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

[Whoopsie Daisy]

Pussy is a factor but so are the cars, watches, clothes, consoles… it’s growing up with the attitude that there is no future. You don’t need your money tomorrow because there’s nothing left for you.

I disagree somewhat. I agree that the message is how you painted it, but I disagree that the reaction is organic from people.

Shit isn't more expensive, because people earn more than they ever have. People just don't know how to live properly and within their realistic means. They fall for the trap because they believe they can live the Instagram life of hot pussy and women can live the WAG life of a high-class princesses parading as a slut.
Men chase the sluts who want the men with money (they don't have any, it's all a show) to chase them. It's a vicious circle.

Consumerism is called consooooming because of it's relation to cooomers. It's all linked.

 

[Chongqing]

Any of you have a theory of what this was for? It was found in the same room as the majority of the Firearms and shell casings. My guess is maybe some sort of impromptu gas-mask, but Paddock shot himself before police even tried to breach his room.

This may be the dumbest hypothesis possible, but I wonder if it was for doing recreational ether.

In Hunter S. Thompson's book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, he writes about pouring ether liquid into the carpet of his Vegas hotel and then getting high off of the fumes.

Maybe it was something like that?

Maybe it was a suicide device for use with fumes?

 

[Otterly]

Re: hedonistic consumption. I think there’s something to this. The subscription lifestyle is a lot of small things that add up.
My parents paid the mortgage, the utility bills, food, car/petrol/insurance and child related costs (food, clothes etc.) there was almost nothing unnecessary thinking back. We very occasionally got fish and chips for dinner, and we very occasionally went out for a day trip and that would be say, admission to a country house and a cafe visit (or more often a packed lunch…) but there was virtually zero luxury spending. We didn’t have the money, nobody we knew had the money and there was nothing to spend it on. Birthdays and Christmas we’d get a few things, but that was saved up for.
Nowadays, there’s a subscription for everything. I actually think this started with mortgages - when women entered the workforce the mortgage went from x% of the cost of the house every month to what two people working could be willing to pay for 25 years. And that has spread - it’s little bits, that’s you’re lulled into spending because it’s only a bit each month. Over time it becomes something you have to have. It’s hard in the UK now to function without a mobile or internet access. With digital IDs and almost-cashless like you see in Scandinavian countries it’ll get even harder. So much is just ‘well it’s only ten quid a month’ and then it’s suddenly twenty then fifty and you need it to bank. Visit a bank beanch? None left.
‘You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy’ is really grim. I’ve even seen ads pushing renting your clothes. Yuck.

 

[Fek]

Regarding the state of things in current year:

It won't carry on like this for too much longer, friends. Take heart.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

Rising rates of FASD means that all the other kids in class will be held back because the retards need more attention, at risk of more violence because the retards are violent, and even further down the line spending will have to be increased because retard kids grow up to be useless drains of adults.

And so will some of the kids who are held back like this, they will also begin missing out cognitive milestones in such environments.

A very astute observation. I looked up the facial structure of someone who has (had?) FASD, and holy shit I realize how many people my own age (late Millenial/early Zoomer) have those traits, and then the personality traits you've previously described.

This is what actually got me a lil' mati and prompted the above: Almost ALL children in my own, particular elementary class were like that and I felt like an alien.
Being retarded became the normal for those few years. And I realized it was abnormal when I got older and switched schools and saw healthy younger kids - nieces, nephews and what have you - there are actual nests of these people.
And I don't think all of their parents were alcoholics but many had non-descriptive pill bottles around, mostly for the "ADHD" kid but probably for the parents, too. Most also were alone at home when I got over to play and didn't have a dad at home, all the cliches.
This was germany. It's happening without screens and it has been happening a long, long while now. But I agree with @VeteranOfTheRetardWars , I also saw these kinds of videos and they're somehow worse than what I recall. Everything is more controlled, sure, so it doesn't seem as violent and unhinged as shit was back then but they talk and move in a even more retarded seeming way. It's similar but with more bubble wrap and even less incentive for autonomy. So, I wonder, how bad they would actually seem and behave if oversight wasn't there and none of them would go to after school sped classes like it was back in the good old days.

 

[Otterly]

I could make another whole rant about stimulants and the problems they cause, but in my reading it’s mainly stimulants in childhood that are the biggest worry regarding the development of a child due to the sheer volume of prescriptions.

Yeah. stimulants, SSRIs, antipsychotics, alcohol, weed, vapes. Every time I was pregnant I became utterly repelled by smells, nothing perfumed could come near me. You realise how much people walk round absolutely doused in just synthetic fragrances, many of which are chemical cocktails that are potentially harmful.
Almost everyone I knew at antenatal classes was on some kind of medication. A good half of them drank, but carefully! (lol) up to the limit the government had at the time. Actually far more because none of them managed to pour out a unit when the midwife asked them to with some water.

