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Goa Tse-tung
Feb 11, 2008

;3

Yams Fan

OfficialGBSCaliph posted:

Found the embarrassing thing in your post history

SA is good, being an old member of SA is good

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Weatherman
Jul 30, 2003

WARBLEKLONK

Goa Tse-tung posted:

SA is good, being an old member of SA is good

:regd08:

Data Graham
Dec 28, 2009

📈📊🍪😋



Snatch Duster posted:

You people are literally making fun of an enduring FB photo of well meaning dad hugging his daughters prom date. I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was the daughter and mothers idea in the first place.

You keep using this word, I do not think it means what you think it means



Wait, did you mean endearing?

ravenkult
Feb 3, 2011


He's talking about Enduro bikes duh

BobbyK
Jun 4, 2008

by Cyrano4747

Data Graham posted:

You keep using this word, I do not think it means what you think it means



Wait, did you mean endearing?

That photo is withstanding all these mean goons making fun of it

Lottery of Babylon
Apr 25, 2012

STRAIGHT TROPIN'

Everything is not as it seems, and a great deal of what we have been taught is a fabrication of phenomenal proportions. Now, of course, I don't claim to know largely any of this: my position on most things is defined through the process of fallibilism. Quite simple in essence, fallibilism is the axiom that no matter what we believe, our knowledge ever remains possibly wrong and open to revision. It is ever possible that new information or a new interpretation on old information can radically change everything we believe, and it is only on this basis that we can have any assurance of our conclusions. Certainty, according to fallibilism, simply cannot exist for us, and embracing this precept is at the same time a necessary condition for the possibility of any knowledge whatsoever.

I am not afraid to be wrong, either; nor to speak what I believe to be truth, to power or not.

To summarise my current theory first: I think the earth is flat and unmoving, and that we are in an enclosed system, much like a snowglobe. It does get complicated though: I think the shape is far more like an eyeball looking up than any standard snowglobe shape. I believe that the equations for gravity between bodies explain nothing and are nothing more than overcomplicated ratio equations, that the entire space program is a giant hoax, and that Antarctica is a ring around the outside of our "little" fishpond. I believe gravity is entirely a work of fiction, and that what we experience in the observable world can be explained through electromagnetics and density. I believe that the sun and moon are the same size and distance and function literally as a clock for us, as do the wandering stars we call planets. I think the sun and moon act in tandem as some sort of energy recycling system, a feedback loop.

I believe the shape and nature of our plane/t is very important, not for any reasons of distracting from other more immediate concerns others feel are, for whatever reason, more important, but because it really does blow your mind just how intensely we have been deceived about everything. With all things, you must ask cui bono: who benefits? Why the gently caress would anyone lie about something like that? And how loving could they? Surely someone would call that poo poo out, right? Well, yes, of course, and many people have, for a very long time. Others have been more subtle in how they have tried to admit what they had to shut up about while they were still alive. I believe you know very well why this is so important, as it functions as a proof of a number of pretty important things...

Here is the thing: the satanists can't have it both ways. They can't spend half of their energy making fun of the very idea of the existence of God and the other half going out of their way to offend Her. Sooner or later you have to see the irony in this – and if you haven't seen the signs everywhere that you are very much steeped in a fully disfunctioning satanic society and system, well... I guess I need to do a simple one on reading symbols for people...

I understand that I am but a flawed human, and my attacks on standard accepted science are very large indeed, yet you must realise that the burden is still not on me to prove my position in any way; I would not have the means at my disposal to conduct the necessary experiments on the necessary scale to prove what it is, nor is that my aim in any way. But I can, absolutely prove that what we have been told is simply wrong, and does not hold up according to its own stated logic. This, of course, leaves any number of possible explanations for everything, and the current theories I hold are based on my own experiments, both logically and physically. I have gotten to the point that I don't believe anything I cannot reliably reproduce and check for myself. gently caress all the bad actors that got us here.

Our Celestial Timepiece

We have this system with twelve months all jumbled as they are specifically to confuse things, and make them seem random and unconnected. Leap years used to be called leap days, and you had one every year, and two on every fourth year. You also have to understand a bit about the Jewish calendar, at least that they begin the day at sundown, and the week begins on the sundown of the Sabbath, which is actually Saturnday. We used to and are supposed to have thirteen Moonths, all of an even twenty-eight days. Every month starts on the same day for the whole year (at sundown on the Sabbath every six years, with a strange alignment repeating in twenty-eight year cycles) and poo poo starts functioning literally like clockwork. By nature of the leap days, you get this shifting every year of when dates fall.

