Time to fake my death and start a new life somewhere else!

I appreciated your wall of text! Lemmy, and social media in general, are pretty terrible places for nuanced discussion. The system is biased towards short and vauge posts. As you said though, they can be a good stepping stone.

There’s been more than one time that I’ve seen people arguing in a thread and decided I’d look up the topic to see who is right. In the end it doesn’t really matter what people in the thread were saying. It got me interested in the topic and I searched out more reputable sources of information and hopefully I learned a bit!

That being said, there are also threads where people post insane takes. You really need to have a litmus test for whether or not a post should even been considered.

Where is the gold chain?

Suuuure

It’s called “The Ghost of Ol’ Dale Earnhardt” and it was started in 2017 as pushback against alt-right people trying to make everything from the American South seem ultra right wing.

I don’t really get the point but it seems like left leaning people in the American South find it funny?

This. It’s like asking someone what they’d do in the trolley problem and their response is “oh I’m not political! So I wouldn’t pull the lever therefore completely removing myself from the equation!” Yeah, about that…

Was grandad yelling “YOU DONT HAVE ENOUGH BADGES TO TRAIN ME!”

Strokinoff

Known as the Doorway Effect. Our short-term memory seems to be situational, so moving to a new location can “reset” it.

This was the actual reason if I recall correctly. He lived on a small side street that suddenly had lots of traffic. He realized Google maps was suggesting that street for directions and came up with this ingenious plan to get Google to redirect traffic elsewhere.

My mom when she walks in and I’m just staring at the default Windows desktop

Just a bunch of fun loving country boys!

Economics Explained recently published a video explaining how using space as a way to get resources will never be economically viable. It doesn’t matter how cheap you can produce something if the shipping cost is $5,000 per gram. We’d sooner syphon gold out of ocean water than get it from an asteroid.

Space travel is a great investment when it comes to discovering new technologies that revolutionize life, but a terrible investment for resource extraction.

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Guys, it’s a joke.

“You can’t rape feet!”

Note the incoming meteor.

I once had a chemistry professor who used to work as a senior drug researcher at a major pharmaceutical company. He often joked about how the company treated the monkeys used for testing far better than the PhDs. If a monkey suffered a negative reaction there was a major investigation. I’m incredibly surprised Musk can be killing monkeys left and right and hasn’t been thrown in jail.

Not the bees!

a little date rape

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