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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: June 05, 2025, 10:51:44 PM »

The Trump/Musk break-up is spectacular, and I hope they both lose 💖

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: May 29, 2025, 08:49:22 AM »

If Russia wanted Kiev to be a hole in the ground, it would be a hole in the ground, even with non-nuclear munitions. There are missiles which have no defense.

That's how you turn Moscow into a hole in the ground btw

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: May 27, 2025, 06:34:39 PM »

If Russia wanted Ukraine it would have had it in the early stages of the war.

That doesn't track with their botched attempt at Kyiv.

Russia wants to be ethical about it and so it is only taking the breakaway regions.

That doesn't track with their botch- wait.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: May 14, 2025, 07:49:58 PM »

It's only a quid pro quo if there is a pro quo.

I dunno, my man, that's not what the clause says. Mitch McConnell had a thing or two to say about this sort of selective application of the law, and you were absolutely ecstatic about it back then.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Physicist Brian Cox on Universal Acceleration

« on: May 14, 2025, 07:02:27 PM »

a mathematical, as yet, undefined constant

It will be so funny when the penny finally drops. It'll be your new "unknown unknowns" moment. It's so, so incredibly mind-boggling that you've been saying this for years and didn't think to check yourself even once.

named for him is beyond comical.

What the fuck do you want Tom to do about the fact that someone named a variable after him? How does this even begin to be relevant?

Also, to be abundantly clear, and to make sure you definitely understand what I'm saying here: if you don't know how to post in the upper, do not post in the upper. I get it - you don't like the subject (it's in your username), and you don't know how to handle things you don't like (it's in your username). But you're in the wrong place for this.

If you want to argue for RE, you're welcome to, but this sort of shit-stirring from you ends now. Super-duper final warning, for realsies.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: May 04, 2025, 09:39:08 AM »

Ukraine is the weaker country

That remains to be seen. Ukraine's strength, in part, comes from soft power - something Russia sorely lacks. It has allies, and some of them haven't even betrayed it out of cowardice. Making a reliable comparison between the two will likely not be possible for a few decades... unless Russia suddenly collapses on itself.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Does light naturally travel in curved paths?

« on: April 27, 2025, 12:20:11 AM »

I thought shit posting was illegal here.

Yes - and I am now asking you to stop, politely. You know the drill well by now - the next time will be less polite.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Does light naturally travel in curved paths?

« on: April 26, 2025, 09:30:33 PM »

I asked chatgpt if light travels in waves or as particles.

For your own sake, please don't admit to things like this in public. I don't mean here - your reputation here is beyond salvation - but more generally.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 23, 2025, 07:31:09 AM »

Yes.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 22, 2025, 07:57:37 PM »

No, guys, haha, this is totally what you believe. This is what you believe and you are stupid for believing it. How silly of you to believe it, by the way.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 15, 2025, 07:23:55 PM »

Trump wouldn't even last as long in the milk fridge as BoJo did. Weak leadership smh.

I do enjoy that Tom is so stuck on the fridge issue, though. That one is still giving Boris some trouble, too.

https://x.com/PiersUncensored/status/1894123153233695050

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 08, 2025, 05:29:32 PM »

Good! But the only reason you are able to rail against the equation is due to the video; otherwise, you would have never even heard about it

Huh? I heard about the equation from the USTR website. I have not seen the video you keep talking about. It kind of sounds like you want me to watch it, though?

It is nice to know you have become so well-versed in economics, market prognostication, and fortune-telling.

As you well know, my insight is prophetic. My knowledge has been granted unto me by the Gods, and so it shall be the truth. Moreover, my esteemed colleague Vair Soir (a renowned economist btw) agrees with me.



In other news: the geniuses are fighting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdrgx4ky1xxo

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 08, 2025, 11:48:09 AM »

Pete, the video narrator admits he cannot address the issue of the equation and the entire page being generated by ChatGPT.

I didn't watch the video, and I'm not talking about it. I'll take your advice and continue not to watch it.

"TARIFFS BAD!!!", is a bullshit argument

Tariffs can be good, or they can be bad. These tariffs, however, will be very bad to your everyday Joe.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: April 08, 2025, 11:00:10 AM »

Personally, I think it's a very cute touch that they took this idea and wrapped it in . It really shows how little they think of their electorate.

