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Sorry friends, but RFK & Ramaswamy can't stop this ship from sinking either...

That's the thing about debt slavery. You can't vote your way out of it.

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@charliebrownau @OldM8 @TylerAbeoJordan@liberdon.com
>Icewall

I literally already debunked Antarctica being an icewall. Civilians go to Antarctica all the time, and not just the Antarctic peninsula. You can visit Queen Maud Land by taking a flight from Capetown, South Africa or you can
take a boat from New Zealand to off the coast of the Ross Sea.

white-desert.com/adventures/th
heritage-expeditions.com/desti

>Mudflood Reset (1750)
>Old World Empire
>Tartaria Empire

These are theories about ancient civilizations that were scrubbed from history. I'm not saying that they're false, but none of them prove the flat earth. All of these can exist on a round earth.

>Free Atmosphere Energy

I could only find one video on this subject. Again, it says nothing about the shape of the Earth.

odysee.com/Short-1-Free-Atmosp

>Old World Maps

Sure ancient maps may included places that aren't on present maps. Could there be some mythical location that no longer exists or still exists but is kept hidden? Maybe. As for the shape of the Earth, anyone can draw a map without knowing the shape of the Earth. The shape is completely irrelevant. There are many different ways to draw a map. They don't have to represent the shape of the Earth to be accurate.

>1805 Bible (Which states 2023 is actually 5998)
>America is 3000 years old

I literally can't find anything about these topics. I've checked through Odysee, Invidious, Mojeek, and SearX. If you can provide actual links, that would be great.

>20 Emergency Landings

Yeah, I've seen this before. Emergency landings may look straight on the flat earth map while not making sense on the cartesian map, but when drawing the routes on an actual globe, they're straight.

>Curve Calculator

It does the inaccurate "8 inches per mile squared" measurement which is only an average. You also need to take into account the height of the observer, atmospheric refraction, and where you are in the world because naturally, the curvature would be less in upper and lower latitudes than it is when you are closer to the equator.

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The key difference though (aside from very dissimilar platforms) is that Discord lacks any algorithmic prioritization of posts (which wouldn't even make any sense on instant messaging to begin with). Whereas I would demarcate the time when Twitter/Facebook opened the Pandora's Box of algorithmic prioritization (instead of chronological order) as the turning point of when the internet started to turn to crap, online discussion and politics became more vitriolic, etc.
A decade ago you could have people terminally online on forums and IRC and not see as severe of mental illness that you normally see on Twitter today.

@lanodan @errante You should get rid of it soon. It can cause problems.

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Check out these videos of an ultra-remote floating village in British Columbia, on the west coast of Canada, where houses are towed from bay to bay throughout the year: buff.ly/3MAC6IU via @travelmail

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Eventually, all rational individuals must accept that there is no political solution..

@PurpCat @RustyCrab @gabriel @GrungeQueef Just seeing what they tried to do to the Ion Fury devs a few years back makes me feel uneasy. But I'm afraid that the alphabet people is an Internet wide phenomenon at this point. Even if you decide to cater to the freetards and host your community on IRC, you still have to deal with the "programming sock" types who are sometimes even worse.

This two way interaction between viewers and "content-creators" (I hate this term but I can't think of a better one) and the toxicity that it brings really makes me wish that RSS took of instead of social media, where these cancel-culture types are instead on some remote blogs on obscure corners of the Internet. Seriously, interacting with fans outside of fan-letters and fan-emails has brought only the worst in people.

@PurpCat @RustyCrab @gabriel @GrungeQueef
>But most importantly IMO, I think the #1 thing killing imageboards is simply people online use different communities now in 2023, be it Discord/TG/Matrix groups or social media in some form. When you're trying to find friends and communities online, why post on a dying imageboard when you can go to Discord. Like it or not, you're dragged kicking and screaming because that's where the people are at and you're not.

I really hate this as a gamedev. I really don't want to use shit like Twitter or Discord, but I'm afraid I have to if I want a decently sized audience, especially given that the hobbyist gamedev community is now full of zoomers who have probably never heard of an Internet forum. Even the anons at /agdg/ realize that using sites like Twitter and Discord are necessary if you want a player-base.

Literally, my only other option is to pay someone to do my social media for me.

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@PurpCat @xianc78 @gabriel @GrungeQueef people call me crazy but discord is a LOT more healthy than twitter as far as social media goes. Humans were not meant to operate by shouting 24/7 in a public square.

