Fuck

We could all be Bruce Willis in die hard at any moment

The actor?

My best friend recently told me :

"Did you see the image of the original moon landing ? It looks so so fake"

I was shocked. An engineer with supposedly a scientific background was starting to take on conspiracy theories.

I just said that the moon landing was not fake and that it would have been impossible to fake something on this scale and that there was plenty of documentation about the Apollo mission online.

But I feel sad because it's obvious his social network interactions online are pushing him toward very toxic content.

Oh weird I didn't know that was a thing.

It annoys me that Dawkins spent so much time arguing with them.

Every person in alanon meetings coming to the same realization about the alcoholic

She can't bounce back and learn a whole new world.

You can open her eyes. Take her, wonder by wonder.

It's like they see him on Peaky Binders and think he's like that IRL or something. Reminds me of when right winners realized RAtM were "political" and got all butthurt about it lol

Yea they’re looking for agreements to help lock in the idea. The algorithms don’t ever have anyone critically questioning them on their little podcasts.

So Be the critical question asker that they forgot to be before buying the idea.

Be Columbo. ‘Oh before I forget Just one last question…’

Loved Peter falk in that show.

We don't always have the time and some ideas are too complex.

But this is what good teachers are good at. You need to relate to your student before you can teach them anything.

"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either." -Marshall Macluhan.

People are not entertained by "you are wrong I am right." Literally nobody is. There's an art to teaching.

A whole new Moooooom...

So well intentioned sealioning? Still gives me the icky.

That's why I always wear two pair of socks.

I heard in a pobcast he's vegetarian, too.

edit: A pobcast isn't a thing. But it should be.

I, too, look like a haunted victorian orphan when I argue online.

The wins just keep coming for homie.

Sympathetic edit: while I personally love crying, a 45 minute marathon of it seems a bit much.

Edit 2: oh my fucking god the myth, the legend the big ass name responded to me! I didn't even realize it was you. I'll stop gushing, but I feel blessed.

It's rare to find people who are actually interested in learning anything, most will just parrot something they've heard in passing or rely on gut feeling, and if your fact goes against their made up assumption then they will deny what you say rather than look it up and learn, because being seen to not know something hurts their feelings.

The seed they need isn't just that they're being spied on, but that it's personally bad for them when compared to not having the device. Alternatives that may be more expensive, but are safer and within their capacity are also valuable.

This is especially a thing with ring cameras. One thing I do is be very upfront about how despite being a victim of the sort of rare crime that inspires people get them out of fear, I didn't respond by buying one or a gun, I then explain why and what alternative I'm going with instead. The cops showed me clearly why they can't be trusted to use camera footage responsibly on behalf of victims when they were loudly demanding answers about my weed bowl but couldn't be bothered to look at the footprints under the window with a cut screen, instead insisting we'd left the door the invader left through unlocked.

It kinda does look fake especially for then. But it also was unlike anything ever done before using technology basically at science fiction level for the 60s. It looks like fiction because it was so advanced for the time it was borderline science fiction. Still amazing evertime I think about it.

Maybe an important point in all this is you don't have to hide your intentions or even agree. While the idea is to get them to think safely without putting up a defensive perimeter, you can still be genuine about your point of view. How that happens might be circumstantial, but, for example, you can probably always safely say something like, "I'm not saying I agree, but I was curious about your point of view." Of course, every discussion (and how we navigate it) is going to be different.