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moon, 1 day ago

Cannavaro over Pepe, surely?

moon, 8 hours ago (edited 8 hours ago)

Rooney was a giant of the game but Ribery was easily the more successful and productive talent. Ribery was so good that he had Bundesliga teams marking him with 3 men and they still couldn’t stop him.

He was the heir to Zidane and should’ve won the Ballon d’Or at least once if it wasn’t a rigged popularity contest. In 2013 he was an unstoppable creative force that led Bayern to win basically everything. The Ballon d’Or committee delayed announcing his victory so they could gather more votes for Ronaldo. Rooney probably had the same if not greater talent, but he was too much of a team player for it to show at that level. Maybe if he left United for City when he put in that transfer request at his peak he would’ve had a team built around him and we could’ve seen him at that level.

moon, 7 days ago

What a dangerous path we’re walking down. All in service of a slightly better Clippy experience

moon, 7 days ago

According to her statement, they were still trying to strike a deal with her within days of the release.

I can’t imagine anything more shady than trying to strike a deal with someone for their likeness, all the while preparing to use it anyway and later denying it had anything to do with them

moon, 8 days ago

He looks pretty nicely layered up for the climate, but those shoes will haunt me in my sleep

moon, 11 days ago

Oh it’s far more useful than that. It’s the shiny new thing that’s going to make a lot of money for shareholders

moon, 11 days ago

I’m genuinely curious if people actually use the phrase ‘US Americans’, or if it’s a reference to that Miss Teen USA contestant rambling about world peace

moon, 13 days ago

Pick a major to prove someone wrong and you’ll never work a day in your life

moon, 13 days ago

English is the current lingua francia because the dominant nation has been speaking English for the past two hundred years and created a pop culture market

Cute that you think it’s the U.S. and it’s little movies that are responsible for English being widely spoken, and not the bloody history of British imperialism being forced on half the planet

moon, 14 days ago

No. George Floyd was murdered because an asshole cop thought he could choke him out with impunity

moon, 14 days ago

Did you not read the end of the article you linked? His wife definitely had black roots, but it was a family secret.

Earlier this year, the mystery of whether Vivian was descended in part from Africans was finally resolved. In a February episode of the PBS show, “Finding Your Roots,” host and historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. presented Rosanne Cash with her DNA results and family genealogy. Vivian Cash’s maternal great-great grandmother was indeed an enslaved Black woman, Sarah Shields, whose White father in 1848 had granted her and her eight siblings their freedom and their passage into Whiteness, too.

Basically Vivian’s great-great-grandmother was a black enslaved woman, and her descendents hid this fact to save themselves from Jim Crow laws.

It’s possible she and Johnny knew but kept it quiet because they lived in the deep south in a time when it was scary to be in any way black. The ‘one-drop rule’ is still a thing for a lot of americans, after all. We know that Vivian wife was living in fear of the KKK whenever he went on tour. I would imagine he said whatever he had to say to keep her safe while he was away

moon, 14 days ago

The one drop rule is absolutely central to this conversation. Whether or not she was dark-skinned was not why she had threats from the KKK, it’s the fact that her complexion and facial features suggest black ancestry that made her a target.

One sixteenth black was still legally black in many States, and Tennessee, where they lived, was the first place to codify this. You’re not wrong that her Sicilian heritage could have given her this complexion, but if her Black heritage was proven, as small as 1/16th might be, it would have made their marriage illegal under miscegenation laws. So he had a vested interest in keeping it quiet for both their sakes. He’s still progressive and brave for embarking on such a relationship, if indeed be did know of her heritage

moon, 16 days ago

Is there a working alternative frontend for Twitter? I haven’t visited the site since the public instances of Nitter I used went down

moon, 19 days ago

Huberman has been a guest on Rogan’s podcast and seems to be in the same circles with overlapping guests and ideas. He also peddles pseudoscience and random supplements, so I’m not sure this helps OP’s sibling escape the misinformation sphere.

There’s also a pretty alarming piece in NY magazine (paywalled) that goes into how much he lies in his personal life to build a narrative that seems to align with the agenda he pushes on his show.

moon, 19 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

First, he’s not in the right wing Rogan group but he’s definitely in the grifter circle that preys on insecure young men.

Lol this guy is not Albert Einstein. He spends too much time podcasting and being an influencer for that to ever be the case. The best case you can make for him is as a scientific communicator, but he has been frequently shown to spread shoddy science and pseudoscientific claims about things like sunscreen damaging the brain.

