Debunking Tiktok Conspiracies

[@WhyYouWahYoo]

People are so desperate to feel mentally superior that they’ll believe anything if it’s packaged with the bonus of “and everyone else is stupid.”

[@Chalo122790]

Yes my dear premium fellowc

[@Kyyndle]

They say "stupidity spreads", and this is usually why. Nobody wants to feel dumb.

[@clockworkpanda8]

Dunning Kruger effect has taken over.

[@flowerpeachh]

Never in my life have I thought of it like that… Thank you fellow Gold lover!

[@Randomjackass135]

Also if they identify with the dominant culture, cognitive dissonance won’t allow them to understand what the actual problems with society are, so they buy into these fairy tales so they don’t have to change how they think.

[@delionmoon]

from the words of the wise youtuber Miniminuteman: "you don't have to be mad at the secret shadow government, you can just be mad at the regular government"

[@Ninjaned]

do we Miniminuteman fans have a name like Greg or something?!

[@onlytan128]

I’ve been searching for a miniminuteman comment here 😭♥️

[@Sugarman96]

Funny guy, I like seeing him referenced here.

[@noahquayle9685]

A lot of conspiracy theories give world governments way too much credit, when they barely determine what the other person said

[@skippykay599]

I saw the title of this video and knew I’d find other miniminuteman fans here!

[@latel4544]

"How do people have a somewhat accurate rendition of the world" As if a cartographer hasn't been one of the most highly respected and needed job in human history

[@redwiltshire1816]

Don’t forget astronomers too

[@latel4544]

​@@redwiltshire1816 Indeed

[@yoursleepparalysisdemon8216]

Math and science wins again

[@laylahassomethingtosay]

I would've made such a good cartographer😞

[@iamhereblossom1588]

@@yoursleepparalysisdemon8216Flat earther: but I don’t want to take the time to learn math and science! I’d rather have a tiktoker create a fantasy explanation for me!

[@supergingerr]

As someone who enjoys conspiracy theories Antarctica is literally a rabbit hole. It’s basically got its own lore at this point with how many conspiracies surround it. I have no clue why. I guess a big hunk of ice just bothers some people.

[@myralyra2404]

A big hunk of ice that’s soooo cold that not many people live there? The government is hiding the 5g machines that control the chips in our brain in the igloos /j

[@michaelstevenson5044]

@supergingerr The real lore about Antartica should be stuff that is true like how residents of Antartica have developed a different accent, dialect, and mannerisms from having such diverse backgrounds It's cool stuff

[@supergingerr]

@@michaelstevenson5044 Wow I didn’t know that! Thanks for letting me know!

[@ChadButt]

For the exact same reason so many people claimed (and still do claim, for some reason) that there are living dinosaurs in places like the Congo. it's a place that is hard to traverse, and it is easy to make things up about the creatures and people that live there, since very few have the resources to fact check them. anything that isn't well known is a hotbed for conspiracies and people looking to further their agenda (same thing applies to things like the pyramids in Egypt, and early archaeological sights like gobekli tepe and so on. these aren't things most people can easily visit themselves, especially here in America) with Antarctica it's conspiracy theorists, and for the Congo it's religious zealots who think proving dinosaurs live in the dense jungles will prove young earth creationism, somehow. Unknowns are scary, and some people would rather just make things up than ask a scientist, I guess. never understood why people make things up, when the Congo river and it's ecology, and practically everything surrounding Antarctica is already so interesting. You could spend your whole life exploring it and wouldn't discover everything there is to see. I suppose their preconceptions just make it hard to see these places for what they really are. I'm really into learning about living dinosaurs and cryptids, and the people who support their existence, and they so frequently tie into conspiracy theories, so I thought I'd share, lol. sorry for writing a little novella in your replies.

[@sunwukong2]

a lot of the antarctica conspiracies revolve around agartha (hollow earth) theory and nazis having crazy secret bases and advanced tech i think. its nuts what people believe

[@bananabobo789]

That fossil stuff was so funny. "The average Joe has never found a dinosaur bone" a literal CHILD found a whole ass skull not too far from me a few weeks ago, please read a book

[@AaronHendu]

Me and a friend had a shared rock collection containing many dino era fossils...we stopped being friends because he secretly sold them to a museum and kept all the money.

[@AaronHendu]

He also found a metorite after see it land on his property and tried to sell it and it got confiscated by the government or something lol. He brought it to school and showed all the teachers first, and they probably ratted him out.

[@Pastellera2video]

@@AaronHendu at least the fossils went somewhere safe? Although it’s shitty that he didn’t give you a cut of the money

[@kerryrose3359]

LITERALLY. I live in Alberta, finding dinosaur fossils and other fossils is so incredibly common here. My middle school science teacher even found a piece that is now in The Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller.

[@november2018]

I have so many fossils that I found myself and I don’t have fancy equipment. Saying that regular people don’t find them is the same as saying “I have never been outdoors and I don’t think about dirt or rocks ever” imo

[@hylvic6707]

"If there were dinosaurs why aren't there bones everywhere" followed immediately by "bones can completely decay in 30 years" with no mental connection between those statements is CRAZY

[@ghostthelizard]

Especially considering that we do not find dinosaur bone usually, we find fossils which are rocks. And they cant just form, they need certain conditions, which is why you cant find fossils everywhere. If the bones decay too quick before any sediment covers them they will do exactly that: decay

[@Shmethan]

​@@ghostthelizardI'm certain they're not smart enough to understand fossilization

[@lenamariejackson]

it’s also worth noting that these conspiracy theorists forget that dinosaurs didn’t all exist at the same time. there’s dinosaurs that lived and died out millions of years before another dinosaur. kind of like any other animal lmao

[@junkeyz]

@@lenamariejackson and there are PLENTY of dinosaur species that we will NEVER know about, because fossilization is rare! the amount we have discovered isn't even a fraction of the amount of creatures that have lived within the multi-billion year range that our fossil collection consists of. fossilization is not some magical thing that happened to every single dinosaur that's ever lived, it's a very rare and delicate process that is more likely to happen with certain plants or animals in certain parts of the world, but i suppose it's easier for these people to just ignore that so they can claim that fossils were planted in the ground by the shadow government so they could hide their pet raptors or something.

[@lenamariejackson]

@@junkeyz i could talk about this for hours! you’re spot on. the fact so many dino bones managed to remain in the perfect conditions for fossilisation proves just how many walked this earth, and for how long. most dino deniers are people who don’t understand fossilisation, the dino timeline and what recovered dino bones actually are. a shame really, because they’re so cool.

[@badger6882]

"yes girl you are onto nothing" is my new favourite Jarvis quote.

[@basicbrittani]

He’s preaching

[@badger6882]

@@basicbrittani youth pastor

[@Laniiiiiiiiiii]

Followed quickly by “go cook! Somewhere else”

[@diamondheart1580]

​@@badger6882 it's a really common internet phrase

[@RheanneHansen-c2x]

2:37 for those who are like me and like timestamps

[@Gossamaggs]

Squirrels aren't real because I'm not constantly finding squirrel bones all over.

[@Serenaskywalker]

I see them in the yard everyday

[@natepolakowski6678]

@@SerenaskywalkerDo you? Or has the government hidden your plot of land so that the world doesn’t know about squirrels?

[@dogouchu4356]

Those who claim they are alive today have no proof. Squirrels are shown through CGI every morning when I go to my window to look for the government people in my yard.

[@MariaTex3]

​@@Serenaskywalker holograms

[@paradoxthaifandub7852]

​@@MariaTex3exactly

[@fernfossils]

as a paleontology nerd, the dinosaur bones point made me so sad 😭 fossilization only occurs under very specific circumstances, and only occur in specific rock types and a specific age. to an untrained eye, fossils can just look like weird rocks

[@maxwellkagel7198]

Ikr? I remember literally learning about this in fifth grade and even I was able to remember how fossils were made

[@CocoLicious]

I grew up in a very fossil rich region, that people believe that "average joes" haven't found fossils or other parts of former life forms on this earth is absolutely mind-boggling to me.

[@christosdoesthings]

Speaking of "occurs in specific rock", Its insanely depressing that fossilization is nearly impossible in rainforest environments. Yknow? Rainforests? The places life is at its most diverse..... Also nice Dinosauria PFP that series goes hard.

[@naishmika]

i'm suprised that she didnt know what fossilization is. Like we were taught in school, almost an entire chapter about it. How could she be unaware of the concept.

[@psychospiritual282]

I'll be honest, I was never taught the process of fossilization in school. Thanks for sharing all this information!

[@Rictavio27]

The fact that she didn’t understand that globes and other round depictions of the earth existed for hundreds if not thousands of years before space travel is both hilarious and concerning

[@Rictavio27]

Like we’ve had the science to know that the world is round for a very long time

[@HollhouseVanHouten]

The science has been there for literal AGES. In 300BC, a dude named Aristotle noticed by paying attention to lunar eclipses that they could only happen the way they do if our planet was casting a circular shadow, therefore earth would have to be a round sphere.

