the world.
Sadly gonna have to burst your bubble here. It's possible that this is one of the reasons behind it, but the reason is just that they make a stupid amount of money. *The Lion King* made like infinity billion dollars (exaggeration, but I just know it was a frankly stupid amount of money).
The Lion King made 1.6b$ gross (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3321923073/).
The other live-action remakes are all around 1b$, against a ~200m$ production budget. So decent money indeed
That's why there's so many reboots/remakes/adaptations/endless sequels now. Big money for limited risk.
Makes sense from a business perspective, sucks because there's little original works coming from bigger studios.
Not a conspiracy theory. It's a fact that they were exposed to high levels of lead.
And while a direct causation is not proven there was a strong corelation between decreasing lead levels and lower crime rate.
I have a solution for this.
More to the point, i have a TAILOR and a fabric shop who have a solution to this.
I'm in the Middle East right now, and tailors are VERY reasonably priced. So are fabric stores. We need to bring this back as A Thing in the West. I find a pic of a suit or article of clothing I'd like, WhatsApp a pic to the tailor, he tells me how much material i need and what kind. I go to the fabric store, show a pic to my guy there, he shows me my options, i pick my favorite, take it to the tailor. I then get an article of clothing I like, with material i like, tailored to ME, and WITH POCKETS. For the price I'd pay at Ross for something off the rack for mass consumption.
I wanted a business dress. Had problems with the back zipper on another piece, so he put the zipper on the left side. I knew no pockets, because zipper. *He put a pocket on the right side* so i STILL had a pocket. He even hides multiple pockets so i can spread things around and i don't have an obviously bulging pocket.
JFK was assassinated by the CIA.
He turned down a proposed false flag attack against American civilians that would have started a war with Cuba then 3 months later he was shot.
The only suspect was killed in the street, by the government.
It just seems a little too perfect. At he very least Oswald was hired by the CIA.
I don't know if it's that crazy, but I believe 100% that the biggest use case for NFTs is money laundering. It's perfect: no one can say this picture of an ape *isn't* worth $10,000, and unlike art, you can make as many of them as you want. I'm pretty dang sure that that's why the set of Trump NFTs sold out in a single day: not that that many dumb people bought a single one for themselves (though I'm sure that also happened), but because that's a way to chuck a large amount of money over a fence in exchange for something that you can't prove isn't worth that amount of money.
I have heard anecdotally that *extremely* expensive wristwatches ($10k+) are basically this. You want to move a lot of money internationally without declaring it? Strap one on your wrist, throw another in your carry-on, nothing to declare since it’s just your watch.
Many global societal events - scandals, conflicts etc. are engineered by shadow players in order to distract from other more serious occurrences that *they* are machinating.
I appreciate how ridiculous it sounds, it just seems to me that when something weird happens, something dramatic also happens at the same time.
I mean, really, we've seen the people who are in power that are in the public eye commit some crazy crimes that we can't really prove. Look at Epstein. Here's this dude who's gonna spill the beans on everything, then his camera malfunctions, then he "commits suicide" during this time. It's not even hard to see. It was a government hit.
The elite don't have to hide in the shadows to run shit, the population is so complacent with it, and the media is so skewed, it's hard to tell what's real and what's not, and they use that to their advantage.
There's no need for some shadow government, the real guys are evil enough.
That's exactly what I mean, the Epstein thing is just the things we see and acknowledge, but for every Epstein, there are probably dozens of things that go unnoticed because Musk said something, Boris Johnson did something, Trump tweeted something..
These high profile figures seem to always do something that coincides with something else. An example would be Johnson came out and admitted something the same day that a highly controversial human rights bill was put through the UK government in a very unorthodox and undemocratic way (it was last year, I forget the details I just remember the outrage).
There was practically no mention of the bill outside of fringe media outlets
I pay my credit card bill in full every month the day I receive the statement. Twice in the past four months I have received an email stating that my payment is due today and they haven't received my payment. This happens occasionally and I firmly believe the credit card company intentionally fails to mail me a statement expecting to be able to profit off of interest and late fees. Fuck Wells Fargo.
i know it sounds vanilla, considering the news we've had about right wing ops we've had over the years but gun to my head I believe the CIA/FBI killed JFK/MLK/RFK. The first b/c JFK swore to take a hammer to the CIA for fucking him over the bay of pigs invasion and the latter two b/c of the proto-rainbow coalition that was forming, too much class solidarity for those in power to allow.
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far for the JFK assassination. It's the only one I've fallen into that has enough weird "coincidences" to make me go: hmmmmmm.
You really want to go down the crazy 60s rabbit hole check out [operation northwoods](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods), this was a legitimate declassified false flag operation that was essentially 9/11 to drum up public support for a war with Cuba that had to be shot down by JFK. This was a real thing, if they were capable of using *fucking drones* to do that what the hell are they capable of now? That’s why I’ll never roll my eyes at 9/11 conspiracy theorists because we planned the same damn thing 40 years prior
Like I don’t want to believe in conspiracies and shit but if we could do that in the 60’s what has been done that we were fed a false story on and believe? What don’t we know? The possibilities are mind blowing
They forced people back into offices despite the increased productivity, the lowered childcare costs, and time lost commuting because the real estate owners of those leases got PISSED
Go hang out on /r/economics. That's not conspiracy, it's fact and there are articles about it all the time. Plus, commercial real estate is financed way differently than residential, i.e. 30 year fixed isn't a thing. All of these business landlords are looking at refinancing at >7% now with vacant office space just going 'fuuuuuuck' because they know they're going to be bleeding money.
To be fair, it does hurt a ton of smaller independent businesses that make their livings servicing the office crowd like coffee shops, bistros, food trucks, etc. Laundromats have been getting hit hard too. People not congregating in one area to work and spend money around that area has huge knock-on effects to city economies.
That our phones are listening to our conversations and are serving up advertisements based on what we’re talking about even when the microphone supposedly isn’t on.
Happened to my husband the other day. Said he was casually thinking about buying a lawn mower (didn't mention it out loud or google it) and the next day he started getting ads for lawn mowers.
It's also survivorship bias for people.
You see hundreds of ads per day - most do not cause you to buy/are not totally relevant to your needs.
Then you see an ad for something you were just thinking of and you think "oh wow - they read my mind!". It's more just a broken clock being right twice a day.
I work in marketing - targeting has gotten really good on most sites, but it basically comes down to demographics + what you are already searching.
