And he also learnt how to hold his phone horizontally. Truly a journey of self-discovery.
Good for him.
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echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hiis shift in perspective was multi-layered
MrKoyun@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Truly the better improvement of the two. Death to vertical filming!
Dicska@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Horizontal band member here. If I have to take a photo of a wardrobe, my whole self, a jumping giraffe or the Empire States Building, you can be sure as heck I’ll hold the phone vertically. The only reason for me to take a horizontal photo of my fridge is when it fell on my foot.
Same thing goes vice versa: vertically filming a scenery, a dish, my mom’s panties or a seesaw is plain dumb, unless there’s something else that justifies the awful framing.
BUT when you make a video for the purpose of uploading it to sites like YouTube… You can’t convince me vertical would make more sense. I understand that it’s the same problem if it’s a vertically aligned app (I could go on a 3 day rant about Instagram not allowing horizontal - or any - full screen on desktop), but decent portals do it properly. If you have a phone and you want to watch vertical stuff, problem solved. If you have a phone and want to watch horizontal stuff, just rotate your damn screen, it’s a no-brainer. But when you have a monitor, you can’t (always) just turn in 90 degrees and watch vertical stuff full screen.
Because of lazy uploaders AND lazy management/devs, there are countless of cases where a full screen video has actual content on less than 10% of the screen, because a horizontal video was uploaded to a vertical site, then you open it on a horizontal monitor and it plays like
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billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So I guess it’s either hold your phone flat or the earth is flat, but not both. The orientation change when he changed.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I’m a flat spacer, I think spacetime is flat, continuous, and homogeneous therefore ensure any finite arrangement of energy is occurring infinite times in any direction you can point. Is there an atom for atom replica of the earth, it’s entire history, and me? Yup, infinitely many in any direction one can point, along with all other finite arrangements of energy.
farngis_mcgiles@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
i think you have a fundamental misunderstanding of our current knowledge of space and the matter within it bud
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Current astrophysical data shows that the large-scale spatial geometry of our universe is flat, meaning parallel lines remain parallel and triangles add up to 180°. However, flatness does not strictly prove the universe is infinite; a flat, simply connected universe is mathematically infinite, but a flat, multiply connected universe (like a cylinder or a hyper-torus) could be finite.Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background have measured this geometry with incredible precision, though slight margins for error still allow for the possibility that the universe curves on scales far larger than what we can observe.Whether the universe is finite or infinite remains an unresolved question in physics, though scientists generally use an infinite, flat model for standard cosmological calculations because it is mathematically simpler.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He isn’t wrong. With the assumption of homogenous, and infinite universe, basically everything is guaranteed to happen somewhere.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
I don't think that makes sense mathematically speaking. To turn the state of a group of atoms into numbers that can be represented by a random experiment, one would need to use continuous (i.e. non-quantized) variables. A continuous variable can take an uncountably infinite number of values, so it can't be modeled by a countably infinite arrangement like the one you've described. It's kind of like how you can choose real numbers at random for all eternity and never get the number 7.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Reality isn’t continuous, at least as far as we are aware. Past the plank scale at least our models don’t work. Infinite information to encode everything seems like it would all just collapse into a black hole immediately so having some limit somewhere makes sense at least in that way.
foo@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Everything is flat! The third dimension is all in your imagination. You are being manipulated by Big Dimension! Do your research!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i want to argue this point but i’m not a spaceologist. how is its scedasticity? i only like homoscedastics. heteroscedastics can see themselves out.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Whoa there, easy with the heteroscedastophobia, buddy.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Congratulations, you’re immortal, and with parallel copies.
cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is this like a higher abstraction level version of looking at a mirror pointed at another mirror type situation?, or help me visualize your idea better
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
If I'm understanding them right, it's more like this: Imagine flipping a coin and recording the result an infinite number of times. Then your record will include any finite sequence of flips, because any event with a nonzero probability no matter how unlikely will happen if given infinite opportunities. For example you'll get a sequence where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is written in binary with heads as 1 and tails as 0 and vice versa. By an easy corollary of this, any finite sequence of flips will be repeated an infinite number of times. What this person is saying is that they believe the universe is like this; if you decide the location and energy of every electon, neutron and proton in a section of the universe with the same mass as the solar system there's a nonzero chance it'll contain an exact replica of the Earth and everything on it, hence in an infinite homogeneous universe there will be an infinite number of such replicas. Now I don't think this makes sense, because the chance of getting such a replica probably is zero (in the same way that the probability of choosing a random real number and getting 7 is zero), but this is the logic I think.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nope just one really big (infinitely large) universe. Eventually it starts looping. Like a small example, if I have 5 cups and 10 balls and I put all the balls into a cup eventually I get more than one ball in a cup because there’s more balls than cups. For any finite volume there’s a finite number of ways to arrange energy so with an infinite universe with infinite stuff it just starts looping eventually just like the balls in the cups situation.
Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
What happened 6 months ago to show this man the light?
1984@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He got laid.
saltesc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I imagine at the exact moment of climax, he was transferred through the cosmos for what felt like an eternity, seeing all its wonders, Gorillaz Empire Ants coming from everywhere at full volume.
From the lucky partner’s perspective it was all over in twenty seconds and he was sobbing uncontrollably for fifteen minutes after.
