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[+] [email protected] -14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (16 children)

This is false. Here's an exhaustively researched 4.5 hour video on the topic if you're interested in what Edison was really like (an incredibly hard worker who was much kinder to his employees than was usual for the time, and who changed inventing from an art into a science), and the by-all-accounts positive nature of his very brief working relationship with Tesla.

Edit: I am absolutely gobsmacked that this comment is getting hammered so hard in a science community of all places.

I guess the misinformation-fueled hate boner for Edison is just too strong for the truth.

[–] yunxiaoli 27 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

Got one not from a channel that wholesale publishes sponsored work?

Edison was a monster by every contemporary and modern account. I don't know who paid him to narrate nonsense, but let's not rehabilitate one of the worst humans on the planet.

[–] Soulg 2 points 2 weeks ago

No opinion on Edison at all but what's your problem with the whistler verse? They've been very good in my experience.

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