When I first saw you start popping into the forum I thought, "good, another cynic", but I've seen your commentary deteriorate from general cynicism to pure fatalism, finally to the point of just telling everyone to commit suicide. I don't know if you're projecting because you have something negative going on and this is an outlet for you, or if you were just that cynical (which is perfectly OK, IMHO, if so).
The reason I made that pedantic response is to make you aware that you, despite not being constantly trolled by others, can also be judged, by conscious beings who read your comments. Without some kind of pushback, users who are unduly abrasive can otherwise exist in a different universe, wherein they are free to pretend they are omniscient super-humans.
Grant occasion for war for war?
This reminds me of when common folks learned of the word 'whence', and everyone started saying "from whence". Another example is folks forming sentences like, "John and I were driving to the park.", etc.
Speak using grammar and vocabulary that you understand; it's easier to read and to write.
The state of places like this is sad. There are families that have probably been there for four generations, dutch and german immigrants, etc., built that city into a great place, all for a bunch of third world trash to destroy it. For those of us that live in "red" states, rural areas, etc., it's sometimes rewarding to look at these blue hell holes and laugh, but then inside it's painful to realize that this was a tremendous country we were born in, and now it's been mostly ruined. Import the third world; become the third world.
The existence of this kind of stuff is probably why I welcome outlandish stuff like flat earf posts lately, etc., because the reality of our world right now is such a black pill :/
I don't have kids, but I am triggered so bad when I hear of people poisoning their kids with experimental medicine.
Interesting shit, I'm gonna dig into this one more in the next few days. I've never really spent much time looking into typhoid Mary. I did spend quite a bit of time looking into the black death and the relationship of people putting body parts in wells. There's no fucking way that the black death somehow managed to colonize in the bodies of hundreds of millions, given that it exists in every country around the world right now and yet we don't see any outbreaks. It's because people were drinking stuff from rotting bodies.
Exactly, and also the concept of "stamina" can be useful; for example, as you gain more karma overtime, you could also build more stamina, and stamina could be temporarily depleted without actually removing any of your karma permanently, until you continue to post after you run out of stamina. So for example, let's say you have 10 stamina, and it costs 5 stamina to make a post and 1 stamina to make a comment, and at your current karma level you are building 10 stamina per hour; that would mean that you are able to make 1 post and 5 comments per hour without depleting any of your karma. There are some video games that use stamina like this, where if you keep going after you run out of stamina you start depleting your health.
Thanks for your reply, and pardon any typos in this, total voice to text.
If it's not applied equally, then I agree, but as long as it's applied to everybody, regardless of the topic, I don't think it's censorship to throttle somebody's post velocity. For example, if you were only allowed to make one post per hour, or if you were only allowed to make a certain number of posts based on your karma level, etc., meaning new users can't post as often, etc., and especially if posting removed some of your karma, meeting that there was a cost associated with posting, so that if you build up a bunch of karma, it wouldn't give you a license to post a bunch of spam all of the sudden.
This reminds me, the day the last episode of 24 came out, in 2010 if I recall correctly, was the day that I stopped watching TV. I didn't even watch that final episode. Six or seven years later I started watching a few series, like breaking bad and Game of Thrones, but back in that day was when I stopped watching network TV forever.
I don't think your sentiment reflects mine. I'm suggesting that we throttle posting velocity and/or band users that are spamming and upvoting their own posts with alternate accounts. I don't think we can make an objective judgment on a subjective quality ("bad faith") of somebody's post. That's censorship. If I say that clowns are from another dimension, who is anybody else to ban me based on the assumption that I am making the claim in bad faith. That's what down votes are for. If somebody says clowns are from another dimension and tons of people are up voting the post, then there might be some merit to it. Yes, there are memes and sometimes things will be up voted simply for their sheer meme value, but I haven't really seen that is presenting a major problem with sliding. The biggest offender in that world seems to be triplicate posts by the same group of users on the same subject, which has the effect of pushing other topics completely off the page.
So no argument, just ad hominem?
