The irony of calling someone else pedantic after what you’ve done to this thread, when op only wanted to share a video they enjoyed. smdh

That pop “article” is like 300 words long, contains almost no information whatsoever, and every bit of info it does contain is also fully spelled out in the video I linked - that Edison wasn’t a single-minded visionary, but rather a ridiculously hard worker who worked collectively with his employees to create inventions scientifically.

The video also goes into detail about how he crafted a public persona to make sure his shop continued to have access to funding to keep up his inventing, and in any case, I’m not quite sure how that’s supposed to be the nail in the coffin for his reputation, since it was practically required for him to stay in business, and the inventions they came up with (or, better put, the ingenious, practical solutions to the problems they were trying to solve) were revolutionary.

Nothing in that article impugns Edison’s name whatsoever - if anything, it fully supports the picture of Edison put forward by the video I linked.

Also, Today I Found Out has a rating of “High - Least Biased” on Media Bias Fact Check https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/today-i-found-out/, so I think I’m just going to ignore your conspiracy-mongering about them.

Should be really easy for you to produce some of this evidence that he was a monster then.

This is false. Here’s an exhaustively researched 4.5 hour video on the topic if you’re interested in what Edison was really like (an incredibly hard worker who was much kinder to his employees than was usual for the time, and who changed inventing from an art into a science), and the by-all-accounts positive nature of his very brief working relationship with Tesla.

Edit: I am absolutely gobsmacked that this comment is getting hammered so hard in a science community of all places.

I guess the misinformation-fueled hate boner for Edison is just too strong for the truth.

DuckGuckGo

I laughed way too hard at this.

Pirates of Dark Water was such an underrated show. It still makes me mad that it got canceled.

6 hours of Monster Hunter: World today on my Mint desktop while my wife hunted with me on her Steam Deck!

If Mint would just implement HDR now, it would be my perfect system.

Same

I love that lemm.ee is federated with everyone, because that means I frequently encounter ideas that I - gasp - disagree with!

I’m pretty sure this is more likely to make me walk across the grass though - it feels like they’re assuming what I’m doing, which feels offensive enough for me to make sure they’re wrong about it.

Sekiro for me, for similar reasons.

Apparently eleventy-bajillion dollars wasn’t enough.

Here’s my comment from the last time this came up (like a week ago):

“There’s been no meaning shift. The “possessive” and “envious” uses of jealous both date from the 14th century in English, and both senses were present in the ancestors of these words all the way back to Greek.”

It’s always been synonymous with “envious”, as far back as we can trace.

This isn’t the case, because humans can handle significantly larger deviations from “comfortable” on the cold side than the hot side, so again Fahrenheit gets it pretty much right.

This is horrible logic. If anything, it should be: you need to learn Celsius if you are doing science, but most people aren’t scientists and therefore don’t need to learn Celsius, so this isn’t really a problem that comes up for a lot of Fahrenheit users.

According to Wikipedia Rankine is properly used with the degree symbol, but sometimes is not by analogy with Kelvin.

Still not buying a Samsung.

Ending sentences with prepositions is something up with which I will not put!

Excellent post in general, but it should be noted that the meaning of “wine-dark sea” is still very much disputed.