A lot about this is, in my opinion, misleading.

I don’t need to be able to read Ulysses and understand all the themes and the deeper meanings, to be literate. As to actually understand all the meanings, I would have to be familiar with the culture in which it was written and the personal perspective of the author on that culture.

I don’t think the perfect world entails that everyone (or, at least most people) is overly familiar with ancient cultures and authors.

Unfamiliarity with the context of what was written is usually why people don’t catch on themes. A person with german cultural background will not read a passage about bringing honor to your bloodline, in the same way a chinese person will. A lot of Germans are deeply suspicious of the idea of honor. I learned that after decades with Germans and their culture.

How many Cultures are you familiar enough with to be able to correctly understand a text written in it?

E.g. the “remorse of conscience” is a cultural theme. A person who reads a lot of books and seek out these themes, has a different culture than a person who only scrolls on TikTok. And if the person reading books isn’t on TikTok, they are probably unable to properly understand the themes in a TikTok.

And yes, you said that there are different levels of literacy, so you didn’t say that I was illiterate if I wouldn’t catch on the “remorse”. But you present literacy as a 1 dimensional scale. 1 level, 2, 3, etc… When it is not, your ability to correctly parse a text is not 1 dimensional. You will probably fail to correctly understand a story written in ancient china, and if you understand it, you will probably fail to understand a story written in the 1950s in Germany.

Get off the horse. Stand next to us and enjoy your pleasure of reading with other people and learn different perspectives. They aren’t less literate than you, they are differently literate than you.

Honestly I think, as a cis man, cis people are probably very bad at answering the question.

humans tend ignore “harmony”. When you walk through the field, do you look each blade of grass or at the cow? Do you feel “non-pain”? How could you possibly explain someone pain that doesn’t know pain? Do you remember the last time, you sat next to your friend watching a show on tv, in the same detail, you remember the conflict/discussion that you had with them?

Generally we will remember and pay attention to the things that are “wrong”.

If your gender is right for you, why would you pay attention? What would you even pay attention to?

If it is wrong for you, you feel the “pain”, see the cow and remember the conflict.

I left Twitter on the day, musk bought it. I knew, I could trust him with my data and him firing so many people proved me right. Twitter isn’t a safe place for your data.

His politics, now and then, would have been good reasons too but you don’t need politics. Everyday it becomes clearer, Twitter will fail.

Well said.

I have never seen a more easily offended person as a person who calls others snowflake.

Good call! Next gen can have children for our pensions!

Hehehe 😈

Privatized networks are a crime and it should be treated legally as such.

Public network for the public.

Understandable and same. I just see the why. I don’t like it either.

I thought the same thing but honestly I understand them from a uninformed casual observer perspective.

American politics are very contrarian.

Okay, you might actually don’t understand, musk owns one of the biggest social media and musk stated that on the platform the word “cis” is considered a slur. Now you might think what does that have to do with trans people if he is against the word “cis”. Well his daughter is trans-gender and musk insist that the woke mob killed his son as he refuses to acknowledge his daughter. His daughter doesn’t want any relation at all with her father. He keeps deadnaming her. So it is fair to assume the he isn’t very supportive of his daughter. So to sum it up, he is so against trans that the idea of being cis (so the opposite of trans) is too much of an acknowledgement of transgender people.

So why does he matter? Like I said, owner of X, Restricting the speech of many people because of he is too sensitive to handle cis due to his fear(?)/disgust(?) for trans.

So trans people are faced with the reality that some of the most powerful people on the planet are so much of a fucking snowflake and so much against their existence that even “cis” is a problem for them.

That is a good reason to be “annoying” by protest and ridicule these people.

Now musk is only one person but it isn’t particularly difficult to find many many more.

Trans: e.g. because a lot of people, including people like Elon musk, lose their shit when presented to the idea that if trans-people are trans, that he, as an non-trans-person, is the opposite of trans which is cis.

Free speech absolutist…

When did I or anyone talked about more than 6 figures? We talked about who got the money and in my comment, I made clear that “a lot of it” went to dickheads. so I thought it was obvious that i wasn’t talking about “6 figures”.

And also musk was legally required to buy the stocks… It was hardly a gamble. At least not a pony. It would have been a reasonable expectation that people will drive up the price because Elon (that genius) talked himself in a prison sentence if he didn’t buy it for that price, like a genius would do.

I am aware. That is how stocks work. The billions “lost” got paid to previous owners of the stock.

I used “owning” instead of “owned”, sorry, I guess.

A Twitter stock was $34 in early 2022 and got bought by musk for $53.70 in late 2022.

You could have made $20 with a $34 investment. There were certainly some good people who invested maybe $340 and made $200.

To the people owning Twitter stocks. So a lot of rich dickheads but also to some non rich dickheads and actually good people.

It isn’t about it being a loan. It is about attention, care and respect. That is why I wrote favor/attention. You won’t be friends with someone who doesn’t in any way show you that they care/respect you.

Edit: just to be very clear, the gift is an example of you expressing care, in my example. It is not necessarily a gift, it could be helping them move, or anything else that expresses some level of care.

You don’t expect me to care for you, so you are probably not upset when I don’t hold open the door for you when you are 4 steps behind me. But if your friend would do the same (assuming that they know you are there) you could take it negatively.

I think you are missing the point. I am not saying it wasn’t. But if you makes a gift for your friend’s birthday, and they don’t bother at all to return the favor/attention, would you be upset as you would think it is kinda a dick move?

Taking without giving is always viewed negatively in social settings.

Maybe “taking advantage of” is wrong but then again, it is a dick move anyway.