Theres enough conspiracies that 1 in a million have to be true.
Don't use the one as evidence of the million.
The McDonald's ice cream machine conspiracies do truly confirm 9/11 being an inside job.
Okay but there actually was a huge McDonald's Ice Cream Machine conspiracy that turned out to be true. McDonalds sells the machines made by Taylor Company to the Franchise Owners, then mandates that only Taylor can fix the machines which are needlessly complicated to clean and maintain, and the machines being unreliable was a design flaw known internally the entire time. When a company named Kytch created tools to make fixing them fast and easy: Taylor sued. Then Taylor made their own tool by reverse engineering Kytch's tool, so Kytch sued Taylor back for $900M USD.
Dude you are preaching to the choir, I've been following it at work as some kind of coping mechanism for never getting ice cream lol
Every fucking time.
It's easy to recognise some super convenient propaganda, or follow the money, but sometimes it's not that simple.
MK Ultra moment
And you're a fool if you think they ever stopped.
The government wouldn't do that!
this is unrelated, but do any Lemmy clients have a tool or option to show what a hyperlink is linking too? just had an unexpected YouTube video blast full volume and feeling very foolish rn
You can long press the link and the pop-up will show the address. Or hit reply and it will show the source text.
I personally use Voyager, it shows all embedded links individually
On Jerboa, you can long press the hypertext and it'll show you the link
Sync shows contents of links(can see the youtube video above) and will give you a warning if it links to rickroll
The reason why reality and what people believe about reality diverge so heavily is because reality is based on mathematics while people's belief about reality is based on their experiences of the past. And past experiences fail to predict things like exponential growth or new theories or developments in technology.
If 1 in 20 conspiracy theories are correct then you'll be 95% correct if you disbelieve all of them.
If you pick one to believe in you'll be about 90% correct on average.
If you pick 10 you'll be about 50% correct.
I don't get the middle statement. If you pick just one, the chance is 5%
If you pick one you're 5% likely to pick the right one and be 100% correct.
You're 95% likely to pick the wrong one. Then you miss the conspiracy that is true and you believe in one that is not true so 18/20 = 90% correct.
Average out the probabilities and it should turn out to be something like 90.5%.
Edit:I may be off on the maths now that I think about it.
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