Stories like this are why I donate my CPU/GPU time to SiDock/Rosetta/Folding@home. We all can make a difference, even if our contributions are small.
I’m still constantly weirded out by Destin when he talks about anything relating to personal life. Gives me “creepy preacher that beats his children for not saying yes sir” vibes
Glad she is doing better and has a very supportive spouse.
Destin just creeps me out all the time to be honest. I like his content but I just cannot believe that’s who he really is.
I genuinely believe him to be exactly how he presents himself.
That being said if he was found out to be like a necrophilic pedophile that doesn’t put carts back in the corral, just an absolutely sick inhuman monster I would not be shocked.
And it’s always so awkward when he’s continually telling people they are so intelligent. Or when he asks people if they like their job, while having a camera in hand, at their job, while he’s scrutinizing every single aspect of their work. He does that so fucking often to everyone he meets it’s kind of uncanny. I can’t remember anyone else who’s made me feel that way by simply talking. I guess he’s a youtuber and he might do it purposefully but I don’t think I would ever enjoy being in his presence IRL. He kind of bullies people with very uncomfortable phony kindness and triggers some thing in my brain that I only get with very manipulative people usually. And a lot of people he interacts with just don’t engage with his hype and look like they are in fight or flight mode.
But anyway didn’t want to turn this post into a Destin study. I hope Dianna gets well soon.
He is catholic, which honestly given his content I find strange… I’ve never understood how people can maintain their religions in such a field.
I’m not sure how religious he is, but it must be very to maintain it after all of his research and education.
Religon and science aren’t necessarily incompatible. Some religons say a higher power did stuff and it happened “because they’re god, science is witchcraft” Some religions say a higher power did stuff “because they’re god” and science is just figuring out how they did it.
Knowing how stuff happened doesn’t necessarily make a higher power impossible, nor less powerful. It’s just cool.Yeah I’ve heard that before, it’s just rare to see these days for someone in his field. This specific topic can turn into a massive debate as it always has been, so I’d like to respectfully avoid that.
All I’m saying is, he must have some super strong convictions.
Religon and science aren’t necessarily incompatible.
The big bang theory was first posited by a Catholic priest called Georges Lemaître
He also doesn’t necessarily need to believe in any higher power. You can still practice your religion and practice the traditions of your religion and take the parts that feel good or make good in your eyes and still practice science.
You can also believe in higher power but just don’t consider or think about whats contradictory.
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The Catholic Church has been a lot more open to science than other flavors of Christianity. Early biology sciences had plenty of contribution from catholic scientists and the church is by and large cool with evolution. They even teach it in catholic school.
similarly to Zack Nelson from jerryrigseverything, who’s Mormon, that’s not stopping him from making cool tech related content, anyway, I’m (as a non practicing European Catholic) wondering where you got your views on Catholicism, are they different in US? you have a few more Christianity denominations in US i’d call more conservative and anti science, than Catholicism, like Pentacostals, JWs, said Mormons, Baptists, hell, even looking at your politics whole protestant branch related to Republicans seem anti-science
I’m European (nonreligious) but my observation is that religion is practiced very differently in the US. They are way more religious than most European countries (their least religious state are about as religious as our most religious countries IIRC), and they practice a very preachy form of religion to boot as there is seemingly little to no taboo on evangelizing. And yes they have a large proportion of fundamentalists/radical “christians” whose antiquated beliefs (like creationism, to pick a “harmless” one) were already rejected by the Catholic Church and therefore European societies at large in the '60s.
So this leads to a climate where on one side religious people are more open, and often weirder/pushier, about it. And on the other side American atheists tend to be more aggressively antireligious because of the more oppressive environment they grew up in.
I’m American, live in the deep south (about 20-30 minutes from Destin actually, I’ve lived in Europe, and I’m non-religious.
Now that my bona fides are out of the way, I really think that most people have a skewed view of America, and especially on religious topics.
In broad strokes, you’re right. Americans push religion more from both the Atheist side of things and the fundamentalist side. However, this isn’t like a day-to-day normal thing for most people. If you’re on a university campus you will 100% see some religious organization handing out fliers. On a street on a busy Friday, you might even see people proselytizing on the street corner.
But…
I saw all that in Europe as well. Definitely less common, don’t get me wrong, but it was absolutely a thing. There’s different vibes (American fuck you my religion is right; you’re going to hell vs. European Please save our most sacred nation that was founded by GOD!), but it’s really not all that different.
Tl;dr: Humans are human. You can draw whatever lines in sand you like, but it’s really not all that different no matter where you go.
Totally agreed, thanks for the perspective.
