What conspiracy theories do you believe in? - Put your tinfoil hats on

[The Gene Genie]

Pick a card, any card. Saves me typing 10 pages of sperg in one go and keeps the reader wanting more.

The dinosaur one is a good start. It’s the first on the list after all.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Fortnite

Not the same thing but very good point. Look at the money they've made from throwing every character under the sun into their shitty game. They sold those characters and didn't allow you to do it for free.
Now if they let you import your pics from instatokbook then they've nicked my conspiracy and sold it like whores.

Perfect Dark had plans for this with the Gameboy Camera that was scrapped I believe for similar reasons. (Columbine might has also had an effect)

And it's a goddamned shame. I wanna shoot celebrities in literal minecraft.

The dinosaur one is a good start. It’s the first on the list after all.

Ages ago, back during dinosaur times, everything was so big; flora, fauna, et al because the oxygen content of the atmosphere was much greater than today. Today we have about 21%, back in those days it was between 24%-35%, averaging at around 30%. This mean bigger trees, which allowed for bigger food for herbivores, bigger meals for carnivores and increased the size of insects because their spiracles could take in more oxygen (Insects don't breathe, they take in oxygen on surface valves which limits their size) so theoretically, you could have 3ft spiders. Everything was yuge.

However, a higher oxygen content lowers the flashpoint of oil and makes combustion much easier. For funsies, have a look at LOX (Liquid Oxygen) and some of the horrific accidents that have occurred through the incorrect storing of it. One American aircraft squadron was wiped out because LOX mixed with POL stores and kaboom.

So, back when ignition only came from natural sources; lightning, dry brush etc, we could have a situation where an area of natural oil or gas seeped out of the ground or collected in an underground reservoir, was ignited by downed surface brush - think wildfires, leading to a massive fire. The fire, chucking out heat, would pull in more air, which would be around 1/3rd oxygen, causing it burn like a bitch. That mega-heat increased with wind like bellows to a furnace and ignited the underground reservoir, which would burn bigger and brighter thanks to the extra oxygen, leading to an underground MOAB style fuel-air explosion.
Once that powder keg goes boom it whips up winds of intense ferocity, aided by thick mixtures of oxygen, burning more and more. Now you've got a run away fire, at an intense heat, spreading like...well, wildfire, igniting everything in it's path; forest decimated in seconds, dinosaurs cooked like Fred Flintstones tea, a feiry mega-tsunami that spans the continents in days, burning everything in it's path, the lucky were incinerated, the unlucky, starved of oxygen and suffocated.
Raging winds knock flying creature out of the air, the ash and soot blocking out the sun and blanketing in the Earth in a thick layer of carbon.
By the time the fire ends, there's devastation. Billions dead, species sent extinct in a matter of hours, leaving few land creatures alive and allowing the seas to flourish, forcing more species back out onto the land. In the aftermath, the oxygen content is depleted, most of it turning to CO2, carbon and water, stunting the growth of the new species emerging from their now overcrowded aquatic biodome.

 

[Meriasek]

Hm, it seems odd that the underground reservoir could explode when the oxygen is on the surface.
Fires in that era would surely burn better, but fuel-air-explosions also require pretty careful distribution of the fuel for an effective explosion. Dunno if that could happen to the size of an extinction event. Iridium concentrations in the stratae coinciding with the CP extinction suggests a massive asteroid impact, or maybe several. Or maybe some traps exploding. Seems a bit more likely to happen than some oil/gas reserve exploding in a teraton extinction level fuel-air explosion.

 

[Otterly]

they can distinguish shades of green that our modern eyes can't detect

From what tiny amount I looked into that, it sounded more like a language thing. Like they had the color and the ability to see it, just we don't know the word for it.

Oh I’ve read this one, it’s the Greeks describing the sky as polished bronze isn’t it?
There’s a great book by Oliver sacks called the island of the colourblind where he visits Pingelap- a significant portion of the population have an eye defect that renders them all - colour blind. So no colour but they can differentiate textures of greenery by hue. He talks about language and perception of colour.
For example we call red and pink two separate colours but other cultures call pink ‘light red’. There’s a culture that uses two different words for the light vs dark blues as well, as sees them as separate colours.
It’s quite an interesting thing to think about.
I think it’s one of Noam Chomsky’s language works that talks about this too - some tribes have no recursion in language. Some must say how the information they’re telling you was revealed or it’s an offensive lie (Susan told me {orally. Wednesday} that her dog has manage….) some have no concept of number past three, it’s literally one, two, loads. Some do t have proper ways of expressing future tenses
There’s also a tribe with no words for left and right - they live in a tiny island and their reference words are basically ‘land wards/seawards and clockwise anticlockwise.
Language is pretty interesting like that.