Felix Baumgartner did his balloon stunt in 2012, so I don't really see what that has to do with "stupid flat earthers in the 90s".
If you would please explain how somebody can lift off from the ground with a balloon (without propulsion for transport), float up to 25 miles above the surface, and then jump back to the surface more than an hour later and land the same area (or even within the same 500 miles), I would honestly love to hear that. I think that's the thing that keeps these people posting about flat earth, because nobody can explain any of this stuff; everybody just attacks flat earthers as "stupid idiots".
I have personally debunked the space vacuum argument that flat earthers make, as well as another esoteric argument that's more related to the moon landing, so I'm not religious about believing in some science or another; I'm trying to understand the truth, especially with regards to some of these more confounding points (like Felix's balloon trip).
The effort to fake going to space exceeds to effort required to actually go to space.
Apply this reasoning to a world where there are provably faked videos of astronauts in the space station. So if it would be cheaper to go to space then to fake it, then why would they fake any of them? Especially knowing that it would cause people to doubt what they were doing.
Example: https://youtu.be/WBDaBYgdMq4
I found this scrolling through the replies to the Kamala Harris neck weirdness tweet that u/dukey posted. I've never seen this particular illuminati card, and it's been a long time since I looked at a picture that had all of them; can anybody confirm if this is actually a real card in the set?
I recommend watching the "flat earth facts" playlist from taboo conspiracy. I think you'll have a different opinion on the nature of the content, even if you think the science is nonsense.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLimb_UpOKm97RBTHJ_ehaz2W-wNOnTkrl
Just watch # 10 and 15 about Felix Baumgartner and try to imagine how to explain that on a spinning earth model. Like I've said elsewhere and in here, I don't believe the Earth is flat. However, some of these things are difficult or impossible to explain with our prevailing mainstream model about how the world works. Trees on the ground cannot perfectly drag the entire atmosphere 30 miles up, especially when there is almost no atmosphere up there. And if it can, then why are we told that rockets lifting off veer immediately into the rotation of the earth because of the Coriolis effect, and we are also told this is how hurricanes are formed. So which is it? Does the rotation affect your ability to go straight up so much that you can watch a rocket begin to arc immediately after taking off or does it drag the atmosphere so much that you can go straight up nearly 2 space in a slow moving balloon and then come back down right where you started? I'm not asking you to believe in flatters either, but you have to be honest with yourself, there is no way to explain these mutually exclusive things.
I don't have any hostility toward you. I've seen your posts on here in the past and I know you're not a shill. You're just frustrated at FE posters.
However, according to your logic herein, it would be more reasonable to assume NASA and the entire space edifice is perpetuated simply to convincing us that they can put people in space and take photos from space than it would be to assume they are hiding something bigger.
What I am suggesting is that these lies from NASA and the space edifice, as a whole, are cause for concern enough to justify looking into any theory that could possibly explain these lies. One such theory is flat earth. The reason I think this is worth exploring is because none of us have the ability, realistically, to go up and check for ourselves. Most everybody that many of us will ever talk to in the span of our lives believe what they believe about the shape of the earth and about outer space, not because they've observed it up close themselves, or even with a telescope in most cases (the majority have only looked up at the sky from the ground), but instead because of what they were taught by the government (public school, NASA, mockingbird media, etc.).
None of this is evidence that the Earth is flat, and I never claimed that it is. But what it is evidence of is a deception so vast as to span generations and consume budgets aggregating to trillions over its lifetime. I think that the most likely version of our earth is a planet orbiting around a star, because it seems to make sense, based on what we see from the ground. However, there is a lot of evidence to suggest that I am wrong about this, including, but certainly not limited to, some of the things that I mentioned in the paragraph below my A B C list in the OP. Keeping obvious spammers off the platform (people copy paste spamming over and over all day and upvoting themselves from alt accounts, etc.) will allow for Real discussion well preventing people like you from being frustrated by a constant barrage of spam.
