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[–] scrooge@infosec.pub 96 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm out of the loop, who is the guy?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 171 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Keanu Reeves is an actor who has starred in a number of popular movies including Speed, The Matrix, and John Wick. He is revered in the online community for being a wholesome person who tends to do the better thing, or at least avoids being terrible.

So if he is actually supports the charlatan who made this series then that would be disappointing.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 89 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We need a switcheroo community so there is something to dive into.

[–] Devdogg@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

you can make one....

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, but who's the scientist bloke and what's he claiming?

Earth is flat? Aliens walk among us? Billionaires are lizards?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Apocalypse

In the series, Hancock argues that an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm, but that its survivors introduced agriculture, monumental architecture and astronomy to hunter-gatherers around the world. He attempts to show how several ancient monuments are evidence of this, and claims that archaeologists are ignoring or covering up this alleged evidence.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 154 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Reverse nepotism baby that wants to play archaeologist on Netflix. He's also extremely paranoid that "big archaeology" (lmao) is out to get him because he cannot handle criticism from people that know what they're talking about. Tldr weirdo on Netflix that thinks he's a martyr.

[–] norimee@lemmy.world 78 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ha, now I wanna watch it. Might be fun if you treat it like it's Cunk on Earth.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"...and on this grand battlefield, the aliens had their first successful battle against protonapoleon, they had learned to...

...would suffer worsening results for centuries while the aliens established themselves slowly across the south pole and up towards Australia. Eventually developing into an opening for a slaughter across much of Southeast Asia. The tall, narrow mountains are actually mass graves for the...

... the grand fortification of the majority of what is now called Tibet endured assaults and sieging unequalled in scale, but stood strong for decades. Vast swaths of territory was being lost in Africa and America, but the line at the Himalayan range practically never faltered, with the exception of smaller breaches. By this time, their very strange and interesting form of nuclear weapons technology had finally had time to enter the theater, and preparations were being made for a massive surprise attack...

...there were apparently only a few hundred outposts left, but advance forces and the rolling production and use of nuclear weapons were steadily taking them down, dozens every month. The majority of the alien empire was reduced to ash and rubble, a nuclear stockpile – vastly larger than even the modern superpowers at the height of the Cold War – was emptied in its entirety.

While the cleansing of Earth was almost done, the results required them to heavily adapt their civilization, there was heavy bunkerization of everything that was not abandoned, and expansion of subterranean production of...

...likely meant that finally, they had won, there were none left to be found. The final proper outpost was destroyed very long ago, but there were many sightings for a while after; With Alaska's search now finally being completed with no findings, there was nowheren left to look that they hadn't. They would leave nearly a hundred thousand scouts stationed to keep an eye out, like they had done all over the world, but any aliens they couldn't find must have crawled deep into the Earth only to be entombed to a cave-in. So thorough and global are the signs of the massive search they committed decades to...

...an asteroid, almost certainly too massive to deflect despite being spotted so early. The centuries of peace had been appreciated despite the hardships, but this turn of events brought a wave of madness over much of the world. Production of space equipment was still in nearly full force and teams were already being sent out do as much as they could, but likely they'd only be able to chip off a fraction of it. Frantic research into alternatives was ongoing, but there were few who hadn't accepted the futility of it all, the majority were on a hedonistic spree for the next few months...

...impact, the global devastation...

...and that's how the most interesting period of Earth's history came to an end."

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

reverse nepobaby? How does that work? His kid gave birth to him and then hired him?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 122 points 1 month ago (3 children)

His son works for Netflix and got him a show.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 91 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] match@pawb.social 28 points 1 month ago

nepo reverse-baby, then

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No it isn't, it is literally nonsense. There is no such thing as "reverse nepotism".

[–] mongo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yes but he didn't say reverse nepotism he said reverse nepobaby as it wasn't the parent getting the child a job but the other way round. It's still nepotism but nepobaby is a more specific term.

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[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The vast majority of the time, nepotism refers to a patent giving their children special privileges due to the power the parent has.

The word itself comes from from the Italian word for "nephew", because of a trend of "nephews" of popes getting special privileges (often, these were the popes' illegitimate sons).

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cool. And the literal definition of nepotism is granting advantage, priviledge or friends to relatives or friends in an occupation or field. So it doesn't matter that it's being used for parent - children mostly when it covers all.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Narrator: They hated him for being right.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They hated him for being an insufferable pedant, more like.

[–] ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I dunno man I spent a weird amount of time rolling that idea around in my head before even getting to the pedants comment.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Reverse nepotism is where your dad goes around to anywhere that might hire you and badmouths you until they won’t.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Nah I'm with this homie, reverse nepobaby is too made up. It's just regular nepotism. He's a nepot

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't that be "nepo daddy"

[–] mobius_slip@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago
[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago

One of his kids is a Netflix exec apparently.

[–] jack@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

His daughter is a Netflix producer or something

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

When you have a famous kid, I'd guess, but I don't know.

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

the show is fun to watch if you realize it's just him tearing through the strawmen he set up for himself

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 25 points 1 month ago

I want to call him Don Quixote, but that almost feels like a compliment.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Ancient Aliens is fun because the crazy people are so excited and engaged. They promote willful ignorance and antiscience stuff too, but at least we got Stargate out of the ancient astronaut malarky.

This guy is boring and smugly antiscience. When the show came out, before I knew who he was and without warching a preview, it seemed like it was going to be about ancient cultures that atalled because of climate change or something along those lines. Nope, took a hard left into stupid territory.

It is frustrating that these jerks ruin actual discussion about ancient cultures being older than we think. Especially when we keep finding older evidence of innovation or oceanic travel that double our estimates on the earliest examples. Like there had to be a significant period of human innovation prior to the oldest sites we know of with massive stone megaliths. The smaller pieces are just harder to find, or may not be recognizeable as intentionally carved!

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn minions of orthodoxy, I'll keep my cells from getting bored and then what?

[–] Lobreeze@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Such a strange episode

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

There's a few videos on YT about him, particularly about his newest show and reintroduction to an unaware younger audience who isn't familiar with his tricks. I'd suggest potholer54's critique of the episodes, not only for breaking it down on why Hancock is woo crazy, but also reading the comments where lots of times you get defenders trying their own attempts of logic spin. It's funny and sad at the same time.

I hope Keanu isn't a sucker about this stuff. I believes some of Hancock's ideas too once, but to be fair I was like 11. I can only hope he was playing along and every time Hancock mentions a new fact Keanu goes "whoa..."

[–] Blackout@fedia.io 7 points 1 month ago

He's like that Aliens history channel meme. He believes in completely made up prehistory theories, like there was an advanced civilization that existed alongside the cavemen. He took too much acid one time in his life and never returned to earth.