• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Between the post and some of the comments, I’m pretty sure we’re on the worst time.

    At least, the worst surviving timeline. I’m sure plenty of “worse” timelines have existed that killed off the entirety of the planet.

    This is just the worst of what’s left.

  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
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    Whoa, whoa. How dare this uppity woman talk like that to Dr. Bradley D. D. Wentworth, PhD., an internationally renowned expert on footballogy and beeristics? His accolades include frequent beating of his wife, a penchant for racial slurs, and living in a trailer down by the river.

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    Don’t take this the wrong way but from the list of achievements she sounds very much a Politician/PR-person/Lobbyist specialized in the area of Space Exploration, not an Engineer or a Scientist.

    Still beats Beer-belly Brad by a long distance (probably not hard), but is such a person really worth celebrating in Science Memes?

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      12 hours ago

      As long as these types pay attention to what the scientists tell them and explain it to others accurately, they’re helpful

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      Here’s the thing, we scientists need our cheerleaders. We spend our time getting good at doing science, so it’s worth it to hire someone who is good at hyping and advocating for our work. Go listen to the recordings of James Webb trying to explain to JFK that we need to do a shit-ton of science before we can get to the moon. JFK just plain doesn’t understand the magnitude of what he’s asking for. He thinks we could do it in 6 months. This lady is our champion.

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      19 hours ago

      Just because she isn’t a straight engineer or scientist, doesn’t make her expertise less worth it I don’t think. And I would think that would make a very narrow acceptable requirements for this place.

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        It makes her an expert in advocacy and politics, not science or engineering.

        Obviously advocacy expertise is no less worth than engineering expertise or science expertise, just like arts expertise is no less worth than any of that and ditto for plenty of other kinds of expertise in complex areas.

        However, the “salesmanship” kinds of expertise are already the some of most widely celebrated and rewarded by present day society, hence my point.

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          15 hours ago

          So you’re saying that science _memes should only accept memes from active practicing scientists and engineers with degrees in their own specified fields?

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            You might want to re-read my posts a couple of time and think about it a bit harder, if the conclusion you derived from what I wrote is that I want to gatekeep the posters.

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              No need to be rude. Here, since I’m so simple minded and dumb I’ll try to convey as best as I can to one such as yourself. You’re saying she’s an expert in advocacy (how does one become an expert in that?) and politics… or maybe showmanship?, it doesn’t make her an expert in space programs. We should celebrate those people less, and feature actual scientists and engineers more. What I’m saying is that would be a narrow band if we just include people who’s job titles are scientists and engineers, because we are assuming other people in similar expertise fields would not know the original tweets context. If that is off base, my deepest apologies.

              It makes her an expert in advocacy and politics, not science or engineering.

              Obviously advocacy expertise is no less worth than engineering expertise or science expertise, just like arts expertise is no less worth than any of that and ditto for plenty of other kinds of expertise in complex areas.

              However, the “salesmanship” kinds of expertise are already the some of most widely celebrated and rewarded by present day society, hence my point.

  • MidWestKhagan@lemmygrad.ml
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    This is why I’m not on twitter, she shouldn’t have to defend herself and explain herself to that degree. People can be so toxic that on a game like marvel rivals I was absolutely dog shit at because my chat and voice chat were always visible, once I muted everything, I am suddenly reaching Gold II in a couple days. Be where you are wanted instead of jumping into the snake pit where you know exactly the opinions and beliefs of those snakes, there’s nothing to gain, fascists are fascists, what more can they build on than opinion and beliefs?

  • CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “What have you done that’s so great other than be an arm chair Monday morning quarterback?”, asked the arm chair Monday morning quarterback

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      Arm chair Monday morning quarterback is giving him way too much. Arm chair Monday morning waterboy is more like it.

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      Elon actually hands these out to people who don’t want them because they were unpopular and an easy means of telling chuds apart from… uh, chads? There’s a good chance hers is a forced advertisement and not something she’s actually paying for.

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          So are an insanely large amount of people.

          I don’t think people on here realise that we are in an echo chamber ourselves and often times not very forgiving of people with differing opinions, where I would assume we should want to bring people to our point of view by being accepting and trying to educate on our beliefs.

          So in this echo chamber of what 50K MAUs it can sometimes be hard to keep sight of the fact we are the smallest of minorities in this space and what we see is absolutely not a representation of what most people in the world care about.

          I’ve never used Twitter but I’m not going to shit on other people for using it.

          Were you on Reddit when they had loads of jailbait subs? Would you like to labelled as part of that same group just because you shared the same space?

          Does it not seem reasonable that some people might use Twitter as a means to keep in the loop and not isolate from the crazies, Nazis, bigots or whatever. You can’t converse with the other side if you ain’t where they are at and if we all stay in our own echo chambers what are we really achieving other than a self-righteous circle jerk?

          To be abundantly clear I am including myself in this too and not just calling you out. But this place is exhausting at times, I am the most cynical person I know and this place really gives me a run for my money at times. Even in the less serious stuff, like you can’t oppose Linux here you’ll be downvoted to shit for even having a different opinion. You have to use FOSS everything, and you should even be eating open source food 😂

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            tl;dr, but I still think displaying mild disgust at anyone who uses twitter today is the correct reaction

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            20 hours ago

            If Spez had given a Nazi salute and taken over the US government, I would have left.

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              That’s your prerogative, but I wonder if you see the danger of all people online splitting into their own groups?

              The way I see it is you have a place just filled with say Nazis then they’re never going to learn or understand different perspectives and they’re going to become more radical.

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                Nazis don’t understand different perspectives. It’s essentially the definition.

                That said, I see value in posting for the peanut gallery (when I encounter Nazis here, I don’t go on Twitter).

                But debating Nazis? Hoping to change their minds?

                Nah, prefer to serve them knuckle sandwiches and go about my day.

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                  This reads like you making the assumption that people are born Nazis and it’s not a learned behaviour.

                  Some people can hold their beliefs because of the environment they grew up in and many can actually change if people actually cared about educating people and not just feeling superior.

                  I want to stress this is only my opinion and I respect that you have yours too.

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            Not just Linux, but you obviously have to use the correct distro of it, which obviously is…

            correct

            Are you shitting me right now, why would you click that!? Allow me to explain in this 50 part manifesto why I am so very smart and everyone else is beneath me…

            That said, X is legit an Alt-Right Nazi bar. Even as we here are an Alt-Left one. I suppose it simply comes with the territory.:-|

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            Twitter is just shit though. Why are you even trying to defend it? Same as Facebook, I can’t see shit there without an account.

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    Those Forbes lists like 30 under 30 are a joke though. Not sure why she’s bragging about that.

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      Can’t be long before she’s arrested for fraud.

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    oh shit i didnt know that, I love her content just thought she only worked at NASA in the dmv area. Used to run into her videos on insta - she REALLY loves space.

    When those two astronauts were stuck in space(also fuck boeing), she provided some insides about their procedures and plans of return.