Comment on First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 week agohere 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”.
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
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.
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?
It is “oblate spheroid.”
thank you
Thank you more! I can hardly believe you went all that trouble to transcribe my stupid song.
I’m pretty sure the inclusion of any equation should’ve been a dead giveaway.
Soupbreaker@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
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.