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[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 29 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I've never dissassociated more than when I heard my sweet grandmother tell me that Hillary was part of an evil cabal of witches who drink the blood of tortured babies for adrenochrome.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

What frustrates me is that it's not 100% insane, just 95%. There are Silicon Valley CEOs and others that regularly get transfusions of blood from younger, healthier people as a means of improving their own health. The New Yorker wrote about this and some other crazy life extension stuff happening in the Silicon Valley in 2017.

So no tortured babies or adrenochrome, but we do quite literally have people taking blood from the young in an attempt to extend their own lives.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I first heard about young blood transfusions in a podcast episode about Peter Thiel. He's the closest thing to a real world vampire.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

The best part about it is that it actually is detrimental to their health. More transfusions means a higher risk of transfusion reaction if you really need it.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 7 points 4 hours ago

Oh so it actually is a good thing. Just not for them.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

reading this slightly baked and I got confused why plugging in an HDMI cable had to do with babies

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

I can move my eyes without moving my eyes

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 39 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I like the parking meter at the edge of the world.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

"Parking Meter at the Edge of the World"

That was a Douglas Adams book.

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 19 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget the trash can in the background. Don't want litter in space.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 9 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

The litter is what awakens Lord Cthulhu.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 hours ago

The real reason the government and NASA lies about the edge of the earth. They don't want Lord Cthulhu to awaken and overthrow the lizard people.

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 7 points 15 hours ago

"Can a cosmic horror not even slumber for a mere ten millennia before the ants turn my room into a dump?!"

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 17 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

What I never understood about this theory was: where do you fall down to? And if the moon is a sphere, why not the earth?

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (5 children)

The flat earth is constantly accelerating "upwards", which is what creates the equivalent of sane people gravity. So it's not really falling over the edge as the Earth leaving you behind.

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 5 hours ago

the universe is expanding at an increasing rate, we're just feeling the acceleration.

oh no maybe I shouldn't give them any ideas

[–] zagaberoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 hours ago

Interestingly, General Relativity shows that gravity is equivalent to the surface of the earth constantly accelerating upward, even on our lovely globe.

floatheadphysics on YT does a great job explaining

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, that's their belief. Does that mean that there is no gravity beyond earth? Also how does the sun work then? Do they believe we are geocentric, not heliocentric?

There's just so much that doesn't add up.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

The sun and moon are tiny and relatively close. They rotate in circles above the surface at a constant distance (don't ask why). From what I know they spend a lot more time "disproving" existing theories than finding new ones to explain their model.

[–] someacnt_@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Moon at the exact opposite position of Sun? Man, what did minecraft do to us /j

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 5 points 12 hours ago

The sun and moon are spherical flashlights? 🤣 Holy shit, that's dumb.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Thing is, even though that's the one thing that would work*, they don't believe that.

* Except you'd start seeing relativistic effects in short order.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

It's definitely one of the theories I've seen. Checking on The Flat Earth Society website I see it's not their official position (but they acknowledge some groups do believe that). They don't have a different theory though, just that "objects simply fall".

[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Ludicrous speed: GO!

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Just the earth is flat, everything else is sphere. That's why there's only life on earth

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What does life have to do with spheres?

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 1 points 1 hour ago

Try putting a cup of coffee on a table: It doesn't fall off. Now try putting a cup of coffee on a basketball.

That's why life can't survive on spheres.

[–] rustydomino@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Curiousfur@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 16 points 18 hours ago

Mods, these two know too much!

[–] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 15 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What ended up happening with all the QAnon nonsense? Did believers just forget about it? Moved on, had no self reflection, and voted for Trump again?

[–] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 13 points 16 hours ago

They grouped up in telegram chats and started sending bomb threats to elementary schools

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 16 points 20 hours ago

The “HUP” is great