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September 27, 2023, 07:02 PM
frayedends
Neil deGrasse Tyson
I hate this fucking guy. He shows up on all my video feeds. He's a pompous asshole. He thinks that because he knows physics he's an expert on every other possible subject. Every video of him he is speaking in a condescending tone as if he's talking to a 2 year old that just pissed his pants. Fuck that guy. That is all.




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September 27, 2023, 07:15 PM
nhracecraft
Apparently he believes he's an expert in biology... Roll Eyes


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September 28, 2023, 08:29 AM
RogB
He must be related to Bill Nye, the science guy, who never met a subject he wasn't an expert on.


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September 28, 2023, 09:13 AM
apprentice
I bought his book a few years ago. Back then I still kinda liked him.

The book reads pretty much the same way as described in the OP.
September 28, 2023, 09:15 AM
smschulz
Him and that Science Guy aka Bill Nye are Siamese Butt Brothers of Idiocracy.
September 28, 2023, 10:19 AM
bald1
quote:
Originally posted by frayedends:
I hate this fucking guy. He shows up on all my video feeds. He's a pompous asshole. He thinks that because he knows physics he's an expert on every other possible subject. Every video of him he is speaking in a condescending tone as if he's talking to a 2 year old that just pissed his pants. Fuck that guy. That is all.


No shit. He's no Carl Sagan!



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September 28, 2023, 11:14 AM
parabellum
He's not a scientist, he's a celebrity and he's pandering to the cancel crowd. He wants the alligator to eat him last.

He talks about a "gender spectrum"- a continuous scale between male and female. No serious person would adopt such a belief, much less, a supposed man of science.

History will indict him, if he's even remembered; it will indict all these frauds who put up a front of logic while spewing this nonsense.

And now, he's entrenched himself with his phony beliefs, and he will never retreat from these things he claims he believes. In essence, he has sold his soul and compromised his integrity in order to make himself safe from the fanatics, and that makes him a small man, a scared man- a man with no self-respect.
September 28, 2023, 11:55 AM
Ripley
neilism, a dead-end street.




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September 28, 2023, 02:46 PM
frayedends
Yup, you are all spot on. I was so angry with one of the videos last night, clearly. LOL. 2 cocktails and then he made me an angry drunk. I'm usually quite fun when I'm drinking. Anyhow, not drinking now and I still hate that guy.




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September 28, 2023, 06:30 PM
Keystoner
quote:
Originally posted by frayedends:
He shows up on all my video feeds.

Same, it's probably because I used to watch them through, but he irritated me with the transgender comments.

The YouTube shorts were usually clips from his interview with Joe Rogan, which I've never watched. Was Rogan kissing his ass throughout that?



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September 28, 2023, 06:51 PM
Prefontaine
He should have just stayed in his lane with astronomy. Like some actors and athletes, just can’t be happy making real good money in your field. They want more and expand their bullshit to things outside their lanes.



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September 28, 2023, 07:10 PM
Lt CHEG
He just strikes me as a smug, know-it-all douche bag, the more I see him. I’m not a fan.




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September 28, 2023, 08:17 PM
Rey HRH
quote:
Originally posted by frayedends:
I hate this fucking guy. He shows up on all my video feeds. He's a pompous asshole. He thinks that because he knows physics he's an expert on every other possible subject. Every video of him he is speaking in a condescending tone as if he's talking to a 2 year old that just pissed his pants. Fuck that guy. That is all.


The videos that come up to me are segments on Joe Rogan podcasts and every segment starts with him saying, "Let me blow your mind some more..."

Give me a break.



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September 28, 2023, 10:10 PM
cas
One thing that really shut me down to him was a discussion about "the afterlife", which he doesn't believe in. You're here and this is it. You die, that's it.

I just found it really strange that someone who has no problem believing that space is infinite, wouldn't even entertain the possibility that there might be something before or after this.
September 28, 2023, 10:23 PM
CPD SIG
He's pretty smart for an idiot.


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September 28, 2023, 11:21 PM
airsoft guy
He's one of those guys who's really smart in one field, and then thinks that translates over to whatever else he might have an opinion on, especially if they pay him to talk. It doesn't help that the IFLS dorks treat him like an omnipotent god.



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September 29, 2023, 10:38 AM
apprentice
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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
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Made me look it up, thanks for that. Big Grin
September 29, 2023, 12:43 PM
egregore
I posted this in a different thread on August 3rd. YouTube short: NDT says gender is a "spectrum"

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September 29, 2023, 07:16 PM
Keystoner
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Originally posted by cas:
I just found it really strange that someone who has no problem believing that space is infinite, wouldn't even entertain the possibility that there might be something before or after this.

I doubt NDT thinks the universe is infinite and I doubt he hasn't entertained the possibility of an afterlife.



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October 04, 2023, 07:33 PM
cas
I can only take go by his own words.