Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories Keep Getting More Psychotic

[@radiantsquare007jrdeluxe9]

Dear conservatives, just because there is a Walmart 15 minutes away doesn’t mean you can’t go to the Walmart 25 minutes away.

[@JonathanMandrake]

as a German that line of thought is so absurd you can't even take it serious 😂

[@gamingshowerthoughts9723]

The 15 minute city conspiracy theory takes for granted that there's going to be another global pandemic, or else that climate issues will reach a crisis and some kind of "lockdown" will occur. I'm not a believer, but these people deserve to have their worries represented accurately. Mixed zoning is objectively a good thing, but it's not hard to imagine that a distinct and clearly delineated region could be treated the same way islands and other boat-access-only communities were treated during covid-19, if another similar crisis were to happen.

[@mememachine-386]

​@@gamingshowerthoughts9723This is retarded. Why would city districts be treated as islands just because they are ideally self sufficient? Answer: they wouldn't because no one besides The Combine from Half Life 2 would do that.

[@Biff.future]

This made tonnes of sense when I lived in a city. If you live in a suburb you know the walmart 15 minutes away is way too far.

[@dontpickonme]

​@@gamingshowerthoughts9723but they think that's a bad thing? Having everything you need nearby in the event of a global emergency seems like a good idea to me

[@UnorthodoxIndividual]

Seeing thousands of likes on a blue checkmark tweet of someone not knowing how trees work is one of the most faith in humanity destroying things I can imagine tbh.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

It tells you thousands of righties pay Elon to tweet 😂 Nobody's that dumb but the right, guaranteed

[@miskatonic_alumni]

How many of those likes came from bots?

[@Luigi_Mario_1997]

@@miskatonic_alumniI agree.

[@ludovicusbathory1715]

To be fair they already existed we can just see how many idiots exist now.

[@124085]

You've got it backwards. All Blue checkmarks are bots or hand-selected Elon shills. The algorithm goes out of its way to boost those accounts. Now if it was an *unverified* account I'd be majorly concerned, lol

[@jyw0000]

My thesis was about turning suburbs into 15 minute cities. It’s really sad to see how the people who would benefit the most from 15 minute cities (middle class suburbanites) are the ones being deluded by conspiracy theories about it.

[@rickybobby5153]

Basically, they seem to agree that 15 minute cities in theory would be great, all of the benefits they would bring but all of those benefits are lies because it’s really a conspiracy to create sections you can’t leave. (Like North Korea) Of course they ignore what they’ve actually said about 15 minute cities and turn it into some bullshit that has zero evidence backing it

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

"I heard in 15 minute cities they take your Xbox away, because global warming or whatever" - some dude starting a conspiracy theory on accident

[@jaycol21]

I live in a Michigan suburb. One of the things I love about my neighborhood is how close everything is. I can buy a suit, get groceries from two places, have my tires rotated, get my teeth cleaned, or work out and barely go a mile from my front door.

[@jeffersonclippership2588]

Middle class suburbanites have always been some of the most paranoid people in America. They're the biggest lawn order voters.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Well of course thats who the conspiracy theories are targeting. Because thats who they need to target to make people keep using more gasoline.

[@Argumemnon]

I love how conspiracy theories are a combination of ignorance, paranoia, and the idea that real world events occur like in movies.

[@daraghokane4236]

Cinema sins logic applied to the real world is how we get conspiracy's. Plot hole I just walked past a hospital the surgeons are on there smoking break if cancer was real why would they be smoking. That's on par with cinema sins logic and conspiracy logic

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Part of being a Q zombie is believing "all of this is just a movie". That's what they say whenever they explain how Biden is a clone or a robot or an alien

[@rickybobby5153]

It’s brain washing

[@janitor1165]

and annoyingly misdirected populism

[@EpicWinNoob]

@@TurtleChad1 Hey remember when vaccines were going to kill everyone? It's been 3 years, I'm still waiting for my random death. That's a bit longer than 6 months, by 300%

[@tadferd4340]

"Cameras are not made of eyeballs." That's what the 15 minute cities want you to think!

[@John-qv5ux]

This will be added into my unit planning at work. They did tell us to teach the controversy, so I think we should teach people about how the trees were part of the bushfire conspiracy.

[@LimeyLassen]

People who think birds are surveillance cameras: Write that down! Write that down!

[@mayday2502]

t r u e !

[@hamishwalker9637]

God, having lived through multiple massive wildfires in my country (Australia), the lack of understanding of how they work and how trees work is WILD to me

[@williamchamberlain2263]

When ideology conflicts with the real world

[@kitt5736]

I thought they existed just to add value to your investment property?

[@Argumemnon]

Conspiracy thinking is based largely on total ignorance of the topics in question.

[@astralflick]

Do you have room there

[@nytaris]

would you say its as wild as the fires

[@keyboardoracle1044]

I explained to a religious person why the scientific method was developed. They just couldn’t comprehend that it was developed to remove human biases because they have been told all their life that science has an agenda. A lot of the craziness today is indoctrination and the desire to explain their indoctrination to themselves.

[@ProfDCoy]

After reading several studies into the topics Vaush covers here (conservative psychology vs liberal psychology, conspiratorial mindset & how it works and why conservatives tend more towards it) I've become convinced that empiricism IS a kind of left/libs bias; but it's a bias towards learning the truth about the world, and conservatives are biased AGAINST that. Not all lib/leftists are empiricists - plenty are utopian and conspiratorial too, especially as you move towards the extreme fringe - but I genuinely believe that empiricism is one of the bedrock beliefs of lib/leftism. Like you said, the scientific method was an attempt to learn facts about the world free from bias, and only one side of politics has a bias AGAINST all bias, against other forms of fact-finding.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Often humorously stated as "reality has a left-wing bias"

[@Velociter]

This reminds me of when I tried explaining what the Sun is to my Catholic grandmother. "Well, God made it so we don't need to understand. Only God needs to understand his creations."

[@xioussquid]

​@Velociter I think Vaush (among numerous others) has noted how being raised in certain religions squashes critical thinking and the desire to just ask questions.

[@aquaticborealis4877]

This is why religion, and particularly the cult-Christian groups in America are particularly dangerous.

