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[-] [email protected] 111 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

You bit the shovel

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

And for such a short moment, it tasted so sweet...

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

It really pisses me off that this is the onion.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I didn't see where this was posted and only questioned it after the joke about enrichment D=

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Honestly same. I can't tell any more. The first one that got me was the Gulf of America thing, thought that was a joke until I saw it on google maps

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Holy hell I didn't realize Google actually caved...

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

Following the successful US air strikes, Netanyahu has also discovered that Mossad agents found copies of the Epstein client list in Gaza, Hezbollah, and Syria.

Hezbollah

Lebanon?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

After I laughed I thought "Don't give him any ideas!!!"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

His idea was the blackmail ring to begin with.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I know it's the onion, but really, wouldn't several countries have a copy of the list by now?

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because they have intelligence assets in the US government

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Do you think that every single country with an intelligence asset in the US government knows every single thing that the US government knows?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

No. I do not think that and frankly I find it absurd you're asking. Do you think the US government is perfectly airtight? This information was allegedly sitting on someone's desk in the justice department.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

But why would other countries want it?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'll let you think about that.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Double agents, hacking attacks, who knows what the chain of command custody was on the hard drives cds and thumb drives they cut out of epsteins safe when the fbi raided his Manhattan townhouse mansion in ‘19. Intelligence agency assets are not very scrupulous people, their main motivators are money and self preservation

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

considering israeli intelligence is in cahoots with epstein, i wouldnt be surprised he old benny has it too.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Thanks for the good laugh

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Yea, but the premise is REALLY believable. It's something that would just fit the stupid of this years headlines.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Please bruh. That would be dope AF.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

what the fuck is that Nazi-ass shit dude

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Wow, what a rabbit hole. This person has a website selling tape, but with massive subsections detailing their abusive childhood, struggles with alcoholism, and then page after page of highly personal info, genealogy, conspiracy, freemasonry... you name it. This is like time cube all over again. I hate to say it but it looks like they are struggling with psychosis or something.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That is what the old internet was like. Full of exactly that.

I love it, heh.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Seconded. I miss that internet. This is stuff you’d stumble upon and marvel at. Now there are entire subreddits full of it.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Now there are entire subreddits full of it.

It's not the same.

Old internet was conspiratorial and fascinating, like being in an alien a zoo. People were nuts; I'd want to have an IRL beer with them but not tell them where I live. Imageboards and such like that still exist, of course, but its mostly out of sight I guess.

I just flipped through an imageboard pursuing something else and got a taste of that. Like, 5GB zips full of crazy documents and rants, a literal Hitler worshipping /pol mod, but you can see the nuggets of truth they're orbiting around.

Reddit and especially Twitter isn't the same. It's feels like all the users are manipulated into groupthink and (I refuse to have this term robbed from me) virtue signaling, especially when not anonymous. There's nothing interesting if you dig; just some poor sap parroting professional influencers in their engagement algorithm bubble, nothing about whatever life crises sucked them in, nor the sheer manpower they put into building their little internet frontpage.

And to be blunt, Lemmy is nice, but also feels this way sometimes.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I don’t disagree with anything you say, I just didn’t fill in all the blanks.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I didn't either, really. I get what you meant in Reddit subs, yeah, and I've seen it too.

I guess I'm just obsessed over the distinction of algorithmic vs "natural." Imageboards and such have pretty crazy audiences and such, but other than that, they don't have the same patterns or auto feeds to steer people. You fall into the hole you choose.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's crazy.

I wanna say we need to teach AI literacy in school now, but it's like waaay to late.

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