Rogue employees rather than sanctioned by the companies, but yes stuff like this has happened. There was a high profile case of customer service people photographing customer details on screen and selling them to unscrupulous people. Folk went to jail over it. Phones were banned from the office.
Who was that?
I know for a fact that a major insurance company sold my details without permission, but I can hang a name onto it because I battered spammers into telling me where they'd got my details from. Started with A and ended with drian Flux.
A "high profile case" without further qualification fits right into this thread. Didn't happen, prove me wrong. 😁
But any new car and it will mine your phone for data, sell it and also for insurance... Eg let your kid drive and if they pair their phone with it you'll find your insurance going up...
you are Mark Felton and I claim my £5Hitler didn't commit suicide, and was smuggled off to South America and lived on for years...
Hitler didn't commit suicide, and was smuggled off to South America and lived on for years...
Well there is this guy...
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1dk1ucd/caf%C3%A9_in_buenos_aires_argentina/
But any new car and it will mine your phone for data, sell it and also for insurance... Eg let your kid drive and if they pair their phone with it you'll find your insurance going up...
Let your kid drive without valid insurance and I'd like to think the car would set up alerts for every ANPR camera in the country!
you are Mark Felton and I claim my £5Hitler didn't commit suicide, and was smuggled off to South America and lived on for years...
Never heard of him, did a quick google. Don't think I'll bother with him.
Thing is though..... where is his (Hitler) body then eh? eh? eh?
What I don't get about the Flat Earth thing, is why would TPTB lie about it? Who stands to gain from convincing everyone it's round?
I've actually asked a flat earther this and they claim NASA but couldn't elaborate further.
If the Earth was flat someone would have built a theme park to look over the edge.
If the Earth was flat someone would have built a theme park to look over the edge.
You've not been to Butlins in Skegness then?
Thing is though..... where is his (Hitler) body then eh? eh? eh?
the remains (that weren't burnt to a crisp in the garden) were taken by SMERSH. They trolled around Berlin with the jaw looking for his dentist - Hugo Blaschke who remarkably; was still living in the same street. He dug out his records and confirmed the teeth were indeed Hitler. I believe the remains were buried near Madeburg, and then dug up in the 70's by the KGB, cremated and the ashes flung into the Elbe to stop it becoming a neo-Nazi shrine.
I understand a lot of the conspiracies about Hitler escaping and living in Argentina were started by the Russians - Stalin in particular was fond of saying that he was being sheltered in Spain or Portugal by the Allies as part of a disinformation campaign to obfuscate their involvement in the discovery of the remains and partly to "encourager les autres" in making sure that 'good communists' would keep up the fight with the west
Maxwells (Robert and Ghislaine), Mossad and the CIA.
I don't think Maxwell was an asset in the sense of them asking him to do things for them. There's a large amount of evidence that folks like him - and Epstein for that matter, are fairly routinely debriefed by the three letter agencies simply on the basis that they tend to move in the same circles as people they're actually interested in. Whether knowingly or unknowingly is often the 64M dollar question.
What I don't get about the Flat Earth thing, is why would TPTB lie about it? Who stands to gain from convincing everyone it's round?
I've actually asked a flat earther this and they claim NASA but couldn't elaborate further.
I got chatting to a few, one in particular, at a bronze age burial mound on summer solstice a few years back. They all worked together** and they had all bought into it.
The one I had a proper chat to basically said that the reason for all the worlds governments amazingly coming together in this one single issue was...
Control.
Now, as we've seen with covid lockdowns, vaccines, 15 minute cities etc etc., control is a common theme as you can make it fit any agenda you wish.
** Deliberately not mentioning their profession as it'll come across as punching down and that's not my intention. I've seen some very clever types falling for conspiracy stuff too. Profession make no difference, it's the mindset that's the common factor.
But any new car and it will mine your phone for data, sell it and also for insurance... Eg let your kid drive and if they pair their phone with it you'll find your insurance going up...
Let your kid drive without valid insurance and I'd like to think the car would set up alerts for every ANPR camera in the country!
They charge a sliding scale based on when it's used...
Cougar and Ernie ........... Are one in the same person 😯
🤣
Implausible. Whilst granted we're both argumentative shithouses, I reckon I could recognise Ernie's shithousery writing style in a coal mine and it's nothing like my shithousery.
Where is Ernie anyway, has he been banned? That's a shame if so.
Who was that?
I know for a fact that a major insurance company sold my details without permission, but I can hang a name onto it because I battered spammers into telling me where they'd got my details from. Started with A and ended with drian Flux.
A "high profile case" without further qualification fits right into this thread. Didn't happen, prove me wrong.
There have been several cases in recent years that I'm aware of
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnkp4d7dp3zo
why there is a need to dream up conspiracy theories when real ones actually exist.
Conspiracy theories are all dreamt up by the people in control. They are to distract the sheep from what is really going on
If the Earth was flat someone would have built a theme park to look over the edge.
