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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• tyler@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t support Veritasium

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s the story? What’d they do?

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      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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      • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨50⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        To be fair some wet wipes are flushable (as in they disintegrate when flushed), the problem is that not all of them are and there’s no standard they have to adhere to, so even the ones that shouldn’t be flushed are allowed to advertise themselves as flushable.

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    • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sold out to some venture capital firm.

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      • tyler@programming.dev ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        I didn’t know he did that. He was shit long before that. Here’s my comment:

        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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    • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know they’ve been wrong a couple times. Take anything the channel says with some salt.

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      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        like you hopefully do with all things you see online, right?

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    • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Dont know if theres anything else, but I’ve seen the criticism covered in this Tom Nicholas video. I still watch Veritasium though.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And why would that be?

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    • tyler@programming.dev ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      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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    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        i liked his older videos far more, so quality is definitely subjective. it was one guy’s channel about physics with specific vibe, now it is just general channel about everything, indistinguishable from all the other science channels…

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      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        which is funny because that’s most established content on YT, whether you realize it or not.

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    • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t support shitty youtube. It sucks since googol bought it.

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  • macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t support shitty youtube. It sucks since googol bought it.

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• macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Don’t support shitty youtube. It sucks since googol bought it.

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  • turdas@suppo.fi ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You are literally 20 years late with this opinion.

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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• fizzle@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s a meme.

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