Dakryn's Batshit Theory of the Week

I still think all evidence suggests 9/11 was an "inside job". I just have little clue as to exactly who was inside. I figure in like 50 years it'll all get declassified and everyone will either be too busy plowing with a horse and mule or too busy on their Gigapersonavision 5000s to give a shit. And I'll come back on this board and be all CAN'TSTANDYA about it.
 
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Everybody knows Shaq took down the towers.

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Skepticism is an appropriate response to any field of knowledge that has limitations (i.e. all fields of knowledge). Curry's operation is a necessary albeit often overlooked strategy of meta-commentary; she's pulling back and assessing the epistemological limits of studying global climate.

I think she makes excellent points on the political rhetoric surrounding climate change and the IPCC's emphasis on consensus, which results in the downplaying of uncertainty and resultant overconfidence. But Curry herself is still a climate change scientist, and I don't think she would say that her essay is cause for decreasing the funding of climate change science (which is likely to happen under Trump) or refusing to consider various social policies that decrease carbon emissions (also likely to happen).

Skepticism is healthy, but you can be skeptical until the next ice age. ;) At some point we also have to try putting certain research to the test, and the resistance to that isn't coming primarily from alternative research (interestingly enough, Curry isn't providing any alternative research; she's pointing out logical and/or philosophical weaknesses in climate change rhetoric). Along with "manmade climate change" research we also should be looking at alternative explanations or data, which I think is what Curry's arguing. A lot of skeptics don't want that though; they simply want to reduce funding/research altogether.
 
been awhile since I looked into this shit but I think this is it;


Maybe he was talking out his ass, who knows.

Also check out this article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/mystery-surrounds-loss-records-art-9-11-164719650.html?ref=gs


"Dozens of federal, state and local government agencies were at the site, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The Central Intelligence Agency had a clandestine office on the 25th floor of 7 World Trade Center, which also housed the city's emergency command center and an outpost of the U.S. Secret Service."


There you have a plausible explanation for controlled detonation as a reaction to the attack (i.e. "we'd better destroy these sensitive national security documents before terrorists or firefighters find them") rather than part of the attack plan.
 
Based purely on the video, what exactly do people claim the conspiracy is concealing? That they brought the building down intentionally out of fear that letting it fall on its own would cause more damage?

Such malicious intent. :D
 
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there is two claims, one that the owners of the towers blew more buildings down in an attempt to get more insurance money. the second being that there wasn't really a fear of them causing more mayhem and blowing down the towers was an attempt to deceive the public into getting into an oil war.

that's why there's the 'jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams' thing
 
I think there can be multiple reasons, it doesn't have to be just one. Grant offers the postulate that maybe the buildings were rigged years in advance as a security protocol. Who knows? But the official narrative is obvious bunk just on the face of publicly available and accepted evidence.
 
So you think the article doesn't portray survivalist tendencies of the super-rich as "batshit"?

It boils down to basic cost-risk assessment.

Yishan Wong, an early Facebook employee, was the C.E.O. of Reddit from 2012 to 2014. He, too, had eye surgery for survival purposes, eliminating his dependence, as he put it, “on a nonsustainable external aid for perfect vision.” In an e-mail, Wong told me, “Most people just assume improbable events don’t happen, but technical people tend to view risk very mathematically.” He continued, “The tech preppers do not necessarily think a collapse is likely. They consider it a remote event, but one with a very severe downside, so, given how much money they have, spending a fraction of their net worth to hedge against this . . . is a logical thing to do.”
 
I wasn't asking whether you think the super-rich actually are batshit.

Your comment insinuated that, because you share similar survivalist/apocalyptic thoughts as the super-rich, there must be another reason why you're "batshit" - i.e. they're wealthy, so survivalism is okay; but you're poor, so your survivalism is crazy.

That's what I got from your comment. But I don't think the article portrays the super-rich as what I would call sane, or normal.
 
What's batshit about risk management in the form of diversification of investment into non-financial product forms (unless it totally consumes you obviously)?
 
Haha, I don't think we're connecting here.

I'm not trying to say that survivalism is batshit or that it isn't. I'm asking purely about the perspective of the article you posted.

You want to talk about the thing itself. ;) I was talking about the text. :D
 
Well that's why I offered the qualifier at the end of my previous post. If you are consumed by anything - in this case survivalism - it's no longer diversification/risk management.