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Small-Scale Question Sunday for May 21, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

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Fellow Motteizans, what are your small scale conspiracy theories? I'm not talking grand narratives here. What minor, apolitical conspiracy theories do you explain to the next table at a diner.

For myself, I think at least some large portion of lottery drawings are not random. I base this belief on the fact that of repeat lottery winners, a suspicious number of them are math professors.

All the talk about the Grassy Knoll is a distraction. Lee Harvey Oswald actually shot JFK and was subsequently killed by Jack Ruby to tie up loose ends/ensure that he couldn't rat out who hired him.

@roystgnr already brought up the lost cosmonauts, but the lost cosmonauts. Over the course of my education and professional life I have had privilege of working with a number of steely-eyed-missile-men form that era and almost every one of them I talked to about it had some story about a lost cosmonaut or other flight that hadn't been officially acknowledged.

Epstein didn't kill himself.

Stephen Paddock was a Janet frequent-flier and chose his vantage point for the 2017 Las Vegas shooting was chosen because it gave him a clear line of sight to the terminal. The "conspiracy theory" is that there was a person or aircraft that was his true target and that shooting into the crowd at the music festival was merely a diversion/distraction.

The "conspiracy theory" is that there was a person or aircraft that was his true target and that shooting into the crowd at the music festival was merely a diversion/distraction.

I'm slightly confused. Isn't shooting a single target easier if you haven't just kicked a hornet's nest and made everyone freak out?