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Destin's channel is one of the older, best-known channels in the YT's educational sphere. Recently, the US Navy even let him on a multi-day tour of a nuclear su
by Tenemo 5y ago
Destin's channel is one of the older, best-known channels in the YT's educational sphere. Recently, the US Navy even let him on a multi-day tour of a nuclear submarine and tape classified information (later redacted). He himself worked in the military. I don't think that it's fair calling him a random youtuber, to me he seems like the perfect youtuber to interview such people (as Destin himself has a background in rocketry).
- onceiwasthere 5y agoIf I remember right, his dad was/is very involved in the JWST.
- Steltek 5y agoIt's really amusing contrasting the brains going around in that family with them both goofing off with a lawn mower carburetor in the garage.
- loco5niner 5y agoFunny, I wouldn't use the word contrasting, I thought it was cool that their goofing was was around smart stuff. (probably just because I didn't know much about how a carburetor works, and after watching the video, know much more)
- onceiwasthere 5y agoVery true. Although not such an uncommon contrast in Huntsville, AL, where Destin lives.
- Laremere 5y agoDestin has also peaked (or very close to it) in importance of person interviewed, as he interviewed Obama during their presidency. Though, sadly not an hour long. https://youtu.be/GpWQHFzrEqc https://youtu.be/GpWQHFzrEqc
- snakeboy 5y agoJust out of curiosity, is it considered best practice these days to use the gender-neutral "their" even with a specific subject (Obama) who is known to use masculine pronouns for himself?
- awestroke 5y agoIt doesn't matter
- frosted-flakes 5y agoDefinitely not.
- Steltek 5y agoI think it would be nice if English evolved to only ungendered pronouns. Eliminates accidental offense while also reducing everyone's cognitive load. Also, you reminded me of a quote from yesterday: "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore."
- munificent 5y agoI don't disagree with you, but I think it's worth pointing out that there is a pragmatic benefit to gendered pronouns. You can think of pronouns as sort of like `$?` in bash or `_` in Python's interactive shell. They give you a short way to refer to a previously mentioned noun. When you have more than one of these "special variables", you can use them more often as long as they conveniently get uniformly distributed across the previously mentioned nouns. So, in English, you can say: "Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. gave Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams a sweater for Christmas. She liked his gift." The second sentence can use two pronouns because they happen to be unambiguous. With only a single pronoun, that sentence ends up like: "Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk liked Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff's gift." (This is obviously an extreme example for comedic effect.) This is also why Romance languages have noun gender for inanimate objects where actual biological gender isn't meaningful. It's not about genitals, it's about scattering a few pronouns uniformly across the noun space. Of course, one might rightly argue that gender is not a good mechanism to use for your pronoun distribution. We could do something like shells do where we assign pronouns based on recency of the mentioned noun. Or some other system. But my point is that gendered pronouns aren't completely bananas. They serve a pragmatic function.
- toxican 5y agoHe's also in the middle of a coast guard series he filmed last year. Pretty interesting stuff.
- dboshardy 5y ago> the US Navy even let him on a multi-day tour of a nuclear submarine and tape classified information (later redacted) They _paid_ him to tour it. It was a marketing event for the US Navy to drive recruitment.
- sillyquiet 5y agoThey did? I am not disagreeing, just wondering if he disclosed that or how you found out.
- mulmen 5y agoIn the first video in the series Destin himself says the Navy did not pay him. https://youtu.be/5d6SEQQbwtU&t=2m47s https://youtu.be/5d6SEQQbwtU&t=2m47s I do recall him mentioning his own biases and conflicts of interest at some point but I don’t recall what series that was a part of.
- mtga 5y agoThis might be it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOTYgcdNrXE From 2019: "For the last 15 years I have worked for the Army Test Evaluation Command."
- wslack 5y agoThey neither paid him nor had edit approval on his content besides redacting classified information.
- manquer 5y agoHe was covering sciene topics nothing controversial or political if i remember correctly it was about air circulation systems and the fail safes etc. Beyond classified stuff , there is not much need for edit approval.
- hoseja 5y agoHe's so creepily "wholesome" and obviously propaganda-adjacent in a Chris Pratt way it makes me not watch his videos.