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white2  ·  6 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: March 12th, 2025

I like to email. I have never had a problem pursuing a spare thought to a Google'd email address and shipping it out. The response rate is actually high.

Sometimes it's finding and responding to a 10+ year old email thread that I had let die off.

Sometimes it's just for mutual amusement. I have a treasured email thread with with Royal Society where they delicately explained that I cannot elect myself to become a Royal Society Fellow. I think they interpreted it as a naive aspiration to become an Important Scientist.

Some good fun can be had by taking a gander through your spam box and responding. The days of penis growth pills seem to have yielded mostly to phishing analogues and opportunities. I was intrigued by an opportunity to join the Illuminati. I responded and asked what the benefits are.

    We are the bearers of new dawns, the guardians of the human species. We are the Pyramid, the Eye, the Light, the Eternal Circle. We are the Illuminati.

    we can offer you,wealth,high position in any area of your life either workplace or in politics

    we can offer you long life, you will forever be happy, you will be protected by the great Baphomet..

    we can offer you a lifestyle that you have been wanting to have, just like those whom

    you already hear about on the news and everywhere.

    you will have money,fame,power,and you will be happy for all the days of your life,

    you will be problem freeman no more worries...

A few emails later I learned that they issue ID cards. Here is what a member of the Illuminati looks like, apparently.

Finally, the Grand Master himself texted me. To proceed they need me to pay an Illuminati membership fee of $150. Who falls for this stuff?





kleinbl00  ·  6 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    The days of penis growth pills seem to have yielded mostly to phishing analogues and opportunities.

Fun fact - every penis pill spam, and every online pharmacy banner ad - every single one - was the work of a Rhodesian supervillain by the name of Paul Calder Le Roux, who is basically what happens if Elon Musk grows up poor but is also actually smart. Mr. Le Roux went from being a software developer largely famous for creating E4M and probably TrueCrypt to being the single point control of Rx Limited to being involved in illegal logging, land scams, drug and arms running and, at one point, attempting to set himself up as a warlord in Somalia. He has been a guest of the United States penal system since September 26, 2012, about fourteen months after Satoshi Nakamoto's last message to the Bitcoin community. He's also under proffer, which means anything he owns is owed to the US government. He is, in my opinion, far and away the best candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto.

    I was intrigued by an opportunity to join the Illuminati. I responded and asked what the benefits are.

I LOVE that you went deeper. Now I regret not replying.

white2  ·  6 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I simply don't understand how people live out crazy lives like this. Sounds like a Neal Stephenson character. I detest the actions... but just so fascinating that people like this exist. I hope he's Satoshi if only to congeal the plot around crypto.