- GooberEar ( @GooberEar@lemmy.wtf ) English57•7 days ago
My best friend has an unnatural talent for this sort of thing and really enjoys toying with conspiracy theory nuts.
When folks start talking about crazy shit, it makes me very anxious and I tend to shut down. Not my buddy. He eggs them on, encourages it, and gets them to say things or agree with things that are even more outlandish than where they conversation started. Things will start at “China invented covid to kill off old people” and somehow end up at “Hillary Clinton paid to have her chromosomes added to the covid vaccines so that DNA evidence can no longer be used against her in the courts”.
I love this method and employ it at bars. It’s like gonzo conversationalism.
- Mike1576218 ( @Mike1576218@lemmy.ml ) English8•7 days ago
Wasn’t that somewhat how Q-anon started?
- nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) English6•7 days ago
I think that basically is yeah. Then, when they saw that it had gathered a following, admins on a #chan who were pro-Trump and think that they’re super smart because they use Haskell took over to pump up fringe support.
- get_the_reference_ ( @get_the_reference_@midwest.social ) English2•6 days ago
Yeah, but how do I know that what you just wrote isn’t another conspiracy theory? I’m just so confused
- nickwitha_k (he/him) ( @nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•6 days ago
Oh that’s just the normal effect of the alien mind control rays.
- CrabAndBroom ( @CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ) English41•7 days ago
I once tried to get a conspiracy theory going that Flat Earth was a fake conspiracy started by the government to cover up the real conspiracy - that the moon is flat. That’s why we only ever see one side of it and why we were able to land on it. It didn’t take lol.
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) English10•7 days ago
why we were able to land on it.
This is why you failed. Everyone knows the moon landing was fake and directed by Kubrick.
- deo ( @deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English14•6 days ago
Yes, but you know how Kubrick was. He made them film on location.
- driving_crooner ( @driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ) English2•6 days ago
I messed up, had to say “it was a Hollywood job” instead of it was fake.
- CrabAndBroom ( @CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml ) English3•6 days ago
I was hoping to sneak that in, get people balling on one conspiracy theory to get in on another one lol
- oldfart ( @oldfart@lemm.ee ) English1•7 days ago
I believe you!
- barsoap ( @barsoap@lemm.ee ) English31•7 days ago
Jet fuel indeed doesn’t burn hot enough to melt steel. Forging temperature, OTOH, no issue.
- illi ( @illi@lemm.ee ) English43•7 days ago
You don’t understand, steel is either solid or melted. No in-between. No idea what you mean by forging temperature, swords for example are forged by pouring liquid steel to a form, it’s in so many movies!
/s obviously.
- sexual_tomato ( @sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English1•6 days ago
Yeah let’s ignore the fact that it loses 70% of its strength at like 800 F, that fact invalidates my meme catchphrase!
- VerdantSporeSeasoning ( @VerdantSporeSeasoning@lemmy.ca ) English28•7 days ago
Dank memes can’t melt steel beams.
7/11 was a part time job.
- Zoboomafoo ( @Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net ) English15•7 days ago
Jet fuel doesn’t need extra tanks of mind control agent, they’re already using leaded fuel
- spacesatan ( @spacesatan@lazysoci.al ) English5•6 days ago
lead is in avgas for prop planes, not jet fuel.
*I guess turboprops also use jet fuel so I should have said small GA planes but you get the point.
- Liz ( @Liz@midwest.social ) English2•7 days ago
We really need to get rid of that.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English1•7 days ago
decomissioning millions (?) of perfectly good planes doesnt seem practical and modding old airplane engines to use different fuel doesnt seem like the safest way to solve this problem.
how do we even begin?
- Liz ( @Liz@midwest.social ) English3•7 days ago
I thought that you can still sell new props that need leaded fuel, is that not the case?
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English1•6 days ago
no idea that was the case. i was thinking of old 70s cessna type planes and stuff
- Liz ( @Liz@midwest.social ) English3•6 days ago
Regardless, looks like there’s a plan to get everybody off the stuff by 2030.
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) English2•6 days ago
Note, since the 80s the vast, vast majority of piston driven aircraft engines have been able to operate on unleaded fuel. We know this because for decades GA pilots have been filling out the paperwork for an experimental fuel variance and then running these engines unmodified on the cheaper unleaded they got from the gas station down the street without any apparent issue or rise in engine maintenance/failures among pilots that do this. The main hurdles being the necessary and not insignificant paperwork as well as concern over insurance rates.
From my understanding there was a problem with one series of engine in the seventies that was suspected to be due to unleaded fuel among the more modern product line of a major manufacturer, and while the engine was modified to fix it neither Lycoming nor Continental, the two primary piston engine manufacturers who make up the vast majority of the market, saw significant pressure to drop the official recommendation for unleaded until relatively recently.
Since the US finally started to get serious about phasing out leaded avgas in the 2010s, and the aditude of its been fine so far so why risk any change has run up against said pressure, both have to my knowledge dropped the requirement retroactively with no modification necessary for the majority of their historical and current product line.
You might need to re-engine or more likely just get an exemption for flying history aircraft, but the benefit to the hundreds of thousands that live near GA airports in terms of reduced damage to children’s nervous systems far outweighs the nebulous cost of switching the default form of avgas.
- Paradachshund ( @Paradachshund@lemmy.today ) English14•7 days ago
When I started reading these comments I didn’t expect them to be full of actual, unironic conspiracy theories. 🤔
- rickyrigatoni ( @rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ) English15•7 days ago
Dinosaurs are a lie created by the wizards to hide the existence of dragons.
Memespiracies
- BruceTwarzen ( @BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee ) English10•7 days ago
I like to just be the crazier one. Flat earth? You still believe in an earth, you silly goose egg.
- KyuubiNoKitsune ( @KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English6•7 days ago
I’m part of the no-moon society. Flat earth?! How about the fact that the moon is fake!?
The sun revolves around the earth just like the moon.
- KyuubiNoKitsune ( @KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•7 days ago
That’s what YOU think! Do your own research man! #NoMoon
- pewgar_seemsimandroid ( @pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•5 days ago
they add fentanyl to your previous vaccines!