Comment on First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930

tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• neidu3@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  For satire to work, it has to be outlandish enough not to be an actual position of many people.

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  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think the flat Earth idea is nearly as widely believed as it appears. I think most of the proponents are just trolls.

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• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  here we are, in the the astronomy community, that should attract rather smarter people, but most of you arel as lazy as average flat-earher and did not bother to even click the link before following in steps of the first downvoting clown. if that clown jumped off the cliff, i am afraid most of you would follow, because it is easier than to use your own brain.

  i made myself sad on new year.

  (for the extra lazy ones who don’t have time to listen to the lyrics of his social commentary, he put that blackboard there with keler’s 3rd law to give you hint he might not actually believe the earth is flat. but that would require using at least 10 of your brain cells. good luck next time when you complain about stupidity of the “other side”.

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  columbus saw the ocean
  he sailed far and wide
  just to get a cup of spices
  from the other side
  he knew he would die for sure
  if he should reach the edge
  but that's okay cause long before
  he'd starve to death instead
  
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  
  earth's an old blade spheroid
  revolving around the sun
  spinning on its axis 
  which is tilted just for fun
  that explains the seasons there 
  and the changing length of day
  but here's an inconvinient truth 
  you can't explain that way
  
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  
  trump won re-election
  he won it by a mile
  only to protect us
  from the socialist pedophiles
  but biden wants the mail and ballots
  counted and at what cost
  he is so out of touch
  he can't admit when he has lost
  
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  
  endless interverntions
  never-ending war
  all to please the oligarchs
  and economic wars
  but lower taxes on the rich
  and do it really quick
  my ship is coming in soon
  and i don't want to pay for it
  
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  the world is flat
  

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  • Soupbreaker@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just in the interest of cheering you up a bit, I’d like to point out that many people simply refuse to click on YouTube links. Personally, I have no desire to engage with video content, especially when it’s shared with little to no context. It’s not out of laziness, but more out of a conviction that far too many people have outsourced their thinking to random vloggers, and believe that posting a link to their favorite video essay lends credibility to their argument.

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    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      believe that posting a link to their favorite video essay lends credibility to their argument.

      unfortunately that is definitely a trend. but then you also have the person who grabs one rhyme out of context and comments it aged like a milk, meaning they did open the video, listened to it and absolutely did not understood.

      i am also not going to watch every 60 minutes long video someone posts me in a discussion, but if i am invested in the discussion so much i care about answering or voting on something, i at least try to understand the concept of the video and what it is trying to say.

      the headline in this case did not help, but i rarely see such an example of crowd behaviour concentrated in such short time as was the case with this link.

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  • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    People aren’t lazy, we just all live in a social media landscape where, when someone posts a link with an intentionally provocative title, it’s rarely worth the effort to engage with it enough to find out if they’re being sarcastic or sincere.

    Sometimes this means that well-meaning people get downvoted. Oh well. Learn to read the room.

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    and from the native speakers, i’d like an opinion - is he singing oblate spheroid at the beginning of 3rd paragraph? or is he singing old blade, which is what i hear, and is it some strange poetic phrase?

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    • tate@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It is “oblate spheroid.”

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      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        thank you

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  • SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m pretty sure the inclusion of any equation should’ve been a dead giveaway.

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• saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dumb.

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    no need to introduce yourself

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    • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Dumb.

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      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yes, you are. we know, you already said that.

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• 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  joje and sarcasm is unfortunately lost on dumbasses who can’t read more than 4 words of headline 🤷‍♂️

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  • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My friend that’s a yt video, what the fuck are you on about?

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    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      well that’s the right burn, now you got me. because everyone knows there are no words in youtube videos, especially in song texts. 🤦‍♂️

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ah yes, please read this video to me, don’t forget the headline 🙃🫠🤣🤪💩

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• azimir@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Would you like some sulfur to go with your pseudoscience, fascism, and stupidity?

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  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    would you like to learn to read and understand words?

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• SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Trump wants to protect us from those socialist pedophiles.

  That aged well.

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  • derry@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like warm milk.

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• pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I get that it’s satire, but that was an instant downvote the millisecond an acoustic guitar became visible.

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