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·4 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Here's a real historical inconsistency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_years_%28Jewish_calend...

I dislike the framing of some inconsistencies as "conspiracy theory". Mistakes can and will happen, it's an argument of emotion to frame an inconsistency as a "conspiracy theory". Just because one possible explanation is that people colluded intentionally and conspiratorially doesn't rule out all the other more plausible explanations that something really is wrong.

It's also bad epistemology. Literally everything can be explained as a conspiracy, so the fact the the only explanation you can think of to an inconsistency is "people colluded" reflect more on you than on the problem. Historical records can and will be inaccurate.

Some people's epistemological metric goes haywire from those two words. People write inaccurate stuff all the time. It's literally just papers. Other civilizations are other clocks and there are very few historical evidence to synchronize those clocks, especially when the travel time of news and people in those times was extremely slow. Lack of international news also means loss of synchronization.

If the invocation of the words "conspiracy theory" in any way repels you from exploring inconsistencies with an open mind, the problem is with your emotional reasoning. If you believe this guy, something like the missing years could never have happened. It clearly happened, and I am sure there was no conspiracy behind it. Two words, "conspiracy theory", entirely shifted your internal model of the world emotionally, when epistemologically, it shouldn't change your opinion into either direction. The existence of an extremely unlikely explanation is completely equivalent to just no explanation. "Conspiracy theory" is purely an appeal to emotion. Someone claimed A, and a guy told you Conspiracy=>A therefore ~A. Only an emotional human would process this useless information in any way.
age_bronze
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
The media had ruled and controlled the western world with propaganda for the whole 20th century, from newspapers in early 1900s to TVs in late 1900s. We had a very brief period of people escaping the matrix through the internet and communicating through alternative channels, that little blip of media sandbox escape brought Trump and the Brexit and the corporates and media have been working hard to regain control of means of communication ever since.

Be glad you got to live through this very brief period of awakening because they are about to return everyone back into the darkness again.
age_bronze
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
Why is this legal? Why is it legal for Google to completely demolish a business with no human review, no due process and no excuse at all?

Why do we keep hearing this without a single developer going forward and suing the hell out of Google? Or Apple by the way.
age_bronze
·5 ปีที่แล้ว·discuss
I don't know why Arabs intentionally burning tires is a thing, but in Israel, there's an issue of Arabic villages regularly burning tires. As long as you live near a village, you're going to smell burnt tires every month or so. It's disgusting and unhealthy and it always comes from Arabic villages. Seems like they just don't care about neither the environment nor the health of everyone.