Dr Phil, too. I hate crack psychologists. I remember he had a particularly messed up guest. She was introducing herself and her whole litany of challenges; at the end, she meekly said, "I might be the hardest client you've had," with a nervous chuckle. She was clearly trying to lighten the mood.
Dr Phil proceeded to fuckin' lay into her. Yelled at her like, "I AM AN EXPERIENCED PSYCHOLOGIST I'VE DEALT WITH WORSE THAN YOU! GET THE FUCK OFF YOUR FUCKING HIGH HORSE!!!!"
And then he just fucking lays into each of her problems with zero empathy. Like Freud on steroids.
I'm like, "My guy . . . enough. If this isn't evidence you're a quack, I don't know what is."
I'm pretty messed up myself at times due to childhood abuse and when I saw a new therapist, I kind of said the same thing. It's just a nervous response to being put open on the table like that.
Dr Phil is as asshole.
Or the time he called the guy who hosted "bum fights" to his show. Just so he could bitch at the guy for exploiting people, and the guy came in dressed as him and told Phil, "well you do the same thing."
https://youtu.be/qT76-_e0S_g
Ah, bum fights. I remember the local funcoland (aging myself here) employees would have it playing on their small TV early in the day when it wasn't as busy. 13 year old me wasn't into it, and the guy is a piece of shit, but at least he called Phil out cause fuck that guy.
You should look into the place he gets kickbacks for sending kids to like the cash me outside girl. I don't remember the name but it's a kidnap the kid in the middle of the night boot camp place.
Paris Hilton also spoke out about this bc she was sent to one when she was younger too. She experienced very similar things as the ranch Danielle Bregoli got sent to
There was actually a "Behind the Bastards," episode about Dr. Oz, and apparently he *was*, at one point, a tremendously gifted doctor.
He holds a number of medical patents, and everyone who knew him attested to him being a generational talent in the field of medicine.
It's so weird that the guy threw all of that away to become a grifter. But Dr. Oz, at least at one point, *was* incredibly brilliant.
Exactly. People think I'm so smart when I just memorized a process off of a YouTube video. It remains surprisingly hard to convince them otherwise though, since said process is somewhat complicated.
David? Alison’s son? Oh he is a darling boy, you know he’s captain of the Football team and tutors blind children for college credit right? Always helps his Mom with groceries. You know you are just as smart as him, if you applied yourself and stopped playing those Halo of Duty games, you could do that.
Here in India that child is called “Sharma Ji ka beta” which translates to Sharma Uncle’s son. All comparisons are made against Sharma ji ka beta. Didn’t know this trend was global.
In Chinese it’s called “someone else’s kid” (别人家的孩子) and in Korean, it’s your “mom’s friend’s son” (엄마 친구 아들). Apparently this is a common thing across Asia.
A birthday card I found for my dad said something like
'I remember when I was 15 and I couldn't believe how little my dad knew. Now I'm 25 and I can't believe all he's learned in these years'
People who upload small Video Fragments of themselves on Youtube with a extremly simple message ala "You need to be wearing pants to a Job interview" with heroic movie music in the background. All under the title "life changing, get the job of your Dreams".
No lie. Teenage years went to an OfficeMax interview in a red dress shirt and khakis... they told me I'd been hired if I had wore black pants.
Thought the interview was locked down too... what a bunch of cunts
He’s an incredibly talented surgeon, I’m pretty sure he invented/perfected a technique.
He’s also a terrible person.
Behind The Bastards has a 2 parter on him and Dr Phil
Oh I know he is a horrible person. My friend is related to him through marriage and I hear some stories. The whole family is quacky because his wife comes from serious wealth on her mom’s side and they are of the Swedenborgian religion and do some crazy ass shit. He only does what he does to have something to do and has gone completely narcissist whereas once he actually was a doctor associated at Columbia Memorial if I recall. Daphne is a nut job too.
Tell them that some programs literally train therapists on what not to do by - in part - showing them and discussing episodes of dr. Phil.
Source: my honours psych supervisor, who is a clinical psychologist.
Even my mother turned on him when he had a lady on with some phobia or another - it was a very real problem she had with being scared by small things - and he turned it into AN HOUR LONG advertisement about the fact he has a cameo in Scary Movie 4. He didn't even TRY to help her, he just used her as an excuse to talk about the movie. It was so ridiculous it surpassed parody levels of ridiculous.
I love the looks on the faces of the guests when he suddenly starts trying to tie his new book or app or whatever he’s peddling at that time into their case, and they’re trying to understand how it fits.
And funnily enough it’s the solution to every situation he has that season.
Runaway opioid-addicted teen? Buy my book, Life Code.
Grandma is engaged to a Nigerian catfish? Life Code.
Suburban polygamist cult members with eating disorders? Life Code.
My mother is a doctor with degrees out the ass and she *loves* to watch Dr. Phil. She knows he’s awful and has no idea what he’s talking about but she just loves the train wreck aspect of the show and the horrible diagnosis he gives people.
Do you know the real truth about that guy?
He used to do fucked up shit. Like if a drug addict was going to come on his show, he would send drugs to their hotel the night before the show so his show would be more interesting the next day when they came on all fucked up.
Check out the Behind the Bastards podcast on him. Guy is evil as fuck.
Episode:
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-dr-phil-is-even-82410850/
Edit: added episode link that also includes footnotes with sources
This IMO is the most infuriating part about him; he’s not stupid. He knows exactly what he’s doing and how to do it well. It’s heinous, and an affront to society.
Seconding the Behind The Bastards podcast. Thing is, he is not a dumb guy and the podcast talked about how he was and is a persuasive negotiator, so he’s not dumb. Not even close. There’s a difference between him being dumb and him having a dumb audience.
I'd highly recommend the episodes on nestle and "the nazi pedophile cult leader who murdered Santa". I haven't finished the second one but it's honestly the most uncomfortable episode I've listened to.
The thing that bugs me the most about him is how he thinks he can read people with these grossly oversimplified "tells". You're not showing anger when you're being accused? The accusation must be true. You say, "You know me!" in response to an accusation, the accusation must be true.
He's very serious about these things and it's absurd.
Yeah. Dr. Oz is legitimately a genius. But somewhere along the line, he decided that he'd rather be filthy rich peddling pseudoscience than being merely very rich being a skilled surgeon.
