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LeftistMuslimObama posted:I haven't had a virus in 5+ years, even recklessly downloading all the porn in sight. Adblock+noscript+MS Security Essentials/Windows Defender is plenty. Personally, I don't use one (meaning I just use MSE), and yeah good browsing habits and common sense means I haven't had a detectible infection since I can remember, probably 5 years at least. I've really only supported environments running on MSE and Symantec, and the Symantec environments tended to have far less workstation catastrophes (although certainly no shortage of them). That's anecdotal, of course. Professionally speaking my reaction to any sort of infection is to nuke the workstation and start over. It's the safest option, plus I can re-image a workstation in less time than it takes to bother with scanning anything. Do I think I or my close friends need an antivirus? Hell no. Do my older family members need something a bit more thorough than MSE? Probably, but I know it's not going to keep the inevitable from happening.
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So, Cecil the Lion was actually killed by environmentalists to make people upset about the poaching of animals. The poor rich dentist is just a patsy. FALSE FLAG!!! I doubt this is surprising to anyone http://freakoutnation.com/2015/08/two-men-open-fire-on-soldiers-at-jade-helm-training-site-in-mississippi/ twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Aug 5, 2015 |
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So, I think I need help. Last month I went to Colima for vacation and visiting family. There's a really big problem with dengue and the recently detected chikungunya. While I was there, I saw an alarming number of people who believe the latter is a hoax/government control/Big Pharma thing, including my family (this includes a cousin who recently shared an "article" about how chemotherapy makes cancer worse and that it could be cured with turmeric).
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Siselmo posted:So, I think I need help. Last month I went to Colima for vacation and visiting family. There's a really big problem with dengue and the recently detected chikungunya. While I was there, I saw an alarming number of people who believe the latter is a hoax/government control/Big Pharma thing, including my family (this includes a cousin who recently shared an "article" about how chemotherapy makes cancer worse and that it could be cured with turmeric). Sever.
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Siselmo posted:So, I think I need help. Last month I went to Colima for vacation and visiting family. There's a really big problem with dengue and the recently detected chikungunya. While I was there, I saw an alarming number of people who believe the latter is a hoax/government control/Big Pharma thing, including my family (this includes a cousin who recently shared an "article" about how chemotherapy makes cancer worse and that it could be cured with turmeric). On the plus side, maybe it's a problem that will solve itself? 
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If you stumble across the magic words to summon their brains back to reality, please share with the thread. 
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Aug 10, 2015 18:12
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An enterprising conspiracy theorist in my area has been putting stickers on stopsigns with "Look up!" STOP "Spraying us!" I'm assuming it's a chemtrails nutter. Any ideas why they choose now to start a sticker campaign?
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Dropped by health insurer/drug mix not covered by generics yet.
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Talmonis posted:An enterprising conspiracy theorist in my area has been putting stickers on stopsigns with "Look up!" STOP "Spraying us!" (S)he was recently enlightened on the truth of Gotta have new converts for any movement to survive.
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http://www.vice.com/read/the-berensteain-bears-conspiracy-theory-that-has-convinced-the-internet-there-are-parallel-universes My childhood 
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I don't know that this is strictly thread relevant, but with the death of the attention economy thread, this is the best place I can find for it, and it's too dopey not to post somewhere: quote:You can download MetaMath a proof checker, and it’s database set.mm, and it’s book for free. If you read the book, and reimplement say the python version (like 300 lines or so) in a different language (to make sure you understood every step in the algorithm) and verify the database, then you can know with certainty that each of the 18000 theorems with proofs follow from the axioms, without even understanding what the theorems say. This is what I mean with indirect understanding. Source: one of the comments here http://hackaday.com/2015/08/10/defcon-vs-iot-on-hackability-and-security/ To my shame, I was unable to resist touching the poop.
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Talmonis posted:An enterprising conspiracy theorist in my area has been putting stickers on stopsigns with "Look up!" STOP "Spraying us!" Around now is when a lot of farm fields are crop dusted.