[@Ultra_64]

Wait until she finds out that maps exist 🤯🤯

[@redwiltshire1816]

She probably thinks the shape on an atlas is for ascetic purposes

[@Joe90h]

God I hope somebody actually told her. I mean, she asked her audience to. I hate how she leans into the camera, too. Like, I can smell the wine on her breath through the screen.

[@luthebong]

My grandma used to say “the dumbest people are always the most confident” and I just feel this applies here.

[@stellviahohenheim]

I'm not going to say she's intelligent because so many people have done stuff like this to get famous. It's just shameless

[@HarrisonD1981]

The dunning-Kruger effect

[@oedipussy]

@@stellviahohenheiman intelligent person knows that tiktok fame is fleeting and unprofitable, and internet footprints are forever

[@rowybowie]

Your grandma is fucking wise. I'm gonna use this now

[@unknownfryguy1540]

Its the hill of knowledge lol you start know little but thinking you know everything and end knowing lots but aware you know nothing

[@analyticsystem4094]

The photoshop contest image is a great example of why context is so important in the world of archeology/paleontology. Where archeological finds are found is very important to figuring out what it was/used for.

[@Eeppydeepy]

For a person that’s afraid of the government tracking them through location services, she sure does show a lot of the inside of her house and car

[@onipot9639]

My conspiracy theory is that she is hiding in other peoples homes and cars to film. Either that or she is a government plant filming on set pretending to be a Tik toker to distract us from the REAL theories

[@Bogkun]

It’s because she’s just built different.

[@fulhjort]

@@onipot9639 This makes an odd amount of sense.

[@katiedoodles]

You’d think she’d also be afraid to use her phone to

[@nyancat8828]

Afraid of the government tracking you? Time to use your smart phone to post to social media! lol

[@lmaojillian]

her speech inflection is literally snl’s “girl at a party you wish you hadn’t started a conversation with” and i love it

[@owen9510]

“Wake up and smell the music, Seth!”

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

Oh f*ck so THATS why my fight or flight kicked in 😂

[@Randomjackass135]

And that Midwestern accent which is probably the most vile accent on the planet

[@chaosdisembodied5483]

THATS WHY I RECOGNIZED HER

[@Chuck_EL]

​@@owen9510 "No ..stop ..please don't "- Willy Wonka

[@kimberlylockwood3588]

Bones are very fussy about fossilisation, it is an extremely unlikely event so the fact that we have so many specimens means there were HEAPS of dinos.

[@logank444]

Almost like millions of years worth

[@risuyami1468]

fussilisation 😎😎

[@momplspickmeupimscared]

​@@risuyami1468 nah man you deserve some recognition for that pun 😂 hilarious!

[@Managlyph]

@@risuyami1468 fusillisation from the dinos that pasta way 😔

[@gebediah]

Fr this lady needs to go on some hikes because you absolutely can find fossils as an average joe??? Ig it depends on your location but every time i go on vacation i find so many in riverbeds i literally leave some behind bc taking them all would be excessive 💀

[@bropoke6799]

Did that girl just admit that she thinks "they" are lying about the earth being round because she doesnt understand object permanence? What about the other side of earth? Wouldnt they be able to see all this supposed land floating in space?

[@mothmanwantssoup1010]

So she thinks dinosaurs aren’t real because their bones aren’t constantly being found, but she also thinks that finding their bones is fake because bones decay. Pick a lane. You can’t have both.

[@Manigeitora]

As Jarvis points out, that's one of the big issues with these conspiracy rabbit holes - _everything_ is a conspiracy, even people telling you what is and isn't a conspiracy is a conspiracy. It never ends.

[@kamo7293]

she can't pick a lane cause she doesn't understand any of the science surrounding it

[@wolfspeed2000]

She can't, she has to use two at once and park in four spaces at once

[@XoIoRouge]

Pretty sure it's the same lane, no? Someone says they found a Dinosaur Bone and she claims two things: 1. It's not a bone of any sort, that would've decayed. 2. Dinosaurs don't exist because the only proof of them are bones, which would've decayed. Makes sense to me. Well, her logic at least.

[@SabrinaRina]

I read this with so much emotion towards the end just naturally. It does piss me off when people argue contradictions and no one who doesn't already disagree calls them out. Like if someone I normally agree with did that I'd make them stop talking and straighten themselves out before they try again. Then I remember my job has done that in the past, telling me I followed the correct procedure, but next time do something different because someone else perceived me doing something wrong and they're not going to correct that person. Why I stopped working there.

[@dani.5087]

The rate at which bones decay is actually a HUGE point of frustration for paleontologists because it means we have very very little material from dinosaurs that lived in, for example, mountainous environments--there's not much sediment deposition in those places, much less to the degree required for fossilization, so there are entire gaps in the fossil record that are just genuinely impossible to know. A dinosaur that died out in the open *would* be gone within decades--but a dinosaur that was immediately buried in a shallow ashy lake would be preserved down to the last feather.

[@luminescent_tides]

It’s honestly so refreshing to read this comment, filled with factual information, logic, science and intelligence, after subjecting ourselves to those TikTok videos. Thank you for cleansing our brains with your incredible knowledge! Paleontology is so cool ✌🏼

[@keekermojo]

Idk a lot about paleontology but I did grow up with hunters. Since antlers are another form of bone growth and so mineral rich, they're almost always completely consumed within a week or 2. Usually by small rodents or vermen. Depending on the decomp of said animal- bones, especially dense marrow filled- one can be gone in as little as a month. If I'm correct, that's part of the reason fossils are much more common to unearth than bones because they have to go thru preservation type environmental factors somewhat quickly. Most times, things like horns and shells are better preserved because they're formed with keratin and won't be consumed bc that's basically the equivalent of eating hair or nails.

[@stumbling_]

It’s funny how that basic information (that I learned back in 2nd/3rd grade) that you’re saying now is just completely ignored by most people.

[@ilovebutterstuff]

Exactly. Wow, an intelligent person. Respect. 👍

[@ilovebutterstuff]

@@stumbling_ --- Public education has become a parody of actual reality.

[@breademojiwheatemoji4003]

i’ve gone through psychosis and these people sound worryingly close to how i sounded in psychosis, especially the language of ‘they’. i remember one day where i didn’t eat or drink anything because ‘they’ had put trackers in my food and would kill me if they were able to track me. there were no specifics as to who ‘they’ were, just like with a lot of these people. so yeah. it’s funny because it’s so ridiculous but it’s deeply, deeply worrying as well

[@luc11_]

dude same 😭 these people need to get some help (and i don’t mean that in a insulting way either, just genuinely)

[@kirapipikirapika]

being in an echo chamber absolutely cannot help them either. absolutely impossible for them to get the support and help they need when people are just agreeing with everything they say and feeding the paranoia

[@iroboskelly4421]

My step dad does that, I love him but it honestly worries me how much he brings up conspiracies about normal things. Whenever I ask about them or try to get him to explain, he just says “you’ll see.” And then it doesn’t ever happen or come up again. He tells us certain types of foods are tampered with by companies and unsafe, or that certain natural foods are like magic medicine. I doubt he has psychosis, but is there any good way to try and combat this mindset? I want to help, but don’t want to seem like I’m just trying to attack all of his beliefs, especially because of how defensive he is of them.

[@winwinmilieudefensie7757]

Yes

[@Wolfgang8-Y]

​@iroboskelly4421 I don't know how much this'll help, but I have some steps for dealing with learned bigotry. 1. Secretly interrupt the stream of disinfo. Normally, block Fox news on their tv, block certain people or groups from their facebook, block certain websites from their wifi. If you can find where he's getting the "poison vs medicine" stuff, make it harder for that stuff to reach him. 2. Introduce new social groups. Most people fall into conspiracy theories, cults, and bigotry rabbit holes out of loneliness. Get him to join hobby groups with you or go to sports games together. Make him spend time around normal people who are good influences. 3. Be concerned. If he says something crazy, act like it was a strange, nonsensical thing that no one in their right mind would say. "Are you okay? Do you have a fever? You sound really weird right now, did you hit your head?" Genuine concern is one of the few things that can get past the instinct to fight anyone who disagrees. It doesn't always work, but it's better than a yelling match.

[@ib0ry.]

“If we’ve never been to the bottom of the ocean…the explain the internet?🤨” new fav statemnet ever uttered😭

[@thesimpcardd]

it's literally so dumb i swear 😭😭😭

[@garethmcguinness377]

Tbf to her, she is just massively misunderstanding the purpose and history of the trans-atlantic communication cables Its like she heard about them once a decade ago but did no additional research lmao

[@EgorHehe]

The reason she said "wi-fi" when she talked about the undersea cables is because in some (not very tech-savvy) people's mind "wi-fi" is the exact same thing as "internet". She just thinks these words are synonymous.

[@tinykitsune0387]

Annoying but true

[@himbosuplex]

It's kinda nuts how it's just not common knowledge. I had to explain to my spouse in great detail that just because the internet was down, it didn't mean the wifi wasn't working. He learned the hard way to make it clear whether he's asking about the wi-fi or the internet haha.

