I literally just said I’ve looked at it extensively. Granted it was a long time ago, which I acknowledged. I further acknowledged the limitations of my doubt.
You are really struggling to find a “gotcha” in this one.
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Yikes. Ok maybe it has gained traction.
I don’t see the angle here though. I guess it’s just another “the scientists are lying to us” thing and we know better?
All those people I knew who joined the society back in the day are probably second guessing themselves. 
I got knocked out by him in a recent $1k flush over flush. Moron, rapist etc.
Makes sense. But for climate change you can see the personal benefit of denial in terms of money and not having to change behaviour. Hard to see a similar angle for flat earthers.
They feel special by being in the minority in the face of widespread opposition from the majority. It’s why some people enjoy running counter to mainstream ideas when it comes to politics or religion or basically anything.
You also have people who don’t believe anything unless you prove it to them in a way that they can see with their own eyes. Some people will just believe the earth is flat until they can see the curvature of the earth directly (not in photos).
What’s amusing is that there are notable flat earthers who very strongly believe that climate change is real.
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Flat earthers started as a joke from the skeptic community but it has been strongly adopted by the remnants of the young earth creationists. Yes they genuinely believe it. Yes nearly all of them are devout creationists. A tiny segment claim to just be conspiracy theorists but when you press them on specifics it all boils down to jesus. It’s really boring.
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I always had the perception that r/thedonald started as a bunch of people mocking Trump that then slowly morphed into true believers, but now I’m wondering if it was always true believers and I was fooling myself at the time thinking LOL there’s no way they’re saying this unironically RIGHT?!
In case you missed it, the original WAAF radio station is now a Christian station: Rock radio station WAAF sold to Christian broadcaster. WAAF.
he doesn’t work anywhere close to 365 days a year, though.
more like 240
4 weeks of vacation, leaving 48 weeks multiplied by 5 days
Wow I grew up listening to WAAF. Hell has officially frozen over.
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Netflix released a documentary on it. It’s a thing.
It also reminds me of this:
Love it so much.
So went to my workout class today. The normal instructor at the time (a guy) was out, and his sub noted that he had just had a kid but will likely be back next week. That struck me as pretty sad. This 35ish guy maybe makes $40k/yr teaching fitness classes and he gets a whole week off when he has a kid. I mean, he could probably take four weeks or something off under the family medical leave act but then he couldn’t afford rent.
All these conservatives seem to want people to have kids and not have abortions and such. How about a $5k per kid direct payment or something? (Oh, I think I know why.)
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This sounds like a job for Captain Tax Credit.
Your maternity leave is absolute insanity. Here woman can have up to 18 months and their job is protected and they can collect unemployment insurance the whole time.
And men? I think he said his instructor was a guy.
Couple can choose any split of the 18 months. One of my guy friends took 14 of them.
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This guy needs to pull up less weights and more bootstraps. Problem solved.
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I had just started a job as a programmer when my first kid was born and took one day off.
For the second kid I basically took 5 years off though.