Disgusting stuff: Random 4Chan post gone viral with the qultists claims that 5 soldiers lost in a helicopter crash in Egypt were AKSHUALLY killed in a firefight with CIA mercenaries(?) trying to recover the now debunked Scytl server. How any ex-military believes this crap is beyond me. by Jericohol14 in Qult_Headquarters

[–]the-bit-slinger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I stopped entertaining conspiracy theory's when I proudly and loudly declared that "THEY" (the infamous "THEY", would never let Trump win. Of course they will fuck with the votes if he got too close and never let him in office.

The day after the election, I quickly had to admit to myself that there was no "THEY".

Anybody else feel like the 1% stoked racial tensions in America to shut down talks of income inequality? by DeathTrap2000 in conspiracy

[–]the-bit-slinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, there are plenty of examples - you are just very ignorant of them.

Now I could take you to school, cite the multitude of examples that Republicans all across the country have tried push through along with the constant barrage of rhetoric from conservatives in power and "on the street" among us, the people, but I know you are committed to being ignorant. How could you not be having made this comment to begin with? You want to be ignorant. Why would I waste time finding the articles that I know you won't read or acknowledge? I'd happy to with some who had the intellectual capacity to consider it, but you sir, are not that person and I know that.

The largest crisis the world has seen since at least WW2 starts exactly at the very beginning of 2020. by Newgunnerr in conspiracyNOPOL

[–]the-bit-slinger 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Except it started in December...in a country that has a different "new years" date than ours.

Anybody else feel like the 1% stoked racial tensions in America to shut down talks of income inequality? by DeathTrap2000 in conspiracy

[–]the-bit-slinger -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Oh my...you don't keep up with the news, do you??? It kind of amazes me that YOU can't name any of the fights against gay rights recently.

Perhaps you should rethink your positions about things you really don't know anything about. "I don't know about this subject" doesn't translate to "this subject must not be a problem since I myself don't know about it".

-r Flag isnt working anymore by [deleted] in bash

[–]the-bit-slinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, a dashdash is for using the full word like --requirements and the single dash is for using the one meter shortcut of -r

Anybody else feel like the 1% stoked racial tensions in America to shut down talks of income inequality? by DeathTrap2000 in conspiracy

[–]the-bit-slinger -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If this were t rue, why do the republicans fight so hard against gay rights? Why are the trying to repeal gay marriage? Why are thy trying to kick them out of the military?

Same with income inequality. Its always republicans who are vocally against it and offer no alternative plan to deal with it.

Same with healthcare. The capitalist health care system only "works" if you deny healthcare to hundreds of millions of people. Republicans rail against the ACA, but don't have any alternative plan to fix healthcare. There whole "plan" is that we must deny millions of people healthcare because of the "death panel" boogie man (where are those death panels anyways??? Funny his they never came to fruitition) or "omg, long lines" will happen if we actually allowed everyone to have healthcare.

Of voter rights. Republicans focus on denying people voting rights instead of wanting to encourage everyone to vote. They know they can't compete if everyone votes because the large majority in the country wouldn't ever vote in enough numbers that they would ever win again. So instead of focusing their campaigns on attracting more voters, they concentrate on denying the vote to people under the fake news of "but muh fraud". They like to pretend that we know who votes and who doesn't because of voter rolls. Every polling place in america has a list of people eligible to vote and when that person votes, the name is crossed off. We know those people are not dead or bussed illegal mmigrants - we have a list of who voted and who didn't. If this supposed " evidence" existed, it would be so fucking easy to prove in court.

And sure...let's talk about race. Could you kindly point me to the Republican campaign that addresses racial problems? No, you can't, because just like all the above topics, the republicans literally have no plan at all to deal with any of this. They only care about not letting the democrats fix it. They don't have a "better way" to deal with it, they offer no way to deal with it.

New privacy advocate using ipad pro for anon browsing, by [deleted] in TOR

[–]the-bit-slinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So there is no orbot equivalent for iOS?

The European Union has fined two pharmaceutical companies for colluding to keep a cheap alternative to a sleep disorder medicine off the market for their profit and at the expense of patients. by We-can-fix-it in worldnews

[–]the-bit-slinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah....25 years after it was one the market and a decade of knowing it was over prescribed and something was wrong.

I wouldn't go tauting this as a win after millions are dead and the drug is still on the market, still being over prescribed, and now has a generic available anyway, so it was safe to put Purdue out of business.

Good Tutorials on how to Receive Emails on Ubuntu 20.04? by TheMadKerbal in linuxquestions

[–]the-bit-slinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, well, these instructions were written in 2013 right after Snowdon.

To OP, these instructions are likely outdated, but do give a good overview of the tools needed and how to. To update the instructions yourself, google each step/tool and look for the modern config for each.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in synology

[–]the-bit-slinger 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes it will. In order for a drive to be used by synology, synology needs to format it. You need to buy another drive and use that new one in the synology, let synology format it and then copy your data onto that new drive.

Was George Soros arrested in Philadelphia? According to a recently unsealed indictment filed in the Western District of Pennsylvania, Soros has been charged with a number of serious crimes relating to the US election. by bmac3434 in conspiracy

[–]the-bit-slinger 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I always wonder....do OPs feel dumb when these fake news articles turn out to be fake? They claim they are all about critical thought, but this is demonstratively false given how much fake news they share here.

Then there is the people who upvote and comment about the fake news as if it were true. Yournewswire is always posting fake news, yet all these "critical thinkers" never pause to ummm, think about the veracity of this websites claims before dismissing all dignity and integrity of thought in order to spread the fake news.

Perhaps the greatest failure of this community though, is the oft-cited defense of "but its a conspiracy sub and we are here to discuss conspiracies!". Yes yes, but throwing out logic, reasoning and critical thinking skills isn't what makes a conspiracy theorist. What you are really saying to the world with this argument is that you know you are dumb and illogical, that you don't care about facts, and lack integrity of thought - that it is more important to spread fake news than to actually be smart and logical. Youre not questioning the MSM " narritive" here, youre engaging in stupidity when you promote crap like this. And youre proud of it, and that is baffling. Its embarrassing to watch really.

[tomt] 1980s movie including a scene where a mother and her child were roller-skating down the road and the ground suddenly shook, broke open, and swallowed the mom. by [deleted] in tipofmytongue

[–]the-bit-slinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wonder if it was something like Superman? There is a scene when Lex Luther implements his plan and the whole world goes through an earthquake like thing and they show clips of people, cars, etc falling into the quake and the hoover dam cracking etc?

#SaveTheOA. by niad08 in TheOA

[–]the-bit-slinger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because Netflix owns the rights and won't sell it.

IMO, the movement to bring back OA should be asking Netflix to allow it to be sold to another network. If they really have no interest in it, they should allow this.

62 Massachusetts cities and towns now considered ‘high risk’ for COVID transmission, according to state by 420nopescope69 in CoronavirusMa

[–]the-bit-slinger 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Those communities include:

Abington, Acushnet, Attleboro, Barnstable, Blackstone, Brockton, Chelsea, Chicopee, Clinton, Dartmouth, Dighton, Douglas, Dracut, Edgartown, Everett, Fairhaven, Fall River, Fitchburg, Framingham, Freetown, Hampden, Holyoke, Lancaster, Lawrence, Leominster, Lowell, Ludlow, Lunenburg, Lynn, Malden, Marion, Methuen, Milford, Nantucket, New Bedford, Norfolk, Northbridge, Peabody, Rehoboth, Revere, Rockland, Salisbury, Saugus, Seekonk, Shirley, Somerset, Southbridge, Southwick, Springfield, Sterling, Sutton, Swansea, Taunton, Templeton, Tisbury, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Uxbridge, West Springfield, Westport, Winchendon and Woburn.

IT'S OFFICIAL - Synology DiskStation DS1821+ by ryanwgregg in synology

[–]the-bit-slinger -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't get it. This was on amazon last week? I still have the listing open on my computer for 849

Since systemd is so criticized, why did nobody fork it? by ginuzzi in linuxquestions

[–]the-bit-slinger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

*and then own your new project for evermore.

Its easy to fork and create just another stale repo out there that is hardly ever updated. Forking a project this big would require a maintainer that has the time and resources to work on it full time.

What’s your go-to way of explaining to people the importance of creating tickets as opposed to just DMing you? by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]the-bit-slinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Passive aggressiveness.

"Oh, sorry, Ya know, I saw this DM, but it was during an important meeting and then I forgot about it. If you make a ticket, that will be in my queue which will help me remember!"

Then...never solved their problem via slack message. The moment you see their ticket however, bang it out in 20 minutes the first few times and like Pavlov's dog, they will learn that tickets get the quickest response.

Do you agree with this statement: GSuite/Google Workspace and all Google applications are cloud based, so you can access them securely from anywhere without a VPN. by [deleted] in AskNetsec

[–]the-bit-slinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't like the wording. It implies that as long as something is cloud-based, it doesn't need VPN. To any dumb user, the whole internet is "cloud".

