Soren O'hara

Over 2,200 years ago, a Greek librarian named Eratosthenes measured the entire planet with a stick and got it right to within 100 miles. He didn’t have satellites or GPS or even a telescope. Just shadows and a guy he hired to walk between two Egyptian cities. His answer was about 25,000 miles around. The real number is roughly 24,900. Less than 1% off. In 240 BC. That photo up there is from the International Space Station, about 250 miles above us. The ISS whips around the planet once every 90 minutes. Sixteen sunrises, sixteen sunsets, every single day. Astronauts have taken over 3.5 million photographs of Earth from up there. Nearly 300 people from 26 countries have floated up and seen the curve with their own eyes. And yet. According to a 2018 YouGov poll of over 8,000 adults, only 84% of Americans firmly said the Earth is round. Among 18 to 24 year olds, that dropped to 66%. A separate 2021 survey put the share who think Earth is flat or aren’t sure at about 1 in 10. In December 2024, a guy from Colorado named Will Duffy spent three years planning and about $35,000 per person to fly some of the biggest flat-earth YouTubers to Antarctica. Near the South Pole during summer, the sun never sets. It stays up for 24 straight hours, circling across the sky, because the Earth is tilted on its axis and the bottom of the planet faces the sun. On a flat earth, that is physically impossible. They live-streamed the whole thing via Starlink. The sun didn’t set. Jeran Campanella, one of the most-watched flat-earth creators on YouTube, went on camera and said he’d been wrong about the 24-hour sun. The rest of the flat-earth community called it a green-screen fabrication. I went pretty deep on this one. What gets me is the timeline. Eratosthenes nailed it with a stick in 240 BC. We’ve got 3.5 million photos from orbit. A group of flat-earthers watched the sun circle Antarctica for three days, and parts of the community still called it staged. The evidence has been stacking up for 23 centuries and the gap between what we can prove and what people will accept keeps widening.

@tommyswriting Why would you intentionally post a photo where you look way less happy as the current picture? Kinda seems like your life is worse now

The fact that it's always exactly 18 years old and NEVER 19 or 20 clearly shows they would go even lower if the law and ‘morality’ didn’t hold them back.

His face whenever he sees hyuna aughhhh i miss this luka so much😭😭

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To have a canon queer anime as the Summer Hikaru Died get nominated so much on the Crunchyroll awards 2026 even as non Crunchyroll show is pretty awesome 🏳️‍🌈 TSHD community vote

@AntiSimpVII @ichorserpent como diría Bjork: cállate puta

@ichorserpent Worst analogy ever. Solo Leveling was the best japanese show last year. Your petty attempt at humor changes nothing.

why is a michelin star dish winning over something you’d find abandoned in a gas station bathroom

Lo más gracioso de la funa a Toby Fox es que realmente la gente se hubiera enojado menos si simplemente decía "No quiero traducirlo porque me da paja" o algo así, pero prefirió dar la excusa más pedorra y sin sentido que hay. Quiero decir, realmente el pibe cree que la historia de Undertale fue hecha por Shakespeare y que es imposible de traducir cuando casi cualquier otra obra mucho más compleja y menos famosa está adaptada y sin problemas a otros idiomas. El querer convencer a alguien con esa excusa tan mala es casi un insulto para la inteligencia de sus fans o sus ex fans 😬💦

Spanish opposition mocks Sánchez for keeping Spain out of the Iran war coalition. Yet 77% of Spaniards oppose the war and largely support him. Most Europeans too. When your attack line is the other side’s campaign poster, you’ve lost the argument.

Después de todo el escándalo que montaron Negre, Inda y compañía e incluso una demanda de Abogados Cristianos contra la médica, que provocaron una caída considerable en la donación de órganos, resulta que Noelia NO DONÓ SUS ÓRGANOS antes de morir. Esto es muy grave.

every photo i’ve seen of palestine before mass obliteration has been the most beautiful and dreamlike landscape i’ve ever seen. hell is not enough

Yo animo fervientemente a dejar de ir a todos los establecimientos que empiecen a pedir propina. No somos yankees. Si hoy dejamos que cuele, aunque sea sólo un poco, en 10 años está normalizado. Siempre funciona así. Con estas tonterías hay que poner freno en seco.

The nurses did this because your father wasn't going to get better. I don't say this to mean, but a lot people see hospitals as a quick fix and not a place where some people are on their last legs. The nurses saw what was happening and was trying to comfort him.

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.

Wow, LinkedIn just got caught in a huge scandal. Here's what's going on: > Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. > The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. It gets worse: > The scan doesn’t just look for LinkedIn-related tools. > It identifies whether you use an Islamic content filter (PordaAI — “Blur Haram objects, real-time AI for Islamic values”) > whether you’ve installed an anti-Zionist political tagger (Anti-Zionist Tag), or a tool designed for neurodivergent users Huge L after L

"it makes me feel like either me or shabana would have an easier time if one of us wasn't here." i'm going to trhow up

the original plan for louie btw was that he would be in every episode of season two so. a case of an actor unexpectedly missing nine episodes of pay and not finding out until the season was already in production.

this is by far the sweetest scene in this whole season #thepitt

Regarding The Pitt discourse. -A fan favourite leaving the show early will understandably upset the fans -No one is complaining Ayesha Harris is promoted, fans are happy for her in fact -Variety reporting their news together instead of separate posts is intentional especially when it feels like one woc is being exchanged for another. -Why not keep both as regulars? -The show has a pattern of suddenly booting woc actors. People are noticing and rightly complaining about it -Announcing the news now raises questions. Why not after the finale? -In interviews Supriya has mentioned how she feels like they rather not want her around and that black and asian communities get pit against each other. -One of the few vocal actors on the show speaking up for Palestine leaving does send undertones whether you believe it or not -No show is free of criticism especially now when representation matters to people and vague statements lack clarity to justify it -Mohan’s a great character. Why remove her already when she has so much to offer? -Who next is the question

El adolescente ateo viendo cómo nunca llegará a una fracción de las blasfemias que puede llegar a decir un gringo creyente