One of the lead developers at my company is QA-NON and the things that they believe is nuts. He just talked to me about so much weird shit for over an hour 😫 (lemmygrad.ml)

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That fluoride makes people stupid.

That humans only contribute like 0.2% of greenhouse gases and have no impact in climate change.

That petroleum is a natural renewable mode of transportation that doesn’t come from dinasaurs

And that science is not reliable because people just say “trust the science” but get made when you “question the science” and that he doesn’t trust what he can’t replicate

And that NASA just lies and was founded by NAZIs so they just do nothing and collect government money

What is crazy to me is that this guy is great at his job and has got me unstuck from coding related problems several times. Yet, he believes in all these conspiracies 😵

I considered this guy to be smart and yet he gave me this ackward conspiracy info dump session

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[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 26 points 2 years ago

And that NASA just lies and was founded by NAZIs so they just do nothing and collect government money

He gets partial credit for this one

That petroleum is a natural renewable mode of transportation that doesn’t come from dinasaurs

Also partial credit, oil is plant material, and if you disregard human scales of time oil does fit into the carbon cycle

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

I vaguely remember reading something about how oil probably won't form again, because things evolved that'll just decompose the plants too quickly.

Did I invent this inside my brain?

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

That's coal iirc, formed mostly by the time between when trees evolved and when microbes evolved that could break down wood.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Makes sense enough to me, it was a pretty vague memory so it's absolutely possible I just mixed up coal and oil.

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Wherever you read that was wrong, most of our oil is found in rock layers dating back to the mezozoic

What oil needs to form is decomposition in an low oxygen environment while surrounded by non-permeable rock (normally salt)

An algae bloom in a shallow sea or salt water lake could fill those conditions.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

If you're gonna use that argument to say oil is renewable we might as well say every energy source is net zero emissions because the heat death of the universe will eventually consume us all.

[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

I think this QAnon person got a bit mixed up on this. It’s an old idea from Young Earth Creationism that oil can’t have come old plant material because the earth is only 6,000 years old, not enough time to form oil. Just got it mixed up with the idea that dinosaurs walked on the earth until 4,000 years ago when Noah’s flood happened.