[@CCC-V3]

"Jet fuel can't melt steel beams" "Laserbeams from space cant burn trees"

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

SHADOW WIZARD LIBTARD GANG WE LOOOVE CASTING SPACE LASERS

[@rodanone4895]

jet fuel can't melt steel. the cognitive dissonance here is that your government wouldn't let 3000 die to go to war. harder. much harder to get three buildings of completely different architectures to fall into their own footprint. you're using incredulity. whereas i just piled some incredible probability on you. by the way... if you were a terrorist wouldn't you want them to tip over. in addition asymmetric damage doesn't lead to symmetric failure. that's a fact. there wasn't a real investigation.

[@than217]

"No one died when JFK Jr. came back to 'lived'."

[@subcitizen2012]

At least the 9/11 stuff is plausible. Usually we want to trust scientists and experts when it comes to expertise. There's 10k professional structural engineers and architects that want the 9/11 commission reviewed. Jewish space lasers is completely out of left field. Tra red, there were rings 9/11 things like energy weapons as well, but that's not the mainstream stuff. And to be fair, they think we're just as crazy. An international oil cartel and supranational conglomerate pay think tanks and politicians to lie to everyone and peddle propaganda other gets spouted alternative media and they're covering up everything g the scientists know. They don't even want you to acknowledge El nino or thst this is a freak occurrence, they're just labeling everything as climate change now. Maybe climate change is causing the trans people?

[@manjackson2772]

​@@subcitizen2012You sound like a crazy person, but I see what you're saying with that first bit. "jet fuel can't melt steel beams" is shaped like science. It relies on you not knowing two specific details, and on not realising that even if the steel didn't melt it would still have been weakened. "Jewish space lasers" is a non-sequitur with reality

[@sookendestroy1]

My brothers been especially mad about climate change stuff lately, calling all climate change believers a cult that needs to be dealt with

[@sprybug]

I give you permission to call him the R word, because he is.

[@azazel166]

I'm sure he won't miss a few of his teeth.

[@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty]

Same with my family. I feel like we're all going to get stuck due to idiocy as the world burns down around us like Margery in her game of thrones death scene. It doesn't matter if WE figure it out, we're surrounded by idiots. And we're gonna die surrounded by idiots.

[@Gingersnaps_the_pumpkin_kitty]

​@@sprybugsee, I feel like calling people with disabilities retarded is WAY more insulting and wrong than these assholes. They're LITERALLY so socially retarded that it's slowing progress to the point of practically going backwards. That's WAAAY more correct than someone just having learning disabilities. And it was NEVER a compliment.

[@ananousous]

He said while in a literal death cult

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

"Roseanne said on tim Pool's show that the 2024 election is cancelled, i can't believe biden would do this" - right wing TikTok

[@cajunguy6502]

Can we do this? Can we spread this conspiracy, and start organizing "protests" in election day that take place as far away from polling stations?

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

@@cajunguy6502 I'm hoping that by super Tuesday they've talked themselves into only voting on Twitter "where daddy Elon can protect our votes from the libs"

[@whatsallthebrouhaha]

​​@@thepolarphantasm2319likely Biden would still win that pole and he'll make another one that says "4 more years of trump or president for life"

[@Saturnia2014]

Roseanne is pretty much every wine drunk Karen in FL that flirts with the 19 year old cashier at a Publix checkout line. What she says doesn't matter, as it's just word salad as she goes through alcohol and antidepressant psychosis.

[@NoThatRyan]

My god, that quote feels like reading brain damage.

[@yoredeerleader]

They're not actually Jewish space lasers. They're basic Christian lasers but then blessed by a rabbi. The Islamic lasers are also just Christian lasers blessed by an Imam.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

They're fired through a focus crystal so they're blessed by the album cover of dark side of the moon

[@xBINARYGODx]

its true, I read about it on wiki

[@Saturnia2014]

​@@thepolarphantasm2319The crystal is also made from melted down Bud Light bottles.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

@@Saturnia2014 so it's a TRANS LASER?! EGAD MAN

[@Eibarwoman]

@@thepolarphantasm2319 No, those are femtrails.

[@DotsHero]

There's also a lot of survivorship bias at play here, you can't see all of the trees that burned down in the fire, because they fucking burned down.

[@luisaleloki]

This people's world functions on pokemon logic. Trees are grass type, they are weak to fire.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Conservatism is where you know the world is very simple and instead of updating your understanding of the world, you try to force it to adhere to your understanding

[@Alexdenomme]

Why don't you have a shit load more likes. It's 730am here and I'm spitting coffee on my computer

[@HanMasho]

On the flammability of palm trees: I actually saw a palm tree get hit by lightning about a quarter mile from my house. It ignited and was on fire for like 30 seconds, and then the fire just went out. Vaush right.

[@colt9836]

I wonder how. Palm trees are native to really hot places so lots of rain and thus lightning strikes, so I assume evolution has a play in this.

[@HanMasho]

@@colt9836 I'm not sure. I looked it up and apparently, they are really flammable if there are a lot of dead, dry fronds or fibers on them, which makes sense. I couldn't find anything else, though. Maybe it's the oils, or maybe they just have a lot of moisture in them.

[@aperian6954]

bingo @@HanMasho

[@NankitaBR]

As someone from outside the US that has lived in "15 minutes cities" most of my life (apart from the brief time when I lived in the US), the people talking sh*t about 15 minutes cities don't know what they are missing. If the company that I worked for in the US didn't provide us with frequent transportation to some places like they do, my life would have been miserable while there. There is a reason why I wouldn't think to move to the US unless I was working with them again. Here in my home town I don't even have a drivers license because I don't need to drive.

[@Pats0c]

Conservatives when they learn that oil can burn on water 🤯

[@marcomoreno6748]

I wish.

[@_skud]

Conservatives learn?????

[@rmc3375]

You don't need embers to light the boat on fire. I'm pretty sure the air temp gets so high things can spontaneously ignite

[@KuLaydMahn]

I think that probably isn't what happened to the boat but you're right, that is is absolutely possible - it's how you toast marshmallows, after all. Air temp was my first thought too, but I think the boat was probably too far away for the air around it to be combustibly hot. That kind of heat dissipates pretty fast.

[@dynamicworlds1]

Also true

[@diallo1347]

Yes. That's why some flameable products say to not store in high temp areas. Also, boats have fuel and fuel can combust from high temperatures alone.

[@88mphDrBrown]

You don't need embers, but they sure make it a hell of a lot easier. I grew up in a marina, it's extremely common for boats not to have an insulated gas tank like a car. Often they just have exposed plastic or metal cans, and even boats with an insulated tank will often have a reserve can stored in the open to keep the vapors from building up in an enclosed space.

