Look, we need to be fair to Elon. When he was a child, his parents would never allow him to use the letter “X.” All the other kids got to use the letter, but not Elon. He felt left out and alone. In school, when they sang the “A B C Song,” he would have leave the room when they got to “X” (his mom wrote a note to the school). As he walked out, embarrassed and slump-shouldered, he could hear the sniggering of students and teachers alike. As a teenager, he wasn’t allowed to listen to the band X and was only permitted the Kidz Bop version of “Hungry Wolf.”
So, when Elon became an all-growed-up man what’s rich, he declared there was no one who was going to tell him he couldn’t use the letter “X.”
Everyone knows there’s absolutely no value in a branding with near universal name and visual recognition, where even those with no English awareness can recognize it.
Better to chose the English symbol for failure and removal
I gave thought to setting up a twitter account separate from my abandoned one just to troll Elmo and rage at Chaiya Whatever—that Alina of TikTok bullshit. She is, as best I can tell, one of the leaders of that whole “groomer” crap. I’m just tired of so few people not flooding her posts with reminders that LGBTQ+ people are not a danger to children—the real danger is religious people and conservative men. And that gets completely ignored.
But then again, why should I bother? It would be a waste of my time.
When it comes to danger to children the real danger is relatives. It isn't really a problem that can be solved without seriously redesigning how people live together, including redefining family, school, and neighbourhood.
It's mostly men but not just men, so maybe cool it with the sexism. Some sexism is alright here, but there is no need to go to the extreme of absolute statements.
Education can help, but it won't do a lot, at least not when compared to those other things I mentioned. At best your idea might solve 5% of cases. Which isn't nothing, don't get me wrong, but I want to do more.
It isn't a matter of a lack of respect or love. It isn't a matter of bad intentions either, at least not usually.
It is a lack of oversight, a narrowness of social safety nets within the family. Basically, the households are too small and isolated, so social control can't do it's job. This means that the sadly unavoidable situations of someone in power hurting someone under their power don't get stopped by the environment. They're left to fester and rot, piling trauma upon trauma. This is what breaks people. If the bad thing happens and there is a large surrounding group who stops it and heals the victim, then the victim won't feel permanently powerless, so the trauma will be less and it is even likely to heal. They will also keep the perpetrator from doing it again (preferably with education and training like you said, but there are other, more violent, options if they are needed.)
Not Good Record: the hellscape heat-island known as Phoenix AZ has now had a record 23 days in a row of 110F (44C) or higher, and even worse, 16 nights in a row of 90F or higher overnight low. This last Wensday only dropped to 97F overnight (also a record), and combined with a daytime high of 118F means the 24 hour average was 108F. WooHoo! another record!
I honestly have no fucking idea what the fuck he is doing now.
Neither does he.
Look, we need to be fair to Elon. When he was a child, his parents would never allow him to use the letter “X.” All the other kids got to use the letter, but not Elon. He felt left out and alone. In school, when they sang the “A B C Song,” he would have leave the room when they got to “X” (his mom wrote a note to the school). As he walked out, embarrassed and slump-shouldered, he could hear the sniggering of students and teachers alike. As a teenager, he wasn’t allowed to listen to the band X and was only permitted the Kidz Bop version of “Hungry Wolf.”
So, when Elon became an all-growed-up man what’s rich, he declared there was no one who was going to tell him he couldn’t use the letter “X.”
Xxxxxx, Elon. Xxxxxx.
He's using an "X" because it's a close as he can get to a swastika and/or confederate flag and still be "brand friendly".
Doesn't "X" mean "no longer"? As in it used to be?
https://static.dw.com/image/16911675_1004.webp
I have to say I'm impressed with Elno's COMMITMENT to the (stupid, petty man-baby) bit. He will not back down, no way!
An outhouse by any other name still stinks. Glad I left.
Reminds me of the bargain-bin nazi villains from forgotten animated shitpile 'FoodFight'.
I can’t wait for X-treme twitter. I prefer a jagged lime green font with a black splatter overlay.
To quote Benoit Blanc referring to a very obvious Elon Clone
https://youtu.be/fl86G6L5PnU
Wotta chump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kC4Sx-WuNE
Old & In The Way
Pig Pen
Everyone knows there’s absolutely no value in a branding with near universal name and visual recognition, where even those with no English awareness can recognize it.
Better to chose the English symbol for failure and removal
There’s an X on my Twitter an I doing it right https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/delete-twitter.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snEZBVI1OFg
Steel man. But not Man Of Steel.
Steal man.
and the woman of tissue...
I gave thought to setting up a twitter account separate from my abandoned one just to troll Elmo and rage at Chaiya Whatever—that Alina of TikTok bullshit. She is, as best I can tell, one of the leaders of that whole “groomer” crap. I’m just tired of so few people not flooding her posts with reminders that LGBTQ+ people are not a danger to children—the real danger is religious people and conservative men. And that gets completely ignored.
But then again, why should I bother? It would be a waste of my time.
When it comes to danger to children the real danger is relatives. It isn't really a problem that can be solved without seriously redesigning how people live together, including redefining family, school, and neighbourhood.
It's mostly men but not just men, so maybe cool it with the sexism. Some sexism is alright here, but there is no need to go to the extreme of absolute statements.
Education can help, but it won't do a lot, at least not when compared to those other things I mentioned. At best your idea might solve 5% of cases. Which isn't nothing, don't get me wrong, but I want to do more.
It isn't a matter of a lack of respect or love. It isn't a matter of bad intentions either, at least not usually.
It is a lack of oversight, a narrowness of social safety nets within the family. Basically, the households are too small and isolated, so social control can't do it's job. This means that the sadly unavoidable situations of someone in power hurting someone under their power don't get stopped by the environment. They're left to fester and rot, piling trauma upon trauma. This is what breaks people. If the bad thing happens and there is a large surrounding group who stops it and heals the victim, then the victim won't feel permanently powerless, so the trauma will be less and it is even likely to heal. They will also keep the perpetrator from doing it again (preferably with education and training like you said, but there are other, more violent, options if they are needed.)
Not Good Record: the hellscape heat-island known as Phoenix AZ has now had a record 23 days in a row of 110F (44C) or higher, and even worse, 16 nights in a row of 90F or higher overnight low. This last Wensday only dropped to 97F overnight (also a record), and combined with a daytime high of 118F means the 24 hour average was 108F. WooHoo! another record!
Shits getting real, I tells ya.
Phoenix is dry, right? Because at 44C people start dying fast above 53% humidity.
https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb
Yikes.
are yiu ok - are you able to get relief from the heat? stay hydrated