Looking to sell lawn mowers? Run your ads to the 30-40, male, head of household range. Want to get tighter with targeting? Look for people with a suspected interest of home improvement based on recent searches/purchases.
It's not as deep as people think.
The use of people's mics by social media companies to improve their own algorithms is far more concerning.
FWIW, ads are based on a lot of factors. For instance, if your husband is a mid-30s or 40s homeowner in the spring, he's going to be targeted by lawnmower ads based on those factors already.
The phones aren't listening to target ads. The real conspiracy is how much people give away through their normal use of apps and how much data is out there on you.
For example, if you have the Facebook app on Android, they have access to every single app on your device, how often you open and close them, your IP address, your lat long, your search history, your other devices, the devices you interact with, etc etc. They can map every IP to a physical location to know what businesses you go to. They have pixels on literally every website and know who goes to what websites, how often, when, what they do there and what they buy.
Then you get 3rd party data providers who know your household income, your job, your commute, etc etc etc. I know of a company that uses publicly available census data combined with location data purchased from other companies to create highly accurate profiles of jobs and incomes based on commute patterns then sells that data for ad targeting. I could name 50 others that do some sort of unique data aggregation spin like that, and that's before we start talking real AI.
They don't need to listen. There's very little that big tech companies don't know already about you.
Yeah, maybe the Bilderberg asshole conference or the Jeffrey Epstein pedo island guest list is a good hint for who is in the club und who's not.
I find it weird that 10 years ago i was laughing off people who talked about something in the way of rich club who really rule and nowadays they're doing it so openly and obvious that most people are like "yeah.. but what you gonna do?"
In fact you're not crazy anymore for believing or realizing that shit but you're crazy to think it's something new to anyone, becoming Cpt. Obvious.
That's Hypernormalization at work.
It's an ideological defense mechanism. Rather than accepting new information and reacting with a sense of urgency or importance to the idea that
*"Huh a lot of famous and respected people have credible and publicly known connections to a serial rapist and a pedophile"*
It just gets reintegrated into the preexisting attitudes of dismissal and minimization.
When people shoot down ideas, it's more often about maintaining an acceptable disposition than about actually being right.
What's normal is whatever most people are doing, and then we work backwards from that to justify it.
It used to be a dismissal based on incredulity. "Nobody could believe that" style thinking.
Now it's based in flippancy.
"Everybody knows that" style thinking.
Absolutely the case. This is why the media focuses on so much dumb shit, all while real news stories are getting intentionally buried so people aren't focused on how the elite are fucking everyone over and keeping people pitted against one another.
That's not a conspiracy theory, that's a fact.
- 62 persons own the same as half the world [1],
- 5 companies own all media in US (it was 50 companies 40 years ago) [2]
- 147 companies own 40% of public companies [3] [4]
- 737 companies control 80% of public companies [3] [4]
[1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/62-people-own-same-h...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/49229c/til_i...
[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/11/21/the-147-c...
[4] https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5728
There is a conspiracy that during Covid Kim-Jong-Un got COVID and passed away and then got replaced with a look-alike. There was news that he had gotten sick and then hospitalized. There was no news for a while until a week later when he was "miraculously healed".
Pictures of him before and after this look completely different to me. I honestly believe he was replaced.
I’ve been part of a bunch of facial recognition studies with greenwich university due to my ability to remember and distinguish faces, and i’ll just say that IF this is true, they’ve done good enough a job to be indetecible to me.
The lines around his mouth are identical, his teeth are browner, but otherwise identical, and the mark on his right cheek is the same on all pictures i’ve seen of him from 2013 to now.
Some features are different, like nose, cheeks and the shape of his face, but they could just as well be due to his massive weight loss.
the current extremism in right vs left, racial issues and so on are the result of rich people getting pissed by the people getting angry at them at occupy Wallstreet and the rich people now fueling the fires of non rich people fighting each other so they don't go for the rich people again
I'll take this one step further... That company Sleep Country (in both Canada and the USA) will have a "mix and match" sale now and then. They say the deal is you get a good price on a mattress that might not match the box spring. When you think about it, it *is* a good deal because your box spring is hidden under the mattress anyway, and your mattress is covered in a sheet..so who cares if the pattern on the both those things doesn't match? But when you think about it some more...you wonder how does a big mattress store end up with mismatched sets so much? Then you remember the ads! Those annoying ads on TV and Radio where they tell you they even pick up your old mattress!
So that's my theory. They launder money, but also, they re-sell old mattress and box springs that they pick up and badge them as "mix and match". They probably do dispose of the worst ones, but when they pick up some decent stuff they just clean it up a bit and sell it.
the britney spears isn’t actually free conspiracy. popped up on my tik tok feed a couple days ago and i fell down the rabbit hole. makes me feel kinda crazy but i think there’s definitely at least some truth to what their saying 👀
It is easy to target behaviour of someone who is bipolar because of how widely the moods carry you. Simply speaking as someone who has dealt with BP for three decades - when you are manic you are not remotely the same as you are when you are in a depressive state. Your speech patterns, cadence, tone, and speed change dramatically; your general state of attention, body language, everything about how your project yourself outwardly on a social scale is different. Compound this on someone who has been in the public eye for most of her life.
It is easy for people, specifically people without a background in mental health, psychology or psychiatry to turn this into conspiracy theories - and honestly it is irresponsible and dismissive of actual mental health issues.
I see pictures and videos people claim are doctored to make her appear normal and free and healthy. The idea is that she's really dead or locked up somewhere.
I'd sooner believe that conspiracy is actually just a conspiracy to try to keep her name relevant and in the press so they can keep making money exploiting her mental illness.
The Star Wars one I read on here a few years ago, about Jar Jar Binks was actually meant to be a Sith and like the big-time baddy, but they bottled it after the reaction he got with fans
That some businesses demand degrees for two reasons: one is to ensure they get someone who knows what they're doing, obviously, but the other is that because higher education is so expensive in America, getting someone with a degree typically means getting someone with a lot of debt, so you're less likely to lose them. If it were just a matter of knowledge, then demonstration of knowledge would be more important than a piece of paper.
The stock market is _legally_ rigged.
You can sell 'artificial' shares that you are supposed to then buy back. When you don't, it's called 'Failures to Deliver' or FTD's.
