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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Hope he becomes pro and makes a bunch of money. Otherwise, this dude is in trouble.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Remember, he's a college student.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Does anyone else find it weird that he knows the word heliocentric?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I wonder if he knows the word idiocentric?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago

Not at all. He learned all that, including terminology, from loony conspiracy theories. They like to use sciency words because it makes them sound more legitimate.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Instead of making fun of him, NASA should fund a trip for him to go to the ISS and he should livestream the whole thing to instagram.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh hey NASA, I also don't believe in space!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you’re also someone with the same kind of influence and reach potential as this guy, then it’s also worth changing your mind about this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're not going to change the mind of someone who's looking for attention. If anything - he'll double down.

Also if you need a football player to believe in space for you to believe in it too...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It'll be like the flat earthers who used a $20k laser gyroscope to prove the earth is flat, but instead proved the earth is round. Of course, being consummate morons, they then just ignored it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Exactly, someone who didn't find their position with logic, won't change it due to logic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Texas. It's what we said it was.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

The Lone Brain Cell State

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if it hurts to be that dumb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I typically feel like people like this aren't dumb, they're just so incredibly distrustful of authority figures like teachers or scientists or the government that on some level they reject reality and when videos "kinda make sense" or "have some points" about shit we all know is fake, it gives them the ability to choose what they think is correct and because they're already rejecting what they're being told is real by people they don't trust it's really easy to let conspiracies fill in the gap of how it works

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

the fact that this is a story is a better criticism of our media than anything anyone could make up

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

So did he buy a house that was like, 20 square feet?

“Yeah… I don’t believe in space. This is good.”

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Shows what a degree from Texas Tech is worth.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I mean, they do get a cultish gold ring that they fish out of a pitcher of beer with which they get to play wonder twins for the rest of their lives, so there's that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

There is no such thing as space all the planets are just bunched up together you can walk to Mars. It's all the conspiracy by big NASA.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This is what happens when you push someone through the higher education complex on a sports scholarship...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nah, he might just be dumb. Pretty sure I knew space was real before I was 10 lol

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Exactly. An idiot like this should never be enrolled in a technical university.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Football tho.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Biggest arms I’ve ever seen on a database, that’s for sure.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Remember to reach for the stars because the stars don't have arms to reach for you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Don't look up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

This is not even the craziest thing someone said on my front page.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I don't know anything about American football, or baseball and I guess DB doesn't mean database.

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