Flat Earth: A Measured Response

[@spectacledman]

I don’t recall who said it, but a wise KZbinr once said, “You don’t have to be mad at some invisible shadow government. You can just be mad at the actual government.”

[@warmachineuk]

Yep. The hilarious thing with conspiracy theorists is they're right that the government is screwing them but it's not a conspiracy. All the legal bribery, price gouging, lobbying, deregulation, distraction with culture war, refusal to consider actual problems etc. is done openly. It's bizarre they know they're being screwed over but not how when it's all in public record.

[@msa7933]

I'm pretty sure "miniminuteman" is the youtuber that you're referring to.

[@humanperson3365]

@@msa7933yes

[@smears6039]

^^ like he said, miniminuteman’s shorts debunking science illiterate conspiracies bring me so much joy

[@justforfun9780]

The person deleted their comment @@smears6039

[@NegaLomie]

The funniest thing about this video is hearing Hbomb call a 45 minute video “too long”. He really had no idea.

[@trouty606]

*Thomas the Tallarico Engine has entered the chat

[@AllegedlyHuman]

​@@trouty606and now we have a new contender, sitting just shy of four hours!

[@brandonthornburg5798]

Also being mad at how his hair looks after putting the sweater on

[@nerovfrost910]

Yup, he just uploaded a 4 hr video and 20 mins separately on his 2nd channel because the video became "too long".

[@itselliebeans6623]

​@@trouty606plagerism has entered the chat

[@victoriablack355]

My favorite thing about the Patricia situation is that one piece of evidence they cite for her being CIA is that her name is PatriCIA

[@AtlasNL]

Well everyone knows that all women that start working for the CIA have to change their name to something that includes CIA in it, duh

[@LineOfThy]

LMAO

[@TheGhostofAbigailMills]

You're joking. Please ... Please, say you're joking ...

[@patriciadilday447]

Oh Sh*t! That would mean that I'm also part of the CIA. Damn! They need to send me some back pay!

[@HalcyonRemnant]

oh my god no way lmfao

[@alecchristiaen4856]

Fun fact: Greek scholar Eratosthenes chanced uppon the neat fact that once a year in Syene (an Egyptian town), the sunlight would reach the bottom of wells there. This is interesting, because that NEVER happens in Alexandria. Using this info, he measured how far Alexandria is off the full zenith in Syene (an angle of 7°), and so calculated the curvature of the earth, and subsequently made a calculation of the full circumference of the earth, which was only 5% larger than the modern accepted value. He did this in the 240s BCE.

[@heather2503]

oh my god thats really clever i love it

[@c.augustin]

Yeah, those Greeks (and Egyptians, and Persians, and Indians …) where incredibly clever back then. Evolution seems to go backwards on us … (the shape of Earth was well established back then, it was what was going on in the sky what baffled them ;-)).

[@LSqre]

​@@c.augustinI dont agree that we've gotten less smart. Some random Greek dude who died at war isnt nearly as notable as a scholar. It's just that random people who don't know anything are louder these days.

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

​@@LSqre True. There have always been nutcases who refuse to believe anything but their own fantasies. The internet has not only allowed them to connect with others who share their beliefs, but also spread their ideas to others

[@rowanthearchitect3227]

Well I've definitely learned something today.

[@elijahmelton2660]

My dad watched a documentary about flat earth “scientists” and said it was one of his favorite documentaries ever because everyone’s experiments to prove their beliefs failed and they just went “we will have to try again later” and the documentary ends just being like “so the earth is obviously flat” while literally everything you just watched proved the opposite

[@Dire_Pants]

I think I know exactly which documentary he saw. It was hilarious. With the amount of bending over backwards they had to do to explain why their experiments "failed", I'm surprised their backs didn't snap.

[@alecchristiaen4856]

I watched a bit of Behind the Curve, and at one point a guy comes up and he explains how he came to believe in the flat earth. The whiplash is immense. He starts by saying the bible got him on the track, and then says "and then I realized: they want to keep you dumb. And then they can pump you full of their community education and vaccines." For a fleeting glimpse, this guy was onto something. There are people who'll lie to you to fit their agenda, people with the resources to control what information makes its way to the common person. And from this moment of realization he boomerangs straight back into stupidity by blaming vaccines.

[@trouty606]

That's just what the globeheads WANT you to think!

[@sehfisch2350]

do you know the name of the documentary?

[@m4rcyonstation93]

@@sehfisch2350 Oh, hey, we clicked on the vid around the same time I think its called behind the curve

[@boodle399]

I just realized that the only reason someone would assume that the moon shoots cold beams is by thinking "well the sun shoots beams that are hot, so the moon must do the opposite" like this is Avatar the Last Airbender or something

[@UnlimitedGreenWorks]

Its like theyre drinking cactus juice

[@neoqwerty]

@@InForTheLonghaul proof everyone needs a closed ecosystem jar.

[@doctordiscord1399]

Well, at least that explains why my cabbages turned out flat.

[@UnlimitedGreenWorks]

@@InForTheLonghaul "yes!!yes it can!"

[@UnlimitedGreenWorks]

@@neoqwerty actually, thats a reference to atla, a cartoon.

[@Skriak]

Being confronted by a random flat earther and casually saying "is this really happening?" is such a hilarious own

[@b4rbarbar]

I especially liked the cry for help: "Selena, HELP!" 😂😂

[@seasnaill2589]

*My chaotic ass now hoping it happens to me so I can debate*

[@BarioIDL]

@@seasnaill2589 it's not a debate if one side refuses to listen

[@wren_.]

@@BarioIDL it’s a debate if you make even crazier claims. tell them that yes, the Earth is flat, but also that it’s a frisbee and the world ends as soon as god’s dog catches it

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

​@@wren_.That's what I plan to do. If someone starts talking about how the CIA assassinated JFK, I'm just gonna be like, "You still believe that JFK was assassinated? Fucking sheep".

[@BaronPraxis8492]

My favorite response to people who think they hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing is that Kubrick's notorious perfectionism resulted in them actually going to the moon so it would look right.

[@MrGared22]

Honestly every time they bring that up it makes me go "Did you actually watch 2001? Because there are some details in it that actual space exploration proved wrong, starting in that in 2001 the moon is depicted as having the same gravity as Earth."

[@LaurianeG.]

​@@MrGared22 To be fair in the late 1960s it would have been very expensive to shoot all of this footage with a lot off slow-motion and cables, and possibly look very silly. So minimizing exterior shots and avoiding calling attention on it made sense. Better put that budget for more important low-g scenes later in the film when they are flying to jupiter! Like kubrick and his team knew that a lot of scifi films end up looking very silly so he was careful with his special effects. It's why the film avoids compositing when it can for instance, as at the time it created lots of artifacts and the re-exposed footage would look very grainy. It's very visible in films like star wars (especially in fan restorations of the original cuts).

[@GrumpyOldFart2]

Nah, Nah. The one I’ve heard adds a second of “think about it” confusion. Because of Kubrick’s notorious perfectionism, he insisted on filming it on location. 😅

[@Rad-Dude63andathird]

​@@LaurianeG. Lol I absolutely love little off-topic tangents like this thank you for all that, interestin' read. 😊

[@glasise]

I have a friend (who is otherwise smart and knowledgeable) who believes the moon landing is fake and I don't know how to handle it 😢

[@lucaslima33]

Government secret plans be like: Step 1: convince people the world is round. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit.

[@thegovernment3864]

You saw nothing.....

[@asrieldreemurr1988]

@@thegovernment3864 nice name

[@thatnikkakris2339]

All conspiracy governments be like: 1. Do thing with very light evidence that takes advantage of citizens 2. ??? 3. Profit

[@jackcr2477]

@@QWeRTY-vf4ly Beat me to it by 2 fucking days.

[@evedangerfield3476]

Amazing

[@cameronpearce5943]

As an Australian I'm deeply offended nobody brought up that we don't exist, and that i'm not being payed to pretend to exist

[@cosmin00ful]

if i emigrate into aussie land, will i get payed as well?

[@58209]

@@cosmin00ful finally, an ethical and painless way to end the burden of existing: moving to australia

[@lud3445]

Australia exists, obviously! What doesn't really exists is the brazilian state of Acre. What is actually there is up for debate

[@rileymack1489]

@@lud3445 you fool. it's canada that doesn't exist

[@moonprison4904]

@@rileymack1489 not the way i saw this and then immediately disappeared.

[@tokkin100]

The earth was originally a cube but over time the corners were rounded by the relentless wind of the universal ether.

[@AniCator]

So Pico did gnaw it all!

[@placeholder4029]

i can't tell if you're joking or not

[@Sidorio]

Just like the new windows 11 design

[@commiebiogirl]

Erosion is a hell of a thing

[@tokkin100]

@@placeholder4029 Joking.

[@Killbayne]

to cut a 10 page story short; my mother raised our family as flat earthers and conspiracy theorists (a whole fucking bunch of different things because flat earth is just a gateway for that), i managed to break out of it some years ago and now they hate me for it. It doesn't matter what you show them, you could literally strap them on a rocket and go to the moon and they'll say "this is fake", they are so deep into their beliefs that they will make up anything to fit their narrative. They are ignorant, hypocritical and frankly obnoxious. I hate whoever convinced my poor gullible mother and changed all of our lives for the worse.

[@nils9853]

At some point it is simple not possible for an individual person to acknowledge wrongdoing. Because this would come with a bunch of guilt, what this person had done to other human beings. Also you would have to admit how stupid you have been. So this "awakening" only works if a big group is forced to open the eyes at once, like it did in Germany mid 40s to early 50s. If all around you also have to acknowledge they have been wrong, this is doable without the loss of face and the guilt is spread on more shoulders. All the best for you and your mum! May try to agree to not agree on this topics...