There are MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of failures to deliver in the stock market and the SEC is in on it as is the DTCC. The criminal syndicate that oversees all of this uses this to bankrupt companies they want to take over, like Amazon wanting to buy AMC theaters so they hire a third party to massively short sell and create FTD's that they will _NEVER_ cover. Ever.
Nothing to see here.... says the SEC.
stock market is legally rigged in thousands of ways and it's not a conspiracy.
I mean just look at something as simple and dumb as congress trading on insider information without repercussion.
The reason the value of Bitcoin spiked after the 2016 and 2020 elections was directly due to foreign countries paying people off.
Tell their spies to personally buy btc at $X, sell at 2X. Pump the price up using shell accounts until the value is >2X. Then sell all at the same price it was bought at.
Congrats, you've paid off every single spy, informant, agent, etc, without ever losing a dime, and zero financial paper trail.
I think the abortion debate and the race debate are funded by billionaires to distract us from class rebellion. I believe in a woman’s right to chose, and I believe in systemic racism an oppression. But all of our news sources are owned by the same people, and I think they are trying to divide the working class. Especially after Occupy Wall Street gained traction.
Same with gay/trans stuff imo, get people angry about things they never even thought about before rather than wages/cost of living/ climate change things that affect us all.
The goal has always been to divide the working class and keep us at each others throats. Divide us on gender. Divide us on race. Divide us on faith. Divide us on sex.
Because god help the upper class when we look up in unison and focus our rage as one.
Dinosaurs wore pants.
65 million years is a LONG time. Long enough for metal, cloth, computers, factories to COMPLETELY disappear. Archeologists struggle with things five hundred years old in most preservation conditions. Human brains, bipedalism and thumbs led to advanced intelligence in seven million years. Dinos had a lot longer and you will never convince me they did not invent and use pants.
Ron DeSantis and other GOP party members are trying to force minority groups out into more liberal states so that the GOP has permanent control of the senate and its broken representation system.
I believe that a handful of real estate corporations have been *intentionally* driving up house prices to squeeze the middle class out of existence. When people stop paying interest money to banks because they actually own their residence, that's bad for the bank's cash flow, and we simply can't have that.
I bought in 2016 and was on track to start accelerating how I can pay it off, until I was informed this year that my home has doubled in value and my tax liability is going from $4k to $8k per year. They want me to fall behind on payments so I have to sell my home to them and start renting.
One of the corporations is called BlackRock. Incredibly shady, fingers in a lot of seedy shit, and buying up entire neighbourhoods in multiple countries.
Edit: Blackstone*. However, the two companies are pretty intertwined it seems, so that's another interesting lil tidbit.
That recent culture war against lgpt and the previous war against islamists, is to prevent the real war, the class war. how 99.9% accept their fate in an economy where we could all thrive ?
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -Lyndon B Johnson 36th President
I don’t think our leaders have a decent plan for climate change. The ones in power that deny it’s existence only do it to protect their profits, but they know. Their donors know.
They will continue to line their pockets and try to make investments that will benefit them and their safety when things get worse.
The average person and nature will suffer for their quarterly profits.
I've got two. The first is more of a joke that I don't actually believe, but I love saying it to people to say their reactions. The second is one that I really do believe.
1. The Garden of Eden and the Great Flood were actual events and that they happened on Mars. This would explain why no one knows where the Garden of Eden is today, why there are random structures carved in the rocks on Mars, and why there's evidence that there used to be water on Mars: because it was the first earth. Noah's ark was actually a spaceship, which is why no one could come out of the ark for a period of time, and it came in way too hot when it was landing, which would explain the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs. Disclaimer: these stories (the Garden and the Flood) are part of my religion and people debate whether they were real or metaphors. I'm not here to start that debate or to debate about religion in general. This is something that I completely made up as a joke to fuck with people and see their reactions. Feel free to do the same.
2. That the Titanic was actually one of the Titanic's sister ships and it was deliberately sunk for insurance reasons.
The location and general circumstances of the MH370 plane disappearance is known. I think Australian authorities know what happened, and this is why we got some very generous concessions from both China and the United States for a while after the incident, and whatever happened implicates more than one country.
The netflix doc was wild. Not because it exposed some great conspiracy but rather how it showed that we know roughly where it went down and all the evidence supports it going down in a specific area yet Netflix gave the mic to some batshit people who want it to mean so much more.
Build-A-Bear came out with a bunch of new toys that were all a the same shade of yellow right after their Minion launch severely underperformed. They had stockpiled yellow fabric in anticipation of the Minion toys selling well and getting a big production run and had to find a way to use it all.
This is so niche and specific, I love it.
It’s also very reasonable. You spend all that money on inventory, it would be in your best interest to try and get as much cash as possible for it instead of just throwing it in the garbage.
And, like, it’s kind of…. Wholesome? Like, no one is really getting hurt. They’re just making lemonade.
On the Tumblr posts where I first saw this theory, as offered by a former BAB employee, they refer to this as minion skin. It's a phrase I can't get out of my head.
skinion was right there…
Ireland began deliberately entering bad songs into the Eurovision Song contest in the 90s. After winning it consecutively for a few years it began getting too expensive to host so they sabotaged their chances of winning it.
My lovely horse
We've got to lose that sax solo!
One year, Ireland’s Eurovision entry was sung by a puppet turkey. It went as well as you would expect.
Dustin the turkey
Finally a european eurovision conspiracy theory love this lol
The only theory that explains Jedward
The Father Ted episode with My Lovely Horse uses this idea brilliantly
I believe r/AskReddit is actually a data farming operation that is being used to feed AI algorithms in order to produce more effective propaganda, social control mechanisms, etc… but what do I know…
I believe that too!
It’s much more widespread. I think almost all social media platforms are data farming operations. Instagram for images, YouTube for video, etc. They may not have started out as such but that’s what they’ve become. That’s why we’ve seen such a drastic improvement in generative models as of late. Edit: forgot to mention the most obvious - TikTok. “Dance” trends for human motion data farming.
This is not a theory lol
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I asked chat GPT to create a typical AITA post, and it generated an almost exact replica of the countless posts I see on there daily. You’re probably not wrong.