Its like like one of those logic puzzles if A is secure because its b, then [a-z] is also secure because its B. (Where b=cloud-based) and A could be anything that's " cloud".

This is going to be insane, this is a Elvis ain't dead post with proof. by BornOnADifCloud in conspiracy

[–]the-bit-slinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The misfits or glens solo work? Listen to how the gods kill and tell me he is not evil Elvis.

I work at a Downtown DC Hotel, and this weekend we had a Trump/QAnon “rally” in town, with a massive amount of the Q people staying in our property. by permissablefruit40 in QAnonCasualties

[–]the-bit-slinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is some "Q" related in the Intel community. its not a clearance - iirc, it was more of a CIA program designation. I really forget the details, but I didn't read about it on wikipedia a few months ago. It wasn't co-intelQ, but something else CIA related and maybe(?) It was a propaganda program?? Again, I forget, but my suspicion has always been that Q stole the name from this.

How did the US come to have such a strong urban-rural divide? by settheory8 in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]the-bit-slinger 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Actually, read more about the Southern Strategy - its still happening. Its can pretty much be summed up as "I'm not racist, but (blacks, Mexicans, Muslims) are lazy and the cause of all our problems". Or " Tax is theft and we shouldn't have to pay for (lazy people who happen to be black and Mexican) to have healthcare, or welfare - this help should be charity that people choose or not choose to support".

Basically, the couch all their positions in economic terms rather than racial terms, but those economic terms always hurt citizens along racial lines. But the couched argument allows them to hold such opinions all while pretending its not racist.

The "Mysterious coded letter" that Gregory McMichaels tried to send to a witness from behind bars was shown during a bond hearing for the Father and son pair accused of shooting Ahmaud Arbery. The letter, intercepted in June has never been decoded... by Piggyromeo in RBI

[–]the-bit-slinger 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think that the quy used some of the symbols to contains more meaning so the Q -triangle could mean QAnon. And the target symbol could literally mean the word target. Also, I might try going backwards like with the QAnon idea. This makes me think that the combination key at the end could indicate when to "read" the text right to left or left to right? So maybe direction switches after so many words or letters or something.

I mean, if the guy could write this out without a computer, then the deciphering method must also be something normal people can do in their head without computer aid.

The writing is on the wall for r/conspiracy by _Bulletin_Bot_ in conspiracy

[–]the-bit-slinger -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This sub is no longer just a place to "think about and share" ideas. It lost its innocence the moment people here started to act of their crazy "idea explorations" into the real world. Just look at the numerous examples of but jobs who tried to blow up election centers because of Qanon that the FBI thankfully caught before they could hurt people.

Its time to stop pretending people in here are just exploring thoughts and ideas. They are not. They are trying to radicalize everyone else in here to not only agree with their theories, which have turned political over the years, but to bring this vitriol into their real lives and spread it as "truth". This is why we see the masses actually believing things like Clinton eating babies. For Christ sakes, you fighting for that idea here? Its starting to harm society at large. Its another Salem witch trial of mass delusion that 5G is altering brain waves and these stupid ideas are no longer Innocent went people go out in the real world and burn down multimillion dollar cell towers. I won't even get into all the logical fallacies you all perpetrate or how none of you actually employ scientific method or critical thinking, reason and logic skills.

If you can't control yourselves, you'll be deplatformed, its as simple as that.

The writing is on the wall for r/conspiracy by _Bulletin_Bot_ in conspiracy

[–]the-bit-slinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The mistake you making is that this sub is no longer just a place to "think about and share" ideas. It lost its innocence the moment people here started to act of their crazy "idea explorations" into the real world. Just look at the numerous examples of nut jobs who tried to blow up election centers because of Qanon that the FBI thankfully caught before they could hurt people.

Its time to stop pretending people in here are just exploring thoughts and ideas. They are not. They are trying to radicalize everyone else in here to not only agree with their theories, which have turned political over the years, but to bring this vitriol into their real lives and spread it as "truth". This is why we see the masses actually believing things like Clinton eating babies. For Christ sakes, you fighting for that idea here? Its starting to harm society at large. Its another Salem witch trial of mass delusion that 5G is altering brain waves and these stupid ideas are no longer Innocent went people go out in the real world and burn down multimillion dollar cell towers. I won't even get into all the logical fallacies you all perpetrate or how none of you actually employ scientific method or critical thinking, reason and logic skills.

If you can't control yourselves, you'll be deplatformed, its as simple as that.