[@heavenly2k]

​@nils9853 when your lifestyle is based around a lie, acknowledging it is terrifying. Everything unravels

[@RM_VFX]

​@@heavenly2k But...how does your lifestyle change if you abandon flat earth? Other than posting bizzare rants on Twitter, literally nothing. Unless they actually do eat babies like they say.

[@TheGlenn8]

@Killbayne There's a very sad reason why she probably won't change her beliefs even if you took her on a rocket trip so she could see the curve herself. It's because if she admitted it, she would now have to live with the reality that she ruined her relationship with her child. That she probably ruined many more relationships, and that the relationships she DOES have are all built on a lie. She'd have to admit to you and herself that she was horrible to you for NOTHING. Doing something like that is so painful that most people would rather not do it at all. Admitting that you're wrong requires a lot of strength, strength most people don't have. This is the worst part about conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, cults, and other professional liars. It's that the people who get invested in them ruin their lives socially and financially with nothing to show for it.

[@ohkaypoh]

im curious how you broke out of it

[@Moticolev]

uuh, actually H. Bomber Guy, the Earth is, uuh actually Boomerang shaped, that's how it flies around the sun.

[@caitmonroe9349]

And it was Sherlock who discovered it.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

@@caitmonroe9349 beautiful

[@JerryAttrick74]

Yes

[@stbd2773]

BIG BRAIN

[@boodlebubby6147]

"It was a fucking boomerang?" "Always has been."

[@cyanmanta]

“There’s no direct flights from Australia to South America.” sees direct flights scheduled from Sydney to Santiago “That’s not real.”

[@Dragonfire511]

Santiago is not real... oh wait im from there

[@Dragonfire511]

@Tomi Tuominen Omg! *fades...* aaah it hurts!

[@TheCabIe]

I think now they do say it is real, but now they're invoking some 200mph (so basically hurricane speed) winds that circle the flat Earth that magically make these direct flights possible. Never mind that these flights exist both ways and somehow these wind currents reverse when necessary. And of course, if everything else fails they can always just shout "CONSPIRACY! They are telling us we are flying at different speeds/different path than in reality!".

[@acsound]

@@TheCabIe Maybe we're all on the world of Avatar: the Last Airbender (post-Korra), and there are air benders controlling the wind currents--likely on the ice wall...no. I can't drag ATLA into this--b/c that show had a *North and South Pole* (where the Northern and Southern Water Tribes lived in-show), implying that even that cartoon fantasy world had the concept of a round earth. If we could all just *ignore* these imbeciles, they'd go away on their own. :(

[@hyperion3145]

Australia does not exist

[@RaptorShadow]

As an Australian I am greatly offended by the suggestion that Qantas is competent enough to help uphold an international conspiracy.

[@slevinchannel7589]

What about an Episode about Autism though!! C'mon!

[@themasteronhigh1665]

as someone who's been on qantas, I'm also offended by the suggestion that wantas is competent enough to help uphold this international conspiracy.

[@davros_adl8155]

Ignoring that Qantas is actually, compared to the rest of the world's airlines, really good.

[@themasteronhigh1665]

@@davros_adl8155 I've been on tons of planes for my work. Qantas is very much in the lower end of quality.

[@davros_adl8155]

@@themasteronhigh1665 Speaking from my (lesser, and you're probably right) experience, Qantas beats Finnish, United, Virgin Australia, American Airlines. Just my personal experience with not many airlines though.

[@Hostilenemy]

The only thing flat earthers fear, is sphere itself.

[@Irrationaaaaal]

Shut- No

[@KateCat420]

😂

[@kylemorgan505]

Outstanding move. Bravo, I say

[@MJAY-N7129]

😂😂

[@nejdalej]

Fucking hilarious. This doesn't have enough likes 😂

[@dannyliebeno4108]

"Don't wear this shirt in public, no one will want to be your friend." No, certain people WILL want to be your friend, which is actually worse

[@sofastuffing]

Yeah, imagine being approached in public by a *HBomber fan* 😖

[@JJ-qo7th]

@@sofastuffing *Hail Sobek.*

[@normalaboutpathologic]

i WOULD wear a Hail Sobek shirt tho

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

The wrong kinds of friends, yeah. :p

[@hazukichanx408]

"There are two possibilities: That no-one will want to be your friend, and that _certain people_ will want to be your friend. Both possibilities are equally terrifying." -Stanley Kubrick or something

[@z.l.burington1183]

"I don't think these flights exist. I think they made them just to trick guys like me." Laughed so hard I hurt myself.

[@PitLord777]

Why would they do that? "For the lols." -Sobek (I guess)

[@aaroo9554]

I wonder how he would explain if he actually just purchased a ticket and went on that flight.

[@vaiyt]

"Reality is fake and the only real world is the one inside my head"

[@willowarkan2263]

Isn't this the exact reason why the term "selection bias" exists?

[@gian3458]

I think that all airlines should consider crossing the South Pole. That should mean death for Flat Earthers

[@hyperion3145]

Take him to the edge, boys. He knows too much.

[@riccardoolivieri1159]

Wait, is this a kinky BSDM scenario or are we actually taking them to the edge of the Earth?

[@durnsidh6483]

@@riccardoolivieri1159 Why not both?

[@vwertix1662]

@@riccardoolivieri1159 Both.

[@paynomorethanzero]

Both is good

[@wilhelmkreis6578]

The flat earthers were the real conspirators all along

[@Grace-tg4oy]

I like how airlines have fake flights just to mess with a specific group of flat earthers.

[@megamillion5852]

That's always been the funniest aspect of conspiracies, to me. Just the idea that whole masses of people-without any evidence confirming their apparent roles, with indefinite prep time, planning, and management-do things specifically to throw off those who already "know" from the right track; but are also simultaneously so clumsy that literally anyone from anywhere could "figure out the truth" by just...idk...looking at stuff and trusting their gut! It's like incoherence as an art form, or a practice.

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

Whenever I hear conspiracy theories like this, I'm just like, "Why does the government need to cover this up?". The reason is always just something made up on the spot to keep themselves in their delusions.

[@tinaday189]

@@megamillion5852 I think it's a form of the Truman Disorder, where people think they themselves, or a group of people who know the 'truth', are in a Truman Show, and everyone else are actors/try to hide 'the truth' from them. It's yet another weird but fascinating type of delusion that most conspiracy theorists have, and it explains some of the 'us vs them' mentality imo. Flat earthers are just that special kind of tragicomic weirdness, whenever I watch a doc of theirs for some light entertainment I feel like Attenbourough is about to do a voiceover

[@SjorsHoukes]

Oh no, you misunderstand. That small group are the only people they can't fool. They are doing is to fool EVERYONE ELSE. This goes all the way to the top...

[@Hugealligator254]

Which becomes even funnier because surely some normal people would be a bit confused how they booked a flight that apparently never took off and ended up where they expected anyway.

[@justanothertable]

Correction: Y'all been duped. They're actually saying FLAC-earthers. The earth is just one high quality audio file that God listens to while he does his sit-ups.

[@1WEareBUFO1]

don't forget to stretch up there G man

[@Donjonneau]

Great joke.

[@stitme9604]

I can't put into words how wrong you are. Obviously they say FLAK earth, the earth really is a giant German aa gun

[@psyc8407]

Obviously, they meant FLAP earth, and the world is actually a massive floppy disk that broke after the 90's and all it's disco music is now glitchy electronica.

[@merrittanimation7721]

I thought it was the FLAN earth, and the world is a giant delicious custard with caramel sauce, selfishly hidden by the elites who want to keep its sugary goodness to themselves.

[@tommyvercetti9434]

People who is on the conspiracy: -Every space agency. -Every inteligence agency. -Every astrophysicist. -Every astronaut. -Every astronomer. -Every airline company. -Every ship company. -Every cruise company. -Every shipping company. -Every company with an operative satelite. I think it stops being a conspiracy when you're the only person in the planet that is not in it.

[@40UltimateGaming]

Allow me to add "Every single company that uses a computer for their business (because computer chips have semiconducters which are based on quantum mechanics - and flerf logic says that quantum mechanics is fake) I'm in on the conspiracy as well by the way :)

[@slambat298]

flerf - flat earth exclusionary radical feminist? the new term for discerning feminists everywhere?

[@plznerf3326]

bUT thE tRumaN shOW

[@PhileasLiebmann]

Add to that: - every company/agency that does large scale surveying - every person that has ever been aboard an upper atmosphere flight with windows - every person that has ever taken part in a trans-antarctic flight - every person that has ever been to the South Pole - either every historian *or* everyone who circumvented the Earth ever as well as Aristoteles and dozens of other pre- and post-socratic philosophers who also formulated proofs of the Earth being a globe

[@mrchrysler9736]

What Tommy hasn't realized, probably unwittingly, is that if the conspiracy theorists are correct, he is a part of that conspiracy. So....-Every person attempting to discount this conspiracy theory, for a different conspiracy theory. Like I said though, in sheer ignorance of enough of the facts to actually make these kinds of determinations, just going along with the herd as their science teachers taught them early what to expect if you question the belief they are teaching. Many a broken yardsticks and children ridiculed, have concreted this into young people's minds.

[@YinsDarkNess]

I still cry laughing at that one image of the meteor hitting the "disc-world" and flipping the dinosaurs into space like a catapult.

[@Squiddlewheel]

I mean realistically, where else could they have gone?

[@jmatt440]

I saw a meme where someone said they got banned from the flat earth discord for posting that image

[@StrikeWarlock]

​@@jmatt440the person that got banned is none other than MandaloreGaming!