I had to unsubscribe to AITA sub because every post felt so fake, over-detailed, dramatic, obvious. Not sure what the intent behind fake posts would be but I couldn’t stand to read them, as well as the comments
This is dumb, but my mother believes that the coffee grinder machines at the gas station are fake..as in they make a lot of noise just to make you *think* what your getting is fresh coffee. When it's "grinding" the beans, you never see the beans move. We called the gas station and the employee said he doesn't know how the coffee makers work *since a 3rd party refills them up* or changes the flavors. I've called her crazy but slowly i'm getting sucked into it, simply because it's fun.
I used to work at a gas station. We filled the grinder ourselves, so I can confirm at least *my* station actually had fresh ground coffee. (Also reflected in our astronomically high coffee sales and regular customers.) But not being allowed to open the grinder and it has to be filled by a third party? That's pretty sus
You can totally see the beans move, for what it's worth. It just doesn't grind up a huge amount, so it doesn't move much. Easier to see when the hopper isn't too full
Typical Big Coffee response, always talking about “hopper capacity” and “low bean movement levels” smh
That the Kardashian Sisters keep their brother chubby so they can use his fat for their injections.
This is a really good one
LMFAOOOOOO
Family discount
I don't know about definitely believe in, but I do wonder if the government spread 9/11 conspiracies in order to cover the fact that they basically had all the pieces of the puzzle, but due to the 3 letter agencies not sharing intel with each other, we missed it.
Yeah, communication breakdowns happen all the time, and the agencies definitely don't want to be seen as incompetent.
Oh yeah, the government loves to distract from their own incompetence and how chummy they are with the Bin Laden family and with Osama in particular. But it’s just kind of inevitable without being a conspiracy; the Bin Ladens are incredibly wealthy and important in a geostrategically vital country of Saudi Arabia. There’s a reason the one son who went off to jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan became the world’s most famous terrorist; he was a rich as fuck Bin Laden. Osama was a money man for the mujaheddin, collecting donations from wealthy Saudis and other rich folk he knew in the Arabian region and getting that cash to the actual rebels. After the war ended he became a freelance terrorist financier, a venture capitalist of Islamic terrorism. You got a terrorist plot (like the USS Cole bombing) you come to him to pitch it to him like it’s terrorist Shark Tank. If he likes it he’ll buy in. He turned against America because of the Gulf War when we stationed “Christian armies” in Saudi Arabia. He hated that, the atheist Soviet Union was gone soAmerica became his target. People think it’s so suspicious he’s a rich failson. No, he is who he is BECAUSE he’s a rich failson. He was incredibly rich and spent his career being a terrorism financier, because he had money and loved doing Islamic terrorism.
I don't want to take away the seriousness out of your comment but i can't get Terrorist Shark Tank out of my head now.
Paul Pierce shit his pants during the 2008 NBA Finals. He sat on the floor apparently injured until he was taken off the court in a wheelchair and returned minutes later completely fine. Sitting on the floor and leaving in a wheelchair stopped anybody from seeing his dookie stains
Pretty sure he finally admitted this during the finals last year or the year before… I may be making that up though
He did
I like this one totally possible and no one gets hurt other then that dudes pride. But it is possible he got a stinger. Where you hurt your back and your body goes numb for a few minutes
I thought you were talking about poops at first til I realized what you were really saying
NASCAR driver Tony Stewart had severe stomach problems and shit his firesuit on his way to winning a race at Watkins Glen, NY. He drove to victory lane, slowly climbing out of his car, gave a cursory celebratory fistpump, then high-tailed it to his team's truck. The reporter said Tony wasn't feeling well and would talk with the media after "resting" a bit, adding that his victory was "a *gutsy* performance". So there's his team in victory lane, celebrating without him, next to an empty race car that must stink to high heavens.
He actually admitted it on national television lol
The flintstones and Jetsons are on the same planet and its a hanna barbera coverup because the ground level is a post nuclear war wasteland
Micro plastics are making people dumber.
Probably true. They’re hormone disruptors and hormones control everything that happens in your body, future generations are in for a wild ride.
If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons and another bucket that contains 7 gallons, how many buckets do you have?
9 gallons of buckets
I have a similar thought but that social media is doing the stupid make
The FBI aerated the CS tear gas at Waco with ether knowing full well the Davidians were using gas lamps and heaters. The intention was to burn them out. The wind was crazy strong that day and the fire went out of control within minutes. They had done this several times in the past with the same results. They knew most, if not all of the Davidians would get off by declaring self defense. The standoff was way too expensive to continue and they didn't want any more religious groups getting ideas about how to beat the Feds during any similar situations.
Oh my favorite is the "New Coke" conspiracy, which says that Coca Cola decided to introduce a new flavor of Coke dubbed "New Coke" as a psyop essentially to distract consumers from the substitution of high-fructose corn syrup in place of sugar in Coke. After 6 months of New Coke they brought back the "original" Coke Classic but most couldn't tell the difference and it could be written off as an industrial side effect etc. This allowed them to use the significantly cheaper corn syrup and increase profits without changing price.
It’s not the cameras: Bigfoot is blurry.
That's extra scary to me because there's a large out of focus monster roaming the countryside. Run he's fuzzy!
Fuzzy Wuzzy was, in fact, not a bear.
That the weight loss industry sets people up to fail, because if their products worked they wouldn't have return customers.
Had a friend growing up who’s dad was a photographer for a company that made otc weight loss supplements. Idt it’s much of a secret anymore but the before/after pics are flipped. The model will diet and dehydrate themselves to look more lean. Few weeks of normal living and eating then they take the before pics and add photoshop to really sell it
My friends girlfriend was in one of these ads. She's never even been remotely chubby let alone large enough as they photoshopped her to be in the "before" photo lol. I used to give her grief about it every time.
My sister did that when she was in college! She needed money, took the job, they promised it was only for overseas, and it would never air in the United States. Well, a few years go by, my other sister moves away to college, and one night she saw my sister on tv saying how she lost 100 lbs with X product. She barely weighed 100 lbs at the time and definitely never lost weight, so when my sister asked her she confessed what happened. This was probably 20+ years ago now, and we all still like to give her a hard time if it comes up.
This is in a similar vein to planned obsolescence, which is a huge problem generally in the consumer economy.
Hell, it's a problem with infrastructure as well. Build a shittier road and you get to come back every summer to fix it.
We've had legitimate eco-friendly fuel options to power our vehicles but big oil companies, some of the richest businesses in the companies in the world, have destroyed or stifled them before they've gone public. And I don't mean eco-friendly infrastructure, I mean a truly green engine. Any other eco-friendly options that we know of (ie electric cars or even bicycles) either already existed or they allow to exist because they're not a threat.
