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1. Victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 13:04:33 JST Victor

   in reply to

   • Anime Wong
   • Wolffkran
   @Elliptica @Wolffkran
   
   > objects fall at 9.8m/s^2
   
   DO YOU HAVE A SOURCE FOR THAT??
   
   > sure, here you go https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/accelaration-gravity-d_340.html
   
   THAT'S NOT A SCHOLARLY SOURCE
   
   > okay, here are plenty of experiments to confirm Newton's observation https://www.jstor.org/stable/i24502961
   
   THOSE ARE PAYWALLED, CAN'T READ THEM
   
   > okay, here's an open paper where it's calculated more precisely than anyone has ever needed https://arxiv.org/pdf/1412.7954.pdf
   
   THAT'S NOT PUBLISHED IN A PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL
   
   > ...
   
   (I have had this kind of argument many times and it always goes like this. Retards are determined to continue being retards when exposed to something that might make them smarter.)
   • Ardainian Hebrew Israelite (ardainianright@detroitriotcity.com)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 13:04:33 JST Ardainian Hebrew Israelite

     in reply to

     • Anime Wong
     • Wolffkran
     @victor @Elliptica @Wolffkran Progressives live in such an environment of self-righteous moral indignation that it makes it hard for them to debate effectively even when their opponents are retarded.
   • Victor (victor@crucible.world)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 13:04:34 JST Victor

     in reply to

     • Wolffkran
     @Wolffkran If no one in your entire profession/religion/government/whatever is willing to debate a longstanding, widespread stance to say that it is incorrect, then maybe there is something truthful to said stance after all.
   • Anime Wong (elliptica@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 13:04:34 JST Anime Wong

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     • Wolffkran
     @victor @Wolffkran A lot of these people act as though they are being taken to task on something as simple as gravity.
   • Wolffkran (wolffkran@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 13:04:35 JST Wolffkran
     Joe Rogan is going ape mode.
     
     Context: Joe Rogan offered 50,000$ to anyone who'd be willing to argue with a anti vaxxer on his show. Every one of the people who received this offer have taken to instead belittling both Rogan and the anti vaxxer.