[@i.shuuya3231]

Just wrote a comment about this. From Jarvis' comments it also seems like he thinks the internet isn't something physical (9:03), or at least he seems to think it's totally unrelated to the ocean. She may be a little confused but she was clearly talking about all the fiber optic cable under the ocean that connects different continents. The question is dumb not because "haha internet and ocean funny!!" but because her question implies that the ocean doesn't have different depths lol

[@ShinyWasTakenTwice]

@@i.shuuya3231 "From Jarvis' comments it also seems like he thinks the internet isn't something physical" what? His early videos where about his work as a software engineer, i'm pretty sure that he'd know how the internet works. (Also I don't see how you came to that conclusion at all?)

[@himbosuplex]

@@i.shuuya3231 I'm pretty sure he understands that the Internet is more complex than wifi. Its probably just that he didn't make the link between submarine cables and wifi because, and honestly I didn't either at first. Also not to be that guy but submarine cables aren't "the internet." They are for digital data transfer, not just Internet links between continents. A common usage just happens to be connecting continents via the Internet as well.

[@CynicalNerd-uq3nk]

It’s the way she asks why we don’t find dinosaur bones literally everywhere and then answers that question with her own Google search

[@Smallia]

I was laughing so hard at that “why don’t we find bones everywhere” and then “bones decay.” Girl are you hearing yourself?

[@hullstar242]

“Why can’t we find them??? It’s because they decompose within 30 years that’s why” That’s not even a conspiracy she’s just teaching us at this point lmfao

[@TheDeliciousCaek]

Right? Like I was like did she even listen to herself? If bones can decay that's why most people aren't digging them up lol. I know these people are dumb, but that's next level dumb.

[@terentule]

@@hullstar242 Not to mention that her second arrow points to the result saying bones take hundreds of years to decompose, which sort of contradicts what she was saying.

[@meinenklinke]

@@terentuleWell yeah, all bones decompose EXCEPT FOR giant bones. Obviously. 😂

[@annellora]

What really makes me scratch my head with these conspiracies is how apparently all governments, even in spite of some countries being literal enemies and at war, all still join forces to make us believe in round Earth etc.

[@pissum420]

I was big on one of these before my medication. Basically that conflict is a curtain to hide secret societies. Yes. People believe the government is faking wars to hide the fact they’re buddy buddy. They genuinely believe that any media press and such on wars is faked. It ties into how a lot of white supremacy people refuse to believe that the genocide of Jews and other minorities hitler didn’t like were purged out. Their questions go back to “if it really happened why did civilians do nothing”. It’s….fucking wild.

[@theshire9173]

I wish all the governments of the world could cooperate well enough to hide a flat Earth. Sounds better than our reality

[@NottyAries]

This... This is ALWAYS my argument!

[@Moon_x_sun]

Yes! I commented on another video like the amount of people who would have to agree to be silent is astounding, countries who hate each other, scientist, journalists (except the ones already labelled crazy) government workers would also only be allowed to talk about it to someone Else who is also in the know! It would be an open secret at that point or someone much more credible would have exposed Them for lying? and also i still dont get why would they Lie about that? What does us believing it to be round give the governments of power?

[@DiMagnolia]

That’s exactly what blows my mind about the Rona conspiracies like please bestie do you really think after all these global conflicts you could get major world powers like Russia, China, the US, England, Germany, Italy, and Japan on the same page???

[@eggmon420]

My wifi doesn’t work when I’m upstairs in bed but sure, it works coming from the Mariana trench at the bottom of the ocean. Passing through my roof is just too much for it ig.

[@BwooHuraca]

Wifi is like a blob fish. It deflates when it breaches the surface.

[@Ryu1ify]

What else is the Mariana trench under every house good for?

[@basementdwellercosplay]

You just went out of its range

[@jparkerb]

Dude the internet is all linked together by cables and yes massive ones crossing the oceans. Only wifi is local, everything used to be hardwired using LAN

[@mdj_quint5095]

But that's not the claim the hairbrained conspiracy nut in the video was making lmao ​@@jparkerb

[@KitKat_293]

"riddle me this batman.. what's behind the ball??" they should have let paul dano say that

[@illuminatedslug]

I LOVE PAUL DANO!!!!!

[@RobertMcBride-is-cool]

I want to see something like this. Maybe Solidjj could make a skit like this but since Batman already believes the earth is flat he gives a satisfactory answer.

[@mif_sovremennosty]

Behind the ball is your co

[@Chara_Dreemurr1]

​@@illuminatedslug Hi HAL3000

[@serpentarius1194]

My mum has a coworker who's a full on conspiracy theorist. Has a necklace that wards off the 5g waves and all that. The best one I've learnt about her so far is that she doesn't eat pigs because they're actually humans that were experimented on and turn into what they are now. I think the kicker to all of this is that my mum, and thus her coworker too, are librarians. I can't imagine having a job that revolves around helping the education of the public and the pursuit of knowledge and being this way. I can't imagine living my life this way, thinking pigs are actually humans and everyone is fine with eating them. How can you live like that.

[@vi0let831]

"The best one I've learnt about her so far is that she doesn't eat pigs because they're actually humans that were experimented on and turn into what they are now." LMAO WHAT 💀

[@allikazaam]

i will say as someone who's a library science major a part of it is the whole Freedom To Read thing which includes letting people read material that you don't personally agree with. it's part of why book bans/challenges are bad; it's about not restricting people's access to knowledge and letting them make informed decisions about the material they're consuming. so maybe she's a conspiracy theorist and also a good librarian for not letting their personal beliefs get in the way of their career? lmao

[@denjidenji9162]

The pig thing sounds like your mom took Spirited Away a bit too seriously lol

[@asteridshydrangea-jt2hf]

@@denjidenji9162"my mum has a *coworker* who's a full on conspiracy theorist"

[@lemolea9571]

I'd get that necklace checked if you can, a lot of those scam 'positive ion' or '5G protection' products are actually radioactive - there are youtube vids about it.

[@BluesJayPrince]

Fossils are also limited to locations where there is sediment. The average Joe lives in an apartment and doesn’t have archeological instruments. Or like even a shovel. I don’t have a shovel.

[@rachelprice4987]

Also in like the city I live in there are electrical cables in the ground and you generally aren't supposed to dig around because it's unsafe. But maybe that's a conspiracy theory toooo!

[@yoursleepparalysisdemon8216]

My Shovel broke and I rent...no dino bones for me...

[@michelleb2722]

​@@rachelprice4987the governments wants you to believe you can't dig so they made up electricity

[@sophiekohls5359]

you should get a shovel, just in case

[@christhe2dprotogen511]

@@rachelprice4987the electrical cables are meant to stop you from finding the giants living underground, dig it up (jk)

[@Space-Milk]

The "TELL-avision" one pissed me off so much because as someone who has done the bare minimum of being in school, I was taught that "Tele-" means distance/at a distance

[@atlys258]

Then she'd just straight up slur at you: "THATS JUST THE INDOCTRINATION *_THEY_* WANT YOU TO THINK" 😂

[@MyNameIsBhex]

Yes. It's the prefix in telecommunication

[@tobyandahalf]

as someone who took latin, it made me want to shit my pants

[@LaurenJD]

Absolutely. Like she's just not understood how words are formed and decided that they're a secret hidden code for something else, instead of being made up of root words that actually tell us their meaning. I don't think you can argue with that level of ignorance because nothing can get through.

[@gwest3644]

​@@tobyandahalfIt's Greek, not Latin

[@ladygrinningstardust]

"Where do you think wifi comes from?!" Nearly killed me, I choked on my lunch hearing that 😂

[@XemeraldXD]

Me too, i havent laughed that hard in ages-

[@prestonhunter6012]

literally came out of nowhere 😂

[@user-vm6mw5xw7o]

that was the biggest curve ball of the video 😭😭😭

[@alder4612]

I mean you could say the internet comes from the ocean, so she's not toooo far off 😂

[@platypuspalace4987]

“It’s easy to connect the dots when you only see two dots” is a pretty genius quote.

[@mrbrightside4u]

Jarvis is so spot on here. Conspiracy theory type people are curious people asking questions, but instead of doing research and broadening their horizon, they use their limited knowledge to jump to wild conclusions and then feel better about themselves because they know the truth. It's kinda sad tbh

[@karelfinn2343]

I learned how asronomers measured the distance to the sun because I saw a flat Earther ask incredulously how they could have possibly done that, and I didn't know the answer, so I looked it up. It's that easy! (The short answer is, they watched Venus when it moved in front of the sun and then they did some math. So much of conspiracy theories is just refusing to acknowledge math.)

[@auggiedoggiesmommy1734]

They read their first answer on Google in their search, couldn’t understand it so they search until they found something that sounded plausible and decided …that’s it.

[@Sleipnirseight]

Sad _and_ scary when you consider these people are involved in civic process like choosing our gov't representatives, serve on juries, and impact public health.