[@Xanthelei]

My first thought wasn't even embers, it was that the boat was tied to a dock that caught fire, then the fire spread to the boat, then the rope that tied it up snapped/burned up and off it floated, still on fire. Not even a thing that stretches the imagination because it's happened so many times across all of human history.

[@WilliamBrowning]

The 15 minutes isn't exclusively about walking distance. It's also 15 minutes on the public transit system.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

Well there you have it, no wonder the Right are terrified of the concept: Public Transit. You know who uses public transit? THE POORS!

[@hefdef9961]

egads a train!

[@ernestoacosta7918]

“Public”?!! Communism!!!

[@SaraphDarklaw]

People actually don’t know how trees work? Omg, we’re doomed.

[@TDYDYDYEE]

We are not doomed. Just be vigilant and never let the idiots hold on to power. They by themselves without right-wing platforms or personnel acting as a booster are very ineffective at accomplishing anything.

[@TheBlueWizzrobe]

I don't think the issue is not knowing how trees work. Prior to watching this video, I didn't know that this was how trees worked and that they wouldn't necessarily burn down all the way in a wildfire. The issue is refusing to accept rational explanations over irrational ones upon seeing things that don't make sense to you.

[@1draigon]

@@TheBlueWizzrobeif someone INSTANTLY goes to oh it’s a psy-ops upon seeing information that they didn’t know it’s a huge red flag

[@kiwi_2_official]

​@@TheBlueWizzrobemakes some sense that would be how trees work though

[@ericvicaria8648]

Regarding palm trees: Here's a wild science fact. There is no biological taxonomic group called "trees." Growing a trunk and getting real tall is just a strategy lots of different plants have figured out over evolutionary time. This means many different plants we call trees aren't closely related and don't have similar organs. If you cut a palm tree in half it doesn't have dry, dead wood inside like most trees in North America: It has living tissues all inside that are either full of water or are busy transporting food and water up and down the whole tree. tl'dr Palm trees are wet and alive all the way through, unlike most other trees.

[@ukanlosgod7250]

My dad used to tell me Palm Trees were just a really smart type of grass that wants to be a tree.

[@ericvicaria8648]

@ukanlosgod7250 that's not too far off. big difference though: in a grass the meristem grass grows out of is below the soil, so grasses can tolerate being cut down or chewed to the dirt. (Think of the meristem as the tiny core where a plant grows out of. Technically plants have meristems for their roots and other stuff but let's ignore that.) In a palm tree the meristem is at the tippy top of the stalk so if you snip off the top of a palm tree stalk (trunk) it just DIES.

[@xBINARYGODx]

It's not worse, in terms of more morons/etc. - it's that suddenly a bunch of people banned over time flooded back, so it looks like things got suddenly worse, and they are, but really just a social media thing. Also, added to this is that social media is mainstream now (and yes has been for a little while now - past decade), but it was not 20 years ago.

[@xBINARYGODx]

IOW its more an optical illusion that conspiracy is more and worse in its more - it was always tons of people and contained very terrible things - there is just a megaphone attached to that crazy now. Maybe that DOES make things worse, but I don't think so - only that it makes more people louder, but really, it's mostly just more of the same. Yes, yes, someone now will talk of pappi and how pappie got radicalized by... blah blah blah.

[@rickybobby5153]

Before social media these people would be ostracized from their community. Now they go online and see a few thousand other people and it completely skews their world view and they end up more people believing it than they actually do Then there’s also the fallacy that the more people who believe something the more truth there is to it. So it’s a feedback loop of perceiving more people actually believe it which causes more people to end up believing it

[@scipioafricanus5871]

The glaciers are melting and the Ocean of Idiocy is rising.

[@blackmage1276]

The 15 minute city conspiracy theories have me wanting to believe the conspiracy theories are true just so that 15 minute cities maybe will be made

[@subcitizen2012]

The real conspiracy with that is they want us to maintain our 12 hours cities, or whatever it is. Not sure how lo g it takes to walk across Manhattan or whatever.

[@KatieBadenhorst]

It seems like the 15min city grew out of COVID paranoia. During lockdowns some people argued that the government would make excuses to keep people in their homes and restrictions would never be lifted. When restrictions were lifted somehow this theory shifted into the 15min city theory.

[@Frogdoddofficial]

An hour ago i had a guy tell me that Arizona is the real egypt. He was dead serious. I had to screenshot it.

[@Johnnyraftssmith]

What the hell...truly mind numbing

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

There are evangelicals who believe this country was actually founded as New Israel by Christian icon *checks paper* George Washington, at the future site of the World Trade Center. ...this would be more impressive if any of the Dutch folks had seen it happen or something, what with Manhattan island being the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam at the time

[@JustAnotherNamelessGuy]

If by Egypt we mean an hot desert tomb then yeah I guess he’s right.

[@Frogdoddofficial]

@@JustAnotherNamelessGuy he meant literally Egypt. Lol

[@JustAnotherNamelessGuy]

@@Frogdoddofficial meant that as a joke comment but I’m sure that guy has nothing to lose if he’s given a lobotomy.

[@daraghokane4236]

For global warming conspiracys people know there lying they just don't want to admit what there doing has a consequence.

[@hrodebertcoad9848]

idk, last person I talked to about global warming didn't understand that burning hydrogen doesn't produce CO2... they aren't the brightest bunch

[@Power_to_the_people567]

@@hrodebertcoad9848Ive try to get people to understand via the Socratic method that CO2 radiates the heat it absorbs causing a greenhouse effect. It didn’t work.

[@GeteMachine]

There are also people who just see everything as trolling and refuse to because they're entertained if their lies become memes and gets a reaction. That's just how twitter conservatives are.

[@Fredric_Cedrich]

Yep. They’ve been adamant global warming is fake since the very very early 2000s. That’s a 20 year long belief they now need to say was wrong.

[@ff-qf1th]

I mean, fossil fuel companies and people who profit from that, sure, but the average person who buys into it? There's a lot more going on

[@Cam-bk8rt]

"fire isn't real and the trees were in on it" is my new favorite thing to believe

[@kingflynxi9420]

The trees are conspiring with the climate

[@Monomiknose]

Man Vowsh, I don't know. This whole 15 minute city thing seems pretty scary to me, and I think if you don't vote in favor of more highways than you also like kicking orphan puppies into grease fires. That's just a fact. *This message sponsored by Toyota, see your local Toyota dealership during Toyotathon to take advantage of our extended warranty special*

[@WilliametcCook]

You can try to argue facts, but they don’t start with facts; they form _facts_ based on _conclusions._ You have to argue with the conclusions because they don’t have core facts.