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

some have no concept of number past three, it’s literally one, two, loads

Karl Pilkington, is that you?

 

[Otterly]

Karl Pilkington, is that you?

Thing is, they don’t need more. It just works

 

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Hm, it seems odd that the underground reservoir could explode when the oxygen is on the surface.
Fires in that era would surely burn better, but fuel-air-explosions also require pretty careful distribution of the fuel for an effective explosion. Dunno if that could happen to the size of an extinction event. Iridium concentrations in the stratae coinciding with the CP extinction suggests a massive asteroid impact, or maybe several. Or maybe some traps exploding. Seems a bit more likely to happen than some oil/gas reserve exploding in a teraton extinction level fuel-air explosion.

OK swap oil reserve with a trap. The idea still stands. I do appreciate that you're visualising my theories and making them work. Bouncing ideas back and forth is great.

 

[Meriasek]

OK swap oil reserve with a trap. The idea still stands. I do appreciate that you're visualising my theories and making them work. Bouncing ideas back and forth is great.

Well, while the Chicxulub impact is most commonly assumed as the cause of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction, some also argue that the extinction took place gradually over a long time, and the eruption of the Deccan Traps seems to fit with that. It'd have been a massive eruption spanning something like 800k years, spewing so much dust and sulphur and everything into the atmosphere it'd have led to the extinction.
Since the Chicxulub impact is also very close in time to the CP extinction, there's also the possibility that the impact caused the Deccan Traps to fully erupt or get worse, together being the extinction event. Maybe the Deccan eruption causing the most damage.
Either way, shit was going down in that era, and it was not fun for those involved.

 

[dick brain]

Oh I’ve read this one, it’s the Greeks describing the sky as polished bronze isn’t it?
There’s a great book by Oliver sacks called the island of the colourblind where he visits Pingelap- a significant portion of the population have an eye defect that renders them all - colour blind. So no colour but they can differentiate textures of greenery by hue. He talks about language and perception of colour.
For example we call red and pink two separate colours but other cultures call pink ‘light red’. There’s a culture that uses two different words for the light vs dark blues as well, as sees them as separate colours.
It’s quite an interesting thing to think about.
I think it’s one of Noam Chomsky’s language works that talks about this too - some tribes have no recursion in language. Some must say how the information they’re telling you was revealed or it’s an offensive lie (Susan told me {orally. Wednesday} that her dog has manage….) some have no concept of number past three, it’s literally one, two, loads. Some do t have proper ways of expressing future tenses
There’s also a tribe with no words for left and right - they live in a tiny island and their reference words are basically ‘land wards/seawards and clockwise anticlockwise.
Language is pretty interesting like that.

This is all in an old Radiolab episode if anyone is interested, though I don't have time to track it down right now.

 

[YouGuysAren'tThatSmart]

They totally racked Icke over the coals anyway.

And, yes, it's obviously a metaphor for jews.

Icke's been trying to act as crazy as he can ("No, I'm really talking about giant lizards") to wiggle out of that shitstorm.

Wouldn't it be better to call them golems or trolls? I mean they look closer to that then a fucking lizard.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

There is something sinister going on behind the scenes with the trend where every retard on public social media is self-censoring to avoid some alleged janny broom or demonetization. It started off with obvious risks (like you're a monetized channel and you need to be sure to not show an entire penis). But now I go to X and there are posts from these big, legit accounts that read like they were composed in Wingdings:

"BREAKING: Three sh*t one d*ad in West Side r*bbery."

I don't believe people are actually losing their accounts on Elon Musks internet because they wrote "died" or "shot." These people are responding to training they got somewhere else. Maybe Tiktok. But I think it's being encouraged because it supports something evil that the overlords have planned for us.

No thoughts, just feels, at this point. Just a bad sense.

 

[Screamer_2]

It's not really a conspiracy theory, maybe more of a Mandela effect and showing my age but I swear I saw a Time cover or something telling us to prepare for the next ice age when I was a kid. Pre-internet.

There are altered covers that have been shown online. As well as ones that are taken out of context. Such as energy crisis in winter during the 70s, where the freeze is because of less fuel to warm in the winter. Not global cooling.

Public awareness of global warming started in the late 90s. A tactic of those pushing back was to claim that scientists used to claim the earth was cooling. They like to focus on a couple of papers from the 70s. The general public has no awareness of what climate scientists were publishing back then. So on the surface, it seems there's something there. However, literature reviews from the time show that these were an extreme minority. It was something like 7 papers about cooling, versus hundreds about global warming. It was a fake narrative the scientists were flip-flopping. It's science, some people post papers contrary to the mainstream consensus.

