Comment on We lost Keanu

• norimee@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ha, now I wanna watch it. Might be fun if you treat it like it’s Cunk on Earth.

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  • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “And on this grand battlefield, the Aliens had their first successful battle against protonapoleon.”

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    • where_am_i@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      dude

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• MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  reverse nepobaby? How does that work? His kid gave birth to him and then hired him?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    His son works for Netflix and got him a show.

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    • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s still nepotism…

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      • match@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        nepo reverse-baby, then

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      • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s for emphasis.

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    • thesporkeffect@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Wouldn’t that be “nepo daddy”

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    • mobius_slip@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …nepodaddy?

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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  what is reverse nepotism?

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  • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    msitopen esrever

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    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      YVAN EHT NIOJ

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  • leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    One of his kids is a Netflix exec apparently.

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  • jack@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    His daughter is a Netflix producer or something

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  • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    When you have a famous kid, I’d guess, but I don’t know.

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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  the show is fun to watch if you realize it’s just him tearing through the strawmen he set up for himself

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I want to call him Don Quixote, but that almost feels like a compliment.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ancient Aliens is fun because the crazy people are so excited and engaged. They promote willful ignorance and antiscience stuff too, but at least we got Stargate out of the ancient astronaut malarky.

    This guy is boring and smugly antiscience. When the show came out, before I knew who he was and without warching a preview, it seemed like it was going to be about ancient cultures that atalled because of climate change or something along those lines. Nope, took a hard left into stupid territory.

    It is frustrating that these jerks ruin actual discussion about ancient cultures being older than we think. Especially when we keep finding older evidence of innovation or oceanic travel that double our estimates on the earliest examples. Like there had to be a significant period of human innovation prior to the oldest sites we know of with massive stone megaliths. The smaller pieces are just harder to find, or may not be recognizeable as intentionally carved!

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• slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Don’t have a boat in this race, but banning him from otherwise open historical sites because they don’t like his ideas is not scientific, but more like the mediaeval Catholic church.

  Science is full of bigoted thinking as any other discipline. If you don’t already know this, you have never met a scientist.

  Having said all that, it is a silly idea, but I enjoy the incidental geology that he employs to illustrate his argument. Not that I buy into the argument itself.

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  • servobobo@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Quacks get banned/shunned because they’re usually obnoxious and abusive, not because they hold fringe ideas. If it was only the latter they’d fit right in in most fields.

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    • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You will have to point out where he was obnoxious or abusive. I’ve not seen either of these traits from watching the show.

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      • Cataphract@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well of course you’re not going to see anything negative on a show recorded and produced by the person you’re talking about. Historical sites aren’t just about the infrastructure/items, it’s about honoring the memories and past lives/accomplishments of our ancestors. In regards to the “snake” banning, that site already was embarrassed by a previous recording of ancient aliens, and historical sites have learned not to let organizations and promoters take over and misrepresent the cause and importance of those sites. From my understand they don’t even let in people like NPR, they are there as an educational resource and not to be hijacked as proof for a theory they don’t represent.

        Now if it was an actual scientist working on a scientific research paper? Sure, be outraged. A guy trying to film a show looking for evidence to prove a hypothesis? (not how the scientific method works) Completely delusional to get upset about it.

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  • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My recent favorite is anthropology ignoring all evidence of women hunting because it didn’t fit social morals of the researchers.

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    • slickgoat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s a good example. Another is from my country, Australia. The idea that the Aborigines were just nomad hunter gatherers was seriously upset by the discovered fish farming settlements in the north of the country as well as the remains of basic stone buildings. Settler farmers have been destroying the evidence of these artifacts for 150 years because they upset the politics of “peaceful European settlement”.

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Damn minions of orthodoxy, I’ll keep my cells from getting bored and then what?

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  • Lobreeze@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Such a strange episode

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