[@fedos]

And you can't argue the conclusions because they believe they're self-evident.

[@martinpavlicek2299]

What exactly do you mean by conclusions? I dont see any point arguing about the conspiracy theories at all. It is way more beneficial to have discussion about life, worldviews, values, life experiences and emotional background behind conspiracy theories. Asking something like what does it all mean to you. That is because creation of conspiacy theory is driven by emotion and passion. You can do this in very respectful and kind manner and it can actually lead to something. I see you are unlikely to have such deeper discussion with strager on net but it is valuable aproach for people who want to connect with someone close to them who happen to be charmed by conspiracy theory. But even doing this online in way smaller scale ca be better than losing time arguing. Also if you are just trying to convince the conspiration theorist of something or if you are trying to debunk their theories, they are just going to close up or cement themself. Patience and listening can be very important here. It aplies even more if the person you are speaking with is a member or sympathizer of a cult. It is great to listen to them and give them space to realize the ways in which they might be abused since they may have force themself to supress that emotion. In general i think it would be great if we foster empathy, social skills, good will and faith into others since this can cultivate our discussion and lead to it being more rational and substantial. And importance of this attitude towards others as well as yourself applies even to fields like science or abstarct studies like mathematics and logic ince even there you are still human driven by passion. It can inspire and drive you towards great discoveries but also form biases or wishful thinking.

[@jordanwhite352]

​@@martinpavlicek2299What He means is that they form their evidence based on their already preconceived bias conclusion. It's exactly how flat earthers think that the earth is flat, so they develop all of their evidence around that the earth is flat. Unlike the actual scientific method, where you're just like, why the hell does this thing probably happen? Let's find out and then they do a ton of tests and then come to the conclusion of oh earth is round. So these people didn't see what they perceived as inconsistencies with the story and then came to the conclusion that the fires aren't real. They immediately think the fires aren't real because they have a xenophobic hatred of Hawaii despite it being part of the United States as a state and thus are now cherry picking and grabbing at any scraps and straws that will attempt to support this bias.

[@robbiekop7]

It doesn't help any reasonable discourse when Vaush makes videos saying he's Dark Brandon's most fierce supporter 😣

[@MasterVictor56]

@@martinpavlicek2299 They mean that they see an event and then make their own determinations on how the event happened when there is a lack of evidence in between. Also your methods cannot work on the internet. No one will listen to anyone else on the internet.. they are only there to have their beliefs reinforced.. and anyone not reinforcing it is in on it. You can only foster empathy with people you know directly.

[@than217]

What always amazed me about the 9/11 conspiracies (since he mentioned those) was that no one ever seemed to know Photoshop exists. Even after the Loose Change documentary came out Photoshop was nearly 20 years old and yet even in 2023 people are still unaware Photoshop exists... Like how?!?! How do you go your entire life not knowing a basic photo editing computer program exists?!?!?!

[@rodanone4895]

so... do you have evidence of Photoshop being used? are you aware of the professional organizations that are only asking for a real, scientific investigation? how much do you know about 911 for real? are you familiar with building 7? ae911truth org. pilots911truth org firefighters911truth org. your incredulity is the intention. 911 took your 4th amendment rights and cleared 20 years of war. it was a financial grab. a Pentagon cover up. and an insurance scam for larry Silverstein. imo. either way... the NIST explanation violates basic physics and that alone means a real, scientific investigation needs to be conducted. space lasers causing fires is crazy. climate change is SUPER REAL. and caused by man. I'm a scientist. but you all are taking 911 as much for granted as Kennedy's assassination. see... operation northwoods. it's real. and insane. mk ultra.... real. verified and insane. I'm not blaming the government. I'm simply saying there's actually evidence. see COINTELPRO. they opened our mail for heaven's sake. see PRISM. then tell me why your glib dismissal based on an Adobe product carries weight.

[@falconeshield]

Brainwashing

[@menschgebliebenergossenpar9213]

"My beer is represented by a gae trans! Millions must perish!" - your average rightwinger, everywhere and at all times

[@simplicitylost]

Feelings over facts, folks. I’ve said this before but my mom’s friend’s husband is a science teacher and a conservative, and to show how nuts it’s gotten- when the COVID vaccine came out, he said “you know, I’ve always believed in vaccines… and I don’t know why, but this one _feels_ different.” It’s just nuts. This man teaches science and believes in it, but nowadays these people get so inundated with this trash that it actually starts affecting their brains.

[@masterplusmargarita]

15 minute cities being the boogeyman is so bizarre. It'd be like making the bad thing the government wants to do like... Infrastructure improvement. Or free teddy bears. Or faster Internet. It's just a objectively good thing, there is no argument for it being bad.

[@Stonecoldfrank]

Thinking that something is good is not the same as being physically able to make it happen with benefits being greater than the costs. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

[@PM-xu2nq]

how are people protesting the concept of widespread convenience?

[@Stonecoldfrank]

@@PM-xu2nq Because most people don't want to use their vote to coerce Walmart or another into opening stores in places where they're not planning on doing so. Most people aren't fascists like yourself.

[@alfredandersson875]

@@Stonecoldfrankschizo

[@Stonecoldfrank]

@@alfredandersson875 ??

[@QT5656]

Best Vaush video for a long time! I completely agree that many people are struggling with how complex and interconnected the world has become and that they respond traumatically. Adam Curtis has previously discussed this issue but sadly he doesn't seem to have any real solutions.

[@SylvesterLazarus]

Last year my neighbors (Hungary) wanted to get me into some anti-government movement and I was like "Yeah, that sounds good! I'd like to see Orbán's head on a stake too." I googled the leader of them who happens to have a youtube channel who claimed that he has connections with the UN and if he managed to get 100 000 people to the capital he can form a new government and fight against the current one, and the UN will recognize it as a legit government, and he did talks like "Listen! You are being told that there's a war in Ukraine! 'Google Kyiv webcam live' and you'll see the city in live! The city that is allegedly in a war! DO YOU SEE ANY WAR ON THAT IMAGE??? DO YOU HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT????" Yeah.. I haven't talked to my neighbors since... The funniest thing is that they (husband and wife) are public elementary school teachers.

[@alfredandersson875]

Crazy

[@abyssGazerTV]

Living trees are constantly absorbing water and wet wood doesn't burn well. That's literally the only explanation we need but these hogs somehow put 2 and 2 together, and got a 12.

[@Ironsocks12]

I miss the days of when conspiracy theories were no more than watching the X-Files. 😔

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Mister, we could use a man like Art Bell again...