A very astute observation. I looked up the facial structure of someone who has (had?) FASD, and holy shit I realize how many people my own age (late Millenial/early Zoomer) have those traits, and then the personality traits you've previously described.

One thing I notice, and I’ve said this before in here is how many of that younger cohort cannot speak properly. They cannot form words, it’s not quite like a drunken slurring but more like they just can’t control their mouths well enough to form coherent words. It’s so noticeable. I’ve never mentioned it to anyone at work, even when a few of them were casually taking the piss out of me ‘for sounding like one of them 1950s radio people.’ I nearly barked ENUNCIATE! But one must have self control at work. I have wondered if it’s some kind of developmental thing. Mush mouth I’ve heard someone here say ?

Regarding the state of things in current year:

It won't carry on like this for too much longer, friends. Take heart.

Well I hope so. Unless it’s going to get worse?

 

[NoReturn]

I’ve never mentioned it to anyone at work, even when a few of them were casually taking the piss out of me ‘for sounding like one of them 1950s radio people.’

Someone shit on Null once for writing like a normal person and said he sounded like Sephiroth.
Reminds me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py37IFuKxYw

"Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in a ordinary voice, he sounded pompous and faggy to them."

 

[FatalTater]

Kids learn to speak when very young.
If they're just plopped in front of a device instead of interacted with, how will they learn? If they play games with little or no spoken words, they won't even pick it up like a kid watching TV might.

I fear for the future.

 

[Elwood P. Dowd]

The new FinCen/Corporate Transparency Act/Beneficial Ownership Information requirement is government overreach on a epic scale.

And everybody is bending over and spreading 'em.

It isn't even going to be targeting any real money launderers, just grandma who set up an LLC to hold her rental property.

What businesses need to know about the new Beneficial Ownership Information law

https://archive.is/wip/e0w07

There are nearly two dozen exemptions, but most don’t apply to small businesses.

So who must file: “Reporting companies,” the Treasury Department says.

“That’s any corporation, any LLC, or any entity that was created by filing a document with the Secretary of State,” LeDonne said. “If that applies to you, you are technically a reporting company.”

There are 23 types of exempt entities, with large operating companies at the top of the list (such as banks and accounting firms).

Here's 20 minutes of poorly produced propaganda and production values lower than the average 11 year old Minecraft streamer:

 

[boards of canada]

If they're just plopped in front of a device instead of interacted with, how will they learn? If they play games with little or no spoken words, they won't even pick it up like a kid watching TV might.

Not only will they not speak, I must question if they'll be able to read as well. If they can, are they going to read more than 2 sentences at a time without their brain short-circuiting from lack of immediate entertainment? Are we going to abolish required reading in schools?
You don't have to enjoy reading as a hobby; but imagine how easy it is to deceive, manipulate, corrupt and destroy a population that is completely illiterate and has no curiosity or desire for knowledge.

 

[Osmosis Jones]

Not only will they not speak, I must question if they'll be able to read as well. If they can, are they going to read more than 2 sentences at a time without their brain short-circuiting from lack of immediate entertainment? Are we going to abolish required reading in schools?
You don't have to enjoy reading as a hobby; but imagine how easy it is to deceive, manipulate, corrupt and destroy a population that is completely illiterate and has no curiosity or desire for knowledge.

You don’t have to imagine what it would be like. We’re already here. Kids don’t pick up books voluntarily anymore and original thought is being nailed into the coffin. The idea of exploring a topic is foreign because we treat our current understandings as conclusive and empirical, so there’s no desire or interest or need to look through encyclopedias or scholarly papers to get a better understanding of something because we have the assumed empirical answer. The entire system from top to bottom only requires a botched study and fervent believers in order to treat something as the truth and then it broadcasts it through media and manipulated online articles in such a volume and with such a demeanour that it is to be treated as indisputable, incontrovertible fact. Whether they actually speak or not is of little importance now when they already don’t use the speech they have to question what they’re told and taught.

 

[Mr. Racewar1488]

Kids don’t pick up books voluntarily anymore

Why would they when 80+% of the publishing industry is White woke cunts.

 

[FatalTater]

I must question if they'll be able to read as well

Schools already stopped teaching cursive.
If you haven't studied it, you cannot read it.
Think of how many journals, notes and official papers are handwritten in cursive. Who will be able to decipher them?
Horrifying to witness. How much of history will be lost due to this?

