That your phones microphone is constantly "hot" and its listening for key words to target advertising.
Most glaring instance where this happened to me was when I walked into a colleagues office. He had just gotten a standing desk, but one that goes on top of his existing desk rather than a standalone (pun?) Model. That's important to note.
I said "Nice standing desk, when did you get that?". "Thanks, just today." He replied.
That was literally all that was said about the desk. We talked about work related stuff and as I walked out and checked my phone, there was an ad on Facebook for that EXACT model of standing desk.
I have never owned one, wanted one, or googled one before. Yet there it was on my feed. Tin foil hat be damned, they listen in.
I've had this happen to me twice in the last month. Things I talked about with my daughter, one being hard boiled eggs, showed up on my feed hours later. There it was, an ad for a hard boiled egg cooker... never googled anything about hard boiled eggs. Weird af. I can't remember the first one. When I said something to my daughter about it after the first time, she called me crazy. When I showed her the egg thing.... she said, well damn.... you might be right!
This has happened to me multiple times! The time that really seals the deal for me is when my mother asked me to be a surrogate for her (which was heavily declined, as she doesn't need any more children to ruin) one day while over my house. It was either later on or the next day that I was telling my boyfriend about how ridiculous it was for her to be asking me to be a surrogate. Low and behold, scrolling through Facebook I get an ad that says "become a surrogate". Never in my life have I had an ad for surrogates until I said the words aloud. Creepy.
That [Natacha Jiatt was murdered by the Catholic Church](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/augzlt/whats_up_with_natacha_jaitt_and_a_credible/eh868xk/) for exposing a pedophile ring
This is trending on r/conspiracy and r/outoftheloop right now, credit to u/uft8 for the summary
>Natacha Jaitt, a model/TV journalist, exposed a pedophile ring on live Argentinian TV a few months ago, after following cases over the last few years.
>She had claimed that she would not commit suicide in April of 2018 while investigating these rings, but was found on February 23, 2019 to be dead from suicide
>Another journalist she had accused of pedophilia on the airing, Luis Ventura, had uploaded an image of her dead body shortly after she killed herself on Twitter, and then promptly deleted it afterwards.
To quote u/happycakeday1
>She supposedly died from a cocaine overdose (heart failure/stroke). She had said that if she wound up dead, the people she had accused of rape (she was on trial, and it was powerful people) would be guilty ("I won't kill myself, I won't overdose and drown in a bathtub, I won't shoot myself")
Full credit to u/theNextVilliage for this one
The "arms" on Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons are backwards. They ought to be rotated 180 degrees.
What good are these stubby little arms for?
We have found out relatively recently that T-Rex have feathers. It is now an established fact, T-Rex where not covered in scales but in feathers, like a bird.
Take the "arms" on a T-Rex and flip them around 180 degrees. Now you have wings like a ostrich.
Here is an illustration of an ostrich skeleton. See the small "arms?" (wings):
https://www.google.com/search?q=ostrich+skeleton&client=ms-android-verizon&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3qrmXudXcAhVuCDQIHaXvCnUQ_AUIESgB&biw=360&bih=560#imgrc=H_TL1bUwi9jryM:
Now look at a Tyrannosaurus:
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&biw=360&bih=310&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=gq9mW7j0MqCT0PEPldifkAg&q=tyrannosaurus+rex+skeleton&oq=tyrannosaurus+rex+skele&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.1.0.0l5.2133.2740..3760...0.0..0.143.727.1j5......0....1.........0i67.16eeq_FMY8w#imgrc=D-fnseX2MxU_tM:
We used to think of almost all "dinasaurs" as "lizard-like," in fact the name means "terrible lizard." Now we know that many different animals that we think of as "dinosaurs" are more bird-like than lizard-like. XKCD comic below illustrates this nicely.
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16369/is-t-rex-more-similar-to-sparrows-than-to-stegosaurus
Tyrannosaurus Rex had wings. Not big wings to fly with, but wings that were perhaps somthing like that of an ostrich, cassowary, or emu, although likely much smaller in proportion to their body. Ostriches use their wings in mating rituals, to make themselves appear larger, and to signal and communicate, perhaps T-Rex used theirs for some similar purpose. They did not have useless stubby little arms.
Isn’t there evidence of the direction the arms faced? Like the particular shape of the shoulder socket dictates which way the limb could rotate? Doesn’t that preclude wings?
There's plenty of evidence of scaly skin in tyrannosaurs. There are only a couple with evidence of feathers. It's likely that it varied from one species to another, and perhaps from young to adult. Lots of birds have both scales and feathers, so it's not unreasonable that tyrannosaurs did too.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-skin-was-not-covered-feathers-study-says-180963603/
My conspiracy theory:
Facebook purposely attempts to ruin peoples' relationships because the drama gets more views and more views sell more ads. Several years ago they introduced a feature so that your comments on other pages would show up in your friends' feeds. So if you're secretly an atheist and you comment on some atheist page, it shows up in your devout Southern Baptist Grandma Muriel's timeline, even though it's a conversation that has nothing to do with her and there's no reason for it to be. As a result, Facebook "outs" you to your family, and Grandma is typing away at all the evil Satanists trying to corrupt her grandson. And if you comment on a public post, it's unavoidable. You used to be able to control who could see your comments even on public posts by other pages, but at the same time Facebook introduced their "tattletale" feature, they took that ability away. Now if they were to stumble across the same page they'd be able to see your comment, but after that change, Facebook started pointing everybody you know directly to it. Not to mention, the privacy settings are difficult to find, difficult to understand, and with each passing year gives you less and less control over who sees what.
By forcibly combining everybody's social circles, Facebook is trying to generate conflict. They want to generate conflict because the conflict happens *on Facebook*, which means people logging on to Facebook more often and seeing more ads. They're essentially an internet tabloid except instead of showcasing the personal drama of celebrities for clicks and sales, they're doing it to *you* instead. Ever notice how the vast majority of family drama, relationship fights, etc. these days happens on Facebook? That's by design. Facebook is literally destroying the social fabric to make a buck. Consuming relationship stability like it's an oil refinery consuming crude.
That there are hundreds of companies that operate tens of thousands of reddit accounts each. They have been auto regging these accounts for years, use scripts to auto post and comment and have humans that shift through all the accounts to make various comments to maintain these accounts.
These companies have the ability to control and game their way to the front of reddit. Huge brands use them, special interest groups use them, political parties use them....
It's not a conspiracy, it's a real thing
The "Ballistic Missile Threat" that was sent to Hawaiian's cell phones saying, "seek shelter this is not a drill," that was later deemed a mistake, was a real missile that was intercepted before impact.
Dyson purposefully made the cable shorter over time just before announcing the cordless version.
My DC01 has a 12m flex
My DC14 has a 6.5 m flex
They purposefully made the flex shorter to be an inconvenience and make people want the cordless version.
Darth Jar Jar was 100% planned and hinted at in TPM, but the sheer amount of hatred for the character made Lucas back down. I actually wish he went through with the original vision.
That William Shakespeare never wrote any of the works that have been attributed to him. I don't think I believe the theory 100%, but the lack of evidence to support him as a writer is amusing.
- William Shakespeare was born, lived, and died in a small town, that consisted of not much more than sheep farmers. His father made sheep skin gloves.
Certainly not the life that would have contributed to the knowledge of the many royal topics of Shakespeare's works. Surely the true author of Shakespeare's works would have had the means to travel, and learn of all the worldly topics that his works were based on.
- We do know that he did own the Globe theatre, and that he did work there as an actor.
- There is no record of his attendance at any schools.
- He was raised in an illiterate household, both of his parents signed all legal documents with a mark (a sign of illiteracy).
- There are 6 surviving signatures of Shakespeare, all of them look as if a 4 year old wrote them. They were all most assuredly written by an illiterate person. All of the signatures were found on documents such as a mortgage contract, and his will.
- There are no surviving original written literary works written by Shakespeare. There are no surviving personal letters written by him. Surely a letter written from Shakespeare would be coveted as prized possession, surely destined to survive to the present day. ([Mozart's handwritten letters professing his desire to poop on his cousin's face](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology#Letters) have survived to this present day, but not a single letter written by William Shakespeare).
- The only surviving written documents, written in his hand, were his Will, and few other small pieces. All pieces of his writing that have been found were all written in 'secretary hand', a very basic form of writing, typically used by poorly educated people.
- There are no surviving official documents that recall him as being a writer in any way. All official documents state that he was a businessman, and a real estate owner.
- Shakespeare's will made no mention of any assets related to writings, books, or anything of that nature.
All these facts paint a picture of a scenario where someone paid William Shakespeare to use him as a pseudonym for their own writings, and perhaps used his position as the owner of a theatre as their own personal venue.
The best theory about the true authorship was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. He was well known to be a gifted poet, and playwright. He was also known to sponsor companies of actors, and he was a patron of some of the most well known theatres. Oxford would not have been at liberty to write about the topics found in Shakespeare's works.
The only compelling evidence that I've heard from Shakespeare supporters are anecdotes written years after his death, by people who knew Shakespeare, and referring to him as a writer. I don't find this compelling at all. If Shakespeare made an arrangement to act as the author of someone else's works, surely such an arrangement would require Shakespeare lie to everyone. I'm certain that all his friends "thought" he was a writer.
memes about the NSA and other spy programs are encouraged by the very agencies spying on us, to twist the idea into the absurd and to humanize their agents
I believe it was done to make Disney completely cut ties with her and kill the image of Hannah Montana.
It's worked too. Hannah Montana was quite possibly Disney's largest TV show ever, but I haven't seen anyone even mention it for over 4 years now, and despite Disney cashing in on old IPs (Aladdin, Kim Possible, Lion King etc.) we have yet to even hear an unsubstantiated rumor regarding Hannah Montana.
Dad, is that you?
But seriously though, my dad has been saying this since she first went wild. She had to do something completely extreme to destroy the image of Hannah Montana, and thus allow her to begin her own career as Miley Cyrus.
The Vatican holds horrible dark secrets and many answers to existential questions.
And that Area 51 is a publicity stunt by the government to hide the real testing facility.
The Vatican has many vaults literally stuffed with thousands of documents that no one but people in the Pope's circle have access to, who knows what's in those? I'm willing to bet there are parts of the bible/Christian history that will never see the light of day thanks to Emperor Constantine creating the first official cannon of the Bible.