[@eimazd]

I mean, I hate to break it to you, but there's basically never been a time where "the Jews are secretly plotting to destroy us all" wasn't a conspiracy theory. However, I do miss the days when dumb tin-foil-aliens nonsense were all the conspiracy I knew.

[@Terry-pf4dr]

The x files had a more believable plot then Q does.. the Q files are just a later season and the writers are all out of ideas. It’s got a last season of GOT feel to it.

[@menschgebliebenergossenpar9213]

@@eimazd youd laugh, because there was a episode where Moulder was kidnapped by a rightwing-conspiracy nut in his car, who was babbling about Israel, da Joos, the Illuminaughty and whatever the fook. And Moulder asked: "How! Tell me 'how, sir! How do THEY or we, the government, manage to controll and manipulate everything yet get nothing sustainable done, in your opinion, sir?" Needless to say the rightwing nut couldnt answer squat. Loved this episode, because back then we had to deal with this conspiracy lunatics too.

[@hillbillypowpow]

​@@Terry-pf4drThose days never existed.

[@cradio52]

These people are increasingly just so, so deeply sad to me. I can’t even imagine living with this level of pure terror, fear and paranoia at every moment of every day, where every single thing is some sort of conspiracy and everyone and every action in the world is out to get you.

[@alpharius5178]

I got into some comment section scraps for America Uncovered’s 15 minute city. I got a couple fears of “crime elements”, rich people getting more of the money, rich people are the only ones who would benefit, etc… it was fucking tiring. Made me realize that channel is doing the “fair and balanced” narrative like Fox.

[@FlameUser64]

??? those people are insane? It mostly benefits people who no longer have to spend massive amounts of money on fuel. It benefits people who can now walk or bike to work and are no longer spending huge chunks of their wages on the commute itself. Fuel costs are not prohibitive for rich people. Fuel costs are prohibitive for poor and lower middle class people. …Now, there _is_ a possibility that capitalists will exploit this. After all, if you're only 15 minutes from work, they can call you in whenever they want! If you're only 15 minutes from each of your jobs, then you can have _3_ jobs instead of 2! etc.

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

I love how all of the "issues" that these absolute dregs ride for are virtually just parroting mega-corporation PR.

[@afterhourscinema782]

What's funny is we already have giant energy beams from the sky that cause fires... *It's called LIGHTNING, dummies* 😂

[@kingflynxi9420]

Thunderstorms actually commonly cause fires. When they strike a tree it burns a bit like a Swedish torch, and that fire burns until everything else around it has dried up enough to also catch fire. I think that's what caused the Canada wildfires earlier this year.

[@Wendy_O._Koopa]

I don't know why everyone is afraid of saying "I don't know." I say it all the time, unless I do know, and then I tell them and it inevitably starts an argument... because the internet's gotta be the internet, or something? Not knowing everything isn't ignorance, ignorance is finding out new information and completely ignoring it. Ignore-ance, get it? It's not a joke, that's etymology. Also, blindly accepting all new information without a standard for verification is just as bad. So... "The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing," or something like that, IDK.

[@RippedWarrior]

I used to be a wildland firefighter. Let me tell you, I've seen fire do some crazy shit. I've seen floating embers light a tree on fire hundreds of feet away from the fire line. I've seen trees right next to fire not light on fire at all. If fire behaved in a super predictable way do you think wildland firefighters would die every year like they do? Fire is unpredictable, the real world isn't a video game.

[@LiliaArmoury]

as someone who did firefighter training in my teen years seeing the stupidity on display from the conspiracy theorists is brain hurting. when dealing with bushfires there is two main types you deal with scrub and canopy fires and it is quite common that tree tops won't be burnt but the undergrowth will be

[@LimeyLassen]

Especially as some species of tree are fire-resistant.

[@aperian6954]

no you didn't, because anyone with basic fire skills are looking at this like it stinks to high heaven!!

[@tomlxyz]

I think the reason why conservatives (who are still capable of reasoning) don't like the 15 minute city is that it makes living in cities a better experience but people living in cities tend to vote less conservative, so in a way the 15 minute city is an existential threat. Just imagine that people come into contact with minorities regularly and realize they're actually not bad people, as opposed to living in a isolated suburb which consists mainly of the same type of person as oneself, with the scary city you don't want to hang around long outside

[@jatsko3113]

That's exactly it

[@DarthMcDoomington]

There's an even more basic threat in their tiny, tiny brains, the "government plants" can more easily get to voting ballots and put in "fake" votes.

[@monotypical_]

I know I’m making complete batshit insane theories but I don’t know why people are calling me batshit insane 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@vonunterberg4313]

yeah, I dont know why people call me nazi when i say shit like kill transpeople and jews :( What a weird world we live in

[@Romanticoutlaw]

reminds me of the conspiracy theorists who'd never encountered snow before being sussed when putting direct fire from a lighter on snow caused soot to build up on the snowball

[@KreaterK]

Living in Minnesota for my 24 years, I just don't understand how some people, including those living right next to me and commenting on the same weather patterns, can still deny the serious changes happening to our climate. Edit: I feel I should clarify that we've always had slightly less predictable precipitation than our neighboring states, sure. But now we experience a heatwave, then a blizzard, another heatwave, some rain that turns to hail after an hour all within the same month, even going from >100F to snowed in halfway up your door overnight. The temperature and storms used to be fairly predictable enough to prepare, but now you could lose your job just because you didn't get up 3 hours early to stare at the sky before leaving for work.

[@Usagi393]

Vaush is being super charitable. It seems to me people just have main character syndrome. They’re the special snowflake/anime protagonist who can see through the conspiracy and realize the truth

[@scarecrow559fresno]

that is me

[@idontcare9041]

Yeah... and a extreme distrust of the government and mainstream media. Which is fine they lie all the time, the problem is that people without any understanding of the world then turn to conspiracy theories to explain things they don't understand

[@lil_weasel219]

studies show belief in harmful conspiracies is tied to narcissism, machiavelliansim, psychopathy and schizotypy. Theres a study on believers in astrology too called "even the stars know im special" again finding higher narcissism.