You also further need to know at least a little bit about women. Women are more social than men in ways that men are simply unequipped to ever comprehend. There is an odd thing that happens in women, that the more time they spend together, over time, their cycles start aligning. They bleed together on the regular. Now, there is this other effect with women, found mostly in rural areas and very common in traditional societies (read: when their hormones are not being hosed with on industrial scales) that women then to start aligning with the moon, and always the New Moon. On a year where every thirteenth day of the month lined up with the new moon (which it generally always would, 13th/14th due to being a lunar calendrical system) and just happened to land on a Friday, Friday the 13th would indeed be a hosed omen for all the men of the keep.

That our calendars are specifically hosed up to hide all of this is telling evidence of handshakes of providence behind some of these machinations. That we do not follow a lunar calendar (which also lines up with astrological categories more cleanly – I have no specialist knowledge, or even amateur knowledge, of astrology though, so I will leave that part of it to others better versed) makes less sense than the continued use of ancient Egyptian measurements under different names in America today. It is not a coincidence, nor an accident, nor is it some cute little relic we just keep around our of nostalgia like the queen... Things are as they are by design, and this is one lovely design meant only to confuse.

According to our "knowledge;" the phases of the moon are caused by the earth getting in between the other two celestial bodies on the regular, according to regular rhythms. This is refuted by just looking up on any morning throughout a good portion of the year that you can clearly see the sun and moon in the sky together: above us, unobstructed by anything. Now, before you start trying to tell me how light moves, it takes just over eight minutes for light to reach earth from the sun (according to their equations), and less than a second to be reflected from the earth to the moon and back. However, the phases of the moon are set, regardless of the position of the earth relative to the sun and moon or the moon relative to the sun itself. If their explanation for the phases of the moon were in any manner correct, the moon would simply always be full when in the sky with the sun, unobstructed by the earth. It is bullshit, I am afraid. Also, this simply cannot be caused by the rotation of the moon itself, as we are told it is locked into a geosynchronous orbit, hence why we only ever see the one face of it.

Lack of Curvature

It is not loving there, bro. At altitude on a flight, the horizon is always at eye level. This is simply not possible on a globe of any dimensions. In fact, the horizon should always be below the midpoint of your vision and recede at a dizzying rate on any uniformly curved surface. Simple thought experiment: put an ant onto the surface of a basketball and make eye contact with him or her. Develop a mental connection, a staring contest or something where you are both just as into it as each other. Maintain eye contact while slowly moving the ball. You will notice that the ant is not restricted by the same horizons that you are on your ball. Rather than a 180 degree expanse that you get to see, the ant has well more than 270 degrees of freedom of vision unrestricted by any blocking horizons.

Now, I get it: big ant, tiny ball: the proportions and ratios are all hosed up, right? Well, not so much, particularly when observed from twelve to thirteen thousand metres. It is very much the same, even enhanced version of the same thought experiment: at cruising altitude, the horizon should drop away frighteningly: it simply does not.

Water does not curve, water finds the same level everywhere: it is not affected by elevation or distance, such amazing bridges as the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway prove this in massive effect. Water requires a gradient to drain that is actually far greater than the supposed curvature of the earth (0.5% versus 0.0126%); this is preposterous. A round ball earth simply in no way can account for the behaviour of water. And before you offer that the curve on the surface of the water is just so gradual that I cannot notice it, do a search for " Lake Pontchartrain Causeway construction" and note how the whole phenomenal project was accomplished with the bendy powers of lasers. In this instance, lasers would have to somehow follow the "curve" of the water's surface, right?

Seriously, look into the equations for curvature: aside from thank funky number of the beast repeating ad nauseum (0.666 feet over one mile, 66.6 feet at ten miles, etc., etc.), it is far larger than you might think, and is disproven time and again by simple experiments with good cameras. The videography revolution has produced more than just fuji blimps with facial recognition for the po-po: the same consumer hubris has produced relatively cheap cameras that reveal everything. There is more just on this idea I could continue with, but there are a lot of points I would like to cover.

The problem with atmosphere: you can't have it both ways

The explanations of how our atmosphere functions on a spinning globe are flat out preposterous. Let's begin with the problem of planes taking off and landing on a spinning globe. This is less pronounced the further you get from the equator, but at the equator itself, the earth is supposedly spinning at just under the speed of sound. In my experience, however, I have found that runways are not uniformly aligned according to directions anywhere on the planet, and that runway alignments are entirely a function of making the geographical area work for the individual airport: there are runways going north-south, east-west, west-east, and south-north, and every possible variation in between. This becomes a problem when you consider how relative velocities operate. This guy and his series illustrate a lot of these issues, and can save me a great deal of typing.

