I’ll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was “Kitty.”
Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of “if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!” or there’s some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.
“Trad-wives” are the pick me girls’ final form. I think it’s also for women who want to do OnlyFans type work, but don’t want to be as risqué. It’s like soft core incel porn more than an actual depiction or celebration of maternity.
Couriers have tiny cameras all throughout my home and wait for me to go to the bathroom before they show up with my parcels.
Nah, they just have one, in the bathroom :)
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In 2016, there were a bunch of creepy/killer clown sightings. At least in America it made the news pretty regularly. My conspiracy theory is that it started purely as Guerilla Marketing for the 2017 IT adaptation.
TBH ive always wanted to dress up like that and spook the shit out of the town I live in…
hope you don’t live in the US. It worked in 2016, but now… you will be shot in the fucking head.
eh probably not, i’ll do it in new york city where nobody owns guns. also won’t threaten people…
Conspiracies like flat earth are put in the spotlight to make real conspiracies look stupid.
Tankies play a similar function in different context
Ooh, a spicy one for a place like lemmy.
Music artists get paid to change their album titles.
Katy Perry released Prism to drown out Snowden’s revelations about the NSA Prism program
If you haven’t heard, there is a theory that the Frozen movies exist solely to make sure if you google disney frozen or any combination of that you are shown movie stuff instead of stories of Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen so he can live in the future.
Windows, Android, & Apple software used to nag you about installing updates endlessly. They don’t do that so much anymore. I think it’s because instead of alerts asking us to install updates, they now create network outages, software crashes, and other minor issues that require a restart. How often do you have some inexplicable problem, restart your device to fix it, and your machine is like “Hey while we’re in there we’re also installing this update we just downloaded a moment ago.”
The number of updates I’ve seen on my phone has decreased because it’s old enough to be done with feature updates. I got out of Windows before it got that bad.
Something I don’t miss from Windows was each app was responsible for its own updates, so you’d sit down to draw something in CAD or whatever and it would say “need to update to continue” so you’d have to sit there listening to the fans whine for a few minutes before you could start. This still happens occasionally on Linux because some software is just the Windows version running in some compatibility layer or something, but it happens a lot less because the package manager handles all that at once.
WafflePwn’s brother (the kid who tried shoving a remote up his ass because of Warcraft account cancellation) actually documented a true and genuine freakout. The parents forced the older brother to produce subsequent videos as a means of making it look like they were just making candid freakout videos all along, in order to protect the younger bother’s shattered public image (and probably social life).
The highest quality fruits, veggies, and meats go to restaurants leaving only mid stuff at the grocery store. Which makes cooking at home seem inferior to restaurant food even for home chefs. Pushing people to spend more going out and drive capitalism
For high end restaurants, true.
However top chefs will happily buy ugly fruit and veg if they taste good.
Supermarket fresh fruit and veg is always sold on how it looks, not on how it tastes. Shoppers don’t buy ugly vegetables (except when shaped like genitalia).
This is definitely true of supermarket tomatoes, which are bred for durability and not taste. I can neglect my tomato garden and still turn out tastier fruit than the grocery store.
Restaurants often do get first-pick, but it’s probably just because the producers or distributors can make more money selling to them rather than the grocery store. I.e. just another feature of capitalism. This happens with a lot of things, such as home builders and furniture makers getting first-pick on lumber. Now that I think back to when I used to work in fabrication, steel as well.
I know by personal experience that sometimes my low population density area in the south gets a lower quality of vegetables than the state capitol. I was looking for something to cook. I won’t say what only that the all the items at our local walmart were very small and bruised. This went on for two weeks. I drive to the state capitol and while I’m there go to walmart and they have what I need and they are the right size and of a higher quality.
Next day at our local walmart I look just to make sure and what they have there is just garbage. I have no doubt its the same for many situations.
Scar was the hero in The Lion King.
Elaborate.
Rule under Mufasa was essentially an oligarchy, with oppression everywhere. Unlike the other RACIST lions, Scar would spend time with the hyaenas, providing them food and protection. He skipped the crowning of a new pampered little shit, and after getting shit from his king brother he had had enough - he ended the bloodline.
His first act was to remove oppression, giving equality for all. Then a huge natural disaster happened, absolutely no fault of Scar’s, and life was harsh.
Then, Simba the little prick just fucks off, lives the dream in luxury like the pampered little asshole he is, and then decides “fuck it, this is too nice, let’s bring back the racism”. He comes back, plants doubt through a hate campaign and the hyaenas kill Scar. The drought ends, Simba brings back oppression, and has another little cunt kid.
Scar was a hero. He undid years of ruthless oppression against other species, and got shit for it because the land was left in a poor state and couldn’t handle a downturn in weather.
This is spot on. Fuck Mufasa fuck Simba LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION
He killed a king, and that’s just dope.