[@April-lp7pp]

Like Neo from the matrix 😎

[@JackDespero]

I have lived my entire life in 15 minute cities, and now that I am in the US temporarily, I miss them so much. I lived 45 minutes by metro away from my work, mind you, but I would take 45 minutes of metro over 30 minutes of car anyday. In the metro I can close my eyes and relax, I can read, I can watch a TV show, I used to do some homework when I was studying, etc. Time is less wasted than when using a car, in which you have to deal with not being killed by the idiots in the US roads (by far the worst drivers I have encountered yet. One would think that for a nation that drives everywhere they would be good, but they make Rome drivers look like driving school instructors, at least they know how to use blinkers). Anyway, leave it to Republicans to turn something beautiful and humanly design into some dystopian shit that they themselves are implementing, just under a different name. They think that 15 minute cities would force them to live in certain places and forbid them to live in different places, and that is horrible and un-american. And yet, that is what red lining and seggregation policies were in the "good ol' times" to which they want to return. Basically, the biggest fear of a Republican is to be treated in the same way the treat everyone else. They hate feminism because they think that that means that women will treat men like men treat women nowadays. They hate housing seggregation because they fear that it will do to them what they did to black people for decades. And so on. It reminds me of that picture of "This is how the US would look under communism" with empty shelves in a supermarket in the US... under capitalism.

[@tastyhaze2058]

Skepticism is like coleslaw. Most meals can do with some coleslaw to help balance out the plate. But if someone hands you a plate of only coleslaw and tells you it's a meal, they're crazy and you should find something better to eat.

[@frausteiner8615]

A common conspiracy theory is that China is shooting the lasers. Which means we've gone from Jewish Space Lasers to Chinese Space Lasers.

[@butHomeisNowhere___]

My boss, a very knowledgeable man in his field, is VERY into these kinds of conspiracies. He was telling me about Direct Energy Weapons and since he's my boss, I had to just smile and nod. But he grew up in a very small town, he lives in the south now. I don't think he's ever spent much time around different kinds of people, he's VERY susceptible to conspiracy shit and it's sad. I agree that it's a trauma response to the world changing so drastically around them every year.

[@jascu4251]

I don't know that the trauma response is satisfying, this kind of thinking has always been with us if we go back to peasant societies that were more homogeneous and unchanging they often had as much if not more conspiratorialism as we see today. To some extent we might say the 1945-2008 period was the outlier and today is a regression to the mean when it comes to conspiratorialism

[@Bertinator-nm9ld]

The sad thing about those conversations is the fact that Directed Energy Weapons are a real thing, and the technology behind them is super interesting. Even just reading through the basic Wikipedia entry is kinda neat. But, the real versions of these weapons aren't usually what the crazy conspiracy theorists want to talk about...

[@buckyhurdle4776]

I don't know what he thinks Directed Energy Weapons were but they do exist, but it basically means "A big lazer pointer designed to mess with aircraft cameras." We don't have a fucking death ray lmao

[@jordanwhite352]

What field is he in?

[@Bertinator-nm9ld]

@@buckyhurdle4776 Israel is wrapping up work on one that can shoot down incoming missiles at a cost of about $3.50 worth of electricity per shot of the laser! It only really works on clear days, but it's a lot cheaper than their current Iron Dome defenses. They call it the Iron Beam.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

in reality, like every 80s suburban teen movie was a 15 minute neighborhood. it's these (mostly) newer suburbs where you're packed in with no room and walled off from everything else. the john hughes era suburbs built in the 70s were way more organic regular neighborhoods with close access to amenities.

[@deathshop2172]

I've been feeling like I'm losing my mind recently, and starting to lose the logical base I rely on. this video is good remedy for that. thank you

[@comedyman4896]

I have some relatives who are like this, and I can say the reason they hate 15 minute cities is because they have a hardcore car fetish. They're also racist, yes, but they love their cars more than they hate their minorities.

[@lukeolson5177]

Cars liberated white people from having to live next to POC. White flight to the suburbs would not have been possible if cars didn't exist which is why white people fetishize their cars. The book "white skin black fuel" does a deep dive into this type of thinking.

[@top_gallant]

I don't know anything about wildfires. But a friends house survived a tornado with just cosmetic damage while the two houses on either side disappeared. Natural disasters are crazy like that.

[@soptop1641]

Unironically tho the warcrimes I'd commit for a 15 minute city

[@MonkeyxKing03]

You see this is what it looks like when people on the internet are in their “It’s Joever” phase. For your homework please compare and contrast the content you see in the it’s joever phases and the we’re so back phases

[@souledgekirby]

will this be on the exam?

[@MonkeyxKing03]

@@souledgekirby As the exam is multiple choice it won’t be a compare/ contrast question, but the terms ‘it’s joever’ and ‘we’re so back’ will be on the exam yes

[@souledgekirby]

@@MonkeyxKing03 are there tutors for this class? I might need help.

[@r4dbit416]

Would the Dunning-Kruger effect also be something that could explain the behavior of conspiracy theorists?

[@tadferd4340]

The Dunning-Kruger effect was shown to be false. It was due to data bias and not an actual psychological effect.

[@88mphDrBrown]

The Dunning-Kruger effect has supposedly been largely debunked. There was some sort of issue with how the were collecting and classifying their data. I don't remember exactly, but there was some sort of known phenomenon with data they weren't accounting for.

[@r4dbit416]

@@88mphDrBrown Thanks for the info

[@WhatxDxDxD]

@@88mphDrBrown After quickly checking wikipedia (I know..), I couldn't find anything supporting that, just disagreements on what's the reason for the observed results. But it doesn't seem to be debunked, at most it's an ongoing discussion as to why the phenomenon happens.

[@88mphDrBrown]

@@WhatxDxDxD Well than the Wikipedia page is trash if it doesn't have "anything to support that". There are 2 famous papers that supposedly debunk it. I read them, but tbh I'm not technically proficient enough to know who is right. That's why I used the term "supposedly" and gave a pretty vague description. Yes, it's still debated, but there are massive swaths of the scientific community that believe there was/is a problem with Dunning and Kruger's analysis. Regardless the colloquial meaning has morphed into a much more extreme version and a lot of the graphs/explanations going around massively exaggerate the effect.

[@HotBread213]

about the boat that cought fire. it can be either embers or heat radiation spread. there are 4 ways that fire can spread : direct contact, conduction (for example, a pipe heats up and starts a fire to an item connected to it further down), convection (smoke and heat from a fire gathering at the highest possible point, for example, a roof, starting a new fire there) and the last one is RADIATION. Radiation as in the fire is so hot that the heat it emits is strong enough to cause pyrolysis to object without even touching them. essentially, objects will lose their humidity and start to chemically decompose, giving us the prime condition for starting a fire. This is why when you see a fire with houses at proximity, you'll see the firefighter shooting water at the surrounding buildings. it's to cool them down and to prevent it from gathering the radiation heat and star to pyrolyse. I recall there was a clip somewhere of a soccer stadium (i think it was the bradford city stadium fire) fire where you could actively see radiation propagation in action. there was a fire at the middle of the field and the heat was so strong that people spectating were running for their lives. you could even see a man who's hair cought fire without any flame touching because of how unbearable the heat radiating became.

