Sunday, January 5, 2025

Know Your Grifter Tactics - Forcing the Issue vs. Improving the Math

I much prefer the former, where the scammer has taken the initiative and maybe even introduced something new and innovative.  It’s been said that Charles Ponzi and his famous scheme was maybe more copycat activity than originally his own idea.

Gematria is heavily based on working the math to your favor.  Combined with an uncaring social media algorithm process and limited, essentially nonexistent, moderation procedure it’s easiest to just float out a story and let the random first time viewer get curious.  Letting nature take its course.  Based on math some of those curious people will be susceptible enough to keep the curiosity level up enough to dive deeper into the rabbit hole.  Deep enough to eventually start emptying their bank account for the sake of something with questionable entertainment value.

The story of today’s math side begins with the death of Aubrey Plaza’s husband.  I’m a big Aubrey fan, her comedic talent stems from a spontaneous and unfiltered immediate response with some of the most wacky nonsense.  The odds that some other would be comedian has ever said the same thing are close to zero.  A bad comedian would make an obvious and unfunny joke about her name and maybe a shopping plaza tie in.  And other bad comedians would do the same.

Here’s a screenshot of a skeptic commenting on the video, correctly pointing out that it really doesn’t make a lot of sense.  And a snarky reply from a gematria fan.

As an Aubrey fan I’m amazed that I didn’t even know she was married before this story broke.  Never heard of the husband before yesterday.  There’s math points to this.  A significant amount of the “decoding” relates to Aubrey’s name recognition.  Math points gained for death.  People who are into conspiracy theories prefer a good death story.  Death means ritual sacrifice, not succumbing peacefully in your sleep to old age.

And then beyond the obvious forcing the math into your favor the story starts to break down.  The decode switches gears to the NBA, as a previous narrative was about the NBA.  But it’s not about a death in the NBA or even a loved one of an NBA player’s family number as is often the case.  Someone was injured, as if a sports injury is some uncommon and strange and wondrous event.  That’s some high quality grasping at “synchronicity” straws.

A search engine has the AI overview show that there’s 5.6 to 7.0 injuries per 10,000 game minutes.  And that’s injuries serious enough for the loss of game time.  Let’s call that six per 10k.  30 teams x 82 game schedule x players per team = 590,400 game minutes without overtime.  And at a rate of 6 per 10,000 minutes that’s 354 injuries per season.  Why wait around for the occasional death, even of a famous ex NBA star when an injury was newsworthy?

The poster of that question is correct.  There is no significance other than random and rather stupid and arbitrary connections to things that have no meaningful connection.  Compare that throwing around some low statistical value two to four digit gematria decoding to the effort put into the next story.

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In what is sure to be a running joke for quite some time here, the story of Mary Bateman (link at the end) was executed for murder and fraud in the early 19th century for what would land her a cabinet administration post in the upcoming Trump term.

Mary apparently enjoyed stealing and she certainly would be into gematria today.  She latched on to another common gematria topic, the end of the world prophecy.  Selling useless trinkets - pieces of paper as admission tickets to heaven, because a chicken was laying prophetic eggs.  The first egg her magic chicken produced had clearly inscribed upon it:

                       Crist is coming

Apparently the misspelling wasn’t intentional, but the chicken added a nice touch there.  Who would expect a chicken to have perfect grammar.  More inscribed eggs kept following from the same chicken.  And amazingly these weren’t just proclaimed to be coming from that chicken, it was actually, really coming from this one magic chicken.

Fortunately some skeptical sleuths figured something was amiss and did a stakeout operation to see if they could uncover what was really going on.  Chicken lays egg.  Words inscribed on the calcium based eggshell with the mild acid in vinegar.  A little creative animal abuse forcing the eggs back up the magic chicken’s privates.  Chicken protrudes the now magic messaged egg again.  It’s a miracle!!

Now that is some high quality scamming showing a degree of innovation and time investment far removed from Aubrey Plaza = Sports Injury because of tiny numbers.  The gematria crowd leaders are pretty much just phoning in their performance at this point.

https://www.iflscience.com/how-the-yorkshire-witch-scammed-1806-leeds-with-apocalyptic-chicken-eggs-and-simple-chemistry-59356



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