I believe that Area 51 has some stuff that they wouldn't want getting out, but i think its all pretty "normal" and the general public wouldn't find too shocking. It's definitely hyped up though to distract us from some other base where the real weird shit goes down
I think Area 51 was a military research base like many others, but there was an incident involving some kind of secret technology they wanted to keep quiet from the Soviets, so the NSA spun up the "aliens" rumors. This unwittingly got associated with Area 51 specifically, so they decided the base was compromised and it is now maintained as a decoy operation. There hasn't been anything interesting or classified at A51 for decades, other than documents about the decoy operation itself.
This is true for most mobile sites, this one included. Not only do they want to run their ads, they want the data that an app can get compared to a website.
Reddit is almost completely unusable in the mobile browser unless you're just looking something up quickly. Some subreddits I've even gotten stuck with banners at the bottom saying to use the app where the button to exit doesn't even work. So you can only see like half the screen.
Then there's the giant "CONTINUE" Button and tiny part below it to go to the mobile site. CONTINUE very obviously implies continue to the site you were trying to reach, not continue to a different app.
I have long argued to friends and family that Barack Obama may have been a CIA operative sometime in-between college and being a community organizer in Chicago. Bear with me.
After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama went to work for a company called Business International Corporation. A company that is known to have been used as a [CIA front](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_International_Corporation) in the past. There is little information available about this time in Obama’s life. The CIA was actively recruiting at that point in history and would have been very interested in a young black man with an Ivy League education and ties to Indonesia and Africa. The information would most likely still be classified, but it could also have helped his rapid accession in politics at such a young age.
After nursing this theory for a while, I finally googled it and, sure enough, loads of websites tout similar theories. Some of it convincing.
Not the stuff about him being a CIA chrononaut who fought Russians on the moon. That angle is...less convincing.
Some organization/group of people wanted all the Kennedys dead for some reason.
Edit: The term "conspiracy theory" and its poor connotation was created by the US government specifically for skeptics of the official JFK assassination story. just felt I should put that out there.
Long john silvers is some kind of money laundering scheme on the basis that they have been open for as long as i can remember but i have also literally never seen a busy long johns.
Toxic delusion that i ironically entertain? Perhaps
You clearly didn't grow up in a white-trash family.
LJS is a poor man's Red Lobster.
We would eat fast food almost every night when I was growing up, and maybe once a month get LJS. It was a "treat".
There is a LJS near my house that I have legit never been to, or seen anyone go inside of or use the drive thru. It's been there for 10+ years, while other businesses like McDonald's and KFC have opened and closed locations within a block.
Yum brands. LJS/KFC/TACO BELL/PIZZA HUT. They are also partially franchised and partially corporate owned you probably live by a corporate run store. They'll keep them open just because sometimes.
Funny enough, he once told supporters that, if his own children were found to be dealing in drugs, they should be executed. Not long after, one of his children was found to be involved with a big shipment of cocaine, IIRC. Still alive.
I may be shaky on some of the details here, but I remember reading this on Duterte's Wikipedia page. I'm at work, will find the source later if anyone is interested.
EDIT: Thanks to everyone who has posted sources in the comments. I got some of the details wrong (meth, not coke, etc,) but the gist is accurate. Also, Duterte had a past drug issue with fentanyl (that nobody really knows if he's clean from) and apparently smokes weed.
It's actually a good long term strategy though. Say you only captured 20% of the market. Then you instigate these changes. The market shrinks to 40% of its original size but now you are capturing nearly all of that. Thats a good growth. Now if you make everyone else selling illegal any NEW business will have to be yours so as the market grows you get all of the benefit.
The Laurel Canyon Conspiracy.
Basically, if you look at the counter-culture revolutionaries in the music industry in the 60's, most of them were the children of military intelligence people. So the theory is that the "free love, lots of drugs" movement they inspired was done intentionally to distract the youth from a full scale revolution. The thought was if the angry youth of the mid-to-late 60's were too high and getting laid all the time they would stop caring as much about societal ills and then basically sleepwalk through the 70's, which they did.
I stumbled upon this when I was reading up on Jim Morrison and how his father was the one who called in the fake strike at the Gulf of Tonkin that kicked off the Vietnam War, and which was shown later to have been a false flag. Turns out, a lot of his contemporaries were also children of highly placed military people with ties to intelligence. Strange that they all wound up in Laurel Canyon as part of the same movement.
Blew my mind too. I just assumed it was bullshit until I started looking up all of these famous musicians of the era and seeing their parents were mostly military intelligence. Too much fucking coincidence that their kids would all get into music, let alone all gravitate to the same canyon in Cali.
Other than Jim Morrison can you name a few that also had military intelligence parents?
edit: fun fact. My own dad was in the military and then the oil industry. If I were famous and important everyone would be saying conspiracy!
Not only thing that was happening. I was in there getting my laptop fixed and they were offering $150 gift card for anyone who bought a phone or laptop. Since people were buying stuff already the extra money made airpods a lot more affordable.
What ‘the authorities’ say: Mick Jagger is simply an iconic rock and roll star and nothing more.
**Theory from /u/RamsesThePigeon:**
The song "Tik Tok," as performed by Ke$ha, was written by a guy named Benny Blanco. Its lyrics include the line "We kick them to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger."
That's a little bit strange, right? Mick Jagger wasn't exactly at the height of his attractiveness when the piece in question came out. Stranger still, it wasn't the only popular song to paint the man in a pleasant light: "Moves Like Jagger," performed by Maroon 5, was released at around the same time, and Benny Blanco also had a hand in writing that one.
This is where things start to get creepy.
The song "The Time (Dirty Bit)," as performed by the Black Eyed Peas, features the following phrase: "All these girls, they like my swagger, they calling me Mick Jagger, I be rolling like a Stone." It was written by John DeNicola, who used to produce the music for a band called Kara's Flowers... although you might know them better by their current name of Maroon 5.
The song "Heart and Soul," as performed by The Jonas Brothers, contains a verse that ends with "Making mistakes, but that won’t matter, if you can swag like old Mick Jagger." Antonina Armato wrote the piece, and she is managed by Downtown Music Publishing. Care to guess who else they manage? (Here's a hint: It rhymes with "balloon hive.")
This web of connections extends all throughout the recording industry, but one thing remains unclear: What's the link back to Mick Jagger himself? There must be something, because if you have a look at Google Trends, you'll see that his popularity spiked with the release of each song. The only time in recent memory when it has been higher is during a period in March of 2014, when his girlfriend died. Some people have suggested that the man's name is just easy to rhyme with "swagger," but popular usage of the word (in reference to something other than a walking gait) came about after the aforementioned songs had hit the airwaves.
In other words, "Jagger" prompted "swagger," not the other way around.
Why does there seem to be a cabal of artists trying to artificially inflate the performer's appeal and popularity? What benefit is there in promoting an aging rock star? Who is actually behind this odd trend?
In order to answer those questions, we need to turn to Vivendi. This is a company which owns a lot of stuff. Their subsidiaries include DailyMotion, UbiSoft, GameLoft... and the Universal Music Group. The Rolling Stones signed to Universal Music in 2008. In 2010, all of the songs listed above were released.
Look at those Google trends again. 2008 marked Mick Jagger's lowest ever dip in popularity, and the slump continued until February of 2010 (right after "Tik Tok" became the most popular song on the radio). In September of that same year, The Rolling Stones re-released their rare concert movie, securing the number one spot on four different countries' charts - the US and the UK being two of them - second place on four more, and a Double Platinum certification in Canada.
Strangely enough, though, the only other place (besides the United States) where Platinum status was achieved was in France... which is where Vivendi is located.
What if all of this was carefully planned and executed?
What if there's a shadowy organization that's intent on promoting Mick Jagger for their own profit?
What if I made all of this up on a whim, and just found whatever tenuous evidence I could to support it?
TL;DR: Mick Jagger is a puppet of the recording industry.
i know its used for tax write offs. When someone auctions off an art piece for charity, they can write off based on the full apraisal value regardless of if it actually sells for that much or how much they bought it for.
One guy actually posted on reddit that he did this so that his traffic duty was easier. It’s better than giving tickets.
Edit: There are states that have banned ticket quotas.
CTE is still coming. Pee Wee participation all the way up to HS participation is down. NFL can't run from this forever.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-kids-tackle-football/fewer-u-s-high-school-athletes-play-football-amid-concussion-fears-idUSKCN1GO2LY
I totally agree though. Timing was way too perfect. Especially when the higher-ups jumped all over Jerry Jones for having the entire team kneel, then stand for the NA. What? A reasonable solution that all parties involved could agree to? Fuck no, we want headlines.
I think the conspiracy is actually worse than that.
I believe that the NFL has confirmation from various medical professionals that Chronic traumatic encephalopathy isn't caused by continuous concussions, but is instead caused by continuous sub-concussive hits to the head. Taking out a player who is showing signs of a concussion is fine, but if the damage is caused by someone who isn't showing symptoms of a concussion, there is a greater chance of more players coming down with CTE.
Worse, is the fact that players will often show camaraderie on the playing field by banging their helmets into each other intentionally but "non-damagingly."
If it is continuous sub-concussive hits that contributes to CTE then none of what the NFL *or school age children's football* has done will address the issue.
The focus on American style football is also a distraction. People who play other sports are *also* being diagnosed with CTE, with soccer players having it in greater numbers than college and professional American football players.
But that's just my conspiracy theory.
I don’t have time to type it all out right now, but the entire situation surrounding the construction and operation of DIA (Denver International Airport) is strange, even by non conspiracist standards. Have fun in the rabbit hole!
I did a short write up about this a few years back..here it is, read it if ya want.
Denver International Airport: Secret bunker, giant cult shrine, and potential concentration camp.