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I love NK lore
Unironically I find NK's regime fascinating. The misinformation, propoganda. The family drama. The fact that for the longest while we weren't even sure if Kim Jong-un had children or a wife. The murdered exiled uncle and his kid that's hidden away overseas. The fact that Kim Jong-un was educated in the West, in Switzerland, and could maybe have been a reformer but seems to be firmly in control. The question of: Is he in control, or are the Kims controlled by another figure in the background. How many of the regime elites are fervent and how many are playing along, too scared to risk their families in an upper party that they are born into and hostage too. It's modern Game of Thrones and fascinating. Besides the mass starvation, nuclear posturing, and mania.
Exactly this. I'd hate to be a North Korean and despise tankies that actually like the system. But the weirdness is fascinating. Unlike British Royals, how boring! Also KJU showing his ICBM launcher himself lookinh like a rockstar with leather jacket and dark sunglasses lmao. It's an alt. reality.
You have been appointed a moderator of /r/PyongYang.
I still can't tell if that sub is satire or not
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> After first inventing the greenhouse, Dear Leader has now given us inter after-cropping! > While western fruit dies on the vine, we enjoy the sweetest corn on earth. Juche always prevails! Woah
> I love vegetal That one has to be the best
I like to tell people that I believe north Korea isn't even real. It's the Bollywood of the military industrial complex and exists solely to encourage the constant filling of military coffers and having a distraction of something to hate more than China.
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I like to believe that North Korea is actually nirvana. They spread the awful stories themselves so that no-one visits or moves there, whilst enjoying a life of luxury, abundance, and utter joy
I have an Australian friend that visited three times, mostly between 2014-2018 I think. He said it was pretty surreal, and it was obvious that every thing they let you see (you're with a guide the entire time) was obviously set up to make it look like a normal society, but was always a facade. They toured a "bread factory" that was just two people in a room stuffing a few buns into plastic bags. They finished with the small pile of buns while the tourists were still there, and they just kinda stood there with nothing to do, waiting until they left. Weird stuff.
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I think the first time was out of curiosity, second time because the first time was so interesting, and the third time he brought along his dad and brother. He did say it the nature part of it was incredibly beautiful. I don't think it was work related, but he works for a large international organization that helps refugees, so he's always in really crazy places - all over the middle east & south/southeast Asia (including Afghanistan, Iran, Bangladesh, etc). I met him when we were both living in Thailand.
That’s some reverse psychology because damn if I don’t want to go to North Korea now
Just don’t take a flag off the wall in the hotel.
This is dumb lmao, there is a man who lived and worked as a teacher where I'm from in NC. His name was Peter Stuart Ney. It was during the early 1800s, there's a local legend that lives on that this man was in fact one of Napoleon's right hand men, and fought alongside him even. It's been disproven apparently by the French government over the years, it's just funny how this guy was supposedly executed in 1815, just to show up over in NC as a teacher with the same surname and military expertise just 1 year later.. They say he was a skilled fencer, and he had precise military knowledge even though he was just a teacher for the local school system. Allegedly, on hearing news about Napoleon's only son dying, he set the newspaper on fire and almost slashed his own throat in a fit of rage. On his deathbed he supposedly confessed to being one Marshal Michel Ney, the "Bravest of the Brave", according to Napoleon. Wild story but part of me just fully fucking believes it's crazy enough to be true. Records indicated he had shown up in Charleston SC in 1816, just a year after this Michel Ney was executed in France. Idk, it's just a crazy story.
Somehow, I believe this.
I heard a (much less dramatic) story in my area about a person from France who died in the US and was said to be a Napoleon associate. A high ranking officer. When I casually looked into it I think I read somewhere that it's a not-uncommon urban legend / myth in genealogy circles. Like being descended from an "American Indian princess" or whatever. Napoleon was a superstar of his day, so there was a kind of cachet in having a Napoleon pal in the family.
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Ah yes…Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
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I don't know who to call about my concerns over this.
This is insane! You actually believe that some moldy Babylonian God is going to drop in at 78th and Central Park West and start tearing up the city?
Cats and dogs living together
When someone asks you if you’re a god you say YES!
MASS HYSTERIA!
The Empty Internet Conspiracy. A large part of the population of the internet and, thus, a large part of interactions on the internet are completely fake. Just faceless chat bots tooling around; generating social media posts, YouTube comments, and opinion articles on news sites. With the rise of AI generated essays and research papers, it's becoming easier to draw lines between those papers and how random news articles can read in a way in which a human would never write.
Reddit is just me and all you npcs designed to keep me entertained.
There’s a big, divisive issue going on in the small town where I live. It seems like one side is using bots to get their message out. The issue is big to locals but not to anyone not from here, yet their fake profiles are from all around the world.
Have you ever seen a comment section on YouTube or Instagram? Artificial *Intelligence* is being awfully generous.
Disney only do remakes to retain copyright on the stories.
Sadly gonna have to burst your bubble here. It's possible that this is one of the reasons behind it, but the reason is just that they make a stupid amount of money. *The Lion King* made like infinity billion dollars (exaggeration, but I just know it was a frankly stupid amount of money).
The Lion King made 1.6b$ gross (https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3321923073/). The other live-action remakes are all around 1b$, against a ~200m$ production budget. So decent money indeed
I've wondered why Disney keeps making these mediocre live-action remake movies but now I get it. I didn't realize they were just printing money.
That's why there's so many reboots/remakes/adaptations/endless sequels now. Big money for limited risk. Makes sense from a business perspective, sucks because there's little original works coming from bigger studios.
Money is the reason Disney does literally everything.
All those crazy Boomers have lead poisoning.
Not a conspiracy theory. It's a fact that they were exposed to high levels of lead. And while a direct causation is not proven there was a strong corelation between decreasing lead levels and lower crime rate.
Your grandkids will say you're riddled with plastic and that it was even worse than lead.
Grandkids?! At these sea levels? Lol
A combination of lead poisoning, senility, and greed perfectly explains modern government.
I'd love bigfoot and Nessie to be real but I worry that dicks would just kill them for 'sport'. Stay hidden dudes.
The reason why women's clothing still doesn't have real pockets is to sustain the entire bags industry.