This is made more confusing to someone not well versed because we're in an interglacial period. A time between ice ages. So there's complete legitimacy to the notion the earth is going to cool and we'll enter another ice age. Except that is thousands if not 10,000s of years away. Global warming is concerned about more immediate timescales and the impact. The fact the earth's orbital wobble and orientation of the poles (Milankovitch cycles) may lead to cooling in thousands of years isn't a pressing concern right now.

This also provides a good excuse for those against man-made global warming as a theory. It's still the natural warming cycle after an ice age. However, that isn't correct because there's an acceleration of warming with a known mechanism of more CO2 since the Industrial Revolution.

All these things are out there, so it's easy to get a bit jumbled. "Global warming, but aren't we going to enter another ice age?" Both are true but they aren't focused on the same thing.

Interesting enough to hypothesize. The worst concerns over global warming could come true, we could have mass war, migration, starvation, death, destruction and civilisation collapse. Then in thousands of years, humans could think, "thank fuck that happened, the warming prevented us from living in an ice age." However, those timescales and concerns are too far away to contemplate.

Conversely, we could take action. Everything is fine. Then in hundreds or thousands of years they start deliberately burning CO2 to prevent an Ice Age.

 

[rusty shackleford 1]

I wouldn’t be surprised. Media has always been used to push an agenda.

Disney did something similar in the late 1980s when they started openly hiring pedophiles. They started by hiring a guy who was still in prison for raping a kid on his last movie set. He wrote and directed for them, and when the nationwide protests began they just spent more money advertising the film.

Today they (and the other children’s networks)!continue to hire pedos and nobody says a word. Pedos are everywhere now, just last year alone top Sony and FB employees have been arrested for soliciting minors, etc.

And outside of a few sites like this nobody cares. Hell, depending on the platform you get banned for even mentioning it, as it is considered harassment against the pedophiles.

There’s something insidious happening in mom and parenting groups where any pushback on revealing clothes for literal infants ignites a huge flame war of less than ten clear headed people vs what feels like legions of both men and women. Level headed people are like (real example btw) “a 7 month old girl doesn’t need to be in a mini skirt, a crop top, and fishnets, why would you post your child like this?” And the entire thread devolves into people defending fishnets and miniskirts for literal babies, screaming, “stop sexualizing kids! Let them be kids!” It’s disturbing and demoralizing to witness and it happens daily. Under 10s, hell, toddlers twerking are met with real life women and men, people with children(!) defending kids being depicted as such while again screaming at normal people to stop sexualizing kids! You’re weird for making it weird! One parenting shitpost group the other day, in the same day, had a post about the fishnets that was overwhelmingly defended. And the same day a post that said, “a baby girls dad should always buy her first ring” and showed a newborn with a tiny gold ring that made people lose their minds. Even the libs didn’t care if it was an ethnic tradition, they screamed about problematic purity and abolishing religion and even accused the father of sexualizing a newborn because something something ring means sex. Any suggestion to preserve your child’s innocence is met with accusations that you’re the reason pedos exist, if we just stopped having so many standards it wouldn’t be so taboo, etc etc. women overwhelmingly defend the right to dress their little girls in revealing clothes and mock and deride mothers and fathers who disagree with accusations that they’re doing the sexualizing for exercising common sense. This summer every video I’ve seen questioning why little girls bathing suits need revealing cutouts and questioning why it’s so hard to find a simple, sweet little appropriate suit devolves into chaos in the comments section. The TDS runs wild and the mother making the video is accused of marrying a pedo or being insecure or having internalized misogyny. I’m still green in the parenting department so I have no idea how long this has been a thing, but it’s evil and terrifying to consider with today’s only fans culture that encourages young women to sell themselves for pennies to coomers because muh female empowerment.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I wouldn’t be surprised. Media has always been used to push an agenda.

Disney did something similar in the late 1980s when they started openly hiring pedophiles. They started by hiring a guy who was still in prison for raping a kid on his last movie set. He wrote and directed for them, and when the nationwide protests began they just spent more money advertising the film.

Today they (and the other children’s networks)!continue to hire pedos and nobody says a word. Pedos are everywhere now, just last year alone top Sony and FB employees have been arrested for soliciting minors, etc.

And outside of a few sites like this nobody cares. Hell, depending on the platform you get banned for even mentioning it, as it is considered harassment against the pedophiles.

