Of course if you really try to relax and understand the worldview these chuds are yelling about as "subjectivism" or "relativism" it means NOT feeling the need to dunk on everything you learned in the past as bullshit and wrong
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Like no one here is attacking arithmetic Arithmetic is useful, and it's also fun, if it's what you're into You learn to appreciate it more when your ability to be a calculator with limited tools under harsh time constraints isn't being constantly tested by the state
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Like Asimov's article about the different shapes of the Earth The Earth IS flat, AND it's a sphere, AND it's an oblate spheroid, AND it's possibly actually an oblate ellipsoid, AND it's possibly very slightly asymmetrical on the Z-axis and therefore pear-shaped All of them work
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When speaking about it just for fun and to get smarter and learn things it is interesting to discuss all the possible answers to the question When it is a matter of some practical urgency to have a "right" answer, which one it is depends on what is causing the urgency
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Hell, the most basic one of these is one where you can easily defend the "wrong" answer from the uneducated yokel Of course the Earth is flat! Look around you! Put a level on it! Put your car in neutral and see if it rolls!
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Which is to say, the Earth is *almost* flat, very very very close to being flat, from the perspective of a human being Which is to say the Earth is, compared to a human being, very very very large You could walk all day and all night and not make it all the way around
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If you downplay this fact, and underestimate just how very flat the Earth in fact is -- i.e. overestimate the curvature of the Earth, and therefore underestimate its circumference -- you will be wrong Really really wrong, in a very important way
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Maybe, in the grand scheme of things, not as wrong as the person who thinks the curvature is 0 and the Earth is an infinite flat plane But at least that guy wouldn't try to sail all the way to China from Spain in that pathetically tiny boat like that dipshit Columbus
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I mean, do you actually think it's being *more correct* to interrupt someone saying "We need a perfectly level surface to start construction on" in your Neil DeGrasse Tyson voice going "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE, GRAVITY ENSURES ALL OF EARTH'S SURFACE CURVES"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
There are a few projects where they needed to take that into account.
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