Then why not ban those users for their behavior? Why not set some rules about posting behavior, so that one person doesn't own half the board? That's not censorship, regulating post velocity, using some technology to help reduce alternate accounts, etc.
Pardon the rambling chaos of this comment, I wrote it with voice to text while walking:
I'm not suggesting that the world is flat. It doesn't make any sense that it would be, unless we were literally in some form of Truman Show style simulation. But, it definitely hasn't been proven to be a globe, either. The supposedly non-composited images from space do not corroborate each other, because the continents are sized incorrectly and differently from photo to photo, and the colors change drastically (i'm not talking about film differences over the years, I'm talking about like entirely different apparent biomes). Every bit of the math involved in proving the globe also supports flat earth, including the scientist back in the whatever hundreds who calculated the size of the globe Earth using shadows.
It's one of those topics were the only way to get somebody to hear you out is to say "just go do some research and then tell me what you think", because you'll be surprised. Again, I don't believe in FE. It hasn't been proven, either. The fact that we can't even confidently understand the geometry of where we live, without indoctrination (how else would you know the Earth is a globe if somebody didn't tell you in school? Would you feel the roundness? Would you actually see something dropping below the horizon with your own bare eyes? You might see something Fade into the horizon, but pull up a large telescope and you'll see it is still there, etc.) is grounds enough for me to be interested in learning more. If you don't want to, don't take the pill, just ignore it. But if you care enough to debate about it in a comment with me, I suspect you were interested enough somewhere deep down inside that you at least want to explore. Rather than starting with flat earth content, I recommend watching a compilation of NASA fakery. Flat earth is more like a vehicle for research, because even though most of these people are working from the confirmation bias of believing that the Earth is flat, what they are really doing is exploring. They are taking something that can't be simply taken for its face value and going in trying to prove or disprove it. For example, even attempts to make fun of flat earthers end up sending up Balloons to the upper atmosphere with wide angle cameras and using the camera distortion to show that the Earth is flat, which people than immediately and unequivocally debunk by showing that even the math of the globe earth doesn't support seeing the kind of curve that they are seeing with their lenses. If you go down that rabbit hole, you will be absolutely stunned at the amount of real information that is out there in the amount of propaganda there is trying to prove that the world is a globe. That alone is enough reason to be interested (why is there so much money and effort put into convincingg people of the shape of our world?).
Thanks man.
As long as the platform doesn't allow people to vote spam (or whatever it's called when people farm votes for posts with alt accounts, etc.), then the site would be clear of the mostly bad content.
There's no point in having principles, if we break them out of pragmatism. When I think of words like "pragmatic" in the context of principles, the first thing that comes to mind is "common sense gun control".
I think the bigger threat, to this site's quality, is the constant spamming of sensational items, in particular, by 2-3 specific accounts; not the 3-4 FE posts I see every day.
NAY
The only thing that should ever be banned, aside from illegal content, is spam. Things that you don't agree with, or that you think are nonsense, are not spam.
Not to mention, if FE was real, it would literally be the biggest conspiracy theory since the beginning of time. Regardless of how ridiculous FE seems, it's impossible to explain the video anomalies with the space station and NASA in general, which means there's deception, which lends some credibility to many theories about what's really going on up there. Lastly, it's impossible to ignore the relevance, pertaining FE theorists, of the moon landing being entirely fake, and yet still officially claimed as real all these decades later.
France.
My wife and I visited France in 2014, before it was ruined, and even way back then there were riots in Invalides (an arrondissement a few miles west of where Notre-Dame was before it was burned). We were eating dinner in Saint-Germain, about a mile southeast of Notre-Dame, and half a dozen vans full of riot police sped by, so we asked people what was going on and were told these idiots were burning cars, etc. because of West Bank being bombed. I was already not a city person, but once I learned that all this filthy slime had moved into Paris, it changed my outlook on cities forever. Every city I've been to, aside from Copenhagen, is an absolute hell scape.
Holy shit, so we are now to a point where false flag attacks are not preceded by government training "exercises", but instead by corporate activities; now that we have fascism, governments are no longer needed for their ends.