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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

You are, at the end of the day, a tragically broken person who clings to fantasy like it’s a safety blanket. You wrap yourself in these cheap little conspiracy scripts because it’s easier than doing the hard work of actually thinking. And that’s the core of it: it’s lazy. Weak. You don’t engage with facts, you don’t engage with rigor, you just pull the lever marked “mystery explanation” and out comes some recycled nonsense.

You know you’re in the wrong, but you persist anyway, because admitting that you’re just flailing at shadows would mean actually confronting the gaps in your own reasoning. And that takes effort. That takes discipline. Instead, you play make-believe and then act like you’ve scored points by announcing, for the fiftieth time, that “everything’s a cover-up.”

Stop spewing this drivel and maybe, just maybe, people wouldn’t have to waste their time walking you through the obvious. The only reason this conversation has gone this far is because you keep doubling down on nonsense instead of doing the grown-up thing: pausing, reflecting, and bringing some actual rigor to your thinking. Until then, you’ll stay exactly where you are now, stuck in the shallow end, paddling in circles, convinced you’ve discovered the ocean.

Just "pretending" to have an upper hand doesn't give you that.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Blah blah blah. Didn't skim anything to indicate you've read anything other than a thesaurus. Boring.

Prove you know something, anything relevant. Network architecture, firmware development, pentesting, anything. I'm losing interest faster than your wife Krieger.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

You are the only one in this conversation owing of proof. And your "interest" is like your opinion and intellect: of precisely 0 value. Just a sealioning bit of effluent who shouldn't have an opinion in the first place. But because I'm so gracious, and willing to engage an inferior creature like yourself (which you should feel incredibly thankful for), here is a figure I'm working on for an update to a project (which was entirely my own theoretical contribution) that impacted the lives of almost 40 million people (and really, hundreds of millions more because of follow-on decisions based on my work), through my intellect alone.

Figure 1

Figure 2

You are just a sad, projective, broken mind. Because you obviously didn't seem to notice this was entirely performative; its goal was to put you on display. And thankfully, you did all of the convincing to our audience I needed you to. Now no one will believe you or take you seriously, and it was something you did to yourself.

The fact is you are just a little person who, because probably you don't have any real self worth, make the assumption others must feel as little and small as you do.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Didn't expect to goad you into doxing yourself. I'm genuinely bored though. You don't have any relevant knowledge, maybe an ag or bio degree if those images are from your own work lol.

Thanks for the chuckle🫡

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

There is one self evident clown here, and its been you the whole time. Go check the up/ downs for community sentiment on this thread.