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.

  • @AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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    That Target’s entry into the Canadian market was designed to fail from the start so that Walmart could swoop in, take over the entire logistics chain and ensure people get to keep their jobs to quell the concerns about Walmart becoming a monopoly in Canada.

    Target failed so spectacularly that from my perspective on the inside it had to be by design. When the stores first ooened there was no stock available because we were shipping goods on trailers with no skids, packed floor to ceiling at random then expecting some poor souls in the back rooms of Target stores everywhere (likely with no previous logistics experience) to unload, organize the product into categories on skids and then take them out to the aisles to be put on shelves. We should have been building skids in the warehouses for months until demand settled and could be fulfilled by maximizing trailer efficiency with floor to ceiling loads.

    There were an unbelievable amount of blatant inefficiencies and Inventory Control was deliberately understaffed so we ended up with a warehouse with thousands of open rack slots but the system thought the warehouse was full. Multiple layers of this kind of shit were going on and every time we voiced concern about it, management told us to just keep our heads down.

    I swear some execs with nice golden parachutes conspired to ensure Target failed so Walmart could swoop in and save the day, breaking through the public concern about monopolization.

    • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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      13 months ago

      Target is so bad at everything that their continued existence anywhere is the thing that requires a conspiracy theory to explain

    • @CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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      13 months ago

      iirc last check it was about 50/50 people vs bots. The problem is people running bot farms or AI generated channels know exactly how to tailor content to the various algorithms used by big social media companies and thus actual human content is actively burried.

  • 2ugly2live
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    “Trad-wives” are the pick me girls’ final form. I think it’s also for women who want to do OnlyFans type work, but don’t want to be as risqué. It’s like soft core incel porn more than an actual depiction or celebration of maternity.

  • @01011@monero.town
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    Couriers have tiny cameras all throughout my home and wait for me to go to the bathroom before they show up with my parcels.

    • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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      The previous generation probably said the same about MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc.

      Let people enjoy what they enjoy. There will always be idiots everywhere, and TikTok emerging won’t suddenly make Americans dumber.

      • @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        There’s a HUGE difference between tiktok and all of the sites you’ve posted. Wikipedia? The fuck are you on about?!

        • @EnderMB@lemmy.world
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          Maybe you’re not old enough to realise this, but for a long time Wikipedia was seen as being a dangerous site to learn from, because “anyone can edit it”.

          Every generation goes through shit like this. Stop pretending that TikTok is special, and let people enjoy what they want to enjoy.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      Either all those YouTubers collected the check from Raid without even touching the thing or they make up 99% of the playerbase at this point and it’s basically their best kept secret social club.

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    Firefox knows the exact worst time to force a restart on me. What’s up with that?

    • @mostNONheinous@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      If you haven’t heard, there is a theory that the Frozen movies exist solely to make sure if you google disney frozen or any combination of that you are shown movie stuff instead of stories of Walt Disney being cryogenically frozen so he can live in the future.

  • Match!!
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    13 months ago

    content warnng: Magic The Gathering

    facts: a couple of weeks ago the commander rules committee, the independent group that governs the popular Commander format, started receiving death threats after they banned some boring ass broken cards (jeweled lotus? dockside extortionist? nobody is ride or die for those)

    as a result, the rules committee turned over control of the format to Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro, the makers of magic the gathering

    fact: last year after some magic the gathering content was leaked, Hasbro send literal pinkertons to harasss the youtuber leaking it and recover the leaked goods

    conspiracy theory: hasbro hired the pinkertons to make those death threats against the rules committee so that hasbro could seize control ove the most popular independent format of magic

    • @SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      I wanna say “nub uh” but the fact that they’re getting death threats is really crazy. Like they changed the mulligan rule from partial Paris to the new one (Vancouver?) and basically everyone said “that’s neat” and did partial Paris anyway. And over busted things like dockside? Goddamn there was barely an outcry over prophet of kruphix.

      Sol ring ban I could see death threats. That’s about it.

  • LustyArgonian
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    Kary Mullis didn’t invent PCR, his then-gf Jenny did. Matilda effect

    Other theory: a staff member at Neopets is messing with in game economy to sell digital items irl on ebay

    • @GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      years ago I gamed the casinos on an old Intel II that was slow a shit online. The cup game was the easiest to beat. because of this, I had collected over 7 million bottles of sand that were worth like 1np.

      ffw a few years and I sign in and these things were some kind of quest item and were selling for like 40np.

      I flooded the market with my stock at 5np each, caused a run on the bottled sand market and caused a market crash.

      got my account banned. they refused to activate my account and said I hacked their system because there was no other way to get that many bottles.

      and that’s how I tried to usurp the corrupt neopet kingdom and never played again.

  • @Elextra@literature.cafe
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    The addition of microphones and cameras to things like phones, computers, watches and other technology is to normalize being surveiled as well as minimize other privacy violations. We now have fridges that have WiFi capabilities now and often in the presence of some sort of device with a camera due to phones.

    • @DempstersBox@lemmy.world
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      What’s really crazy is how fucking Good all those microphones are.

      I’ve been using alfredcam to utilize old phones and tablets, and holy shit they can hear so well.

      Like the k88, an ancient tablet that was useless when it came out, foisted upon at&t users. The mic on it will pick up conversations clear as a bell OUTSIDE my house

      Shit’s fucked, yo

    • @michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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      Fridges with computers in them but we someone missed the boat on pervasive RFID in food containers and maintaining in stock of my shit. It should be able to tell my milk is 1/4 full and 2 days from expiration and add it to an order that shows up when my calendar says I’ll be home but no what do we get? Something with 1/2 the lifespan which can play youtube videos and show you how much beer you have from the couch from its webcam.

      Why even bother.

  • @bi_tux@lemmy.world
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    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

  • @JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Ken Paxton has dirt on every Republican in Texas, and the fraud we know about is probably a multitude less than what he actually does.