• yunxiaoli@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    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.

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      13 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.

    • Soulg@sh.itjust.works
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      16 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.

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      18 hours ago

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

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          17 hours ago

          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.