I am entirely convinced the flat earth movement consists of 90% pranksters who are doing it for shits and giggles and 10% bona fide contrarian retards who falsely believe they’re in good company.
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I think it's more like 10% grifters, 90% dupes.
What's the grift angle? People make money believing that shit?
I work with a guy who is convinced the earth is flat and space is fake and all the governments know it and that's why planes aren't allowed to ever fly over Antarctica or something.
But even that guy jumped off the trump train.
But even that guy jumped off the trump train.
top kek
I worked with someone who seriously claimed that covid was produced by 5G towers, and also was a con by the government so they could inject nanobots into our blood via vaccines. He was never able to see the contradiction.
He also relieved that if you speed in a rental car for some reason the police cannot pull you over. Boy was he wrong.
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I lol'd. We all have a coworker like that. Hell, he's my supervisor.
Maybe started by pranksters then grifters realizes that can sell fake books and fake stuff like some fake tool that pretends to prove some false assumption
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i think you have the percentages wrong but the groups right. more like 1:3 pranksters:dipshits
also, would you mind using a different word than retard? i don't particularly like being grouped with flat earthers.
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And he also learnt how to hold his phone horizontally. Truly a journey of self-discovery.
Hiis shift in perspective was multi-layered
So I guess it’s either hold your phone flat or the earth is flat, but not both. The orientation change when he changed.
I'm a flat spacer, I think spacetime is flat, continuous, and homogeneous therefore ensuring any finite arrangement of energy is occurring infinite times in any direction you can point. Is there an atom for atom replica of the earth, it's entire history, and me? Yup, infinitely many in any direction one can point, along with all other finite arrangements of energy.
I don't think that makes sense mathematically speaking. To turn the state of a group of atoms into numbers that can be represented by a random experiment, one would need to use continuous (i.e. non-quantized) variables. A continuous variable can take an uncountably infinite number of values, so it can't be modeled by a countably infinite arrangement like the one you've described. It's kind of like how you can choose real numbers at random for all eternity and never get the number 7.
Reality isn't continuous, at least as far as we are aware. Past the plank scale at least our models don't work. Infinite information to encode everything seems like it would all just collapse into a black hole immediately so having some limit somewhere makes sense at least in that way.
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What happened 6 months ago to show this man the light?
I’m pretty sure that’s one of the guy in the Netflix documentary about flat earther. Over the course of the documentary he design with one of his friend an experiment … and the documentary end with him looking at the results and questioning his beliefs
It’s a shit documentary but there’s some insight (not because the director is brilliant, because he don’t know what he’s recording) into the conspiracionists psych
Anyway that meme is old, pre covid
If you're talking about Behind the Curve, that was a brilliant documentary.
Agree to disagree. The only thing it does was to preach to the already convinced.
You cannot reason anyone out of a position they did not reason themselves into.
I think it was not meant to convince anybody out of being flat-earther. It makes a fool out of them, but also it shows that there are humans behind the movement and their motivation (they went down the wrong path and got indoctrinated by the wrong people, and are now isolated by everybody else). I started the documentary thinking thar they are all stupid, and ended it feeling a bit sad about them and understanding a bit why would anybody continue to be part of a group spreating such an obvious lie. They really need some friends outside that group, support and some good education... the flat earthers and many conspiracy theory groups would have already died out, if society did not treat these people as a lost cause. It also explains indirectly why even some very intelligent people do fall for other conspiracy theories (like qanon).
I think it has changed how I would talk to a conspiracy theorist in real life, and I think it's great that it managed to do that.
I was hoping to enjoy it but those fuckers were so fucking sad. No lives or friends. No measurable accomplishments.
Spent fucking several grand on a silly Lazer experiment.
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wait the meme works in reverse?
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First video: I saw the light, don't be fooled by the lies they tell you.
Latest video: I saw the light, don't be fooled by the lies they tell you
Whatever generates more profit is what they believe.
The conspiracy theorist YouTube space is oversaturated and it's difficult to generate new content when you don't really have anything new to bring to the table.
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If you generate more profit by aligning with reality, I'll say go for it
Don’t quote me on this, but I think this guy was one of the people who went to the Arctic to see a 24 hour sunny day and actually accepted the evidence
Flat earth is one of those things that's so ignorant that I don't even get mad at them. I just feel sad for them.
The only issue I have with flat earthers is the arrogance. The rest is ignorance that we can deal with if they allow us.
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I also like that his views increased as he became more aware of the bs he fell for.
woah. i never see this. like as a former cultist, your typical response is "not my circus, not my monkeys" (even if it is your circus and your monkeys. I wish i never started that whale cult)
Whale cult? Sounds like story time 🍿
There's this big whale statue in Utah and I started a joke religion about it. Only some folk took it seriously. Like I wasn't even in Utah
Edit this whale
It was a running joke for the weekend on an alumni website and then I didn't hear anything about until I read this article
I think Mark Sargent has quietly figured it out, but he makes a living being the "flat earth guy", and doesn't know what else to do with his life.
What really surprised me about Behind the Curve was how smart a lot of those guys were.
The smarter someone is, the better they're able to rationalize what they believe. Admitting one is wrong isn't usually a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of pride (or money).
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Applauded for pulling his head out of his ass. Good news America - we've failed.
Better than keeping his head up his ass. Conspiracy groups can often also be part of community and identity. Changing your mind, therefore, might mean losing a social circle and possibly status that you thought to have. He probably though that he was smarter than 90% of the population, and now he feels like an idiot.
In that scenario, this is the best outcome and it should be applauded. If we don't reward people for escaping and admitting their wrong, then they could easily get trapped. Why change your mind when it means that nobody likes you anymore and everyone thinks you're an idiot?
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Anyone that can learn from their mistakes and take in new information that was against their initial beliefs is worthy of praise.
This is the problem with gossip or idle chatter. Things you think are jokes or just weird culture is actually seeding by psyops or con men.
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