Elon Musk

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L3moning said:
Maybe he'll try to make Trump CEO of Twitter!
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maybe so because twitter has paid rent for their San Francisco offices.

how can he make people come to work in person if he hasn't paid the rent.
https://www.12ft.io/https://www.dai...sk-failed-pay-rent-San-Francisco-offices.html
 
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That's a bit pathetic sorry :)
 
On the gender thread we've been discussing Elon's latest tweet about "cis" and "cisgender" now being considered as slurs on Twitter:



I thought I'd carry on posting about it here as I didn't want to derail the gender thread, but also because I think it's an interesting discussion about how a platform that claims to be pro free speech may not actually be.

He's since clarified that it's only deemed as a slur if used as part of "repeated, targeted harrassment", which seems odd to me because I think if a word is a slur then it's unacceptable to use it regardless.

For example, we all accept "f****t" is a slur and that means none of the following sentences are acceptable: "John is a f****t", "You're a f****t", "I don't like f****ts", "why do f****ts need a pride month?" etc etc.

I've never heard anyone say it's fine to say f****t as long as you're not bullying and harrassing someone with it. The reason it's identified as a slur on a website for example is to show it's an ugly and unpleasant word and shouldn't be used in any way on said website.

I accept that "cis" can be used in a bullying way, but I also think it can be used as a descriptor. No dictionary identifies it as a slur. So I think when Elon chose to say Twitter now classes it as a slur, he's putting it in the same category as "f****t" and other slurs, and we'll therefore start to see its use being restricted in multiple ways on Twitter.

I'm not bothered on a personal level because I don't post on Twitter anymore and I don't use the word anyway. I just think it's daft that a man who says he's pro freedom of speech has taken that stance. I wonder if we'll start seeing other words he doesn't like being labelled in the same way?
 
Ensay said:
I accept that "cis" can be used in a bullying way, but I also think it can be used as a descriptor.
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Describe what? The average person is "cis". Plus I personally have not seen it used in non harassment context (from BOTH sides). You don't need to add a word to a word that already exist. It like saying "I want McDonald's fries from McDonald's". You don't need to state the same thing twice. It makes people sound unintelligent.
 
OmgObsessed said:
Describe what? The average person is "cis". Plus I personally have not seen it used in non harassment context (from BOTH sides). You don't need to add a word to a word that already exist. It like saying "I want McDonald's fries from McDonald's". You don't need to state the same thing twice. It makes people sound unintelligent.
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To me, it's just the opposite of transgender. I had a look on the Oxford English Dictionary website as I knew it would give a better definition than me! I've included a screenshot below. It doesn't label it as "derogatory", which is what it says for slurs.

But to be honest, it's not really about the word - the word could be anything - it's more the approach being taken to label a word a slur and restrict its use in limited circumstances, on a site that claims to be pro freedom of speech.

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Miss Begotten said:
Apparently Zuckerberg does ju jitsu and MMA. I’d love Musk to get a pounding, but he’s all mouth and no trousers so he’ll almost certainly chicken out.
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Yeah I read about Zuckerberg's martial arts experience. Musk will probably pretend it was part of some wider intellectual point he was trying to make. 🥴
 
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