Well, yes. I blame social media. For Bannerlord as well.
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Congrats, Eddie you've ID'd the source of most of the world's problems.
I prefer to keep focus on the charlatans and con artists, and not the poor fools they cheat.
It's easy to laugh at people being fooled, but that can take attention away from what is sometimes a whole network of people staging campaigns to spread false information to sell their products.
E.g. the anti-vaccine proponent gibberish is often by people who sell various supplements, vitamins etc. telling people it "boosts" the immune system, the "natural way". Often you just got to follow the money - like most cons.
Real Water is a hilarious extreme example. It's right up there with "super foods", or "vitamin water".
It's easy to laugh at people being fooled, but that can take attention away from what is sometimes a whole network of people staging campaigns to spread false information to sell their products.
E.g. the anti-vaccine proponent gibberish is often by people who sell various supplements, vitamins etc. telling people it "boosts" the immune system, the "natural way". Often you just got to follow the money - like most cons.
Real Water is a hilarious extreme example. It's right up there with "super foods", or "vitamin water".
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Don't forget informed water bottles. I had people solemnly recite their beneficial properties.
BTW, I think you are a bit too cynical Adorno. I don't think many superstitions are invented or spread much by shady people looking to make a quick buck, and those people making money off it are often true believers too. I think it's a bit of back and forth between the superstitious people and the mini-industries that take their money.
BTW, I think you are a bit too cynical Adorno. I don't think many superstitions are invented or spread much by shady people looking to make a quick buck, and those people making money off it are often true believers too. I think it's a bit of back and forth between the superstitious people and the mini-industries that take their money.
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Worst case they can always use the Tucker-Powell defense, apparently it's admissible in court.
Oh, if cynical was a town, I'd be the mayor.
Just googled "informed water bottle". I'm dying ? What a treasure trove of bull****.
Just googled "informed water bottle". I'm dying ? What a treasure trove of bull****.
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I googled it...
So all I have to do is put water in a bottle with some scribbles on it and it becomes clean?
Why hasn't humanity thought of that before. No more dirty water.
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This happened a while ago, but it's pretty childish anyway so I thought I would share.
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This wasn't an accident or anything, btw. When I tried complaining about it on TrollGame they would delete this link and start editing my posts and eventually banned me lol.
Literally - there is this admin, Elary, editing my posts and making it look as if I made comments such as "I am afraid of spiders" and other nonsense in a serious topic in which I complained about it. So if you were to read this, it would appear as if I was trolling and basically being an idiot. Unbeliavable...
What a lolz.
Literally - there is this admin, Elary, editing my posts and making it look as if I made comments such as "I am afraid of spiders" and other nonsense in a serious topic in which I complained about it. So if you were to read this, it would appear as if I was trolling and basically being an idiot. Unbeliavable...
What a lolz.
Covid vaccine: Social media urged to remove 'disinfo dozen'
Twelve people who spread the majority of vaccine disinformation should be removed, US lawmaker says.
www.bbc.com
I'm cynical and you're naïve.
So, yeah, this 
Suzerain is a text-based role playing game where you are a president of a fictional 1950s republic somewhere in Eastern Europe. You can basically turn your country towards communism, capitalism, nationalism, dictatorship or whatever you have. Actually, the roleplaying potential is great - I (not very succesfully) try to play a weak centrist afraid of taking any hard decision in order to secure support for his moderate constitutional changes. Once the amendment was passed, I started to be more radical, shifted more from capitalism towards welfare state and, incidentally, managed to **** the country quite bad.
Anyway, so there is this presidential debate near the end of my first presidential term where a candidate is from every faction as I made sure that certain parties are not prevented from being in the Parliament due to high electoral threshold. So, a Communist, a western liberal, a fascist and some other people are debating their future policies, how to tackle immigration, economy, international relation in a rather poor and poorly doing country.
I don't know what I clicked in the interview but I got my president to talk about nothing but space program - landing a man on the Moon, to be exact. And it seems that unless I want to talk about full nationalisation/ full privatisation, I simply must speak about the Space program.
What will make our country great? Space program!
Mr. President, what are your suggestions for improving our economy? Space program will create jobs!
What about international relations? Superpowers will not take our seriously until we put a man on the Moon!
Any concluding remarks, Mr. President? Why support mediocre promises of my opponents when you can have the Moon!
I think I have just lost my reelection
Suzerain is a text-based role playing game where you are a president of a fictional 1950s republic somewhere in Eastern Europe. You can basically turn your country towards communism, capitalism, nationalism, dictatorship or whatever you have. Actually, the roleplaying potential is great - I (not very succesfully) try to play a weak centrist afraid of taking any hard decision in order to secure support for his moderate constitutional changes. Once the amendment was passed, I started to be more radical, shifted more from capitalism towards welfare state and, incidentally, managed to **** the country quite bad.
Anyway, so there is this presidential debate near the end of my first presidential term where a candidate is from every faction as I made sure that certain parties are not prevented from being in the Parliament due to high electoral threshold. So, a Communist, a western liberal, a fascist and some other people are debating their future policies, how to tackle immigration, economy, international relation in a rather poor and poorly doing country.
I don't know what I clicked in the interview but I got my president to talk about nothing but space program - landing a man on the Moon, to be exact. And it seems that unless I want to talk about full nationalisation/ full privatisation, I simply must speak about the Space program.
What will make our country great? Space program!
Mr. President, what are your suggestions for improving our economy? Space program will create jobs!
What about international relations? Superpowers will not take our seriously until we put a man on the Moon!
Any concluding remarks, Mr. President? Why support mediocre promises of my opponents when you can have the Moon!
I think I have just lost my reelection
'Fake' Amazon workers defend company on Twitter
It comes after Amazon's official accounts hit back at criticism of the company.
www.bbc.com
It could be Amazon opponents trying to discredit Amazon with an obvious fake. Although Amazon employees that are rotated into part-time online propaganda (which is how this works) are not very bright and may do stupid things on their own.
Serious people do even more complex black ops, like using sting operations to discredit individuals. It's an exciting world out there.
Serious people do even more complex black ops, like using sting operations to discredit individuals. It's an exciting world out there.
This year's April's Fools in the Guardian:
'Suez 2'? Ever Given grounding prompts plan for canal along Egypt-Israel border
And this one is NOT a joke, which is hilarious:
Sarah Palin says she has Covid and urges people to wear masks
'Suez 2'? Ever Given grounding prompts plan for canal along Egypt-Israel border
And this one is NOT a joke, which is hilarious:
Sarah Palin says she has Covid and urges people to wear masks
Unless it's Palin's joke played on the media.
L.A. Stage Alliance Shuts Down After Misidentifying Asian Actress at Ovation Awards
The Los Angeles Stage Alliance shut down after multiple representational errors took place during the virtual 2021 Ovation Awards.
variety.com
A 46 year old organization brought down by a wrong photo