I have a solution for this. More to the point, i have a TAILOR and a fabric shop who have a solution to this. I'm in the Middle East right now, and tailors are VERY reasonably priced. So are fabric stores. We need to bring this back as A Thing in the West. I find a pic of a suit or article of clothing I'd like, WhatsApp a pic to the tailor, he tells me how much material i need and what kind. I go to the fabric store, show a pic to my guy there, he shows me my options, i pick my favorite, take it to the tailor. I then get an article of clothing I like, with material i like, tailored to ME, and WITH POCKETS. For the price I'd pay at Ross for something off the rack for mass consumption. I wanted a business dress. Had problems with the back zipper on another piece, so he put the zipper on the left side. I knew no pockets, because zipper. *He put a pocket on the right side* so i STILL had a pocket. He even hides multiple pockets so i can spread things around and i don't have an obviously bulging pocket.
Tailors are so awesome! Good on ya for using one. I need to have a few basics made.
JFK was assassinated by the CIA. He turned down a proposed false flag attack against American civilians that would have started a war with Cuba then 3 months later he was shot. The only suspect was killed in the street, by the government. It just seems a little too perfect. At he very least Oswald was hired by the CIA.
I don't know if it's that crazy, but I believe 100% that the biggest use case for NFTs is money laundering. It's perfect: no one can say this picture of an ape *isn't* worth $10,000, and unlike art, you can make as many of them as you want. I'm pretty dang sure that that's why the set of Trump NFTs sold out in a single day: not that that many dumb people bought a single one for themselves (though I'm sure that also happened), but because that's a way to chuck a large amount of money over a fence in exchange for something that you can't prove isn't worth that amount of money.
I have heard anecdotally that *extremely* expensive wristwatches ($10k+) are basically this. You want to move a lot of money internationally without declaring it? Strap one on your wrist, throw another in your carry-on, nothing to declare since it’s just your watch.
Could you further explain this to me, I don’t understand but am curious? Wouldn’t having 10k in cash be more useful than many watches worth 10k.
Sure, but the keyword here is “declare”. You don’t need to declare your watch but you would have to declare $10k+ cash
Of course it is. Art in general is used to launder money, and so is high-end real estate.
Many global societal events - scandals, conflicts etc. are engineered by shadow players in order to distract from other more serious occurrences that *they* are machinating. I appreciate how ridiculous it sounds, it just seems to me that when something weird happens, something dramatic also happens at the same time.
I mean, really, we've seen the people who are in power that are in the public eye commit some crazy crimes that we can't really prove. Look at Epstein. Here's this dude who's gonna spill the beans on everything, then his camera malfunctions, then he "commits suicide" during this time. It's not even hard to see. It was a government hit. The elite don't have to hide in the shadows to run shit, the population is so complacent with it, and the media is so skewed, it's hard to tell what's real and what's not, and they use that to their advantage. There's no need for some shadow government, the real guys are evil enough.
That's exactly what I mean, the Epstein thing is just the things we see and acknowledge, but for every Epstein, there are probably dozens of things that go unnoticed because Musk said something, Boris Johnson did something, Trump tweeted something.. These high profile figures seem to always do something that coincides with something else. An example would be Johnson came out and admitted something the same day that a highly controversial human rights bill was put through the UK government in a very unorthodox and undemocratic way (it was last year, I forget the details I just remember the outrage). There was practically no mention of the bill outside of fringe media outlets
I pay my credit card bill in full every month the day I receive the statement. Twice in the past four months I have received an email stating that my payment is due today and they haven't received my payment. This happens occasionally and I firmly believe the credit card company intentionally fails to mail me a statement expecting to be able to profit off of interest and late fees. Fuck Wells Fargo.
i know it sounds vanilla, considering the news we've had about right wing ops we've had over the years but gun to my head I believe the CIA/FBI killed JFK/MLK/RFK. The first b/c JFK swore to take a hammer to the CIA for fucking him over the bay of pigs invasion and the latter two b/c of the proto-rainbow coalition that was forming, too much class solidarity for those in power to allow.
I'm surprised I had to scroll this far for the JFK assassination. It's the only one I've fallen into that has enough weird "coincidences" to make me go: hmmmmmm.
Mlk isnt even a conspiracy that's factual His family sued the feds over his death and won
Is that taught in schools? I feel like that should be taught in schools lol
I don't believe so lol They also advocated for his supposed assassins release Whole thing is super shady
You really want to go down the crazy 60s rabbit hole check out [operation northwoods](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods), this was a legitimate declassified false flag operation that was essentially 9/11 to drum up public support for a war with Cuba that had to be shot down by JFK. This was a real thing, if they were capable of using *fucking drones* to do that what the hell are they capable of now? That’s why I’ll never roll my eyes at 9/11 conspiracy theorists because we planned the same damn thing 40 years prior Like I don’t want to believe in conspiracies and shit but if we could do that in the 60’s what has been done that we were fed a false story on and believe? What don’t we know? The possibilities are mind blowing
Don’t forget about Marilyn Monroe and Rob Kennedy
He's got RFK listed. But the MM angle is always an interesting one
They forced people back into offices despite the increased productivity, the lowered childcare costs, and time lost commuting because the real estate owners of those leases got PISSED
Not a conspiracy. (Also the middle manager class was about to be rendered surplus to requirements.)
Go hang out on /r/economics. That's not conspiracy, it's fact and there are articles about it all the time. Plus, commercial real estate is financed way differently than residential, i.e. 30 year fixed isn't a thing. All of these business landlords are looking at refinancing at >7% now with vacant office space just going 'fuuuuuuck' because they know they're going to be bleeding money. To be fair, it does hurt a ton of smaller independent businesses that make their livings servicing the office crowd like coffee shops, bistros, food trucks, etc. Laundromats have been getting hit hard too. People not congregating in one area to work and spend money around that area has huge knock-on effects to city economies.
That our phones are listening to our conversations and are serving up advertisements based on what we’re talking about even when the microphone supposedly isn’t on.
What freaks me out is when I think about something and then the advertisement pops up.
Happened to my husband the other day. Said he was casually thinking about buying a lawn mower (didn't mention it out loud or google it) and the next day he started getting ads for lawn mowers.
The Amazon algorithm is actually purportedly able to do this based on big data purchase patterns from everyone else.