@gabriel @GrungeQueef @RustyCrab Except if you give it a bad enough reputation, you will see people trying their best to kill it (maybe not completely) like what so many people tried to do with imageboards after the 8chan linked mass shootings. Now, imageboards are considered dead or dying at this point because nobody wants to risk hosting them anymore.

gamedev 

Added a sound effect when the player car spins out.

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@RustyCrab @Ash @PurpCat At the very least it would kill the need for Facebook. My family used to send email post cards all the time before Facebook came into their lives.

Also, mailing lists seem to be more familiar to normies than RSS feeds, though most sites call them "newsletters" these days. There are mainly for the normies (mostly boomers) out there who out right refuse to use social media. I'd rather have businesses, celebrities, etc priorities those (along with blogs) over social media.

@PurpCat @Ash @RustyCrab
>It says a lot they'd also rather use e-mail over the fedi.

Honestly, that's good for them. Most people would probably benefit from a social media detox where they don't have a constant news feed shoved into their face 24/7. Just wait until they learn that it's possible to send an email to multiple recipients at once.

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Just please... I don't want to fee it anymore. Both ostatus and ap are bad protocols for privacy. They don't ensure it, they just hope that the other server cooperates. Please, don't share REALLY private stuff on fedi, use matrix or xmpp or pgp, with proper encryption. This isn't a Pleroma problem or a mastodon problem, it's a problem in the protocol and that won't change in the near future.
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One year ago, a woman stopped a mass shooting, saving dozens of lives & was completely ignored by MSM & politicians.

@charliebrownau @OldM8 @TylerAbeoJordan@liberdon.com I've watched the video and kept an open mind, but I have some rebuttals.

1. The Antarctic Treat does not prevent civilians from stepping foot in Antarctica. It prevents governments, corporations, organizations, and private citizens form using it for things like building military bases, mining, dumping waste, etc. The treaty is publicly viewable online. Nowhere does it mention that you are not allowed to step foot without a permit. There are some places that are off-limits without a permit, but most of it is visit-able by anyone. There are plenty of private cruises that can take you to Antarctica and private expeditions happen there all the time. And no, the Antarctica Peninsula isn't the only place you can visit.

bas.ac.uk/about/antarctica/the

2. He does the whole high-zoom camera trick. When it comes to planets, he's not doing it properly. You need to turn off autofocus and set the correct exposure, planets should look like planets. You can also just view planets using a regular telescope and binoculars, and you can clearly see that stars and planets are not the same thing. I used to look at Saturn through binoculars all the time as a kid. It has always looked like Saturn. I could even see the rings.

invidious.poast.org/watch?v=dI
invidious.poast.org/watch?v=tc
invidious.poast.org/watch?v=-g

3. Salinity in the water cannot be the reason why tides only happen in oceans. There are bodies of water with a higher salinity than the ocean's average like the Dead Sea, Red Sea, the Great Salt Lake, and no tides ever occur there or do occur but are much smaller than the ocean tides (small tides still occur in fresh water lakes too). The only explanation is that lakes are smaller than oceans and are not interconnected, so water cannot flow from one side to another.

4. Buoyancy cannot be the reason why things fall to the ground. You can drop objects in a vacuum chamber (there are small ones available for home use). Objects still fall even though there is no medium surrounding them. What causes them to fall? It must be a force.

invidious.poast.org/watch?v=WC (feel free to ignore the Moon landing clip in the intro and the Earth/Moon simulation at the end)

5. The existence of static electricity does not disprove the existence of gravity. It's possible for both forces to co-exist. You might as well say the magnetic forces also don't exist and they are just static electricity. In both
cases of static charges causing objects to float or fall faster, it can be said that the forces of static electricity are stronger than the force of gravity.

6. As for the MIT "Silent Drone", yes it is done through static electricity, but it's a method known as "ionic winds" which is just using static electric charges to create airflow. In other words, it's using static electricity to blow air, just like a fan.

news.mit.edu/2018/first-ionic-

Now, just because I don't think the Earth is flat doesn't mean that I 100% believe what NASA, ESA, SpaceX, etc are saying. I'm pretty sure that they hide and lie about a lot of things. I don't think the moon landings happened for one, but just from these observations alone, I'm pretty confident that the Earth is round.

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