[@giulioceresini1435]

​@@karelfinn2343parallax

[@sfigataa.69]

“conspiracy theory type people” aka middle aged millennial women who have too much free time and are constantly on reddit and facebook, the only two places they get and parrot their “information” and deep inspirational “wake up sheeple” quotes from

[@farter4life]

"if dinosaurs existed wouldn't their remains be everywhere" how can you not realize how unlikely preservation of remains would be in such a humid environment??? Despite that, we still have an abundance of their remains simply because of how many there were.

[@The_Trident_Master]

And the flood

[@Lily-dn3cz]

And the giant asteroid that hit them?!?!?

[@BarryDylan111]

The Photoshop contest made me realize how funny it is if ancient people made something for shits and giggles and the mainstream of today take it extremely serious. Like the meme of thinking every ancient artifact was used in religious ceremonies instead just being a funny cup a guy made when he was bored.

[@Mystic-Midnight]

tbf theres a big difference in Archaeology in America vs Europe cause Americans like to do archaeology as a part of anthropology (the study of humans) and the British school of thought is Archaeology is History plain and simple. So like there is a bit of conflicting interests.

[@cybernetik.]

that reminds me of that meme of someone burying huge concrete letters that say “fuck you” and making a joke about how archaeologists and historians in the far future could puzzle over the significance in our culture and what it means

[@basicallyno1722]

I think it depends…if a cup is harder to make in an ancient setting because of the cost, time, and expertise involved you’d be less likely to make something for shits and giggles. If the setting the cup was made in was perhaps in a ceramic workshop or school, it’d make more sense for experimentation. People didn’t aways have access to things like low cost items from Amazon they shipped right to their door to use for some momentary whim they got in the middle of the night while scrolling.

[@TheBones1188]

​@basicallyno1722 nah people will always do shit for shits and giggles. Locally sourced materials would make that fairly easy. Things like ceramics would be something near everyone would have some skill in. Like weaving in places where that was a staple skill. People had more time to do random things in general.

[@alexweschler9470]

Agree 100%. Example: the Venus figurines seem just as likely to have been a masturbatory aide as they would be to have deep religious significance

[@rileymiller2398]

I live in a clay sediment area in the midwest. You could build a house with the coral and trilobite fossils dug up from JUST my parents garden. Fossils are EVERYWHERE dug up by EVERYONE

[@kirapipikirapika]

i live in the northeast suburbs and even i have dug up some fossilized shells and whatnot as a kid 😭 like. everyone has seen some sort of fossil irl

[@commitfelonyfeline]

​@@kirapipikirapikaI'm from the PNW and even I have a fucking trilobite! How many caps until our necks break?

[@cozmicdoodles7167]

Also if they're talking about fossils of like, T-rexs and stuff it's because they get covered over by layers of rock and dirt, so something from millions of years ago is going to have millions of years of rock and shit covering it, the average Joe from the city isn't tripping over that stuff because most people aren't digging down that far.

[@wrightcember]

@@cozmicdoodles7167exactly! i live in boston and ofc im not gonna find anything, its either already been found or theres no room to look. you just gotta be in the right place

[@emackenzie]

"If dinosaurs existed why aren't their bones everywhere? Also bones dissapear after like 20 years" SO SHOULD THE BONES BE THERE OR NOT? WHAT IS HER ARGUMENT HERE

[@n-jan3027]

quantum bones nyehehehe

[@starry-907]

shrödinger's fossils

[@UnchargedBattery978]

@@starry-907you never know if a fossil is real or not until an average joe stumbles upon one, they’re real AND fake

[@muted__dreamer]

hearing that that one image was from a photoshop competition made me laugh SO. HARD. imagine being the person who made that image, seeing people say it's real, that's insane

[@KaylaBear-u1m]

My favorite part of flat earters online don't realize that if the earth was flat the internet wouldn't work. We're able to send signals to exact locations based on projections. Use the wrong projection and ur data is off. None of the projections would be correct if it's actually flat. I work in GIS/mapping

[@elijahnageli3202]

it literally doesn't work in any way ever, but somehow the human brain can just ignore that shit and work around it as if it wasn't pure insanity to not connect that, very, very obviously, the world isn't flat

[@XoIoRouge]

That's the thing. Conspiracies will always redefine how something works to fit their theory.

[@alexisgeiser4387]

You are forgetting that they don’t understand how the internet works.

[@gothgrrl8711]

Well they would just say you are a paid crisis agent

[@ilovebutterstuff]

I was in the navigation department for the USN. None of the flat Earth models work out. I've used a sextant and calculated the ship's position within a quarter mile using methods that are thousands of years old, and they are all based on the Earth being an oblate spheroid. Apparently, flat Earthers think there is a kind of lampshade attached to the sun, if you can believe that. Nothing they say makes any sense to me, and I fear it is a sign of the times. What's really weird is that somehow it has something to do with Jesus. That freaked me out for weeks. I was like, "WHAT?!"

[@fgdusu]

Can speak from personal experience that fossils are pretty easy to find, grew up around the florida panhandle and the rivers wed camp at were full of fossils from a species called cricnoids. Fossils are pretty common if you look beyond full entire dinosaurs

[@forgettable8300]

I mean shoot I used to find sand dollars on the beach all the time in California

[@CBrown86]

@@forgettable8300the sand dollars you find on the beach are just dead sea urchin skeletons. If they were fossils they would be found within sediment

[@Caldella]

My family used to live in a part of the Midwest that was part of the Western Interior Seaway. We had a chunk of our land dug up for regrading - the limestone was absolutely full of coral fossils. It feels kind of sad to imagine a reality where you're convinced that cool stuff doesn't exist.

[@masterplusmargarita]

My dad would go up to a mountain here in Spain to hangglide every week and I'd hang out there with a bunch of friends, we'd regularly find plant fossils just lying around. Also, not nearly as ancient but cooler to child me were the prehistoric stone arrowheads.

[@CocoLicious]

I grew up in the Altmühltal in Germany and you can literally go into the fossil quarry as a vacation activity. (All archaeopteryx fossils were found in the region)

[@TheSilliestEver]

the problem with conspiracy theories is that people will just make up lies for no reason and label them as a "conspiracy" and people will fall for it so easily 😭

[@Chalo122790]

Sadly is just either uneducated people tyat think the internet people know what they are talking about , and because they are not educated they cant see the holes in theories , or people that want to feel superior

[@lotanowo]

It's not for no reason, it's the need to simplify the complexities of the world, because reality is mundance and too confusing.

[@lotanowo]

@@nicklafleur7620 Way to be petty about semantics. It's a phrase we've been using for a while now and is a convention more than anything.

[@jacksonlarson6099]

​@@lotanowo Precisely this. I think it's a combination of wanting to feel special, and not being able to understand that the world isn't as simple and difficult as they grew up believing it to be. There's a reason the vast majority of conspiracy theorists are right-wingers, people who, by the definition of "conservative," are incapable of adapting to a changing and increasingly complex world.

[@YourDadsWaifu]

@@jacksonlarson6099I do think that also explains the lack of trust in anyone with expertise in a field. Sort of has this vibe of “I don’t understand this thing but I’m not stupid, so clearly YOU can’t understand it better than me.” Almost taking it personally that someone could be “smarter” than them about a topic.

[@hails326]

Love that she specifies that she doesn’t trust the government and then proceeds to use a government website at 14:26 as part of proving her point

[@theactualfaz]

my favourite part about conspiracy theorists is how they constantly switch between our technology not being advanced enough for stuff and even more advanced technology being hidden for us depending on which narrative fits better with that specific conspiracy

[@danielhernandez2575]

That way when something weird happens we can blame aliens, but also we need distrust in our government (like there isn't enough for that already) so they're actually hiding miracle cures and lightsabers from us

[@cobaltbluesky2276]

"the ancient people were so primitive!! how could they have built the pyramids!!!" but they'll also say "there was an ancient lost advanced civilization with much more advanced technology than we have now!!!!" like which one is it lmao

[@M50A1]

@siren-rs8mu Notice that the conspiracy is always that ancient civilizations in non-white countries couldn't have built them without help. They never say this about Rome or Stone Henge

[@comradeurod9805]

​@cobaltbluesky2276 "we wouldnt have been able to build that pyramids today, let alone back then!"

[@NotFunctional-ever]

​@@cobaltbluesky2276literally Graham Hancock's whole theory

[@KarlaRei]

I live in Appalachia and find fossils all the time. You can't walk in a creek bed without tripping over one.

[@NoNeedForLungs]

Is Appalachia really full of cryptids and monsters and fairies tho?

[@labyrinth4799]

​@@NoNeedForLungs Yes.

[@ilovebutterstuff]

Please take me hiking with you. I'm close by.

[@xythrr]

​@@NoNeedForLungs Duh!

[@DrewMartin-kd8bp]

literally. i was thinking about all the little fossils i’ve stumbled upon

[@TheCandystripedlegs]

The reason you don't see flat earth and Area 51 conspiracies mixed together much is because most flat eathers don't believe in space. Its one of the funnier fights you see in Qanon spaces.