[@tom1644x]

I think the woman on the plane was experiencing "derealization" which is a common mental health symptom.

[@mursuka80]

Fact is, that vulture capitalists have already contacted landowners in that disaster area to sell their land. Lasers are stupid, but this disaster has a weird vibe around it.

[@TheDigitalDanceMediaLibrary]

It's especially because it's specifically Hawaii, where land/property is already ridiculously exorbitant, and these exploitative opportunistic vultures are trying to snag devastatingly incinerated properties for drastically cheaper than they regularly would cost.

[@thegrouchization]

Crisis opportunism. When you're that wealthy you can afford to immediately jump in when a disaster like this occurs.

[@WhatxDxDxD]

Nothing about that seems weird to me. That's exactly what I would expect to happen in our fucked up society. I mean you already used the term "vulture capitalists" nothing special about it. Ultra rich *ssholes trying to profit from a crisis.

[@Zoulz666]

The fact that flat earthers are having a resurgence in 2023 is a good indication that conspiracy brain isn't going anywhere. This is why we can't have a star trek society.

[@jascu4251]

the flat earth resurgence is really interesting psychologically. I think in part its a kind of virtue signalling, or more accurately conspircacy signalling, ie "I am more conspiracy brained that you / I am less cucked by the elites than you". Its a similar thing to "I am more socialist than you", a desire to be as pure and anti-liberal as possible Interestingly flat-earthers will still say they are anti-globalist, which is actually technically true, just in a more literal sense than they imagine!

[@pavlovsdogman]

I drove through a bushfire zone in southern Australia in the 80s, there were dozens dead and hundreds of houses lost. I still remember how the most common sight to behold was what was left of the trees? Almost like trees are less flammable than modern human habitations are? 🙄

[@whynot-tomorrow_1945]

I want to propose, in some academic capacity, a "preponderance of people" theory, where the simple fact of there being so many humans alive in the 1st world (i.e. abstract, corporatized, coddled, bereft of real problems) eventually, arithmetically produces people with cognitive dissonance severe enough that they begin to disassociate and believe reality itself is "controlled" by someone else. It kinda sorta IS. Like, our entire lives in this digital age are governed by financial incentives guided by data. But people just keep finding the wrong scapegoat? They keep forgetting that no one is in control? IDK if that makes sense. I just want to do some sort of paper or research on it.

[@boredofcorn3151]

I have no idea how people don't have a basic understanding of fire. It's fire, the caveman superweapon. We've had it longer than we've had writing, I mean come on

[@existenceispain4333]

This is unironically witch trial mentality. “Oh no a phenomenon that *I* personally don’t understand it must be a conspiracy!! Burn the witch!!!”

[@thomaskemp8803]

You can literally see the torched dock next to the boat

[@stepheng1523]

Jesus the internet is depressing

[@NoThatRyan]

Can confirm, cameras are not made of eyeballs.

[@dimasakbar7668]

I did hang around seamen. Fire on board a seagoing vessel are an actual thing, its actually very real and very scary things. You'd expect manly man would hang around those masculine tough sea people and know vessel can burn.

[@senormacaco2834]

Im also often surrounded by seamen

[@patrickpanda8374]

Conspiracy theories used to be based in some facts with some leaps of logic sprinkled in. They were fun to think about and explore in a unserious manner back in the X Files days. Now the conspiracy theories are pure unsubstantiated cringe posing as truth. Mulder and Scully would not approve. 😂

[@alicecourtney5816]

Before he fell off, the Armoured Sceptic did a pretty good debunk of the whole “Jewish space lasers” thing

[@emjakos3548]

Oh no, I liked watching his videos, what happened?

[@majortom331]

@@emjakos3548 broke up with shoe

[@alicecourtney5816]

@@majortom331 it isn’t that he broke up with Shoe. It’s that he completely fell headfirst down the grifting conspiracy theorist rabbit hole.

[@RealTalkWithRickyPaquiot]

*Extreme conspiracy theories are so deadly that preventing it is very challenging.*

[@hazmatt3862]

I remember seeing a tweet about Bodegas in the city, and all the replies were just whinging about new yorkers. I saw someone say the a minute walk to a corner store was no big deal because if he ran both red lights, he could drive to his local gas station in ten minutes

[@KindlyCryptid]

I miss when conspiracy theories were just ancient aliens and bigfoot; they used to be fun and mostly harmless

[@vonunterberg4313]

even the alien theories were harmfull too some people, look into Heavens Gate. A cult of the 70s which led to mass suicide. Good thing that the internet was not wide spread at this point

[@OnTheBlank]

Conspiracy has, for centuries if not milennia, pretty much always carried an antisemitic or otherwise bigoted undercurrent. Ancient aliens is premised on the belief that ancient Egyptians or Mayans could not build impressive monuments. The ahnenerbe (basically the Indiana Jones archeology nazis but real) believed this exact thing but that it was aryans and not aliens. Also, most world economic forum/world Bank conspiracies (like the 15 minute cities ones) are direct continuations of old antisemitic conspiracies about banking. Bigfoot is a sweetheart tho, real sad to see him lumped in with bigots

[@nicholasjones3207]

They were never just that if you go back and look at the period before WW2. There is a good book on paranoia and conspiracy theories on the German side. This has all happened before, just the internet has sent propagandists into overdrive

[@bognome5374]

They never were 'just' ancient aliens and bigfoot

[@hillbillypowpow]

The past you miss never existed.

[@desdenova1]

Semi-sentient Chuds - great punk rock band name.

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

I currently live in a 15 minute city in Europe, and honestly, no joke... it's heaven! I ain't never going back to the US!!!

[@PM-xu2nq]

what city?

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

@@PM-xu2nq sorry dude, I'm not doxxing myself ;)

[@PM-xu2nq]

@@TheAmericanAmerican Man simply naming the city is not doxxing yourself lol

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

@@PM-xu2nq well true if I were an American living in the US, the same isn't the case when I'm an American living in a European city with a very small American population... add to that me being pretty hostile to nazi dipshits on the internet who might want to find me, I'll play it safe 😉

[@DCwolf138]

Honestly at this point the oceans could literally be on fire and still they'd be mfs like it's a government false flag or the oceans have always gone through flammable periods...

