Wirlocke, I feel like in the future, a highly valued skill for anyone in a public facing role is gonna be learning to get off of Twitter/Microblogs.
How many people have ruined their own reputations by just giving the internet a constant stream of their inane thoughts? Regardless of if they deserve it or not.
mrmanager, Tyson is an incredibly unpleasant person though. It’s hard to see past his shitty personality.
TimewornTraveler, “We’re not leaping, the calendar is.”
“Jerk.”
Etterra,
CaptainProton, (edited ) No no no, calendar is stopping, so March 1 can be a day later. We’re not jumping, we’re waiting for some time to pass before resuming counting.
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Zozano, Can we ease up on the Neil hate?
It’s not like we give Elmo shit for telling everyone a triangle has three sides.
Neil is the modern lowest common denominator for encouraging an interest in science.
outer_spec, Neil DeGrasse Tyson has been accused of rape and sexual misconduct by several different people, but go off I guess
DragonTypeWyvern,
Zozano, Sure, but what do his dumb tweets have to do with that?
Also, some of the allegations are very, very dumb.
“Sexual misconduct” because he moved a bit of her T-shirt on her shoulder as she was showing Neil her tattoo? Stupid.
Another saying Neil was making sexual advances to her after she went up to his apartment alone for a drink. You don’t say??
From the apparent quotes, he was utterly polite about it all, he didn’t throw himself at her.
I’m no NGT fan. My comment was a jab at his fanbase being similar to Elmo’s. He’s a pop-culture scientist, yet everyone acts like he’s the stupidest Mensa member, when he doesn’t even qualify.
lemmyseikai, His stance on philosophy discredits his positions and makes him sound particularly pompous.
Zozano, My point stands.
Children don’t give a shit about philosophy.
He’s a science communicator, yet you’re treating him like he’s a genius.
He’s a pop-culture scientist.
DragonTypeWyvern, Yeah science ambassador is a rough gig in a culture famously hostile to intellectualism and human kindness.
outer_spec,
DragonTypeWyvern, No.
But on the topic, why are you attacking a prominent trans ally like Neil in 196?
StupidBrotherInLaw, (edited ) Don’t forget that if you ever do some heinous shit, everything you have done or ever will do is equally bad or worse. Your only ethical choice is to crawl under a porch and die.
/s
Anyhow, there are a lot of Americans on here and that whole place seems to have a massive erection for purity.
lemmyseikai, (edited ) Scienxe ambassador at the cost of philosophy. I don’t think he deserves any praise as an intellectual with the aforementioned character flaw.
Clent, Actually, it’s not a leap because it’s neither upwards or forwards.
The orbit is already ahead of our count so we add a day is moving us backwards along the orbital count.
If we removed a day then that missing day would be a leap day as we leap over it to the next day in the calendar.
So really this is the non-leap since we’re counting it, it’s all the other years that don’t have a 29th that are leap years because we’re leaping over the 29th day of February.
outer_spec, 🤓
TTimo, Yes. This
dudinax, The count is ahead of the orbit, but otherwise, yes.
FattestMattest, You can also leap backwards
orl0pl, Let’s launch all nukes at one place and make 30 February a real thing.
unionagainstdhmo, Probably would knock us onto an unstable orbit so you can either have lots more days or just a couple of years
orl0pl, (edited ) Not if we will launch at specyfic time and specyfic location to match Earth’s velocity vector. Launching it when Earth is in the apohelium will make the orbit perfect circle with 366 days orbital period. This will solve the leap day and probably climate change. I’m just thinking about using the nukes to speed up the Earth, not destroying in the process.
unionagainstdhmo, Good thinking but won’t it just delay climate change for future generations to deal with?
orl0pl, If future generations will stop producing greenhouse gases Earth will be a little colder than it’s now
outer_spec, On it, boss 🫡
chetradley, Neil deGrasse Tyson not saying something stupid on the internet challenge: impossible. vice.com/…/neil-degrasse-tysons-tweets-are-so-bad…
QuaternionsRock,
Cowbee, I really wish I didn’t have eyes right now
HonoraryMancunian, How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real
Cowbee, Thank you Jaden, very cool
OozingPositron,
storcholus, So deep
deus,
chetradley, Just picture this man staring at himself in the mirror, chuckling silently as he imagines kissing himself, then pulling out his phone to tweet this…five goddamn times.
FooBarrington, Imagine? He tried. Believe me, he tried, and he keeps on trying.
Rozauhtuno, “In English, we don’t have a word for spicy” - Neil touchgrass Tyson at a linguistics conference.
I’m starting to suspect that being good at astrophysics doesn’t mean you’re automatically the best at everything else too.
superb, Is that a real quote? I’m starting to think Neil is actually hilarious and we’re all missing the joke
starman2112, No, but I had to google it to make sure
AdmiralShat, He haa talked on podcasts before how he enjoys trolling on twitter, I can’t say for sure the OP image is trolling or him being a dork
AnAngryAlpaca, “I was just trolling” - a 12 year old after he realizes he just said something stupid.
ogmios, As if trolling isn’t a real thing that people do?
Rozauhtuno, I think it was some panel about conlangs? (the inventor of Dothraki was there too). I wish I could find it again.
TheBat, Piquant
samus12345, (edited ) Umm, ackshully, Neil, it’s called that because it makes each day on the calendar “leap” forward a day as a result.
100_percent_a_bot, Lurch
samus12345, (edited )
Semi-Hemi-Demigod, (edited ) He could have posted something about how the universe doesn't fit our preconceived ideas and how this day is an example of that and that this means you should dig deeper to get to the truth because it's usually a lot more complex than what it seems.
But no, Neil woke up and chose dumbassery
cheesymoonshadow, That’s exactly what he’s trying to do. He likes to poke holes at commonly accepted things in an attempt to make people think about stuff that they don’t normally think about and make them ask why more often. This is a good thing. Unfortunately, it just comes across as annoying to a lot of people.
MataVatnik, Niel is the embodiment of the Ackchually meme
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