[@notchpoodles5864]

The more you know, I️ guess

[@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066]

Where do they think the sun, moon and stars are located? 😂

[@BostonMBrand]

Although I know it ended up being a historic myth, I find it more believable that people in the 1400s believed the earth was flat despite the calculations than in 2024. Like back then the general consensus that the earth was round was accepted because of the discovery of a circumference in the 3rd century. And they had never seen earth’s surface from space before. Meanwhile today we have orbital photography, plenty of missions to space by both humans and probes and satellites. And we also live in the a time where information can travel worldwide in a matter of seconds. And yet there are still people who think the world is flat?

[@RomeuLanches]

inside of the dome, dome who protect earth...from what? i dont know, god i think@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066

[@TheCandystripedlegs]

@@kylaarmstrong-benjamin8066 I think there's a few different theories but the one I've seen the most is we are living in a dome, and the celestial bodies are just rotating lights in the dome's ceiling.

[@Pinka13]

"Tell A Vision" either sounds like a band name or a rejected episode of The Twilight Zone 😂

[@LonkinPork]

My favorite part is that she's a nurse 💀💀💀 Imagine you're in the hospital recovering from a horrible accident, and this lady comes in with your morphine and strikes up some casual chitchat about how dinosaurs aren't real.

[@mx.rain_yt]

That's just awful.

[@zeitgeistx5239]

A lot of nurses are completely crazy. I know cuz I’m a nurse and worked through covid. Tons of racist, crazy, elderly nurses.

[@ClaireSunshine]

Of course she's a fucking Nurse, She's the *exact* type

[@bobbiwib]

I had a social worker explain to me that dinosaurs couldn’t be real because pens and pencils weren’t around back then…

[@fujitafunk]

This automatically brings to mind that scene from The Sopranos, where Tony is in the hospital and this Evangelical guy is telling him that dinosaurs coexisted with humans. Then Tony just side-eye's the guy and says, "Dinosaurs existed with Humans? ...What, like The Flintstones?!"

[@extraterrestrialghostwrite6562]

I like how television is broken into “tell a vision” and not the actual parts of the words used to create it. Tele being to cover a distance. And vision coming from “visio” which in Latin means sight. Television is just a sight that covers a large distance.

[@samuell.foxton4177]

Some conspiracy theorists go on about “remote viewing”, which can be translated as, er…

[@knyghts]

does anyone remember seeing that tiktok of the guy trying to push that the word "nickelodeon" meant something like "I don't care about god" by breaking it up into syllables and then putting it through Google translate in Latin? When the etymology of the word literally translates to nickel: cheap, and odeon: cinema. cheap cinema. the kids channel was just named after that. the absolute lengths people will go to try and convince you of some complete bs theories, antagonising things that are completely harmless... you wonder if these people have a spare braincell available to form a second thought

[@happytofu5]

And in other languages it's called something else, too. In German it's called "Fernseher", meaning "Far seer" (or maybe "remote viewer")

[@KTr0ck]

a 'large distance' like from the PAST to the FUTURE??? 🤔🧐

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

Folk etymology is one of the weirdest rabbit holes, as someone who used to be training to become a linguist. There are so many false etymological constructs and histories of words that go around, some quite well known, some more obscure yet never seem to die. I still just love the idea that the powers that be hide easter eggs in common words for some god foresaken reason.

[@mauratyson9580]

Does she think that people just don’t travel??? Like I think I would notice if I was on a plane or a boat and there was an entire continent where the ocean was supposed to be

[@nyxx7813]

Well planes are apart of it duh?? Silly goose big government and big plane had big sex and work together 🙄

[@tenmatsukasastar]

Ohhh, but you don't get it! The government made a protective field to hide the continents from you! Didn't you see the pacific ocean??? Why is there so much empty space? Because "they" are hiding the truth from us!! Every single wave in the ocean is man made, they just redirect you around continents, so you won't find out about "the truth"! My brain started hurting after writing this 😭

[@angellynn7104]

Erm, the windows are actually video footage and not real windows, duh (/j)

[@karelfinn2343]

No, OK, so this is the Antarctica thing she was talking about. The idea is that Antarctica isn't a continent, it's a giant ring of ice that cuts us off from all the secret other continents like Tartaria. And in order to keep that secret all the governments in the world got together and made it illegal for anyone to go near Antarctica, so that we can never catch a glimpse of the other side. It is, of course, not actually illegal to go to Antarctica, but if they say it is then they never have to try going there to prove their claims.

[@billbill6094]

​@@angellynn7104 _Glares in skydiver_

[@alinaKANIN]

What’s wild is that she actually answered her own question about dinosaur bones - we don’t see the bones everywhere because bones in most situations deteriorate pretty quickly, and fossilization requires specific circumstances.

[@missfitbrat271]

The “it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe” is a quote from the late, great George Carlin

[@thatrandomnoob8611]

And it sucks some stupid person appropriated the word

[@Isabella.Ros33]

May I ask who George Carlin is?

[@ObamacareInventor]

​@VioletCountingRoses a stand up comedian that was very open about atheism and making fun of people like these conspiracy theorists.

[@MWbluestar]

​@VioletCountingRoses you're on youtube. just watch some of his standup

[@Isabella.Ros33]

@@ObamacareInventor ohhhh ty

[@Meg_Mercury]

Imagine being in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean after your ship sinks and someone just goes "its all good we'll have WiFi out here because of the deep-sea cables" Immediately overboard

[@dliap98]

the best wifi service around!

[@ericalang7846]

i mean clearly the internet service is the best in the middle of the ocean because it’s closest to the mysterious internet wires

[@AyaZ-qx3mx]

@@ericalang7846yes because cables = cell towers = internet

[@RobertMcBride-is-cool]

@@AyaZ-qx3mxr/woosh

[@fredericlongpre4530]

Wait... So she claims that bones can't fossilize because they completely decay after 20 years, and her proof regarding the dinosaur hoax is... two giant sets of fossilized bones?

[@Zelda00Gamer]

Oh my god I did not make that connection this is amazing 😂😂😂

[@dliap98]

that's so funny omg i didn't even pick up on that! guess i lost track of all the times she contradicted herself lmao

[@cobaltbluesky2276]

8:49 the going from talking about the ocean straight into a sentence about wifi is honestly the funniest fuckign thign to me like. oh we haven't put people on mars? well explain TRAINS!!!!! we don't know the cure for cancer? well explain FURNITURE!!!!!! this would be absolutely GOD TIER parody

[@DeidreL9]

“You don’t believe in conspiracies? Well then explain DIARRHOEA!”🤣

[@BlueIndigo]

if I saw that video anywhere else I'd be convinced she was joking lmao she might as well be like "you believe the moon landing was real ?? well then how do you explain TACO BELL??"

[@SpareAccount-jc8kb]

I literally jumped when I heard the reference to Tartaria. Like what how is that conspiracy even involved???

[@drewmur]

The way that some conspiracy theorists refuse to believe science (with LOTS of evidence), but will quickly get behind magical ancient societies with no evidence fascinates me.

[@griffin123122]

I'm sure part of the alure is that it allows people who aren't very smart to feel like they're more intelligent than others for once.

[@demilung]

It's a deside to mistrust and feel like you're in on something important

[@cactktc]

the other comments are correct, and also theres proof some people, with overactive amygdalas, are just more susceptible to believing things that are scarier or conspiratorial bc A. that just how their mind works, and B. in my own personal experience with family, sometimes being raised in fear of everything makes you so afraid that you cant believe "them"

[@sqwooshy]

They'll show you a random grainy ass image saying "this is PROOF of dragonite giants", but any of the millions of pictures or physical objects that would disprove any of their points are obviously just all faked by the government.

[@lexycameron9074]

Yeah not one of them have passed even a ninth grade science class , if she had any self awareness shed be embarrassed. Lucky for us she doesn’t . Lol

[@treegills]

as someone who was previously friends w a conspiracy theorist, the "you're gonna eat that? 🤨" is bc of a theory that there aren't enough cows for the amount of beef we eat -> therefore mcdonalds is people meat. and other wild theories abt how food is made

[@FirstnameLastname-gr5kb]

I mean, you dont have to be a conspiracy theorist to Believe that fast food meat is probably a bad thing to eat. Even before being a vegan, I had never eaten fast food meat, but not bc I thought it was from humans 😂

[@masterplusmargarita]

Wasn't there a huge scandal a few years ago about fast food chains putting horse meat in their burgers? Even if the beef thing is true jumping to "its people!" is such a massive leap

[@FirstnameLastname-gr5kb]

@@masterplusmargarita idk, horses are usually not bred to be eaten, so they often get medication and their owners probably wouldn't sell the corpses to begin with, it's more likely that they'd put low-quality stuff into the meat (like bone flour or sth, idk the words in English bc I'm not a native speaker). But honestly, just the tale of the animals that they actively claim to put in their food is horrifying enough. Watching a documentary about the animal exploitation industry and mass meat production is stomach turning on its own and I do not get how people really have to believe in it being partly human to find that shit gross

[@byulharangforlife]

i hate these types of theories cos the reality is bad enough...u don't need to make it worse

[@masterplusmargarita]

@@FirstnameLastname-gr5kb The horse thing definitely did happen - just google 2013 EU horse meat scandal, there's tonnes of articles from reputable sources and a very comprehensive wikipedia page. It's almost certainly not going on anymore because it got legislated really intensely, but if I was convinced there weren't enough cows to make up for beef consumption, I'd probably go to "the meat is (other animal than cow)" before "the meat is people", especially since it's got precedent.

