Pizzacake
(midwest.social)
Same with technology. I thought we were going to keep getting cool stuff like at the turn of the century. Everything now is ad tech in disguise.
It took me a couple of years (of barely paying attention) to realize they weren't being satirical.
When I first encountered Trumps tweets in 2014ish, I thought he was a comedian satirising conservative politics. I thought he was laying it on a little thick.
He is… and he is.
This was my buddy with r/thedonald. It took a bit of convincing -.-
Ay, one more thing I don’t miss about Reddit.
My old boss was a flat earther. He used to say the dumbest shit ever, and I would respond along the lines of “You can easily prove the earth is round yourself with a stick and a tape measure.” and he would go “I’m not doing that. You have to.” “But you would just say I lied about the results.” “Because I’m right.” Then he would get this big grin on his face like he won.
Found out that a bunch of people in the initial push used it as a prompt to exercise their debate skills, they didn’t believe it themselves. He was one of these insufferable twats. But if enough assholes lie about something, idiots will parrot them in earnest.
The earth isn't flat, but it will be soon.
Because I'm going to MAKE it flat!
With a mating press.
When I see a carbonated ocean I'll agree Earth isn't flat
I kind of hold both positions at the same time. On one hand, I'm kinda disappointed that a lot of people don't know some things that I think they should. But on the other hand, we're also better-educated than in the past, and have much more access to information, and I think that things will continue to get better.
Unfortunately it's seems much more prominent that people have access to incorrect information, and increasingly believe it
