re: Is the earth flat?

Just because you don't believe the proof doesn't mean the proof doesn't exist.

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A million faults are pointed out with the narrative for example SEEING PAST THE DAMN CURVE

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Do you know nothing about refraction? Have you ever seen a mirage? Or noticed how things look wavy when looking over a flame?

If the earth isn't curved, why is a ship's crow's nest up high?

You can see further from heights. Are tree stands because the field is curved? Good lord.

Have any of the flat earthers ever explained why the powers that be are hiding the fact that the earth is flat from the masses?

Damn, and I thought Liberator was a loon…

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You can see further from heights.

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Why would that matter in the middle of the fricking ocean when nothing is in the way?

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Coriolis effect just doesn't exist at all. Snipers don't adjust for it. Water does not go down drains in a different direction in the northern and southern hemispheres, it's a fake meme it depends entirely on the original flow of the water and shape of the basin, you can make it flow different directions at your house

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you can derive the Coriolis force from Newton's Second Law in a rotating reference frame without too much effort

and if you look at Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow for a non-inertial reference frame you'll see terms for convection, diffusion, forces imparted by static pressure and viscosity, forces created by any external fields like gravity, and the experienced forces due to the rotating reference frame which includes an Euler force if the frame is accelerating, and a centrifugal and Coriolis force to account for the relative motion of the fluid within this moving frame.

if you lump the inertial forces together and compare them to the Coriolis forces, you'd find that the impacts of the rotation of the reference frame on fluid flow diminish as fluid length scales decrease or as fluid velocity increases. Therefore, it is wholly unsurprising to me that the inertial forces of the water operating within such a small length scale combined with all the forces present in the basin itself would outweigh the impacts of the Earth as a rotating reference frame.

Just taking the convective term alone and comparing it to the Coriolis term yields a number called the Rossby number and it's often used to judge whether or not we can expect inertial forces or Coriolis effects to "win out" when looking at the velocity and length scales of fluid flow compared to the rotational velocity of the reference frame.

If you didn't see a change in how water flows through a drain hole based on your location on Earth, is no way disproves the phenomena of the Coriolis effect, it's just not something you'd expect to see for a fluid like water in a drain at such small length scales because the expected impact on the fluid flow is fairly negligible because the ratio of inertial forces vs Coriolis forces is just skewed heavily towards inertial forces.

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Why can't you tell the truth

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What truth would that be?

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You can see further from heights

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He says without even a hint of irony.

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Do you know nothing about refraction? Have you ever seen a mirage? Or noticed how things look wavy when looking over a flame?

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in fairness some dude earlier was saying he didn't believe in radar so I'm not sure if these people believe light can be modelled as a wave.