 

[Meriasek]

Schools already stopped teaching cursive.
If you haven't studied it, you cannot read it.
Think of how many journals, notes and official papers are handwritten in cursive. Who will be able to decipher them?
Horrifying to witness. How much of history will be lost due to this?

That situation is already here. There are many obsolete forms of cursive and handwriting around, and people need to explicitly learn to read or write them. Up until the early 20th century German cursive looked very different than what we have today, for example, so all of that is lost to anyone who doesn't learn it explicitly.
But people do learn it or have the means to learn it. As long as they can read the language at all, they can learn to read any cursive.

 

[NoReturn]

Kids learn to speak when very young.
If they're just plopped in front of a device instead of interacted with, how will they learn? If they play games with little or no spoken words, they won't even pick it up like a kid watching TV might.

I fear for the future.

Not only will they not speak, I must question if they'll be able to read as well. If they can, are they going to read more than 2 sentences at a time without their brain short-circuiting from lack of immediate entertainment? Are we going to abolish required reading in schools?
You don't have to enjoy reading as a hobby; but imagine how easy it is to deceive, manipulate, corrupt and destroy a population that is completely illiterate and has no curiosity or desire for knowledge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3wJcF0t0bQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5TMe1j4w9c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Age_gbfGIIM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD_mvKcd8hQ

Incomplete list of problems

• Decreased attention spans
• Less time available to student to read
  • It's not just that they're distracted. I'll absolutely grant that people do doomscroll for hours at a time, but I also see younger people doing things like using tiktok for a half-hour at a time because it's interruptible. You don't need to get to the end of a chapter, or match, or video. You can stop within 30 seconds.
• Continuation of what a lot of us experienced during our own school years of the schools ruining reading for fun
• Smaller vocabularies (including in popular media, so there are words students don't even recognize)
• Lack of access to good books (see this comment on the video @Mr. Racewar1488 posted)

 

[boards of canada]

Smaller vocabularies (including in popular media, so there are words students don't even recognize)

(see: "yapping", where it's become shameful or uncool to form an actually complete sentence or God forbid more than one at a time.)
Wouldn't it be so easy to manipulate a population that can't properly articulate between themselves the fact they're being manipulated, or identify who is manipulating them? Literacy is no longer cool, and being a nerd is only acceptable when you're emulating some kind of imagined "aesthetic" of one and not when you're actually studious and actively exercising your intelligence.

Schools already stopped teaching cursive.

Cursive exists for a reason, it's not just old people acting all fancy. Cursive requires less strokes than printscript, you can write out whole words without ever taking your pen off the page except to end them; it's pretty much designed to be faster while being less stressful on the wrist and hand. It's so much more efficient.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

Cursive exists for a reason, it's not just old people acting all fancy. Cursive requires less strokes than printscript, you can write out whole words without ever taking your pen off the page except to end them; it's pretty much designed to be faster while being less stressful on the wrist and hand. It's so much more efficient.

Only works that way when using the right hand, too. But the lefty activists never understood that. I sometimes wrote in block letters, just to anger the teachers and because my cursive was bad but I actually was as fast as most other students... which I brought up as an "argument", I didn't realize, up until right now, that this means almost all, save for the A+ students, wrote so slow, I could outperform them with block letters, huh... holy hell. What's happening?

 

[VeteranOfTheRetardWars]

Has anyone been to a Barnes and Nobel's lately? It fucking sucks, it's wall to wall gay shit, pulp romance (we used to call them bodice-rippers), self help, kids toys, and like one shelf per actually cool genre. All for like fifteen bucks a paperback.
Used bookstores are better, but unless you really look for a good shop the quality is mostly subpar or very limited in terms of what books you can actually find.
Reading as a pastime has just become less and less common, it's pretty sad.

 

[Dr. Eldon Tyrell]

kids toys

That one really stood out to me in the last 10 or so years, I made the retarded assumption something amazon, something staying competitive, which doesn't make sense, obviously, because they ever only competed with amazon in the book space. No, they really can't get the sales figures they even just had before in BOOKS.

 

[NoReturn]

Used bookstores are better, but unless you really look for a good shop the quality is mostly subpar or very limited in terms of what books you can actually find.

It gets worse. I've gotten in the habit of hitting up used bookstores and like I mentioned earlier, some things seem to be missing. I'm trying to make a small list of what's missing/rare/hard to find irl but it's hard to notice the absence of things, and I think that's the point.
I also wonder how much of a role Amazon FBA had in all this. It was a really popular side hustle during the pandemic years, so you had housewives and such going around to all the local shops and thrift stores, buying up things that could sell, and then sending them all to Amazon. All those books are still at Amazon sitting in various warehouses.