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@roka @johnnynull But everybody can love a good eggplant.
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@roka @johnnynull @xrevan86 @x1101 Sure, you have to keep one finger on the seriousness dial of your brain as you scroll.
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@ayy @johnnynull @xrevan86 I sure hope they are. But we can't tell. And humans are capable of some really advanced mental acrobatics.
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@roka @johnnynull @xrevan86 @ayy RESEARCH FLAT EARTH
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@ayy @johnnynull @xrevan86 The things is, the conspiracy theory mind can be endlessly resourceful in manufacturing justifications and selecting evidence.
I can't count the number of times someone has challenged one of my beliefs and I've immediately been able to come up with a defense, "that thing you observed can be explained by this other thing that is probably true", and then I've looked things up and whole shit I had some really altfact assumption in there.
If you're in the facts swamp, you don't look that thing up, instead you just add the thing you just made up to your list of evidence and spread it to your swamp friends. When you've spread it to three friends and they've reflected it back to you, it's scientific consensus.
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@johnnynull @xrevan86 @ayy Night and day are caused by the sun being like a spotlight that shines on only part of the disc. Duh, everybody in Flat Earth know this. Uneducated rounders just don't want to burst their bubble.
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@nathanhawks @johnnynull Exactly. Even people who are completely off their rocker can spot chinks in my armor.
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@ayy @johnnynull @xrevan86 I've just given up entirely on the idea of "nobody could be this smart/knowledgeable and this stupid/ignorant at the same time".
YES WE CAN
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@clacke Not me. Nightshades make me bleed. /cc @roka
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@clacke Eh. There's objective truth and the illusions, misinterpretation, etc are shared because we're all human shaped bags of mostly water. /cc @ayy @xrevan86
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@johnnynull @roka Now that's just a load of paleo woo right there.
Sleep well. Be a loving husband and father.
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@johnnynull @xrevan86 @ayy
There is objective truth, and there are a handful of "is" where we can be almost unreasonably sure we've got it. But there's a lot within the reasonably sure to battled over.
And in the "ought" sector, oh my.
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@clacke You have no idea how much I'm trying.
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@clacke You know I'm not talking about nitpicking nuances.
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@thegibson @johnnynull We don't always want to eat our vegetables. Sometimes we just want to have our beer float and corn-curls-with-fake-cheese-powder and relax with comfortable people.
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@clacke @thegibson I don't. Maybe that's part of the reason.
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@xrevan86 Yes.
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@ayy @johnnynull I do both.