We've got a bunch of new people now so let's bring back a classic post. What low stakes conspiracy theory do you believe that you cannot prove but feels right to you?

I'll start: I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being "creepy" through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I think that's the general academic consensus, that Koko probably had some simple psudo-signing behaviour to communicate single concepts (perhaps even as complex as "sad"), but had no real language capability and was just randomly stringing these concepts together at best and signing whatever got her food at worst, likely somewhere between the two.