Increasingly large segments of society are losing their grip on reality. Distinguishing fact from fiction requires practice if it is to work when it matters.

Just look at OP asking me to prove a negative, something literally impossible.

[–] Meowoem 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's a really fascinating thing, there was a type of person that obviously learned to get their knowledge from TV as a shortcut - like instead of learning about the subject they'd pick up what different characters on TV thought about it and adopt those opinions.

I think we have that even more now with people pretty much just going with the tone set by memes and internet comments - which they then amplify by paroting. This is incredibly true with politics now, actually talk to some of the people yelling about things and it soon becomes clear they have no idea about any surrounding information - and not just the obvious conspiracy theorist ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

idk about that. I'm a dumbarse, you're a dumbarse, I've worked with some of the most educated people in the world and they're also dumbarses.

Unless you've spent multiple decades on something your opinion is probably stupid

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A lot. Imagine antivax and flatearther use your argument when caught lying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man, I could be wrong but I swear the flat earth started as a joke like the whole "birds aren't real" thing. But it had a more intellectual thought excersizey angle like "tell me why the earth is round". I know for a fact that's how my earth science teacher used it getting into how to structure a testable hypothesis and the scientific method. I wonder everytime I see flat earth shit when exactly he had to retire that one. It's to bad because it was great then.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, iirc Qanon start as a 4chan joke that got seriously bad too.