FishFace@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
So you know, this first surfaced years ago
tyler@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I wanna know too
elfpie@lemmy.eco.br 3 weeks ago
First video: I saw the light, don’t be fooled by the lies they tell you.
Latest video: I saw the light, don’t be fooled by the lies they tell you
Whatever generates more profit is what they believe.
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The conspiracy theorist YouTube space is oversaturated and it’s difficult to generate new content when you don’t really have anything new to bring to the table.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wait. i just thought of something new i could bring to the table. but i need funding.
I call it “Bigfoot’s Cross-continent RV Vacation”
SaraTonin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t quote me on this, but I think this guy was one of the people who went to the Arctic to see a 24 hour sunny day and actually accepted the evidence
rangber@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
If you generate more profit by aligning with reality, I’ll say go for it
xxxb@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
wait the meme works in reverse?
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Applauded for pulling his head out of his ass. Good news America - we’ve failed.
gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Better than keeping his head up his ass. Conspiracy groups can often also be part of community and identity. Changing your mind, therefore, might mean losing a social circle and possibly status that you thought to have. He probably though that he was smarter than 90% of the population, and now he feels like an idiot.
In that scenario, this is the best outcome and it should be applauded. If we don’t reward people for escaping and admitting their wrong, then they could easily get trapped. Why change your mind when it means that nobody likes you anymore and everyone thinks you’re an idiot?
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
The cynical part of me thinks that he’s just trying to make bank as a reformed flat earther, he changed his entire world view in a period of a month. There’s probably more money to be made there. Much easier to get sponsorship deals if you don’t come off as a crazy person.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
yeah, like going “bigfoot hunting” with your buddies and camcorder. Tell me you don’t believe in Bigfoot when I’ve got the suit halfway on and you don’t get to come on the next road trip.
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anyone that can learn from their mistakes and take in new information that was against their initial beliefs is worthy of praise.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Flat earth is one of those things that’s so ignorant that I don’t even get mad at them. I just feel sad for them.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The only issue I have with flat earthers is the arrogance. The rest is ignorance that we can deal with if they allow us.
zqps@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
That used to be broadly my view, until I watched Dan Olson’s In Search of A Flat Earth, in which he explores the worldview in which this “opinion” persists and why.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
woah. i never see this. like as a former cultist, your typical response is “not my circus, not my monkeys” (even if it is your circus and your monkeys. I wish i never started that whale cult)
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Whale cult? Sounds like story time 🍿
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s this big whale statue in Utah and I started a joke religion about it. Only some folk took it seriously
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I also like that his views increased as he became more aware of the bs he fell for.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think Mark Sargent has quietly figured it out, but he makes a living being the “flat earth guy”, and doesn’t know what else to do with his life.
What really surprised me about Behind the Curve was how smart a lot of those guys were.
Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The smarter someone is, the better they’re able to rationalize what they believe. Admitting one is wrong isn’t usually a matter of intelligence, it’s a matter of pride (or money).
5paceThunder@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
This guy is STST, not Mark Sargent.
tja@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
But this guy also has not quietly figured it out. It seems that was a very public process.
Erna_muse@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This is the problem with gossip or idle chatter. Things you think are jokes or just weird culture is actually seeding by psyops or con men.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
look all i’m saying is that horses don’t look like horses on film that’s why we need to borrow and paint your dog.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
In my experience the highly religious hold on to flat earth the most. Just another reason religion is cancer
Wicked@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The earty is round but hollow, holes at the north and south pole, leading to agartha, where the black stone sit at the center.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
No, there really is a flat world in the shape of a disc, on 4 elephants on the back of the great A’Tuin
It is just in a distant and secondhand set of dimensions. You wouldn’t know them.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I am entirely convinced the flat earth movement consists of 90% pranksters who are doing it for shits and giggles and 10% bona fide contrarian retards who falsely believe they’re in good company.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I think it’s more like 10% grifters, 90% dupes.
peripheralneuropathy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What’s the grift angle? People make money believing that shit?
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
I work with a guy who is convinced the earth is flat and space is fake and all the governments know it and that’s why planes aren’t allowed to ever fly over Antarctica or something.
But even that guy jumped off the trump train.
nullspace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
top kek
echodot@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
I worked with someone who seriously claimed that covid was produced by 5G towers, and also was a con by the government so they could inject nanobots into our blood via vaccines. He was never able to see the contradiction.
He also relieved that if you speed in a rental car for some reason the police cannot pull you over. Boy was he wrong.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I lol’d. We all have a coworker like that. Hell, he’s my supervisor.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i think you have the percentages wrong but the groups right. more like 1:3 pranksters:dipshits
also, would you mind using a different word than retard? i don’t particularly like being grouped with flat earthers.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe started by pranksters then grifters realizes that can sell fake books and fake stuff like some fake tool that pretends to prove some false assumption
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
so you start with that fuzzy equality where you end up at 1=0 due to bad math. then you just start multiplying if by shit and it looks legitimate!
Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Wait until you meet some
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe? The Netflix doc mad a pretty convincing argument that they are sad, undereducated, and unaccomplished losers who are desperate to feel superior to something and to have something approximating real friends.
I think it started as stupid shit and people with the most desperate need latched on because they had nothing else in there entire lives.