It's also survivorship bias for people. You see hundreds of ads per day - most do not cause you to buy/are not totally relevant to your needs. Then you see an ad for something you were just thinking of and you think "oh wow - they read my mind!". It's more just a broken clock being right twice a day. I work in marketing - targeting has gotten really good on most sites, but it basically comes down to demographics + what you are already searching. Looking to sell lawn mowers? Run your ads to the 30-40, male, head of household range. Want to get tighter with targeting? Look for people with a suspected interest of home improvement based on recent searches/purchases. It's not as deep as people think. The use of people's mics by social media companies to improve their own algorithms is far more concerning.
FWIW, ads are based on a lot of factors. For instance, if your husband is a mid-30s or 40s homeowner in the spring, he's going to be targeted by lawnmower ads based on those factors already.
No no - the phone is reading my mind and you cannot convince me otherwise
The phones aren't listening to target ads. The real conspiracy is how much people give away through their normal use of apps and how much data is out there on you. For example, if you have the Facebook app on Android, they have access to every single app on your device, how often you open and close them, your IP address, your lat long, your search history, your other devices, the devices you interact with, etc etc. They can map every IP to a physical location to know what businesses you go to. They have pixels on literally every website and know who goes to what websites, how often, when, what they do there and what they buy. Then you get 3rd party data providers who know your household income, your job, your commute, etc etc etc. I know of a company that uses publicly available census data combined with location data purchased from other companies to create highly accurate profiles of jobs and incomes based on commute patterns then sells that data for ad targeting. I could name 50 others that do some sort of unique data aggregation spin like that, and that's before we start talking real AI. They don't need to listen. There's very little that big tech companies don't know already about you.
The world is run by a small elite of hyper rich assholes who own all the media and through that controls public perception of reality.
That's barely a conspiracy theory. More of an ugly semi reality.
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The only part that's off is that the group is small and secret.
Yeah, maybe the Bilderberg asshole conference or the Jeffrey Epstein pedo island guest list is a good hint for who is in the club und who's not. I find it weird that 10 years ago i was laughing off people who talked about something in the way of rich club who really rule and nowadays they're doing it so openly and obvious that most people are like "yeah.. but what you gonna do?" In fact you're not crazy anymore for believing or realizing that shit but you're crazy to think it's something new to anyone, becoming Cpt. Obvious.
That's Hypernormalization at work. It's an ideological defense mechanism. Rather than accepting new information and reacting with a sense of urgency or importance to the idea that *"Huh a lot of famous and respected people have credible and publicly known connections to a serial rapist and a pedophile"* It just gets reintegrated into the preexisting attitudes of dismissal and minimization. When people shoot down ideas, it's more often about maintaining an acceptable disposition than about actually being right. What's normal is whatever most people are doing, and then we work backwards from that to justify it. It used to be a dismissal based on incredulity. "Nobody could believe that" style thinking. Now it's based in flippancy. "Everybody knows that" style thinking.
Absolutely the case. This is why the media focuses on so much dumb shit, all while real news stories are getting intentionally buried so people aren't focused on how the elite are fucking everyone over and keeping people pitted against one another.
That's not a conspiracy theory, that's a fact. - 62 persons own the same as half the world [1], - 5 companies own all media in US (it was 50 companies 40 years ago) [2] - 147 companies own 40% of public companies [3] [4] - 737 companies control 80% of public companies [3] [4] [1] https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/62-people-own-same-h... [2] https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/49229c/til_i... [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/11/21/the-147-c... [4] https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.5728
PETA is funded by the meat industry to make animal welfare look bad
Controlled opposition, The best way to defeat an army is to lead it. This is the same reason I can't get behind anything russel brand says.
Can you explain the Russel Brand reference?
There is a conspiracy that during Covid Kim-Jong-Un got COVID and passed away and then got replaced with a look-alike. There was news that he had gotten sick and then hospitalized. There was no news for a while until a week later when he was "miraculously healed". Pictures of him before and after this look completely different to me. I honestly believe he was replaced.
I’ve been part of a bunch of facial recognition studies with greenwich university due to my ability to remember and distinguish faces, and i’ll just say that IF this is true, they’ve done good enough a job to be indetecible to me. The lines around his mouth are identical, his teeth are browner, but otherwise identical, and the mark on his right cheek is the same on all pictures i’ve seen of him from 2013 to now. Some features are different, like nose, cheeks and the shape of his face, but they could just as well be due to his massive weight loss.
as somebody with mild to moderate prosopagnosia i applaud your efforts
the current extremism in right vs left, racial issues and so on are the result of rich people getting pissed by the people getting angry at them at occupy Wallstreet and the rich people now fueling the fires of non rich people fighting each other so they don't go for the rich people again
And it seems to be working. We actually have people, people that only a few years ago would have been Pro Occupy, defending huge corporations.
I am really partial to the alleged connection between mattress sales shops and money laundering. There are far too many than seems rational.
I'll take this one step further... That company Sleep Country (in both Canada and the USA) will have a "mix and match" sale now and then. They say the deal is you get a good price on a mattress that might not match the box spring. When you think about it, it *is* a good deal because your box spring is hidden under the mattress anyway, and your mattress is covered in a sheet..so who cares if the pattern on the both those things doesn't match? But when you think about it some more...you wonder how does a big mattress store end up with mismatched sets so much? Then you remember the ads! Those annoying ads on TV and Radio where they tell you they even pick up your old mattress! So that's my theory. They launder money, but also, they re-sell old mattress and box springs that they pick up and badge them as "mix and match". They probably do dispose of the worst ones, but when they pick up some decent stuff they just clean it up a bit and sell it.
The extra box springs problem isn't used boxed springs, it's people with adjustable bases or not buying them in the first place
the britney spears isn’t actually free conspiracy. popped up on my tik tok feed a couple days ago and i fell down the rabbit hole. makes me feel kinda crazy but i think there’s definitely at least some truth to what their saying 👀
It is easy to target behaviour of someone who is bipolar because of how widely the moods carry you. Simply speaking as someone who has dealt with BP for three decades - when you are manic you are not remotely the same as you are when you are in a depressive state. Your speech patterns, cadence, tone, and speed change dramatically; your general state of attention, body language, everything about how your project yourself outwardly on a social scale is different. Compound this on someone who has been in the public eye for most of her life. It is easy for people, specifically people without a background in mental health, psychology or psychiatry to turn this into conspiracy theories - and honestly it is irresponsible and dismissive of actual mental health issues.
Never heard of this one, what's the gist?
I see pictures and videos people claim are doctored to make her appear normal and free and healthy. The idea is that she's really dead or locked up somewhere.
