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What's a low stakes conspiracy theory you believe? (hexbear.net)

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We've got a bunch of new people now so let's bring back a classic post. What low stakes conspiracy theory do you believe that you cannot prove but feels right to you?

I'll start: I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being "creepy" through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And then you can make great use of absolute numbers over more contextualized relative numbers/ Here's a made up example:

frothingfash why did it cost 700 million to vaccinate every American??
$700 million / 300 million Americans = $2.33 per vaccination, insanely cheap. Less than you spent on gas tax getting to and from work today.

I'm always immediately suspicious when someone starts throwing around absolute numbers like that.

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