[@rosieleaverton]

"Maps are man-made" Well, yeah, because we didn't have GPS and stuff until only like a couple decades ago. We had tools like compasses, sextants, etc. and people who knew how to use these things to chart land so other people would know this land exists and where it was located.

[@stellviahohenheim]

She's a troll and your never feed the troll

[@null.6669]

> "where do you watch the simpsons? on a *tell* a *vision*" > Refuses to elaborate

[@KiraKiera]

As a post-grad in Antarctic Studies, I spit my drink out when globe lady said "I'm sure you all know about Antarctica..." implying there's some massive conspiracy down there 🤣

[@morgansheehy1772]

I regret to inform you that people like this seem to believe that there's a massive ice wall in Antarctica that blocks people from an/the edge of the earth or whatever.

[@jasmineramos7401]

I think she’s probably talking about the ice wall conspiracy that gained some traction a few years ago. It’s were flat earthers think that Antarctica is a cover for a giant ice wall that the government uses to hide the rest of the “flat” earth from us. Considering she was talking about the whole spherical world being used to hide part of the world from us.

[@hauthot287]

I’m pretty sure ppl think it’s the opening to hollow earth

[@lindboknifeandtool]

Some wild shit does go down there. Cool scientific experiments and all that. Some of it is classified

[@camerynr8344]

@@hauthot287my grandpa told me once you could jump from the north to south pole😂 i asked him how and he said something like “you don’t wanna know how i know😳” (he was in the army but im pretty sure he was just joking lol)

[@aimeekatz]

"When you only know two dots, then you're gonna draw a line between those two dots." You just nailed it man

[@clarabear501]

My childhood best friend turned into one of these people. I remember with a sinking feeling thinking “oh no…” when she started getting genuinely angry with me when I wouldn’t take her One World theories seriously. She would say things like “you just don’t understand what’s really out there.” And when I’d ask her to tell me she would shut down and say I’m too weak minded to understand. I ended up having to walk away from our friend group soon after. She’s fully antivax, moon landing is fake, all that now at a conservative college. It’s hard to watch.

[@TheWhiteMokona]

If by one world you mean one world government she's correct. Like it's not even hard to see now...

[@cameronsitton501]

​@@TheWhiteMokona??? What in God's name could you possibly mean? I can turn on the TV at literally any point in the day and find a war going on between two governments. I can google elections in other countries and find different candidates with different viewpoints. I can-- and this is true-- just fucking look at a newspaper during an election year. If there really IS only "one world government", they're doing a crappy job running the world. And, furthermore, if there really is a massive conspiracy to silence people like you, then you're either really brave or really stupid to be publicly posting your beliefs online.

[@Riddle99-v7q]

​@@TheWhiteMokonaFound the conspiracy nut

[@lilacpenguin5329]

@@TheWhiteMokona Your comment is so dense it sank to the mariana trench. Get a grip and learn to read the room or get better at trolling if you think this was supposed to be funny.

[@liliesstarlight]

I had a teacher who used to believe in this stuff 😭 she would teach us the syllabus a bit and then spend the next hour with PowerPoint slides about these conspiracies. the thing is, we were like 14 at the time, and for a while some of us DID believe in this stuff, because we were always taught that teachers always know the best or some shit. she was one of those people who believed Rihanna was like some higher power in the Illuminati and when I was listening to her songs at the time I had some people look at me in disgust because I was like bowing down the the illuminati it was crazy 😭😭

[@SylentTiger]

Jarvis. Show us the back of the pumpkin. 🎃 What are you trying to hide, Jarvis?

[@V01DERZ00]

“Everything man made is fake” the chair you’re sitting on is man made, YOURE HOUSE IS MAN MADE

[@marynoble9464]

Every human alive is technically man made if you wanna be pedantic

[@devoted2lucy]

you are house

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

@@devoted2lucy Gingerbread men be like:

[@mrs.samuel.L.jackson]

​@@amelialonelyfart8848this comment made me do the weird thing where you have to laugh but then you hold it in and your throat explodes and it hurts for like 5 mins

[@kusotoko]

that's why they devolve into matrix theorists

[@birchandmaple]

I stumbled across a great book that breaks down conspiracy thinking last year called "How to talk to a science denier: conversations with flat earthers, climate deniers, and others who defy reason" by Lee McIntyre. He goes to a flat earth convention and uses that to try to understand/explain conspiracy thinking from the perspective of flawed reasoning and science philosophy. Super fascinating read, and he gives some great advice on how to talk to these people about it without pushing them further down the unreality rabbit hole.

[@sluttymctits4496]

That actually sounds like a really interesting book. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@momplspickmeupimscared]

Thanks for the recc!

[@andrearupe8094]

Thank you!

[@caithenry8429]

Adding this to my book list!

[@sarahrivas-qt5si]

Thanks for the rec! I would also recommend “The Storm is Upon Us” by Mike Rothschild. It does a great job going into how q anon and other conspiracies take over.

[@MadisonBrownRacing]

"The average joe" has literally found one of the best preserved dinosaur fossils ever, Borealopelta. Soft tissue was preserved along with the PIGMENT OF IT'S SKIN, its insane google Dinosaur mummy, i love it.

[@Pyroraptor16]

Imagine being the guy who was ordered to dig through a mine wall with an excavator and accidentally hitting one or the most historic fossil finds of the last century

[@emmyrose233]

I'm so excited to fall into this rabbit hole later

[@backdoorsluts_9]

I just looked it up, and WOW! It looks like it’s sleeping!

[@acid_tongue_4315]

he sleep (real shit)

[@robinsparrow1618]

"you can cut off any land you want and keep 'em hidden [on a globe]" countless flat maps that don't feature new zealand:

[@yellowbentley]

Fun fact: the camera obscura existed way before the 1800s. It was basically a projector and many artists used it to trace stuff onto the canvas. The only thing they didn’t know yet was how to capture the picture in a way our cameras do it today. I know this wasn’t the point of what Jarvis said about the Mona Lisa, just thought it might be interesting. Art nerds please look it up, this shit is interesting as hell.

[@RisingSunfish]

What do you think about the theory that Vermeer used one to enhance the realism of his paintings?

[@S3RAPH1MX]

​@@RisingSunfish ive never heard that theory but it's highly plausible as many artists, if not all of them, used camera obscuras for portraits, paintings, etc

[@ExplosiveDisregard]

Magicians Penn and Teller have a great movie about that called "Tim's Vermeer" where their eccentric friend paints a Vermeer using the technology he thinks could have been used.

[@keedizzle2387]

Just watched Tims Vermeer for my college painting class. it was fascinating

[@6Picturesofyou]

Urso cool

[@MrNaesme]

I mean, there ARE fiber cables run under the ocean connecting the world together. It's like the one thing we actually all work together on. Don't ruin our one olive branch!

[@EricKloeckner]

Yeah, but she's trying to say that the cables were from an advanced civilization in the past that was lost in the "mud flood", the current civilization (us) found them, and passed them off as new. The Tartaria stuff that Jarvis briefly looked up is all about this nonsense. Unfortunately he didn't go deep enough into the Wiki page to see all the madness. There are a lot of very funny Tartaria videos where people go to old buildings and claim they were partially covered in the mud flood because there are windows in the basement floors. In reality it's quite common for the street level to be raised over the past century to help with flooding, so you see windows that are below the sidewalk level for example.

[@Dekedence]

"we actually all work together on" ... not for long unfortunately.

[@ZeallustImmortal]

18:12 fact checking the simpons predictions is always fun, because like 95% of the supposed predictions are from episodes that were written and aired AFTER the real life event, and some nerds online slapped a false date on them

[@CharityApple07]

4:50 I have to give them props for creativity tho, I don't think I've ever heard a conspiracy theory that NASA is UV editing the texture of the Earth

[@fiery_scream]

saying "everything man-made is fake" is a hilarious thing to say while wearing makeup. like, she can judge your food choices but god forbid you tell her mascara might have ingredients she doesn't like lmao.

[@luna10617]

literally everything about her is man-made😭 is she okay?

[@fauna5328]

Can't believe I'm saying this but to be fair she never said she was boycotting things "man made", just that "everything man made is fake".

[@mx.rain_yt]

@@fauna5328 Ah yes she was just saying that the clothes she's wearing, the make-up she's put on, the phone she's using, the house she lives in and that the car she drives is fake. That makes it perfectly understandable and valid /s

[@fiery_scream]

fair point lool@@fauna5328

[@kateh2893]

I was LOOKING for this comment! Also, why be worried about what OTHER people eat when putting MICA near your EYEBALL! And that's assuming she's using like handmade, "all natural" makeup.

