Strangely enough, this comment forced me to read this for the first time. Took a bit. He was certainly no dummy. I take issue with some of it, but it's certainly a compelling read.
Conspiracies used to be ironic things people did satirically (Birds are not real) and not actual belief systems with entire media spheres built around them (UFOs, Flat Earth).
People repeating them on the internet used to do it ironically. But conspiracies always were actual belief systems and have always brought groups of people together to reinforce each other idiocies.
Nah conspiracies go way back. Delusional behavior and thinking has always been a standard feature for humanity, it's only relatively recently that it's become so visible. Satanic Panic, red scare, and UFO conspiracies were a relatively big thing throughout the mid to late 20th century - and still are. Illuminati conspiracies go back hundreds of years. There are at least several dozen more examples like this and that's only if you don't wanna get all religious with it and include stuff like the Millerites or the Popish Plot.
That's a tough one to answer. Because it was for me never to go near several businesses and people and homes ever again. So is that a "for" or and "against".
I remember in the early 2000s when I got Internet at home, one of my relatives kept telling me about forums and how great they were. And my thought was "Why would would I want to know what the average dumb fuck thinks about things?" I might have forgotten this wisdom.
Well, the nice thing is there are lots of people eager and waiting to let us all know when and precisely how, in elaborate detail, we are being dumb fucks ourselves.
I'd rather relax reading hundreds of pages on a few different topics from one unusually entertaining or informative stranger, more often than not dead for decades at least.
Literally every single day for me. I am lucky enough to have been blessed a job that is both easy and boring (literally just scan documents all day), which gives me plenty of downtime to find some people on the internet to stress me out since my job doesn't. (Only took 20 years to find such a job.) Hell, I'm doing it right now!
66 Comments
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 71 pts · 90d
I'm only a stranger until you read my manifesto on the Oxford comma
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 30 pts · 90d
You didn't provide a link for the manifesto.
Or say whether you were for or against.
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 27 pts · 90d
Don't you judge me, stranger
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 14 pts · 90d
Not judging. Just trying to provoke you into a multipage rant that expounds your position on the comma.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 90d
What about the Westminster Period?
homes@piefed.world · 13 pts · 90d
My opinion of the Oxford Comma:
5765313496@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 90d
Never gonna give you up, let you down, run around, or desert you.
skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 90d
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 90d
You cannot just stand there at the hibachi grill and look at your watch while I’m sitting here.
I’m hungry.
Fuckin’ cook something.
Show me that manifesto!
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 3 pts · 90d
Please, please, please.
"Chronometer."
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 6 pts · 90d
I've decided to help you out with the manifesto. Here is a working copy for you to edit as you wish.
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/classes/188/materials/Industrial%20Society%20and%20Its%20Future.pdf
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 90d
Kaczynski was right.
Maybe not in the whole bombing aspect, prolly not that, but this manifesto is worth its weight in gold.
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 7 pts · 90d
Published in 1995. Kind of strange all these years later to read it and say, "Oh shit, he was right".
Meanwhile, ai turns the world into a giant turd, ruled by the nerd reich.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 90d
Yeah. Probably not the bombing part, though. Probably…
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 90d
IMO anyone sympathetic to this CIA op trash is much better off reading Bookchin or Kropotkin. Not just good premises, good conclusions too.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 89d
Strangely enough, this comment forced me to read this for the first time. Took a bit. He was certainly no dummy. I take issue with some of it, but it's certainly a compelling read.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 90d
I think you’re my cult leader.
snooggums@piefed.world · 3 pts · 90d
Not sure how much longer it needs to be than "It improves clarity uaing a single comma and therefore is necessary."
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d
I personally use the Oxford comma but I do agree with the people who think the sentence should probably just be rephrased to not need it.
aGenitalBreeze@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 90d
Going on the internet used to be fun, in the before times.
FauxLiving@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 90d
Conspiracies used to be ironic things people did satirically (Birds are not real) and not actual belief systems with entire media spheres built around them (UFOs, Flat Earth).
marcos@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 90d
They never were.
People repeating them on the internet used to do it ironically. But conspiracies always were actual belief systems and have always brought groups of people together to reinforce each other idiocies.
GenChadT@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 90d
Nah conspiracies go way back. Delusional behavior and thinking has always been a standard feature for humanity, it's only relatively recently that it's become so visible. Satanic Panic, red scare, and UFO conspiracies were a relatively big thing throughout the mid to late 20th century - and still are. Illuminati conspiracies go back hundreds of years. There are at least several dozen more examples like this and that's only if you don't wanna get all religious with it and include stuff like the Millerites or the Popish Plot.
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 9 pts · 90d
It can still be fun, just nurture your delusions till they become hallucinations. Then the world is your oyster.
aGenitalBreeze@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 90d
If I could nurture I'd be raising possums not dreams
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 4 pts · 90d
You just need to relax and let go, then embrace the possum bilities.
aGenitalBreeze@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 90d
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 2 pts · 90d
See, that wasn't that hard. Now go out and spread the good news.
aGenitalBreeze@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d
Idk what's going on bro I went outside saw a car and fainted
I think I embraced too hard
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 1 pts · 90d
Nope, it's all just part of the Epiphany experience. You will get use to it.
GenChadT@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 90d
Mainly because the internet was a place you had to actually visit. It couldn't follow you around all day and intercede in daily affairs.
wuffah@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 90d
I prefer the term “distressed eccentric friend you’ll never meet” 🥲
Anyways, how about those sports teams/political parties/abortion rights?
OpenStars@piefed.social · 4 pts · 90d
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 90d
Aww I like this, it’s wholesome
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 21 pts · 90d
Hey! I'm not mentally ill. I've even got proof. They gave me a certificate when they let me out of the hospital.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 90d
One of these certificates?
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 16 pts · 90d
No, those are just souvenirs. This one had a judges signature on it, and was given to me along with a copy of the restraining order.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 90d
Whoa, fancy. Was the order for you or against you?.
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 6 pts · 90d
That's a tough one to answer. Because it was for me never to go near several businesses and people and homes ever again. So is that a "for" or and "against".
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 90d
I'd say against, but I'm not a lawyer.
Also, sorry to hear that. I hope things are better now.
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 8 pts · 90d
Oh everything's fine. I never let some paperwork get in the way of life.
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 5 pts · 90d
You know what they say about a man with big ... certificates.
Godric@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 90d
OpenStars@piefed.social · 0 pts · 90d
Hrm I notice that it does not make any mention about "being an ass" tho... 🤪
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 90d
I remember in the early 2000s when I got Internet at home, one of my relatives kept telling me about forums and how great they were. And my thought was "Why would would I want to know what the average dumb fuck thinks about things?" I might have forgotten this wisdom.
GenChadT@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 90d
In the old days, every village had one or two idiots. Thanks to the internet, the idiots have created their own village.
bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 5 pts · 90d
Dude, if your posting here, you are one of us.
Resistance is futile.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d
*you're
OpenStars@piefed.social · 0 pts · 90d
no u, uWu:-P
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 90d
I will travel to this village and with my slightly superior intellect become king of the idiots!
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d
Bad news: the "village" is 4chan. Have fun!
OpenStars@piefed.social · 1 pts · 90d
Be forewarned that not every village is as welcoming and wise as Idiocracy.
Rael life is much dumbper tahn that!
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 90d
I'm sure you're on t the first to have thought that.
Maybe salt it a little with some religious posturing or something?
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d
Well, the nice thing is there are lots of people eager and waiting to let us all know when and precisely how, in elaborate detail, we are being dumb fucks ourselves.
Feedback is useful.
pageflight@piefed.social · 9 pts · 90d
15 minutes later: OK now I feel frustrated about the world instead of about work, time to take a real break.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 90d
And watch them spout irrefutable logic that somehow completely contradicts each other.
Mac@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 90d
Did you know some local municipalities are passing laws to make golf carts and UTVs legal on surface streets, yet China cars are banned? lmao
whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 90d
I'd rather relax reading hundreds of pages on a few different topics from one unusually entertaining or informative stranger, more often than not dead for decades at least.
davidagain@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d
I feel criticised twice.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 90d
She didn’t mention neet, so I’m good.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d
You can tell it’s Twitter because they’re no acknowledgment of talking to bots.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d
Literally every single day for me. I am lucky enough to have been blessed a job that is both easy and boring (literally just scan documents all day), which gives me plenty of downtime to find some people on the internet to stress me out since my job doesn't. (Only took 20 years to find such a job.) Hell, I'm doing it right now!
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 90d
Luckily it's hard for me to hold a phone and put a gun in my mouth at the same time.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d
I... I may need to frame this and hang it over my monitor.
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 90d
I'll admit: I've started trolling the absurdly stupid commentary. I'm smart enough to engage in good faith quality discussuon, but bored with it now..
2010 me hates this, 2026 me laughs in hypocrisy. I'm literally trolling my past self
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 90d
Control, control! You must learn control!
Do. Or do not.
There is no 'try'.
w3ird_sloth@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d
Satisfaction.