FBI agents investigating if 5G paranoia was behind Nashville bombing

If anyone had alleged "toxic paper is being stuffed into these CDOs and rated AAA by the ratings agencies even though they know it's garbage" while it was ongoing, it would have been dismissed as "conspiracy bs".

Let me get this straight. Thieves and grifters are not the problem, none of your business in fact, it's the rubes who fall for their sophisticated schemes?

There are indeed some legit consumer uses one can point to with 5G, but at the very least they all tend to come with the implication of more surveillance as one effect. For example, the fleet of cars all pinging messages and coordinating with one another implies that their exact location becomes knowable at all times to some centralized network node.

Speaking personally, I started out as an avid Skeptic Magazine reader and conspiracy doubter, but became interested in conspiracies after watching those inclined to believe in them accurately predict in real time (including in HN comments) that Jeffrey Epstein would die in prison before he would be allowed to come to trial or testify against the numerous wealthy & powerful people with whom he was associated. The media then proceeded to immediately circle the wagons and insist that anything other than 'it was a lone suicide' was 'baseless conspiracy theory.'

I imagine for most conspiracy theorists it's a similar process. They see some evidence of our society's widespread institutional corruption and the mass deception which is deployed to protect it, and begin looking for the truth in alternative avenues. Unfortunately it is then very easy to exit the first hall of mirrors into another one, like QAnon.

If you’re a farmer, plenty, as the components for one compound are diesel fuel and fertilizer, both of which are part of “running a farm”

I think people way overestimate the FBI and police department capabilities for detecting these activities.

As another commenter mentioned, diesel fuel and fertilizer are ubiquitous. Tannerite, as you specifically mentioned, can be purchased in bulk by tens-of-lbs at single stores. In fact, you're likely to save a good chunk of change doing so.

I'm not being sarcastic when I say that the US is awash in explosive materials.