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"Easy to make everything a conspiracy when you don't know how anything works."
Everything literally is a conspiracy (in some nonstandard technical sense), and if you don't know how anything works, then it's a secret conspiracy.
How does water get to your faucet? How many people are responsible for your internet? What set of events had to transpire to make you late for work? How does one build a microwave?
Something about this points at how complicated everything is and how little we individually know about it.
It's a conspiracy, man. You gotta pay for water that's just sitting there in the ground. It's the corporations tricking people into thinking they gotta drink water that came from their pipes because it's been "sanitized". Wake up sheeple, they're sanitizing your brains!!!
And don't get me started on showing up later for work! We all know I could be there in just 15 minutes if there were no traffic, but you see the corporations make more money the longer you drive your car, so they make sure everyone has to be at work at the same time so there's a traffic ja... (read more)
This is a repository for miscellaneous short things I want to post. Other people are welcome to make top-level comments here if they want. (E.g., questions for me you'd rather discuss publicly than via PM; links you think will be interesting to people in this comment section but not to LW as a whole; etc.)