[@jmatt440]

I've never hear of mandaloregaming@@StrikeWarlock

[@kie_stone]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@jmatt440imagine getting booted from that discord that your theory isn’t grounded in reality. Who’d’ve thunk?

[@zoobatzjr371]

You know, watching someone joking about and debunking flat earth suddenly get serious and become angry that all these men are harassing a women just because shes a women is honestly kinda heartwarming.

[@hazukichanx408]

Yeah. Believe incredibly dumb things all you like, random strangers, but when you start bullying innocent people over it? _THEN_ you've crossed a line where a lot of people are (rightly and thankfully) going to stop listening.

[@PhilosophyTube]

The HP Sauce ensures my harvest is plentiful and my sperm is neverending.

[@Mae_is_gae]

Slorp

[@aprilk141]

Bring that gag back!!!!!!!

[@ernststravoblofeld]

Just imagine what Szechuan Sauce would do!

[@HMcore]

Left Wing KZbin Extended Universe confirmed

[@readwrecks]

Are HP Sauce and Brown Sauce roughly the same thing? They taste very similar to me, and I got similar but different specific responses when I asked what they were. Before I tried either, I asked about them. If I encountered Brown Sauce on a table in a pub, I asked “What’s Brown Sauce?” And the only reply I got was “It’s Brown Sauce,” as if to say “I don’t know what’s in it, but it’s its own thing, different from any Sauce you’re familiar with in the states.” If I encountered HP Sauce, I asked “What’s HP Sauce?” And the reply was always “It’s HP Sauce,” but the meta message was the same, I think. After having tried both of them, I know that my reply to anyone asking what either of them are would be the same for both, AND it would be more helpful to a US citizen. I would say, “it’s like ketchup in the US, but it’s sweeter and tangier because there are apples in it, and there’s more vinegar.”

[@jello4835]

My favorite bit of flat earth lore is the concept that gravity doesn't exist, and we're only stuck to the earth's surface because the flat disc is moving upward really fast

[@VanessaMagick]

"Gravity doesn't exist" is the basis for like 90% of flat earth science arguments

[@marioi.carrillo6264]

Legit that's so funny. Especially because many of these people are also skeptical of the fact that the earth spins at a speed of 1000 miles per hour, saying stuff like "oh if it's spinning so fast then why can't I feel it". Using their logic then why am I not crushed by the overwhelming upwards speed? Or why can't I feel it?

[@GarryDumblowski]

Technically for this to reflect reality, the earth would have to be ACCELERATING upwards, mimicking acceleration due to gravity of objects in freefall near the surface of the earth. A subtle difference, but I personally find it really interesting specifically because it conflicts with Einstein's laws of relativity. (I think? I feel like there was something where, once you approach the speed of light, you still continue to feel like you're accelerating at the same rate, but you're actually accelerating really slowly and relativistic effects are compensating for the rest... but even then, that would still result in a world where all light that isn't shot straight up just slams into the ground from the absurd speeds)

[@TheEleven420]

Most don’t even try the upwards accelerating disc anymore. Now they say it’s either electromagnetism somehow or “Relative Density Disequilibrium” which is one of their new favorite ideas because they can’t understand why density and buoyancy require gravity. Flat earth is so great.

[@ce7.0]

There are globeheads who kinda believe that too -- expansion theory says that gravity doesn't exist, it's just that everything in the universe is always getting bigger, so when you drop an apple, the earth is expanding out toward the apple and the apple is expanding toward the earth so they end up meeting

[@AnduNinicu]

Have you ever considered that IF the Earth was flat the Edge would be the greatest tourist attraction on the " planet "

[@twisted_tapestry]

lmFAO-

[@lizabethhampton4537]

"STEP RIGHT UP STEP RIGHT UP AND PEER OFF THE EDGE OF THE EARTH!!!"

[@Religion0]

I would go there, I would stare, I would jump off the edge.

[@phildavenport4150]

@@Religion0 And, hopefully, take a few thousand flattards with you.

[@MrPooleish]

"FIFTY DOLLARS TO BUNGIE JUMP OFF THE EDGE OF THE EARTH, STEP RIGHT UP, DIVE OFF THE WORLD!

[@shawnconway6009]

What baffles me is that you can see that the world is round just by going to any port in the world and watching a ship literally dip over the horizon.

[@BarioIDL]

oh boi, lemme tell you about the water mountain

[@SpoopySquid]

​@@BarioIDLI'm sorry the what

[@spongeintheshoe]

@@SpoopySquid An old post. It goes something like this: Flat Earther: Why do Ball Earthists deny the existence of Water Mountains? Ball Earthist: I'm almost scared to ask but.. What's a water mountain? Flat Earther: Water mountains are what ships disappear behind in the sea. Ball Earthists are just too stupid to recognize them or acknowledge them, so they claim it's evidence of a Ball Earth. Ball Earthist: Do you have any evidence of these "Water, mountains"? Flat Earther: Have you ever seen a ship disappear? Water mountain.

[@geordieghoulette7142]

Naw they just fall off. Every ship ever. Wheeee

[@NoriMori1992]

They always have an "explanation" for everything you say to them. The problem is, each explanation sort of sounds plausible on its own, so they're hard to argue against. But they fall apart once you try to make them all work at the same time.

[@roninfredricson6958]

I watched the Flat Earth documentary on Netflix a few years back. It was infuriating, yes, but after a while you started getting attached to the little buggers. They were trying so hard, they even actually did an experiment! The experiment didn't work because it was poorly planned out but they tried! And there was this little unrequited love story and then they all had a con together and they were so happy and I was like "You know what? Good for them. Who are they hurting?" ... And then they started talking about antivaxxing, being homophobic, transphobic, antisemitic and I was like oh yeah. Right.

[@iantkach6640]

It's all fun and games until you realize Flat Earth is one of the many conspiracy theories that ended up siphoning followers to QAnon. *Jahzzar's "Fastest Man on Earth" starts playing*

[@thecheshire5762]

@@iantkach6640 yep, it’s sad. Flat earth on its own is stupid but in my opinion for the most part harmless. (With the exception of the likes of the screaming ‘the Apollo 6 id a crackhouse’ raw meat man) the problem is that it leads into other more harmful ideologies such as qanon

[@DimT670]

Its this way for basically all superstition. You go well she just thinks ghosts help with her cold its cute really and then it becomes oh fuck she refuses to go foe chemo and to vaccinate her child because she thinks its all ghosts

[@Lucifersfursona]

“You can be a little silly as a treat I suppose” “Abominations like you should be burned in camps” “Oh. Right. You’re not being silly right now. Oh god 😒”

[@blakksheep736]

😆

[@n0lain]

Only a few minutes in, but I feel like pointing out that the Maya not only knew the Earth was a globe, but actually accepted heliocentrism long before Europe. In my translation studies class we actually looked at some pretty funny documents where Mayan translators were taking Spanish models of the universe and adding pretty funny commentary that boiled down to "these guys actually believe this shit lol."

[@troublewithweebles]

I have a deep desire to see this, can you point me in any special direction!?

[@bushello]

accepted, not proven

[@lyravain6304]

I'd also like to see that Mayan part, if not but for the giggles at some old-timey pointing and laughing. Also, to add to the pile; every single sea-faring person knew the earth was round. It's why ships tend to have this tall thing in the middle; it's used for seeing really freakin' far. Why would we need this if not to 'keep things from vanishing behind the horizon line'.

[@baabaa9000]

I thought the mayan empire fell apart before the Spanish arrived?

[@baabaa9000]

When could they have had access to a Spanish model universe? even if the Maya interacted with the Spanish, the Conquistadors weren't exactly scientists, nor were they particularly interested in sharing the secrets of the universe.

[@caitlin3810]

Um actually sobek didn’t literally have a crocodile head, it was supposed to represent both his crocodile and human form simultaneously. Entire video disproven, earth is actually flat

[@otterhero6229]

Hey you convinced me.

[@strangerstrider]

Take that globeheads!

[@hanniffydinn6019]

He was a literal reptile alien !

[@branislavhamborsky5535]

@@hanniffydinn6019 Literal semen demon

[@MasterCrander]

Something something lizard brain something Reptilian overlords

[@deluxejay69]

I was tought in Sunday school that that one Bible verse that says gods love for us spans "as far as the east is from the west" was an argument for the global earth, because you can go east forever and you can go west forever, without it ever changing (like gods love or whatever). But you can only go north so far before you're going south, and vice versa. My catholic-adjacent church argued for science in this case. Just an interesting bit to share.

[@Z.O.M.G]

Interesting take ngl

[@highjumpstudios2384]

Take that flat earthers.

[@thatoneguy9582]

really cool take but doesn't that also apply to a flat earth You'd just be going around the circumference, for want of better phrasing

[@highjumpstudios2384]

@@thatoneguy9582 it kinda does though. East and west have no pole, the edge of a flat earth model isn't going East or west at all, you'd have to do some true gymnastics to get a circumference from that Bible verse. Plus according to them you're not allowed to see the edge anyways despite the fact that would be one of the most lucrative tourism destinations on the planet

[@thatoneguy9582]

@@highjumpstudios2384 circumference isn't the right word im just braindead rn and struggling to think of the right word lmao- what i mean is you could still continuously go east/west just as easily on a flat earth as on the actual earth, it'd just be in a circle instead of a straight line

[@admiralpellaeon631]

“Society utterly fucking collapsed when I wasn’t looking or something” new favorite KZbinr quote right there.

[@deceptivelysmallman]

literally

[@cosmicshadow2107]

I read that as he said that that was perfect timing

[@jennyraylen8410]

@@cosmicshadow2107 dude actually same

[@Dontworryaboutit961]

Time stamp for that quote?

