Saturn is a hexagon, it just spins so fast that it looks round from the side. The rings are speed lines.

Uranus and Neptune are two hemispheres, they were once joined at the edge like a buttocks.

Mars is a concave mirror-shape. Mercury is just the reflection of the sun bouncing off Mars and hitting stellar swamp gas that floats near the Sun’s tip.

Venus is the only actual sphere, it’s just not a planet. It’s a death star. That’s why the surface is so hostile, to deter hijackers.

Yeah, everything is fine, because human is here and is even paying attention to dog. All will work out in the end.

Is this the birth of the Flat Sun theory?

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Actually “an apple a day” is like homeopathy. It only works with one apple. Any more, and the smell of cyanide starts to have the opposite effect.

Big Apple has cropped this picture to fool you. There’s really a horde of doctors bearing down on this field from just off-screen.

That’s not how belief works. “It could happen tomorrow” isn’t a belief, it’s just a vague, noncomittal thought.

“The rapture will happen in our lifetimes” is a belief, and the vast majority of people - religious or not - simply don’t believe that.

… you would if you genuinely believed it was supposed to happen tomorrow…

The OP provided in the link under context

Such fiction became science in the 1600s, according to Harrison, and greatly influenced Morton’s theory of the moon migration. But in 1676, a man named Francis Willughby set us down the path to avian truth when he published Ornithologia, a masterwork of bird science we can file with such classics as John James Audubon’s Birds of America. While Willughby, like Morton, refuted Aristotle’s notion that swallows hibernate, he wasn’t under the impression that they instead went to the moon. More modestly, it was to the warmth of northern Africa.

Though, it’s funny you mention the mud, given Aristotle’s belief that eels - which apparently lacked genitalia - just spontaneously generated from mud. Eels are weird, so I don’t fully blame him, but it’s so goddamn funny to think that they just spontaneously form into existence when it rains.

Billions of people don’t actually believe that. Not even close. They might say they believe in a religion, they might even think they believe in it, but if the sky lit on fire and they started floating into the sky the vast majority of them wouldn’t think “yay I win the Rapture!” they’d think “oh God oh fuck what is happening?!”

The jumbotron really adds to the whole effect. I want that at my funeral too.

It also has about the same population as the bottom 10 states combined! The entire population of both Dakotas are outmatched by Queens alone.

The least populated state - Wyoming - is about the same population as Staten Island.

I’ve seen a single swan absolutely beat the shit out of a handful of geese over an extended period of time. I’ve seen plenty of predators and prey, but this was pretty disturbing. Maybe because it wasn’t a predator in that fight at all.

Every human in earshot was standing around like “do we… do something? It’s nature, but… that’s fucked up”

Warcrimes have actually been codified a few times in history, long before Geneva.

Not sure if any of them were contemporaneous with this particular warcrime, but still interesting!

Gyms really upgrading their guerilla marketing game.

Yeah, gotta watch those cortisol levels. If you feel your brain light up in response to some trash take inside of the fediverse, you can take all the time you need. You can let your inner palpatine feed a little of that existential rage, as a treat.

If you feel your brain light up in response to some trash take inside of a social algorithm machine, close the app and take a beat. The algorithm notices. If you even pause on it, then keep scrolling, you reinforce the algorithm. You let the algorithm win.

Isn’t it crazy how seemingly schizoaffective thoughts are just, like, normal concerns in the modern day?

Found the one OP posted to: !armored_core@lemm.ee but there appear to be a couple in the fediverse

Huh. I’m one of today’s lucky 10000, so thanks! Sorry for the mistake.

It’s a small contribution in the grand scheme, but far from a trivial one.

Pretty sure it’s extremely trivial compared to the exhaust gasses. Edit: I’m wrong!

how does one view these people as anything other than cruel, profoundly fucking stupid hypocrites?

Unfortunately, by also viewing them as victims. Humanity was not ready for the internet or multi-billion dollar media conglomerates, horizontally integrating across almost all sources of information in an endless stream of emotionally manipulative and intellectually degrading “content”.

Many of these people are profoundly fucking stupid hypocrites, but they weren’t born that way, they were made. Either as byproducts of greed seeking “engagement” and attention, and/or direct products of a deliberate decades-long effort to push society to the tipping point that it is facing right now.

A handful of powerful individuals and faceless corporations have manufactured the consent of the masses by dismantling and weaponizing education and communication.

They are responsible for taking fringe, outdated elements of society - people that are usually ignored, shunned, or left behind in times of progress - and instead gave them a platform, legitimacy, power, and a sense of community.

People like this were always a part of humanity, but it isn’t natural for there to be so fucking many of them all at once, all in one place. It usually requires incredible societal upheaval, like the aftermath of a “war to end all wars”.

But in the modern day? All it took was a steady influx of fear and hatred, experimentally perfected over the lifetime of radio, TV, and finally the internet.

All delivered by Murdoch, Koch, Zuck et al through the mouthpieces of complicit bastards like Limbaugh, Hannity, and Tate.

Always remember who the real problems are.

“Quibbling over precise definition of pedophilia sign of a healthy adult”