The ultimate infinity pool
^^ I do like that. 😁
Cougar and Ernie ........... Are one in the same person
What would STW be if it didn't have at least one perpetually argumentative little shit, who scoured the forum hourly looking for points to prove no matter how small 🤣
C'mon Cougar you can be that man, a man of all seasons, our man for the job 😉
15 minute cities is the one I just can't get my head around.
I can just about understand the superficial appeal of some of the other conspiracy theories. "Going to the moon seems really hard we must have faked it". "Gee, Billy Bob, Kansas sure is flat, I bet the Earth is" etc.
But how do you go from more corner shops to we are all going to be imprisoned in "15 minute zones"
Cougar and Ernie ........... Are one in the same person 😯
20-odd years ago I used to frequent the BikeMagic forums. At some point one of their mods was leaving and he regaled some stories of the weird things he'd seen at the coalface. The one that sticks in my mind was that two users who had often argued at length of the forums (pages and pages of nothing but posts from those two users arguing with each other) were the same person.
People are weird.
The one that sticks in my mind was that two users who had often argued at length of the forums (pages and pages of nothing but posts from those two users arguing with each other) were the same person.
It would explain how some of the spats on here kept going way longer than they needed to....makes you think.
15 minute cities is one that annoys me, mainly because I can't believe people are so stupid as to accept the myths. When you explain what the intention is, and not what the Daily Mail tells you it is, you can see the second the lightbulb turns on...
15 minute cities is one that annoys me, mainly because I can't believe people are so stupid as to accept the myths.
They'll bleat on about China and social credits and how the west is going to go all China and clamp down on the citizens
The one that sticks in my mind was that two users who had often argued at length of the forums (pages and pages of nothing but posts from those two users arguing with each other) were the same person.
A lot of the 15-minute city conspiracy theorists are fond of setting up multiple accounts on social media but for the opposite reason, to all agree with each other. Makes it look like there's a large number of people opposed to this form of 'government control'.
The amusing thing is when they forget to log out of one account and into another and they end up outing themselves as the same person
Howard Cox, the guy behind the Fair Fuel UK campaign (as well as being former Reform and supporter of Tommy Ten Names) got caught out on more than one occasion doing that.
15 minute cities is straight out of the big tobacco playbook. Find someone who is saying something that obfuscates the underlying logic as to why your product should be regulated in some way, and promote them and their message.
The amusing thing is when they forget to log out of one account and into another and they end up outing themselves as the same person
Howard Cox, the guy behind the Fair Fuel UK campaign (as well as being former Reform and supporter of Tommy Ten Names) got caught out on more than one occasion doing that.
Tommy Ten Names got caught doing that the other week as well!
Cougar and Ernie ........... Are one in the same person 😯
The one that sticks in my mind was that two users who had often argued at length of the forums (pages and pages of nothing but posts from those two users arguing with each other) were the same person.
People are weird.
Jekyll and Hyde?
I have a friend who believes in chemtrails which is fine, she's allowed to believe whatever she wants. What I can't really get my head around is what she's doing to avoid these mind controlling chemicals which is absolutely nothing. If I truly believed "they" were trying to control me by spraying unknown agents into the air I'd probably stay indoors a bit more. I wouldn't be in the park taking photos of funny looking clouds and posting them on facebook. It made me chuckle that the caption she'd added was "enjoy the weather while it lasts" intimating that the weather is controlled by "them". Of course the weather will change, it's not going to be sunny for eternity. When it does change (we are in April remember) that will be proof enough that the chemtrails were to blame. Ignore the fact that today the sky is pretty much cloud-free so those trails that were going to change the weather have gone.
What would STW be if it didn't have at least one perpetually argumentative little shit, who scoured the forum hourly looking for points to prove no matter how small
C'mon Cougar you can be that man, a man of all seasons, our man for the job
Well that's a relief, I thought I already was.
I have a friend who believes in chemtrails which is fine, she's allowed to believe whatever she wants. What I can't really get my head around is what she's doing to avoid these mind controlling chemicals which is absolutely nothing.
Oh, this is my partner's sister.
She hits Facebook with stuff like "can't we have a day off where they aren't spraying us with stuff?" I gently explain how steam works and she says "well, we all have our opinions." No love, you have an opinion, I completed high school sciences.
In the grand scheme of batshit ideas, I can't comprehend this one. Like, if "they" wanted us to be treated with "chemicals," there's surely more efficient means of doing so than lobbing it out the back of a 737. Put it in the water supply. Oh, they do that too, apparently. So... what would be the point of spraying it in a highly visible manner, then?
I have a friend who believes in chemtrails which is fine, she's allowed to believe whatever she wants. What I can't really get my head around is what she's doing to avoid these mind controlling chemicals which is absolutely nothing.
Oh, this is my partner's sister.
She hits Facebook with stuff like "can't we have a day off where they aren't spraying us with stuff?" I gently explain how steam works and she says "well, we all have our opinions." No love, you have an opinion, I completed high school sciences.