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Someone by me just sprayed Batman logos on the Neighborhood watch signs. No Chemtard stuff. A friend of mine who has been bartending at a strip club posted the contents of a real  guy's usb stick he's been hanging out to all the girls.http://i.imgur.com/nES1jUR.jpg I particularly like "Obama's face freeze, Antichrist spirit confirmed!" and the random Marilyn Manson songs. twistedmentat fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Aug 12, 2015 |
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Sir Tonk posted:http://www.vice.com/read/the-berensteain-bears-conspiracy-theory-that-has-convinced-the-internet-there-are-parallel-universes That's the beauty of it! It doesn't DO anything!
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I don't know that this is strictly thread relevant, but with the death of the attention economy thread, this is the best place I can find for it, and it's too dopey not to post somewhere:  
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Aug 12, 2015 20:15
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Sir Tonk posted:http://www.vice.com/read/the-berensteain-bears-conspiracy-theory-that-has-convinced-the-internet-there-are-parallel-universes Someone pointed this out to me the other day and completely broke my mind. I vividly remember playing some Living Books (remember those?) as a kid and the narrator saying "Bearen-steen".
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I've actually had chikungunya, and gently caress anyone who doesn't take it seriously.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Someone pointed this out to me the other day and completely broke my mind. I vividly remember playing some Living Books (remember those?) as a kid and the narrator saying "Bearen-steen". Yeah, it was pronounced like "steen," but it was definitely always "stain." I remember asking a teacher about it when I was a kid. Or do I? How can I be sure that memory hasn't been implanted? The answer here is that human memory is highly fallible and kids are stupid.
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gradenko_2000 posted:I've actually had chikungunya, and gently caress anyone who doesn't take it seriously. give it a more badass name then  LeftistMuslimObama posted:Someone pointed this out to me the other day and completely broke my mind. I vividly remember playing some Living Books (remember those?) as a kid and the narrator saying "Bearen-steen". Bärenstein, in proper germanic pronounciation ~~~
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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I literally haven't thought about those books in at least 30 years, so yea, I can chalk it up to just faulty memories. I noticed its very common for nerds to make up extremely complex memories of things that probably didn't happen, and then writing elaborate nostalgia pieces about it.
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A friend of mine posted the Berenstain bear thing and wanted my opinion on it (I'm a memory researcher), so here was my response since it's relevant:quote:Roedigger is right you know. PoizenJam fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Aug 13, 2015 |
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twistedmentat posted:I literally haven't thought about those books in at least 30 years, so yea, I can chalk it up to just faulty memories. I noticed its very common for nerds to make up extremely complex memories of things that probably didn't happen, and then writing elaborate nostalgia pieces about it. Gotta get those clicks.
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I think the reason it's mildly noteworthy is the fact that so many have had the false memory. It's not that that makes the claims of some reddit users true (I imagine the "theory"is mostly people trying to be funny) but it's worth commenting on. Everyone I discussed it with yesterday was amused and amazed that they've had it wrong all these years.
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twistedmentat posted:I particularly like "Obama's face freeze, Antichrist spirit confirmed!" and the random Marilyn Manson songs. One of my favorite crazy conspiracy/paranormal things is crowd demons, where loons take low-res pictures and find faces that the low resolution (and often jpg compression artifacts) have rendered poorly and proclaim them to show that some of the people in the picture are monsters in human skin.
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I definitely remember correcting people's misspellings of "Berenstain" 
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GutBomb posted:I think the reason it's mildly noteworthy is the fact that so many have had the false memory. It's not that that makes the claims of some reddit users true (I imagine the "theory"is mostly people trying to be funny) but it's worth commenting on. Everyone I discussed it with yesterday was amused and amazed that they've had it wrong all these years. In that case it's not unusual because we're used to seeing the other spelling and the two names sound the same and when you're a kid you don't usually fixate on details like that and were maybe even more focused on reading the books out loud or having them read to you. It's a thing likely to be misremembered that way. It's like the other big thing on that Mandela Effect site: they remember Jif peanut butter as Jiffy peanut butter, and I can think of four possible reasons. Jiffy is an actual word that might get compounded with another word that sounds like it that is only used to sell peanut butter. There is another brand of peanut butter called Skippy that has the same syllables and y-ending. There very well could have been advertizing for Jif that played on the similarity between "Jif" and "jiffy" as similar words. The last time you gave any serious thought to peanut butter you were probably a child. The real question is why I thought for years that it was spelled Jiff with two Fs.
