Excrubulent

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't understand why you're taking this so seriously. You said yourself it's insignificant.

So if that's the case why not let it go? Is getting the last word important to you even though the discussion isn't?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.world/post/1853818

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

As you wish.

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

So you have no point and should be ignored. Thanks for confirming that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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.

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