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[–] [email protected] 12 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

We should strap some magnets on Tesla and coil some copper around his grave so he can generate electricity while he spins down there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That wouldn't work for long. The more we came to rely on clean free Tesla power, the less he would spin.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Free, unlimited energy, forever; but it must be used for evil to be sustainable.

[–] Shardikprime 1 points 29 minutes ago

Scientists predict were will reach peak Tesla by 2026

[–] finitebanjo 29 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

ICP wouldn't approve of those people.

[–] otacon239 19 points 19 hours ago

Yeah. It was really jarring seeing a Jugallo being depicted as Elon Musk. They’d probably beat the shit out of most any tech bro.

[–] Machinist 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Say what you will about ICP, I'm not a fan. However, the lead guy endorsed Biden or Harris because of his mother and her rights.

[–] Duamerthrax 10 points 16 hours ago

They also cancelled their tours and told their audience to practice proper covid protections.

[–] Raiderkev 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Rest in Peace Ass Dan

[–] Shardikprime 1 points 28 minutes ago

May he ride bountiful into the dark carnival, Faygo-crusted Gates

[–] Shardikprime 2 points 15 hours ago

Magic everywhere in this bitch!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Great meme template.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

Guglielmo Marconi

Can be added to the list of profiting off Tesla's work

[+] [email protected] -13 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Got one not from a channel that wholesale publishes sponsored work?

Edison was a monster by every contemporary and modern account. I don't know who paid him to narrate nonsense, but let's not rehabilitate one of the worst humans on the planet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

I love it when you get millionaire (who would likely be billionaire) bootlickers in comments like this because you can almost always go back and check their replies. Low and behold, within the first few posts you immediatey get MRA shite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

No opinion on Edison at all but what's your problem with the whistler verse? They've been very good in my experience.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Here's an introduction to Thomas Edison, https://theconversation.com/thomas-edison-visionary-genius-or-fraud-99229

It has actual sources, and isn't a 4.5 hour sponsored video from whatever estate is trying to do PR for the name Edison.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Doesn't that the site get a lot of flak though?

[–] finitebanjo 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

It's not exactly proof of character but it's pretty easy to verify that Edison's patent of DC Electricity was NOT novel or new as a concept but did allow him to create a monopoly and massively enrich himself while also increasing costs on the average person of his time.

~~This is lended to by the fact that in children's books and schools in the USA Edison was portrayed as some magical fictional character who tied a key to a kite to invent electricity. Clearly there is a campaign made to make him look like the hero he isn't.~~ Nah that was Franklin.

But it doesn't stop there, Edison had many patents that almost all built on the works of others going back decades, although I do think that he did more work than he stole on audio recording and transmitting, but he also patented the Telegraph like a hundred times even though the Cook and Wheatstone Electric Telegraph existed over 50 years earlier: a time before Edison was even born.

He was an OK inventor but he was a cutthroat businessman.

[–] Machinist 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Pedant moment. Benjamin Franklin was the key and kite guy. Edison was the lightbulb guy.

[–] finitebanjo 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Sorry yeh I had those confused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

This is lended to by the fact that in children's books and schools in the USA Edison was portrayed as some magical fictional character who tied a key to a kite to invent electricity.

That story is associated with Benjamin Franklin.

[–] finitebanjo 1 points 1 hour ago

You made this comment after the edit, which is kind of weird