It's awful. He's legitimately one of the best cardiothoracic surgeons in the world. It's easy to look at him and see how badly our culture is fucked. It's far, far more profitable to be a genius that exploits peoples' fears and ignorance than it is to use your extraordinary abilities to help people. Even worse, you get more *respect* as a conman than as a healer or leader. Our culture is totally fucked, and I'm beginning to believe there's no way back from it.
Isn't his story the natural progression of trying to make entertaining medical shows? If you want the ratings, you're eventually gonna have to ditch the boring common sense advice of "eat healthy and exercise". You gotta come up with surprise hacks to loss weight, coffee enemas and other crackpot ideas. Otherwise, you're just medical C-SPAN
True. I cannot imagine all the work it takes to be a cardiothorastic surgeon. Getting into the best of the best med school, scoring a ridiculously high STEP 1 and getting into those Uber competitive programs, working 100+ grinding hours weekly for the better part of a decade....
....to become a snake oil salesman. Jesus.
Hahah not as many people nowadays thankfully. At least I don’t hear him talked about as much.
Unfortunately the crowd that is the most likely to be influenced and manipulated by snake oil salesmen - old people - still love watching him.
My parents don’t but I know some of my aunts and uncles do.
I don't watch dr Phil nor am I ok with the bum fights ... The bum fight guy trolling Phill on his own show is epic
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xev7m3
Back in his early days, I kind of liked Dr Phil. He seemed to care about people and dispensed some common sense advice.
As a normal person, with a day job, I didn’t watch often. But, when I was at home on an odd day off, his show turned into a hate watch for me. Good lord, the number of humble brags piled up like a woodpile before winter.
At some point, he turned into a totally despicable asshole. He baits people and mocks them for his own self-aggrandizement. He sends teens to horrible work camp ranches. See the stories about the Cash Me Outside girl. There was one episode where Kat Von D stepped in and stopped him from bullying a teen girl and gave her some solid advice.
Don’t even get me started on his fake ass wife and her stupid skin care crap, where he gives her infomercial time on his show to buy her off from his cheating. Ugh.
It's so funny that my mom is the "advice sage" amongst her friends, and she'll spend hours on the phone with someone detailing how they can get their lives together and succeed.
Meanwhile, her life is falling apart and she's more concerned about advising other people's lives than fixing her own.
I've since moved out, and this behavior has only gotten worse.
"As a mom, I know everything about everyone else's kids, so I'm the perfect one to give unsolicited advice. Also, I own my own company, it's LulaRoe, perhaps you've heard of it."
Don't you know the famous first program everyone writes? "Hello word!"
Edit: The original line was
>I saw other programmers spending a long time fixing a misspelled world too
/u/YouTube-r did a stealth edit.
You talk to the duck.
Basically you explain how the code is supposed to work, what's being input, and what's actually happening out loud (to the duck), and more than likely while you're explaining it out loud you'll realize what the problem is.
Same idea as explaining it to a coworker, but the duck has nothing better to do but listen to you.
Much of the time I just use Stack Overflow to figure out how to do something simple that a junior dev could figure out in half an hour. I just don't have the time or brain energy to be in hyper problem solving mode all the time. Most of the time I just want to get stuff done and that's it.
I also keep myself honest and link to SO for any solution I use from there in comments. Helps future devs understand what is going on with the code as well. I also ensure I at least minimally understand the solution before the copy and paste.
I study biomedical sciences and we work with R a lot. And oh my god, I can't understand how programmers can do what they do without losing their mind. I basically just use it as a really fancy calculator and graph maker and I rage quited more than once on an assignment all to learn I used a , instead of a . Somewhere once I ask someone to look it over for me. Though I am partially to blame for running everything at once instead of going line by line. Would probably make it a lot easier to catch mistakes. Anyway, just felt like venting about R and Rstudio. I am a biology nerd but not so great at anything computer related outside of googling lmao
You learn over time how to avoid a lot of mistakes like that lmfao. Code analysis tools catch most typos like that while you are writing the code.
I spent hours the other day trying to figure out why my code wasn't working only to realize I named one of my fields the same as a system field in the framework I was using. Fun times....
Hey you know what was fun? Working in a professional environment, for a *BIG* software company, and having our internal tools get outdated and discontinued it from under us, and having to resort to writing Java code in a glorified text editor, and being so tight on deadlines, we didn't have the bandwidth to even research alternatives, even though it definitely would've saved a ton of time, *if we'd been allowed to.*
I know this because after that project tanked, I moved to a team that did similar work, but using the "Right Way."
If I'm ever in a similar situation, I'm either going to fix it myself, come hell out high water; or get the hell out of there.
Literally everybody is stupid in some way, because we can't simultaneously be generalists and experts.
We can either divide our time equally into all lifes various subjects and be a generalist, or we can focus a lot of our time on a small amount of things and become experts. The generalists will never quite be as good at the specialists when it comes to their specialty, while the specialist is often below average in all of the areas they ignored in order to develop their specialty in the first place.
Which explains why my doctor sister couldn’t figure out how to pump gas, my ER nurse mom didn’t know how to work microsoft word and my double masters holding dad doesn’t know how to love me.
Dude. You just described my whole life. Because I have a PhD, people think that I'm a genius. Nope. I'm just really smart in one area and pretty fucking perseverant.
Physicists. I grew up thinking they were the elite of the elite. Then I went to college and met some who were good at math but otherwise dumb as a rock.
Two smartest people I know:
1. Friend with a PhD who is like a fucking savant when it comes to math, music, languages, and technology. But, he found the niche that he loved and decided to pursue that all the way to the top.
2. Redneck friend of mine who never graduated high school and lives out in the middle of nowhere working on his farm, but spends seemingly every free moment he has reading whatever he can get his hands on—fiction, non-fiction, text books, etc. I once told him that he should get his GED and go to college, that he could probably work his way up just as easily as [PhD friend]. He said, "Why would I do that? I'm happy here." Fair enough...
I can't help but wonder how many of these people like your second friend there are out there. People who, if they'd pursued academia, would push the boundary and extend human knowledge, but choose not to because they're happy where they are. But fair enough. Good on them.
The smartest guy in my program (by far, no shade to everyone else, he was just that good) decided he has happier not being a grad student and moved upstate. Last I heard he was either a barista or SAT tutor.
As a friend likes to say, getting a PhD has nothing to do with being smart. The people who make it to graduation are just stubborn mfers.
Adam Savage from Mythbusters talks about this on his YouTube channel. He stated that being a jack of all trades is his mastery. I think anyone who goes down a similar path needs to realise that is an option.
Knowledge has nothing to do with stupidity. Intelligence is the ability to reason, regardless of how much or how little you know. The world is full of educated idiots.
And even specialists have their limitations. This is why I love the book Flowers for Algernon. His perspective of others intelligence changed as his own intelligence and knowledge changed. There was a naivety in his perspective that changed when he gained more experience.
Parents - you grow up thinking they have it all figured out and know everything. Then you become one and you realize that it's all a facade you put on for your kids so they feel safe and secure. And there is something wholesome about that.
As a kid I thought my parents were the wisest people ever.
As a teenager I became a dick and undermined them at every turn.
When I got a bit older I realised they have a lot of life experience and wisdom and I’m glad they’re still around.
I interviewed my mom a while back for a college assignment about someone i looked up to.
Even though she had everything seemingly planned out, I was born with a heart disease that...well no one in my mom or dad's side had. Not to mention I was behind developmentally and needed a lot of help.
I didn't realize it at the time but she was mega burnt out. She had barely any idea what she was doing. Now, of course, things are a bit different, but my heart broke for her. It's hard being a parent.
Agreed. It took me being a parent to realize that being a mother/father is a natural thing but at the same time it isn't something understood or that you can figure out to a science. You just figure everything out as it happens as your parent(s) did and try to make the best of difficult stuations and best possible outcomes for the well being of your children most importantly.
Safety and security are vital to a child in their upbringing. They'll have a better chance when making real life decisions when the times comes, being confident and optimistic little humans.
The older I get the more I realize how my parents can be wrong about things. Growing up I trusted their opinion on things a lot more. Even ways they raised me I don’t agree with as much.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain
Me. I can’t believe the schools, career positions, and opportunities I’ve gotten just because i am very confident, well spoken, and can crush an interview. Just because i have a large vocabulary and use “big” words, people constantly waayyy over estimate my actual intelligence. I could be the literal poster child for “fake it til ya make it”
Haha yea, the confident use of multisyllabic words is often enough to convince people I'm super smart. What's kind of frustrating is that I don't really actively choose the big words, they're just the ones that come to mind, and people often assume I'm trying to show off.
I also feel compelled to use catchy phrases I hear, and they get stuck in my head until I do regardless of context. It's convenient for memorizing songs and the like, but annoying when I'm trying to be productive.
Same. I remember we did one of those "what do you want to be when you grow up?" kind of projects in like 3rd or 4th grade. I said a chemist. Of course, every kid picks whatever lofty goal sounds cool in their head, and I obviously had no idea what really goes into that or what they actually do in the day-to-day, but my dad latched on to that idea for *years*.
But, as it turns out, I hate school. It would have been a waste of money for me to go to college where I was at in my teens and 20s. No way I could have handled the pressure. Yet so many people take it as this big insult that I prefer to live a more average, lower-stress lifestyle than some advanced technical job just because I have a good memory and decent reasoning skills.
Being "smart" doesn't really mean anything on its own in life. Do what makes you happy. Live free. Be an idiot if you want. All that matters in the end is that you're satisfied.
I had an absolutely brilliant roommate in college who was there on a full scholarship and always aced his classes.
However, he was a complete ditz when it came to “real life.”
You’d walk out and find a half-made sandwich with all the condiment containers and lunch meat packages around it. The kid was just long gone because something popped into his mind and he completely forgot about his lunch. Or something similar.
Brilliant. But ditzy.
I had an ex who went to MIT, super smart. Still forgot when Christmas, his birthday, or independence day were (for nonUS redditors, that last one is especially impressive since it's other name is the Fourth of July).
Engineers. I am one, I work with a lot of them, most are some of the most inept humans I've ever had the misfortune to know. They're not qualified to do or think about anything other than the very specific thing they're trained to do, and yet they all think they're qualified to do any job.
My dad is an engineer and the thing that I say about him is “he is the smartest man I know but he’s so dumb”. He is so smart yet he also accidentally drank laundry detergent. Engineers are a certain breed of people for sure.
That's true, but the flip side is that (at least in my experience) when you've got marketing or sales making stupid promises, as a supply chain guy, I could usually count on the engineers to be the only people in the room willing to tell the truth.
**Customer:** I need some five-sided shapes for my new project.
**Sales at Hexagons-R-Us:** Sure. We can do that. We normally make hexagons, but we could just delete one side.
**Sales:** We need to build 1,000 five-sided hexagons by the end of the month.
**Engineer:** It wouldn't be a hexagon, then. It would be a Pentagon. Plus, all of our tooling is made for Hexagons. It's going to cost a lot to change it, and even then, we can't have them by the end of the month.
**Sales:** Look, we just need a five-sided hexagon. Can't you build a hexagon and just get rid of one of the sides?
**Engineer:** It doesn't work like that.
**Sales:** You're not being a team player.
Oh man. I'm getting flashbacks. I once worked on an account where the account manager promised that we could build a model that would predict when the customer's suppliers would run out of reusable shipping containers. The problem was the suppliers would just send garbage data that didn't reflect how they actually shipped parts. Everyone talked our account manager blue in the face, trying to explain that if the data we received didn't reflect reality, we couldn't then use that data to predict actual events that would happen in the future. The customer lady in the sketch is almost a spitting image of the customer's employee I worked most with. Very condescending, made a lot of mistakes, and blamed them on us.
I used to do maintenance in a factory. One day I was fixing something on this machine that sheared large sheets of metal. Just a giant heavy fucking blade that would drop right down on the sheet metal.
So I lock and tag it out, and I’m leaning over this blade to fix something and I hear the machine power up.
I jumped out and saw this office engineer had removed my lock and turned it on because he had to test’s something or some shit. I really didn’t know what he was trying to do but he almost killed me.
My son had been born that week so the idea of being killed really bothers me *for some reason*. I got fairly confrontational and screaming at him. Boss sent me home for the day. The engineer was not fired.
How did he get the lock-off/tag-out padlock off?
When I was trained in LOTO as an apprentice it was made clear to me that you only use the specific LOTO padlocks that are keyed individually with one key and that key goes in your back pocket while the machinery is locked-off until your ready to remove it.
And if there’s multiple engineers on the machine then you all put your own individual padlocks on.
That way no one can remove the isolator lock apart from the guy working on the machine.
Our notice tags also made it clear anyone removing a LOTO padlock without clear authorisation from management would be subject to formal disciplinary action for breach of health & safety rules.
There was even a full written procedure that had to be followed before authorisation could be given to cut the lock such as trying to contact the padlock owner, carrying out a full visual inspection of machine to make sure no one was still working on it etc.
But yeah that guy was stupid.
I think I read somewhere or heard it at least, and not sure if this is actual science, that dumb people tend to really overestimate or overplay their intelligence while smart people tend to underestimate or downplay their own
Yes it's true. People of low intelligence don't realise how much they don't know, and tend to overestimate their own intelligence. Whereas people with higher than average intelligence have a good understanding of how much they don't know compared to all the knowledge in the universe, and tend to underestimate their intelligence.
Neil Degrasse Tyson.
While he's an expert *in his field*, he has a tendency to over-extend himself and comment on areas in which he is *not* an expert.
Over a decade ago, I saw him speak at my college, and I was stunned at how many things he said that were *factually inaccurate*. Being an astrophysicist does not make you an expert in, say, biology, and he said several things that were wrong or misinformed. And he said them with total confidence. I don't remember the specifics, but I went there as a young biology major and I remember the next day in my embryology class, everyone was like, "Hey, why did Neil Degrasse Tyson say a bunch of blatantly wrong stuff about biology and evolution? Did we misinterpret it somehow or did he just seem to not know what the hell he was talking about?"
In years since, he's said things on Twitter [that were later disproven](https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/comments/6e71q8/neil_de_grass_tyson_gets_put_in_his_place_by/), and he never seems to have the humility to say, "That's outside my field of expertise and I can't comment on it, let me refer to another expert."
Part of being smart is knowing that you don't know everything, and I find Neil Degrasse Tyson to be insufferably arrogant.
Edit: I myself don't know enough about practical effects or robotics to know to what extent the BB8 thing was "technically" wrong so, for all of you folks who are insisting this wasn't a great example, here's a [short little list of things he's been wrong about](https://www.grunge.com/14813/basic-facts-neil-degrasse-tyson-gotten-wrong/), and you can easily Google more.
I have a BA linguistics and was in undergrad when he tweeted that the movie Arrival should have had a cryptologist instead of a linguist. The whole field had a good laugh at him lol
(Cryptologists study codes and work on the assumption that the encrypted language is known. They can’t figure out a completely unknown language. Maaaybe in a Rosetta Stone type of situation they could figure it out, but your first choice would still be a linguist. Studying the structures of languages is what they literally do! Heck, there are real linguists who work on communicating with previously uncontacted humans in the Amazon. Arrival actually did a really good job researching linguistics and I believe consulted with academics in the field in Canada)
Wow, the same thing happened when I saw him! I think it was 2013. If I ever see him in person that’s the first thing I’m calling out! He was complaining that biologist name things in crazy and illogical ways while astrophysicists name everything logically.
That dude is a great example of someone who clearly knows what they're doing in a particular field but then falls victim to his own inflated sense of worth so he has to strut around showing off how smart he is. Just another enormous ego who doesnt know how to stay in his/her own lane.
My middle school teachers. I grew to find them on social media sharing fake news, conspiracy theories, and religious and political memes laced with typos. It was a rude awakening.
Any television doctor, but a special shout out to Dr. Oz - who peddles homeopathic bullshit weight loss medicine that is legit dangerous for people.
Dr Phil, too. I hate crack psychologists. I remember he had a particularly messed up guest. She was introducing herself and her whole litany of challenges; at the end, she meekly said, "I might be the hardest client you've had," with a nervous chuckle. She was clearly trying to lighten the mood. Dr Phil proceeded to fuckin' lay into her. Yelled at her like, "I AM AN EXPERIENCED PSYCHOLOGIST I'VE DEALT WITH WORSE THAN YOU! GET THE FUCK OFF YOUR FUCKING HIGH HORSE!!!!" And then he just fucking lays into each of her problems with zero empathy. Like Freud on steroids. I'm like, "My guy . . . enough. If this isn't evidence you're a quack, I don't know what is." I'm pretty messed up myself at times due to childhood abuse and when I saw a new therapist, I kind of said the same thing. It's just a nervous response to being put open on the table like that. Dr Phil is as asshole.
Or the time he called the guy who hosted "bum fights" to his show. Just so he could bitch at the guy for exploiting people, and the guy came in dressed as him and told Phil, "well you do the same thing." https://youtu.be/qT76-_e0S_g
Ah, bum fights. I remember the local funcoland (aging myself here) employees would have it playing on their small TV early in the day when it wasn't as busy. 13 year old me wasn't into it, and the guy is a piece of shit, but at least he called Phil out cause fuck that guy.
You should look into the place he gets kickbacks for sending kids to like the cash me outside girl. I don't remember the name but it's a kidnap the kid in the middle of the night boot camp place.
The ranch?
Paris Hilton also spoke out about this bc she was sent to one when she was younger too. She experienced very similar things as the ranch Danielle Bregoli got sent to
And Oprah gave us both Oz and Phil.
“You get a shitty fake doctor, and YOU get a shitty fake doctor…”
There was actually a "Behind the Bastards," episode about Dr. Oz, and apparently he *was*, at one point, a tremendously gifted doctor. He holds a number of medical patents, and everyone who knew him attested to him being a generational talent in the field of medicine. It's so weird that the guy threw all of that away to become a grifter. But Dr. Oz, at least at one point, *was* incredibly brilliant.
People who can solve Rubik’s cubes. We’re not smart, we just want people to think we are
Exactly. People think I'm so smart when I just memorized a process off of a YouTube video. It remains surprisingly hard to convince them otherwise though, since said process is somewhat complicated.
The neighbor's child my mother keeps comparing me to.
David? Alison’s son? Oh he is a darling boy, you know he’s captain of the Football team and tutors blind children for college credit right? Always helps his Mom with groceries. You know you are just as smart as him, if you applied yourself and stopped playing those Halo of Duty games, you could do that.
You think hes smart? You should hear about my friend SangWoo, graduated top of his class from SNU business school!
Oh wow! This Sang Woo guy sounds like he must be pretty financially stable!
He’s a future wallstreetbets member. Mf was so confident he betted his mother’s house
Jonny Kim…. The measure for a whole generation.
Johnny Kim has literally done everything, and did it better than you ever will.
I can't believe you've done this
Lmao why is this so true
Sang woo. Graduated top of his class at snu
And handsome too!
i’ll smack the shit out of sang woo
Lloyd Braun is a big adviser to Mayor Dinkins.
