...would accuse someone else of being an “unscientific hack”... boggles the mind.

If the Earth was flat, cats would have knocked every loose object off the edge by now.

you wouldn't see it in a few minutes. It would be gone.

I can't work out how a flat-earther has spare money, being so stupid and unwilling to learn. Did they inherit it?

You want to be special? Not a generic anybody but someone who really matters? Easy: Believe that you have the truth and that everybody else is too stupid to get it.

I'm in a Flat-Earth-forum and it's really, really hard to talk to these people because they imagine themselves as critical thinkers and skeptics while lacking any ability to imagine that FE could be wrong. Their thought-processes are full of holes, because they consequently ignore anything that might conflict with their "truth".

For example, they consider Flat-Earth as the default-position that the rest of mankind must disprove, while having no idea how empirical proofs actually work AND while constantly shifting goalposts.

"Is how we know the world to be banana shaped."

"This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere."

We must battle to defeat the army guarding the ice wall!