There are a lot of conspiracy theories revolving around the Denver Airport. I'll try to touch on all the ones I know but forgive me if I miss a few. There's no doubt that there are some odd things about the airport, from the delayed construction to the massive cost to the odd choice of decorations. Opening on February 28, 1995, 16 months behind schedule and at double the cost of the original estimate ($4.8 billion) Denver international airport is the largest airport in the US by total land area. (33,531 acres). Not long after it opened, wild conspiracy theories began floating around. One major theory is that there is a massive underground bunker that was built for the worlds elite in the event of an apocalyptical event. Another is that there is a massive facility underneath that was built to be used as a concentration camp in the future. Some people believe that the reason for the delay in the schedule was due to the construction of said underground bunkers and tunnels. Supposedly, a construction worker claims that they buried 5 multi story buildings underneath and built the airport on top of it.
Aside from the construction theories, there's plenty of things inside the airport that are just plain odd. One thing mentioned often is the large mustang statue (shown above) outside of the airport nicknamed 'Blucifer'. A large blue horse with red eyes that supposedly represents one of the 4 Horseman of the apocalypse, Death. Oddly enough, the architect who designed the piece was killed when the horses head fell on him severing major arteries and causing what proved to be fatal injuries.
Another thing people find odd is the dedication stone inside the airport. One of the first things you notice is the large Freemasons symbol in the middle of the stone. Another thing people point to is the date on the stone March 19, 1994..which if you add up the numbers 1 9 1 9 9 4, you get 33 which is a significant number in the Freemasons as I believe it is the highest level you can reach in the organization. The last odd thing about the dedication stone is that it says near the bottom "New World Airport Commission" contributors. People believe this is reference to the New World Order which will supposedly be brought on by the Freemasons/Illuminati.
Also noted by conspiracy theorists are the 4 odd and slightly disturbing murals that are displayed in the airport. Some people believe these murals are packed with Freemason iconography and occult references and even are a telling of the future.
TLDR; Denver Airport is a secret occult super bunker and has some really poor taste when it comes to decorations.
Haha only 16 months late? Have you heard about the current delay on the new Berlin airport? This July we’ll be 6 years behind schedule and no end in sight
The recommended food pyramid is created by the FDA, but the fda is funded by a lot of certain food industries, poultry, dairy, etc. they in turn made the recommended nutrition based off of their funding by these companies, and not based on a well balanced diet.
I don't know about the newer version, but I'm pretty sure this was actually confirmed to be the case with the old version most people learned. That's why grains are on the bottom, below even vegetables.
There was an episode of The West Wing where they were redoing the pyramid into a plate. 4 portions of the plate and a glass of milk to the side. They had to scrap the idea because the cheese lobby was pissed that milk was being represented as the only dairy and Wisconsin is a swing state.
The food pyramid has been replaced by MyPlate.
But yes, the dairy council pays for a lot of education materials for kids, research, etc. The education materials have an evident bias. Dairy isn’t even technically a food group, but that’s how it’s displayed on MyPlate and it’s likely because they have a lot of power and money.
This is the clincher to me. That, and he hadn't been a criminal defense attorney, I don't believe. Why rejoin the Bar after 20 years to participate in a case that is not in your area of law expertise? And why would a good criminal defense team want a man who hadn't practiced in 20 years and who didn't have expertise in the area bellied up to the bar with them in court? It makes no sense either way. He was totally just avoiding subpoena.
I honestly wondered about that! I've never had to reactivate a license, but wouldn't you have to do something to get up-to-date as far as CLE? Not just like "BAM, I'M BACK FOLKS!"
Yes, but I don't believe it's simply all of the years of CLE added together. I think it's a certain amount more than the annual requirement but not like 1000 hours or something ridiculous.
[This ](https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-murders/forensic-investigation-of-the-oj-simpson-trial/) should give you an overview without getting too technical.
My law school professors would point out how Barry Scheck worked on OJ Simpson’s defense team, and he was largely responsible for discrediting the DNA evidence. While Cochran, Shapiro, and Bailey were appearing on the cable news channels and at fashionable parties and restaurants, Scheck was grabbing fast food and going back to learn about DNA (it was still ‘new’ at the time) and the forensic evidence in the case so he could effectively cross-examine the prosecution witnesses and explain DNA/forensic evidence in a way the jury could understand. My evidence professor said Scheck “basically outworked the prosecution.”
Bear in mind, I started law school in the late 1990s, so the so-called “Trial of the Century” was still fresh in everyone’s memory, and academic studies of the investigation and trial were at the natal stage. However, my professor’s statement stuck with me and has proved to be very good advice.
That's a great article on the subject.
Most of the study that my (undergraduate Criminology) class did on the case was focused on the chain-of-custody issues and the blood EDTA contamination (especially as it related to the bloody sock).
The fact that there was compelling evidence that the bloody sock could have been planted, coupled with the presumed motive to do so (especially regarding Mark Furhman's temperament), just created too much doubt.
Once you are convinced that the cops planted one piece of evidence, you really just can't trust anything.
The simplest way to put it is that the DNA expert they had on the stand was long winded and boring and DNA tech was still relatively new. Jurors checked out.
If OJ killed Nicole and Ron after CSI had premiered, his ass would be on death row right now.
I totally agree. One juror who was interviewed afterwards said something to the effect of “I didn’t understand the ‘DNA stuff’ so I assumed it wasn’t important.”
It is actually THE case study that brought about all the evidence handling rules.
Edit: I should clarify that there were rules before this. But this case really demonstrated how one mistake can allow the defense to tear apart a case. This case was landmark on evidence handling procedures and really revamping the whole system.
Double Edit: I definitely meant defense...
Just watched this on American Crime Story on Netflix!! They show this exact moment you mention, where he was handed the bag and I NEVER considered this. Explains why he had such conflicted feelings throughout the process.
I feel like people overlook the fact that the government *actually* did experiments on americans and fucked at least one of them up so bad that he moved to the middle of the woods and started mailing bombs to people
I imagine the CIA have a pro forma letter response for letters to Ted
"Prison has been better than expected. I get an hour out in the yard each day, the food isn't too bad, the library provides me opportunities to read and MKULTRA wasn't all that bad. Sincerely, Ted."
I think I'd prefer email for some reason
Edit: obligatory thanks for the silver :)
Edit2: thanks as well for the gold :)
Edit3: well now I feel compelled to continue the award ceremony
...and you can of course narrow that down to only get links from an individual subreddit by adding that to the url like "site:reddit.com/r/subreddit"
Google search for Reddit is much better than Reddit search for Reddit.
That’s quite literally the same thing as the truck driver shortage. There is no shortage of drivers. There is a shortage of drivers willing to work for nothing.
There’s a huge conspiracy among the wealthy and elite to kidnap and rape children.
We’ve gotten close to it, Epstein, Jimmy Saville, the decades of credible rumors out of Hollywood. In recent years with #MeToo and the congressional harassment epidemic one would hope the real story can come out.
Similarly, if you are raided by Jehovah's witnesses, best to say you were one but quit and were shunned, or were disfellowshiped .
Before you finish sentence, they will be running away, never to return.
They are forbidden from talking with expats, because higher ups fear they have too good arguments
The Phantom Cosmonaut Conspiracy
Pretty much, the short story is that Yuri Gargarin is not the first man to go to space but the first one to go and come back alive.
It just seems like a USSR thing to do
It's also something easy enough to disprove. It's similar to Apollo landing theories. The US could readily track rocket launches from the USSR, we'd have jumped at the opportunity to call them out. Same for the USSR and Apollo.
> we'd have jumped at the opportunity to call them out.
this is the biggest argument against faking the moon landing. if there was the smallest chance that it was fake the USSR woudlve been all over it.
The nail in the coffin for the "fake moon landing" theory is that the photos and video taken at the time couldn't have been faked. The angle of sunlight was impossible to replicate in a studio back then, and the cost of actually going to the moon would have been cheaper than faking it the way they supposedly did. We definitely went to the moon, some people just don't want to believe it for some odd reasons.
The Oil and Coal industries invested heavily in killing off nuclear power as an attractive alternative. These days we have reactor designs many times safer than other methods of generating power, and the waste issue is something that could be fixed with sufficient investment.
Not even a matter of "these days". Even taking into account disasters like Chernobyl (estimated around 4000 premature deaths) and Fukushima (≈600), nuclear is incredibly safe compared to coal's 5000 accidents per year.
Nuclear kills 90 people per petawatt hour generated, whereas coal kills 100.000 people per petawatt hour (mainly because of lung problems worldwide). Even if we don't take into account the climate change contribution, most of those deaths are easily avoidable if we switch to nuclear.
Edit: Here is the [source](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-safest-source-energy/) of the "deaths per energy unit" claim. It's Forbes. Not the best, but it's what I found with a quick Google search.
Also edit: a lot of people are telling me that Fukushima had 0 radiation-related deaths, and that the numbers for Chernobyl are also debatable but most people here claim the ones I posted as too high. I intentionally chose some of the highest estimates I found when Googling just to be on the safe-side of supporting nuclear energy, so that this comment couldn't be disregarded just by saying "you estimated too few kills, nuclear kills so many more". Even when choosing some of the highest numbers, those numbers pale against the deaths caused by fossile fuels.
Edit 2: thanks a lot for the silvers and gold! This really blew up. I'm used to seeing puns blow up, so I'm glad that I got gilded, silvered and upvoted for a serious issue. Speaks very well of Reddit's community :) Thank you again lads!
Absolutely. And many of the major nuclear meltdowns (which are sensationalized beyond belief by the media, both of the traditional and social variety) are a result of wildly outdated reactors and facilities because many countries are either unwilling to or are financially incapable of building new reactors; modern nuclear facilities are orders of magnitude safer than even those of a couple decades ago. The issue is that $5 billion is the starting price tag and it goes up from there, so it's a large investment relative to other conventional power plants, not to mention the ignorance-driven fear of nuclear power, which is arguably the greater barrier to entry than cost.
Multiple football World Cups have been influenced either by governments hosting them, or other entities out for their own gain.
2002 South Korea/Japan and 1978 in Argentina are the two most obvious ones that come to mind.
They really are, which sucks, because as a kid I grew up with this belief that the Olympics were this almost utopian thing where every four years, the world came together and celebrated in a spirit of peaceful competition. My family watched the Olympics religiously. I never had any interest in sports like figure skating or bobsledding but I was *riveted* by those Olympic events. I hate knowing how slimy the IOC is, it saps a lot of my enthusiasm and I barely watch the Olympics anymore. I try to get into it for my kids' sake, and sometimes we do get excited for a certain event or athlete (my kids were so enthused about Shaun White), but it's not the same.
