Capital calls its own theft “innovation” and that of the individual “crime”.

Excrubulently.

Gotcha, so when the boss tells me to “give 110%” I can go ahead and translate that to 55%.

And then not do that either.

Friend of mine who’d been in the room for bone surgeries said it was basically just carpentry. All saws, drills & screws.

I don’t think you’re going to get more efficient than “Luigi” right now, which I think might just do it.

Honestly the cultural power that word has right now is inspiring. They are so afraid, and people are seeing that they’re afraid, and that has power in itself.

I mean that’s a growth market if you can convince people it’s something they need.

The best part is it’s outdoors, so the bugs will come back and then you get repeat business! I bet you even get some whales who get you out for it every month!

This is actually how “entrepreneurs” think. They’ll come up with these evil, manipulative schemes and think they’re being clever.

https://lemmy.world/post/1853818

Lemmy uses pretty standard markdown, so this works in lots of forums besides lemmy.

Yeah, there’s a simple code for it, you just have to type “Luigi spez” and they’ll handle this for you.

As you wish.

I came here looking for it, so I may as well follow through on the prompt.

At a certain point I realised I was explaining the super obvious, and I wanted to point that out.

If it offended you, sit with that feeling. Maybe it’s trying to tell you something.

Because it was on video, it’s easy to digest, and it reveals something about his character. It especially makes clearer his reasons for dragging the kid everywhere he goes; it’s clearly not because he gives a shit about the kid. It makes the abuse a lot more obvious, and detracts from the humanising effect of the kid.

Like if you thought the issue was that people thought the moment had some serious material impact on the kid’s wellbeing, or that he actually lost his kid in a crowd or something, then I think you just missed the point of it entirely.

Also if you thought context makes it better, the people who were physically there and were presumably supporters of him said “you’re leaving your kid”, so it’s like… obviously an issue, by admission of people who wouldn’t want to admit it.

Like you could ask the same thing about his Nazi salute. We focused on it because it tells us something about who he is. The exact posture of his hand in that moment didn’t physically hurt anyone, it’s about the message it sends, and that message is going to hurt people.

And yes bad parents are everywhere, and Elon is unsurprisingly among them.

This is super basic stuff.

I’ve watched it too. The image it paints is of someone who has no concept of how children actually behave, presumably because he’s never had a reason to spend time with them before.

It’s not about needing to helicopter over the kid. If I was with a friend and we were walking somewhere together I’d pay more attention to them than that. That kind of full back turned walk away when you clearly expect to be kept up with is disrespectful unless you are actually intending to walk away and leave the person. The fact he felt the need to turn back and hurry the kid along shows he just gave no consideration to the kid.

He does it multiple times too. Walk away; hurry up; walk away; hurry up. This guy is herding this kid he just doesn’t know how to do it, like he expects a retinue or something.

Like you can read it differently if you want but I don’t agree with your assessment. The body language is pretty clear to me.

Just wait till he walks off negligently ignoring the child. Boom, no more human shield.

I would expect in that case “hell” is just a lie anyway, like an abuser telling you you can’t live without them. It’s classic controlling behaviour.

Realising that helped me walk away from the whole thing: Why are we told hell exists if it isn’t real? Control.

Reddit doesn’t have the internet infrastructure FB has where they were able to monopolise the internet of whole countries in certain parts of the world.

And the wider they cast this dragnet the more users will be caught up in it, the more will slowly leave, the less content will be created, the worse the platform will get.

I think for the future of reddit you only need to look at digg.

I’m not sure what the venn diagram of people into mutual aid and people who buy scratch tickets looks like, but I’d suspect it’s a small overlap.

But hey who knows, if this stuff is getting more popular traction then I might be wrong about that.

There’s a guide out there about what to do if you win.

Basically, tell nobody before you talk to a senior partner in a big law firm, get trusts set up for yourself and the people in your life so everybody is looked after and you can’t fall below a decent living wage even if you fuck the rest up. This also stops people hounding you for a slice and destroying your relationships.

Then there was stuff about setting up investments, and setting aside some spending cash.

Personally I’d want to put most of the “investments” into various mutual aid projects to build lasting social stability rather than using it to further the stock market, but other than that it’s pretty good advice.

“It’s the market” is another way of saying “because I can”.

They don’t have to raise the rent to match the market, the market is simply a signal to them that if they lost you by raising the rent, they could potentially replace you for the same or higher rent.

They could ignore that and leave your rent alone. They don’t. It’s a choice.

I’m not going to get a meaningful exchange with you, I can already tell. I think I made that pretty clear, as well as my reasons. Your reply is empty of anything but a very unsubtle attempt at emotional manipulation, so I’d say I’ve made the right call.

It’s not about force or having authority to define something, this is about being able to have a real conversation, and you left the main term undefined except in your own mind, and then when I asked you for it you gave an absolutely wild definition that makes no sense and which I can’t find anybody else using, and yet you still called it “the” definition and not “your” definition.

If nothing else that means you’re not someone it’s worth trying to talk to, because you’re not even trying to communicate effectively. I don’t care if you have your reasons, they’re not good reasons but I feel like in the spirit of this conversation I just shouldn’t fucking bother to explain why, because based on precedent you’ll just insist I’m wrong for your own inscrutable reasons and carry on as you were, and if I try to wrest those reasons out of you they’ll be nonsensical. Also you’re not worth trying to convince because you’re not somebody anyone else will listen to for long before they realise you’re completely full of shit.

Goodbye.