[@peytonagne2832]

I for one welcome our new fifteen minute city overlords

[@LordOfTime23]

Vaush, hey what? Capitalist Realism is assuming that capitalism is end state cause of human greediness? I just read Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism and it isn't about that at all. It's about that, that capitalism itself, when it appears, it FORCES PEOPLE to function based on greed. But not that it is inherent human trait. And also, it's "realism", because Fisher argues, that it just "consumes" all opposition and uses it to enforce itself. That's why Fisher argued for accelereactionsm - he believed, that Capitalism will dissapear on its own, due to its unsustainable nature, and only thing we can do, is to accelerate its mechanism to hasten this fall.

[@kingobama4305]

most humans are inherently greedy, just like most other animals, but we *also* have the power to cause mass destruction, and we have the intelligence to understand that destruction beforehand AND we have the ability to simply ignore said understanding because of our greed and desire to mass-produce other humans. based on these things, i've come to the conclusion that we as a species are not good, and, if someone has a modicum of care for life outside of us, the logical conclusion to come to is the want for universal infertility amongst our species, and an end to us.

[@crystalclear6661]

I’ve always believed the capitalism is not the way humans actually want to live on then we’ve been on this earth over 1 million years and capitalism has only been around for a couple of hundred that is correct

[@jonaszkapucyn3346]

Any links to the studies Vaush mentioned at 12:00?

[@mattdombrowski8435]

This sounds like a really good reason to fund schools.

[@VooshSpokesman]

Love from a Shark3ozero and Christian Verstappen Fan!

[@seff6533]

Bros the kinda dude who would fill his tub with water and lay in it if his house caught on fire.

[@DevinMacGregor]

It is like they do not know how fire works. You need fuel, heat, and oxygen. That is the triangle of fire. Campfires in many govt parks have limitations because of flying burnt embers. That is how typically a forest fire gets started that is not started by a lightning strike. So yeah, that boat got two things, burnt embers and/or heat that brought it to combustion temperatures. This is how houses catch fire that are next to another house and why you see here in CA during fire season people are out with their garden hoses spraying their house. They are trying to keep the house from reaching combustion from the heat of the other houses and/or any burnt embers. And due to winds, these fires can skip houses. An entire block can burn down but one house. When I moved to Burbank in 2006 we looked out the window and watch a griffin park fire as it went across the hit. This lone tree on top, never catch fire. And the heat from these fires can cause higher wind.

[@kadesmith7781]

Comrade Algorithimski

[@MyceliumNebula]

I think it's an incredibly good sign for the future of america that there were a large enough number of people wanting to know the difference between the astroturfed guy and these conspiracy theories. a very good question to ask is "what makes A different from B" so you can understand these things and why people are saying them and how not to fall into that

[@Chaydex]

As someone who has studied aerospace engineering as a hobby I find the whole "global elite space laser" as a concept just downright hilarious. Like the people who believe in this thus essentially believe in magic, since to achieve that kind of power output, and have the laser beam itself not refract due to atmospheric interference (yes lasers have range, google it) is basically impossible given our current technology, at least in form of a satellite, and even if it was possible what kind of orbit that satellite would even need to have, it just doesn't work with laws of physics. Same with even some 9/11 conspiracy theories, and to be honest there are some SMALL holes in the official story that don't add up but in general I feel the official story is basically how it happened, when it comes to how the towers fell (building 7 included). And then there's things like HAARP which some nutjobs claim that it can control or change the weather, like I have no bloody idea how a radio transmitter that's used to stimulate parts of the ionosphere to research auroras is capable of controlling weather, since it's basically yet again in the realm of magic.

[@RealmRabbit]

18:00 to 18:59 I disagree... Speaking from a non-socialist socdem perspective, I think people aren't 'naturally greedy' per se, but I agree with psychological egoism in that people are naturally self-interested which is a bit similar although definitely not the same in the same way self-interest can differ from hedonistic views of happiness... But anyway, I think you can find innumerable examples of people being greedy and/or self-interested well before the existence of capitalism... Cave men were quite likely pretty greedy/self-interested without any economic system, lab tests have shown monkeys to be rather selfish as well as envious (both pretty related to greed), and then feudal societies had plenty of greedy people too...

[@kingobama4305]

there really is no arguing about it. people are naturally greedy. you wont be able to find a time in our history where the vast majority of the population doesnt think its okay to burn, torture, exploit, and consume in order to make ourselves more comfortable and give ourselves entertainment. i'd argue even most lefties and pro-environmental people are this way. they arent going up to the tundra to live an uncomfortable, hunter-gatherer style life that's less exploitative. they're living a comfy life, eating from the hand of billionaires and large corpos, and their excuses are "there's no ethical consumption under capitalism" - the marx version of "i was just following orders"

[@cooky2991]

I lived in something that could be described as a 15 minute city. Now live in a big city where most things are still close by, but the sheer size still amazes me. I can literally walk from one edge of the uni campus to the opposite one and it takes longer than walking through my old hometown

[@THEEEYeti]

omg these fucking absolute derelicts have never seen a fire before. Floating embers with light up anything flammable.

[@InsufficientGravitas]

My personal favorite cionspiricy theory incidnent was when one of the guys in my friend group started talking about a rock that could change peoples gender via *radiation adjusting the genome*. We all had a laugh and said nope that be bes and it continued on for a while, all the elements, a big organisation to keep it secret, one of many mysterious things they have, a bunch of stuff like that. Took us a few days to join the dots and discover that it was an SCP he had read and been completely convinced by.

[@OstroGothic]

I'm friends with a couple wildland firefighters (I work in the environmental sector) and it hurts my brain how little people understand how fires work...

[@than217]

Anybody know if Maui was vaxxed? /s

[@sethhuff8657]

about those trees: I have had the opportunity to hike in a couple burn scars in the western US, and the heartwood in the center of the trees actually doesn't burn, due to the fact that the fire will burn all nearby fuel(bark, branches and leaves) and move on before the heartwood gets hot enough to burn(if you didn't know, forest fires in the right conditions can spread as fast as a man running)

[@bobkat8765]

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.” Hannah Arenat

[@DrHotWarLove]

Now we must go back in time to kill Austrolapithecus. Clearly there’s been a terrible mistake,

[@xBINARYGODx]

based, and vorsed

[@soulmechanics7946]

If you fired a space laser through our atmosphere it would burn. The sky would literally fall.