Could it be that you're a straight white male who doesn't mix with people outside that particular bubble much? I'm one of those, and I'm willing to believe others when they say it happens, and how often. Even in those places where the majority vote for the more progressive candidate.

"The only moral use of [thing I disapprove of] is my use of [thing I disapprove of]."

A quote that may have originally been about abortion, but applies to most things that serial disapprovers disapprove of.

See also: "Do as I say, not as I do." or as it usually is these days: "Do as I say. I am also doing as I say and if think you see me doing otherwise, no you didn't."

The smaller coffee is an espresso.

Earlier the smaller coffee was gurning, crazed, chewing pure caffeine pills, near foaming at the mouth.

To comprehend the mental state of the caffeine pills themselves would melt our minds and send us insane.

Ask not what they themselves consume.

Ah yes. Chewy boot leather. No it wasn't. It was medium. I still wonder if they pulled the meat out of the fridge and didn't give it a chance to warm through when searing it, but it didn't seem all that rare in the middle. Just... cold.

I once ate a steak that was cold because of this. The memory will haunt me forever.

Fly into his house. Quantum Leap taught me that in some cultures that's considered very bad luck, and in an existential, "your future is ruined" sense, not just the "oh $#!% there's a bird in the house flapping everywhere and $#!%ing on everything" sense.

The same show also suggested not to do so with a friend because that's supposedly good luck again. I suppose having to clean up double bird splatter counts for good karma or something.

Oh, I know how to do that. You move the stick without pushing the clutch.

At the risk of annoying someone who doesn't appreciate a lack of nuance, the saying goes:

Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.

Garfield begs to differ.

"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

There is a problem with this plan: A public-serving pharmacist is unlikely to want to sell in bulk to anyone, and especially not someone who is ranting or deluded.

As such, your vaccine conspiracy theorist will come away thinking that they weren't given the vaccines because "they knew we'd find the chips".

You'd basically have to break the law to break the conspiracy: Steal the vaccines. (This is a hypothetical. Do not steal the vaccines.)

And even then, I'm sure the conspiracy theorist would come up with some way of explaining why that batch didn't have the chips in it. "They were too small for even the microscope to see." / "They knew we were coming and let us steal fakes." / "They're arresting us to keep up the act." / "I bet this prison food has microchips in it too."