In the grand scheme of batshit ideas, I can't comprehend this one. Like, if "they" wanted us to be treated with "chemicals," there's surely more efficient means of doing so than lobbing it out the back of a 737. Put it in the water supply. Oh, they do that too, apparently. So... what would be the point of spraying it in a highly visible manner, then?
Makes me think of this...
Same mindset.
My mate shared a video of some crackpot Scottish tiktok woman who's a mad chemtrail/flat earth conspiracy theorist
The video was her explaining why the Artemis launch wasnt real and they weren't going to the moon as the rocket didn't take off and go straight up in the sky all the way until it exited the atmosphere. Instead, because it launched then it's flight path was an arc, it was flying out of sight so no one could see that it didn't actually go into space.
Not satire, she's deadly serious
The video was her explaining why the Artemis launch wasnt real and they weren't going to the moon as the rocket didn't take off and go straight up in the sky all the way until it exited the atmosphere. Instead, because it launched then it's flight path was an arc, it was flying out of sight so no one could see that it didn't actually go into space.
There's a YouTube channel called SciManDan where he covers basic science stuff but also spends a lot of time debunking general science conspiracies. Flat Earth is definitely his favourite, he's already posted a video of two prominent Flat Earthers who live-streamed the launch commenting on it the whole way about how this looked fake, that can't be real, why was this happening, I can't believe what I'm seeing so it must be fake. The main take was basically "we don't understand space, rockets or physics therefore none of it can be true".
They were even counting the different camera angles used during the launch claiming that the cuts between the shots were proof it was all staged. It must have taken real effort to actually believe the insanity they were coming out with as opposed to actual rocket science.
The thing with flat earthers is they are so pleased with themselves for knowing "the truth". But what does that "truth" give them access to besides a misplaced sense of smugness? It makes no difference to me what shape the earth is. I will still go to bed tonight then wake up tomorrow, have a cup of tea and go to work. If someone proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the planet is flat it wouldn't change my life at all.
Flat earthers are just a distraction from the real conspiracy, Greater Earth. It goes something like, beyond the ice wall that surrounds us are other continents and civilisations and we’re effectively slaves used to mine gold and resources, or in some weird social experiment, or in a zoo, or something. I’m not sure why they don’t just sail over to said ice wall and take a few pictures and prove themselves right.
My conspiracy theory is that all these mad conspiracies are spread on purpose by governments to discredit people who try to expose real ones. “What you think the government is doing mind control experiments on it’s own people, bet you believe the earth is flat too you nutter”
I was reading the local Facebook page yesterday. Apparently there are going to be lockdowns due to fuel shortages. Though you guys will already be aware of this because it is already happening in the UK and Australia!
If someone proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the planet is flat it wouldn't change my life at all.
But it would prove that they are lying to us. If they are lying about this, what else have they lied about?
I don't believe Trump's ear was hit, or if it was it was a tiny glancing blow - there would've been no better publicity than to show pics of it damaged as he soldiers on bravely, rather than a pristine dressing.
Since I CBA to do my own research, whatever happened with/to the shooter ?
I can't believe that anyone is that bad of a shot that they'd miss the giant orange head......
Secret Service "Counter Sniper Team" took him out apparently.
Thing is though..... where is his (Hitler) body then eh? eh? eh?
Well part of it at least is in the Albert Hall, according to the song I heard anyway.
Though you guys will already be aware of this because it is already happening in the UK and Australia
Yes, it's a key part of the Sharia Law we all live under here in the UK
If they are lying about this, what else have they lied about?
That your phone isn't listening to you...
There's a YouTube channel called SciManDan where he covers basic science stuff but also spends a lot of time debunking general science conspiracies.
I follow SciManDan (though his editing style of cutting the video every six words gets right on my tits, I'd rather he just said "erm"). There's a couple of others too, Creaky Blinder and Dave Mcsomething, McKerral?
Of course, you get the usual grifters like the dinosaur land creationist berk who's been schmoozing money from the gullible since the Internet was in black and white, but there's some proper headbangers on there. Mikey Smith, the guy who phones up observatories and National Geographic to grief their Receptionists, is plainly... shall we be kind and go with "heavily medicated"? CC with the improbable hair (who films in his truck presumably because his partner is tired of his shit) has anger management issues, mark my words he's an aneurism away from going postal with automatic weaponry. Flat Earth's poster boy Mark Sargent made an appearance a few days ago, aside from a few cameos on This Morning I haven't seen him since he spectacularly failed to get laid on Netflix's Behind The Curve documentary.
Speaking of which, if you're in any way interested in this stuff and haven't seen Behind The Curve, I highly recommend it. It's a real insight into how people like Sargent build their lives around lunacy like Flat Earth. It's like a religion, they can't actually stop believing because if they're wrong then they've got nothing left. It'd be pretty tragic but for, well, y'know, grifters.
