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[-] gloss@discuss.tchncs.de 179 points 9 months ago

This guy is like the anti-Bill Nye. He doesn't want to share his joy of science with you, he doesn't want to educate, he just wants to correct you with some stupid ass analogy. Insufferable. No one asked, Neil.

[-] AbsurdityAccelerator@lemmy.world 77 points 9 months ago

I remember seeing some clip where he schooled a batista about some whipped cream that's melted. Niel, they are just trying to get through their day while not making enough money. They don't need a thermodynamics lessons in the middle of the shift.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 68 points 9 months ago

I know it's autocorrect or a typo but it's amusing to imagine Neil DeGrasse Tyson schooling the deceased Cuban dictator on melted whipped cream

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Should have given him the batista bomb.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

Bill Nye is the anti Bill Nye. AMA Hall Of Shame member.

[-] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 9 months ago
[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 32 points 9 months ago

Pissed off conservatives by saying gender is complicated.

[-] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 months ago

Lmao go bill ig

[-] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

He is extremely rude IRL, which pissed off a bunch of people who later talked about it online.

He defended gay people's right to exist, which pissed of a bunch of conservatives who later talked about it online.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Maybe he's trying to do some deadpan humor. I say obvious shit like this to my daughter all the time. Like the thing he's "correcting" here is that metaphors shouldn't be taken literally. It's so obvious that I have to conclude there's a high chance he's just trying to do a self-parody here.

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago

He does this specific thing way to often for it to be a joke. Also the mirror thing

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

If he gets a kick out of it and people think he's serious each time, why not do it more often? IMO that's a great way to deal with some people vocally not liking you: lean into it to fuck with them.

Like with this one, what would it even look like to someone who believed in literal leap days? It's a position I have trouble even imagining. Are there even people who hold this position that he's correcting? Would he have any reason to believe anyone needs this correction?

[-] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Assuming that this is the only manifestation of this sort of behavior, sure. It could be a dry sense of humor playing off of taking common turns of speech literally. But he's been repeatedly shown to be a wholly unpleasant, needlessly pedantic asshole with a superiority complex in his public and personal life. Peoples intolerance of his tweets aren't only informed by those tweets, they're also shaped by years of insufferable drivel coming out of his mouth, said seriously and with intent.

I love dry humor and wordplay. This isn't either of those things. He actually thinks people are that stupid and need a lesson on leap years. His reason is as follows: I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson and I'm better than everyone. People don't know what I know and I'm going to bless them with my genius in 180 characters or less. Please clap.

[-] EvilLootbox@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

remember when the Daily Show in the old Jon Stewart days tried to push him as a correspondent for awhile? It was completely intolerable, the man does not understand comedy at all.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, I'm not trying to say he is definitely joking. But it is something I'd do if I were in his position, so I can't discount the possibility that he is trolling with some of these.

[-] bisby@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I know someone who got to interview him once. He spent the whole time complaining about how he never wanted to be a celebrity and just wanted to do the science part of the job and that he hated having to do interviews and talk to the public.

They wound up obviously having no good material from the interview and didn't have anything to run. It was a very "don't meet your heroes" moment for my friend.

But yeah, according to himself, he DOESN'T want to share science or educate. It's a burden to him.

[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

It's amazing how far this guy got as a complete hack. The way people turned on him wasn't triggered by some dark secret being revealed. Everybody just had their own moment of thinking "wait a second, is this person actually a huge dipshit? Oh my god he is." I never saw conversations about it or any kind of viral anti NDT sentiment spreading around. It's just a conclusion everyone reached by themselves. It's like he had some kind of spell on everyone and ran out of mana around 2015 or so.

[-] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

He's the anti-Carl Sagan more than anything.

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