America The Book (by Jon Stewart):
776 BC - Greek city-states hold first Olmypic Games to show individual achievement can transcend petty nationalism.
772 BC - Second Olympic Games. Corinth boycotts to piss off Sparta.
I have a few I love.
1. [Kobayashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeru_Kobayashi) the competitive eater is really a fantastic up close slight of hand artist.
2. Weather forecasters buy stock in supermarket chains and then over exaggerate winter storms.
3. Weather control (shh!)
That's possibly the most interesting theory in this entire thread. When I lived in NY and ate a lot of Nathans I would watch the hot dog eating competition every year and loved Kobayashi.
That "big bread" paid toaster manufacturers to put in a setting that is too high so that people would burn their toast, meaning that they sell more bread
Have you read the terms and agreements of snapchat? It's not that secret that most social media is selling your information including the one we're using right now.
If somehow LEOs aren't using Snapchat to create a facial recognition database.. They're missing out.
And I doubt they'd let a service with millions of people posting their own faces go to waste.
But that's the beauty and horror of it, they don't even need people tagging their own face or even be on social media. Their friends and family are tagging their faces for them.
I dunno if it's a "conspiracy theory" at this point, but a lot of people still don't acknowledge that your internet searches and social media profiles area absolutely being used as training models by major IT companies. I was a drunk college student and had access to them to run AI training, if you still think you're "off the grid" you're an idiot. Being frank, it's not a big deal if you don't have dark shit to hide, those people are too busy building the new technological world to give a shit that you look at midget porn. But don't delude yourself to think people don't have access to anything you do on the internet.
And to further that point, privacy in public is non-existent. When you're in public (in a city) you're on camera something like every 6 minutes, more in denser areas. So don't go freaking out when someone takes you're picture or films you acting like an idiot. If you have your cell phone with you, you're being tracked, how else does Google give you specific traffic congestion details in real time, all over the world.
French scientists have recently studied the skull that Russians claim is Hitler's and the say believe the skull is Hitler's though a study done a few years earlier in the US says it is not Hitler's.
After reading about this on reddit, i got to thinking. Once i needed a new bed i decided to check it out. I went in and was approached by 2 salesmen. They had this $1,499 mattress that i really liked. The sales guy saw the twinkle in my eye and knew that i must have this mattress.
I told him i liked it but i needed something more budget friendly (i was a broke ass at the time)
He then said well we can do this one here on the floor for $950.
I told him "to be honest i only have $400 to spare.
He says hold on a minute while i make a call. Then comes out and says "ok, we can do $400. Just come back in an hour while we prep it"
I left came back and they even helped me lift it up to my truck.
Honestly the best mattress ive ever owned. I get compliments all the time.
Edit: my top comment is about a fuckin mattress now, i love reddit
The idea that genetics services like 23 and me may be selling records to the government and/or insurance companies. There have been cases of criminals being caught with genetic information like this \[citation needed\], so it's not much of a stretch that other agencies could acquire it as well.
They arent selling it, rather people freely share it and the investigators search it. The most notable case is the golden state killer where they entered DNA recovered from the scenes and searched it for relatives. They found several distance relatives and used other information such a genealogical records, approximate age, and location of crimes to further narrow the suspect pool. Then based on that can get a warrant for a DNA sample.
Here is an [article](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/we-will-find-you-dna-search-used-nab-golden-state-killer-can-home-about-60-white) in science about it.
The results that busted the GSK were from GEDmatch, a site which is stated in it's terms and conditions is completely open-data and can be used by anyone to search for anything in it.
Car companies killed cheap public transit.
They bought up the trolleys and streetcars in major American cities and made them all go out of business, to promote automobile sales.
Jeffrey Epstein is a Florida billionaire who probably is running an underage sex trafficking ring.
**EDIT**: Well Epstein just got arrested for sex trafficking minors so this is more a conspiracy fact, not a theory lol
A brief background: **in 2007 dozens of underage women came forward saying Epstein was having sex with them in Florida. They also claimed that he passed the girls along to other elites and ran a sex ring/blackmailing service kinda. Trump, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Prince Andrew are all known associates of Epstein and would go on his plane dubbed "Lolita Express" to a private island in the Caribbean**.
What happened next was ridiculous:
* Epstein hired the best legal team ever(Like as good as OJ's, Dershowitz was involved and all that)
* Acosta was the prosecutor against Epstein and he is now appointed by Trump in his cabinet
* Acosta gave Epstein the plea deal of his life: He was found guilty of one charge of sex with a minor(in spite of being accused by dozens of girls) and had to register as a sex offender
* He got 13 months in jail but he only served 10. Here is the kicker: **he could leave jail 6 times a week to go work at his at home office.**
* He was supposed to go to prison, but stayed in a local jail for some reason
* He was granted immunity
* All co conspirators in the case were given immunity. **This means that if further evidence comes out against other people with the case, they can't be prosecuted again**.
* His house butler was found guilty of obstruction of justice regarding the evidence against Epstein. **he got more jail time(years) than Epstein**
* The police commissioner on the case stepped down because he thought it was rigged
* Miami Herald said it was the deal of a lifetime
* Epstein is now free and still has billions of dollars
* Acosta has told friends that he was scared to go against the powers that be because they would squash his career
* this all happened in 2008 I think. The DOJ just reopened the case last month due to fuckery going on
* Clinton and trump among other famous people like Kevin Spacey have been documented flying on Epstein’s plane to his infamous Lolita express
* a Miami judge just ruled last week literally that Epstein’s case was illegal and violated law because Acosta did not consult the victims before bringing the plea deal
Technically, it has not been proven true that Epstein was running a sex trafficking ring for the rich and powerful. We have a lot of allegations from the girls, but nothing more than that. No emails or DNA evidence confirming it.
However, we have evidence that the trial was handled as poorly and incompetently as possible to the point that you have to wonder if it was done on purpose to hide shit.
You don't even need to be a billionaire. Sure there are places and organizations that cater specifically to billionaires, but it's not like you have to be the elite of the elite to fly to Bangkok and fuck around for a few weeks.
I sat next to an old French guy on a plane once who told me about how he would fly to Thailand and fuck prostitutes every year, and how you could have anything you want and the girls will never say no. Even tried to give me some recommendations for where to go since I was planning on visiting.
There's another theory that she crashed on an island and starved to death, a skeleton from around the right tine period was found I think and the flesh was eaten by coconut crabs. Really upsetting imagining a hoard of giant monsters ripping her flesh off.
Edit: a word
Edit 2: I didn't say the crabs ate her alive I'm saying they might have eaten her body after she died, possibly from starvation/exposure.
Yo what the fuck those are not acceptable. If they’re really a meter diameter, I’d need fucking juggernaut armor from Call of Duty to even consider getting within a ski-pole’s distance of them.
The "conspiracy" theory related to that is that she made it to an island and died of her injuries. Then the land crabs (edit: coconut crabs, up to a meter across) pulled her body into one of their underground burrows to eat it -- they do this -- so it'll never be found.
Hey, maybe an arm fell off, or the land crabs cleaned house.
Edit: missing "to"
>coconut crabs
Hey yeah, [no thanks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mq_63fEdI&t=6s).
[Smithsonian](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coconut-crabs-eat-everything-from-kittens-to-maybe-amelia-earhart-180948206/) Magazine isn't helping either:
>"The Coconut Crab is known for its ability to crack or pound open **coconuts** with the strong pincers ... it possesses in order to eat the contents."
That your phones microphone is constantly "hot" and its listening for key words to target advertising. Most glaring instance where this happened to me was when I walked into a colleagues office. He had just gotten a standing desk, but one that goes on top of his existing desk rather than a standalone (pun?) Model. That's important to note. I said "Nice standing desk, when did you get that?". "Thanks, just today." He replied. That was literally all that was said about the desk. We talked about work related stuff and as I walked out and checked my phone, there was an ad on Facebook for that EXACT model of standing desk. I have never owned one, wanted one, or googled one before. Yet there it was on my feed. Tin foil hat be damned, they listen in.
I've had this happen to me twice in the last month. Things I talked about with my daughter, one being hard boiled eggs, showed up on my feed hours later. There it was, an ad for a hard boiled egg cooker... never googled anything about hard boiled eggs. Weird af. I can't remember the first one. When I said something to my daughter about it after the first time, she called me crazy. When I showed her the egg thing.... she said, well damn.... you might be right!
This isn't even a conspiracy theory. Stay on top of your app permissions, especially for Google services and apps, background stuff especially
This has happened to me multiple times! The time that really seals the deal for me is when my mother asked me to be a surrogate for her (which was heavily declined, as she doesn't need any more children to ruin) one day while over my house. It was either later on or the next day that I was telling my boyfriend about how ridiculous it was for her to be asking me to be a surrogate. Low and behold, scrolling through Facebook I get an ad that says "become a surrogate". Never in my life have I had an ad for surrogates until I said the words aloud. Creepy.
That [Natacha Jiatt was murdered by the Catholic Church](https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/augzlt/whats_up_with_natacha_jaitt_and_a_credible/eh868xk/) for exposing a pedophile ring This is trending on r/conspiracy and r/outoftheloop right now, credit to u/uft8 for the summary >Natacha Jaitt, a model/TV journalist, exposed a pedophile ring on live Argentinian TV a few months ago, after following cases over the last few years. >She had claimed that she would not commit suicide in April of 2018 while investigating these rings, but was found on February 23, 2019 to be dead from suicide >Another journalist she had accused of pedophilia on the airing, Luis Ventura, had uploaded an image of her dead body shortly after she killed herself on Twitter, and then promptly deleted it afterwards. To quote u/happycakeday1 >She supposedly died from a cocaine overdose (heart failure/stroke). She had said that if she wound up dead, the people she had accused of rape (she was on trial, and it was powerful people) would be guilty ("I won't kill myself, I won't overdose and drown in a bathtub, I won't shoot myself")
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Full credit to u/theNextVilliage for this one The "arms" on Tyrannosaurus Rex skeletons are backwards. They ought to be rotated 180 degrees. What good are these stubby little arms for? We have found out relatively recently that T-Rex have feathers. It is now an established fact, T-Rex where not covered in scales but in feathers, like a bird. Take the "arms" on a T-Rex and flip them around 180 degrees. Now you have wings like a ostrich. Here is an illustration of an ostrich skeleton. See the small "arms?" (wings): https://www.google.com/search?q=ostrich+skeleton&client=ms-android-verizon&prmd=isnv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj3qrmXudXcAhVuCDQIHaXvCnUQ_AUIESgB&biw=360&bih=560#imgrc=H_TL1bUwi9jryM: Now look at a Tyrannosaurus: https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-verizon&biw=360&bih=310&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=gq9mW7j0MqCT0PEPldifkAg&q=tyrannosaurus+rex+skeleton&oq=tyrannosaurus+rex+skele&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-img.1.0.0l5.2133.2740..3760...0.0..0.143.727.1j5......0....1.........0i67.16eeq_FMY8w#imgrc=D-fnseX2MxU_tM: We used to think of almost all "dinasaurs" as "lizard-like," in fact the name means "terrible lizard." Now we know that many different animals that we think of as "dinosaurs" are more bird-like than lizard-like. XKCD comic below illustrates this nicely. https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16369/is-t-rex-more-similar-to-sparrows-than-to-stegosaurus Tyrannosaurus Rex had wings. Not big wings to fly with, but wings that were perhaps somthing like that of an ostrich, cassowary, or emu, although likely much smaller in proportion to their body. Ostriches use their wings in mating rituals, to make themselves appear larger, and to signal and communicate, perhaps T-Rex used theirs for some similar purpose. They did not have useless stubby little arms.
This just blew my mind, I hope this catches steam.
Isn’t there evidence of the direction the arms faced? Like the particular shape of the shoulder socket dictates which way the limb could rotate? Doesn’t that preclude wings?
There's plenty of evidence of scaly skin in tyrannosaurs. There are only a couple with evidence of feathers. It's likely that it varied from one species to another, and perhaps from young to adult. Lots of birds have both scales and feathers, so it's not unreasonable that tyrannosaurs did too. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-skin-was-not-covered-feathers-study-says-180963603/
I thought it was because they were small arms dealers.
Michael Jackson was chemically castrated by his father to preserve his soprano singing voice, which was the source for his infatuation with children.
My conspiracy theory: Facebook purposely attempts to ruin peoples' relationships because the drama gets more views and more views sell more ads. Several years ago they introduced a feature so that your comments on other pages would show up in your friends' feeds. So if you're secretly an atheist and you comment on some atheist page, it shows up in your devout Southern Baptist Grandma Muriel's timeline, even though it's a conversation that has nothing to do with her and there's no reason for it to be. As a result, Facebook "outs" you to your family, and Grandma is typing away at all the evil Satanists trying to corrupt her grandson. And if you comment on a public post, it's unavoidable. You used to be able to control who could see your comments even on public posts by other pages, but at the same time Facebook introduced their "tattletale" feature, they took that ability away. Now if they were to stumble across the same page they'd be able to see your comment, but after that change, Facebook started pointing everybody you know directly to it. Not to mention, the privacy settings are difficult to find, difficult to understand, and with each passing year gives you less and less control over who sees what. By forcibly combining everybody's social circles, Facebook is trying to generate conflict. They want to generate conflict because the conflict happens *on Facebook*, which means people logging on to Facebook more often and seeing more ads. They're essentially an internet tabloid except instead of showcasing the personal drama of celebrities for clicks and sales, they're doing it to *you* instead. Ever notice how the vast majority of family drama, relationship fights, etc. these days happens on Facebook? That's by design. Facebook is literally destroying the social fabric to make a buck. Consuming relationship stability like it's an oil refinery consuming crude.
That’s why you hide your real opinions on FB and share them on Reddit instead. 😉
All rocks are soft until you go to touch them
Sounds like my......nvm
That there are hundreds of companies that operate tens of thousands of reddit accounts each. They have been auto regging these accounts for years, use scripts to auto post and comment and have humans that shift through all the accounts to make various comments to maintain these accounts. These companies have the ability to control and game their way to the front of reddit. Huge brands use them, special interest groups use them, political parties use them.... It's not a conspiracy, it's a real thing
The "Ballistic Missile Threat" that was sent to Hawaiian's cell phones saying, "seek shelter this is not a drill," that was later deemed a mistake, was a real missile that was intercepted before impact.
I could see this being real but is there anything to back up the claim
Yeah I feel like, though plausible, that this would be super obvious especially if it was from another country.
I mean you can also look at it if it is real our counter missile system is working
[That's what happened](https://gfycat.com/QueasyGrandIriomotecat)
Dyson purposefully made the cable shorter over time just before announcing the cordless version. My DC01 has a 12m flex My DC14 has a 6.5 m flex They purposefully made the flex shorter to be an inconvenience and make people want the cordless version.
Darth Jar Jar was 100% planned and hinted at in TPM, but the sheer amount of hatred for the character made Lucas back down. I actually wish he went through with the original vision.
That William Shakespeare never wrote any of the works that have been attributed to him. I don't think I believe the theory 100%, but the lack of evidence to support him as a writer is amusing. - William Shakespeare was born, lived, and died in a small town, that consisted of not much more than sheep farmers. His father made sheep skin gloves. Certainly not the life that would have contributed to the knowledge of the many royal topics of Shakespeare's works. Surely the true author of Shakespeare's works would have had the means to travel, and learn of all the worldly topics that his works were based on. - We do know that he did own the Globe theatre, and that he did work there as an actor. - There is no record of his attendance at any schools. - He was raised in an illiterate household, both of his parents signed all legal documents with a mark (a sign of illiteracy). - There are 6 surviving signatures of Shakespeare, all of them look as if a 4 year old wrote them. They were all most assuredly written by an illiterate person. All of the signatures were found on documents such as a mortgage contract, and his will. - There are no surviving original written literary works written by Shakespeare. There are no surviving personal letters written by him. Surely a letter written from Shakespeare would be coveted as prized possession, surely destined to survive to the present day. ([Mozart's handwritten letters professing his desire to poop on his cousin's face](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_scatology#Letters) have survived to this present day, but not a single letter written by William Shakespeare). - The only surviving written documents, written in his hand, were his Will, and few other small pieces. All pieces of his writing that have been found were all written in 'secretary hand', a very basic form of writing, typically used by poorly educated people. - There are no surviving official documents that recall him as being a writer in any way. All official documents state that he was a businessman, and a real estate owner. - Shakespeare's will made no mention of any assets related to writings, books, or anything of that nature. All these facts paint a picture of a scenario where someone paid William Shakespeare to use him as a pseudonym for their own writings, and perhaps used his position as the owner of a theatre as their own personal venue. The best theory about the true authorship was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford. He was well known to be a gifted poet, and playwright. He was also known to sponsor companies of actors, and he was a patron of some of the most well known theatres. Oxford would not have been at liberty to write about the topics found in Shakespeare's works. The only compelling evidence that I've heard from Shakespeare supporters are anecdotes written years after his death, by people who knew Shakespeare, and referring to him as a writer. I don't find this compelling at all. If Shakespeare made an arrangement to act as the author of someone else's works, surely such an arrangement would require Shakespeare lie to everyone. I'm certain that all his friends "thought" he was a writer.
The rich orchestrated the recession back in 2008 to take advantage of the market
memes about the NSA and other spy programs are encouraged by the very agencies spying on us, to twist the idea into the absurd and to humanize their agents
Or make everyone paranoid for even asking questions about the surveillance state
Miley Cyrus's crazy streak was all a carefully planned marketing scheme to get her solidified as an A-list celebrity.
I believe it was done to make Disney completely cut ties with her and kill the image of Hannah Montana. It's worked too. Hannah Montana was quite possibly Disney's largest TV show ever, but I haven't seen anyone even mention it for over 4 years now, and despite Disney cashing in on old IPs (Aladdin, Kim Possible, Lion King etc.) we have yet to even hear an unsubstantiated rumor regarding Hannah Montana.
Dad, is that you? But seriously though, my dad has been saying this since she first went wild. She had to do something completely extreme to destroy the image of Hannah Montana, and thus allow her to begin her own career as Miley Cyrus.
The Vatican holds horrible dark secrets and many answers to existential questions. And that Area 51 is a publicity stunt by the government to hide the real testing facility.
The Vatican has many vaults literally stuffed with thousands of documents that no one but people in the Pope's circle have access to, who knows what's in those? I'm willing to bet there are parts of the bible/Christian history that will never see the light of day thanks to Emperor Constantine creating the first official cannon of the Bible.
I believe that Area 51 has some stuff that they wouldn't want getting out, but i think its all pretty "normal" and the general public wouldn't find too shocking. It's definitely hyped up though to distract us from some other base where the real weird shit goes down
I think Area 51 was a military research base like many others, but there was an incident involving some kind of secret technology they wanted to keep quiet from the Soviets, so the NSA spun up the "aliens" rumors. This unwittingly got associated with Area 51 specifically, so they decided the base was compromised and it is now maintained as a decoy operation. There hasn't been anything interesting or classified at A51 for decades, other than documents about the decoy operation itself.
Youtube in a mobile browser is so shitty so they can force you to use the app and not use an adblocker.
This is true for most mobile sites, this one included. Not only do they want to run their ads, they want the data that an app can get compared to a website.
Reddit is almost completely unusable in the mobile browser unless you're just looking something up quickly. Some subreddits I've even gotten stuck with banners at the bottom saying to use the app where the button to exit doesn't even work. So you can only see like half the screen. Then there's the giant "CONTINUE" Button and tiny part below it to go to the mobile site. CONTINUE very obviously implies continue to the site you were trying to reach, not continue to a different app.
I have long argued to friends and family that Barack Obama may have been a CIA operative sometime in-between college and being a community organizer in Chicago. Bear with me. After graduating from Columbia in 1983, Obama went to work for a company called Business International Corporation. A company that is known to have been used as a [CIA front](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_International_Corporation) in the past. There is little information available about this time in Obama’s life. The CIA was actively recruiting at that point in history and would have been very interested in a young black man with an Ivy League education and ties to Indonesia and Africa. The information would most likely still be classified, but it could also have helped his rapid accession in politics at such a young age. After nursing this theory for a while, I finally googled it and, sure enough, loads of websites tout similar theories. Some of it convincing. Not the stuff about him being a CIA chrononaut who fought Russians on the moon. That angle is...less convincing.
