Banter RDT CLXXXII - Searching for stars in a thunderstorm

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FKASC said:
It’s bonkers just how massive the volume of blatant misinformation there is on social meeds
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You can see how people can get caught up in some stuff.

And by people I mean $morons$.
 

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As a junior lawyer I once got forwarded a cold call from someone whose uncle in law (or something like that) had gotten him some investment opportunity that involved purchasing some WW2-era US currency.

The story was that during the war the US had printed banknotes on special paper that appeared to be plain white paper, but could be treated with special chemicals in order to become the real thing. He'd bought some of these things, and the sellers had even gone to the extent of demonstrating the process of turning some of it into real money, just so he knew it was a real thing. But then they'd reneged on him halfway through the process and demanded more money for the second lot of chemicals, and of course once the process had started there was a time crunch because if the second round of chemicals weren't applied within a certain amount of time after the first round, the money would disintegrate, so he wanted to know what his options were for to get them to abide by the original terms.

The whole thing sounded like a scam, so while I was on the phone to him I got onto Google, and of course it's a scam, it's got a whole Wikipedia page setting out the scam and everything. So I told him, gently (I think), that it sounded like he'd been scammed, and read him some of the stuff off Wikipedia. He insisted it wasn't a scam because he'd seen some of the money get converted, even after I read him the part of the Wikipedia entry explaining how that bit of the scam worked.

It didn't matter what I said, he insisted he hadn't been scammed, his wife's uncle wouldn't do that to him, and this paper money was legit. So I told him there was nothing we could do for him.

The moral of the story is that it doesn't matter how much evidence you put in front of some people, they'll continue to believe what they want to believe.
 
Bender_ said:
Are 90% of these videos Joe Rogan interviews?
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Was listening to a recent Rogan podcast where he had Tom Segura on. Was banging on about how you can't trust the main stream media and Fox News was one of the few trustworthy news sources out there.

The same Fox News that lost a $787 million lawsuit for peddling the stolen election lies from one company, and still faces another $2.7 billion lawsuit from another company.
 
kane249 said:
Was listening to a recent Rogan podcast where he had Tom Segura on. Was banging on about how you can't trust the main stream media and Fox News was one of the few trustworthy news sources out there.

The same Fox News that lost a $787 million lawsuit for peddling the stolen election lies from one company, and still faces another $2.7 billion lawsuit from another company.
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I watch Snippets of Rogan when he talks about animals as he sometimes has some decent guests but it’s so trash apart from that. He also tries so hard to pretend to be a centralist and yet fails so hard
 

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THE A5 said:
I watch Snippets of Rogan when he talks about animals as he sometimes has some decent guests but it’s so trash apart from that. He also tries so hard to pretend to be a centralist and yet fails so hard
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Pretty much the same for me. Will catch the occasional one if it's a good comedian or someone from an interest I have, but skip the rest.
 
Bender_ said:
I did enjoy a reel where Bill Burr was telling Rogan to STFU (albeit in a more democratic way) about COVID by telling he's not a doctor.
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Bill Burr is great
 
Miguel Sanchez said:
As a junior lawyer I once got forwarded a cold call from someone whose uncle in law (or something like that) had gotten him some investment opportunity that involved purchasing some WW2-era US currency.

The story was that during the war the US had printed banknotes on special paper that appeared to be plain white paper, but could be treated with special chemicals in order to become the real thing. He'd bought some of these things, and the sellers had even gone to the extent of demonstrating the process of turning some of it into real money, just so he knew it was a real thing. But then they'd reneged on him halfway through the process and demanded more money for the second lot of chemicals, and of course once the process had started there was a time crunch because if the second round of chemicals weren't applied within a certain amount of time after the first round, the money would disintegrate, so he wanted to know what his options were for to get them to abide by the original terms.

The whole thing sounded like a scam, so while I was on the phone to him I got onto Google, and of course it's a scam, it's got a whole Wikipedia page setting out the scam and everything. So I told him, gently (I think), that it sounded like he'd been scammed, and read him some of the stuff off Wikipedia. He insisted it wasn't a scam because he'd seen some of the money get converted, even after I read him the part of the Wikipedia entry explaining how that bit of the scam worked.

It didn't matter what I said, he insisted he hadn't been scammed, his wife's uncle wouldn't do that to him, and this paper money was legit. So I told him there was nothing we could do for him.

The moral of the story is that it doesn't matter how much evidence you put in front of some people, they'll continue to believe what they want to believe.
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Still happening, a few people (westerners) in Thailand got scammed by some Russians doin the same thing not so long ago.
 
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Can you beat my score?

OK bitches, I'm throwing down the glove. Rules are on the page but basically:
  • you can use letters multiple times in a word
  • you have to use the centre letter
  • points are based on word length and you get bonus points for using every letter at least once in one word
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What a horrible letter selection 😭
 
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Anyone else ever ordered a burger with added cheese & bacon, only to bite into the burger and discover its sad state of cheeselessness? I can tell that Spelling Bee has never had to endure that type of sadness.
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