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BalloonFish posted:They usually square this by holding checkout staff to some impossible nostalgic standard - they bristle at having to do their own checkout, hate the actual people who work tills for [reasons] but love the platonic ideal of a checkout clerk who wears a perfectly ironed apron, stands up for an entire 8hr shift, has a permanent sunny grin, thinks "no price tag so it must be free, right?" is the funniest joke ever, will compliment their product choices as they scan them, knows all the stock prices and can work out change instantly without going through the till and will let them indulge in some 'harmless' flirting. Yup they think back to the pre-Amazon days where every lane was filled with cashiers, and that poo poo just isn't going to happen anymore.
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Even then, it wasn't "every lane staffed" unless it was a place that only had like two or three lanes. I have young childhood memories from those bygone days, of my mother and siblings and I scouting up and down the way to look for a checkout lane that was open but not choked with people. It's always a fantasy.
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Communism is when someone tells me to do something I don't want to do, and then even though I still don't do it, ooooohhh I just get so mad
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You mean when we encouraged healthier eating and taking time off to recover from an illness? Man, what a wild world that would be. Now stop trying to dictate school lunches or expect sick days, peasant.
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If only we did solve more of our problems through communism.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:If only we did solve more of our problems through communism. Get back to work. Time to make Stakhanov proud! 200% in one shift!
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what do they think the "c" in "vitamin c" stands for anyway?
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consumerism. vitamins are a mind control device by the deepstate to keep you placid and from seeing the truth.
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InsertPotPun posted:what do they think the "c" in "vitamin c" stands for anyway? Cancer
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HootTheOwl posted:Cancer Cancer?!
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It's Latin for 'cancel'.
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It speeds up our natural evolution into crabs.
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  This one's great. On a post about how a body they found may be non binary from 900 years earlier. Guy responds with the standard "unless you're CIS you're delusional" response. Clicked on his page and it is nothing but anti-vaxx and flat earth posts. But gender fluid is "delusional" Edit - Holy poo poo, apparently the concept of the earth being round is due to the Catholic Church wanting to keep people down, and if you don't believe in a flat earth you're a "Globe Lover". If it wasn't so terrifying that people believe this poo poo it'd be funny Medullah fucked around with this message at 15:53 on Nov 19, 2023 |
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Medullah posted:Edit - Holy poo poo, apparently the concept of the earth being round is due to the Catholic Church wanting to keep people down, and if you don't believe in a flat earth you're a "Globe Lover". If it wasn't so terrifying that people believe this poo poo it'd be funny In Search of a Flat Earth by Dan Olson is a fascinating look at this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44
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Medullah posted:
Flat earth has been exploding over the last few years. Raising successive generations without any critical thinking is showing it's consequences.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Flat earth has been exploding over the last few years. Raising successive generations without any critical thinking is showing it's consequences. Nah, it peaked a few years back. It's still up there, but there isn't as many still preaching it, just the hardcore nuts and insane. They have mostly barricaded themselves into their own discord channels and sneer with a 'nuh huh' when someone debunks them. Professor Dave and SciMan Dan has some great videos dunking on them.
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so what about mile big water bodys and the how ships coming in and out of LoS? or you know any other supposed flat piece of ground.
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Those are all meringues like you get in the dessert.
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I looked at this dude's Facebook for a good 20 minutes. I had no idea there were so many arguments for flat earth. The big one he kept posting was "I look and see a flat ground. Anyone who thinks the world is round is just falling for the government tricks, since you can't see it yourself it isn't real". Apparently it's "Scientism"
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Guavanaut posted:Those are all meringues like you get in the dessert. so when that one Flatter and his pal did their own walking test with their planks of wood, Big Dessert got them?
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happyhippy posted:Professor Dave and SciMan Dan has some great videos dunking on them. Specifically I liked Professor Dave's "Destroying Flat Earth Without Using Science - Part 4: The Conspiracy. It relies on no other understanding except the very broadest ways that the world actually works. The specific line that stuck with me is (spoiled just inn case you want to be surprised) "With Flat Earth, there are no Edward Snowdens." I feel like I'd made that same inference independently but it's a real crystallization of it.
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the most unbelieveable thing there is a youtube channel has single videos under 15ish mins or a goon posted it and not a 15 hour video essay.
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happyhippy posted:Professor Dave and SciMan Dan has some great videos dunking on them. Dave McKeegan is a really great channel by a professional photographer. He excels at seriously addressing the various (dumb) arguments and showing how they are simply impossible due to various technical reasons. He explains a lot of stuff about how cameras, lighting, etc. work and why various stuff you see in photographs or videos simply can’t be done in a film studio or via CGI or in water or whatever and can only be done in space, on the moon, on a round(ish) Earth, etc. One cool thing he did is take an hour from a live NASA stream from a spacewalk, the uncut video from a GoPro carried by one of the austronauts, the changing position of the ISS from the ISS tracker, and a weather map at that time and space, where you can see the clouds matching up, etc. Fun taking a peak at, obviously just watching a space walk „live“ is not the most interesting thing ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWBjhPKwA28 In another video he went and explained why he did that (his other videos are usually around 10 to 15 minutes long). He also did stuff like taking the raw photo files taken during a complete orbit, stitching them together into a time lapse, and again comparing them to weather, etc. Due to the technical details hegoes into, it’s not just a fun dunking on flat earthers, but you can also learn some interesting stuff about photography, lighting, etc. DTurtle fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Nov 19, 2023 |
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The real fun there is them getting into a loop where they offer bounties to anyone who can debunk or prove x explanation of theirs, someone does this very thoroughly, they say actually the goalposts are father away and smaller than I may have led you to believe, repeat either ad infinitum or until the flat-earther finally resorts to making the bounty conditional on proving something that inherently can't be proven.