[@emmasvk]

'where does wifi come from' was so out of pocket i actually laughed out loud 8:56

[@alecboi777]

“If when flying over the desert, and your boat can get a flat tire, then how is Hitler dead?”

[@FleetwoodTheProfit]

I've said it before: If a flat earther were to travel back in time and met a syphilitic and scurvy afflicted, one-eyed, one-legged, hook hand, illiterrate deck hand and told him the Earth was flat, that deck hand would burst out laughing in his face!

[@Doub1eSpark]

Her denying fossils is absolutely bizarre, considering there are dig kits for kids that have actual shark fossils in them. I currently own two extinct shark teeth. There's also those ammonite collectors that literally pick up fossils off the beach regularly.

[@BwooHuraca]

Foolish fool! Teeth aren't bones. That's why dental insurance is separate. SMH.

[@fedorustimenko3057]

I love that a lot of those conspirancies regarding space assume that NASA is the only source of info on space related stuff, discgarding the fact that many other countries have space agencies and have send satelliets and people there

[@baileyrobbins50]

I guess these people think America is the only place on earth then or something. Like what? They are so uneducated it hurts my brain lol 😂

[@whatever9097]

Shhh, you’re gonna hurt their brains if you bring up the fact that non-Americans exist

[@xlgapelsin6173]

If u even mention ESA to them they have a meltdown and start rambling about global government made up of reptiles

[@gizmo_gadgets6482]

Exactly, also many other countries with robust space programs have tensions with the US (like China and Russia), so what motivation do they have to keep the US's secrets? If anything they have lots of motivation to expose those secrets to make the US look bad.

[@sandcat2383]

It's funny because the discoveries conspiracy theorists "debunk" the most are ones made during the space race, you know, when NASA was racing another country's space agency

[@theknightradiant2]

15:45 That's essentially the textbook definition of the Dunning-Kruger effect. You are absolutely correct. Most people only remember the "the less you know, the more confident you are" but the explanation for WHY this is the case is because people take knowledge of one thing and incorrectly relate it to something else. Such as, "bones decay within 30 years" is correct. "People are not finding dinosaur bones" is also correct. "Dinosaurs did not exist" is incorrect. Just because people aren't finding dinosaur bones doesn't mean dinosaurs did not exist: "People are finding dinosaur fossils" is correct. The less you know about the topic, the less you are able to judge how well you know it.

[@folfelit]

It's also stunningly idiotic. If the 40ish people I talk to on a regular basis, not one besides myself even goes for a walk outside of mandatory situations. I'm THE most outdoorsy of anyone I know, go on regular hikes off trail, and *I* haven't dug a hole in 20 years, probably longer. Why would you expect someone to find a fossil when most of us are sedentary, live in cities, and have no reason to dig holes? The most common fossil found by normal people is river or beach situations, which still requires you know how to identify one, and to actively be picking up and inspecting what look like rocks.

[@aavi.]

right, we can't fully know how they exactly looked, but the fact that they did exist is completely right and true.

[@meowJACK]

​@@folfelitExactly!! She's acting like there should just be dinosaur bones casually sitting around on the fkn sidewalk or something. Any bones/remains that made it this far without being discovered would obviously have to exist in very specific conditions and in most cases would be BURIED. they're definitely something you need to be specifically looking for in order to find them, and it's not easy to do. As you mentioned, the only ones "out in the open" would have to be washed up somewhere and in most cases they'd be indistinguishable from a rock to the average person walking past it. It's not that hard to understand that the vast majority of bones that were easy to find... WERE FOUND ALREADY...

[@ThatWeirdo04]

Also, bones CAN decay within thirty years, but they don't always. We have tons of human bones in ossuaries and catacombs that are centuries old.

[@MaxxStop]

Conspiracy theorist are the same people who fall for the KZbin ads that are like “if you can solve this your IQ is over 200” and then it’s just the most basic, pre-school, level puzzle

[@bradreed8938]

they’re the people in the ads playing the simple puzzle like they’ve had multiple lobotomies

[@GloomyEra]

If humans actually existed, wouldn’t their bones be everywhere?

[@jigglycarollo805]

Honestly, these sort of conspiracy theories feel like old school mythology. "I don't know how this thing happens, so I'll come up with a reason why and make it as cool as possible." Except... we do know how these things happen now. And you don't need to come up with something new, the person who created the internet is still around, you can talk to him (that person being, of course, Al Gore).

[@emilygreenebean]

I’m a climate scientist and the amount of weird conspiracies that I hear about my work and that I’m “lying” and “part of the plan” or whatever is so wild

[@perraterca]

me too and my dad is lowkey a climate change denier so i make fun of him and tell him that my classes taught me how to doctor the data 😂

[@Hugolaste]

Come on, I've got climate courses for my master, the real question is how much they paid you to keep the information secret (I think I got scammed they only gave me 5 000 €)

[@rabpanz6145]

Right? Like if I'm part of the conspiracy, where's my damn paycheck?

[@monicajones6827]

As a nurse, I have my fair share of patients that don’t trust doctors or medicine or imaging or science in general. And I just can’t care. You do you, boo. I’m there to help people who want to be helped.

[@stumbling_]

@@monicajones6827It’s so funny how the more we progress we also just regress.

[@RealKellinQuinn]

We fell into Jarvis’s trap. We thought we were premium. He made us believe we are special to then tear us down. I can’t believe this 😔

[@D44RK_Iced_Yogs]

Exactly! Jarvis what kind of man are you?! You tear at my heartstrings and tell me how much I mean to your channel, like how I am like a premium child just to make it a conspiracy?! The only way to make it up is by calling me premium and everyone else who you lied to premium!!

[@splendidpheasant9192]

all the workings of Shadow Jarvis. stay woke!!!

[@Fluff_Noodles]

​@@splendidpheasant9192 Shadow Jarvis 😭

[@GravenAshes]

0:59 don’t give her too much credit she stole that from George Carlin

[@sideshowbeats6275]

I LITERALLY came to the comment section to give Carlin the credit and it warms my heart to see someone else know that haha thank you!

[@anthonypareigis6188]

What ^they^ said.

[@RoseGuyCrazy]

The " television = tell a vision" type shit is my favorite part of conspiracy theories. As If the people orchestrating everything are leaving trails of bread crumbs, clues, and signs as to the true nature of what they're doing, even though conspiracy theories are based on the idea that other people or beings are trying to keep shit hidden

[@cameltoast]

THEY are so mischievous, they have been telling what they were doing this whole time if you had just open your eyes to see that, TRUTH is 9 divided by 3 which equals 3, third letter of the alphabet C as in CONSPIRACY HULLLOOOO! WAKE UP TO THE ALARM CLOCK!

[@RoseGuyCrazy]

@@cameltoast 🤣🤣🤣

[@kwarra-an]

​@@cameltoastyou're not even exaggerating their logic very much 😭

[@giuseppealbanese3468]

had a coworker that was into this stuff and gave me a "explanation" about this. (for clarity i dont believe this, im just adding context so people can see through this bs in the future) . he said that "they" (refused to say who they are) are all in a religion that has a rule about warning the masses before doing something and these kinds of things are simply a loop hole. Also when i pushed on this he said that the fbi like to make fake theories to "poison the well" which i thought was super convenient.

[@Naixatloz]

With all the things "they" are accused of orchestrating, you'd think they wouldn't even have time to also put together an ARG on top of it.

[@bakedtofu420]

The dinosaur bit cracks me up - I live in grand rapids michigan and recently mastodon bones were found by workers digging a drainage ditch!

[@umbreonic766]

here in socal a mammoth skeleton was found next to my friends dorm building 😂

[@fauna5328]

I live in Alberta, you find fossils on a daily hike lmaooo

[@keyframeclips]

They obviously made fakes and placed them there to make us think they’re real -typical conspiracy theorist

[@stephh1149]

there was a woolly mammoth 🦣 fossil under my neighbors house

[@rosec5629]

Also like how many people are digging lmao, like if you aren’t doing things like that ofc you’re not gonna just stumble on fossils at your local target 😂

[@FLEXJR69]

I had a friend who bought into the dinosaurs never existed thing. And he brought it up at lunch one day and said, "You're studying this shit. Prove to me, there are dinosaurs, prove to me they exist, " so i flicked the bone of my wings at him for the rest of lunch. And just kept saying "evidence" each time

[@RylanA-fm3nj]

If you’re friend is trying to intimidate you and instigate something over something that’s a COMMON belief, you should have gotten more chicken wings for days to flick at him lol

[@FLEXJR69]

@RylanA-fm3nj I still go out of my way to point at birds and whenever we get chicken and scream evidence

[@FlareDarkStormGem]

​@@FLEXJR69 That's the funniest thing I've read all day

[@FLEXJR69]

@@FlareDarkStormGem currently watching wrestlemania with him and my wife and I got 30 wings from Buffalo wild wings and have been at it for better part of 3 hours

[@FlareDarkStormGem]

@@FLEXJR69 I'm genuinely proud of you, that is a level of petty I wish to achieve in my life

[@momain5483]

I did a conspiracy theory bit in high school for a presentation and still have nightmares about it decades later and these full grown adults have 0 shame 💀 Insane, some people never grow up.