Sounds like this is the guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Salva

In 1988, Salva was convicted of sexual misconduct with one of Clownhouse's underage stars, who was 12 years old at the time, and videotaping one of the encounters in which he forced the victim to perform oral sex on him.[2] Commercial videotapes and magazines containing child pornography were also found in his home.[2] Salva pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious conduct, oral sex with a person under fourteen, and procuring a child for pornography.[2][9] He was sentenced to three years in state prison, of which he served 15 months, and lifetime registration as a sex offender.[4] He completed his parole in 1992.[9]

His next film was The Nature of the Beast (1995), a direct-to-video mystery horror film which Salva wrote and directed. It starred Lance Henriksen and Eric Roberts. Salva based the film's characters on people he met in prison.[citation needed]

Salva next made his first big-studio picture, Powder (1995), the tale of an albino boy with special powers that make him an outcast. At the time of the film's release, Salva's conviction became known to the public when his victim came forward, calling for the film's boycott. Disney officials stated that they had been informed of Salva's crime only after production of Powder had begun.[2] When asked about the controversy surrounding Powder, Salva said, "This has followed me around ever since it happened, but once people meet me the phantoms go away and they realize I made a stupid mistake, years ago. ... My past is going to follow me around for as long as people want to talk about it."[10] His victim, Nathan Forrest Winters, later released a documentary detailing the sexual abuse by Salva, which began when Winters was 7 years old following a year of grooming.[11]

Truly disgusting and chilling stuff. And then he followed it up with....a gay rights propaganda flick:

Salva next made Rites of Passage (1999), a coming-of-age thriller. The film depicts a homophobic father who unwittingly pushes his gay son into the arms of a psychotic killer.

"Let us groom your kids or else they will end up killed by a psycho, parents!"

 

[Dieter Laser]

Yup, that’s him. He went on to make the Jeepers Creepers series. The worst part? The third film has a scene where the female protagonist tells about the time she was molested.

Like wtf dude was legit making movies for his spank bank and nobody cares.

I hate this timeline.

Thread tax - Joe Biden has been dead since a week before the Trump shooting.

 

[Otterly]

mom and parenting groups

We should have a thread about parenting group insanity. Unfortunately I was kicked out of most of the ones I’d wandered into for this kind of thing. I’ve seen some things though

questioning why it’s so hard to find a simple, sweet little appropriate suit

It really is. We are very pale and the last thing I want is loads of cutouts. Just a suit, nice bright non blue colour, maybe a tropical print. Not low or high cut, just a suit. Absolutely zero problem getting things for the boys. My solution was to just use nice rash tops and shorts or bottoms - added advantage that they stop midge bites, and you don’t need to try to apply as much sun cream to wriggly kids, as if you need to wander off the beach you’re better dressed for it.
The sexualisation of girl clothes is awful. EVERYTHING is cut low/high/tight, the fabrics are worse and thinner, loads of sexualised prints, and they aren’t as conducive to active play and clinging trees. I used to make a lot of their stuff when they were little - loads of fun bright coloured scandi style prints and nice ‘you can climb a tree in this’ styles.
The only advice I can give is that this has been going on a while, people are insane, stick to your guns etc.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

We should have a thread about parenting group insanity.

Honestly, we need both a kiwi parents thread and kiwi parenting insanity. Be nice to talk to other kiwis on parenting our kids in this increasingly circus world.

Can't even let my kids watch PBS Kids or get children's books without them sneaking on homo parents. I will be the one to have that conversation with them when they are older, not the media.

 

[Flan Handler]

Public awareness of global warming started in the late 90s.

I remember a first attempt at rolling this out in 1990/1991. Earth Day, global warming, it was all new. It was not well received, failed enough that it was years before they really tried it again.

 

[FatalTater]

Earth Day has been around since 1970.

Back in the 1980's it was well known that industry was causing pollution, the factories and big trucks and whatnot.

In the late '80s early '90s TPTB decided to guilt trip the average citizen by telling them that it was their fault the jungles, oop I mean "rain forests" were being cut down.

Suddenly people were concerned about recycling and composting and riding bikes instead of watching what companies were doing. Funny thing that.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I remember a first attempt at rolling this out in 1990/1991. Earth Day, global warming, it was all new. It was not well received, failed enough that it was years before they really tried it again.

I remember our (cat lady) 4th grade teacher getting extremely emotional urging us greedy little losers to stop letting the faucet run while we were brushing our teeth, because it was going to end up literally emptying the oceans.

The retardation is remarkable, looking back, but the apparent sincerity of the useful idiots even more so.