[@jennyraylen8410]

@@Dontworryaboutit961 2:08 :)

[@oliviablake343]

Every time some flat earther claims that they "rely their eyes" to confirm their claims, all I can think is "objects in mirror are closer than they appear".

[@peterprime2140]

All I can think is: "I wear glasses and had books with optical illusions in them as a kid".

[@JJPMaster]

Naïve realism is really naïve.

[@joeogle7729]

Nah I'd pull out the father Ted "these cows are small but the ones out there are far away..."

[@thelocalnecromancer1224]

my immediate thought was, "you can't see air, do you not believe in air either?"

[@The-Sycophant-Fox]

It's especially ironic when it comes from a noble prize winner but then there's a Wikipedia page talking about noble disease so it's not surprising, the guy who discovered anaphylaxis ended up believing in ghosts, the supernatural and whatnot quackery.

[@meric2363]

I live in Washington and I've never personally seen Mark Sargent in person so basically what I'm saying is that I have serious doubts that he lives in Washington or is even real at all.

[@brifox]

"There are no government records of any kind regarding the existence of Mark Sargent." *is shown his birth certificate and driver's license* "I don't think those are real"

[@phildavenport4150]

It seems that he is real, and you should be happy if you never have the misfortune ever to encounter him in person.

[@orangesilver8]

Me too dude.

[@etaidade3983]

Best comment, best comment right here, no comment in the history of comments will top this

[@no3ironman11100]

@@brifox Okay okay, "Brings Mark Sargent to you" *Mark Sargent: Hello, I'm mark sargent and i'm a real person!*

[@sylvysforever4952]

Got approached by an elderly flat earther on my college campus once. He completely ignored me(nb) and talked exclusively to two women studying for a physics exam. He demonstrated his point with a Mario figurine and a stress ball. He went on about the horizon thing. when the two women demonstrated that they could prove mathematically that he was wrong, he claimed their math teachers were in on the conspiracy and fled.

[@CHRB-nn6qp]

Sounds about right. Just imagine him running home and curling up into a ball crying about how everyone's wrong and he's correct lol

[@King-of-Corvids]

​@@CHRB-nn6qphe would probably rather lie flat.

[@samueluzochukwu759]

​@@King-of-Corvids nicely done. I see what you did there

[@goingunder2548]

I didn't know being nb had social advantages. Thanks!

[@ConnieCrow]

they eat him up tbh

[@DolphinTillTheEnd]

Yeah, but you've got to admit having the north pole at the center of the earth explains a lot about how Santa Claus can visit every house during Christmas night

[@rompevuevitos222]

fr fr

[@ShayLaLaLooHoo]

Welp, I'm convinced! (Seriously though, this made me laugh 💕 thanks)

[@mothertongue8639]

That’s bs. If that was the case, I wouldn’t have lost €90 and my package for the North Pole Customs Duty to email me that they “lost it on the way to Greenland.” Lesson: never wish for a SAM Turret from that red bastard Santa Claus.

[@xegao6095]

best comment

[@resyrum5301]

@MotherTongue Just don't put yourself in a position where that red bastard Santa Claus can lose your package

[@afrolund80]

I saw the documentary Behind The Curve. Patricia seemed like a really nice person. But at the end of the documentary is when she started receiving hate mail with conspiracies about her. She's driving with the documentary crew and she says "I can't believe there are so many people on the internet who are so ready and willing to believe any crazy conspiracy... I'm not one of those people.... Am I?" And it's just silence with her staring into the camera. It was so f**king surreal! I felt like I was being sucked in to the void!

[@conspiracycolumbo1047]

Patricia has left the online community due to atrocious online hate sufferred. Mostly from flattards who call her a "traitor" for being in the documentary. The flattard community REALLY is that toxic. Say one word against the established flat earth doctrine and you will be shunned, threatened, insulted, harrassed and socially banished. While the flat earth community hypocritically boast how they can "think for themsleves2 and dont just blindly follow whatever they are told to believe". There is a huge amount of racism, homophobia and downright support of Fascist leaders like H!tler in their community too.

[@afrolund80]

@@conspiracycolumbo1047 You said it buddy. Well hopefully there is some sort of silver lining and this whole experience has got her to stop wasting her time with this flat earth nonsense.

[@dotalad4537]

OoOO I gotta watch that

[@blakksheep736]

Okay, I'm confused.

[@floreroafloreril1458]

Fuck, imagine getting so much harassment that you start doubting your own beliefs and world views.

[@dionemoolman]

“I don’t think those flights actually exist” Well I guess I dreamt flying for thirteen hours from Johannesburg to Sydney and noticed nothing but ocean.

[@lucasoheyze4597]

The question is, was that ocean flat?

[@Sublimeoo]

that was the cgi projected onto what you thought were windows, and to prevent you from seeing the midair refuelling. or something

[@nodtothestrange1008]

If a flat earther took that flight they’d be like “wow I must be part of the conspiracy too, I can’t even trust myself now”

[@joule400]

@@nodtothestrange1008 NASA must have hacked my eyes!

[@DigitalPadawan]

Australia doesn't exit, so the real question is... where did you go? and what was it like on the other side of the ice wall?

[@BossFountainGames]

"Anywhere in this hemisphere." Anywhere in the hemi-what, Mark?

[@jansalomin]

He meant hemisphircle

[@lxvideostuff7200]

@@jansalomin that reminded me of watermellon and now i want some so much 🍉

[@TheCstar07]

The Internet has taught me that as soon as a guy says Female in a non-scientific context it's time to ignore all the words that follow if you don't want your ears to bleed.

[@fakename287]

"female? More like 'reeeeeemale' amirite?"

[@tostie3110]

Is this why femoid is a thing? -jeez they're smarter than I thought-

[@cailinanne]

YEEEEESSSSSS

[@slothful2039]

People who use female like that are just... Grosd people with a superiority complex.

[@RozoTheGreat]

what about when it's used in sociological/anthropological/historical/linguistic contexts tho ;)

[@Talik13]

Hahahahaha that one girl in the flat Earth video: "Oh God... Is this really happening? Selena help."

[@theocean1973]

Lol that girl was awesome

[@vivazapata123]

There is also the added irony that the name „Selena“ comes from „Selene“ who in greek mythology is the godess of the moon.

[@MyoticTesseract]

Plot twist: Selena is actually literally the moon and it comes crashing down and defeats the flat-Earther with lacts and fogic

[@MyoticTesseract]

@TheDoubleAgent Hi

[@levithe2nd]

@TheDoubleAgent lmfao Hi

[@BlackuKnighto]

Through watching this video, flat earth teached me one thing. And that is when hbomberguy said that the pharao was believed to be the reincarnation of Sobek and I was like "Wait. That's wrong. It's Horus.", I looked it up and found out that in the middle kingdom of Egypt, the two gods were actually merged into one god called Sobek-Horus. And that is the most that flat earthers have ever accomplished: leading to me getting some info on ancient Egypt. Thanks, flat earth society.

[@f_mva]

yeah, i also had to brush up on my egyptian mythology thanks to this video! id completely forgotten about sobek being associated with the pharaoh during a certain period

[@dirtfriend]

BOOM YOU JUST GOT HIT BY THAT MANDELA SPACE LASER WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSE WHERE SOBEK EXISTS

[@Literally-God]

"Teached me" lol

[@BlackuKnighto]

@@Literally-God The first words should be finded Whatever hold you back

[@dysmissme7343]

Your optimism inspires me 🙏💜

[@raenotafurry]

"There are no systems in place to prevent another massive financial crash" - Hbomberguy, 2018. Five years later, and this quote has aged like a *fine wine*

[@ThreeArrows]

Hail Sobek

[@Ma_ksi]

Hail Jeb

[@grimsong2237]

LoL 😄 good one... wait a minute... This is the internet. 🤔 😱 He is just joking everyone, he is just joking!

[@Ma_ksi]

@@grimsong2237 yes very peculiar

[@pepesilvia5936]

@@grimsong2237 I'm definitely joking. Very much not a Nazi. Just to be clear.

[@grandsome1]

And may your jizzing be everlasting!

[@Outpost38C]

I think that the most definitive proof that the earth is round is the fact that if it were actually flat, said edge would be commercialized to hell. You wouldn't be able to stop people from trying to sell the experience of going there.

[@lucess169]

the government wouldn't have to think about disposal of nuclear waste. just throw it into the void

[@runethorsen8423]

Earth being flat doesn't automatically means it has an edge. We are not the only pond on this plane - and what we call "Antarctica" is commercialized to hell - just not for the inhabitants of this pond.

[@FoldingIdeas]

Should have included the "they are hiding god" guy.

[@PirateTHESteam1]

Hey Dan, big fan! Keep up the good work!

[@СтепанХудяков-у1д]

Gagarin flew into space and haven't seen any god!

[@brogot420]

Hey it's Folding Ideas! You know I may disagree on hbomberguy on some things, but at least he doesn't hide ratings and comments on his videos. Pussy.

[@oof-rr5nf]

@@brogot420 lmaooooo wow. You destroyed him. You are a god, sir. Please do share more of your wisdom on who are the brave and who the cowardly in this wretched lying world. Please. I am all ears.

[@WillWrath328]

Arunima Tiwari he’s not wrong tho

[@EmonWBKstudios]

It's so weird to see footage of Abigail's missing brother Oliver all these years later. I wish Abigail all the best with her acting career.

[@TracyCul]

I come from the future with news that Abigail has written a film and it's going to be made in Hollywood!

