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[-] TehWorld@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

Because the government can’t afford a book of matches?

[-] moonsnotreal@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 year ago

Not in this economy

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Like the "Jewish space lasers" bullshit that Margarine Traitor Greed mentioned.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

If we had space lasers, we’d use them in Ukraine.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Jews won't use their space lasers to help Ukraine because Ukraine is full of Nazis. /s

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Flawless logic.

[-] FormerlyChucks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

But that would put the US into direct conflict with Russia. Military lasers are definitely a thing

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don’t exist at the magnitude you think. We don’t have space lasers that can attack ground targets yet and probably never will. At best they can jam certain systems like drones.

[-] discodoubloon@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I mean we could, but we’d secretly have to get four battery modules each the size of the international space station into orbit.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Only for solid state lasers. There are other kinds though. But they would still be fairly impractical and heavy to have in orbit. And wouldn't be good for much more than one shot

[-] FormerlyChucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think you underestimate current military capabilities which are decades beyond public knowledge tech.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Physics does have some solid limits though. The amount of power required for lasers to travel miles through atmosphere is massive.

[-] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

But if it's the same space lasers they are using on Maui that nobody seems to be able to detect it's source, then wouldn't the same thing apply if they used it on Russia?

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, those are real! /s

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I know this will fall on deaf ears, but the best thing we can do is stop amplifying these people by posting these stories and upvoting them.

[-] Gingerlegs@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Everything is a conspiracy since the internet became a “news” source

[-] MajesticSloth@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I think the same people would think the same stuff. Just now they travel faster and wider.

[-] RaineV1@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I think bouncing ideas off of each other on social media does drive them further into the rabbit hole, and leads them to ideas they might not have gotten to otherwise.

[-] TehWorld@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One person starts saying things as a joke or as a griefer and people run with it.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

That's how the flat Earth thing got its resurgence online. It was fucking joke that got taken way too far and now has "followers" that believe it.

[-] pseudorandom@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Trump too. The_Donald started that way.

[-] Atrabiliousaurus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You Can't Stump the Trump (Volume 4).

It was all fun and games and centipedes and 420 sniper headshot dubstep memes. And then shit got real.

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[-] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

And posting on the internet is like shouting into the void, except more people can hear idiots online than on their shitty AM broadcast.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, just because they're posting it on Twitter instead of ranting on street corners doesn't make it a news story.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Which only proves how stupid they are. There is no need for lasers if a simple cigarette but thrown away carelessly is sufficient.

[-] SlowNoPoPo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Or a downed power line, how hard is that to believe

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And when they finally do determine the cause, nobody will ever believe them.

Edit I want to say too, that photo is heartbreaking. It's NOT a black and white photo. I zoomed in on a little spot of red... it was a stop sign.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

The wall of flame was reaching speeds of 80 mph.

That's unfathomable to me.

[-] TehWorld@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There are reports that it was downed power lines. It was super windy which is what also caused it to move so rapidly and with such ferocity.

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I saw that video tonight, would not be surprising!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I hate to make the comparison with this photo, but all I can think of with the stop sign in the middle is the scene with the little girl in the red coat in Schindler's List.

oh shit, man that just messed with my head so bad

[-] tuxiy@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

The fact that my mom actually believes this 💀💀💀

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My mom thinks Biden’s a robot. So…

[-] FaeDrifter@midwest.social -4 points 1 year ago

That's ridiculous, an AI would be way more coherent than Biden.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Ignorance is a disease. The curiosity for education is the only answer. But our Prussian inspired educational system and capitalism doesn’t give us the tools to even begin to combat it.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago

They said the same thing about Canada's fires 👍

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

It's amazing they haven't come up with a more practical way of starting fires.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The government do not have those types of lasers.

[-] Zoboomafoo@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

Because the Jews operate them?

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's the crazy part of this, the idea that the government doesn't have access to those types of lasers.

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

That’s what they want you to think.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes but conspiracy theorists think that radio waves create atomic structures, so I think it's pretty clear they'll believe any old nonsense.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Jesus fuck.

[-] jerome@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Republicans only attack America to make Biden look bad. So they should start there.

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