His personal life is very relevant here because it shows he’s a pathological liar:

1. He had a primary partner who was in a serious relationship with him and on IVF so they could have a baby, but he was cheating on her with FIVE other women
2. These women all believed they were in an exclusive relationship with him and he spun an astounding web of lies to maintain these relationships
3. He exposed all of these women to a form of HPV that can cause cancer for women, without telling them that he was a carrier or that he was having unprotected sex with all of these other people (is this the kind of health advisor you want?)

The reason why these 3 points matter are that they show a shocking pattern of deceit. The man was lying like it was oxygen to him, just so he could maintain six ostensibly monogamous relationships. He’s also a danger to public health, yet giving millions health advice every week.

He has claimed to have been a bad kid who was locked up in an institution with conditions so bad that kids around him were dying/taking their own lives. That was entirely fabricated. He has more hard-luck stories about how his life was rough as a kid, but he found some hidden truth and became an academic and professional success. But the NY Mag article demonstrates he had a very privileged upbringing and neither his parents nor the kids who grew up with him know what he’s talking about. He’s obviously an upper-middle class guy selling a rags-to-riches story to his followers. It’s classic grifter stuff. “I used to be troubled and unsuccessful, until I found this thing. You can be like me if you do whatever I tell you and buy whatever I’m selling.”

This man lies in public about his upbringing to convince people of a narrative about his success. He lies in private to all of these people who care about him. That should concern his daily listeners and fans. If he’s lying this much, why wouldn’t he lie to you? This isn’t a case of a few minor embellishment and a mistress either, this is disturbing shit he’s doing because it suits him. Someone like that should not be the trusted advisor of millions about anything, let alone how to be healthy and successful.

moon, 18 days ago

The article is based on interviews and quotes from people who actually know him. Journalism is based on interviewing sources and reporting what they said. I don’t know why you think it’s equivalent to a Reddit comment but I suspect it’s because you’re blinded by your admiration for this man.

You linked to a review paper of existing research in the area and its conclusion is: we don’t know enough to speak authoritatively about this, more research is needed. From the paper:

Although most studies reviewed in this paper reported adverse neurotoxic effects of UV filters at concentrations substantially higher that those observed in environment and human tissues, these studies should not be disregarded, as they afford potential pathomechanisms which might occur in other conditions or sensitive populations.

Aka, these studies only found that it’s toxic in doses no human would use as sunscreen.

Unfortunately, the effects of repeated, long-term and low-dose exposures to single compounds and mixtures of various UV filters is also poorly studied.

Aka we don’t actually know what the effects are for regular use.

But we do know that skin cancer is a real concern for people, and sunscreen has been proven to help. Until there is actual research showing sunscreen is toxic at normal usage volumes, it’s deeply irresponsible of Huberman to advocate against it. Or make claims that haven’t been proven in the literature.

His personal life is relevant because it proves he’s a pathological liar. He’s also lying on podcast appearances when he talks about his upbringing. If you want to take life advice from a proven and prolific fabricator that’s your prerogative, but he is not someone that should be promoted in a public forum like this

moon, 18 days ago

Science is not about “finding contradicting science.” It’s not about spouting off on subjects that are not within your research expertise and waiting to be proven wrong. It’s not a ‘debate me bro’ your facts vs mine endeavour.

The worst thing this guy has done is convince a bunch of people, primarily young men, that they too can spout off about scientific matters they barely understand. See also: Sam Harris, Jordan Peterson and all the other PhD-turned-grifter figures

moon, 18 days ago

The people who are disproving the hypotheses are doing so through peer-reviewed studies in a research setting. They are not doing it on podcasts.

No, I mostly just think it’s horrible in Huberman’s case. Most of the people you listed aren’t prolific liars who prey on young men to sell a no-fap, buy-my-supplements lifestyle to. I’ve literally never seen a Brian Cox fan expend as much energy in defence of the man as you Huberman listeners. He’s more akin to grifters like Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson who trade on their PhD credentials to make claims that go behind their area of expertise and talk almost exclusively to lost and lonely young men who are looking for guidance.

moon, 18 days ago

Isn’t that a character in This Is The End?

moon, 19 days ago

This is giving me a headache

moon, 19 days ago

This guy said something entirely uncontroversial about the only rapper to win a Pulizer prize for his skill in writing and he’s being downvoted to the underworld.

Something tells me a lot of Lemmy users either stopped listening to rap a decade ago or skew in a very particular demographic direction

moon, 18 days ago

It sucks when people gatekeep like that. You can like what you like, even if it’s not the most critically acclaimed music

moon, 20 days ago

Because he looks like a smug bastard

moon, 22 days ago

The snake eating its own tail

moon, 27 days ago

I guess you would look insane when you’re actively fighting every instinct to close your eyes and protect your face as a ball hurtles towards you at 150mph