[@lilianamartins6160]

People who land here with no context are going to be very confused

[@jaccobbailey8247]

@@lilianamartins6160 lol can confirm - am confused

[@ayrtonjoga]

​@@lilianamartins6160 You're right, no idea what these quotes fucking means

[@haggisa]

@@ayrtonjogaAbigail Thorne, A.K.A. PhilosophyTube is a video essayist here on KZbin. She’s trans and before she came out, used to go by Oliver. 😊

[@Forestfreud]

an old friend of mine that i hadnt seen in a long time became a flat earther after an out-of-body experience at coachella. i talked to her about it for around an hour once. it was a frustrating conversation (she used rick and morty metaphors to explain her worldview no less than 3 times) but it was very illuminating, although not in the way she intended. when i asked her what nasa would possibly stand to gain from convincing everyone that the earth was round, she told me "they want us to think that we're nothing. they want us to think that our lives are meaningless because we're just tiny insignificant creatures floating on a tiny insignificant rock in the middle of an infinite universe so that we don't realize we deserve better and try to rise up against their conspiracies." that was the first time i really saw what draws some decent people to flat earth and other similar conspiracies. it's just existential dread. they can't stand the idea that they might not be important to the universe when it comes down to it and these conspiracies give them a reason to believe they're part of some big mission that will ultimately give them importance. it's quite sad, really. after that, i talked to her for a while about how for me, the idea of living in an infinite universe gives life so much more meaning than the idea of earth being the center of existence, and how the idea of amazing things in the far reaches of space and the unexplored minutiae of earth make me want to keep living because there's so much to learn and so many wonders to discover. at the end of the conversation, she said she needed to think about the things i'd said and reevaluate some stuff. i know this is a very r/thathappened comment, but you'll just have to take my word for it. it's a true story. i know it doesn't sound like one because i could hardly believe i had had that conversation myself, and i don't mean to make myself out to be some kind of wise sage leading the blind. i'm just really devoted to empathy and seeing why people believe the strange things they believe, which makes people with fringe worldviews more open to talking to me, even though i disagree with them. i find it's easier to make change that way. idk what exactly im hoping to accomplish by commenting this, i just kind of wanted to tell this story. so if you read the whole thing, thanks for listening, have a good one.

[@andrewaronson3364]

that hits the nail on the head. honestly, we evolved believing we were the center of the universe, pretty much a priori. when I stopped believing in god it made my outlook a lot more negative, which I don't really see improving in the future. when you see the terrible truth of the human condition instead of a delusional Fantasyland, it's a hard pill to swallow

[@shannonceleste5557]

Very thoughtful comment, mate.

[@0Clewi0]

To be fair many are still into religion because of the same argument

[@martinrosenberg6979]

I watched this video a few months ago, and only came back to see the other half of the Philosophy Tube HP Sauce scene, but on a whim, I decided to check out the comments. And I'm glad I did, because that was a very helpful insight.

[@carleflores9065]

you're right I'm just so tired... I need therapy ;-;

[@UpIsNotJump]

I spoke to Hbomb on the phone thus I am famous But really it was just back alley twitter DMs

[@-alphex-]

It's so cool knowing two of my favorite KZbinrs are acquainted with each other.

[@stijill]

Wow!!! I randomly found one of my favorite KZbin creators. NOW stop goofing off AND SERVE me a new video. I don't care if you have to eat. REALLLY!!! WOW

[@hirocheeto7795]

I'm hoping you're not being serious.

[@tomg5187]

I read this in your meticulously British accent 😂

[@sonofriggnarok9320]

It's the best KZbinr!

[@rathivemind2936]

as an australian, can confirm that not only is australia actually incredibly wide, but so are we. the real flat earth stretches us. it is a painful existence.

[@peterprime2140]

That explains why I'm so thicc.

[@blakksheep736]

@@peterprime2140 pfffffft

[@Ornithopter470]

But the upside is that you get to live in the original model for deathworld.

[@Lucifersfursona]

Babe please I’m 90lbs in Australia

[@KiatnissNZ]

Same with us New Zealanders, but our physiology is distorted on a sort of diagonal, it too is excruciating

[@dikydankedude]

The fact that Logan Paul was a flat earther somewhat supports my assumption that the Pauls are actively trying to make humanity less intelligent

[@DoomsdayMayBeOkay]

Oh really? And here i thought i couldn't lose any more respect for those two lol

[@drakep.5857]

Logan Paul isn't really a human being. He's a flesh automation crafted by aliens using DNA found in hitler's other testicle to be used as a psy-weapon to collectively divide and frighten all of humanity.

[@lxvideostuff7200]

your picture is looking at me, when im not looking at it 🙄👀

[@Badartist888]

The real conspiracy is how I can watch heaps of leftist youtube and only get some recommendations (on the main page, not the side while watching, then I get more) but if I click on one alt-right or conspiracy page my main gets flooded with recommendations for more for some time. I don't think youtube is pushing for flat earth but I am saying that people who go down those rabbit holes watch a LOT of videos and are probably a good market to advertise to.

[@lexi3312]

Yep. I specifically avoid those kinds of videos and yet my recommendations and ads are full of them while I'm often not notified on new uploads from the people I actually watch

[@HailTheRegent]

I think it has something to do with how the algorithm 'relates' topics. To the system, a leftist video explaining Marxism in detail with supporting citation is no different from some Fox news reject ranting about "marxist secularists" or some nonsense.

[@bigcheese1061]

Yet pretty much nothing in the center ever pops up… it seems like polarizing content pulls way more than rationality

[@nejdalej]

Clearly the market isn't oversaturated enough, apparently xD

[@justinwatson1510]

So you’re saying right wingers and other bigots are easily manipulated? Color me shocked!

[@crazywazy5527]

m o m s a y s i t s m y t u r n o n t h e s c i e n c e

[@gmbrusselsprout]

*MoM tHeY'rE lOoKiNg OuT mY sCiEnCe AgAiN*

[@donaldbaird7849]

That profile pic fits perfectly

[@JohnStopman]

Meow

[@seraphcutie8457]

The flat Earth movement is so last year. I believe there's no Earth

[@pokiyapa]

we're actually on earth 2

[@oscarmccormack1611]

@@pokiyapa ...goddamnit Barry...

[@pokiyapa]

@@oscarmccormack1611 sorry. I was running too fast

[@Kromiball]

can't wait to live on earth 69

[@nikjuttun5677]

@@pokiyapa so when's earth 3 coming out and is it gonna be a prequel?

[@thomasrosebrough9062]

Wild to say "The Egyptians knew the Earth was flat and did things that we still cant do today!" when Egypt was very likely *the first civilization to prove the Earth was round*, when Eratosthenes sent two hourglass to Alexanderia and Syene to measure the shadows of tall buildings.

[@twofacetoo75]

Also, what exactly did the Egyptians do that we can't do? Like sure, at the time what they did was very impressive, but I'm POSITIVE we could build every structure they built to the exact same specifications of height and shape, just with some cranes and cement-mixers. Again what they did back then is impressive, sure, but it's all stuff we could easily do today as well.

[@warmachineuk]

I think it's hilarious people believe the ancient Egyptians did things we still can't do today. Like what? Build the Pyramids of Giza? Bigger and more complex buildings are routinely built to house poor people as well as work spaces for corporations and governments. If we took an ancient Egyptian and showed him modern day Egypt, he'd think we're all gods.

[@sirhawke]

​@@warmachineukThe fact people think stacking stones in a pyramid shape is far more complex than a skyscraper shows how little people understand architecture and how any idiot can stack stones.

[@chrisgaming9567]

@@warmachineuk To be fair, the Ancient Egyptians were better than us at one thing: Long-term thinking. Could you imagine the modern world spending a proportionally similar amount of effort to build something intended to last thousands of years?

[@chrisgaming9567]

@@sirhawke It wasn't "any idiot", some careful thought clearly went into the design, considering the proportions etc.

[@HigherMammal]

Sobek, arriving early to the party: "I have come." Renenutet, his wife: "Too quickly, as usual..."

[@poprocks6576]

Damn Renenutet sick spurn

[@dayalasingh5853]

@Dalton Fitzgerald I'm a Sobek fanboy so no thanks

[@stephcannon2106]

Seth even brought a coffin to the party!

[@KindredBrujah]

"SPERM IS THE ONLY NECESSARY COMPONENT OF THIS UNION"

[@kozhedub]

Is making it last necessarily a logical goal for the god of jizz?

[@sneeznoodle]

"Why is there a square box around the earth?" How does that guy have a working copy of photoshop, know how to edit levels, and yet _not know what artifacting is?????_

[@paterklatter]

ITS NOT ARTIFACTING. ITS THE TIME CUBE OBVIOUSLY

[@888pil]

im certain he would have seen artifacts around anything else in that photo too

[@moiquiregardevideo]

@@888pil Yes, if he would zoom on any other part and play with the histogram, equivalent rectangles would appear.The color red, maybe not. It depends if the compressed pixels around had any red components (like white, which contain all 3 colors).

[@no_peace]

It's called lying

[@RLomoterenge]

People with dumb beliefs lying to impose their beliefs on even dumber people

[@MANJYOMETHUNDER111]

Anti-Vaxxers: A Measured Response PLEASE. I'll love you forever. Edit: HOLY SHIT I did watch it, if you were curious

[@Snowfire6916]

Also TERFs: A Measured Response.

[@user-mt4bk4ml7t]

@@Snowfire6916 dafuq are those

[@Haispawner]

@@user-mt4bk4ml7t Just google it bro, like with any term you don't know, easy as piss.

