A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Okay, okay, alright, somebody, someone somewhere....
You have to tell me, how the fuck do they make money from being intentionally stupid?
How the fuck?
There's no way they're doing this by accident.
There's no way they're actually this stupid.
There has to be an angle.
What the fuck is the angle?
How the fuck are they funding their lives by saying shit like this?
Garbage in, garbage out
Combination of targeted oil money bribery + whipping up tribalism, some explicitly sell their souls while others tie their self-worth to a lie
Having followers is a path to monetizing new lies against them in the future... best I've got.
Selling "secret knowledge" to stupid people has always been a profitable grift
Apparently twitter has a system where they'll pay you for posts with a lot of attention, regardless of it's quality. Pays less than minimum wage but some do it full time anyways.
The angle is having an ingroup. Build a community around absolutely anything and people will come, just so they can belong. Flat earth is just one of these. Flerfers are funny because it's so absurd, but the same psychology is at play for e.g. the manosphere, local sports teams and anything else if you look hard enough.
And they pay the bills via advertising. Another win for capitalism. Yay.
Engagement bait. Algorithm recommends them to more people. They get more money from ads.
I'm convinced none of these people actually believe this stuff and they just think they are being funny
The best way to find answers online is not to ask a question. Instead, it’s to make a statement that is wrong and wait for someone to correct you.
Thank god for global warming fixing this! We'll achieve normalcy soon enough
Too bad nuclear winter will cancel it out.
That would raise the sea level almost as fast, and probably more than if the polar ice caps just melted on their own. Also didn't it come from a comet? Last I checked comet ice isn't the cleanest ice, it's full of fun stuff like ammonia, cyanide, and formaldehyde.
Thus solving the problem once and for all
…..but what about….
"Just like daddy pits in his dwink every morning... and then he gets mad."
My brother in Amerigo Vespucci, there are maps from 500 years ago that show sea serpents on them. Are those real, too?
They all froze to death from all the snow of course. Geez do you even conspiracy theory bro?
Not anymore... 😢
If you're so smart Mr. Smarty Pants then tell me this: Who invented snow, then? If you say Thomas Jefferson, then you're wrong, he invented traffic lights, doofus.
also this map aint 500 years old. That sure looks like north america to me
They don't want you to know about the lost expedition of 1524. This map is the only surviving evidence of when the famous explorer from Genoa The Barone Giusseppe Palloncino took his high altitude hot air balloon over the entire northern hemisphere.
Finally! A map that disproves New Zealand.
The famous red wastes of Brazil.
To be a winter child in this hot girl summer age, it wounds me!
We all know map making was far superior 500 years ago. Those satellites only messed things up.
I see four white rectangles there. If that's not proof of snow, then I don't know what to tell you.
Man, I cant believe someone left the Antarctic freezer on for 500 years.
Sure. But don't call me "500 year old map". #commaSplice
It also doesn't melt! They just add it to the ice wall around the 'known world' or make ice cream from it
Then what are the white sections of land on the top right and left?
You leave my cocaine alone.
I believe you mean our cocaine, comrade.
They had to build a really tall ladder to get this view. Quite the project.
Imagine a world without cocaine, vast, continent-covering amounts ...
what cured ass projection is this?
Snow is unnatural.
Finally shows the True Flat Eart too!
There is a map showing a very detailed coastline of Antarctica including mountains and rivers from hundreds of years ago that describes it as a place that is very hot and full of snakes. The original map-maker said he had combined maps from multiple sources to create that map. You could argue that the description was false and intended to keep people away, but how did they see the coastline? It is at the very least evidence that Antarctica was not covered in ice at some point during not so distant human existence.
If you're talking piri reis the "iceless antarctica" map theory got debunked years ago. It's south america with period inaccuracies.
No it's not. It's not like people haven't mapped, measured, and studied the ice for generations. If it had been like that any time in human history, there would be able evidence.
The Late Cenozoic Ice Age has seen extensive ice sheets in Antarctica for the last 34 million years.
