Why are scammy lifetime subscriptions to online services still in the BoingBoing store?

Because scaring the villagers with tall tales they buy into means that I get food and shelter in exchange for pleasing the god of the anti-tiger rock.

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Mess with the PopoBull, you’re gonna get the philosophical horns.

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Not horny now… must sleepZZZZZzzzzzz…

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You’re not anti-FREEDOM rock, are you?

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I just bought a lifetime +10% no death guarentee. It guarentees that I won’t die during my lifetime or 10% after.
So I’m immortal now right?
Right?

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For your pleasure:

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Or are disappointed in?!?

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Because people want power.

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That a theory.

Can you provide any replicable proof for this?

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Every government ever created?

Donald Drumpf?

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Has this been published in a reputable, peer-reviewed journal?

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Careful - you’re deadnaming!

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But knowledge is power, bad science yields less knowledge and less power.

But your average person is not in government, they are a minority. Perhaps they are holding us back and curating a dunderheaded society against our best interests.

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Is this the basis by which you measure all claims in life?

“This sex was good.”

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You’re being deliberately obtuse. I’m not playing that “let’s pretend that you don’t understand how the world works and are an alien” game today.

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The average person is either an artist or a scientist. The Conspiracy is to keep them from realizing this, and force them to live squalid lives with personal problems. It’s a very terrestrial problem. The rent-seeking of ignorance and incivility.

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Scientific claims.

Otherwise I’m going to have to believe you’re just grasping for power. :stuck_out_tongue:

Oo-er! Sounds a bit rude!

What are “average” and “person” here as terms of art?

Citation needed.

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I didn’t name it “power” but others have… wink

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