Also, if you need a technical reason to not follow him, he's also not good at what he does. Like, really, his teardowns are half guesswork and he never issues corrections.
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I'm pretty sure I had a chat with
@whitequark about Dave years ago and I was trying to play both sides / ended up not really speaking up. I'm sorry it took me this long. The guy's an asshole.3 replies 2 retweets 77 likesShow this thread -
Hector Martin Retweeted new299
This needs to go on the thread: Dave's opinion on women and STEM: they are biologically less suited/interested, and also women engineers only get on the news because they're women, not because their accomplishments.https://twitter.com/new299/status/1269199976548036609 …
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Update: Dave DMed me and we had a chat. - He didn't know more about the Hungarian PM and deleted the tweet after being told - The trap joke in the EEVblog #1213 thumbnail was unintentional, he agreed to change it - He's doesn't follow the BLM news, that was unintentional too
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However, the other issues still stand; he still refuses to change his "tranny" language, and stands by his takes on the forum, though he says he rejects outright transphobia, and asks trans people with a problem with "tranny" to email him to let him know.
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Replying to @derHassi
Because it directly hurts part of his potential audience, and alienates another part that cares about the former.
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Replying to @marcan42
Why don’t you build an audience and talk like you like and let other people be. You know... tolerant against other opinions.
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Replying to @derHassi
Because what he's doing hurts people, and his opinions are actively harmful towards minorities in STEM. That's like saying "let Trump be, he just has opinions". Opinions make a difference.
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Replying to @marcan42
If a person can’t handle an edgy Australian, how could the person handle failing at a job? Or are you a white knight, virtue signaling? Keep you politics out of STEM - it doesn’
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Failing at a job is not a direct insult to who they fundamentally *are*, so this is a completely baseless comparison. By the way, you're failing at your job of Twitter threading. You should be replying to yourself, you keep forking the thread making it unfollowable.
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