sp3ctr4l

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

His latest video was exploring 'anti-baking soda' as a potential novel way to do CO2 capture at scale.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fvxNmStSC3M

He also 'got his start' before Anti-SJW youtube was a thing. His first series that popped off, back in the day, the day being 2008ish, was "Why do People Laugh at Creationists?'.

I don't know that he ever ... explicitly collabed with Sargon or any of those guys, but yeah he did exist in roughly the same genre-space, around the GamerGate era of i dunno, 2013 to 2015, ish?

While he has covered Elon a lot, thats because he started calling bullshit on Elon's nonsense since way, way before that was common... he's been tooting his own horn a bit, following around 10 years of Elon's trolls telling him he doesn't know what he's talking about, and well, it turned out he did.

He literally has a personal grudge against Elon Musk.

For all his faults, he is one of the oldest, OG youtubers, since damn near day 1, who is also still around, and hasn't imploded.

His first vid is 19+ years old, so, 2007ish, and its calling out GWB as a war mongering liar.

All that being said, if you want a more recent youtube channel thats basically just mostly been tearing Musk to shreds, with science: Common Sense Skeptic.

By 'more recent' I mean they've only been around for 5 or 6 years, I think.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago

Zuck needs to be impaled, Vlad the Impaler style impaled. We need to make that a legal execution method, and then apply it to him.

If you think this is a joke, China and Vietnam literally execute CEOs they find guilty of massive financial crimes.

They're more humane about it than impaling, but Zuck doesn't deserve humanity.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You are not the only one... I wouldn't be surprised, Rockstar is completely shameless.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

... then see my original point.

Go anywhere other than Best Buy.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 112 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Obligatory FUCK SPEZ

RIP Aaron.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

If you own hardware that voids its own warranty when you open it up, you don't own that hardware.

Same with cars.

Same with anything.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

Updooted purely for dad joke lol

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago (15 children)

You'd have to be naive to... go to Best Buy, for repairs.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah... people need to understand this as a basic way corpos and corps work.

Almost nobody ever willingly retires. Almost always, they're forced out, and theres a PR campaign run internally and externally to make it look like they're voluntarily retiring.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Good!

Then you're not going back to Twitter, so you're not part of that category.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Honestly I personally, selfishly, hope Lemmy never gets anywhere near Facebook or Twitter huge.

Most people are fucking boring idiot assholes, full of actually boring and stupid ideas and opinions they only think are clever or notable because them and their social circle are broadly ignorant and hypnotized by marketing.

I prefer a smaller community where people at least tend toward not being idiots, and not being boring.

I don't want to hear from a celebrity, as their celebrity self.

I don't want advertising to be viable.

You are right; most people do not care about things that they should, if they actually believed half the things they say they do. Most people are enormously massive hypocrites about most things, whether theyre aware of that or not.

I am under no illusion that people, broadly, when freely handed the solution to a large chunk of their problems, will use it, if it means they suffer any kind of inconvenience whatsoever.

I am under no illusion that most people want what they claim they want; they just want to be popular, or be where the most other people are.

If Bluesky dies and the users go back to Twitter, they never believed in anything more than 'I want to be part of the herd.'

What you identify as a lack of water, I see as a functioning primary filtration system that prevents microplastic infected water from coming in to the system.

Keep Lemmy Weird.

I also find it odd that you would likely describe all that as anti-social.

... having preferences for the kind of people you enjoy socializing with... is not anti social. You seem to be functionally saying that not starting a massive marketing drive, that in itself is anti social.

This to me is either completely insane, or you don't understand what 'anti-social' means.

The corporate paradigm for social media... that is anti-social. 'Demonstrates a chronic pattern of disregarding the rights and well-bring of others.' They literally act as fine-tuned personalized, digital drugs to manipulate your thoughts and emotions, by exploiting your weaknesses.

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