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    In the same way a lot of bullshitters are. He’d say 105 things a week, many of them being mutually exclusive, and then when one of the random guesses happened to have turned out to be true, he’d crow and preen to say he was right and play a clip editing out the parts where he’d said all the other nonsense.

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    Sure.
    It took somebody else editing and producing, but he definitely had something to say at least once.
    This is a clip from an odd movie about death. and life. 25 years ago.
    It’s an Alex Jones rant. And it’s full of beautiful truth.
    Surprise!

    Alex Jones in Richard Linklater’s “Waking Life” (2001)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VERGx6VjIKA

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    There’s a cabal of rich people, some of them potentially pedophiles who are pulling the strings in society… except many of them are his friends and benefactors, and he’s been awfully quiet since the Epstein files got partially released…

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      I mean…yeah…but also the Sandy Hook victims won their lawsuit, and from my understanding he doesn’t have a show anymore. He had to give InfoWars over to The Onion.

      So, yeah. You haven’t heard from him in a while because he has no platform.

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        I mean, they’re used everywhere still and aren’t exactly a dated form of timekeeping or anything even if digital clocks are preferred on computers

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            Idk why this is so downvoted when it’s demonstrably accurate.

            I learned how to read a clock in grade school but analog clocks were phased out for digital clocks by the time I reached middle school and weren’t in my high school at all.

            My daughter is now going to the same grade school I went to and all the analog clocks have been swapped out for digital.

            I personally taught my daughter how to read an analog clock before she even started school but I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t teach her in school since it’s not necessary anymore

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                If the clocks are still in schools, and their schedules are based on time, the kids are going to figure out how to read them.

                Maybe think before you call others dumb…

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                  The teachers literally told me that some can’t even read, so somebody isn’t helping them. Maybe you read before you assume, you are the one that said dumb.

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                  Since you said mate, I assume you don’t live in America. Some of these kids can’t even read. I asked the teachers.

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                Analogue clocks are a much better tool to visualise time than digital. There’s only advantages in learning to read them.

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                My 6 year old learned in school this year, he had homework about it and everything

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            I’m forcing my kids to learn it. Both digital and analog clocks have use cases, but the truth is that analog clocks are simply faster to parse.

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              I don’t care how adept you are at reading an analog clock, there’s no way it’s faster than simply reading a (max) 4 digit number unless you have some massive dyslexia.

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        On an interesting clock note. Yes, analogue clocks are in school, but at home, kids are surrounded by digital clocks on their screens.

        So we are getting kids who can easily reach a digital clock, but are struggling with basics “short hand means hour”

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          Long hand means hour divided by 5. Cut the kids some slack, analog cocks are confusing. They gotta learn their five times tables before they can consistently read clocks. I remember when I was old enough to understand the concept, but a little bit too young to do multiples of five in My head.

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    His infamous statement “chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay” may have been a corruption of the discovery that sewage runoff was feminizing fish because of the estradiol in urine from women on birth control, and other endocrine disrupting chemicals newly found in rivers from human sources.

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    Most conspiracy theories get very close to the truth until they make a hard right turn into “I made it the fuck up” village.