Those are lying, they’re all Mikes

That’s because we don’t need to fill our battery anymore. The warning is because of those older folks who did sip the battery acid.

Surprisingly they’re all named “Mike”

Sixty years ago as this article was published in 2014

Can ypu afford that?

You know the top post is just going to be “Hexbear/Lemmy.ml”

https://mufonsymposium.com/

Look here’s a convention for UFO people! A real world gathering of people in a real life community with a membership organization that all buy into a conspiracy.

You’re wrong and clownishly so.

A forum isn’t a real community.

Again there are real world gatherings of conspiracy thinkers or people within a specific conspiracy community like MUFON. There is no skeptic convention that carries the same sense of togetherness. There is no community of anti-conspiracy theorists that grants a sense of belonging to something bigger whoch is one of the traditional appeals of conspiracy theorist groups.

Im stopping here. I can only spend so much time repeatedly pointing out that your position is non-factual. If you can’t tell the difference between a formal organization with a membership list and an internet forum I can’t help you.

Yes he did write bad code. I don’t believe the degree was even offered at that time as economics and physics are different departments

Ok? You’re still demonstrating conspiracy theorists have a community while those who oppose them aren’t members of a specific community.

Again websites, internet forums, and subreddits are not real communities. No one is self identifying as a person that opposes conspiracy theories whereas flat earthers are prominent enough that I don’t have to explain what the flat earther community is.

Conspiracy theorist communities offer a sense of larger belonging that opposition to conspiracy theories does not provide. They are incredibly different in that regard

And Im saying that’s wrong because I can find IRL meet ups all over the world for people in a conspiratorial subset. Becoming a flatearther or antivaxxer is like becoming a Roman Catholic in the sense that there is a real world community of people who gather together to celebrate and share these ideas. The anti-conspiracy people do not have this. If you don’t buy into conspiracy theories there isn’t a convention for you, there aren’t gatherings of people to debunk the conspiracies that no one attending believes in.

When I say there’s a community of conspiracy theorists Im talking about an actual community not a fucking subreddit as subreddit are not real communities.

And Im not claiming parts of reddits are communities but ratger IRL comspiracy groups come with a community like any group that organizes around beliefs do. Your claim is that anti-conspiracy people are a community and they aren’t

Again conspiracy theorists have IRL events and a culture whereas “Best Minds of Reddit” is a subreddit and not a community. They aren’t the same thing. People identify as flat earthers, JFK conspiracists et al whereas no one identifies as an anti-conspiracy theorist

Go back to the furst comment of yours that I replied to. You claim there’s a community of anti-conspiracy people and what Im suggesting is that the conspiracy thinkers are a ral community. If you buy into flat earth there are conventions to go to, merch to buy and shows to listen/watch that are all part of the flat earth community.

Skeptics don’t have that in the same way. My unwillingness to accept Bigfoot isn’t because im searching to belong but the Bigfoot hunter might be.

Did you see someone whose social life is built around dismissing conspiracy believers or did you just reply to someone who rejects conspiracy thinking? I suspect it’s the latter.

Is there? I don’t know of anyone who gathers together to bad mouth conspiracy theorists

That’s why the plural is in parenthesis.

He bought Twitter because he had to. He made a legally binding offer to purchase it at a soecific price per share as a joke and then was forced to follow through because Jack Dorsey et al did not take it as a joke.

Elon’s forced purchase of Twitter is proof how dumb he can be.

Musk has no teal programming credentials to speak of I thought. His degree(s) are physics and economics.

Thank you, I will stop here.

Prisoners have limited rights to refuse anything. They are not fairly compensated for theor work and in other states the prisons “loan” prisoners to companies to do work who pay the prisons for this work.

It’s slavery. The USA never banned slavery for prisoners. It’s literally in the 14th amendment.