AwesomeLowlander

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[–] AwesomeLowlander 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Bayesian statistics

Given its irrelevance to the basic concepts regarding the shape of the Earth, I fail to see the connection

[–] AwesomeLowlander 0 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Science does not HAVE any prior beliefs. It seems like you don't quite understand what the scientific method entails.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 9 points 2 days ago

Something to consider - does every insurance policy sold in Metropolis come with an 'Act of Superheroism' clause?

[–] AwesomeLowlander 2 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Oddly, Landrum says that many flat-Earthers may distrust scientists, but they are not against the scientific method. “The majority of them put a lot of faith, for lack of a better word, in science. There’s a lot of curiosity and a lot of scepticism and a lot of the really good qualities that make scientists.”

There are many experiments that can be done by a single person to prove that the Earth is a sphere. Some of these experiments have been known and performed for millenia. If flat-Earthers were truly scientific, they would have changed their minds based on those experiments. Instead, they willingly blind themselves to the obvious and come up with ever more elaborate theories as to why their experiments returned a result they disagree with.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, but that's not HIS problem.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 12 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Assuming the word spreads, he probably saves more time by doing this than by saying no to a million insurance agents.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 10 points 2 days ago

I would like a sponsored trip in the Kite to debunk my spherical-Earth beliefs, please.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 4 points 2 days ago

Problem is, there's a lot of overlap between those two beliefs, in their causes and the people affected.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 3 points 2 days ago

lots of people don’t need unnecessary complexity.

There's nothing complex about 'The earth is a sphere'. There's a LOT of unnecessary complexity in 'The earth is flat, and the entire world is in on a conspiracy to make me believe otherwise'.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 3 points 2 days ago

The antivax movement is a very good example of how unscientific beliefs and credulity can harm others. Flat earthers, antivax, etc are all symptoms caused by the same reasons.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be fair I was replying to a thread that said LW/ML are equal and something about fascism in LW.

I think you may have misread the thread, since I don't see anything in the comments above yours saying that.

[–] AwesomeLowlander 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I didn't claim LW is the worst. As per my post, the worst offenders are hexbear, lemmygrad and lemmy.ml. .world is not a monolith, and I have nothing major against the admins. I was specifically referring to the 3 news subs on .world as problematic.

 

https://archive.ph/vEoA7

The idea that the Earth is a sphere was all but settled by ancient Greek philosophers such as Aristotle (384–322 BC), who obtained empirical evidence after travelling to Egypt and seeing new constellations of stars. Eratosthenes, in the third century BC, became the first person to calculate the circumference of the Earth. Islamic scholars made further advanced measurements from about the 9th century AD onwards, while European navigators circled the Earth in the 16th century. Images from space were final proof, if any were needed.

Today’s flat-Earth believers are not, though, the first to doubt what seems unquestionable. The notion of a flat Earth initially resurfaced in the 1800s as a backlash to scientific progress, especially among those who wished to return to biblical literalism. Perhaps the most famous proponent was the British writer Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1884). He proposed the Earth is a flat immovable disc, centred at the North Pole, with Antarctica replaced by an ice wall at the disc’s outer boundary.

The International Flat Earth Research Society, which was set up in 1956 by Samuel Shenton, a signwriter living in Dover, UK, was regarded by many people as merely a symbol of British eccentricity – amusing and of little consequence. But in the early 2000s, with the Internet now a well-established vehicle for off-beat views, the idea began to bubble up again, mostly in the US. Discussions sprouted in online forums, the Flat Earth Society was relaunched in October 2009 and the annual flat-Earth conference began in earnest.

 

Criteria: I'm looking for instances that are defed' with the Big 3 tankies (lemmygrad, lemmy.ml, and hexbear). I have no interest in trying to persuade my friends to create an acc and set up instance blocks before diving in, or dealing with the feedback when they run into the tankie brigade.

Edit: lemmy.cafe and infosec.pub seem to fit. I also find it really interesting just how many of the replies totally ignored my stated criteria.

 

Looks like the execution is already starting to have an effect.

Archive: https://archive.ph/GQGDV

 

As per .world worldnews mod, no discussing naughty stuff like jury nullification.

While this post is blowing up, here's the book referenced by the shooter:

Delay Deny Defend - Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It

By request: Full, uncensored video of the shooting. (Fucking obviously NSFW)

Jury nullification: A practical FAQ

Do I have to answer questions about jury nullification?

 

As per title. I really don't need a shortcut to settings taking up the prime real estate corner closest to my thumb. Is there such a feature or feature request?

 

Looking for an alternative to Sync, because I'm tired of not getting updates from LJD despite it being a paid app. Unfortunately, thus far I've tried about half a dozen apps and none of them quite give me as much customisation options as Sync did, especially on the feed view. Few of them even come close. Does anybody have a recommendation for a highly-customisable app?

 

Is there a way to remove the scroll bar on the right? It's fairly pointless especially in infinite scroll mode.

 

Hi! Testing the app out. Is there a way to preload images? I've noticed that when scrolling, images frequently load halfway when they're halfway through the page, moving everything below them. I find this extremely annoying. Is there a way to preload images before I've scrolled them onto the screen?

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