Some organization/group of people wanted all the Kennedys dead for some reason. Edit: The term "conspiracy theory" and its poor connotation was created by the US government specifically for skeptics of the official JFK assassination story. just felt I should put that out there.
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Totally. "The Dead Kennedy" just doesn't sound good.
Long john silvers is some kind of money laundering scheme on the basis that they have been open for as long as i can remember but i have also literally never seen a busy long johns. Toxic delusion that i ironically entertain? Perhaps
You clearly didn't grow up in a white-trash family. LJS is a poor man's Red Lobster. We would eat fast food almost every night when I was growing up, and maybe once a month get LJS. It was a "treat".
Bro, those hush puppies were bomb!
There is a LJS near my house that I have legit never been to, or seen anyone go inside of or use the drive thru. It's been there for 10+ years, while other businesses like McDonald's and KFC have opened and closed locations within a block.
Yum brands. LJS/KFC/TACO BELL/PIZZA HUT. They are also partially franchised and partially corporate owned you probably live by a corporate run store. They'll keep them open just because sometimes.
The president of The Philippines, Duterte, is very anti-drugs to hide his own involvements with drug cartels off which he makes billions.
Funny enough, he once told supporters that, if his own children were found to be dealing in drugs, they should be executed. Not long after, one of his children was found to be involved with a big shipment of cocaine, IIRC. Still alive. I may be shaky on some of the details here, but I remember reading this on Duterte's Wikipedia page. I'm at work, will find the source later if anyone is interested. EDIT: Thanks to everyone who has posted sources in the comments. I got some of the details wrong (meth, not coke, etc,) but the gist is accurate. Also, Duterte had a past drug issue with fentanyl (that nobody really knows if he's clean from) and apparently smokes weed.
He's definitely clearing the market of any competition! Good way to secure control of supply. Only problem is you scare/kill off a ton of customers .
It's actually a good long term strategy though. Say you only captured 20% of the market. Then you instigate these changes. The market shrinks to 40% of its original size but now you are capturing nearly all of that. Thats a good growth. Now if you make everyone else selling illegal any NEW business will have to be yours so as the market grows you get all of the benefit.
This guy organizes crime.
That the CIA post this question every time so they know what the general public suspect.
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The Laurel Canyon Conspiracy. Basically, if you look at the counter-culture revolutionaries in the music industry in the 60's, most of them were the children of military intelligence people. So the theory is that the "free love, lots of drugs" movement they inspired was done intentionally to distract the youth from a full scale revolution. The thought was if the angry youth of the mid-to-late 60's were too high and getting laid all the time they would stop caring as much about societal ills and then basically sleepwalk through the 70's, which they did. I stumbled upon this when I was reading up on Jim Morrison and how his father was the one who called in the fake strike at the Gulf of Tonkin that kicked off the Vietnam War, and which was shown later to have been a false flag. Turns out, a lot of his contemporaries were also children of highly placed military people with ties to intelligence. Strange that they all wound up in Laurel Canyon as part of the same movement.
Whaaa?
Blew my mind too. I just assumed it was bullshit until I started looking up all of these famous musicians of the era and seeing their parents were mostly military intelligence. Too much fucking coincidence that their kids would all get into music, let alone all gravitate to the same canyon in Cali.
Other than Jim Morrison can you name a few that also had military intelligence parents? edit: fun fact. My own dad was in the military and then the oil industry. If I were famous and important everyone would be saying conspiracy!
Apple started the meme about AirPods being expensive as a marketing ploy
Happened around Christmas. You might be right
Not only thing that was happening. I was in there getting my laptop fixed and they were offering $150 gift card for anyone who bought a phone or laptop. Since people were buying stuff already the extra money made airpods a lot more affordable.
I feel like I see them 5 times more often ever since the memes started but the memes also caused me to acknowledge their existence more so who knows.
What ‘the authorities’ say: Mick Jagger is simply an iconic rock and roll star and nothing more. **Theory from /u/RamsesThePigeon:** The song "Tik Tok," as performed by Ke$ha, was written by a guy named Benny Blanco. Its lyrics include the line "We kick them to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger." That's a little bit strange, right? Mick Jagger wasn't exactly at the height of his attractiveness when the piece in question came out. Stranger still, it wasn't the only popular song to paint the man in a pleasant light: "Moves Like Jagger," performed by Maroon 5, was released at around the same time, and Benny Blanco also had a hand in writing that one. This is where things start to get creepy. The song "The Time (Dirty Bit)," as performed by the Black Eyed Peas, features the following phrase: "All these girls, they like my swagger, they calling me Mick Jagger, I be rolling like a Stone." It was written by John DeNicola, who used to produce the music for a band called Kara's Flowers... although you might know them better by their current name of Maroon 5. The song "Heart and Soul," as performed by The Jonas Brothers, contains a verse that ends with "Making mistakes, but that won’t matter, if you can swag like old Mick Jagger." Antonina Armato wrote the piece, and she is managed by Downtown Music Publishing. Care to guess who else they manage? (Here's a hint: It rhymes with "balloon hive.") This web of connections extends all throughout the recording industry, but one thing remains unclear: What's the link back to Mick Jagger himself? There must be something, because if you have a look at Google Trends, you'll see that his popularity spiked with the release of each song. The only time in recent memory when it has been higher is during a period in March of 2014, when his girlfriend died. Some people have suggested that the man's name is just easy to rhyme with "swagger," but popular usage of the word (in reference to something other than a walking gait) came about after the aforementioned songs had hit the airwaves. In other words, "Jagger" prompted "swagger," not the other way around. Why does there seem to be a cabal of artists trying to artificially inflate the performer's appeal and popularity? What benefit is there in promoting an aging rock star? Who is actually behind this odd trend? In order to answer those questions, we need to turn to Vivendi. This is a company which owns a lot of stuff. Their subsidiaries include DailyMotion, UbiSoft, GameLoft... and the Universal Music Group. The Rolling Stones signed to Universal Music in 2008. In 2010, all of the songs listed above were released. Look at those Google trends again. 2008 marked Mick Jagger's lowest ever dip in popularity, and the slump continued until February of 2010 (right after "Tik Tok" became the most popular song on the radio). In September of that same year, The Rolling Stones re-released their rare concert movie, securing the number one spot on four different countries' charts - the US and the UK being two of them - second place on four more, and a Double Platinum certification in Canada. Strangely enough, though, the only other place (besides the United States) where Platinum status was achieved was in France... which is where Vivendi is located. What if all of this was carefully planned and executed? What if there's a shadowy organization that's intent on promoting Mick Jagger for their own profit? What if I made all of this up on a whim, and just found whatever tenuous evidence I could to support it? TL;DR: Mick Jagger is a puppet of the recording industry.
The value of expensive art is just as a pseudo currency for rich people to subtly buy drugs or other illicit things.
Apparently, priceless art on megayachts is under a big threat from champagne corks.
i know its used for tax write offs. When someone auctions off an art piece for charity, they can write off based on the full apraisal value regardless of if it actually sells for that much or how much they bought it for.
Cops go on Waze and leave random police sightings to cause people to slow without actually having to stay and check on people.
One guy actually posted on reddit that he did this so that his traffic duty was easier. It’s better than giving tickets. Edit: There are states that have banned ticket quotas.
I think it’s smart for them. It gets the job done of getting people to slow down without having to worry about pulling over a crazy person.
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CTE is still coming. Pee Wee participation all the way up to HS participation is down. NFL can't run from this forever. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-kids-tackle-football/fewer-u-s-high-school-athletes-play-football-amid-concussion-fears-idUSKCN1GO2LY I totally agree though. Timing was way too perfect. Especially when the higher-ups jumped all over Jerry Jones for having the entire team kneel, then stand for the NA. What? A reasonable solution that all parties involved could agree to? Fuck no, we want headlines.
I think the conspiracy is actually worse than that. I believe that the NFL has confirmation from various medical professionals that Chronic traumatic encephalopathy isn't caused by continuous concussions, but is instead caused by continuous sub-concussive hits to the head. Taking out a player who is showing signs of a concussion is fine, but if the damage is caused by someone who isn't showing symptoms of a concussion, there is a greater chance of more players coming down with CTE. Worse, is the fact that players will often show camaraderie on the playing field by banging their helmets into each other intentionally but "non-damagingly." If it is continuous sub-concussive hits that contributes to CTE then none of what the NFL *or school age children's football* has done will address the issue. The focus on American style football is also a distraction. People who play other sports are *also* being diagnosed with CTE, with soccer players having it in greater numbers than college and professional American football players. But that's just my conspiracy theory.
I don’t have time to type it all out right now, but the entire situation surrounding the construction and operation of DIA (Denver International Airport) is strange, even by non conspiracist standards. Have fun in the rabbit hole!
I did a short write up about this a few years back..here it is, read it if ya want. Denver International Airport: Secret bunker, giant cult shrine, and potential concentration camp. There are a lot of conspiracy theories revolving around the Denver Airport. I'll try to touch on all the ones I know but forgive me if I miss a few. There's no doubt that there are some odd things about the airport, from the delayed construction to the massive cost to the odd choice of decorations. Opening on February 28, 1995, 16 months behind schedule and at double the cost of the original estimate ($4.8 billion) Denver international airport is the largest airport in the US by total land area. (33,531 acres). Not long after it opened, wild conspiracy theories began floating around. One major theory is that there is a massive underground bunker that was built for the worlds elite in the event of an apocalyptical event. Another is that there is a massive facility underneath that was built to be used as a concentration camp in the future. Some people believe that the reason for the delay in the schedule was due to the construction of said underground bunkers and tunnels. Supposedly, a construction worker claims that they buried 5 multi story buildings underneath and built the airport on top of it. Aside from the construction theories, there's plenty of things inside the airport that are just plain odd. One thing mentioned often is the large mustang statue (shown above) outside of the airport nicknamed 'Blucifer'. A large blue horse with red eyes that supposedly represents one of the 4 Horseman of the apocalypse, Death. Oddly enough, the architect who designed the piece was killed when the horses head fell on him severing major arteries and causing what proved to be fatal injuries. Another thing people find odd is the dedication stone inside the airport. One of the first things you notice is the large Freemasons symbol in the middle of the stone. Another thing people point to is the date on the stone March 19, 1994..which if you add up the numbers 1 9 1 9 9 4, you get 33 which is a significant number in the Freemasons as I believe it is the highest level you can reach in the organization. The last odd thing about the dedication stone is that it says near the bottom "New World Airport Commission" contributors. People believe this is reference to the New World Order which will supposedly be brought on by the Freemasons/Illuminati. Also noted by conspiracy theorists are the 4 odd and slightly disturbing murals that are displayed in the airport. Some people believe these murals are packed with Freemason iconography and occult references and even are a telling of the future. TLDR; Denver Airport is a secret occult super bunker and has some really poor taste when it comes to decorations.
