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[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 193 points 1 year ago

They think the sun works like a spot light. I'm not kidding. It's the dumbest shit

https://wiki.tfes.org/Flat_Earth_-_Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_you_explain_day.2Fnight_cycles_and_seasons.3F

In their own gif they need to make the light the sun puts out oblong which makes no fucking sense and there's no explanation as to why you can't always see the moon.

It's so stupid it's embarrassing to even debunk them.

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The Earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity.

HOOO BOY,
that is so stupid, Hexbear might actually try to convince itself that it is true.

[-] w00tabaga@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago

I almost left Lemmy because of the crap I always had in my feed.

Then I realized all the bottom of the barrel content and takes were all from the hexbear instance. I started blocking any community from that server. It’s like a whole new world

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We at sh.itjust.works can proudly claim that we out-hexbeared the hexbears. They defederated from us before we did from them.

[-] odium@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I've never had or heard of any issues with shit just works users, why did they defederate with you?

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We fought fire with fire. If you want to know the way in which your average Hexbear user conducts themselves, you just need to recall that they have their pig shit image linked to their instance for convenient use: https://hexbear.net/PPB (NSFW!)

Edit: You can also check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, if you want to get a glimpse at what was going on a few days ago.

[-] odium@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Dw, I don't need a reminder of how hexbear users are. I grew tired of arguing with them and their bad faith arguments when scrolling through all and blocked all their communities I came across a week or two ago.

And I'm even very left wing. I'm just anti-authoritarian before I'm left wing. I would rather live in a right wing anti-authoritarian place than a left wing authoritarian one.

Thanks for the community suggestion, sunscribed.

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[-] Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know either, but it's really nice not seeing their posts. I think it was a "you can't break up with me if I break up with you first!" thing.

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[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Just go to sopuli.xyz and get out of that garbage instance.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago
[-] lakemalcom10@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I'm using Connect and just blocked the instance. Very happy with the results.

[-] bucho@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Same. It's so much better now; same amount of porn, but way fewer morons.

[-] logos@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I sure hope a hydrogen atom doesn’t get in our way and destroy the multiverse with the collision.

[-] PeWu@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

After reading that, I've felt like I lost many wrinkles from my brain.

[-] Sodis@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I like how they take into account special relativity by saying, that earth will never reach the speed of light because of it. But then they forget, that this will lead to less acceleration as earth gets faster and faster (and heavier and heavier).

[-] AchillesUltimate@lemy.lol 27 points 1 year ago

Not just that. In order for the sun to be visible 24/7 from Antarctica during its summer, the light from the sun would have to morph from a circle into a right going around the whole earth. I have no idea what could cause that.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe it's just a big Hue light strip.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

they replace the normal lamp with one of these in the winter

[-] CaptFeather@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I have no idea what could cause that.

A flat earth, obviously.

[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Why did we ever put lead in gasoline? Now I have to live in this reality.

[-] Mechanismatic@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago
[-] RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

But why lead? The creator even knew it was toxic and still allowed it to be used.

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

The answer is obvious. Money, lots and lots of money.

[-] lingh0e@lemmy.film 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but imagine all the value he created for the shareholders!

[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Because the alternative was adding ethanol, which wasn't patentable. The creator even got lead poisoning while developing it... then held a press conference where he washed his bare hands in it claiming he could do that safely everyday.

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[-] Redredme@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

So the world is flat so we can't fall off, walls of ice keep the water from falling off its edges. Okidoki.

But the sun, moon, stars and planets don't fall out of the sky? They are kept up there magically?

It's great to read, as is most fantasy.

[-] Heggico@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

They consider them "luminaries" whatever those are supposed to be. Not actual objects. Cause that makes sense.

[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to figure out how they think the sun can ever pass below the horizon in that model and it seems like their explanation is.... magnets???

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Idk.
They're magic, they can do anything.

[-] Surdon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Magnets work because uh... they are made up of small magnets

[-] III@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Magnets have small amounts of gravity in them, duh. They come from the ground which has lots of gravity in it. I didn't even graduate elementary school and even I know this. \s

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

Basically, there is no flat earth model. Every time they present one, there's an easily observable fact that blows it apart. This from the people who constantly bleat "believe your eyes!"

[-] malloc@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

shouldn't have clicked that link on my normal browser. now my "personal" ads are going to flood me with far right conspiracy bs, adult diapers, "oWnEd tHe LiBs" content, lifted trucks for sale, truck nuts, "silver nitrate", and trump hat bs.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah, siphon that money out of them

Every time you see one of those ads is one time that someone else won't see it

[-] odium@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most of the time, I would rather have the company requesting the ad keep the money rather than Google. This is one of the rare instances where I would rather have Google and Facebook get the money.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

There are folks that dedicate a good amount of effort into wasting these ads, I hear you can even automate that.

[-] Majoof@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

I love that they explain the seasons, and reference the hemispheres 😂

[-] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Have they explained why pictures of the moon taken from Sydney Australia are upsidedown from pictures of the moon taken in NYC?

[-] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

As a Sydneysider I can confirm our photos are the right way up

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wouldn't you sort of expect that in a spotlight-style moon?

I say sort of, because what you'd actually expect, at least if I'm picturing it correctly, is that the moon would be rotated by about 130°. To be fully upside down you'd want to be off the coast of South America. And even then it'd be a rotation of 180°, which is not the same as a reflection.

diagram

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[-] alertsleeper@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

they really think the sun is this small star (not big or bright enough to light the entire Earth), and that spins over Earth. Amazing.

[-] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

You’re just one of those round earth conspiracy weirdos

/s

[-] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think they're just trolling us

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It would be trivially easy to disprove it if it were worth the money to load them onto a plane and circumnavigate the globe in multiple directions, showing that there is no "wall of ice" and you always end up back where you started eventually. But it's not, so they can continue to be idiots.

[-] smooth_tea@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

One of them spent $20k on a fancy gyroscope which proves the rotation of the earth and they ignore the shit out of stuff like that.

Visible curvature? Fish eye lens or "refraction". Images from space? CGI.

At one point a flat earther launched himself into "space" with his homebuilt rocket to prove there was no curve, sadly it failed and the guy lost his life in the process.

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[-] fidodo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

I'll give them one thing which is that they're very creatively stupid

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Dont you love it when you use a light bulb outside and it instantly becomes day time from all the light you are projecting. Good times.

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