Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.
Rule: You must post before you leave.
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.
Tyson is an incredibly unpleasant person though. It's hard to see past his shitty personality.
"We're not leaping, the calendar is."
"Jerk."
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.
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.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson has been accused of rape and sexual misconduct by several different people, but go off I guess
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.
His stance on philosophy discredits his positions and makes him sound particularly pompous.
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.
Yeah science ambassador is a rough gig in a culture famously hostile to intellectualism and human kindness.
Scienxe ambassador at the cost of philosophy. I don't think he deserves any praise as an intellectual with the aforementioned character flaw.
No.
But on the topic, why are you attacking a prominent trans ally like Neil in 196?
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.