cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2218175
That fluoride makes people stupid.
That humans only contribute like 0.2% of greenhouse gases and have no impact in climate change.
That petroleum is a natural renewable mode of transportation that doesnât come from dinasaurs
And that science is not reliable because people just say âtrust the scienceâ but get made when you âquestion the scienceâ and that he doesnât trust what he canât replicate
And that NASA just lies and was founded by NAZIs so they just do nothing and collect government money
What is crazy to me is that this guy is great at his job and has got me unstuck from coding related problems several times. Yet, he believes in all these conspiracies đ”
I considered this guy to be smart and yet he gave me this ackward conspiracy info dump session
And that NASA just lies and was founded by NAZIs so they just do nothing and collect government money
He gets partial credit for this one
That petroleum is a natural renewable mode of transportation that doesnât come from dinasaurs
Also partial credit, oil is plant material, and if you disregard human scales of time oil does fit into the carbon cycle
I vaguely remember reading something about how oil probably wonât form again, because things evolved thatâll just decompose the plants too quickly.
Did I invent this inside my brain?
Thatâs coal iirc, formed mostly by the time between when trees evolved and when microbes evolved that could break down wood.
Wherever you read that was wrong, most of our oil is found in rock layers dating back to the mezozoic
What oil needs to form is decomposition in an low oxygen environment while surrounded by non-permeable rock (normally salt)
An algae bloom in a shallow sea or salt water lake could fill those conditions.
I think this QAnon person got a bit mixed up on this. Itâs an old idea from Young Earth Creationism that oil canât have come old plant material because the earth is only 6,000 years old, not enough time to form oil. Just got it mixed up with the idea that dinosaurs walked on the earth until 4,000 years ago when Noahâs flood happened.
Code monkeys are never smart, they just code.
In my experience people with these sorts of ideas canât stop themselves once they get going, they have to just air out all the weird stuff they believe. I have traditionally âaryanâ coded features and a guy at work just started going off about how (((they))) are controlling everything and trying to extinguish us and none of our not-white coworkers have souls (???) and theres a race war coming and look at these tens of thousands of dollars in weaponry I have at my home and so on.
White men go wild when theyâre talking to only other white men
Iâve heard shit that made my hair curl
Thatâs the weird thing though, our workplace is overwhelmingly not white. It was like a weird solidarity thing for him to have another to conspire with. And he evidently got along fine with everyone else, I guess he kept the racist shit to himself most of the time.
have also heard some insane stuff due to this.
Worse of all is that Iâve pushed back and instead of them getting mad they play it off as a joke.
Yeah my weirdo was very confused when I tried to shut the conversation down by identifying with communism, but he kept going. It was only when he found out that I was a race traitor that he gave up trying to convince me (one of many times my partner has been instrumental in shutting down CHUDs).
god damn I go through this once in a blue moon. I donât even look like a white dude that would be interested in shit like that, since Iâm visibly an asian dude lmfao. I do have a germanish last name however and some of the shit people have said to me has made me want to change it sometimes.
Just as an example, when I was in the hospital once, I had this guy telling me about how I need to be the sword and shield against the beast (aka jews) and that I need to visit the homeland once more. I had to do one of those defensive smile and nod / half pay attention maneuvers just to feel safe.
That petroleum is a natural renewable mode of transportation that doesnât come from dinasaurs
Iâve always wanted to tell someone who says shit like this that itâs actually a deep state misinformation to maintain the petro-dollar
I had an electrical engineer who works in semiconductors tell me that Bill Gates was putting chips in the vaccine. I was so stunned I couldnât make a coherent response.
Engineer-brains can come up with the stupidest shit. Like, of course you could make a chip small enough to do that, but the real questions they didnât ask themselves were: âWhy?â âFor what purpose?â âWhat features would a chip that small even have?â âHow far away could you be and reliably communicate with something that small attenuated by inconsistent depths of soft tissue?â
New conspiracy theory: Bill Gates created the microchips-in-the-vaccine conspiracy theory so when you google âbill gates vaccineâ you get that instead of his patent shenanigans.