Paper straws were pushed by big corporate polluters to build a negative association with environmentalism.
Plastic straws are single-use plastics, but seem unexceptional by those standards. It’s almost a meme that they’re being singled out like they’re the single greatest source of plastic waste, or uniquely damaging to ocean life.
On top of that, there are way better ways of reducing straw usage. I’ve used bioplastics that seemed way better. You could redesign the lids. You can do the plastic bag thing and charge people a nickel for a straw or whatever. Hell, you could just not give straws with every drink, and plenty of people will just drink from their cups and glasses. Instead, we get paper straws, something that is so obviously a bad idea it sounds like a joke, or a metaphor for a useless invention. Often served with cups and lids made entirely out of plastic.
So you get a bunch of people who have their drinks kind of ruined by a frustrating straw. It’s a small thing, but it’s just a little nudge away from environmentalism. You build an association with disappointment and inconvenience. Maybe it doesn’t cause a big sway, but it makes people maybe a little more anti-environmentalist than they already were, or just less passionate about environmentalism.
When most ocean plastic comes from nets, it’s hard to disagree.
Honestly the obsession with single use plastic seems like a distraction. Every piece of plastic in landfill is oil that isn’t burnt.
Every price of plastic in the landfill is oil that was extracted, processed, and required oil burning to get processed. And we do that for something that will be used once. Plastic in the landfill is not a net positive.
The people who are responsible for the turtle with the straw in the nose video where from the paper straw company. That happened right before the corn plastic straws at the market and after the video all plastic straws were banned in most metropolitan areas, that banned the corn plastic “environmentally friendly” straws before they even hit the market. The paper straws have forever chemicals in them and are essentially Teflon coated so they’re not environmentally friendly at all.
Kitty.
The bomb has been planted.
The removal of The Fairness Doctrine was a deliberate psyop of The Monied Elite to dumb down the general populace of the US to accept Capitalist propaganda and rule. Well, it’s not a conspiracy theory, it’s fact. Then we were bombarded by blatant capitalist propaganda for 50 years. But, but, the worst aim was to condition the general populace to casual cruelty as entertainment.
Witness how Congress has degenerated into The Jerry Springer Show and Judge Judy. And half of the populace think it’s funny, and there’s nothing wrong with it. Republican politicians daily lie their asses off, and there are no consequences. An entitled, malignant narcissistic psychopath is worshipped as a demigod. Congregations who watch Fox every night are literally telling their preachers/priests/pastors that Jesus is a woke pussy. That’s not opinion, it’s a fact.
I recall reading that Goering and Goebbels both stated that a lie that is repeated enough times becomes truth in the zeitgeist. This country is in big trouble, and I think the Heritage and Federalist stacked SCOTUS is going to appoint Trump King due to an avalanche of upcoming election lawsuits.
This country was established by rich men who didn’t want to pay taxes. But, some good things came from it. That you could speak to power without the fear of retribution. That a religious entity could not punish you arbitrarily on a whim. That the rich could not pass on their wealth and power to scions without penalty. That this country would not be ruled by a blatant aristocracy and monarchy.
I will not live in a Trump Theocratic Oligarchy. I’m an old man, with no wife and no kids. Do what you have to do, and leave if you can. The writing is on the wall. I don’t know how much more you need to see and know to wise up, but it’s here, right in your face.
Whoever downvoted this is a weak willed, submissive, sycophantic, obsequious bitch.
Also, fuck Putin.
Keep sucking that authority root, tankie weaklings.
complains about capitalist propaganda correctly identifies the ruling class proceeds to screech about evil tankies
Yeah. I don’t get the tankie angle here tbh
If anything it would be bootlickers injured from their dear daddies being called for being parasites IMHO
Tinfoil hats on? Alrighty then:
All these Verizon outages are intentional and part of the plan to invalidate the 2024 election.
We’ll see it happen again on and around election day, maybe xitter will go down too.
Whole voting districts in Georgia won’t report in, citing system crashes, security breaches, whatever they feel like making up. Republican Secretaries of State will declare the election compromised before vote counting even starts.
Obviously there’s also a hurricane and massive flooding, hence the tinfoil hat, but let’s not forget where and when we are in history, and that The Business Plot was a real thing.
Firefox knows the exact worst time to force a restart on me. What’s up with that?
It knows you better than your mother, and you deserve it.
It’s true, I do.
Anti-perspirant causes breast cancer. You look at data for Japan back in the 90’s-2000s and breast cancer was like 80 times less prevalent in Japan vs the US. Now Japanese are starting to use it more and breast cancer instances are raising to be more on-par with the US. The NIH did a study that was inconclusive so everyone assumes its not true. However, if you read the study you realize exactly how inconclusive it is, and that the answer was truly more along the lines of: “We don’t know”.
