Comment on Gravity!
tomiant@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
It all started as a joke. The purpose was to fool people to believe in this dumb shit. Then people did, and there was much rejoicing. Then more people did, and it got old. Then even more people did, and was worrying. Then even more people did and now we have a whole industry of dumbfucks basing their lives and identities around something that started out as a joke at their expense.
Who’s laughing now?
Who’s laughing now?
@tomiant@piefed.social who started selling t-shirts and slowly had to hire more employees as the demand steadily outgrew supply.
At the end they retired to their vineyard villa, now worth substantially more after the devaluation of half the planet.
I wish!
This literally sums up Americas current situation
We are not evolved for being capable of seeing the thoughts, reactions and feelings of so many people, especially in the form of text written on a screen that your brain reads in its own voice. We have not adapted to nor even begun to study and understand how vulnerable our minds are to outside influence.
But it’s okay because we’re building giant artificial neural systems in data centers that take the power of small cities to run, with the express purpose of predicting and exploiting those vulnerabilities with superhuman effectiveness.
smoke more weed, you’ll laugh too
Same with Birds aren’t Real, and it’s going the way of this dumb shit.
zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I’m reasonably convinced that the flat earther explosion was at least encouraged by nefarious actors to see what dumb shit people will actually believe. I feel like the flat earth videos on YouTube are directly related to the recent rise of the extreme right, it primed so many of these people to reject reality so completely.
tomiant@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
When I say this was meant as a joke, it picked up steam in the /r/flatearth sub, which I saw back early, and it was kind of an inside reddit joke much like /r/birdsarentreal is today. Mark my words, that shit will be the next flat earth.
People work like this. A sub with 50K subscribers? Maybe there’s something to it!
I had subs once. Big ones. They were taken from me. I know. Buy me a beer and I’ll tell you about it.