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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 15:18:30 +1100
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On 4/01/2025 7:11 am, john larkin wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 19:24:31 +0800, Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 02-Jan-25 2:00 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
>>> Is what 'they' said at the outset. Now it emerges he had an ISIS flag in
>>> his truck at the time! No wonder fewer and fewer people are trusting the
>>> legacy media. This is why it's so important to have citizen journalists
>>> mobilised and fact-checking what's really going on when these incidents
>>> occur. I don't suppose the rather embarrassing presence of the flag would
>>> have been revealed otherwise.
>>
>> For years the conspiracy theorists were telling us that governments were
>> using the threat of terrorism to take away our freedoms.
>>
>> Now the conspiracy theory is that governments are hiding the existence
>> of terrorism from us.
>>
>> So which is it?
>>
>> Sylvia.
> 
> Chaotic complex nonlinear systems have the property that their future
> gross states can't be predicted far into the future, because they are
> exquisitely sensitive to the cant-be-exactly-known current state.
> 
> But the chaos effect works in negative time too. T=0 is an arbitrary
> instant. So the causality of the present is suspect in a chaotic
> system too.
> 
> So most any conspiracy theory has a chance of being true.

If you are as bad at doing joined up logic as John Larkin is, this may 
look like a convincing argument.

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney