• BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
    72·
    9 months ago

    The part I don’t get is that there are so many cool, real conspiracies out there to be explored

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      9 months ago

      But how are you going to feel smarter than everyone else, if everyone gets convinced by your conspiracy theory?

    • friend_of_satan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      9 months ago

      This is so Carl Sagan.

      And so we got to talking. But not, as it turned out, about science. He wanted to talk about frozen extraterrestrials languishing in an Air Force base near San Antonio, “channeling” (a way to hear what’s on the minds of dead people—not much, it turns out), crystals, the prophecies of Nostradamus, astrology, the shroud of Turin … He introduced each portentous subject with buoyant enthusiasm. Each time I had to disappoint him: “The evidence is crummy,” I kept saying. “There’s a much simpler explanation.”

      …

      And yet there’s so much in real science that’s equally exciting, more mysterious, a greater intellectual challenge—as well as being a lot closer to the truth. Did he know about the molecular building blocks of life sitting out there in the cold, tenuous gas between the stars? Had he heard of the footprints of our ancestors found in 4-million-year-old volcanic ash? What about the raising of the Himalayas when India went crashing into Asia? Or how viruses, built like hypodermic syringes, slip their DNA past the host organism’s defenses and subvert the reproductive machinery of cells; or the radio search for extraterrestrial intelligence; or the newly discovered ancient civilization of Ebla that advertised the virtues of Ebla beer? No, he hadn’t heard. Nor did he know, even vaguely, about quantum indeterminacy, and he recognized DNA only as three frequently linked capital letters.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Any time you have information about the market that everyone else doesn’t have, that should be a money making opportunity.

      • ClamDrinker@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 months ago

        Yes, but most people dont have that or take way too long than is worth in effort and (lack of) enjoyability for a simple meme. There already exist models to unblur entire images in seconds. AI should take the shitty work lol.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    9 months ago

    This is an actual term apparently in common circulation, though homophobia wasn’t even its original intent: https://glaad.org/globohomo-definition-meaning-anti-lgbt-online-hate/

    Emerging in 2016, this multi-purpose, right-wing troll invention combines homophobia and anti-Semitism. Researcher David Futrelle’s well-known misogyny tracking site We Hunted The Mammoth offers this summary: “Ostensibly, ‘globohomo’ is short for ‘global homogenization,’ an alleged vast conspiracy to destroy ‘traditional’ culture and values and replace them with a sort of global (naturally) corporate uniculture. But it’s rarely used in this way, at least not exactly. For those who’ve seized upon the term, ‘globo’ means ‘globalist’ and therefore Jews; while ‘homo’ (the suffix) means, well, ‘homo’ (the slur). (Some, evidently worried that ‘globohomo’ isn’t gay-sounding enough, add ‘gayplex’ to it — ‘globohomogayplex.’).” According to the Online Hate Research and Education Project, white nationalists and other hate movements use “globohomo” to allege the existence of a global plot to promote the so-called ‘‘LGBTQ+ agenda,” a similarly minded conspiracy theory (promoted by certain sectors of the Christian religious right) alleging that LGBTQ people aim to surpass the rights of other groups and “groom youth into identifying as part of the community.”

    • kralk@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I thought globohomo was an alternate name for corporate Memphis?

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        and how do you think they arrived there? They think large corporations that have to toe the line with HR are using it.

        Corporations : globo

        HR : homo.

        NB : I do not agree with these views, I merely understand what the views are and I am trying to educate mr kralk

  • Cadenza@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    How can I apply to become a globohomo? I mean I’m a straight beta male but still, I would love to join the movement.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    Twitter or Threads? Threads has got some of the stupidest people, biggest trolls, or Dollar Store AI writing stuff on the platfom. It’s literally so bad that I have a genuinely hard time believing anyone could be so stupid to write the kind of material presented there.

    This would be par for the course on Threads.