It has already happened

Tea bricks were the preferred form of currency over metallic coins for the nomads of Mongolia and Siberia. The tea could not only be used as money and eaten as food in times of hunger but also brewed as allegedly beneficial medicine for treating coughs and colds. Until World War II, tea bricks were still used as a form of edible currency in Siberia

Money can be anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania

Brewsters millions would be so easy in 2024. Just train some AI.

A wild haggis.

You are misusing the term ‘conspiracy theory’

I am not. The words conspiracy and theory are very well defined. Do the words scientific and theory change definition to “untrue physical properties” when used together. No.

Lets put it another way. How would you like to describe a situation where you suspect a group of people to be secretly deceiving the general public?

The pereptrators of that ‘experiment’ lied to the participants, but they were not otherwise secretive, otherwise they wouldn’t have been writing and publishing papers about it.

Conspiracies can be documented. The only reason MKUltra was confirmed was because the CIA forgot to destroy some files.

“Study clinicians could have chosen to treat all syphilitic subjects and close the study, or split off a control group for testing with penicillin. Instead, they continued the study without treating any participants; they withheld treatment and information about penicillin from the subjects. In addition, scientists prevented participants from accessing syphilis treatment programs available to other residents in the area”.

That’s a conspiracy.

I’m not going to discuss this further with someone who cannot do so civilly.

Check my history. I am civil, except to people trying to deny secret government sponsored human suffering.

Fuck off. The Tuskegee Experiment was a conspiracy. A group of people secretly performed illegal medical experiments on the African American population.

Conspiracy theories and theorists are homogenous.

Only within each conspiracy. Oliver Stone believes the JFK conspiracy theory but I doubt he believes the elite are literally lizard people.

the flawed thinking is inherent to the concept

Incorrect. An illegal agreement between two or more parties has no connection to how logical the process is of whoever is suspicious.

Conspiracy theories are untrue by definition,

Incorrect. They are unproven by definition. They may be true or false.

and nothing to do with real conspiracies.

Real (I assume you mean proven) conspiracies start off as theories.

Sure, but what’s stopping them from just adding whatever high res cameras they want in their terminals and jet bridges anyway?

Budget probably.

The Tuskegee experiment is not the same as Flat Earth. Conspiracy theories are not a homogeneous and neither are conspiracy theorists.

There’s probably a huge difference in resolution.

Do IoT sensors really run windows? If not, how are they affected?

there should be a mockumentary of him where he’s played by Steve Carell.

There’s one with Charlie Chaplin

Yes, much better than 3-30 passwords.

But I view SSO as enterprise password manager with a nice UI. I don’t trust it for anything super important.

Yes. 14 years ago.

Kennedy said he had recovered from the memory loss and fogginess and had no aftereffects from the parasite.

The way RFK makes (coherent) arguments in public is streets ahead of Biden and Trump, but so is almost any politician.

In terms of honesty, RFK is between Biden and Trump. Half truths and populism, rather than the full lies of Trump.

Short term, yes. Long term losers can have more impact than you are crediting.

Bernie didn’t win the presidency but still got some of his policies adopted by the president.

You don’t need to win to have influence.

SSO means you only need to compromise one piece of hardware to get access to everything.

Help help. I’m being repressed.

RFK has significantly less lunacy than Trump, and is much more coherent than both Biden and Trump.

He still supports Israel though, so there is no anti genocide candidate.

Incorrect. Bernie shifted the needle and didn’t win.

On Thursday he rolled out two new policy proposals:

• Lower the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 60.
• Forgive student debt for low-income and middle-class families who attended public colleges and universities and some private institutions.

"Senator Sanders and his supporters can take pride in their work in laying the groundwork for these ideas,

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/830853819/joe-biden-won-the-primary-now-hes-trying-to-win-over-progressive-groups

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