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GutBomb posted:I think the reason it's mildly noteworthy is the fact that so many have had the false memory. It's not that that makes the claims of some reddit users true (I imagine the "theory"is mostly people trying to be funny) but it's worth commenting on. Everyone I discussed it with yesterday was amused and amazed that they've had it wrong all these years. They generally only have it because someone else mentions the "theory" and otherwise they wouldn't have even thought of the name for years and years.
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Pope Guilty posted:One of my favorite crazy conspiracy/paranormal things is crowd demons, where loons take low-res pictures and find faces that the low resolution (and often jpg compression artifacts) have rendered poorly and proclaim them to show that some of the people in the picture are monsters in human skin. My cousin is turning into one of these. I think that 4-Loko damaged his judgement. But it also gave us the best power in Demon: the Descent, so...
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ErichZahn posted:My cousin is turning into one of these. I think that 4-Loko damaged his judgement. nDemon loving rules, so.
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Jack Gladney posted:In that case it's not unusual because we're used to seeing the other spelling and the two names sound the same and when you're a kid you don't usually fixate on details like that and were maybe even more focused on reading the books out loud or having them read to you. It's a thing likely to be misremembered that way. I thought it was Jiffy too.
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Pretty sure "jiffy" peanut butter has been a brand used in some TV show or another so that they didn't use an actual brand.
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Haha real funny guys, but we all know that the real reason that people misremember Jif as Jiffy is because the alternate dimensions are merging as the apocalypse nears
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Pope Guilty posted:One of my favorite crazy conspiracy/paranormal things is crowd demons, where loons take low-res pictures and find faces that the low resolution (and often jpg compression artifacts) have rendered poorly and proclaim them to show that some of the people in the picture are monsters in human skin. Yea, I love those two. There's also the whole "Person on TV clearly turning into a lizard!!!!" set of videos that are literally just studio light reflections on the eyes, or odd shadows or whatnot. Like these https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUYsBqRx1lM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFrJelXZoBE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmIkmrCta1g grainy videos recorded off tv, yep, totally evidence!
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Jack Gladney posted:In that case it's not unusual because we're used to seeing the other spelling and the two names sound the same and when you're a kid you don't usually fixate on details like that and were maybe even more focused on reading the books out loud or having them read to you. It's a thing likely to be misremembered that way. See, I know that one because their slogan is "Choosy moms choose Jif". The Bearenstain one is way more insidious.
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I definitely remember it being with an "A", because as a wee goonlet I thought it was Stan and Jan Berenstan - all their names rhymed. Must have missed the "i" in there.
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MrUnderbridge posted:I definitely remember it being with an "A", because as a wee goonlet I thought it was Stan and Jan Berenstan - all their names rhymed. Must have missed the "i" in there. That just means you came from a 'A' universe, dummy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1G1pts7nMg
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Somebody threw that White-Gold/Black-Blue quantum dress into the Hadron Collider and now we're stuck in the weird Berenstain Universe where Trump is a political candidate and Robin Williams killed himself. Meh.
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QuarkJets posted:Haha real funny guys, but we all know that the real reason that people misremember Jif as Jiffy is because the alternate dimensions are merging as the apocalypse nears I now know exactly how I'd lean if I ever became a Narrativist. poo poo.
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But the guy who invented GIF files did intend it to be a pun on "in a jiffy" and hence his preferred pronunciation, while we're at it.
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Nintendo Kid posted:But the guy who invented GIF files did intend it to be a pun on "in a jiffy" and hence his preferred pronunciation, while we're at it. You mean giffy files? .gif is a mass delusion bro. It's always been .giffy
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