It is Thursday, 13 October 2022, and in another couple of hours, I will be discussing data ingestion into cloud-based data management tools.
Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?
Yesterday some news happened. To start off, let me say that I’ve often been party to repeating or even creating conspiracy theories. When I was in college, I took an honors-level course in the history department called, “Spy Games”, which focused on the history of spycraft and intelligence systems, and in the course final, we were asked to create a conspiracy theory as an extra credit test question.
My instructor thought I had a good one.., but it was, like most conspiracy theories, a complete fabrication for entertainment purposes.
Yesterday a jury awarded 950 million dollars to 8 families that had been hurt by a conspiracy theory posited by American conspiracy theory connoisseur, Alex Jones. For this guy, nothing was too far-fetched. Every drop of a handkerchief was a false flag operation controlled by George Soros or some other foreign chaos agent.
The problem is his conspiracy theories about Sandy Hook and the murder of so many little kids and teachers in that community hurt people. Literally. His weak-minded followers confronted these grieving families and demanded to see the bodies of dead children because Alex Jones told the world on his conspiracy theory network, Infowars, that it never happened – it was all fake.
And that’s just scraping the first layer of crap off this turd.
I don’t think he has $950 million dollars lying around. He’s also not done… there are still more judgments against him waiting for a court ruling.
I’m not sympathetic. It still amazes me how gullible people can be. But the thing that gets me is that Alex Jones did what he did for profit. He used his conspiracies to generate revenue, with no consideration for the people that he hurt through his false accusations. It would not bother me in the least if some of these idiot followers of his get some legal attention as well.
Hurting people with lies is not acceptable.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