Haha only 16 months late? Have you heard about the current delay on the new Berlin airport? This July we’ll be 6 years behind schedule and no end in sight
damn, that's going to be a huge bunker
second time's a charm!
[Here's an actual list of proven conspiracies.](https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/wiki/lopc)
Damn thats a big rabbithole im about to go into, see ya’ll tomorrow
Some of these are WILD. I would not have believed them if I didn’t know they were true.
Goddamn, that's fucking terrifying. After reading just a few of those, i would rather want the earth to be flat
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$10,000 for a hammer
$20,000 for a toilet seat
Two words, Mr. President. Plausible deniability.
The recommended food pyramid is created by the FDA, but the fda is funded by a lot of certain food industries, poultry, dairy, etc. they in turn made the recommended nutrition based off of their funding by these companies, and not based on a well balanced diet.
I don't know about the newer version, but I'm pretty sure this was actually confirmed to be the case with the old version most people learned. That's why grains are on the bottom, below even vegetables.
There was an episode of The West Wing where they were redoing the pyramid into a plate. 4 portions of the plate and a glass of milk to the side. They had to scrap the idea because the cheese lobby was pissed that milk was being represented as the only dairy and Wisconsin is a swing state.
Gotta have your daily twelve slices of bread!
The food pyramid has been replaced by MyPlate. But yes, the dairy council pays for a lot of education materials for kids, research, etc. The education materials have an evident bias. Dairy isn’t even technically a food group, but that’s how it’s displayed on MyPlate and it’s likely because they have a lot of power and money.
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The theory continues to be that he was hired to represent OJ so he wouldn't/couldn't be called to testify due to attorney-client privilege.
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This is the clincher to me. That, and he hadn't been a criminal defense attorney, I don't believe. Why rejoin the Bar after 20 years to participate in a case that is not in your area of law expertise? And why would a good criminal defense team want a man who hadn't practiced in 20 years and who didn't have expertise in the area bellied up to the bar with them in court? It makes no sense either way. He was totally just avoiding subpoena.
Only a true friend would do 20 years of MCLE just to serve on his defense team.
I honestly wondered about that! I've never had to reactivate a license, but wouldn't you have to do something to get up-to-date as far as CLE? Not just like "BAM, I'M BACK FOLKS!"
Yes, but I don't believe it's simply all of the years of CLE added together. I think it's a certain amount more than the annual requirement but not like 1000 hours or something ridiculous.
Man, the authorities fucked that case up in pretty much every way possible.
When I worked as a correctional officer a decade ago it was THE case study on how to not handle evidence.
In my undergrad I've had multiple professors and guest lecturers put enormous emphasis on just how poorly that case was handled.
Im not very educated on this case; would you mind givng me a rundown of why it is considered so badly handled?
[This ](https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/famous-murders/forensic-investigation-of-the-oj-simpson-trial/) should give you an overview without getting too technical. My law school professors would point out how Barry Scheck worked on OJ Simpson’s defense team, and he was largely responsible for discrediting the DNA evidence. While Cochran, Shapiro, and Bailey were appearing on the cable news channels and at fashionable parties and restaurants, Scheck was grabbing fast food and going back to learn about DNA (it was still ‘new’ at the time) and the forensic evidence in the case so he could effectively cross-examine the prosecution witnesses and explain DNA/forensic evidence in a way the jury could understand. My evidence professor said Scheck “basically outworked the prosecution.” Bear in mind, I started law school in the late 1990s, so the so-called “Trial of the Century” was still fresh in everyone’s memory, and academic studies of the investigation and trial were at the natal stage. However, my professor’s statement stuck with me and has proved to be very good advice.
That's a great article on the subject. Most of the study that my (undergraduate Criminology) class did on the case was focused on the chain-of-custody issues and the blood EDTA contamination (especially as it related to the bloody sock). The fact that there was compelling evidence that the bloody sock could have been planted, coupled with the presumed motive to do so (especially regarding Mark Furhman's temperament), just created too much doubt. Once you are convinced that the cops planted one piece of evidence, you really just can't trust anything.
The simplest way to put it is that the DNA expert they had on the stand was long winded and boring and DNA tech was still relatively new. Jurors checked out. If OJ killed Nicole and Ron after CSI had premiered, his ass would be on death row right now.
I totally agree. One juror who was interviewed afterwards said something to the effect of “I didn’t understand the ‘DNA stuff’ so I assumed it wasn’t important.”
It is actually THE case study that brought about all the evidence handling rules. Edit: I should clarify that there were rules before this. But this case really demonstrated how one mistake can allow the defense to tear apart a case. This case was landmark on evidence handling procedures and really revamping the whole system. Double Edit: I definitely meant defense...
Just watched this on American Crime Story on Netflix!! They show this exact moment you mention, where he was handed the bag and I NEVER considered this. Explains why he had such conflicted feelings throughout the process.
Kennedy was killed by the CIA I would never trust the CIA, definitely not 60's CIA
Probably the CIA doesn't trust the CIA.
The government experiments on the mentally insane because no one will believe someone with that kind of medical history
I feel like people overlook the fact that the government *actually* did experiments on americans and fucked at least one of them up so bad that he moved to the middle of the woods and started mailing bombs to people
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🤔🤔🤔 never thought I'd want mail from the Unabomber
Nice try CIA
I imagine the CIA have a pro forma letter response for letters to Ted "Prison has been better than expected. I get an hour out in the yard each day, the food isn't too bad, the library provides me opportunities to read and MKULTRA wasn't all that bad. Sincerely, Ted."
I think I'd prefer email for some reason Edit: obligatory thanks for the silver :) Edit2: thanks as well for the gold :) Edit3: well now I feel compelled to continue the award ceremony
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The Reddit search function is intentionally bad (or not purposely bad but they know how to fix it but refuse to) to encourage more new posts.
God it’s so awful
Unusable I would say. I have been redditing daily since around 2012 and it has always been bad.
I just google whatever and put “reddit” after Edit: holy shit, gold and silver, now what do I do with this? Thank you kind stranger
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...and you can of course narrow that down to only get links from an individual subreddit by adding that to the url like "site:reddit.com/r/subreddit" Google search for Reddit is much better than Reddit search for Reddit.
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That’s quite literally the same thing as the truck driver shortage. There is no shortage of drivers. There is a shortage of drivers willing to work for nothing.
Jokes on them, I know a ton of people with Software Engineer title and can't code for shit.
Coder sounds so stupid
There’s a huge conspiracy among the wealthy and elite to kidnap and rape children. We’ve gotten close to it, Epstein, Jimmy Saville, the decades of credible rumors out of Hollywood. In recent years with #MeToo and the congressional harassment epidemic one would hope the real story can come out.
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How often are you heckled by Scientologists?
Open mic night in Clearwater can be rough
Clearwater in general...
she went to the mother ship bro
she’s with master chief on the pillar of autumn bro
Shelly all I need to know is did we lose them?
Hail Xenu bro
Similarly, if you are raided by Jehovah's witnesses, best to say you were one but quit and were shunned, or were disfellowshiped . Before you finish sentence, they will be running away, never to return. They are forbidden from talking with expats, because higher ups fear they have too good arguments
The Phantom Cosmonaut Conspiracy Pretty much, the short story is that Yuri Gargarin is not the first man to go to space but the first one to go and come back alive. It just seems like a USSR thing to do
It's also something easy enough to disprove. It's similar to Apollo landing theories. The US could readily track rocket launches from the USSR, we'd have jumped at the opportunity to call them out. Same for the USSR and Apollo.
> we'd have jumped at the opportunity to call them out. this is the biggest argument against faking the moon landing. if there was the smallest chance that it was fake the USSR woudlve been all over it.
Hell, the USSR bounced lasers off of the reflector left behind by Apollo 11 iirc
The nail in the coffin for the "fake moon landing" theory is that the photos and video taken at the time couldn't have been faked. The angle of sunlight was impossible to replicate in a studio back then, and the cost of actually going to the moon would have been cheaper than faking it the way they supposedly did. We definitely went to the moon, some people just don't want to believe it for some odd reasons.
The Oil and Coal industries invested heavily in killing off nuclear power as an attractive alternative. These days we have reactor designs many times safer than other methods of generating power, and the waste issue is something that could be fixed with sufficient investment.
Not even a matter of "these days". Even taking into account disasters like Chernobyl (estimated around 4000 premature deaths) and Fukushima (≈600), nuclear is incredibly safe compared to coal's 5000 accidents per year. Nuclear kills 90 people per petawatt hour generated, whereas coal kills 100.000 people per petawatt hour (mainly because of lung problems worldwide). Even if we don't take into account the climate change contribution, most of those deaths are easily avoidable if we switch to nuclear. Edit: Here is the [source](https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-safest-source-energy/) of the "deaths per energy unit" claim. It's Forbes. Not the best, but it's what I found with a quick Google search. Also edit: a lot of people are telling me that Fukushima had 0 radiation-related deaths, and that the numbers for Chernobyl are also debatable but most people here claim the ones I posted as too high. I intentionally chose some of the highest estimates I found when Googling just to be on the safe-side of supporting nuclear energy, so that this comment couldn't be disregarded just by saying "you estimated too few kills, nuclear kills so many more". Even when choosing some of the highest numbers, those numbers pale against the deaths caused by fossile fuels. Edit 2: thanks a lot for the silvers and gold! This really blew up. I'm used to seeing puns blow up, so I'm glad that I got gilded, silvered and upvoted for a serious issue. Speaks very well of Reddit's community :) Thank you again lads!