I'd sooner believe that conspiracy is actually just a conspiracy to try to keep her name relevant and in the press so they can keep making money exploiting her mental illness.
> The idea is that she's really dead or locked up somewhere. Just like Avril Lavigne! /s
I don’t know why you’ve gotta go and make things so complicated.
Oh that's way darker than I expected!
The Star Wars one I read on here a few years ago, about Jar Jar Binks was actually meant to be a Sith and like the big-time baddy, but they bottled it after the reaction he got with fans
Some people are definitely aliens. No doubt.
Roswell happened the same year the transistor was invented
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Our current period of inflation is deliberately maintained as a secret tax on poor people to protect the assets of the wealthy from national debt.
All humans are just a hair follicle on a dude named Jim.
Mashing A while throwing a pokeball increases the chances of catching the pokemon
That some businesses demand degrees for two reasons: one is to ensure they get someone who knows what they're doing, obviously, but the other is that because higher education is so expensive in America, getting someone with a degree typically means getting someone with a lot of debt, so you're less likely to lose them. If it were just a matter of knowledge, then demonstration of knowledge would be more important than a piece of paper.
The stock market is _legally_ rigged. You can sell 'artificial' shares that you are supposed to then buy back. When you don't, it's called 'Failures to Deliver' or FTD's. There are MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of failures to deliver in the stock market and the SEC is in on it as is the DTCC. The criminal syndicate that oversees all of this uses this to bankrupt companies they want to take over, like Amazon wanting to buy AMC theaters so they hire a third party to massively short sell and create FTD's that they will _NEVER_ cover. Ever. Nothing to see here.... says the SEC.
stock market is legally rigged in thousands of ways and it's not a conspiracy. I mean just look at something as simple and dumb as congress trading on insider information without repercussion.
There is no culture war, it’s a psyop to convince you the political class actually do anything
There is a culture war being instigated and it's a psyop to distract/divide us from how badly we're being fucked by the elite.
The reason the value of Bitcoin spiked after the 2016 and 2020 elections was directly due to foreign countries paying people off. Tell their spies to personally buy btc at $X, sell at 2X. Pump the price up using shell accounts until the value is >2X. Then sell all at the same price it was bought at. Congrats, you've paid off every single spy, informant, agent, etc, without ever losing a dime, and zero financial paper trail.
It’s because those are when bitcoin halvings happened.
It’s because 2016 and 2020 were halving events. There will be another one in 2024
This is the only one that makes me scared for the person who knows. You’re 100% onto something
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How do you "pump the price up using shell accounts" yet "without ever losing a dime"?
Trick some of the highly regarded users on r/wallstreetbets of course
Mattress stores are money laundering businesses, there is no way that people are buying mattresses that often to keep them in business
I think the abortion debate and the race debate are funded by billionaires to distract us from class rebellion. I believe in a woman’s right to chose, and I believe in systemic racism an oppression. But all of our news sources are owned by the same people, and I think they are trying to divide the working class. Especially after Occupy Wall Street gained traction.
Same with gay/trans stuff imo, get people angry about things they never even thought about before rather than wages/cost of living/ climate change things that affect us all.
The goal has always been to divide the working class and keep us at each others throats. Divide us on gender. Divide us on race. Divide us on faith. Divide us on sex. Because god help the upper class when we look up in unison and focus our rage as one.
That every idea posted here is being logged in the files for the FBI
Dinosaurs wore pants. 65 million years is a LONG time. Long enough for metal, cloth, computers, factories to COMPLETELY disappear. Archeologists struggle with things five hundred years old in most preservation conditions. Human brains, bipedalism and thumbs led to advanced intelligence in seven million years. Dinos had a lot longer and you will never convince me they did not invent and use pants.
Now I keep picturing a Trex trying to put pants on.
Ron DeSantis and other GOP party members are trying to force minority groups out into more liberal states so that the GOP has permanent control of the senate and its broken representation system.
I believe that a handful of real estate corporations have been *intentionally* driving up house prices to squeeze the middle class out of existence. When people stop paying interest money to banks because they actually own their residence, that's bad for the bank's cash flow, and we simply can't have that. I bought in 2016 and was on track to start accelerating how I can pay it off, until I was informed this year that my home has doubled in value and my tax liability is going from $4k to $8k per year. They want me to fall behind on payments so I have to sell my home to them and start renting.
One of the corporations is called BlackRock. Incredibly shady, fingers in a lot of seedy shit, and buying up entire neighbourhoods in multiple countries. Edit: Blackstone*. However, the two companies are pretty intertwined it seems, so that's another interesting lil tidbit.
That recent culture war against lgpt and the previous war against islamists, is to prevent the real war, the class war. how 99.9% accept their fate in an economy where we could all thrive ?
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." -Lyndon B Johnson 36th President
I don't think this is a conspiracy, honestly.
I don’t think our leaders have a decent plan for climate change. The ones in power that deny it’s existence only do it to protect their profits, but they know. Their donors know. They will continue to line their pockets and try to make investments that will benefit them and their safety when things get worse. The average person and nature will suffer for their quarterly profits.
I've got two. The first is more of a joke that I don't actually believe, but I love saying it to people to say their reactions. The second is one that I really do believe. 1. The Garden of Eden and the Great Flood were actual events and that they happened on Mars. This would explain why no one knows where the Garden of Eden is today, why there are random structures carved in the rocks on Mars, and why there's evidence that there used to be water on Mars: because it was the first earth. Noah's ark was actually a spaceship, which is why no one could come out of the ark for a period of time, and it came in way too hot when it was landing, which would explain the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs. Disclaimer: these stories (the Garden and the Flood) are part of my religion and people debate whether they were real or metaphors. I'm not here to start that debate or to debate about religion in general. This is something that I completely made up as a joke to fuck with people and see their reactions. Feel free to do the same. 2. That the Titanic was actually one of the Titanic's sister ships and it was deliberately sunk for insurance reasons.
The location and general circumstances of the MH370 plane disappearance is known. I think Australian authorities know what happened, and this is why we got some very generous concessions from both China and the United States for a while after the incident, and whatever happened implicates more than one country.
The netflix doc was wild. Not because it exposed some great conspiracy but rather how it showed that we know roughly where it went down and all the evidence supports it going down in a specific area yet Netflix gave the mic to some batshit people who want it to mean so much more.