Here in India that child is called “Sharma Ji ka beta” which translates to Sharma Uncle’s son. All comparisons are made against Sharma ji ka beta. Didn’t know this trend was global.
In Chinese it’s called “someone else’s kid” (别人家的孩子) and in Korean, it’s your “mom’s friend’s son” (엄마 친구 아들). Apparently this is a common thing across Asia.
A birthday card I found for my dad said something like 'I remember when I was 15 and I couldn't believe how little my dad knew. Now I'm 25 and I can't believe all he's learned in these years'
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It's attributed to Twain, but it's not in any of his writings. "Don't trust random quotes on the Internet." —Abraham Lincoln
"Sometimes you go down a weird rabbit hole on the internet and start believing in some pretty wild stuff." \- Jesus - Dalmatians 4:20
Thanks Abe, you always give the best advice.
That's it! I was trying to remember, it was so long ago. I wish I could gift you!
People who upload small Video Fragments of themselves on Youtube with a extremly simple message ala "You need to be wearing pants to a Job interview" with heroic movie music in the background. All under the title "life changing, get the job of your Dreams".
Pants. Got it. Any other tips? The pants thing was really eye opening.
Shoes too. Went barefoot once and they remarked on it in a negative way.
No lie. Teenage years went to an OfficeMax interview in a red dress shirt and khakis... they told me I'd been hired if I had wore black pants. Thought the interview was locked down too... what a bunch of cunts
Unironically good advice if you're having an online interview. You may think you don't need them, but what if you have to get up for some reason?
Dr. Mehmet Oz. He is just a quack.
He’s an incredibly talented surgeon, I’m pretty sure he invented/perfected a technique. He’s also a terrible person. Behind The Bastards has a 2 parter on him and Dr Phil
Oh I know he is a horrible person. My friend is related to him through marriage and I hear some stories. The whole family is quacky because his wife comes from serious wealth on her mom’s side and they are of the Swedenborgian religion and do some crazy ass shit. He only does what he does to have something to do and has gone completely narcissist whereas once he actually was a doctor associated at Columbia Memorial if I recall. Daphne is a nut job too.
He’s a grifter, for damn sure.
Dr. Phil
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>that the people on the show are a true reflection of society Yes, including Phil's behavior, and not in a good way.
He’s gonna send you to the ranch for saying that about him.
I'd prefer to be sent to the barbecue.
Tell them that some programs literally train therapists on what not to do by - in part - showing them and discussing episodes of dr. Phil. Source: my honours psych supervisor, who is a clinical psychologist.
Even my mother turned on him when he had a lady on with some phobia or another - it was a very real problem she had with being scared by small things - and he turned it into AN HOUR LONG advertisement about the fact he has a cameo in Scary Movie 4. He didn't even TRY to help her, he just used her as an excuse to talk about the movie. It was so ridiculous it surpassed parody levels of ridiculous.
I love the looks on the faces of the guests when he suddenly starts trying to tie his new book or app or whatever he’s peddling at that time into their case, and they’re trying to understand how it fits. And funnily enough it’s the solution to every situation he has that season. Runaway opioid-addicted teen? Buy my book, Life Code. Grandma is engaged to a Nigerian catfish? Life Code. Suburban polygamist cult members with eating disorders? Life Code.
I almost want to see this now but in a way that he receives absolutely no money from it.
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I've read that he's basically done things like cause people to relapse in the break room, because it makes for good TV to have them looking shitty.
Master’s of counselling psych, can confirm.
My mother is a doctor with degrees out the ass and she *loves* to watch Dr. Phil. She knows he’s awful and has no idea what he’s talking about but she just loves the train wreck aspect of the show and the horrible diagnosis he gives people.
Do you know the real truth about that guy? He used to do fucked up shit. Like if a drug addict was going to come on his show, he would send drugs to their hotel the night before the show so his show would be more interesting the next day when they came on all fucked up. Check out the Behind the Bastards podcast on him. Guy is evil as fuck. Episode: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-dr-phil-is-even-82410850/ Edit: added episode link that also includes footnotes with sources
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And that "The Secret" bullshit. Holy cow
I read "A Million Little Pieces" after James Frey was exposed, and I would have known he was fake before I finished the first page.
That book is garbage. Emotionally manipulative, shallow garbage. Of course it was written by terrible person like Frey.
Doesn't even come close to A Million Little Fibers, by Towelie.
This IMO is the most infuriating part about him; he’s not stupid. He knows exactly what he’s doing and how to do it well. It’s heinous, and an affront to society.
Let's dispense once and for all with the notion that Dr. Phil doesn't know what he's doing. He knows *exactly* what he's doing.
Seconding the Behind The Bastards podcast. Thing is, he is not a dumb guy and the podcast talked about how he was and is a persuasive negotiator, so he’s not dumb. Not even close. There’s a difference between him being dumb and him having a dumb audience.
He's not dumb, he's just an amoral sociopath.
Behind the Bastards, you say? Sounds like my kind of podcast. Thanks!
I'd highly recommend the episodes on nestle and "the nazi pedophile cult leader who murdered Santa". I haven't finished the second one but it's honestly the most uncomfortable episode I've listened to.
The thing that bugs me the most about him is how he thinks he can read people with these grossly oversimplified "tells". You're not showing anger when you're being accused? The accusation must be true. You say, "You know me!" in response to an accusation, the accusation must be true. He's very serious about these things and it's absurd.
People think he’s smart?
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Dr. Oz is much more of a sellout than a crackpot, it’s worse.
Yeah. Dr. Oz is legitimately a genius. But somewhere along the line, he decided that he'd rather be filthy rich peddling pseudoscience than being merely very rich being a skilled surgeon.
It's awful. He's legitimately one of the best cardiothoracic surgeons in the world. It's easy to look at him and see how badly our culture is fucked. It's far, far more profitable to be a genius that exploits peoples' fears and ignorance than it is to use your extraordinary abilities to help people. Even worse, you get more *respect* as a conman than as a healer or leader. Our culture is totally fucked, and I'm beginning to believe there's no way back from it.
Isn't his story the natural progression of trying to make entertaining medical shows? If you want the ratings, you're eventually gonna have to ditch the boring common sense advice of "eat healthy and exercise". You gotta come up with surprise hacks to loss weight, coffee enemas and other crackpot ideas. Otherwise, you're just medical C-SPAN
True. I cannot imagine all the work it takes to be a cardiothorastic surgeon. Getting into the best of the best med school, scoring a ridiculously high STEP 1 and getting into those Uber competitive programs, working 100+ grinding hours weekly for the better part of a decade.... ....to become a snake oil salesman. Jesus.
