deepdriver

>Over the next week, the full scale of Aum's activities was revealed for the first time. At the cult's headquarters in Kamikuishiki on the foot of Mount Fuji, police found explosives, chemical weapons, and a Russian Mil Mi-17 military helicopter. While the finding of biological warfare agents such as anthrax and Ebola cultures was reported, those claims now appear to have been widely exaggerated.[52] There were stockpiles of chemicals that could be used for producing enough sarin to kill four million people.[53]

They bought a sheep farm in Australia to mine uranium in order to enrich it and build nuclear weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjawarn_Station#Aum_Shinriky...

Had they not been caught, I have little doubt they'd have eventually succeeded.

Comment · 4 years ago

Is "Robloxing" the new "but in Minecraft?"

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/in-minecraft

Comment · 4 years ago

>It's easily verifiable that bank details were shared on KF.

I see you've backed off from "bank account numbers" to "bank account details," perhaps after Googling the same Twitter screenshots I just found in an attempt to verify your claim. Those screenshots show a user describing a hacked bank account's balance and recent purchases. That's pretty bad; hacking into bank accounts is very illegal. The individual who broke into the account very likely committed a crime. Regardless, the screenshots don't show any credentials or account numbers. I'm not sure if posting someone's bank balance is illegal, but I'm guessing it isn't; maybe it depends on how it was obtained... don't know, not a lawyer.

Of course, the screenshot is totally unverifiable now that KF is wiped from the Internet Archives, which is the point of the submitted link.

Comment · 4 years ago

I've never seen this alleged "suicide counter" on the website, though I've only looked at it closely in the past couple weeks.

The site owner posted this rebuttal to assignment of blame for these suicides, which I find compelling. For instance, the widow of one victim decried Vice News (one source referenced in the article) for using her death to attack Kiwi Farms:

https://archive.ph/XNQYY

Comment · 4 years ago

If you want a real conspiracy theory, recall that original and long-running KF thread subject Christine Weston Chandler was persuaded to incestuously assault her mother by a person named Isabella Janke. Kiwi Farms uncovered Isabella's history with Christine, and extensively documented her online activities to include allegations of extortion, CASM, and animal abuse:

https://archive.ph/3Ev0l

Now consider that Isabella's father Mike Janke is a former Navy SEAL who has a professional relationship with Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wio7sDDBA

These records have been wiped from the Internet Archive. I wonder how long they will remain on archive.ph.

Comment · 4 years ago

The site was tried not in a court of law but in the court of public opinion. Removing evidence from the one court where it matters, especially as precedent for similar extralegal trials in the future, is harmful to the open web.

Comment · 4 years ago

They've documented various criminals, pedophiles, and rapists, such as child abuser Nick Bate:

https://lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-man-jailed-u...

https://archive.ph/Kmu6p

They've extensively documented actual alt-right figures such as neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes, who they consider one of their "lolcows." They also followed and recorded the activity of accused rapist Christine (formerly Christopher) Weston Chandler, the original "lolcow", though several users interacted with Chris over the years in ways that may have contributed to his/her decline:

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/sonichu-creator-has-been-arres...

They also discovered and documented Isabella Janke, allegedly the person most responsible for convincing Christine to abuse her mother, among other allegations:

https://archive.ph/3Ev0l

This truth of these allegations will likely come out at at Christine's upcoming trial, assuming enough evidence was preserved. Incidentally, Isabella's father Mike Janke has a professional relationship with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1wio7sDDBA

Comment · 4 years ago

There were no dumps of bank account numbers. As far as I saw, Kiwi Farms users posted only publicly-available info about thread subjects. In my opinion, certain categories of public yet personally-identifying information should be covered by US law in a way similar to HIPAA. However, that is not currently the case.

Also, info like someone's phone number and home address are only a click away once you have their full name and approximate age/geographic location, at least for people haven't taken extraordinary steps to limit discoverability on Spokeo or White Pages. People post full names and locations to Twitter all the time. They call it "unmasking" when it's someone the ruling consensus dislikes, while they know the info will be used to look up the "dox." This is not Twitter or Kiwi Farms' fault. It is the result of flaws in our legal system which allow sites like Spokeo and White pages to operate.

Comment · 4 years ago

Rammed earth is more abundant, potentially cheaper, and has far better sound and thermal insulation properties:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220705-the-sustainable-...

It is more labor-intensive but easily automated, at least one start-up has worked/is working on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TXj5IIkUIY

Rammed earth panels can also be prefabricated and delivered to build site via truck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFddMSRel4A

The city of Shibam in Yemen shows how a high-rise rammed earth/adobe city might look. It's possible to adapt this technique to wet climates with appropriate plasters and maintenance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm8OGIZ7tag

Comment · 4 years ago

> I don't see what's the link between his origins and his sins in life. Both can be studied independently regardless of the other.

I agree! Historians who went quiet on this when “evil Columbus” became the dominant interpretation don’t seem to share that same view. Nor do those who downvoted and flagged my post, apparently.