[@user-mt4bk4ml7t]

@@Haispawner yeah was scared that it was something weird but it turns out to be some radical feminazis

[@Haispawner]

@@user-mt4bk4ml7t It's a bit more complex than that, it's a branch of feminism that believes trans people cannot be women and are trying to invade women's space, which the other branches of feminism really don't approve of, and just generally isn't very helpful for equality.

[@shuylife]

Absolutely maddening that upon finding evidence that he's wrong he just simply says "I don't think those are real". Literally evidence from the same source he's using to prove that he's right. Really sums up the mindset of the entire movement. There really is no arguing with these people, they're just too emotionally tied to whatever they believe that nothing else matters.

[@medli7725]

"Does this map hold any water? Well that's what the ice is for." I'm dead now

[@Patricia_Taxxon]

*notices jpeg compression* uh oh what is that

[@GanguroKonata]

Globlehead TRICKERY

[@atortarr]

OwO

[@TheBrownestFalcon]

GLOBE-ALIST PROPAGANDA

[@CrowAppreciator]

*notices jpeg compression* owo what's this

[@isthisajojoreference]

*notices your curve* OwO what's this?

[@mute1085]

This reminds me of a flat-earther that wanted to go to space on a steam-powered rocket to "prove" the Earth is flat. Turns out, not believing in rocket science when you are building a rocket is fatal.

[@naf5567]

I'm pretty sure that guy was a daredevil and had an obsession with flying homemade rockets, seeing how dumb flat earthers were he declared himself a flat earther and got a bunch of idiots to fund his entertainment.

[@mute1085]

@@naf5567 Could be that, I guess, groups like that are always full of grifting. Nonetheless, his idea of a rocket was not smart either.

[@naf5567]

@@mute1085 He was a daredevil, so I guess it's justified, they do wacky and dangerous shit all the time

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

I heard about that guy. What a doofus. Darwin Awards in action. To guys like that, I say, "How about raising money, so you can take yourself and a camcorder / cell-phone camera on a U2 plane ride?"

[@UnbearableYT]

@@naf5567 That's actually right. He was just grifting the flat earthers so he could do his stunt. Lol. Rest in peace

[@noahcarver4232]

Roboticist here, there is a way to perfectly correct fisheye, and we do it all the time in computer vision. it can either be calculated from the optics inside a camera, and a whole buncha linear algebra, or by calibrating against a known flat line, as you noted. The particular calibration is called the intrinsic martix of the camera, and im willing to bet that if you look up that particular camera's intrinsics, there will still be a curved horizon. Props for doing your research, im perpetually impressed!

[@mothersbasement]

I just watched the down the rabbit hole video on TempleOS, and man, the way that a lot of these flat earthers speak sounds uncannily similar to how Terry Davis talked.

[@Eva-ie4hm]

Mother's Basement holy shit I just subbed yesterday and suddenly you’re everywhere

[@PartyC4nnon]

Mother's Basement I love your content and happy new year!!

[@GoodSirReginald]

I AM SO GLAD IM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT THIS. I ended up doing a double-take the first time he started talking. I guess conspiracy theorists tend to spew in similar octaves?

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Nope, he was an actual schizophrenic!

[@Dontreadthis0]

Oh thank god im not the only one.

[@therealwattambor8347]

Give the Flat-Earth folks a break you all. They really struggled in school as they just weren't well-rounded.

[@Edward-pw6zz]

you deserve a beating for this joke...

[@therealwattambor8347]

@@Edward-pw6zz what can I say, I truly am the least funny clown in the most funny circus.

[@ComedicLetter]

Not my fault their brain has underdeveloped hemispheres

[@comparatorclock]

Good one!

[@b4rbarbar]

It's truly a global problem

[@XShadoWPaws]

The fact that flatties can't come up with a better reason why the government and scientists are lying about the earth being round other than "they don't want to admit they're wrong, they'll be embarrassed" is very, very telling.

[@BarioIDL]

teh no u card

[@thedreadpestilence288]

I’m gonna use the term flatties now

[@caramel9154]

@@loturzelrestaurant bro chill the fuck out

[@landonadams9935]

No, it’s because _They_ are trying to cover it up. Who are They? Why are they trying to cover it up? Idk man it just sounds cool.

[@shawnferguson5681]

Yeah, why are they so fired up about proving the world is flat? Whichever way it is, life would pretty much go on as usual, regardless of whether anyone believed it or not.

[@breadstick4458]

My favourite way to defuse or at least fuck with conspiracy theorists is to propose and even more insane theory, “The moon landing was faked-“ “You really believe in the moon?”

[@thefirstsalty3055]

im gonna steal this tactic if you dont mind

[@vulpes7079]

No, it's not, you just heard that once

[@nerdywolverine8640]

​@@vulpes7079they don't have to have personally used it for it to be their favorite method lol

[@MeeraReads]

Unfortunately this no longer works, because there are now moon deniers among the flat earthers 🙃

[@GynxShinx]

The pride flag isn't straight lol

[@Lfppfs]

LMAO! Genius!

[@barryscott3327]

Hahaha

[@delusionalnoodles]

if you think about it the stripes shouldn't be straight

[@no-lifenoah7861]

Only when it's waving

[@Satsujinki007]

The linea are tho

[@LindsayEllisVids]

Twenty-six THOUSAND subscribers!

[@smoov22_sonic]

Lindsay Ellis I have an army of 60 million subscribers look at my muscles

[@merna5685]

I'm losing to a bird

[@Crimsonterminator100]

Just watched your "Death of the Author" video

[@KEvronista]

but who's counting. KEvron

[@HeckaLives]

A whole FIVE DOLLARS worth of AD REVENUE.

[@iraglassfromnpr]

Maybe the pride flag curves differently because it's bending against the pull of straightness. Scientifically speaking, I don't think pride flags like to be seen as straight.

[@fruitygarlic3601]

The lines of the pride flag aren't straight at all -- they just look that way to us now. It is only when Sobek's seed drowns the homophobes, that the pride flag will reveal its true form.

[@iraglassfromnpr]

thanks for the clarification! (I'm no physicist so...)@@fruitygarlic3601

[@fruitygarlic3601]

@@iraglassfromnpr Neither am I. But sometimes, when I stay awake for days in the sun, he sends me visions.

[@iraglassfromnpr]

@@fruitygarlic3601 That's some front page shit for sure! Have you alerted the media to your experience of receiving these visions? It seems like something the public would want to hear about.

[@justinmeans3446]

Margaret Levin A straight pride flag is like grounded aviation.

[@idebune]

Thank you for this video. My friends recommended this to me after my parents fell down the rabbit hole, and while I won't be using your talking points because any evidence I've presented to debunk their claims has been written off as "falsified," it was deeply cathartic to be reminded that I'm not the crazy one here.

[@joedav67]

Hope you can escape them soon

[@Darksiyo]

The government hired Stanley Kubrick to fake the moon landing after coming to accept that they could not accomplish it. However, due to his unrelenting pursuit of perfection in his shots, within a year, he had his actors on the moon.

[@merchantfan]

They never show you the outtakes of Neil Armstrong crying in hysterical terror because Kubrick was making him plant the flag for the 100th time until he got the angle and tone right.

[@Calcagno1988]

I honestly love the head canon that, yes, Stanley Kubrick did film the moon landing but was enough of a perfectionist sociopath that he convinced them to actually film the damn thing on the actual moon.

[@mphylo2296]

That's what makes it such a wonderful joke. Kubrick was the kind of guy who would say "It needs to be perfect, let's film it on the moon"

[@merchantfan]

@@mphylo2296 I prefer the theory that *all* of Kubrick's films were made on the moon and he just used practical effects to make everything look like it wasn't floating

[@mphylo2296]

@@merchantfan Man you joke but you have no idea. Kubrick woild have unironically shot 2001 in space on a real space ship if he could have afforded to. Dude used his own fortune as his budget which is a major part of why he had as much creative control as he did. He was crazy but exactly what Hollywood needed after the golden age ended

[@Hyreia]

While Flat Earth theory is ridiculous, the imaginary world setting they've made is very imaginary and would be good for a story. Like with the great ice wall and all that? And the cold light of the Moon? That's fun for an imaginary setting.

[@jamesduffy7549]

Write it. Sell it to normal people as a story, and flat earther as the Bible. Stonks will ensue.

[@Eueueyw]

Some of them also believe that there are gaps in the ice wall that lead to another layer of the disc with undiscovered lands. I think the whimsy of it all can be quite appealing as well.

[@notapplicable6985]

There is one book series called discworld that is pretty fun. In that book there are differrnt tinezones because magic literally causes the light to slow down.

[@dragonmoth96]

@@notapplicable6985 oh my, yes! Along with the ice wall and weird moon orbit, do some Flatearthers believe the world is balanced on four elephants on a gigantic turtle swimming through space?

[@greenyawgmoth]

@@jamesduffy7549 Isn't that basically what Scientology did, but in reverse?

[@Tedsville]

The earth is flat because jpeg compression artefacts lmao

[@vilukisu]

jpeg = Just Perish, Enemy Globe

[@leam1978]

@@vilukisu this is a very underrated comment, like the opposite of timecube. Cheers

[@smjaiteh]

THAT’S WHY I DON’T TRUST NASA!!!

[@Edax_Royeaux]

The Moon is also flat, because jpeg compression. Or the moon is fake. Or something...

[@subroy7123]

@tiglath pileser Well whatever the lizard people are projecting it onto, I need it for my IMAX project could you please let Soros know this thanks

[@thatoneoshawott5826]

I just want to point out that a Ancient Greek guy figured out the shape/size of the earth using 2 sticks and a well

[@9_1.1]

the common flat earth rebuttal is that you could get the same results from that experiment on a flat earth if the sun was in a certain spot. that’s true, however that “certain spot” is literally right above the earth, like in the atmosphere right above the clouds. which is clearly not the case.

