So tired of him. So tired.
Only you can choose to care or not care. And if you care about some troll, you’re going to become angry and then exhausted.
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel like people just don't know how to deal with trollish people like elon or trump, best you can do is ignore them and they lose the one thing they live for: attention.
I agree with the notion of what you're saying, and I usually make a pretty strong point of avoiding this topic, but a counterpoint can really only be so obvious before I can no longer avoid stating it: Trump was the president . It's not really unreasonable to not "ignore" a person when they are the individual elected by the people of your nation as their representative.
> It's not really unreasonable to not "ignore" a person when they are the individual elected by the people of your nation as their representative.
Is that a triple negative?
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#33I wish people would reject this brand, as with the-company-formerly-known-as-facebook. Pity.
There should be a higher bar for company names than co-opting a dictionary word or even just a letter. The lack of originality seems to be accelerating: first "Alphabet", then "Meta", and now "X"? (Honorable mention for "Apple".)
But Apple has been named Apple for, what, five decades? And besides, “Apple Computer Corp.” was surely better than “Computronics Inc.” or whatever was in vogue at that time.
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Posting here might not be helping.
I feel like people just don't know how to deal with trollish people like elon or trump, best you can do is ignore them and they lose the one thing they live for: attention.
Alas, they will always get rewarded for the attention-seeking behaviour. Always. Because it’s a sad fact that there are always people who are attracted to destructive attention-seekers, just as there are people attracted to mass murderers, satanic telepreachers, and promoters of poisonous ideologies. They simply don’t see these characters like you and I do. There’s money to be made by connecting these populations, from pamphlets and Speakers Corner to websites and Social Media. It’s always been a problem. But now, with a global population of billions, these trollish people are basically guaranteed to draw enough attention to have dangerous influence.
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#35Can anyone actually provide any proof that this was an intentional/nefarious "throttle" by X. Using ten domains as an example is not evidence. Did anyone check the millions of sites on the internet? How do you know there were not lots of sites Elon "likes" that were being throttled? Did anyone test more than 100 domains? This could have easily been a bug. e.g. a bug that was happening temporarily because an in memory…
Because that would be impossible to prove, and Twitter’s owner has burned any expectation of good faith by lying, repeatedly, about the smallest issues. He said he wouldn’t ban the ElonJet account, and then he did: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/dec/19/elon-musk/...
He banned journalists who reported on it, banned links to Mastodon, Substack, and Threads, changed the algorithm to boost his own content, slapped a warning label on NPR implying it was government funded and no more independent than the Global Times or Russia Today.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/journalists-who-wrote-ab...
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/15/23512113/twitter-blockin...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674427/substack-twitter-...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/14/23600358/elon-musk-tweets...
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twit...
So you could be right and this might be a bug, but your implication that we should give Twitter the benefit of the doubt doesn’t hold up.
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I said nothing about whether I like Elon as a person or not.
I think once a pattern of behavior is established, this should reasonably inform your interpretation of their behavior. This is the "Boy who cried wolf" lesson. So, if someone lies a bunch, and they say something, it makes sense to ignore it. If you don't keep score, you'll be pilloried. If someone makes unethical moves (like taking peoples twitter handles or boosting alt-right memes), it makes sense to assume that u…
That is a beautiful standalone comment about human nature.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
There should be a higher bar for company names than co-opting a dictionary word or even just a letter. The lack of originality seems to be accelerating: first "Alphabet", then "Meta", and now "X"? (Honorable mention for "Apple".)
But Apple has been named Apple for, what, five decades? And besides, “Apple Computer Corp.” was surely better than “Computronics Inc.” or whatever was in vogue at that time.
Just think of what Steve Job would have called his next computer company…
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Posting here might not be helping.
I feel like people just don't know how to deal with trollish people like elon or trump, best you can do is ignore them and they lose the one thing they live for: attention.
Or send them to jail. :-) It would be harder with Elon, but between securities fraud and willful safety negligence, it’s probably doable. :-)
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#39So tired of him. So tired.
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#40He's doing it for the freedom of speech guys.