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generatrix posted:In Search of a Flat Earth by Dan Olson is a fascinating look at this. Pretty sure this is the one where halfway through he loses contact with all his flat-earth folks and then realizes "They all went... to QAnon."
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Animal-Mother posted:Pretty sure this is the one where halfway through he loses contact with all his flat-earth folks and then realizes "They all went... to QAnon." Yeah, QAnon sucked up a lot of the oxygen in the conspiracy theory space as he documents in this... documentary.
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The Islamic Shock posted:The real fun there is them getting into a loop where they offer bounties to anyone who can debunk or prove x explanation of theirs, someone does this very thoroughly, they say actually the goalposts are father away and smaller than I may have led you to believe, repeat either ad infinitum or until the flat-earther finally resorts to making the bounty conditional on proving something that inherently can't be proven. My favourite example was the... Australian? ghost believer who decided to copy The Amazing Randi by offering a million dollar prize. Thing was you only got the prize if you disproved to his satisfaction every single ghost case he'd ever heard of and I had a long pointless argument with a guy who just wouldn't believe the two offers weren't identical.
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Runcible Cat posted:My favourite example was the... Australian? ghost believer who decided to copy The Amazing Randi by offering a million dollar prize. Thing was you only got the prize if you disproved to his satisfaction every single ghost case he'd ever heard of and I had a long pointless argument with a guy who just wouldn't believe the two offers weren't identical. Yeah Randi was smart and got lawyers involved before actually doing the test, getting the people to put down exactly what their claims were and giving them multiple opportunities to amend their claims until locking them down in writing. And it wasn't even using "gotcha" language, just "this is the test protocol, I can detect water better than random chance using this exact setup, nothing about this setup will interfere with my abilities" etc. Just short-circuiting any arguments or complaints they'd inevitably have after they failed spectacularly. That ghost guy just sets an impossible task.
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PhazonLink posted:so what about mile big water bodys and the how ships coming in and out of LoS? Dan goes into that in the video, but I believe the answer he was given was "You must've done it wrong, pray on it and try the test again", or as Olson put it, "Pray the curve away".
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 Not pictured: the ones that burned down
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I've seen the same thing said about old cars surviving crashes like, "Man, look at how this car is just a wreck after an accident, but a tough old car would have survived." They don't seem to understand that if the car withstood that destructive energy, that means it went into the occupants.
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Magnetic North posted:I've seen the same thing said about old cars surviving crashes like, "Man, look at how this car is just a wreck after an accident, but a tough old car would have survived." They don't seem to understand that if the car withstood that destructive energy, that means it went into the occupants. It's bullshit there too. NHTSA has done crash tests where they run a modern car into its equivalent from 50 years prior at speeds where they both get totalled, but the modern car has an intact passenger space due to better metallurgy in the frame construction as well as crumple zones redirecting force where the older car is folded into a loving origami frog. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ5PcWziXT0
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Magnetic North posted:I've seen the same thing said about old cars surviving crashes like, "Man, look at how this car is just a wreck after an accident, but a tough old car would have survived." They don't seem to understand that if the car withstood that destructive energy, that means it went into the occupants. I remember that even cartoons like the Fairly Odd parents had a joke about calling old cars" Screaming Metal Death Traps. "
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Guavanaut posted:
Show us these loving generational houses then!
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The old car had a two part windshield so that you could garrette yourself as your seatbelt -optional rear end was ejected forward
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happyhippy posted:Show us these loving generational houses then! They're just off screen.
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My family owns an old 56 Chevy, so I have some experiece with old "indestructable" cars. The entire interior is made of steel, including the dashboard. It did not have seat-belts when it was new. The steering wheel has a steel spike aimed diretly at the solar plexus. The thing is a deathtrap. But these stupid trad accounts are not real people who actually beleive any of this, it's low quality facebook engagement bait for half-dead boomers.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:It's bullshit there too. NHTSA has done crash tests where they run a modern car into its equivalent from 50 years prior at speeds where they both get totalled, but the modern car has an intact passenger space due to better metallurgy in the frame construction as well as crumple zones redirecting force where the older car is folded into a loving origami frog. Naturally that video generated a lot of boomer commentary claiming it was an unfair test for various reasons. “It didn’t have an engine!” - yes it did, you can see it in the after pictures, it’s a straight 6. “It has a rusty frame!” - that’s dirt falling off it, the previous owner has verified that it was a solid car.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:It's bullshit there too. NHTSA has done crash tests where they run a modern car into its equivalent from 50 years prior at speeds where they both get totalled, but the modern car has an intact passenger space due to better metallurgy in the frame construction as well as crumple zones redirecting force where the older car is folded into a loving origami frog. My partner totaled his 2018 Passat last month. You could see the crumple zones working on it. And every single airbag in the car deployed. He walked out with a tiny bit of airbag rash and a jammed thumb that hurt for a couple of days. The car that hit him was a 2015 Kia Optima. It had the same results, and their driver was even less injured. The cars did their jobs and did them well. Insurance paid and we replaced it with a brand new car within two weeks. It was probably the best possible scenario, that sure as HELL wouldn't have happened with a 56 Chevy.
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