[@hnek]

"we are not small, and we are not an accident" I think encapsulates the existential crisis within all conspiracy theorists.

[@1WEareBUFO1]

sad scared boys

[@PitLord777]

Yeah, it's a dead giveaway.

[@safir2241]

In my opinion there are some conspiracy theories that are true. Like the Epstein case. People used to talk about the lolita express as if it were a crazy fake idea. Now it’s a fact.

[@samuelbarber4154]

Safir for me it's that I don't believe the Kennedy assassination was Lee Harvey Oswald, or at least that it was only him. Like some sort of inside mafia, thing. Like apparently the car was maintenanced before investigators could investigate. However, things like 9/11 truthers and Flat Earthers I don't really believe, because I am an intelligent human being. Is that rude? I think that might be a little rude.

[@safir2241]

Samuel Barber No, it’s fine to call a spade a spade.

[@gyroownstheworld]

"Flat Earth, neo-Nazi, vegan rap" is such a god damn sentence

[@l.pietrobon3925]

I'd vote for that guy

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

I just find it hilarious that a NeoNazi is RAPPING.

[@cornonthekobi]

@@SpukiTheLoveKitten75 Jewish diss track

[@poprocks6576]

Fun fact hitler was a vegetarian ad didn’t do drugs moral of the fact do all the drugs and meat

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

@@poprocks6576 He did do drugs. He was a total tweaker. I think the vegetarian thing wasn't 100%. Terrible guy... terrible drug issues.

[@redjirachi1]

When your creationist-fueled conspiracy theory is so out-dated the Ancient Greeks already disproved it

[@megahunterkiller]

@jake dominguez *math

[@munstrumridcully]

@@megahunterkiller maths is acceptable as well. Both math and maths are correct abbreviations of mathematics, math is preferred in the US and Canada, but the UK uses maths more.

[@Kickiusz]

@@munstrumridcully I love when Americans try to correct someone for using British English.

[@munstrumridcully]

@@Kickiusz indeed :)

[@John_Smith.]

@@munstrumridcully I didn't think UU taught how to spell.

[@cevothy]

Just today found out my father is a flat earther. After a 10 minute discussion he debunked himself after using a globe shaped object to explain one of his arguments. I love physics.

[@UmbreonMessiah]

I absolutely love that the only way Mark Sargent's theories can stay together is if he *believes things he can see existing aren't real.*

[@josephporcelli2302]

Orwell was really on to something, I never thought we would have a society that practices doublethink

[@thatonestormtrooper2760]

Even reading your explanation of his theory gave me a headache

[@nelsonphillips]

Owhowh I know. It's how we construct reality. We as sensual beings constantly absorb information from or environment and have our neural system filter, combine and sort to generate a coherent picture that we will the convey back into the world for verification. This verification step is very important and poorly studied in the field of psychology due to the lack of the physical model being developed in neural sciences. However, new interdisciplinary fields like cognitive neural science is helping to understand this verification mode. To give a summary it comes back to our five sensor data set that we social beings are allowed to use. The problem is that we have a data set made up of more than five sensors, we have around twenty, for example hot and cold are two separate data/ sensory channel. This means that we need to squeeze our verification model back into that abstraction resulting in built in errors. Previously when we believed the earth was spherical narratives that helped us survived were transposed and that inbuilt error was adjusted for. As a result narrative became a very important error checking mechanism. Now this error checking mechanism has become an error amplifying mechanism because our closets now have wifi. There is a dissertation in that meme that told everyone that flat earth guy doesn't read books following this theme because books are the error checking model as our understand of our sensors were/are limited. The error checking for the model would now be knowledge of our sensors and the understanding our sixth sense does not perceive ghosts, but rather a differentiation between two or more physiological inputs. Happy reading fun boy!

[@Nonsense010688]

@@josephporcelli2302 Except that in Orwell it was state given and the state or at least the party, profit from it. Here we have people brainwashing themselves for no good reason. And yes, we living in a world that is crazy, doesn't justify to make it more crazy.

[@fulcrum2951]

Denmark isn't real

[@cesarbravo822]

Hey, I'm Chilean and I've taken the Santiago-Auckland flight before. I'm pretty sure the flight was real, but I'm still on the fence about this "New Zealand" thing.

[@jiminylummox9352]

Yeah look, I'm Australian and I can tell you for a fact that Qantas made it up. It's really just Tasmania that you went to.

[@fluffy_tail4365]

New Zealand is a CIA psy-op

[@jacobvardy]

Shshsh. Don't tell people that Australia is a NASA hoax. It is the best gig i've ever had. I get paid to drink, swear, and play elaborate pranks on tourists.

[@raidermaxx2324]

@@jacobvardy i knew "bunyips" werent real!!!

[@cd0gg6928]

Wait I'm a New Zealander is my life a lie fed to me by the CIA?!

[@yourpalfred]

It's very strange. So many flat earthers seem to be really hung up on the idea that "globalists" think humanity is "insignificant". As if believing science automatically wipes away all meaning from our lives.

[@Winasaurus]

It generally stems from the idea of: If there's no other intelligent life in the universe, then we must be the only ones, which means we must be special, therefore the earth must also be special (akin to it being centre of the solar system type stuff), under the impression we were put here for a reason. To say we aren't is to imply our life came into being by sheer cosmic accident and therefore aren't significant. Which, sure, we're probably not significant on a universal scale, but that's not to say we as a species aren't. I guess it's a real ego hit to be told you'll not make a universal difference and they'd rather invent reasons to be special.

[@Sonichero151]

@@Winasaurus it's an existential ego crisis. Having science tell them they are insignificant even at a scale pretty much every normal person doesn't care about bothers them to no end and to prevent them from killing themselves they turn to conspiracy theories. The brain can lead to pretty weird conclusions when self perseveration is involved

[@anahata3478]

@@Winasaurus To say that there isn't a reason for our existence isn't science. Questions about existence itself is metaphysics and a realm were science has nothing to say. It is actually sad how many people conflate naturalism and science. The question why something exists in the first place can't be answered by science since it preceeds the physical

[@Winasaurus]

@@anahata3478 Considering you're not helping in any way and not even theorizing you're own answers or having more to say than "That's not science, people doing this thing I say are sad, you can't answer it", you're acting like a child on xbox live. To say we can't answer the question isn't science, questions about questions about existence itself is therefore also metaphysical and a realm where science has nothing to say. It's sad you think your comments on others comments are any more correct or 'scientific' than theirs. But for real, if you're going to claim science has nothing to say about existence itself then why are you taking issue with people conflating it with other things? If it's inherently unscientific it's illogical to get annoyed at it being conflated with things as if it follows scientific rules.

[@SpukiTheLoveKitten75]

@@Winasaurus They also never consider that, if there are sapient "people" on other planets with societies of their own, that doesn't actually negate a Supreme Deity on its own. - For those among them who are Christian, who's to say that The Gorblatts of Planet Zork don't have their own "Christ" figure or that the forces of Evil doesn't tempt people on other planets? The Bible only cares about Earth, the other E.T. - filled planets are irrelevant to that Anthology of Holy Writ.

[@CascadianRanger]

That guy with the guitar saying how hilarious this is and that he was making a fool of himself was honestly the nicest ive seen someone react in public to these people. There was almost an element of pity when he told him he was making a fool of himself. Like he wanted the crazy dude to stop for his own sake

[@X3._.n3]

36:24 "I like science" just makes me think of Palpatine saying "I love democracy"

[@adrienneczerni6516]

Ruby from RWBY: "I love books"

[@keyburri3095]

Chris Hansen on Dateline NBC: "I like rape."

[@GeeTransit]

Kid from ASDF: "I like trains."

[@Kickiusz]

"I love dogs. Doesn't everyone?"

[@vapid6311]

@@Kickiusz araki don't like 'em

[@spiderjerusalem100]

Flat Earth guy goes to a bar and randomly asks people to debunk the flat Earth theory. They call him an idiot and he's asked to leave by the bar's owner. Flat Earth guy: "I think this was a productive day".

[@LisaBeergutHolst]

Geez, until I finished watching I thought this was a joke.

[@nicosonico94]

I bet he found at least one person who stood up to him and countered every point he made, and he promptly cut that person from the video.

[@AB-ts3kl]

@@nicosonico94 Nope. He would have kept it in and talked about how he *TOTALLY REKT that GLOBER*

[@bobbywizdum5248]

@@nicosonico94 countering points with unproven theories doent win a debate lol the truth is as everyday people we cannot conclusively prove it either way

[@nicosonico94]

@@bobbywizdum5248 As everyday people, we cannot conclusively prove ANYTHING. This doesn't mean we cannot look up evidence and use our brains. Can you conclusively prove that not breathing will kill you? Nope, you've never tried. But with a bit of research, you can find reported cases of people who stopped breathing and died. Therefore, you can probably derive that it's better to keep doing it. Of course, as a normal person, you're not able to fly into space and look at the globe to verify that it is, in fact, a globe. However, you can look up evidence, do the math, or simply just stare at the open ocean to notice the curvature. Even a big lake is enough, I know by experience. But I guess you're gonna say my eyes have been replaced by fish-eye lenses anyway, so why am I even wasting time.

[@katiebarber407]

As a vegan anti-fascist rapper, thank you for introducing me to my arch nemesis

[@heather2503]

i will become a carnivorous antifascist very slow speaker to oppose him harder

[@inimitableminimalist]

Vegan rapper beef is the only carbon neutral beef!