Setting aside the loonies on either side of the pond, I do think understanding the cultural difference is important, if only because it sets a standard of social acceptability. Destin’s (mild) religious proselytizing would be off-putting and socially… challenging(?) coming from any of the French-speaking YouTubers I follow for example.
But coming from an American, I still find it personally off-putting but I can just chalk that feeling up to different cultural sensibilities and suck it up.
i think majority wouldn’t dare to show their personal take on eternal-life in public, being afraid to receive bad comments. So, kudo’s to him to do so here and there, in the face of being bullied. personally, i think how he does it is appropriate and not over the top.
Regarding how serious he’s about it; He actually quoted Galatians 5:22-23, at 11:20 with a passion. i.m.o., he isn’t “being religious” but he makes it practical.
Yes! There’s nothing indicating anything but him being a good or at least decent dude but man does he give me bad vibes.
Always trust your instincts about people (e: specific people and situations).
After all, humans evolved over millions of years to accurately predict the actions of fellow humans. Since humans can be extremely violent apes, the ones that were good at predicting didn’t get murdered by psychos and were more likely to pass on their genes.
(E: to clarify, if you get a bad vibe or an urge to GTFO or similar, listen to it and stay safe)
Trust your instincts, but verify. Your instincts can be wrong quite often. There’s a reason we need actual scientific methods (and statistics) to figure out some things; humans are really bad at analytic thinking by themselves.
You are entirely correct when it comes to scientific matters.
If you notice, I said “about people”.
Too often, people will get a funny feeling, or feel something is off about a person or situation and talk themselves out of it and end up paying a high price for that.
In other words, you don’t need to scientifically verify a strong urge to GTFO when you see a guy waving and smiling and approaching you in a parking lot. Just GTFO.
That’s all I’m talking about. Trusting your gut is strictly limited to feelings about people and situations.
Trust science and reason for all else.
Even about people. You are fallible as well and your instincts may be wrong. I’m not talking about “getting a feeling of something is off and talk themselves out of it”, but to trust your instincts enough to avoid the specific situation you’re in, but then check up later if it was correct or not. So, yeah, of course get the fuck out if you don’t feel safe at a parking lot, and you won’t be able to verify that later most probably (since you won’t know who the person is). But if someone you meet through your friend group gives you the same types of feelings you don’t disregard them (EDIT: your feelings), but you check up on the person to see if your gut feelings were correct.
You don’t need to get so upset because someone have a slightly more nuanced view on it. So I’m correct both when it comes to scientific matter, and everything else.
Don’t worry, you didn’t upset me, all good.
The reason for my comment was that I did not want people to get the wrong idea and put themselves in jeopardy needlessly. I felt it needed saying because it isn’t uncommon for people to dismiss the gut feeling (call it instinct if you like) and come to harm as a result.
But yes, verification after the fact, if possible, is a good idea.
I’m amused that I’m not the only one that he bothers.
God I thought it was just me!
I really didn’t like his bringing god into this, because all I can think when christians bring it up during tragedy is “Where’s your god now?”
Is his god somewhere jerking off while a priest molests a child?
Certainly not here being useful.
Just doesn’t seem like something to worship to me…
That’s more or less what drove me away from religion.
You’re telling me an all knowing, all powerful god has a plan that involves children OD’ing on the baggies of drugs their “guardian” made them swallow, just so that heroin could get from point A to point B? Or a plan that involves a newborn baby being born with it’s heart outside it’s chest, so it will immediately rupture and bleed to death?
I feel like he’s just a good person with some great ideas that isn’t natural infront of a camera - we are flooded by naturally photogenic people that normal people seem off.
I also really hope this comment doesn’t age badly.
Yeah I had to stop following his content a few years ago because it became clear that this is 100% true, along with his clear obsession with everything american military.
I think he just tries to smile too hard. A warning sign in-person, but something many presenters do.
Whenever I discosed my religion I would start behaving like I did in church. Fake smiles, preachy, just awful to be around. I don’t think Destin is evil. It’s just fake church vibes drilled into a good guy.
I’ve got Long Covid (not as bad as she seems to be, but almost) as well and I think his energy and got-to-do-something attitude would tire me out pretty quickly, even if he was someone I’d like to hold my hand. But Diana and Kyle certainly know what’s best. And a visit is always nice for the mental health.
I am a fairly heavy smoker and have managed to get Covid twice, years apart, different variants.
Quadruple vaccinated.
I consider myself extremely lucky to be alive at all, much less not suffering any of the effects of long covid.
Hope she gets well eventually.
Also reminder that Trump’s promotion of vaccine skepticism and nonsense ‘cures’ actually literally caused enough deaths of likely voters… for him… that it caused him to lose the election.
Was she vaccinated? If not, why would I care.