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Flat Earth Investigations / Re: Does light naturally travel in curved paths?

« on: April 06, 2025, 09:15:45 AM »

Does that mean that you should automatically disregard the results from those who are in that particular peer group and have reproduced the results? 

Yes. Science zealots are too afraid of accepting that they just don't know something, and that right now they can't know it. Accepting unknowns would be a good first step, and I'm glad you suggested it unprompted.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Flat Earth Popularity stronger than ever!

« on: April 03, 2025, 09:40:56 PM »

Over what time period?

Probably 100 years or so, but of course it's been a continuous upward trend over the last 20, and particularly accelerated in the last 10. Over the last 5, it's been slower, but steadily trending up. It kind of doesn't matter what time period you pick - it's lookin' pretty good.

Over 20 years? Well sure. 20 years ago this wasn't even a thing

Incorrect. You just happened not to be involved.

- or not one that I'd ever heard anything about.

Look, I don't mean this to sound too mean, but what you do or don't hear about is not really that significant. If it makes you feel any better, I don't know much about football, and the offside offence is something I can't even make a coherent joke about. If I worked the way you do, I could extrapolate and say that since I know jack about it, football is not "even a thing". But the truth is much simpler - what you and I see is rarely a good litmus test.

I just wondered what recent change prompted this thread.

My guess would be TikTok. It's the current mainstay of FE proliferation among younger people, and people are doing great there - probably similar in success to what this place has been 10 years ago.

I mean, look, we're nowhere near the majority viewpoint, that much is obvious. But if it pushes us from the current extremely-well-documented 10-20% of the population (depending on which countries you inspect) to 12-22%, that's a good, steady pace.

I have looked for data and struggled to find anything which backs up the "exponential growth" you have talked about.

But you don't need to look - I've done the looking for you. I have, time and time again, shown you studies which clearly indicate it. And it's the fact that you've not responded to that at all that makes me thoroughly unwilling to engage with you in any discussion of verifiable facts. You don't respond to verifiable facts. You just repeat your claim.

I dunno... would it help if I sent you the same list of links again? Intuitively, I don't think it would, because you never respond to the data within. You just keep saying you haven't seen it, but you truly obviously have - I made sure of that. I don't know how to fix your problem of not reading the studies that have been readily presented to you, or of not internalising the information that's presented to you. I can't fix your zealotry. I can't fix the attitude of you just pretending you're amnesiac about any information that confronts your preferred worldview.

Which brings me back to my usual conundrum - I don't think you're a drooling, mouthbreathing moron. I think you've seen the studies I gave you earlier, and I think you've read them - so your claim of not knowing about them falls apart. But that only leaves the possibility of you being malicious - and I don't want to make that accusation lightly.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Flat Earth Popularity stronger than ever!

« on: April 03, 2025, 07:49:38 AM »

Is it? If it’s evident then there should be some evidence. Is there?

Yeah. It's fairly easy to observe the shift in public conversation around the subject. Shall we fast-forward past the conversation where you proudly declare yourself not to want to look, demand that I look for you, and I refuse and call you lazy?

Oh?  Then why did several prominent FE’ers like Jeranism renounce FE after the Final Experiment?

Oh no, not Jeran. Whatever will actual FE'ers do now that he's not here to shit everything up?

But, to answer your question of "why": he probably decided you lot are easier to scam these days, so he switched target audiences. I don't know enough about social media marketing to tell you if that's good business.

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Science & Alternative Science / Re: Blue Ghost

« on: March 21, 2025, 11:27:31 PM »

OK, so you've seen it. Great, so you acknowledge it's there. Why are you still a flat earther then?

I have convinced you of my ability to cook. Great, you acknowledge I can cook. Why are you still a round earther then? This is a profound deliberation, worthy of only the most sophisticated RE minds.

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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Trump

« on: March 19, 2025, 01:32:10 PM »

A80, please tone it down a little. Try to respond to people's arguments, rather than just calling them ridiculous or putting words in their mouths. If you feel they don't deserve a more thoughtful response, you can always choose not to give them one

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Flat Earth Community / Re: Your data is at risk if you use this app

« on: March 11, 2025, 10:46:19 PM »

Oh, it looks like you can also change anyone's password/email by just asking nicely. Yeah, this thing is not good.