I looked it up after reading this comment

He says he tried Ivermectin to treat his cancer lol. Npr article about it, says he didn’t discuss any specifics of his treatment other than that

Edit: newer article indicates he eventually did seek actual treatment

He’s always been a bit off, but most of his weird statements over the years never got attention.

Towards the end of his life though he appeared to get heavily into some alt right rhetoric. As I understand it, this all came to a head during an episode of his podcast in 2023.

There was some thinly veiled right wing think tank that conducted some “poll” asking people “do you agree with the statement: it’s okay to be white” and they presented in big bold letters after that only half of black people responded “yes”

At the time that particular expression had become a popular slogan for white supremacists.

But Scott covered the story at face value and presented it as like “black people are an anti white hate group, white people should stay away from them for their own safety”

Literally overnight he lost basically everything. Every newspaper dropped him. He tried to relaunch as a direct to consumer subscription service, but his health declined so rapidly I’m not sure if anything happened with it.

But yeah that incident caused people to go digging into his past statements as well and as a result lots of people consider him to be awful

I use private browsing just for the vibes :3 I like the sneaky burglar aesthetic

We probably will, eventually

My old boss told me one time (I’m translating from corporate speak) that it’s 100% totally okay to personally inflict any amount of environmental damage that benefits us in the short term, because the solutions to climate change are on the way. Like it’s a totally forgone conclusion that the bright minds working on these problems will solve them. Always have, always will.

You and I and every sane person agrees minimizing the damage is best either way. It just reminded me of that convo lol. Bro was using the “confidence in human ingenuity” as a blank check excuse to actively cause the damage that will need to be undone. Absolutely insufferable. If it were 100% confirmed there were no way for us to survive what’s coming he’d still run the business the same way just with a different convenient excuse

We seem to be constantly adding more words that meaningfully help us navigate the current moment, though. Like enshittify, or 67

Greek yogurt with frozen blueberries, and a glass of fruit punch!

Yeah solving it without following any method probably actually requires you to be a genius or something lol

I love the established speedcubing strategies tho, it basically changes it from being a puzzle you’re trying to solve into being similar to a rogue-like video game where you get a new “map” each time. Totally different skillset but also super rewarding in its own way

Presumably caused by people browsing on their blow-off-some-steam deck

Well now I don’t know who to believe

Hey at least covid showed us we’re prepared to handle that really well