• TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    23 days ago

    Who died and made this goofball the official spokesperson for science and astronomy? It’s getting annoying seeing his face on my YouTube feed all the time. Along with that other dude, Michio Kaku.

    In case y’all got the wrong idea, they’re still cool guys, and fuck Elon. It’s just that I’m past the teenage stoner documentaries of people being “deep” when explaining the science. That’s who Dr. Tyson seems to appeal to.

    For some no-nonsense, no fluff science content, I’d recommend Sabine Hossenfelder and the PBS Spacetime series.

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        23 days ago

        Literally true.

        Socrates -> Plato -> Aristotle -> Alexander

        Sagan -> NDT -> ?

        Fortunately we are alive to see the original and the successor. Unfortunately NDT has become a greatest hits jukebox and hasn’t produced anything new and noteworthy in a long time. I’m looking forward to the next generation. I’m definitely cautious of what the generation after that does.

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      23 days ago

      PBS Spacetime is one of those golden nuggets of a shitpile thats youtube.

      Youtube keeps pushing Sabine, but I don’t agree with her on many things relating to quantium stuff. But yeah, you definitely won’t find any new age quantium mystic crap on her channel.

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      PBS spacetime is great, but fuck Sabine Hossenfelder, she loves to pretend to be an expert about things she isn’t qualified to talk about. Like how trans people don’t exist. Or getting basically everything wrong about neurodivergence. She can fuck all the way off

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        22 days ago

        I feel like the quality of her videos is way down but I am ND and found that video pretty neutral.

        I skimmed a transcript just now because I wanted to understand why people are so disproportionately mad about it. She mentions Autism Speaks and does not immediately condemn it. Is that it? I wouldn’t say that counts as being wrong on everything.

        I’m tired of (especially internet) discourse where shouting which camp you belong to is most important. One good example is when people accused Amnesty of siding with Russia because they reported on Ukrainian warcrimes. Nothing is truly neutral but I much prefer information or thought experiments over the virtue signaling that has taken over the internet.

        You will not convince people to change their mind by shouting in their faces that your point of view is correct. Granted, you usually wont change people’s mind online anyway, except entrenching them deeper into their existing beliefs. I don’t think that is a good thing regardless of the side they take. It leads to seeing fellow humans as monsters just because they are wrong about something.

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        I was in my university’s Society of Physics Students, and some of the members got to have dinner with NDT after a talk he gave at the school. Reports confirm he is a self-centered, arrogant douchebag

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        22 days ago

        That’s unfortunate and I didn’t know that about her if true, I admit I only watch her videos every so often and didn’t see anything like that when I watched her channel.

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          22 days ago

          I’ve been through the same. I was so sad to learn this. This is what personal growth looks like, you learned a thing today. Be proud of yourself

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      22 days ago

      I really love our German equivalents: Harald Lesch and the show TerraX. Had the privilege of seeing him live in a guest lecture in my uni about the anthropocene. He feels so much more genuine and less arrogant than Neil DeGrasse Tyson. If you know German and don’t know him, check him out. Both on TerraX and his YouTube presence. There are even some full lectures on there, similar to the one I saw life.