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

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

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

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

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

Me too Morty, let’s get out of here

They’ll call it the “Pat on the Head Bill”

Warm egg custard

I don’t think he’s a fascist necessarily, although he is a far-right, authoritarian ultranationalist. So that makes him… oh.

What is the universe?

Encephalitis (en-sef-uh-LIE-tis) is inflammation of the brain. There are several causes, including viral infection, autoimmune inflammation, bacterial infection, insect bites and others. 

That would be a synopsis of the joke, yes

Blackberries and blueberries over Greek yogurt with a drizzle of honey, yum

It’s like five miles of paddleball hackey sack

Taking a crap in the hallway

Are you sure they didn’t just conscript the napkins for TP? It is Taco Bell after all…

Wurd brudder

Money is the catalyst to our own demise. By hook or by crook (ha!) greed and pride will crush us eventually unless extreme wealth is curtailed. The imaginary system of beans and shells that we arbitrarily follow is destroying us in fast motion.

Fair point, even with upgrades a la Cyberpunk 2077, the lost sales out of the gate are unlikely to be made up a year and a half later when they release the game they should have released in the first place

Allen bites man? You run that headline every day of the week. Man bites alien, find s out it’s a cookie? Please.

I believe that the big bang was an overcooked ravioli that burst us all into existence, in the name of the fusilli, the sacchettoni, and the holy gnocchi, al dente.

Oh yeah that’s it, the 63rd inbred figurehead that finally did the trick

Aw

Still waiting for Mindhunter… Guess I’ll wait forever