[@hellsmasquerade]

My dad had a coworker, they worked for the government, who literally wore a tin foil hat under his ball cap every day

[@mxmissy]

"Of course I'm gonna point out all the symbolism in every movie we watch". NO! Let those of us who like film theory alone! I don't wanna be lumped in with these weirdos.

[@onipot9639]

I think the symbolism she points out will be crazy stuff to do with like the government and nasa hiding messages lol 😂 But I totally agree with your sentiment as a lover of allegory!

[@vlad5042]

something tells me her film theory is pretty shoddy

[@TacticusPrime]

I don't think they mean symbolism like in a Fincher film. They mean much loonier stuff.

[@pizzamech3000]

I will never get over the fact that the internet is, in fact, giant cables running under the ocean

[@tinykitsune0387]

The sharks are trying to eat the internet

[@slushpupbee]

@tinykitsune0387 Thats my new all-time favorite unhinged joke theory that I've ever read.

[@nononope75]

​​@@tinykitsune0387 I F*KIN LOVE EATING FIBER OPTIC INTERNET CABLES YYUUUUMMMMMBRUMBUMBRUM 🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈🦈

[@tinykitsune0387]

@@slushpupbee its not a joke lol while scientists are not exactly sure why sharks do sometimes chew though the undersea fiber cables

[@sillygoober.01]

​@@tinykitsune0387 "Oh the internet went down" "THOSE DAMN SHARKS!!!"

[@skribble-]

one of my favorite things about these conspiracy people is how they claim info is constantly being hidden from us yet also claim every word can be broken down into a deeper meaning as evidence. like television into "tell a vision", like if theyre trying so hard to hide info, why would the evidence be in plain sight?

[@kirapipikirapika]

im not saying this to agree with them, but technically it could be reverse psychology in a way. make the solution so obvious because people don't think it will be that easy. it works for stuff like puzzles

[@burdeegirl]

These people like to think that they are privy to secret information and have somehow figured out a hidden code because they're so much smarter than other people. It makes them feel important, that's why they do it.

[@sttonep242]

Because these nutheads dont give a shit if their explanations actually make any sense

[@nicolepancakezzz]

I love how she was like “if dinosaurs were real wouldn’t their bones be everywhere???” And then goes on to say how they wouldn’t be everywhere because they decay.

[@mx.rain_yt]

The irony of a woman with dyed hair, a full face of make-up, nail extensions, nail polish, clothing, in a house, and is using a smartphone saying that "everything man-made is fake" is so fucking wild to me.

[@Sgers11]

There’s nothing wrong with any of those things either, but it’s just an extreme lack of self awareness

[@Maialeen]

@Sgers11 You don't really have to rephrase the same thing OP said😆

[@a-damwalrus4026]

@@Sgers11 There is if she's a moron

[@juliachapman4741]

But see she is also man-made so a lot of her is fake... makes sense to me 🤣

[@ohboy-zi1yf]

​@Sgers11 did op say that there was anything wrong with those things 💀

[@thevioletgirl17]

Palaeontologist here- I’m clawing my eyes out right now.

[@Sorry_i_eated_it]

Don't do that. I heard It's super bad for your eyes!!!

[@deadmeme9031]

I hope you know you are so cool. I love paleontologists so much.

[@UndeadMozelle]

The 'cutting up the map' thing is maddening because it could so easily have been more convincing. I could see how someone who's conspiratorially minded and sceptical of the shape of the earth could look at the interrupted map projections that are all warped and have sections 'missing' and be like "what about the empty spaces?" because they're used to seeing rectangular maps and don't understand map projection. But then the dude just sloppily crops off half the picture like he's cropping his ex out of old vacation photos and it's like... Dude.

[@Andreaa_-_]

Don't give them ideas

[@dliap98]

that part was so funny. aside from being stupid in the first place it was just so poorly execute lmao

[@sammyklauke7310]

19:19 I hope she isn't a nurse or something like that because she looks like she is a wearing nurse outfit

[@ToccataEtFugue711]

Probably where she hears so much of this stuff, old folks in the home.

[@gseany]

For the "WiFi" one, she was talking about the fibre optic cables that are laid at the bottom of the ocean. Claiming that we were unable to lay them, because in all these conspiracy theories modern society is too dumb to do anything. Here's how it's actually laid from google: "Submarine cables are laid on the sea and ocean floor using cable laying ships, which are specially designed seagoing vessels that can be over 500 feet (150 meters) long. These cable laying ships load millions of pounds / thousands of tons of fiber optic cable, by spooling it into large tanks onboard the vessel."

[@squidgirl0413]

she really forgot we can just drop things to the bottom of the ocean and they will in fact fall down there

[@clockside]

​@@squidgirl0413I mean, she also thinks we've never been to the bottom of the ocean, sooo... she doesn't keep her own crap straight. (Not to mention the other obvious examples of Titanic and basically any seaside beach.)

[@OGimouse1]

OMG this makes so much sense whybthe merch manager at my store started asking me if I thought people have gotten dumber

[@captainplanet209]

I'm glad you said this, kinda made him look stupid thinking all wireless connections are actually completely wireless.

[@ilovebutterstuff]

Yes. You are correct. Or rather, Google is correct. I used to chart their location for the Navy.

[@BombasticLion]

I'm a conspiracy theorist, of course I'm gonna ask "Why does no one in my family talk to me?"

[@kaceo.damondaze5270]

😂😂😂

[@societycrumbles]

My cousin talks exactly like does, I go out of my way to not interact with him.

[@FlyXcur]

I love so much that she said you have to turn your location off while being around her. As if she isn't uploading videos....to tiktok ya know the app that sells any and all you allow it access to. I guarantee you she doesn't even have a vpn in her home to try to protect herself she just thinks turning off your location takes you off the grid.

[@myralyra2404]

I immediately read that as her being a serial killer lol. “Turn off your location when you’re with me so no one will ever find you”

[@vurpo7080]

Note: VPN services don't give you any protection and everything their ads say (except for being able to bypass region locks) is an outright lie

[@vurpo7080]

Explanation: if a website uses HTTPS, then it prevents your ISP from seeing anything you do exactly like a VPN would. Furthermore, hosting a VPN service is one of the easiest ways ever to get money from suckers, and by using one you're just replacing your existing ISP with a different one. Fundamentally you are still trusting _them_ to not do evil stuff to you (which they do, all the time).

[@ienjoymeth]

4:56 one thing i’ll never understand about flat earthers is… do they realize that from the US we can fly to china from the east and west coast? (one is obviously longer because it’s on the other side of the globe.)

[@charlee.laraine]

lmfao the fossil thing is so funny. I live in southern michigan and a dude literally found an ENTIRE mammoth skeleton in his backyard and was like yoooo wtf and now the university of michigan has it in the science museum lmfao

[@Shmethan]

That is amazong haha

[@Shadow_Draws_20]

that would be my claim to fame for the rest of my life lmao

[@TheWatchfuleye1]

Wifi doesn't reach the ocean, but there are data cables that cross the ocean, but those aren't like hidden at all and have been there for like 2 decades

[@voguishthrone5887]

Like… did she not have a computer class? My high school taught us all about like how to use computers(google suites, how to format a USB, that kind of stuff) and they gave us a brief explication of how computer networks work and this was mentioned

[@ZeallustImmortal]

Yeah, very public information. I love when these "theorists" find information that has always been public and act like they hacked into the CIA to find out

[@Oblvious]

​@voguishthrone5887 I don't think she made it to high-school

[@rayhem]

you can tell she thought she did something so big with "tell a vision". like she imagined the tiktok would end and everyone would need to sit back, take off their tinfoil headwear, let it marinate, then say "holy shit" out loud

[@angellynn7104]

My mom made this same point to me and when I brought up that before television there was the telegraph, then the telephone, she backpedaled and just said it was an “interesting coincidence”

[@karelfinn2343]

Conspiracy theorists are big into what I like to call "word magic". If any two things sound anything at all alike they will find a way to imply a sinister connection.

[@anondimwit]

and tele is greek for "FAR"@@angellynn7104

[@FrenkTheJoy]

Putting aside the obvious stupid part, why does she think they would specifically name it "tell a vision" if it's supposed to be a secret? Like if the government was hiding aliens, would they name the street where the hidden aliens are "Al I. En Lane"? No.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

Tele - over distance. That's...that's all she needed to know.

[@ethanstoltzman8421]

My 8th grade science teacher had a friend who went on to do Antarctica research, and according to him, penguins will sometimes just slide down hills and run back up to do it again.

[@hellsmasquerade]

They just wanna have fun

[@ethanstoltzman8421]

@hellsmasquerade ikr