So I’ve been thinking about the RAM shortage that seems to just be getting worse and worse. Sure, there is a huge demand from companies building their AI infrastructure. But only a few factories in the world process silicon into the chips we can use for that. In my mind, that creates a cartel-like situation where a real shortage could easily be maintained artificially to keep prices up.
My partner says I sound like my mum talking about the moon landing. 😄 This feels less fun though.
The RAM cartel is a real thing that has resulted in multiple legal actions in the past. Not even a theory, just “good business” as far as the big 3 are concerned.
It’s not that kind of conspiracy when people from those companies have already been sent to jail for market manipulation via a cartel which artificially to kept prices up. It’s just good sense to expect more of the same.
I’ve spent far too much time these past couple of years, wondering whether the folks who used to believe in the properly mad conspiracy theories started off feeling the way I do now.
Because, like, the shit I believe to be true appears to be right there on the surface, painfully obvious.
shit I believe to be true appears to be right there on the surface
What do you believe?
Maybe they gave them good ideas? In a self fulfilling prophecy kind of way
Lucky, or misled?
No. Honestly. Most conspiracy theories made sense, today they don’t make sense.
Could you give me some examples?
Conspiracy theories today are goofy - earth is flat, ice wall around the world, anime girls are used to make people have less kids, dolphins kidnapped some guy to build underwater castles or something. COVID was released by the Chinese to kill people. They’re fucking goofy.
In the past conspiracy theories were stuff like MKultra before it was known to be real, alien/UFO/secret weapon program stuff, JFK, 9/11, some cannibalistic pedophile cult of rich people.
Back in like I dunno 08? 4chan used to be a site I frequented along with stuff like somethingawful and all that nonsense. You’d have some really interesting conversations and things pop up. Stuff about Bohemian Grove and Bob Lazar and Roko’s Basilisk.
Some of it was up it’s own ass and silly but it was a lot more mysterious and I feel if you could assess information correctly you could paint a picture and make sense of things they made far more sense and today I’d argue a lot of it is confirmed.
Are aliens real? I dunno but the fact the government teases about it but also says nothing makes me think it’s genuinely a nothing burger. It’s used as a distraction and a ploy to make people think the government is on their side or they’re being “open” about stuff.
One thing though that I personally believe from my time reading into these more interesting conspiracy theories is the JFK situation. From my understanding, the US government made a push from standard rifles to more purpose built rifles including high powered ones. The motorcade JFK rode in, I believe the car in front of him had one of these rifleman on it with a more high powered weapon. When the first bullet struck him, he grips his neck and some of the experienced members of the Secret Service understand they hear gunfire, they look at the president. The front car lurches and someone with less than stellar trigger discipline accidentally, genuinely possibly blows JFK’s head off.
So of course they’re gonna cover up such a stupid mistake, one of their own accidentally shoots him in the head? Looks pretty bad. It lends to the “two shooters” theory (although most mistake the gun sounds for two shots when what they might hear is sound echoing). It also makes sense, to me, because if the first bullet that struck him was the same as the second, why didn’t it cause the same amount of damage? People have said it apparently has to do with how and where the bullet hit him. I’m no ballistic expert but I dunno that doesn’t make sense to me personally. If the same gun hit him twice, I think the first shot would’ve done the same level of catastrophic damage.
So I think conspiracy theories today are stupid and bunk. Conspiracy theories before, at least the good ones, had meat you could chew on and discuss and even learn some stuff about.
