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I'll go first: r/kitty. One of the hundred grillion cat subs back on Reddit, the culture in this one was you posted a cat picture, and the only word allowed in the title or in any comments or replies was "Kitty."

Someone is using that subreddit for covert communications, I just know it. Either on the level of "if u/PM_me_your_nostrils posts an orange cat, we attack at dawn!" or there's some steganography going on with the pictures, but that subreddit was too stupid to be as active as it was.

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[-] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 7 points 2 months ago

Oh, another one: anti-vaccination was pushed by health insurance companies to dampen public perception of government-run healthcare.

Vaccine development and implementation fucking worked. If people were happy with the results, they might end up swayed towards publicly-funded healthcare. So... put a lid on that by whipping up a bunch of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Some folks will no longer see the vaccination programs as successful efforts to protect public health, but as a conspiracy to... do something. And instead of pointing to it as an example of a public healthcare program, you've first got to spend time defending evidence-based medicine, which takes up so much fucking time and energy, and ultimately won't convince people who bored too deeply into that alternate-reality tunnel.

It turned a public health initiative into a fucking tar pit, and now the once-free vaccinations cost over a hundred bucks if you don't have insurance.

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[-] EnderMB@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Scar was the hero in The Lion King.

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

He killed a king, and that's just dope.

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[-] bi_tux@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

the feds and big corpos are spying on you and the only reason you're still alive is because

a) you're a small fish

xor

b) you help them in some way by being a usefull idiot

xor

c) you're part of the conspiracy

[-] LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Or d) the wizard of Oz is going broke and can't keep up with everyone

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[-] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

The bomb has been planted.

WafflePwn's brother (the kid who tried shoving a remote up his ass because of Warcraft account cancellation) actually documented a true and genuine freakout. The parents forced the older brother to produce subsequent videos as a means of making it look like they were just making candid freakout videos all along, in order to protect the younger bother's shattered public image (and probably social life).

[-] Sho@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

That all of Tom Cruise's movies ( and by extension any media created by ppl of the church) are propaganda for the church of scientology.

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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

Soda bottle caps for newer types of soda fit worse onto the bottles. They’re harder to re-thread on, for example, the new Oreo Coke than they are on the old Diet Coke.

The reason that newer bottle designs are harder to thread is that they’re trying to make people drop the cap, leading to just giving up on re-capping.

This is to reinforce the narrative that people lose their bottle caps.

Which is to lend support for the drive to make caps attached to a little ring on the bottle, like in Europe.

[-] zgasma@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

Or maybe it's to keep you from sealing your drink and having it later. No cap means you finish it or dump it so you have to buy another.

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[-] IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

the stargate movie/show is "plausible deniability" soft disclosure of the real thing. they "hang a lantern" on this fact with the wormhole xtreme gag in the show.

[-] Fades@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

There really is a base under Cheyanne mountain and the US gov does indeed have a program that was named Stargate too :)

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[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 months ago

NHL and MLS instruct officials to tilt games against Canadian teams

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