Strangely enough, this comment forced me to read this for the first time. Took a bit. He was certainly no dummy. I take issue with some of it, but it's certainly a compelling read.
Conspiracies used to be ironic things people did satirically (Birds are not real) and not actual belief systems with entire media spheres built around them (UFOs, Flat Earth).
People repeating them on the internet used to do it ironically. But conspiracies always were actual belief systems and have always brought groups of people together to reinforce each other idiocies.
Nah conspiracies go way back. Delusional behavior and thinking has always been a standard feature for humanity, it's only relatively recently that it's become so visible. Satanic Panic, red scare, and UFO conspiracies were a relatively big thing throughout the mid to late 20th century - and still are. Illuminati conspiracies go back hundreds of years. There are at least several dozen more examples like this and that's only if you don't wanna get all religious with it and include stuff like the Millerites or the Popish Plot.
That's a tough one to answer. Because it was for me never to go near several businesses and people and homes ever again. So is that a "for" or and "against".
I remember in the early 2000s when I got Internet at home, one of my relatives kept telling me about forums and how great they were. And my thought was "Why would would I want to know what the average dumb fuck thinks about things?" I might have forgotten this wisdom.
Well, the nice thing is there are lots of people eager and waiting to let us all know when and precisely how, in elaborate detail, we are being dumb fucks ourselves.
I'd rather relax reading hundreds of pages on a few different topics from one unusually entertaining or informative stranger, more often than not dead for decades at least.
Literally every single day for me. I am lucky enough to have been blessed a job that is both easy and boring (literally just scan documents all day), which gives me plenty of downtime to find some people on the internet to stress me out since my job doesn't. (Only took 20 years to find such a job.) Hell, I'm doing it right now!
I'm only a stranger until you read my manifesto on the Oxford comma
You didn't provide a link for the manifesto.
Or say whether you were for or against.
Don't you judge me, stranger
Not judging. Just trying to provoke you into a multipage rant that expounds your position on the comma.
What about the Westminster Period?
My opinion of the Oxford Comma:
Never gonna give you up, let you down, run around, or desert you.
You cannot just stand there at the hibachi grill and look at your watch while I’m sitting here.
I’m hungry.
Fuckin’ cook something.
Show me that manifesto!
Please, please, please.
"Chronometer."
I've decided to help you out with the manifesto. Here is a working copy for you to edit as you wish.
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/Industrial%20Society%20and%20Its%20Future.pdf
Kaczynski was right.
Maybe not in the whole bombing aspect, prolly not that, but this manifesto is worth its weight in gold.
Published in 1995. Kind of strange all these years later to read it and say, "Oh shit, he was right".
Meanwhile, ai turns the world into a giant turd, ruled by the nerd reich.
Yeah. Probably not the bombing part, though. Probably…
IMO anyone sympathetic to this CIA op trash is much better off reading Bookchin or Kropotkin. Not just good premises, good conclusions too.
Strangely enough, this comment forced me to read this for the first time. Took a bit. He was certainly no dummy. I take issue with some of it, but it's certainly a compelling read.
I think you’re my cult leader.
Not sure how much longer it needs to be than "It improves clarity uaing a single comma and therefore is necessary."
I personally use the Oxford comma but I do agree with the people who think the sentence should probably just be rephrased to not need it.
Going on the internet used to be fun, in the before times.
Conspiracies used to be ironic things people did satirically (Birds are not real) and not actual belief systems with entire media spheres built around them (UFOs, Flat Earth).
They never were.
People repeating them on the internet used to do it ironically. But conspiracies always were actual belief systems and have always brought groups of people together to reinforce each other idiocies.
Nah conspiracies go way back. Delusional behavior and thinking has always been a standard feature for humanity, it's only relatively recently that it's become so visible. Satanic Panic, red scare, and UFO conspiracies were a relatively big thing throughout the mid to late 20th century - and still are. Illuminati conspiracies go back hundreds of years. There are at least several dozen more examples like this and that's only if you don't wanna get all religious with it and include stuff like the Millerites or the Popish Plot.
It can still be fun, just nurture your delusions till they become hallucinations. Then the world is your oyster.
If I could nurture I'd be raising possums not dreams
You just need to relax and let go, then embrace the possum bilities.
See, that wasn't that hard. Now go out and spread the good news.
Idk what's going on bro I went outside saw a car and fainted
I think I embraced too hard
Nope, it's all just part of the Epiphany experience. You will get use to it.
Mainly because the internet was a place you had to actually visit. It couldn't follow you around all day and intercede in daily affairs.
I prefer the term “distressed eccentric friend you’ll never meet” 🥲
Anyways, how about those sports teams/political parties/abortion rights?
Aww I like this, it’s wholesome
Hey! I'm not mentally ill. I've even got proof. They gave me a certificate when they let me out of the hospital.
One of these certificates?
No, those are just souvenirs. This one had a judges signature on it, and was given to me along with a copy of the restraining order.
Whoa, fancy. Was the order for you or against you?.
That's a tough one to answer. Because it was for me never to go near several businesses and people and homes ever again. So is that a "for" or and "against".
I'd say against, but I'm not a lawyer.
Also, sorry to hear that. I hope things are better now.
Oh everything's fine. I never let some paperwork get in the way of life.
You know what they say about a man with big ... certificates.
Hrm I notice that it does not make any mention about "being an ass" tho... 🤪
I remember in the early 2000s when I got Internet at home, one of my relatives kept telling me about forums and how great they were. And my thought was "Why would would I want to know what the average dumb fuck thinks about things?" I might have forgotten this wisdom.
In the old days, every village had one or two idiots. Thanks to the internet, the idiots have created their own village.
Dude, if your posting here, you are one of us.
Resistance is futile.
*you're
no u, uWu:-P
I will travel to this village and with my slightly superior intellect become king of the idiots!
Bad news: the "village" is 4chan. Have fun!
Be forewarned that not every village is as welcoming and wise as Idiocracy.
Rael life is much dumbper tahn that!
I'm sure you're on t the first to have thought that.
Maybe salt it a little with some religious posturing or something?
Well, the nice thing is there are lots of people eager and waiting to let us all know when and precisely how, in elaborate detail, we are being dumb fucks ourselves.
Feedback is useful.
15 minutes later: OK now I feel frustrated about the world instead of about work, time to take a real break.
And watch them spout irrefutable logic that somehow completely contradicts each other.
Did you know some local municipalities are passing laws to make golf carts and UTVs legal on surface streets, yet China cars are banned? lmao
I'd rather relax reading hundreds of pages on a few different topics from one unusually entertaining or informative stranger, more often than not dead for decades at least.
Literally every single day for me. I am lucky enough to have been blessed a job that is both easy and boring (literally just scan documents all day), which gives me plenty of downtime to find some people on the internet to stress me out since my job doesn't. (Only took 20 years to find such a job.) Hell, I'm doing it right now!
I feel criticised twice.
She didn’t mention neet, so I’m good.
You can tell it’s Twitter because they’re no acknowledgment of talking to bots.
Luckily it's hard for me to hold a phone and put a gun in my mouth at the same time.
I... I may need to frame this and hang it over my monitor.
I'll admit: I've started trolling the absurdly stupid commentary. I'm smart enough to engage in good faith quality discussuon, but bored with it now..
2010 me hates this, 2026 me laughs in hypocrisy. I'm literally trolling my past self
Control, control! You must learn control!
Do. Or do not.
There is no 'try'.
Satisfaction.