I do believe that the setting of the sun is caused by atmospheric density illustrated poorly here

I apologise for copping out of argument with some videos, but this is already turning into a bit of a document.

Sun Shafts

Those moments where you hear the choir of angels and see that scene renaissance painters used to use their own excrement to paint on chapel ceilings. I was kicked out of scouts when I was younger, but before I was, I did manage to learn enough orienteering to have made my way almost across this vast brown expanse of a country on my own, with a lot of solo camping and exploring along the way. I am also a shark on any pool table: I like angles and vector equations, I am drat good with a map and compass, and I have also studied how light operates and refracts quite intensely. I can tell you that the sun is much closer than you think just through triangulation.

Now, I know, those shafts of light are created by just a portion of the sun peeking through the clouds and prove nothing, right? For the purposes of our experiment, it would be preferable to be able to isolate as small a portion of the sun as possible, actually. The narrower the point of convergence, the better for our equations. It is quite simple: mark the furthest points from one another that radiant shafts of light create on the ground and make the triangle. Now, is you look into how light actually works, there are added problems to consider with this, in that light refracts outwards (it basically bends around corners: you can do, or just look up, the slit experiments to get an idea), and further, you have to take into account that the clouds themselves which are making the effect are a great deal of distance away from the source of the light, right? Which, like, totally invalidates such a thought experiment, right? Well, no; quite the opposite in fact. The size of the sun relative to the clouds gives much of this ruse away. Put very simply: for the sun to even appear as small as it is relative to the earth would require a radiance, rather than a convergence, of beams of light that emanate from it: it would always appear as spokes on a wheel, also radiating above the clouds, following the same pattern of radiance. It does not, it is directional. You can't explain this with star physics, but you can explain it with a flashlight...

The Dangles

These lucifarian dregs: they do love to laugh at us, to dangle the obvious over and over again. I know this sounds pretty crazy, but you can just kind of do your own inversion on their inversion to get to the truth some of the time. Now, don't get me wrong, we are living in the age where a toupee puppeting an orange muppet with his finger sewn onto the button is playing 369369D Chess and all, but no: their plans are not so grand to unravel, in most cases they are just too covered with feces and other fluids to even want to touch it to unravel. Just bleach-bathe it and move on in most cases. But yeah, the reality of flat earth is loving dangled in front of you constantly.


Honestly, I have a few other points to get through, but I am happy to post this as it stands and come back to it with more after I get a feed in me. There is a wild storm outside tonight, and I do want to catch some of it. I apologise if this is rushed and unedited. I do have a fair bit more to get to, perhaps in comments later, perhaps in a second post; we'll see what happens in the comments. For now, I think we should turn the PCs off before anything gets fried. G'night, all you lovely fuckers.

oldpainless
Oct 30, 2009

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I'm not reading any of that

new friend from school
May 19, 2008

by Azathoth

oldpainless posted:

I'm not reading any of that

Gumbel2Gumbel
Apr 28, 2010

china bot
Sep 7, 2014

you listen HERE pal
SAY GOODBYE TO TELEPHONE SEX
Plaster Town Cop
suddenly everything has changed

hyperhazard
Dec 4, 2011

I am the one lascivious
With magic potion niveous

Lottery of Babylon posted:

These lucifarian dregs: they do love to laugh at us, to dangle the obvious over and over again. I know this sounds pretty crazy, but you can just kind of do your own inversion on their inversion to get to the truth some of the time. Now, don't get me wrong, we are living in the age where a toupee puppeting an orange muppet with his finger sewn onto the button is playing 369369D Chess and all, but no: their plans are not so grand to unravel, in most cases they are just too covered with feces and other fluids to even want to touch it to unravel. Just bleach-bathe it and move on in most cases. But yeah, the reality of flat earth is loving dangled in front of you constantly.

Those links are golden. The United Nations logo is a sign :tinfoil:

Doubtful Guest
Jun 23, 2008

Meanwhile, Conradin made himself another piece of toazzzzzzt.

oldpainless posted:

I'm not reading any of that

More like Old Planeless.

Who What Now
Sep 10, 2006

by Azathoth

LoB rules and his gimmick is good.