[@katiebarber407]

wat@@inimitableminimalist

[@AtlasNL]

@@katiebarber407Beef is slang for having a fight with someone else Internet beef = people fighting over the internet

[@pezvonpez]

​@@AtlasNLhello person from 7 hours ago. Could it be that you're (re?)watching hbomberguy's videos because he uploaded a new one? Are you part of that wave?

[@username5155]

5:54 “I’m gonna zoom in on the Earth” Yeah, because if you didn’t, the fact that the rest of the image also has jpeg compression would be revealed

[@toria0928]

The ancient Egyptians also theorized the earth was round and estimated the circumference of the earth based on shadows so like... go off flat-earthers

[@MathasiaJ]

I mean the ancient Greeks actually figured out the size of the earth using its shadow on the moon during a lunar eclipse

[@mdr48371]

Even the Holey Bah-bul says the earth is round

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

Ptolemy was a Greek contemporary of Alexander the Great who founded a dynasty in Egypt after Alexander's death. So your focusing on a detail which the video mentions. It's an unnecessary expansion that would bog things down. It also highlights your lack of knowledge on the subject. Great job!

[@MathasiaJ]

@@MorinehtarTheBlue at least he's on the right side

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

She, considering the OP's name is Victoria. And I'm arguing against unnecessary redundance as your response also, barring the name, referenced the same astronomer, mathematician and geographer. Also bravo to you for assuming I'm a Flat Earther. I'm not and I find it ridiculous stupidity. Great job!

[@kylynch198]

New Theory: The Earth is a compressed jpeg file on god's Windows 94

[@continuum_mid]

So all the lakes are just JPEG artifacts?

[@morrisgordon9618]

Ky Lynch Great!!!.This makes sense and sounds like science to me.Plus you look smart as well,so yeah,I can see you are telling the true.Thank you

[@kylynch198]

@@morrisgordon9618 thank you I will not be accepting any questions at this time and also ever

[@morrisgordon9618]

@@kylynch198 aahh you're soo sweet and warm.I would sent my huggs, but you just another A.I bot send from the future.To provide evidence the Earth is flat.Dont worry, I will be going around the World.Telling the people the World is flat and teaching them this new theory.Which is now called the Lynch theory.

[@kylynch198]

@@l-l it exists I can see it with my eyes and the government is just hiding it. As I stated before I will NOT be taking any questions and also no criticism thank you I am definitely correct

[@retrodragon2249]

I once joined some random Flat-Earth Discord server just to see first hand what these people were like. The server was quite dead but looking back through the past conversations I saw someone who had joined that was looking to become part of the community. His reason why he even started to wonder the truth was the airplane path "proof" that was mentioned in this video. He asked some random person on the server to explain some of the Flat-Earth myths he had heard elsewhere in the globe community. Myths like globe-selling buisness profits and the great ice wall at the edge of the world. On mentioning the ice wall the Flat-Earther said "No, that's just a story made by the globe-earthers to make us look stupid. the ice wall is just the beginning of the edge." The new person then asked "Well, what's beyond the ice wall, then?" The other guy then gave some half-assed, subject changing answer and beat around the bush for a bit until the new guy demanded an answer to which the random said something along the lines of "It's dangerous to speculate because you might accidentally come up with something that isn't true." Then new guy said "Well why don't people go and see what's really there?" The random then said "But the governments don't allow people to go there, you'd need special permission." like bro, those poor, troubled people. That server had such a mood of forced reassurance, anger, and pride about it. These people just have emotional troubles that they really don't want solved, and I feel bad for them.

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

This sounds like another experience from a similar video Folding Ideas did. When he did his experiment with Lake Quinipolyp, he wound up talking to some flat earther types afterwards about his results, canceling out some of their rebuttals for things he had considered. His eventual final rebuttal was to pray about it until it made sense, which at that point probably says more about the person who told him to do that than anything else.

[@Kowalskithegreat]

What if it's just a really dedicated troll community? That's what my instinct tells me

[@retrodragon2249]

@@Kowalskithegreat I really don't think so, but I advise you to look at these places for yourself. Just be warned because they seem to have a shared blacklist of people to not invite to these places and once you're banned from one server you'll be banned from quite a few.

[@dewb8053]

@@Kowalskithegreat Obviously there's a lot of trolls but there is a large part of the flat earth community that are no doubt 100% serious

[@ZorotheGallade]

It's the anguished mind space of someone who lives in terror of being proved wrong and lashes out at anything that even sounds like reasonable discussion

[@PreciseSpace]

As a retail worker, can confirm that if someone is ranting to me about one of their conspiracy theories, I will simply smile and nod until they leave me alone

[@neonal18]

"The utter lack of nonstop flights from anywhere in this hemisphere" Oh that's a funny word isn't it Mark HemiSPHERE Wonder what it could mean

[@gigangreg7837]

@FACE GALLON You don't MEAN that, do you?

[@gigangreg7837]

@FACE GALLON Oh, whew You can never tell these days

[@Donjonneau]

@FACE GALLON The Fremasons? Huh.... You don't know Aristarchus of Samos, nor Nicolas Copernic, nor Galileo, aren't you? You don't know the barbarians who burned and destroyed decades of knowledge after the Fall of Antique Rome? Those barbarians had a greed for power and knew how knowledge makes people resist to submission attemps. Globe comes from many decades before the Freemasons. And the Freemasons had a postive role in USA history. I don't hate a created entity such as "God", but it's seen in so many ways. I respect that people can lack reason and imagination. But I hate what was done in the name of any Monotheist God. They can't make their own purposes, those people with beliefs, except if they are able to be open-minded believers. The narrow-ones need what they have been repeated too many times, but they can't get out of the comforting zone of fate in God. I believe in me and in Makind, even in you. It's what the diverse educations and some mysterious thoughts of mine learned me to do. The tensions from mankind's diversity is a historical fresque that learned me to see what I can do to convince to get more knowledge. You have to know the basics of reasoning and prevent yourself from misjudgment to support your Flat-Eartist thing. History is not lying to what people like you did with reasonable people: to shut them up. I won't, I have my purpose, I have to overcome myself. There's so much to do and so heavy burdens on humanity...

[@Donjonneau]

@FACE GALLON I respect your sarcasm in this case... And I just hope this won't be posted on r/woosh 0_0

[@sambradley9091]

@FACE GALLON Your first comment may have initially been sarcasm but you sounded so much like an actual flat Earther it's scary

[@chainsofalice7070]

"At least under Feudalism we had job security." That was simultaneously the funniest and saddest quote from this video 🤣

[@fauxrowsdower7610]

girl I literally think about that quote like once a week here in late stage capitalism lmao

[@cm3004]

It is horribly inaccurate though. Serfs could be evicted from the land they worked on immediately and for no reason given.

[@IceBlueLugia]

@@cm3004Yeah I’m surprised how many people are blindly agreeing with this when this was mentioned even in my middle school history textbook

[@comradesillyotter1537]

​@cm3004 not necessarily true. Sure the means existed, same way the US govt could drone strike you from out of your house at any moment, but manoralism was a complicated system of social contracts that varied wildly where ever you went

[@zenkozenko4989]

"I know what a 40 year old woman looks like" Not on a personal, romantic, or physical way I'm assuming?

[@GoddoDoggo]

Hey man, don't knock 40 year old women, Charlize Theron can step on me with her perimenopausal stilettos any day.

[@Lucifersfursona]

He’s seen one once from across a mall parking lot

[@skeetsmcgrew3282]

I think the real take-away is he is intimately aware of what a trans woman in her 20s looks like

[@raycestg3447]

@@InForTheLonghaul Which, for all intents and purposes, is what that guy is doing. Just not in the way he thinks he is :D

[@Lucifersfursona]

@@skeetsmcgrew3282 for the sake of trans women everywhere, I hope he doesn’t

[@davidshea6272]

The best argument against a Flat earth is capitalism: You're telling me people wouldn't just dump garbage of the edge rather than recycle?

[@slevinchannel7589]

Seen the Capitalism-videos by 'Some More News'?

[@seanfrazee5146]

That and it'd be a huge tourist attraction, and nothing will get between greedy politicians and money

[@PalomaDreams17]

Odd TV: *Like everyone else you were born into bondage* Me: Kinky

[@StardustLegend]

same

[@onibeebee]

the flat earthers are kinkshaming us

[@serglian8558]

@@thaumaTurtles homestuck icon gang!

[@jordanwait7264]

@@serglian8558 :-}

[@nualahalpin6119]

Literally my first reaction

[@Crystal_959]

"There are NO direct flights from A to B" "Yeah there is, here" ".... that one doesn't count"

[@ZorotheGallade]

"That one doesn't exist"*

[@Duchess_Van_Hoof]

Anything is true if you ignore all evidence to the contrary.

[@BarioIDL]

these fkers think they live in a Michael bay movie

[@flatearth9140]

THEY LIE !!!

[@jesselindsey9760]

Yeah, welcome to 95% of conspiracy theorists. "This thing disproves what I said? Nah, it's false evidence. What proof do I have that it's false evidence? None, but I don't need any because I've already decided I'm right and thus anything that points to the contrary cannot be correct." It's a bizarre combination of confidence, idiocy, and laziness."

[@RB_Eldritch]

Can we take a moment to appeciate the fact that H.Bomberguy wrote in all the Closed Captions himself, complete with action indicators (knocks over skeleton like a clod) and speaker titles (Lord Sobeck the Bountiful)

[@caitmonroe9349]

His absolutely A+ captions are one of my favorite things

[@cooliostarstache6992]

I have so much love for creators that provide good captions!!

[@UrsulaDaSeaWishh]

HBomb in 2019: this (45 minute) video is way too long HBomb in 2024: so here’s a 4-hr video about plagiarism on KZbin…