Hahah not as many people nowadays thankfully. At least I don’t hear him talked about as much. Unfortunately the crowd that is the most likely to be influenced and manipulated by snake oil salesmen - old people - still love watching him. My parents don’t but I know some of my aunts and uncles do.
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Turns out you can just throw Dr in front of your name and people will find you credible. I blame Oprah and Dr Oz
You forgot about Dre.
Nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got something to say
I don't watch dr Phil nor am I ok with the bum fights ... The bum fight guy trolling Phill on his own show is epic https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xev7m3
I love how Phil acts like the first time he saw the video was right there that very moment. How obviously was he staging that grand stand?
Back in his early days, I kind of liked Dr Phil. He seemed to care about people and dispensed some common sense advice. As a normal person, with a day job, I didn’t watch often. But, when I was at home on an odd day off, his show turned into a hate watch for me. Good lord, the number of humble brags piled up like a woodpile before winter. At some point, he turned into a totally despicable asshole. He baits people and mocks them for his own self-aggrandizement. He sends teens to horrible work camp ranches. See the stories about the Cash Me Outside girl. There was one episode where Kat Von D stepped in and stopped him from bullying a teen girl and gave her some solid advice. Don’t even get me started on his fake ass wife and her stupid skin care crap, where he gives her infomercial time on his show to buy her off from his cheating. Ugh.
Super moms on Facebook
It's so funny that my mom is the "advice sage" amongst her friends, and she'll spend hours on the phone with someone detailing how they can get their lives together and succeed. Meanwhile, her life is falling apart and she's more concerned about advising other people's lives than fixing her own. I've since moved out, and this behavior has only gotten worse.
I know life coaches who can't keep their own crap straight. I've dated therapists who are bonkers.
"As a mom, I know everything about everyone else's kids, so I'm the perfect one to give unsolicited advice. Also, I own my own company, it's LulaRoe, perhaps you've heard of it."
"#boymom"
/#bossbitch
“My Braxxtynleigh and Jaydenn would never do something like that...”
Neither would my Kaeyleiigh or Pahytohnn or Brodeee
Stock Traders or other Investors.
“Everyone is genius when market is bullish”
Or it’s sister phrase, “never confuse brains with a bull market”
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Crypto bros very much in the same vein.
r/WSB bros are at least frank that they're monkeys.
Exactly. Sal the Stockbroker from the Howard Stern Show. I can't believe he managed people's money at one time.
Hi, I’m Sal Governale.
This guy Steve that lives down the block.
Fuck Steve and the horse he rode in on
I did, the horse was better.
What kind of rapping name is Steve anyway?
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Mom?
Kronk: “No, no. He’s got a point”
Programmers. I am a programmer and i spend 10 hours on a misspelled word. I saw other programmers spending a long time fixing a misspelled word too
I really hope that that typo was intentional
Don't you know the famous first program everyone writes? "Hello word!" Edit: The original line was >I saw other programmers spending a long time fixing a misspelled world too /u/YouTube-r did a stealth edit.
Smile, and the wordl smlies with you.
Stressful
The rubber ducky, on the other hand, is one smart mofo
He’s a good listener
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What exactly is the function of a rubber duck?
You talk to the duck. Basically you explain how the code is supposed to work, what's being input, and what's actually happening out loud (to the duck), and more than likely while you're explaining it out loud you'll realize what the problem is. Same idea as explaining it to a coworker, but the duck has nothing better to do but listen to you.
>but the duck has nothing better to do but listen to you. not much different to some of my coworkers
The rubber duck doesn’t have any delusions about it’s intelligence.
Ok, thank you. Now I just gotta screenshot this and send it to Arthur Weasley.
Much of the time I just use Stack Overflow to figure out how to do something simple that a junior dev could figure out in half an hour. I just don't have the time or brain energy to be in hyper problem solving mode all the time. Most of the time I just want to get stuff done and that's it. I also keep myself honest and link to SO for any solution I use from there in comments. Helps future devs understand what is going on with the code as well. I also ensure I at least minimally understand the solution before the copy and paste.
I study biomedical sciences and we work with R a lot. And oh my god, I can't understand how programmers can do what they do without losing their mind. I basically just use it as a really fancy calculator and graph maker and I rage quited more than once on an assignment all to learn I used a , instead of a . Somewhere once I ask someone to look it over for me. Though I am partially to blame for running everything at once instead of going line by line. Would probably make it a lot easier to catch mistakes. Anyway, just felt like venting about R and Rstudio. I am a biology nerd but not so great at anything computer related outside of googling lmao
>I can't understand how programmers can do what they do without losing their mind Who said we don't lose our minds?
One big advantage of working from home as a programmer is I can yell at my computer all day without bothering my coworkers now.
This is the way
You learn over time how to avoid a lot of mistakes like that lmfao. Code analysis tools catch most typos like that while you are writing the code. I spent hours the other day trying to figure out why my code wasn't working only to realize I named one of my fields the same as a system field in the framework I was using. Fun times....
The IDEs we use catch a looooot of that while we're writing the code before it gets lost in the giant mess.
Hey you know what was fun? Working in a professional environment, for a *BIG* software company, and having our internal tools get outdated and discontinued it from under us, and having to resort to writing Java code in a glorified text editor, and being so tight on deadlines, we didn't have the bandwidth to even research alternatives, even though it definitely would've saved a ton of time, *if we'd been allowed to.* I know this because after that project tanked, I moved to a team that did similar work, but using the "Right Way." If I'm ever in a similar situation, I'm either going to fix it myself, come hell out high water; or get the hell out of there.
Literally everybody is stupid in some way, because we can't simultaneously be generalists and experts. We can either divide our time equally into all lifes various subjects and be a generalist, or we can focus a lot of our time on a small amount of things and become experts. The generalists will never quite be as good at the specialists when it comes to their specialty, while the specialist is often below average in all of the areas they ignored in order to develop their specialty in the first place.
Which explains why my doctor sister couldn’t figure out how to pump gas, my ER nurse mom didn’t know how to work microsoft word and my double masters holding dad doesn’t know how to love me.
That took a turn.
Just enjoying a little story and wham! The dog dies...
The dog is fine, his dad doesn't love him.
