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[–] fidodo@lemm.ee 159 points 2 years ago (23 children)

They think the sun works like a spot light. I'm not kidding. It's the dumbest shit

https://wiki.tfes.org/Flat_Earth_-_Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_you_explain_day.2Fnight_cycles_and_seasons.3F

In their own gif they need to make the light the sun puts out oblong which makes no fucking sense and there's no explanation as to why you can't always see the moon.

It's so stupid it's embarrassing to even debunk them.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

The Earth is constantly accelerating up at a rate of 32 feet per second squared (or 9.8 meters per second squared). This constant acceleration causes what you think of as gravity.

HOOO BOY,
that is so stupid, Hexbear might actually try to convince itself that it is true.

[–] w00tabaga@lemm.ee 32 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I almost left Lemmy because of the crap I always had in my feed.

Then I realized all the bottom of the barrel content and takes were all from the hexbear instance. I started blocking any community from that server. It’s like a whole new world

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

We at sh.itjust.works can proudly claim that we out-hexbeared the hexbears. They defederated from us before we did from them.

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've never had or heard of any issues with shit just works users, why did they defederate with you?

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

We fought fire with fire. If you want to know the way in which your average Hexbear user conducts themselves, you just need to recall that they have their pig shit image linked to their instance for convenient use: https://hexbear.net/PPB (NSFW!)

Edit: You can also check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, if you want to get a glimpse at what was going on a few days ago.

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[–] AchillesUltimate@lemy.lol 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not just that. In order for the sun to be visible 24/7 from Antarctica during its summer, the light from the sun would have to morph from a circle into a right going around the whole earth. I have no idea what could cause that.

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[–] Redredme@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So the world is flat so we can't fall off, walls of ice keep the water from falling off its edges. Okidoki.

But the sun, moon, stars and planets don't fall out of the sky? They are kept up there magically?

It's great to read, as is most fantasy.

[–] Heggico@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

They consider them "luminaries" whatever those are supposed to be. Not actual objects. Cause that makes sense.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm trying to figure out how they think the sun can ever pass below the horizon in that model and it seems like their explanation is.... magnets???

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Fucking magnets, how do they work?
Idk.
They're magic, they can do anything.

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[–] MechanicalJester@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Have they explained why pictures of the moon taken from Sydney Australia are upsidedown from pictures of the moon taken in NYC?

[–] Selmafudd@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

As a Sydneysider I can confirm our photos are the right way up

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[–] TheLurker@lemmy.world 69 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can literally see the off switch. You sheeple are so fucking gullible.

The all powerful Flying Spaghetti Monster uses his majestic noodly appendage to flick off the lamp each night.

Fucking idiots.

[–] UtMan1988@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They've played us for fools

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[–] logos@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 years ago (11 children)

As a passenger on an aircraft, how is it I can see the curvature of the Earth?

Quite simply, you cannot…

It is likely that those claiming to have personally visually discerned curvature from an aeroplane are experiencing a form of confirmation bias.

Oh, ok then

[–] flipht@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ignoring that ancient mathematicians were able to calculate the size of the earth with pretty good results, considering their "world spanning empires" are what we'd consider regional now.

Also that you can literally watch a ship come over the horizon, seeing it's sails first before the body actually moves into view. If the earth were flat the entire thing would be visible the entire time.

You can't reason people out of positions they didn't reason themselves into.

[–] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The ships thing, they explain that away with "sea mountains"....I wish I was kidding....

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[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Everybody knows they turn off the sun at 8pm

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[–] aeternum@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago

holy shit. you've made a believer out of me. I'm now a flat earther!

[–] BeefDaddySupreme@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

checkmate globers

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

The only time I ever see or hear anything about flat earth is when people bitch about it on Reddit and now here.

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Netflix has entire documentaries about these clowns. I wish the idea of a flatearth was something that I only heard about on Reddit or Lemmy.

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[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The flat earth sun works more like one of those flatbed file scanners.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Alright, here is my take:

Gravity bends light. Therefore, there is a tiny black hole between earth and the sun. You see, the black hole redirects the sunlight juuuuuuust perfect to simulate that sphere nonsense you sheeples believe in.

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[–] Hafler@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well when you want to go to sleep, you just say "flip me over, sky daddy". Then God flips over the flat earth and that's how we get to night.

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[–] Species8472@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's definetly dark on the other side of our flat earth.

And to prove I'm right: dark side of the moon by pink Floyd. The moon is also flat. Someone is flipping all those discs (you prefer 'planets') over every 24 hours, just like flat pancakes. How can you ignore all those obvious signs.

Jeez. Those dumb round-earthers.

[–] nnjethro@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

They call round earthers "globetards"

[–] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

This is a proof for sun is orbiting around the earth (I'm just joking)

[–] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Heliocentrism didn't come about just from observing the sun. We also had to observe the planets and figure out why they would suddenly change direction in the sky. After centuries of increasingly complex models that decently described the planetary motion with geocentrism, some calculating and new models that put the sun at the center made a lot of the models much more consistent.

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[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Funny, but then it would still be all dark or all light at once. Or do flat earthers also deny time zones?

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[–] lorez@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

I mean, timezones are enough.

[–] TheCee@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

The lamp rotates along its post. Booom, solved.

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

if we can flip it over we can solve global warming

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where does the sun hide at night? Did people really used to live in black and white?

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