• Rhynoplaz
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    637 days ago

    I encountered Bill Nye on NYE once when I was like 13. He was walking out of a hotel as I was walking in. He looked agitated.

    That’s the whole story.

  • @demesisx@infosec.pub
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    7 days ago

    I met Bill in Boston on a trip to the Science museum in the 90’s. Perhaps we were annoying kids but I will never forget how much of a dickhead he was to everyone in my group including the teacher.

    It’s not that hard to be nice to actual fans. We were all excited to get to meet him. Even the teacher agreed that Bill was at best unfriendly.

    Fuck you, Bill Nye.

      • Lemminary
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        117 days ago

        It’s true. I met my heroine and now I can’t quit her. 😣

    • @Septimaeus@infosec.pub
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      36 days ago

      Interesting. He had a resurgence of popularity in the ‘10s. Watched some of his new content and remember being surprised by this egotistical, dysregulated old grump on screen, who was in a lot of ways the opposite of the man I watched on PBS as a kid. I kept it to myself but it seems every time I bump into him online it just solidifies that impression. Hope he gets the help he needs to get better.

  • Sixty
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    187 days ago

    Saw him last year, my sister dragged me to one of his climate change talks. Fairly worthless to anyone except children who don’t know what’s going on yet pretty much. The Q&A section was funny because it was entirely people asking him what they should do about it, and Bill just kinda shrugging with non-answers and irrational optimism. Good talk.

  • @FoolishObserver@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Would they drop the Bill at midnight? Use some sort of maglev or other science, explain how everything should work, then countdown to “Bill Drops Via Science” at Midnight! If there are multple ways, we have 24ish time zones.

  • IninewCrow
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    77 days ago

    So … instead of Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!

    It would be Nye, NYE, Nye, NYE, Nye, NYE, Nye, NYE!

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)
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    67 days ago

    He did. He made it into a movie. You can watch it. It’s called “Love Actually”