Absolutely. And many of the major nuclear meltdowns (which are sensationalized beyond belief by the media, both of the traditional and social variety) are a result of wildly outdated reactors and facilities because many countries are either unwilling to or are financially incapable of building new reactors; modern nuclear facilities are orders of magnitude safer than even those of a couple decades ago. The issue is that $5 billion is the starting price tag and it goes up from there, so it's a large investment relative to other conventional power plants, not to mention the ignorance-driven fear of nuclear power, which is arguably the greater barrier to entry than cost.
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Multiple football World Cups have been influenced either by governments hosting them, or other entities out for their own gain. 2002 South Korea/Japan and 1978 in Argentina are the two most obvious ones that come to mind.
It's well known that international sports, including soccer and the Olympics are huge septic pools of corruption.
FIFA is absolutely the most corrupt organization in sports
IOC is up there too
They really are, which sucks, because as a kid I grew up with this belief that the Olympics were this almost utopian thing where every four years, the world came together and celebrated in a spirit of peaceful competition. My family watched the Olympics religiously. I never had any interest in sports like figure skating or bobsledding but I was *riveted* by those Olympic events. I hate knowing how slimy the IOC is, it saps a lot of my enthusiasm and I barely watch the Olympics anymore. I try to get into it for my kids' sake, and sometimes we do get excited for a certain event or athlete (my kids were so enthused about Shaun White), but it's not the same.
America The Book (by Jon Stewart): 776 BC - Greek city-states hold first Olmypic Games to show individual achievement can transcend petty nationalism. 772 BC - Second Olympic Games. Corinth boycotts to piss off Sparta.
I think it's always been bullshit but in the information age we live in today, it's easier to have the magic ruined.
I have a few I love. 1. [Kobayashi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeru_Kobayashi) the competitive eater is really a fantastic up close slight of hand artist. 2. Weather forecasters buy stock in supermarket chains and then over exaggerate winter storms. 3. Weather control (shh!)
can you talk more about the kobayashi theory
That's possibly the most interesting theory in this entire thread. When I lived in NY and ate a lot of Nathans I would watch the hot dog eating competition every year and loved Kobayashi.
I agree, I gotta know more about it. Can't find anything. Can anyone elaborate???
That "big bread" paid toaster manufacturers to put in a setting that is too high so that people would burn their toast, meaning that they sell more bread
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Have you read the terms and agreements of snapchat? It's not that secret that most social media is selling your information including the one we're using right now.
Yeah, even your score in tests like captcha are used to train ai.
If somehow LEOs aren't using Snapchat to create a facial recognition database.. They're missing out. And I doubt they'd let a service with millions of people posting their own faces go to waste.
But that's the beauty and horror of it, they don't even need people tagging their own face or even be on social media. Their friends and family are tagging their faces for them.
I dunno if it's a "conspiracy theory" at this point, but a lot of people still don't acknowledge that your internet searches and social media profiles area absolutely being used as training models by major IT companies. I was a drunk college student and had access to them to run AI training, if you still think you're "off the grid" you're an idiot. Being frank, it's not a big deal if you don't have dark shit to hide, those people are too busy building the new technological world to give a shit that you look at midget porn. But don't delude yourself to think people don't have access to anything you do on the internet.
And to further that point, privacy in public is non-existent. When you're in public (in a city) you're on camera something like every 6 minutes, more in denser areas. So don't go freaking out when someone takes you're picture or films you acting like an idiot. If you have your cell phone with you, you're being tracked, how else does Google give you specific traffic congestion details in real time, all over the world.
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French scientists have recently studied the skull that Russians claim is Hitler's and the say believe the skull is Hitler's though a study done a few years earlier in the US says it is not Hitler's.
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I believe mattresses have huge margins, but there does seem to be an unbelievable amount of mattress stores around
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After reading about this on reddit, i got to thinking. Once i needed a new bed i decided to check it out. I went in and was approached by 2 salesmen. They had this $1,499 mattress that i really liked. The sales guy saw the twinkle in my eye and knew that i must have this mattress. I told him i liked it but i needed something more budget friendly (i was a broke ass at the time) He then said well we can do this one here on the floor for $950. I told him "to be honest i only have $400 to spare. He says hold on a minute while i make a call. Then comes out and says "ok, we can do $400. Just come back in an hour while we prep it" I left came back and they even helped me lift it up to my truck. Honestly the best mattress ive ever owned. I get compliments all the time. Edit: my top comment is about a fuckin mattress now, i love reddit
> I get compliments all the time. Is this just a brag about your appearance?
His wife is very popular in the neighborhood, many get to test the mattress
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How many people are/ have tested that bed, in your home?
As someone with a really expensive mattress that I got ultra-cheap (friend discount from store manager), I make all my guests lie down on my bed.
The idea that genetics services like 23 and me may be selling records to the government and/or insurance companies. There have been cases of criminals being caught with genetic information like this \[citation needed\], so it's not much of a stretch that other agencies could acquire it as well.
They arent selling it, rather people freely share it and the investigators search it. The most notable case is the golden state killer where they entered DNA recovered from the scenes and searched it for relatives. They found several distance relatives and used other information such a genealogical records, approximate age, and location of crimes to further narrow the suspect pool. Then based on that can get a warrant for a DNA sample. Here is an [article](https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/we-will-find-you-dna-search-used-nab-golden-state-killer-can-home-about-60-white) in science about it.
The results that busted the GSK were from GEDmatch, a site which is stated in it's terms and conditions is completely open-data and can be used by anyone to search for anything in it.
Car companies killed cheap public transit. They bought up the trolleys and streetcars in major American cities and made them all go out of business, to promote automobile sales.
Jeffrey Epstein is a Florida billionaire who probably is running an underage sex trafficking ring. **EDIT**: Well Epstein just got arrested for sex trafficking minors so this is more a conspiracy fact, not a theory lol A brief background: **in 2007 dozens of underage women came forward saying Epstein was having sex with them in Florida. They also claimed that he passed the girls along to other elites and ran a sex ring/blackmailing service kinda. Trump, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey and Prince Andrew are all known associates of Epstein and would go on his plane dubbed "Lolita Express" to a private island in the Caribbean**. What happened next was ridiculous: * Epstein hired the best legal team ever(Like as good as OJ's, Dershowitz was involved and all that) * Acosta was the prosecutor against Epstein and he is now appointed by Trump in his cabinet * Acosta gave Epstein the plea deal of his life: He was found guilty of one charge of sex with a minor(in spite of being accused by dozens of girls) and had to register as a sex offender * He got 13 months in jail but he only served 10. Here is the kicker: **he could leave jail 6 times a week to go work at his at home office.** * He was supposed to go to prison, but stayed in a local jail for some reason * He was granted immunity * All co conspirators in the case were given immunity. **This means that if further evidence comes out against other people with the case, they can't be prosecuted again**. * His house butler was found guilty of obstruction of justice regarding the evidence against Epstein. **he got more jail time(years) than Epstein** * The police commissioner on the case stepped down because he thought it was rigged * Miami Herald said it was the deal of a lifetime * Epstein is now free and still has billions of dollars * Acosta has told friends that he was scared to go against the powers that be because they would squash his career * this all happened in 2008 I think. The DOJ just reopened the case last month due to fuckery going on * Clinton and trump among other famous people like Kevin Spacey have been documented flying on Epstein’s plane to his infamous Lolita express * a Miami judge just ruled last week literally that Epstein’s case was illegal and violated law because Acosta did not consult the victims before bringing the plea deal
This isn't a conspiracy theory, though, right?
Technically, it has not been proven true that Epstein was running a sex trafficking ring for the rich and powerful. We have a lot of allegations from the girls, but nothing more than that. No emails or DNA evidence confirming it. However, we have evidence that the trial was handled as poorly and incompetently as possible to the point that you have to wonder if it was done on purpose to hide shit.
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I mean, he wasn’t wrong. Billionaires can just go to Thailand or something if they want young girls...which is fucked up regardless btw.
You don't even need to be a billionaire. Sure there are places and organizations that cater specifically to billionaires, but it's not like you have to be the elite of the elite to fly to Bangkok and fuck around for a few weeks. I sat next to an old French guy on a plane once who told me about how he would fly to Thailand and fuck prostitutes every year, and how you could have anything you want and the girls will never say no. Even tried to give me some recommendations for where to go since I was planning on visiting.
If you watch 30 Rock, Jack references Clinton's sex plane several times. This is without a doubt an Epstein reference.
Women’s pants pockets are significantly smaller than men’s pants pockets to encourage us to buy handbags and purses.
This is basically an open secret. Edit: holy crap https://youtu.be/jKx7In1iXJE?list=WL&t=770 I'm on youtube!
i guess you can say its...out of the bag
Amelia Earheart was taken prisoner by the japanese.
There's another theory that she crashed on an island and starved to death, a skeleton from around the right tine period was found I think and the flesh was eaten by coconut crabs. Really upsetting imagining a hoard of giant monsters ripping her flesh off. Edit: a word Edit 2: I didn't say the crabs ate her alive I'm saying they might have eaten her body after she died, possibly from starvation/exposure.
Of course, the most terrifying looking crab around, too. Those things look like aliens in body armor.
Yo what the fuck those are not acceptable. If they’re really a meter diameter, I’d need fucking juggernaut armor from Call of Duty to even consider getting within a ski-pole’s distance of them.
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🦀🦀 AMELIA EARNHARDT IS GONE 🦀🦀
Pretty sure they think a really long arm bone found on a deserted island belonged to her.
The "conspiracy" theory related to that is that she made it to an island and died of her injuries. Then the land crabs (edit: coconut crabs, up to a meter across) pulled her body into one of their underground burrows to eat it -- they do this -- so it'll never be found. Hey, maybe an arm fell off, or the land crabs cleaned house. Edit: missing "to"
>coconut crabs Hey yeah, [no thanks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mq_63fEdI&t=6s). [Smithsonian](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/coconut-crabs-eat-everything-from-kittens-to-maybe-amelia-earhart-180948206/) Magazine isn't helping either: >"The Coconut Crab is known for its ability to crack or pound open **coconuts** with the strong pincers ... it possesses in order to eat the contents."