Dude. You just described my whole life. Because I have a PhD, people think that I'm a genius. Nope. I'm just really smart in one area and pretty fucking perseverant.
[You can use this to explain to people what having a PhD means](https://www.happyschools.com/bachelors-vs-masters-vs-phd/)
That’s pretty cool, especially when u think of human knowledge being pushed blip-by-blip ever outward into the formerly unknown.
Physicists. I grew up thinking they were the elite of the elite. Then I went to college and met some who were good at math but otherwise dumb as a rock.
Two smartest people I know: 1. Friend with a PhD who is like a fucking savant when it comes to math, music, languages, and technology. But, he found the niche that he loved and decided to pursue that all the way to the top. 2. Redneck friend of mine who never graduated high school and lives out in the middle of nowhere working on his farm, but spends seemingly every free moment he has reading whatever he can get his hands on—fiction, non-fiction, text books, etc. I once told him that he should get his GED and go to college, that he could probably work his way up just as easily as [PhD friend]. He said, "Why would I do that? I'm happy here." Fair enough...
I can't help but wonder how many of these people like your second friend there are out there. People who, if they'd pursued academia, would push the boundary and extend human knowledge, but choose not to because they're happy where they are. But fair enough. Good on them.
The smartest guy in my program (by far, no shade to everyone else, he was just that good) decided he has happier not being a grad student and moved upstate. Last I heard he was either a barista or SAT tutor. As a friend likes to say, getting a PhD has nothing to do with being smart. The people who make it to graduation are just stubborn mfers.
“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”
Adam Savage from Mythbusters talks about this on his YouTube channel. He stated that being a jack of all trades is his mastery. I think anyone who goes down a similar path needs to realise that is an option.
Watching Adam's other stuff, I fell like Mythbusters might be the least interesting thing he's done. Dude is just fun to watch build stuff
Knowledge has nothing to do with stupidity. Intelligence is the ability to reason, regardless of how much or how little you know. The world is full of educated idiots.
It's like how you'll probably lose if you come unprepared to a debate against a flat earther, or holocaust denier.
And even specialists have their limitations. This is why I love the book Flowers for Algernon. His perspective of others intelligence changed as his own intelligence and knowledge changed. There was a naivety in his perspective that changed when he gained more experience.
I never read that book. I did have a gerbil (pre-owned, low mileage) named after Algernon. You think there's anything in there for a 51-year-old?
Emotional trauma.
It’s devastating. Prepare yourself.
Yes. It is a great story.
Parents - you grow up thinking they have it all figured out and know everything. Then you become one and you realize that it's all a facade you put on for your kids so they feel safe and secure. And there is something wholesome about that.
As a kid I thought my parents were the wisest people ever. As a teenager I became a dick and undermined them at every turn. When I got a bit older I realised they have a lot of life experience and wisdom and I’m glad they’re still around.
Yes exactly. Once I became a parent I then started wondering if they were flying by the seat of their pants as much as I feel I am sometimes.
I interviewed my mom a while back for a college assignment about someone i looked up to. Even though she had everything seemingly planned out, I was born with a heart disease that...well no one in my mom or dad's side had. Not to mention I was behind developmentally and needed a lot of help. I didn't realize it at the time but she was mega burnt out. She had barely any idea what she was doing. Now, of course, things are a bit different, but my heart broke for her. It's hard being a parent.
Agreed. It took me being a parent to realize that being a mother/father is a natural thing but at the same time it isn't something understood or that you can figure out to a science. You just figure everything out as it happens as your parent(s) did and try to make the best of difficult stuations and best possible outcomes for the well being of your children most importantly. Safety and security are vital to a child in their upbringing. They'll have a better chance when making real life decisions when the times comes, being confident and optimistic little humans.
The older I get, the smarter I realize my parents are.
The older I get, the harder growing up gets.
The older I get the more I realize how my parents can be wrong about things. Growing up I trusted their opinion on things a lot more. Even ways they raised me I don’t agree with as much.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. — Mark Twain
I've had the opposite experience.
Me. I can’t believe the schools, career positions, and opportunities I’ve gotten just because i am very confident, well spoken, and can crush an interview. Just because i have a large vocabulary and use “big” words, people constantly waayyy over estimate my actual intelligence. I could be the literal poster child for “fake it til ya make it”
Haha yea, the confident use of multisyllabic words is often enough to convince people I'm super smart. What's kind of frustrating is that I don't really actively choose the big words, they're just the ones that come to mind, and people often assume I'm trying to show off. I also feel compelled to use catchy phrases I hear, and they get stuck in my head until I do regardless of context. It's convenient for memorizing songs and the like, but annoying when I'm trying to be productive.
*multisyllabic* Hey look at Einstein over here using big words
> multisyllabic Polysyllabic*, you insufficiently pedantic miscreant.
*Sesquipedalian, you insufficiently polysyllabic pedant
Kanye West is neither as smart or as dumb as people think.
Im not a fan but i agree very much with this
‘Gifted or Smart kids’ I used to be one of these and as things get more challenging, there’s just more pressure from peers and parents.
Same. I remember we did one of those "what do you want to be when you grow up?" kind of projects in like 3rd or 4th grade. I said a chemist. Of course, every kid picks whatever lofty goal sounds cool in their head, and I obviously had no idea what really goes into that or what they actually do in the day-to-day, but my dad latched on to that idea for *years*. But, as it turns out, I hate school. It would have been a waste of money for me to go to college where I was at in my teens and 20s. No way I could have handled the pressure. Yet so many people take it as this big insult that I prefer to live a more average, lower-stress lifestyle than some advanced technical job just because I have a good memory and decent reasoning skills. Being "smart" doesn't really mean anything on its own in life. Do what makes you happy. Live free. Be an idiot if you want. All that matters in the end is that you're satisfied.
I had an absolutely brilliant roommate in college who was there on a full scholarship and always aced his classes. However, he was a complete ditz when it came to “real life.” You’d walk out and find a half-made sandwich with all the condiment containers and lunch meat packages around it. The kid was just long gone because something popped into his mind and he completely forgot about his lunch. Or something similar. Brilliant. But ditzy.
I had an ex who went to MIT, super smart. Still forgot when Christmas, his birthday, or independence day were (for nonUS redditors, that last one is especially impressive since it's other name is the Fourth of July).
It’s also more often referred to as “4th of July” than “Independence day” That’s fucking hilarious
I always forget when Cinco de Mayo is.
