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Cake day: September 9th, 2023

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  • A perfect example. Early “conspiracies” like bloating the numbers by counting anyone who died “with COVID” as having died “from COVID” and the disease having come from a lab due to gain of function research appear to have been borne out, among many others, too many to count, that ended up being bullshit.

    That was a perfect storm of misinformation and disinformation that is still being pored over to this day.

    Another good example is 9/11. People who refused to believe that steel infrastructure could not be damaged to an extent that it would implode and collapse into its own footprint - even if it wasn’t hit by a plane at all - were labeled “truthers”. Whatever you believe about 9/11, it’s very difficult to look at it in retrospect and not admit that something very wrong happened, and many questions are glossed over or left unanswered.

    Labeling something a conspiracy immediately causes people to recoil lest they be categorized as tinfoil hat kooks, but the idea that powerful people will do horrifying things for their own interests under the thinnest cover and get away with it is not new.

    That said, it is far too easy to lose grip on reality and start seeing everything as a conspiracy, so it’s always advisable to hold truths lightly, and examine them frequently. Hand waving things away with “they” statements is the worst kind of intellectual laziness and doing so is a great disservice to oneself.









  • I saw it recently too, will have to rewatch as I was distracted directly as the plot started to unfold into the climax, and decided to shut it off rather than piecemeal it.

    Have you ever seen The Name of the Rose by the way? One of my favorites. (Don’t watch it on prime as they nerf a key scene that is of importance to the ending.)









  • No surprise. It’s becoming painfully obvious that Trump’s strategy is to manipulate the market to continue the upward transfer of wealth, and so when he drops the stock market with overdone tariffs and then brings it back up by suspending them, he’ll inevitably have missed a few things and have to correct after the fact to make sure that the wrong people aren’t suffering. All part of doing business ruining the economy to enrich a select few.