• Djehngo@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I hate this so much,

          Someone is mentioned on Lemmy and there is always a drive by comment saying don’t support X or X is a bad person with no context whatsoever. No mention of what specifically they are accused of doing/saying, no way to figure out if that clashes with your values or not, no documentation etc.

          And subjectively it feels like half the time I research why this might be true it’s debatable at best, I assume because if there was compelling evidence the person doing the drive by would have linked it.

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          He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.

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            According to Wikipedia

            In 2004, Muller graduated from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics. Muller moved to Australia to study film-making; however, he instead enrolled for a PhD in physics education research from the University of Sydney, which he completed in 2008 with the thesis, Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education.

        • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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          Personally, I just don’t like the guy and his vibes. But I wouldn’t tell random people online to avoid him, he’s not that bad.

          There was also that self-driving car video which turned out to be really scummy.

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          He created fake science experiments to sell products and slipped them into normal videos, like the video where he claimed wet wipes are flushable, then created a fake experiment “proving” they were flushable. He’s incredibly untrustworthy and also, not a scientist! He’s an art major or business, can’t remember which.

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          people are annoyed that he sold to a venture capital business

          but then not realizing that so far, their quality improved, while also releasing more videos

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      there are 2 answers depicted under the option you claim to be correct. one of those answers is indeed correct, but it is not really clear which one from your comment.

      clear answer

      it is the straight diagonal.

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        Don’t tell me what to do.

        Especially, don’t tell me what to do, without a functional alternative, and most certainly without giving me a good reason to do it.

        And absolutely don’t tell me what to do without giving me a reason or functional alternative multiple times in low effort copy pasta comments.