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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You mean older photos? Publicity photos? This is the equivalent of “you have been fooled by the media into not liking Trump/musk/whoever!”. For one, this is the photo from the BBC article, not one selected by someone on Lemmy. Then, anyone who watched the video of his ‘interview’ last week can see for themselves he’s looking much worse than he did a couple years ago, and fairly terrible overall.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It particularly drives me insane. I've known people of that age to act super worried if they go somewhere and there's not a TV they can have on. My ex would call it 'background noise' which is exactly what I don't want... annoying and repetitive commercials, concerning and distracting news broadcasts, fictional people engaged in trauma - why not some music? or silence? I've also wondered, what's the psychology of having dialogue playing on a loudspeaker all day and just tuning it out? I pointed out to her that no wonder she seemed to have a hard time listening to me in conversation when she has trained herself to hear people talking all day and not pay any attention to what they're saying. Leaving TVs on when nobody is watching them seems really improper to me too.

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

I used to have 20-30 open at a time when I was doing the same things, but I can't imagine building up to hundreds. Maybe I'd leave them open for the next day, but generally I try to stay more organized than that. When you have hundreds of tabs open you can't even see the titles so I find it a lot more difficult to navigate between them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My ex and I were the same age and totally different on this. I open tabs, close them, don’t leave any open long term. She’d have Safari open with dozens or hundreds as far as I could tell. But I operate like an older millennial and she has the sensibilities of a boomer - TV on 18 hours a day, etc

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  1. The way people use tabs is bizarre to me. My ex would have so many open that it was really difficult to navigate between them. Seems like a better idea to use features like bookmarks or reading list.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The point of speaking is to express an idea clearly to listeners. So, since this usage of 'partner' to mean the other person in a romantic relationship has become popular, to be specific I say 'business partner'.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I read it more and gathered that, but it still makes almost no sense as there’s the huge distinction between government restricting your speech and other people reacting to it. Plus, Musk is nowhere near a champion of “free speech” and to think he represents the principle in good faith is a severe delusion.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What? Anyway, I can’t really tell what you’re saying. Hope you have a lovely day too.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (5 children)

It doesn’t sound like you know what “free speech” means and you didn’t address anything I said about it.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (10 children)

He owns a major social network and his remarks are regularly repeated in the press. Who or what is harming his free speech? The constitutional right to free speech is protection from the government punishing someone. The advertisers are exercising their right to be associated or not with what happens on “X”.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I use that to refer to business partners and people have been confused by it.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 11 months ago (5 children)

He seriously thinks the public will blame the former advertisers and be angry at them when the issue was obviously Musk running the company into the ground?

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