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alt-textA three-panel comic strip. In the first panel, a man in a suit (Alex Jones) is sitting at a desk with a banner behind him that says "Info Wars". Offscreen, someone says "Cut!! That's a wrap for today!"

In the second panel, “later”, Jones asks a green frog washing dishes "Everything ok, babe?"

In the third panel, the frog cries and demands "How long do we have to hide who we are??"

Frog truth via UC Berkeleyhttps://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs

Pesticide atrazine can turn male frogs into females

Atrazine, one of the world’s most widely used pesticides, wreaks havoc with the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, biologists.

The 75 percent that are chemically castrated are essentially “dead” because of their inability to reproduce in the wild, reports UC Berkeley’s Tyrone B. Hayes, professor of integrative biology.

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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for sharing the "Frog Truth", OP. Of all the insane things AJ has said over the years, I always found it funny that this seemingly deranged claim was actually the one that had a kernel of truth to it.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Heh yeah he really bungled it (for dramatic effect presumably) but it’s surprising it wasn’t purely sourced from like:

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

I didn't know these existed without a story about the bat baby.

[–] KnowledgeableNip@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Have to wonder if he was paid to make it sound insane to take all the air out of the studies.

[–] nifty@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

You make your best life with that frog, or you let that frog go. The frog deserves better, Alex!

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Artstyle of this Alex Jones reminds me of this.

(I wish Piped was working right now)

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Interesting, that's from a real movie huh.

Waking Life (2001)

A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.

Also - working Piped(.smnz.de) mirror.

I also highly recommend the movie, one of my all time favorites (and not because of this scene)

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Yea, the movie is great as a whole. Has a lot of philosophy talk in it. The clip alone with Alex Jones makes him seem weird and empty with the rest of the movie. I guess it is framed like a dream, with a bunch of philosophers

Also, thank you for the piped mirror!

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the trip down memory lane! Love that movie. Also, the comments section in that video are a trip lmao

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

loves oil companies = loves gay frogs.

Also wasn't the whole thing proven to be untrue? I recall reading a couple years ago about a study found unpolluted areas had similar rates of sex change to polluted areas. Apparently frogs just change sex

[–] KnowledgeableNip@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

Saw someone actually dig into this. There's a lab that makes the pesticides that cause the harm. They've convinced Congress to raise the bar on how experiments must be done for this research to require expensive equipment, so your average independent or university researcher couldn't afford to produce results- but the big corporate lab can.

https://youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc?si=f1tB8JCcJyCYQ40X

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

when have we ever needed any kind of study to know that this dude lies? that's literally all he does. claiming anything this cunt says is true is an extraordinary claim which requires extraordinary evidence. otherwise I'll just assume he's lying.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Yes of course, he’s the worst, believe this is a response to the link hidden in the spoiler:

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Are you saying that Alex Jones said something...that was untrue?

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

he gets downloads from god to protect our holy christian nation from demon globalist communist satan worshippers. Surely he wouldn't lie to us

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 5 months ago
[–] Frog@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

Alex! How long?!