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submitted 1 day ago by Up_dog@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I believe that there’s a huge magnet of sorts in the core of earth that attracts a specific brand, BIC, to it.

The only two items that always go missing. Pens. Lighters.

Always BIC.

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[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 14 points 18 hours ago

Slavery never went away, it was disguised as jobs for the working class. And now the capital class has been sold the wet dream of slavery 3.0 in the form of AI replacing not just the average job, but the average person themselves. No sick days, no complaints. That's why AI is being shoved into everything and the climate and economy are on the brink of destruction, to get rid of us for good.

[-] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

This isn't a conspiracy theory, let alone a silly one.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago

The fluoride in the water is secretly pushed by the sugar industry. Without it, their products would be rotting teeth faster than ever and people would buy less sweets as a result.

[-] Up_dog@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Damn that’s a good one. I stay drinking tap water.

[-] LemsGhost@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

Good tap water usually has some fluoride in it.

[-] n0p1lls@piefed.zip 2 points 13 hours ago

I believed in reptilians / illuminati until I got diagnosed with schizophrenia :/

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

The YellowKey Vulnerability was an engineered backdoor for the CIA/FBI/NSA.

[-] Up_dog@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Woah. Like a day zero things like the stuxnet?

[-] sylver_dragon@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Ya, it was fairly big news a couple months ago. MS was apparently dicking around the researcher (NightmareEclipse) who uncovered it and he went nuclear and dropped that one along with a few others in rapid succession.

[-] LemsGhost@lemmy.ml 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream isn't a science fiction story, that's gonna happen to some people. Telepathy is also real.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Ok, so in the TV show Stargate SG-1, the Stargate program is an Air Force initiative to use an ancient alien device to send teams through a wormhole to planets in distant reaches of the galaxy where they interact with aliens and humans from other worlds.

One of those humans, having become a refugee on Earth after losing a war to aliens, creates a television show which essentially "files off the serial numbers" of the actual Stargate program.

When the Air Force learns about this, they allow the show to remain on the air, because that way if the story of the Stargate program ever leaks, anyone who hears it will dismiss it as the ravings of a fanboy who got too into the show, or of a conspiracy theory who can't tell fiction from reality.

So the first part is, I think that the US Government could totally be using this to hide something really wild. Maybe there actually is an Upside Down ("oh really? Like in Stranger Things? Suuuure.") or maybe aliens really do exist ("bro, you've been watching too much X-Files.") and maybe not only do they exist but they've formed this whole secret subculture on Earth ("dude, that's literally just the premise of Men In Black.").

But see, now we run into a truly Heller-esque bit of circular logic, because with me even saying that, now the government can just say, "come on buddy, that's just the plot of season 5 episode 12 of a TV show you're on the record as a fan of."

This also helps to explain why Trump and his cadre hasn't blabbed about aliens in the past decade. They were told about the secret government program, but then they were also told exactly which TV shows and movies have been made to discredit the truth, and exactly how the conspiracy would make them look like laughable idiots if they revealed the truth.

tl;dr: superheroes are real, they're way more like The Avengers than you'd think, they have an airtight plan to discredit anyone who leaks it, and "Wormhole X-treme!" is part of the conspiracy

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 11 points 22 hours ago

Belief in alien UFOs is deliberately promoted as it makes a good cover for experimental government aircraft.

The NSA has backdoors in most computer chipsets.

Alex Jones is a false flag crisis actor designed to discredit anyone revealing genuine conspiracies.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 9 points 22 hours ago
[-] LemsGhost@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago

Did did he fuck her?

[-] Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lottery is a scam to catch time travelers

[-] Up_dog@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago

Lmao. I love this

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago
[-] Homo_Erectus@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

I'm printing this and put on the casino's exit lol

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

It's a tax on the present to support the future

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 23 hours ago

JFK’s head spontaneously exploded with no explanation. The government quickly found some local bum, framed him and then shot him before he could say anything, to manufacture the idea of an assassination, because the alternative—that anyone’s head could spontaneously explode at any time for no reason—would cause mass panic and a collapse of the economy.

[-] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 1 points 17 hours ago

Have a look at this episode of PBS Frontline: Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?

[-] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 9 points 23 hours ago

Mine is that the term "conspiracy theo[rist/ry]" was made up by intelligence agencies to hide the shady things they were doing to the public, like testing torture methods, drugs and experimental weapons on impoverished communities

[-] LemsGhost@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Ye that's true. The Illuminati conspiracy was one of them. Jon Ronson did some good work with that.

[-] TheBlindPew@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Not even really a theory but a historically verifiable strategy used by the automakers, but Jaywalking was invented by car companies to put the blame on cyclists and pedestrians for getting killed by cars so that they could monopolize use of the public roads for cars and here we are over 100yrs later and vehicle collisions are like the number 2 leading cause of death in the country behind gun violence.

At least the gun manufacturers didn't steal public space out from under the feet of everyone.

Schools might disagree

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk -1 points 1 day ago
[-] borokov@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Government members actually don't care about people and just want to be elected to get more money and power. Yeah, I know it's a silly one.

[-] espentan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Can you imagine how much shit we would have to put up with if that one were true?

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago

The romans had circuitry. Maybe not electric powered, but water powered? Oh you bet. If they could rig up an entire senate to rotate like a lazy suzan by manufacturing ball bearings and hooking it up to advanced gearing powered by a river....?

Plus they knew how to work with lead metal, so other conductive metals werent completely out of reach, and they were masters of mass-scale uniform production. Their road structures and aquaducts barely even scratch the surface of what their engineers could do

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

That everything is gonna be okay someday.

[-] pheonixdown@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

In Star Wars Episode 1, George intentionally included many hints that something weird was happening with Jar Jar, but the public backlash against the character caused a rewrite of Episodes 2 and 3, including the specific introduction of Count Dooku. Jar Jar was supposed to be revealed as a Sith.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Oh, I remember this one. I kind of buy it.

[-] Greg@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

My cat actually likes me

[-] _deleted_@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

The shows like x-files, men in black (and others that I can’t think of from the top of my head) are actually documentaries, but no one would believe them, so they’re presented as fictional entertainment.

[-] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago
[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

Never give up, never surrender!

[-] QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

I doubt whether the members of ZZ Top have real beards.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

They stole Frank Beard's beard.

[-] slowtrain33@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

UFOs are real, and non human intelligence is here with us on earth, but those are both distractions from the much more consequential secrets: spacetime, and everything that exists within it, is a product of consciousness. Our consciousness continues after death. Telepathy, telekinesis, remote viewing, and precognition are possible. Human science is controlled and new discoveries in public academia are suppressed to prevent us from learning the truth.

[-] agent_nycto@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Would you trust some of these yahoos with telekinesis?

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago
[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

And reptilians live inside. The colony has survived for millions of years through ritual cannibalism. NASA found out on Apollo 17, that's why they never went back.

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