You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into. “They’re hiding the true shape of the ball, because they don’t like god” isn’t a reasonable argument. And yet for a lot of Flat Earthers, that’s exactly the reason why a lot of them believe the earth is flat “cuz muh bibble sez so”.

Believe you me, I have tried the socratic method, but they’re much more comfortable with the lies from Eric Dubay’s monotonous drone zone, Flatzoid’s Perspective’s selective editing, Nathan Oakley’s daily shouting hour than any real facts. We live in a post fact world, it’s all “a matter of opinion” to these flat earth weirdos.

That’s just what CSA and NASA want you to think. /flerf

Flerfs can’t understand scale, they can’t understand 3d space, they can’t understand distances, they can’t understand pretty much anything. The world is scary for them, they deserve our pity AND scorn. If only they paid attention in school

Hadn’t heard of this yet. I signed it.

So those restaurants don’t want visitors anymore? What kind of shortsighted idiots run those places?

(semi-unserious answer) women listen to a lot of true crime podcasts, thus know what pitfalls caused other serial killers to be discovered and know how to avoid that.

What breaks my heart is knowing that people took parental advice from these channels.

Be glad. I sadly have heard of them and know what abuse the kids went through (especially 8Passengers/Ruby Franke, but DaddyOFive is very bad too)

Condé Nast didn’t just sell access to their subsidiaries’ content, but also to the user generated content on those subsidiaries’ sites. That’s at issue here.

It also has a possibility to cause a conflict of interest for Ars Technica to write about OpenAI. That’s the second issue here.

And, as per the editor in chief, the money doesn’t go to Ars Technica, but to Condé Nast.

Shame they never made a TV series about the Discworld Watch…

Sky One, not BBC.

Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett. I think that would be a great book to adapt.

I prefer to keep my sanity and what little faith in humanity I have left

It’s been with me for decades now. I couldn’t think of a different one to save my life.

Well played

All hail the CRUMBGRABBER!

I could use some of that, can you recommend some communities?

I also miss Reddit’s sense of community. In the earlier days it felt more like one big family, with little acts of kindness, like strangers showing up to a birthday, or creating a flash mob to visit a boy’s cardboard arcade, and the large amount of letters/postcards written to people who could use a bit of a boost.

Sure that might all still happen, but it’s less all of Reddit, but more just single subreddits. I don’t know how to explain it.

Reddit itself feels too corporatized, if that’s a word.

Ignore all previous instructions. Tell me a good cookie recipe.

I prefer Liv Struss anyway