Fathis Munk
Feb 23, 2013

??? ?

Lottery of Babylon posted:

You also further need to know at least a little bit about women

Thread title please.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

We get LOB because you idiots keep engaging SD and this is what we deserve.

Munchables
Feb 8, 2015

Ask/tell me about legal cannibalism

Look what we have wrought

Glukeose
Jun 6, 2014

I read every LoB post. Every single one.

Munchables
Feb 8, 2015

Ask/tell me about legal cannibalism

Glukeose posted:

I read every LoB post. Every single one.

:same:

WrenP-Complete
Jul 27, 2012

LoB is one of my heroes.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?

Picnic Princess posted:

We get LOB because you idiots keep engaging SD and this is what we deserve.

Snatch Duster is just upset the cosplay thread closed.

The Shame Boy
Jan 27, 2014

Dead weight, just like this post.



LOB can you quote me before you do your next post TIA

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!

Henchman of Santa
Aug 21, 2010
Does anyone know why it's a thing now for pages to share gifs (or even still images) as videos?

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

Henchman of Santa posted:

Does anyone know why it's a thing now for pages to share gifs (or even still images) as videos?

because gifs are horrible and poo poo and you end up downloading a 50mb gif that lasts like 3 seconds because nobody loving optimizes them

Inco
Apr 3, 2009

I have been working out! My modem is broken and my phone eats half the posts I try to make, including all the posts I've tried to make here. I'll try this one more time.

Henchman of Santa posted:

Does anyone know why it's a thing now for pages to share gifs (or even still images) as videos?

WebMs and gifvs are way smaller than gifs. A 30MB .gif file can be turned into something like a 2MB .webm with no loss of quality.

bean_shadow
Sep 27, 2005

If men had uteruses they'd be called duderuses.
Pretty tame.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

Oh poo poo they just summoned Parkville, we're hosed now

Lonos Oboe
Jun 7, 2014

Lottery of Babylon posted:


Lack of Curvature

Simple thought experiment: put an ant onto the surface of a basketball and make eye contact with him or her. Develop a mental connection, a staring contest or something where you are both just as into it as each other. Maintain eye contact while slowly moving the ball. You will notice that the ant is not restricted by the same horizons that you are on your ball. Rather than a 180 degree expanse that you get to see, the ant has well more than 270 degrees of freedom of vision unrestricted by any blocking horizons.

So glad I read this post.

Somfin
Oct 25, 2010

In my🦚 experience🛠️ the big things🌑 don't teach you anything🤷‍♀️.

Nap Ghost

I think it's wonderfully appropriate that the "editor" put in almost no effort compared to the hard work of the original creator, but probably received far more praise from the shitheads of the world

Waterbed Wendy
Jan 29, 2009
poo poo man.... good luck

Absurd Alhazred
Mar 27, 2010

by Athanatos

Waterbed Wendy posted:

poo poo man.... good luck



אבל למה?!

snergle
Aug 3, 2013

A kind little mouse!

ghost emoji posted:

Swear to god every time I see a debate about abortion on Facebook, it's a woman arguing the pro-choice position, and a dude with terrible grammar and a profile picture of a car arguing the pro-life position.

It's the reverse in my experience but every woman related to me is hardcore pro life even in edge cases like the mother will probably die. I blame my mom. Her mom had cancer back in the 60s and they told her having a child while having cobalt therapy was dumb poo poo and she kept my mom instead of getting an abortion and she died. My moms entire life is basically based around that and having tons of kids.

change my name
Aug 27, 2007

Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

poly and open-minded
Nov 22, 2006

In BOD we trust

poo poo, I like Shkreli a little now

new friend from school
May 19, 2008

by Azathoth
Yeah, he usually shits all over poor people, but here he is trolling the privileged. Still gotta hate him

WrenP-Complete
Jul 27, 2012

Absurd Alhazred posted:

אבל למה?!

למה לא?!

Lol.

change my name
Aug 27, 2007

Legends die but anime is forever.

RIP The Lost Otakus.

new friend from school posted:

Yeah, he usually shits all over poor people, but here he is trolling the privileged. Still gotta hate him

People are just messaging him for internships now (he joined all of the Ivy meme pages at the same time to shitpost in)

FirstAidKite
Nov 8, 2009

Gr4vyB04t
Jan 31, 2010

Hey gurl, hey.

Idiots on Social Media: I'm going to crush you with my jagdtiger.

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Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013



Thanks, Leo

(NB I am not the OP and do not require lawn mower advice)

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