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A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
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Just a tangential request: is there any curated playlist consisting of such good podcasts? I have a difficult time discovering interesting podcasts. (Maybe that's an interesting project)
What are you interested in? I have a fairly large list of podcasts that I listen to, I could maybe recommend a few. Sadly, many have wrapped up but the feeds are still up.
I really enjoy Dark net diaries. Im searhing for more "tech stories". Less how they scaled a business more how they scaled the cluster while the DC was on fire.
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#93So strange. I had never heard of. Go ask Alice, and then last week I was listening to a 5-year-old podcast episode of "I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats" and they were talking about it.
It's because the book which is mentioned in the article, "Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries", was just released.
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#94> Utah, reputed to be the fraud capital of America; the state is estimated by some to boast a Ponzi scheme for every hundred thousand people Small tangent, but does anybody in Utah have insight into why this might be? This is bewildering to me.
I used to be Mormon, I think Mormon culture is the main reason. This article seems to describe the reasons well: https://religionnews.com/2017/06/20/10-reasons-mormons-domin...
Somewhat OT, but that web site is quite a find: No clickbait, no discernible slant to the content, equal billing for "Unaffiliated / Atheist"
https://religionnews.com/category/faith/unaffiliated-atheism...
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This sounds like it is backed by some negative experiences with religious folk. I'd be interested to hear what you have experienced if you are willing to share?
Good grief. I have never had a negative experience with religious people. You just can’t accept that I (and most people) dislike door-to-door sales shysters of all types. Don’t project your problems on me.
Re: A Mormon housewife turned a fake diary into an enormous best-seller
#96So strange. I had never heard of. Go ask Alice, and then last week I was listening to a 5-year-old podcast episode of "I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats" and they were talking about it.
It's because the book which is mentioned in the article, "Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries", was just released.
For this, yes, but it was a very old podcast episode.
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A relatively close-knit, high-trust society, with a lot of housewives eager to make themselves some money in a socially acceptable way?
You’re describing Japan. Does Japan have pyramid schemes and MLM? I just watched the anime “Welcome to NHK” and there was an MLM subplot.
The former prime minister was just gunned down in the street over his endorsement of one.
Every insular culture is vulnerable to trust-exploiting schemes.
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Antisemitism is a serious accusation. What is your proof?
You already know the answer, but it's well-established consensus among historians that the Anne Frank diary is authentic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl#Auth... The conspiracy theory that it is fabricated is mostly pushed by fringe "historical revisionists" engaging in Holocaust denial. There are some Christian fundamentalists in the US who also peddle this narrative because the original uned…
> You already know the answer
No, I actually did not. I believed (and still do) that the diary is mostly true, with some editing and sanitizing being done for publication. I had heard that there was some minor controversy regarding those edits and omissions, and I assumed that the flippant post by user “halffaday” (who is not me, N.B.) was referring to that.
> The conspiracy theory that it is fabricated is mostly pushed by fringe "historical revisionists" engaging in Holocaust denial.
I was not aware of this. All I saw was that a joke about Anne Frank’s diary not being 100% accurate turn into an accusation of antisemitism, with no explanation. Not everyone is aware of all of these opinions which are apparently widely considered proxies for antisemitism, racism, etc.
> You don't need to play these games here. Pretending you're "just asking questions" to hide your political alignment
No everybody who just asks question is secretly a nazi.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are you interested in? I have a fairly large list of podcasts that I listen to, I could maybe recommend a few. Sadly, many have wrapped up but the feeds are still up.
I really enjoy Dark net diaries. Im searhing for more "tech stories". Less how they scaled a business more how they scaled the cluster while the DC was on fire.
Interestingly, despite working in tech I mostly don't listen to tech podcasts! I tend to be more interested in other things in my down time
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
A relatively close-knit, high-trust society, with a lot of housewives eager to make themselves some money in a socially acceptable way?
You’re describing Japan. Does Japan have pyramid schemes and MLM? I just watched the anime “Welcome to NHK” and there was an MLM subplot.
I described it that way because I live in Japan and recognized the similarities :). Outright violent crime is very rare here, but there are a lot of scams.