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  1. A regular glance at several status pages on #network connected #devices is routine for me.

    My routine paused today as it dawned on me that a 60 watt light bulb gets about a 1000x better received rate than my last 56kps #modem ever did, and blows away the transmit rate by nearly twice its current 54Mps RX rate.

    A fucking light bulb!

    And somehow, _some people_ deny meaningful progress is even possible, and science is just plain wrong.

    Asshats!

    #GOP = #FlatEarthers

  2. To all those #antiscience conspiracy theorist #nutjobs out there ( #flatearthers, #climateskeptics, #antivaxxers), stop going to the doctor for your health problems. If you cannot trust #scientists, how can you trust your local doctor with your health?

  3. In a previous #physics post I discussed how to measure the radius of the Earth using LEGO - well, I finally have data and measured the Earth for myself. #flatearthers can repeat if they want. #astronomy

    rjallain.medium.com/measure-th

  4. In a previous #physics post I discussed how to measure the radius of the Earth using LEGO - well, I finally have data and measured the Earth for myself. #flatearthers can repeat if they want. #astronomy

    rjallain.medium.com/measure-th

  5. Aww, I'd not realised I'd already seen the end of that documentary where they were trying to explain away their own experiment that, #spoiler, simply disproved their #flatearthers beliefs.

  6. Aww, I'd not realised I'd already seen the end of that documentary where they were trying to explain away their own experiment that, #spoiler, simply disproved their #flatearthers beliefs.

  7. @planetaryecologist Neanderthals invented fire that cast shadows of their hands on cave walls, like the Sun casts shadows of Earth on the Moon. Common sense told them that they lived on an orb.

    Eons later, Ancient Greek mathematicians accurately calculated the radius of the Earth, also using shadows.

    But here we are in the #Digital era, when millions of #Americans such as #NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal are #FlatEarthers. newsweek.com/shaquille-oneal-e

    #MentalHealth #Education

  8. @planetaryecologist Neanderthals invented fire that cast shadows of their hands on cave walls, like the Sun casts shadows of Earth on the Moon. Common sense told them that they lived on an orb.

    Eons later, Ancient Greek mathematicians accurately calculated the radius of the Earth, also using shadows.

    But here we are in the #Digital era, when millions of #Americans such as #NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal are #FlatEarthers. newsweek.com/shaquille-oneal-e

    #MentalHealth #Education

  9. #ScienceFiction fans are weird. I should know: I've been part of organized #fandom since I was too small to see over the tables in the huckster room, as we called it in the days when we printed fanzines on mammoth vellum.

    #FlatEarthers are weird. Not fun weird like fen (something something dodged sabertooths uphill both ways). Just boring, depressing, will-you-please-go-away weird. Which to be fair, is the reaction some people have toward fandom, but usually when we encounter those people we let them be.

    Flat-earthers who are also SF fans? That strikes me as a deep wrongness in the universe.

  10. #ScienceFiction fans are weird. I should know: I've been part of organized #fandom since I was too small to see over the tables in the huckster room, as we called it in the days when we printed fanzines on mammoth vellum.

    #FlatEarthers are weird. Not fun weird like fen (something something dodged sabertooths uphill both ways). Just boring, depressing, will-you-please-go-away weird. Which to be fair, is the reaction some people have toward fandom, but usually when we encounter those people we let them be.

    Flat-earthers who are also SF fans? That strikes me as a deep wrongness in the universe.

  11. Public service announcement: When countering flat-earther nonsense, it's better to say the Earth is a globe, not just round. You can have a round disc too, which the Earth is not. You're welcome.

    #pedantic #earthisaglobe #FlatEarthers

  12. Public service announcement: When countering flat-earther nonsense, it's better to say the Earth is a globe, not just round. You can have a round disc too, which the Earth is not. You're welcome.

    #pedantic #earthisaglobe #FlatEarthers

  13. @TheBulwark @the-bulwark-online-TheBulwark #TrumpDerangementSyndrome is a slippery slope. Eventually they will become #FlatEarthers. Voters in #Wisconsin need to think about what their votes for Ron Johnson say about *them*!

  14. @TheBulwark @the-bulwark-online-TheBulwark #TrumpDerangementSyndrome is a slippery slope. Eventually they will become #FlatEarthers. Voters in #Wisconsin need to think about what their votes for Ron Johnson say about *them*!

  15. @cairobraga

    these are deeply unserious people who live vicariously in #parasocial relationships with #celebrities and only know #popCulture posing

    such dim, shallow people (or alternatively and innocently: children, but that's even worse in terms of them being targeted by this shit) can be worked over for the #indoctrination pipeline into #farRight #hate

    it's like targeting #antivaxxers or #flatEarthers:

    "ah, a complete moron, they can be made into a zombie #MAGA voter via #socialMedia"

  16. @cairobraga

    these are deeply unserious people who live vicariously in #parasocial relationships with #celebrities and only know #popCulture posing

    such dim, shallow people (or alternatively and innocently: children, but that's even worse in terms of them being targeted by this shit) can be worked over for the #indoctrination pipeline into #farRight #hate

    it's like targeting #antivaxxers or #flatEarthers:

    "ah, a complete moron, they can be made into a zombie #MAGA voter via #socialMedia"

  17. My 2 year old recently said, "Anger and sadness exist. Elevators do not exist." Yes, those were his words, verbatim.

    I wonder whether he saw an advertisement about a streaming channel for #flatearthers, #Republicans, or other similar idiots.

    When we took him shopping sometime later, he saw that elevators do exist, much to his delight.

    #kids

  18. 🥳🚨 Breaking news: Mathematicians have apparently been akin to flat-earthers for 2300 years, operating under *gasp* flawed assumptions! 🙄 David Bessis is here to unravel the mysteries of numbers, because naturally, everyone was confused but just too polite to mention it. 🤷‍♂️
    davidbessis.substack.com/p/wev #BreakingNews #Mathematics #FlawedAssumptions #DavidBessis #NumberMysteries #FlatEarthers #HackerNews #ngated

  19. 🥳🚨 Breaking news: Mathematicians have apparently been akin to flat-earthers for 2300 years, operating under *gasp* flawed assumptions! 🙄 David Bessis is here to unravel the mysteries of numbers, because naturally, everyone was confused but just too polite to mention it. 🤷‍♂️
    davidbessis.substack.com/p/wev #BreakingNews #Mathematics #FlawedAssumptions #DavidBessis #NumberMysteries #FlatEarthers #HackerNews #ngated

  20. The #flatearthers are right.

    We flattened our world into 2dimensions, and we are sailing toward the edge with the with wind at our backs.

    At the cost of several days of power from several suburban homes, we use our prodigious computing capacity not to solve any very urgent, real problems facing humanity, but to ingest a single individual’s #digitalpsychogram: