Fucking mainline that shit

At least my friend didn’t accuse me of personally being in on any conspiracy, but every time I saw them it turned into them trying to “gotcha” me with their latest conspiracy. Eventually they went off the deep end into flat Earther bullshit and at that point I just gave up and we lost touch because I haven’t had any interest in hanging out.

Many of them legitimately think it’s a hologram, because reasons.

I’ve been vaguely aware of the conspiracy theory before but I looked into it yesterday for a bit, and apparently some moron filmed an atmospheric refraction phenomenon and concluded that the Moon is a hologram: https://sopuli.xyz/post/42150922/22267576

Oh they’ve since fallen even deeper into the conspiracy rabbit hole and they hit the flat Earth at the bottom, at which point I stopped wanting to spend time with them since listening to them really fucking tedious.

Frankly I’m not entirely sure they even believe in the Moon anymore at this point, considering how flat Earthers usually evolve

YOU’LL NEVER SILENCE ME

And you think that’ll convince them?

I know I’m biased, being a native Finnish speaker and all, but I think it’s kinda delightful that (at least colloquially) we don’t even bother with separating pronouns by animacy.

While speakers of Indo-European languages get worked up over gendered pronouns, we’re like “lol everyone and everything is ‘it’, problem solved, time for beer”

I knew it, your bookshelf was faked!

One would think, but like I just said in another comment, my conspiracist ex-friend’s reply was “well have you tried this yourself? No? Well why do you believe there actually is a mirror there? It’s just another NASA lie”

The answer my friend gave to that was “well have you tried this yourself? No? Well why do you believe there actually is a mirror there? It’s just another NASA lie”

I went down a rabbit hole and read/watched a bunch of holographic Moon stuff and holy fuck are these people stupid.

My favourite “proof” is the “lunar wave.” Some idiot filmed the Moon and saw an atmospheric refraction phenomenon, and concluded that the only logical explanation for the (honestly pretty fun-looking) wave he saw “on” the Moon was that MAYBE THE MOON ISN’T WHAT WE THINK IT IS, I’M JUST ASKING QUESTIONS HERE. Other morons then latched on to this, and made the logical conclusion that this “lunar wave” supports their belief that the Moon is a hologram, because of course it does.

That’s not a conspiracy theory you dumdum, that’s just fact

I don’t even believe in y’all

This’d be my answer. A friend (former at this point) of mine fell down a conspiracist rabbit hole, and at one point started insisting the moon landings were faked. Now, I happen to know a lot (or more than most, anyhow) about the Apollo program, and absolutely nothing I could say helped. Either they pivoted to some new bullshit argument they’d heard on some YouTube video, or just dismissed things as lies when convenient.

You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

Oh sure, I don’t disagree at all, I’m just trying to think of the logic behind why it’s not in the list.

I guess they only listed languages with gendered personal pronouns? Doesn’t make much sense for a Finn to specify their pronoun since it’s just going to be “hän” regardless of gender

Not sure what you mean?

If we allow people with significant dark tetrad personality traits (narcissism, machiavellianism, psychopathy, everyday sadism) or social dominance oriented people to have any meaningful amount of power over others, including the ability to run for office or vote, they will eventually turn societies into… well, what we see now.

Unsurprisingly conservatism overlaps with those traits fairly heavily.

So, ironically, to be able to run a functioning democracy, you’d have to exclude a fairly sizeable chunk of the population from participating in it

But all the “gain of function” stuff I’ve seen sounds like bullshit.

But that happens to viruses all the time? How do you think we get flu pandemics?

Oh huh, they’re more like Audis here in Finland