• tourist@lemmy.world
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    I hate that whenever I check in to see how flat earthers are doing they’ve somehow grown in size

    Like… Why

    They have to do all this shoddy crackhead troll math to prove how something like timezones can work on a flat earth but then it completely invalidates the shoddy crackhead troll math they did to prove how gravity works on a flat earth.

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      10 months ago

      It allows stupid people to have a community where they feel smart, and that they know something most people don’t.

      I bet that’s not something they are used to

    • R0cket_M00se@lemmy.world
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      At the end of the day people love being in the “in” group that knows everyone else is blinded by falsehoods and they’re above it all and “in the know.” Religion has been that for a lot of people in the past as well as in current times, pretty much every high control group is developed due to this mentality as well.

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      why

      Because it’s a business, there are people out there profiting from it and so it keeps growing

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        That’s the usual explanation that’s given, but how do they even profit? What do you sell to those idiots? (I suppose that since they’re idiots you can just sell them pretty much anything)

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      Your problem is you’re bringing math into it wrong.

      You see, Earth is actually a hypersphere. You can get to Agatha, which itself appears as a normal 3d planet, through tunnels that twist ana to kata. That’s why water seems to sometimes flow uphill - that’s a sign that a tunnel might be close.

      There you go. It’s got secret lore, it encourages learning math, and it gives people a hobby where they look for inconsistencies in physics instead of rejecting it. We could even make some interesting discoveries if people are going out trying to find places where physics is weird.

      It’s basic math, if you want to reduce flat earthers, you have to cancel them out

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    I kind of feel like flat earth thing started out with people trolling, but a number of morons believed it to be true and now it’s just trolls leading the idiots.

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      Yeah, the model is actually remarkably solid. I’m convinced it started as a thought experiment, if the Earth was flat, how could you explain as much evidence to the contrary as possible without breaking the laws of physics? That’s why there’s absolutely no good reason why this conspiracy would be mainained by thousands of people for centuries without any gain - because that was not the point.

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    Flat earthers ain’t never touched a globe out here like “yeah, Greenland is about the same size as the continental united states and most of northern Africa”

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    Depending on how fast you can swim, it might even be faster to go through Mexico and up.