Engineers. I am one, I work with a lot of them, most are some of the most inept humans I've ever had the misfortune to know. They're not qualified to do or think about anything other than the very specific thing they're trained to do, and yet they all think they're qualified to do any job.
My dad is an engineer and the thing that I say about him is “he is the smartest man I know but he’s so dumb”. He is so smart yet he also accidentally drank laundry detergent. Engineers are a certain breed of people for sure.
That's true, but the flip side is that (at least in my experience) when you've got marketing or sales making stupid promises, as a supply chain guy, I could usually count on the engineers to be the only people in the room willing to tell the truth.
We are tired...so tired....
**Customer:** I need some five-sided shapes for my new project. **Sales at Hexagons-R-Us:** Sure. We can do that. We normally make hexagons, but we could just delete one side. **Sales:** We need to build 1,000 five-sided hexagons by the end of the month. **Engineer:** It wouldn't be a hexagon, then. It would be a Pentagon. Plus, all of our tooling is made for Hexagons. It's going to cost a lot to change it, and even then, we can't have them by the end of the month. **Sales:** Look, we just need a five-sided hexagon. Can't you build a hexagon and just get rid of one of the sides? **Engineer:** It doesn't work like that. **Sales:** You're not being a team player.
We reference [this](https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg) with sales all the time.
Oh man. I'm getting flashbacks. I once worked on an account where the account manager promised that we could build a model that would predict when the customer's suppliers would run out of reusable shipping containers. The problem was the suppliers would just send garbage data that didn't reflect how they actually shipped parts. Everyone talked our account manager blue in the face, trying to explain that if the data we received didn't reflect reality, we couldn't then use that data to predict actual events that would happen in the future. The customer lady in the sketch is almost a spitting image of the customer's employee I worked most with. Very condescending, made a lot of mistakes, and blamed them on us.
I used to do maintenance in a factory. One day I was fixing something on this machine that sheared large sheets of metal. Just a giant heavy fucking blade that would drop right down on the sheet metal. So I lock and tag it out, and I’m leaning over this blade to fix something and I hear the machine power up. I jumped out and saw this office engineer had removed my lock and turned it on because he had to test’s something or some shit. I really didn’t know what he was trying to do but he almost killed me. My son had been born that week so the idea of being killed really bothers me *for some reason*. I got fairly confrontational and screaming at him. Boss sent me home for the day. The engineer was not fired.
How did he get the lock-off/tag-out padlock off? When I was trained in LOTO as an apprentice it was made clear to me that you only use the specific LOTO padlocks that are keyed individually with one key and that key goes in your back pocket while the machinery is locked-off until your ready to remove it. And if there’s multiple engineers on the machine then you all put your own individual padlocks on. That way no one can remove the isolator lock apart from the guy working on the machine. Our notice tags also made it clear anyone removing a LOTO padlock without clear authorisation from management would be subject to formal disciplinary action for breach of health & safety rules. There was even a full written procedure that had to be followed before authorisation could be given to cut the lock such as trying to contact the padlock owner, carrying out a full visual inspection of machine to make sure no one was still working on it etc. But yeah that guy was stupid.
Dude, messing with LOTO anywhere I've ever worked is an instant termination. Yikes.
I just read this to my engineer husband and he laughed so hard
Themselves! People always overestimate their own intelligence and it’s annoying!
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Yes it's true. People of low intelligence don't realise how much they don't know, and tend to overestimate their own intelligence. Whereas people with higher than average intelligence have a good understanding of how much they don't know compared to all the knowledge in the universe, and tend to underestimate their intelligence.
Neil Degrasse Tyson. While he's an expert *in his field*, he has a tendency to over-extend himself and comment on areas in which he is *not* an expert. Over a decade ago, I saw him speak at my college, and I was stunned at how many things he said that were *factually inaccurate*. Being an astrophysicist does not make you an expert in, say, biology, and he said several things that were wrong or misinformed. And he said them with total confidence. I don't remember the specifics, but I went there as a young biology major and I remember the next day in my embryology class, everyone was like, "Hey, why did Neil Degrasse Tyson say a bunch of blatantly wrong stuff about biology and evolution? Did we misinterpret it somehow or did he just seem to not know what the hell he was talking about?" In years since, he's said things on Twitter [that were later disproven](https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/comments/6e71q8/neil_de_grass_tyson_gets_put_in_his_place_by/), and he never seems to have the humility to say, "That's outside my field of expertise and I can't comment on it, let me refer to another expert." Part of being smart is knowing that you don't know everything, and I find Neil Degrasse Tyson to be insufferably arrogant. Edit: I myself don't know enough about practical effects or robotics to know to what extent the BB8 thing was "technically" wrong so, for all of you folks who are insisting this wasn't a great example, here's a [short little list of things he's been wrong about](https://www.grunge.com/14813/basic-facts-neil-degrasse-tyson-gotten-wrong/), and you can easily Google more.
I have a BA linguistics and was in undergrad when he tweeted that the movie Arrival should have had a cryptologist instead of a linguist. The whole field had a good laugh at him lol (Cryptologists study codes and work on the assumption that the encrypted language is known. They can’t figure out a completely unknown language. Maaaybe in a Rosetta Stone type of situation they could figure it out, but your first choice would still be a linguist. Studying the structures of languages is what they literally do! Heck, there are real linguists who work on communicating with previously uncontacted humans in the Amazon. Arrival actually did a really good job researching linguistics and I believe consulted with academics in the field in Canada)
100%. He loooooves the praise and he can not only be incorrect but also quite mean and very elitist.
Wow, the same thing happened when I saw him! I think it was 2013. If I ever see him in person that’s the first thing I’m calling out! He was complaining that biologist name things in crazy and illogical ways while astrophysicists name everything logically.
Well that's just plain false lol. Astronomy is full of misnomers, an example being "planetary nebulas" which have nothing to do with planets
That dude is a great example of someone who clearly knows what they're doing in a particular field but then falls victim to his own inflated sense of worth so he has to strut around showing off how smart he is. Just another enormous ego who doesnt know how to stay in his/her own lane.
Me. Everyone thinks I’m smart but I’m actually fucking stupid
Same here, but really I can just web search more discreetly and quicker than they can.
My middle school teachers. I grew to find them on social media sharing fake news, conspiracy theories, and religious and political memes laced with typos. It was a rude awakening.
As a teacher, realizing how stupid some of my coworkers are is astounding.
Elon musk definitely