#like ‘moon landing fake’

[andrewmnyard]

my dad’s got a friend named george who’s really into conspiracies so now my equivalent of ‘that sounds insane’ is ‘oh yeah? you hear that from george?’

[galindatopland]

the yj experience is crazy cause it's like if you were watching pretty little liars and the fans were telling you it's a brilliant show while a parrot is giving spencer hastings a phone number

[smiles-rambles]

Me genuinely tweaking when my coworkers talk about how there’s no way for the pyramids to be built by people and that the moon landing was fake

[whomstsnek]

I gotta get the fuck out of this house i just found out my moms a flat earther 😰

[coquelicoq]

also while playing trivial pursuit my sister pronounced leisure [lɛʒɚ] and people were kind of razzing her for not pronouncing it [liʒɚ], and i was like well that's also how i pronounce it so i don't see what the big deal is. it rhymes with measure which is obviously very cool. and her bf was like that's not surprising, you two are the most similar people i've ever met. which was horrendously flattering and also very funny because i don't think we're that similar, but also whenever my sister and i do something the same way i always wonder if it's just because we were exposed to the same influences and forces growing up, or because she got it specifically from me. especially because of our age difference and how much she idolized me as a child, it's quite possible that many of the things we have in common are because she saw me doing them and just thought i was endlessly cool and copied me. which is INSANE to me because i think SHE is so cool, but not for the things that we have in common, for all the other stuff lol.

[moxieestar]

anyway space travel is one of the coolest things we've ever done as humans and if you don't see the wonder in these images then i don't know if there's any hope for you 🪐

[iskierka]

anyway whatever. it’s fine ! im not gonna engage with ira leftie bait

[existennialmemes]

Never Before Believed

Cosmological Conspiracies

The Sun is actually a strobe light. But it's on a different time scale than us, so the strobes are very drawn out, which gives us the illusion of night and day. Dusk and Dawn are being faked to keep up the facade.

Venus isn't real. It's just a light projection. No one knows where the light is coming from, but top scientists are Very Afraid of it, and research into the phenomenon is strictly prohibited.

The moon is suspended between two neighboring Realities. When the moon appears to be "waning" it is actually becoming invisible because it's phasing temporarily out of our universe and into our Lunar Partner's Universe instead.

[engagemythrusters]

if I see/hear “there’s a theory for—“ in regards to any children’s Disney movie, I immediately disregard everything said after that. Nothing worthwhile is going to be said.

[mr-magoriums-im-sorry-emporium]

"reality shifting is just lucid dreaming" bet. what if all instances of lucid dreaming are actually reality shifting. we don't know. dont underestimate my ability to counter with crazier shit & if ur person number 10 to provoke a specific crazy phrase i uinronically incorporate whatever it is into my belief system and itll all be Your Fault

[colourful-void]

Does tumblr not have a button for reporting for misinformation?

[littleoceanbabe]

just found out today that one of my coworkers is a genuine flat earther and i have never wanted to quit more 👍

[patrokleos]

Someone visiting Alaska was absolutely shocked to discover that Alaska was not just off the coast of California, like it is on all the maps. I had to explain this to her... in Alaska.

After she had traveled many, many miles and spent many, many dollars to get there.

I used to be a grader and an occasional substitute prof for an introductory astronomy lab. That means that the majority of the people in this lab are only taking it because it’s a requirement and about half of them think it’s an astrology class.

I was grading midterms and this one girl. She was so nice and I think she was a business major. Fuck. The question on the midterm was to draw a diagram of the solar system and this poor girl. This fucking girl had drawn a Mars-centric solar system. As in every planet and the sun were orbiting Mars. I now actually have a custom Cards Againsy Humanity card I got at a con that says “A Mars-centric solar system”

I had a boy argue with me that there was liquid water on the moon (this was around when they had found liquid water on Mars in ~2015) and he wouldn’t believe me that he likely meant Mars and not the moon. After I marked his answer to the relevant lab question wrong, he took it to the department head who had promptly laughed him out of the office.

And there was another boy who, during a lab in our observatory where we would look at certain things in the sky, asked where the sun was. At 10pm in November. After some questioning it was revealed that he thought the moon and the sun were the same thing.

[ryderdire]

my prof: so we will be analyzing arguments and pressuive work

my nerd ass already excited:

[thecurioustale]

Cheez-Its Rejoice

I just learned from my sister (who is moving to the UK next year) that you can't get Cheez-Its in England! 😮😮😮

I take back every good thing I ever said about that two-bit island that shall not be named! 😤😤😤

* checks Internet *

They just launched Cheez-Its in the UK earlier this month!!!

GOD SAVE THE KING!!!

[miaowmelodie]

What?? How does that make any sense?!

("you" here is used as generalization btw, not as actual YOU you, idk if it's used in english too)

If you let other people/machines TELL YOU the "truth"....why not just believe what specialists in the field, who actively studied the argument for years, have to say?

Supposedly the reason you can't trust what specialists say is because they have a reason to lie, a reason for there to be A CONSPIRACY, so why would ChatGPT be less biased? Someone would have had to tell it the "truth" about what the conspiracy is about...and who would know the real truth it if not the specialists themselves? If scientists or whoever else don't want the "truth" to be public WHY would they teach ChatGPT about it? At that point, what's even the point of believing a conspiracy theory over an official theory? If you go to Chat to have it tell you a truth it supposedly got by the specialists themselves why not cut the middleman and believe the official theories instead??

Comparing many theories and coming up with your own makes sense, looking for answers through a "all knowing AI" (who can't even remember what you told him five prompts ago) is basically just playing a very VERY bad game of telephone with the specialists just for the sake of contradiction.

last rb reminded me i got put into conspiracy tiktok and its some lady asking chatgpt conspiracy theories like "what's beyond the ice wall" and it just spits out a bunch of stuff and people think its factual bc its ai but in reality its just mixing together all the conspiracies and flat earth posts and condensing it to make it sound real but she gets like 1m views and i wish i thought of that its such an easy way to make money