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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

ICP wouldn't approve of those people.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. It was really jarring seeing a Jugallo being depicted as Elon Musk. They’d probably beat the shit out of most any tech bro.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Say what you will about ICP, I'm not a fan. However, the lead guy endorsed Biden or Harris because of his mother and her rights.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They also cancelled their tours and told their audience to practice proper covid protections.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

They're generally better and more reasonable people than anyone would've ever guessed. Their fans are too. Generally they're just traumatized lower class Midwesterners with their hearts in the right places in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

We should strap some magnets on Tesla and coil some copper around his grave so he can generate electricity while he spins down there.

[–] explodicle 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That wouldn't work for long. The more we came to rely on clean free Tesla power, the less he would spin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Free, unlimited energy, forever; but it must be used for evil to be sustainable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

We will use the unlimited energy to power a Death Ray.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Scientists predict we will reach peak Tesla by 2026

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Rest in Peace Ass Dan

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

May he ride bountiful into the dark carnival, Faygo-crusted Gates

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I truly believed he would live forever

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He does in our magical memories. It's a motherfücking miracle, man. How does that even work? Magic that's how

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Great meme template.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Magic everywhere in this bitch!

[–] Steamymoomilk 1 points 2 weeks ago

Guglielmo Marconi

Can be added to the list of profiting off Tesla's work

[+] [email protected] -14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 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 (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I love it when you get millionaire (who would likely be billionaire) bootlickers in comments like this because you can almost always go back and check their replies. Low and behold, within the first few posts you immediatey get MRA shite.

[–] 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

What's your source, then? And no, a webcomic written by massive douchebag doesn't count.

[+] [email protected] -8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Should be really easy for you to produce some of this evidence that he was a monster then.

[–] yunxiaoli 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Here's an introduction to Thomas Edison, https://theconversation.com/thomas-edison-visionary-genius-or-fraud-99229

It has actual sources, and isn't a 4.5 hour sponsored video from whatever estate is trying to do PR for the name Edison.

[+] [email protected] -11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That pop "article" is like 300 words long, contains almost no information whatsoever, and every bit of info it does contain is also fully spelled out in the video I linked - that Edison wasn't a single-minded visionary, but rather a ridiculously hard worker who worked collectively with his employees to create inventions scientifically.

The video also goes into detail about how he crafted a public persona to make sure his shop continued to have access to funding to keep up his inventing, and in any case, I'm not quite sure how that's supposed to be the nail in the coffin for his reputation, since it was practically required for him to stay in business, and the inventions they came up with (or, better put, the ingenious, practical solutions to the problems they were trying to solve) were revolutionary.

Nothing in that article impugns Edison's name whatsoever - if anything, it fully supports the picture of Edison put forward by the video I linked.

Also, Today I Found Out has a rating of "High - Least Biased" on Media Bias Fact Check https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/today-i-found-out/, so I think I'm just going to ignore your conspiracy-mongering about them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn't that the site get a lot of flak though?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's not exactly proof of character but it's pretty easy to verify that Edison's patent of DC Electricity was NOT novel or new as a concept but did allow him to create a monopoly and massively enrich himself while also increasing costs on the average person of his time.

~~This is lended to by the fact that in children's books and schools in the USA Edison was portrayed as some magical fictional character who tied a key to a kite to invent electricity. Clearly there is a campaign made to make him look like the hero he isn't.~~ Nah that was Franklin.

But it doesn't stop there, Edison had many patents that almost all built on the works of others going back decades, although I do think that he did more work than he stole on audio recording and transmitting, but he also patented the Telegraph like a hundred times even though the Cook and Wheatstone Electric Telegraph existed over 50 years earlier: a time before Edison was even born.

He was an OK inventor but he was a cutthroat businessman.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pedant moment. Benjamin Franklin was the key and kite guy. Edison was the lightbulb guy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Sorry yeh I had those confused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is lended to by the fact that in children's books and schools in the USA Edison was portrayed as some magical fictional character who tied a key to a kite to invent electricity.

That story is associated with Benjamin Franklin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You made this comment after the edit, which is kind of weird

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I did not. Maybe there was a delay due to federation stuff making it seem like that. Or maybe you edited it after I loaded the page but before I posted.