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   Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 10:00:15 JST Alex P. 👹

   i should probably tell youtube not to recommend me this thing but i'm kinda happy to just have it sit there in my side bar so i can look at it and think, "sucks to suck, lmao"

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 10:00:14 JST silverwizard

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     @saddestrobots I keep seeing this go round and I'm constantly "yes, maybe you should have been good at stuff"

     Academia sucks, but her failing is the greatest endorsement of it

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 11:40:10 JST silverwizard

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     @hypolite @saddestrobots She's a physicist who became a youtuber and posts anti-climate-change and LLMs-are-intelligent posts, I basically see her as I'd see a Thunderf00t or whatever, but because she has a PhD people act like she's a science communicator.
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 11:40:11 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard @saddestrobots The name is not familiar, should I know her?
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 11:44:17 JST silverwizard

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     @saddestrobots @hypolite oh shit! I didn't even know about that side! Damn!
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     Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 11:44:18 JST Alex P. 👹

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     @hypolite @silverwizard
     she makes a bunch of ok science videos but also tried to both-sides transphobia with a bunch of dumbass handwringing about trans women's advantages in sports or whatever

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     Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 11:48:07 JST Alex P. 👹

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     @silverwizard @hypolite
     lol, i didn't know she went full crank after the transphobe thing

     "once you terf-post you can never post normal again" theory wins again :o

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     Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 12:08:07 JST Alex P. 👹

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     @silverwizard @hypolite
     it wasn't even terfery per se, it was just… really fucking stupid?

     and clearly out-of-left-field / out-of-your-depth type shit, like why would you make yourself the arbiter of this shit you clearly don't understand

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 12:08:15 JST silverwizard

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     @saddestrobots @hypolite I watched the video and it was a lot of "I'm smart so put up with me" stuff mixed in with the standard criticisms of academia
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     Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 23:17:09 JST Alex P. 👹

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     @Wildheart_Baby
     if you want to watch videos of former academics i suggest this one instead

     (her 30-minute summary of how palestine was colonized is very good even if you don't want to learn anything about the politics of astronomy, imo)

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7hK5_Rj--8

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     Peeble streamer on Doop 🟥🟨 (wildheart_baby@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 23:17:10 JST Peeble streamer on Doop 🟥🟨

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     @saddestrobots wait, so she has a PhD but still failed?

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     Alex P. 👹 (saddestrobots@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 23:17:10 JST Alex P. 👹

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     @Wildheart_Baby
     i'm not watching it but i'm guessing she got squeezed out of some field where only X% of the academics actually get to do the big-ticket significant research (particle physics e.g.)

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     Peeble streamer on Doop 🟥🟨 (wildheart_baby@jorts.horse)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 23:17:11 JST Peeble streamer on Doop 🟥🟨

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     @saddestrobots I failed and why its not my fault.