Katie: "I'm gonna study the one place that hasn't been corrupted by global warming, SPACE!"
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026
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In a way it's nice that we have people who are willing to "do the research". It would be even better if some of them would learn enough to understand the research.
"research" in that context means "find flimsy reasons to not change my beliefs"
Well yes but the problem is they do their "research" on the flat Earth society's Facebook page. They also tend to believe people just because they've got names like Dr Phil, and they will find that one crank that is prepared to go on fox news and say climate change is a lie and disregard the other 10,000 scientists.
If only conservatives actually trusted knowledge from people who bothered to learn it. Pundits are way easier to take at their word because whatever they say is short, definitive, embiggens their feelings, and confirms their biases.
Humans, generally speaking, tend to give more credit to facts that already aligned with their pre-conceived beliefs than facts that are not.
This isn't exclusive to conservatives and liberals fall into this trap as well.
The problem is that Fox News and conservative media have figured out how to take advantage of it to further their agenda.
In fact, the RNC and Fox News has done an absolutely fantastic job of convincing their base that educated people shouldn't be trusted because they are liberal.
It's true, but also, possibly less important than the "first in, last out" epistemology that most people run on. We tend to hold whatever opinion we hear first, unless someone produces a very strong argument against it, and the longer you hold that idea before anyone challenges it, the less likely you are to change it regardless of the evidence.
Loud mouth pundits tend to be most people's first-pass at any idea, so whether it's true or not, they get to decide what you're going to think for the rest of your life
They just think everyone on the internet is as dumb as they are.
Gary got his degree from Newsmax where he later went on and got a PhD from Fox News... both very prestigious propaganda accredited brainwashing sources.
Gary's dad tenured at TrumpU.
He's working hard on his SKY doctorate.
Actually I am also a scientist and all we need to do to solve global warming is move earth's orbit a couple million cubits out.
Bah, that's just a sham solution pushed by big calendar to sell everyone new, bigger, calendars when the year gets longer.
big calendar is the worst, do not trust these assholes...
“When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls.
I thought it was a big day sham to give us longer days meaning more working hours.
That would depend on how fast the planet was spinning after the orbital boost. I think the big day mob are playing the long game. First they'll quietly support big calendar in order to first normalise the idea of boosting Earth's orbit, then, when that plan is in motion, they'll infiltrate the planning and engineering teams, tweak the rocket placements slightly, and when the rockets fire to increase our orbital velocity, they'll also slow the spin just enough to lengthen the day.
The alternative is, they realise there'll be more days per year, so they'll get more work out of people between annual appraisals anyway. It might be that big calendar is just a front operation for big day anyway.
Lets build an array of huge engines at the equator, firing them in a timeframe around every 24 hours to raise our orbit!
No, we'll all just stand in Africa. That will throw the spin off balance and we'll move further from the sun, somehow. Back to Africa, everyone!
Wonder if the climate denier would like to stake his life on his belief?
He's doing exactly that
Unfortunately, he's staking everyone else's as well. That's the fundamental problem here, is that it's not a question of win or lose, it's win or die. There is no next time, there is no victory dance for the guy who stops green energy. There is no smug "I told you so" when he finds out that nature doesn't care if you believe in it. We all just die, on both sides, along with everyone who "stayed out of it."
That's what's so crazy to me about these people. There's no possible downside to wanting to be a better person.