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Flat earth, lol. Or more acccurately : space, and our place in it. In retrospect, for most of these conversations I might have been really exchanging with bots. Who knows !
I value my time more these days, but back then I discussed with perhaps a couple dozen people and out of these, a single one listened to me : it was on a publication by some “space” page, and the guy did not understand how stars did not appear to move in the sky if the Earth was really moving through space at 2 million 600 thousand kilometers per day. So I proceeded to give him an idea of the scales involved : the size of the solar system, of our galactic neighbourhood, etc. I left him with a bunch of links for science communication

Btw : all of the flat earthers or otherwise flat spacers I encountered were from the US

There are also some really bad aspects to it,

no. no there aren’t

propaganda got your brain

yea, that’s spot on

oh that’s neat and very poetic

Not trying to invalidate your feelings, but I have the exact opposite takeaway from Lemmy, as it stands. I wonder what weighs into producing such confronting experiences? If you could be specific and gather examples, maybe we could discuss it in less vague terms. I’m also kinda wary of sounding too serious when asking for hard data like this, and unwittingly contributing to the statistic. shit! reel me up I’m in too deep

yea well you know what ? fuck amino acids !

Sioux City sarsaparilla ?

ahhh, but that’s a delicacy ! I always buy a few slices when we go in town. With mustard it’s fantastic

Jesus Carpenter’s

THE MAGGOT

this is how it starts

A militant serial plumber sabotaging data centers throughout the world… I’d watch that

The thing is, if the future is all datacenters, yes we’re gonna need electricians and plumbers. But this is a future I want to help prevent at all costs. So look at me purposefully not being an electrician or plumber

I mean, it’s an existential threat. It doesn’t really matter what’s required to make it stop -it’s necessary.

Yes it does require a transformation of our infrastructure, of our culture, and that in turn means a transformation or our institutions, a big crackdown on lobbies and corruption, etc. It’s the biggest challenge of our lives. Not trying to give the impression it’s easy

As long as both use tires that contribute 45% of the world’s microplastics, this is focusing on the wrong issue

https://theconversation.com/one-of-the-biggest-microplastic-pollution-sources-isnt-straws-or-grocery-bags-its-your-tires-259440

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c05002

So I say, let’s not get distracted

I left my countryside family home in Provence (with pool!) for a simpler life, with my wife, on a small volcanic island in the indian ocean. It was a real pickle, but I made the right choice. The mornings are typically spent swimming at a nearby beach. There’s rarely anybody there, our only company is sea turtles coming to chomp on the seagrass or laying eggs in the sand. Afternoons, I look for freelance work, after I’m done with my applications I browse Lemmy and lament at the state of the world. I then have an edible and play some games, or go in the hills pick mangoes if it’s the season.

Even if it were historically accurate, look at the absolutely depressing statement that makes it : I had to give up playing in the street to make way for cars, that’s just the way it is.