Honestly just look up “Neil Degrasse Tyson annoying” and I am sure you’ll find plenty of examples and summaries. But it honestly boils down to his delivery and projected self image.

Haha certainly a criticism I can agree with

Makes sense, as there are at least 5 posts in just this one image. Really pumping those numbers.

I am personally someone who is annoyed by NDT. But I am not convinced his actions are net negative, and think the opposite is more likely. Folks who find him insufferable and also don’t develop a passion for science probably aren’t dissuaded from entering the field as a whole because of this one annoying guy. However, kids who find one season of Cosmos interesting or only see 5 of his tweets may actually develop a love for science before realizing that NDT is annoying. He’d be a much better role model, reach more people, and make the science community look better if he was better, but that doesn’t make him bad when there are literally anti-science advocates out there. We need all the celebrity scientists we can get as long as they aren’t actively doing harm in my opinion.

Edit: also, the number of ragebait debates he has started that get other folks talking about science isn’t insignificant. He’s probably gotten some people into science just so they could shut guys like him up lol

Listen to a record, read (books, comics, articles, anything), walk, watch TV, cook, text a friend, maybe even play a level of Portal or a word game, or just lie down if that’s the mood.

With a headwind, sure. But with a crosswind, you can (accidentally) fly!

Obviously the thing that makes least sense in the image is Darth Vader visiting the beach. All that coarse sand, it gets everywhere!

Much like unpaid internships, this is also a method to prevent anyone who is not independently wealthy from applying, so they can fill the department with the same people already benefiting from the current system and allow them to design one that benefits them even further.

No one that this department is ostensibly built to serve can afford to work on it, so who is it really (clearly) for?

Ah, well that explains away one of the examples… You must be right! (I’d argue that the analysis of DNA is a thought/type of understanding, rather than the essence of a living thing, but that quickly gets towards another linguistic argument of Sausserian structuralism vs post structuralism.)

As a linguist, this is an interesting question, but a simple one. A-word is "ass.”

That definition could apply to a whole sentence (or novel), or a sound like “pfft.” Or it could be an initialism, a movie rating, or an analyzed string of DNA. All these and more are letters arranged in a way as to convey thought.

The Great Lakes feed into the Atlantic, so half the Midwest should be blue

Please

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That’s why Mr. Pibb emphasized clarity to avoid misgendering. He actually has a Ph. D. in archaeology, but made the humble choice to still go by Mr.

Are you threatening me?

Ooohhh. Now I see. Or rather, I hear.

I don’t get it

Early voters will skew towards the civically engaged, which in turn skews towards the educated and left-leaning. Unfortunately, I can’t take too much confidence in this.

First time I saw a meat content warning I thought it had to be making fun. But no, Grad be like:

"cw:meat

(also you should murder your landlord and their family painfully)."