He could have posted something about how the universe doesn’t fit our preconceived ideas and how this day is an example of that and that this means you should dig deeper to get to the truth because it’s usually a lot more complex than what it seems.
But no, Neil woke up and chose dumbassery
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Just picture this man staring at himself in the mirror, chuckling silently as he imagines kissing himself, then pulling out his phone to tweet this…five goddamn times.
I really wish I didn’t have eyes right now
Axschualllllly… We leap during the night.
Even the smartest of us can have our dumb moments
He has lots of dumb moments since he often uses pedantry to try to sound smart. My motto is nobody likes a pedant, even other pedants.
This guy is like the anti-Bill Nye. He doesn’t want to share his joy of science with you, he doesn’t want to educate, he just wants to correct you with some stupid ass analogy. Insufferable. No one asked, Neil.
Maybe he’s trying to do some deadpan humor. I say obvious shit like this to my daughter all the time. Like the thing he’s “correcting” here is that metaphors shouldn’t be taken literally. It’s so obvious that I have to conclude there’s a high chance he’s just trying to do a self-parody here.
He does this specific thing way to often for it to be a joke. Also the mirror thing
If he gets a kick out of it and people think he’s serious each time, why not do it more often? IMO that’s a great way to deal with some people vocally not liking you: lean into it to fuck with them.
Like with this one, what would it even look like to someone who believed in literal leap days? It’s a position I have trouble even imagining. Are there even people who hold this position that he’s correcting? Would he have any reason to believe anyone needs this correction?
Assuming that this is the only manifestation of this sort of behavior, sure. It could be a dry sense of humor playing off of taking common turns of speech literally. But he’s been repeatedly shown to be a wholly unpleasant, needlessly pedantic asshole with a superiority complex in his public and personal life. Peoples intolerance of his tweets aren’t only informed by those tweets, they’re also shaped by years of insufferable drivel coming out of his mouth, said seriously and with intent.
I love dry humor and wordplay. This isn’t either of those things. He actually thinks people are that stupid and need a lesson on leap years. His reason is as follows: I’m Neil deGrasse Tyson and I’m better than everyone. People don’t know what I know and I’m going to bless them with my genius in 180 characters or less. Please clap.
Yeah, I’m not trying to say he is definitely joking. But it is something I’d do if I were in his position, so I can’t discount the possibility that he is trolling with some of these.
Bill Nye is the anti Bill Nye. AMA Hall Of Shame member.
Wut did bill do?
I remember seeing some clip where he schooled a batista about some whipped cream that’s melted. Niel, they are just trying to get through their day while not making enough money. They don’t need a thermodynamics lessons in the middle of the shift.
I know it’s autocorrect or a typo but it’s amusing to imagine Neil DeGrasse Tyson schooling the deceased Cuban dictator on melted whipped cream
Lurch
“We’re not leaping, the calendar is.”
“Jerk.”
Umm, ackshully, Niel, it’s called that because it makes each day on the calendar “leap” forward a day as a result.
“In English, we don’t have a word for spicy” - Neil touchgrass Tyson at a linguistics conference.
I’m starting to suspect that being good at astrophysics doesn’t mean you’re automatically the best at everything else too.
Is that a real quote? I’m starting to think Neil is actually hilarious and we’re all missing the joke
He haa talked on podcasts before how he enjoys trolling on twitter, I can’t say for sure the OP image is trolling or him being a dork
I think it was some panel about conlangs? (the inventor of Dothraki was there too). I wish I could find it again.
No, but I had to google it to make sure
Should call it jerk day.
I can get down with this.
Every day is jerk day for me ^because ^I ^love ^well-seasoned ^food.
Every day is jerk day for me for a very different reason
(Unrelated note: Lemmy’s lack of support for ascending superscripts annoys me.)
Actually how do you do superscript at all I could never get it to work for me :(
Unlike Reddit, where you only needed a carat at the beginning of the word, with Lemmy you need one at both the beginning and end of each word
^like^ ^this^.
Every day is jerk day for me because im a huge asshole
We love u anyway x
Right now is pork roll day for me because of your username
I feel like in the future, a highly valued skill for anyone in a public facing role is gonna be learning to get off of Twitter/Microblogs.
How many people have ruined their own reputations by just giving the internet a constant stream of their inane thoughts? Regardless of if they deserve it or not.
Let’s launch all nukes at one place and make 30 February a real thing.
Probably would knock us onto an unstable orbit so you can either have lots more days or just a couple of years
Like, seriously Neil.
STFU Neil.
But, don’t we just like wait a day for the orbit to catch up with our slightly to short calendar?!
