you there, adult! quickly! explain why children are a socially vulnerable class of people without defaulting to “they are stupid and their brains don’t work”
Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.
They lack life experiences required to recognize they’re being manipulated or abused and do not actually understand the intricate nature and structure of lies which makes them easy targets for con artists and abusers.
Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.
Their lack of experience with negative feedback results in a lack of scale causing them to respond to even minor inconveniences with dramatic rejection that could cause them to leap to a different extreme and harm themself unintentionally in the process.
Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.
Due to the formative nature of everything they experience being a baseline for their lives their isolation from socio-political topics reinforces a idealized youth, later in life, wherein politics “Weren’t a thing” that leads them to desire to avoid the topic as adults.
Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.
Their constant need for stimulation as they grow results in an endless drive for novelty combined with a natural human response to dive into the familiar for comfort results in a deeply uncomfortable psychocsocial battle which can be paralyzing when even simple choices are presented making them apt to default to the desires of authority figures.
Their position within society is one in which they are viewed more as property than people and the rights they possess are deferred to their parents.
I saw some news outlets say that this was because he loved D&D so much but knew it had to be something else.
And yep, I was exactly right for his motivations. The current Senior Designer and Project Lead for Dungeons and Dragons gave the most lukewarm criticism of the racism in the earliest versions of D&D, and Elon Musk threw a fit over it.
This man is so easily offended, it’s ridiculous. This is what happens when you grow up the son of an emerald mine owner in apartheid South Africa and attend private schools that only allow white boys to attend.
It’s wild to me that more people don’t talk about that fact because it explains literally everything about this man.
He should stick to destroying companies he’s already bought, like Tesla, Twitter, and the US government.
1/7 I’ve seen some folks fearing that musk might actually be able to purchase Hasbro or D&D. Or laughing at how he’ll do it. The thing is, the money isn’t there to do it. He literally cannot.
Let’s review this. First, there’s not a buyout clause. He has to approach the board to make an offer.
2/7 He cannot afford any reasonable offer for Hasbro. If we look at their common stock, it currently is sitting at about $63.89 a share, or was when I checked this morning. There are 139.5 million total outstanding issued shares, for a market cap of 8.91 billion dollars.
3/7 “But what if he buys 50% plus a share?”
Well, that would be around 4.46 billion dollars, which he definitely hasn’t got liquid and possibly does not have, period.
But also, it wouldn’t get him the company. Hasbro has issued 139.5 million shares – but that’s not all they have.
4/7 Hasbro is AUTHORIZED to issue up to 600 million shares, and even adding together stuff that is sitting around not trading, they’ve only issued around a third of that total per their last quarterly report.
Which means even if you bought all of it, they can issue enough to retain control.
5/7 It is quite literally not possible to force a hostile takeover of Hasbro…and that’s assuming the stock price stayed where it was this morning. The moment you began mass buying you’d be driving the price up, but the math above assumes that magically doesn’t happen and he still can’t.
6/7 So, to be able to buy Hasbro he’d have to go directly to the board instead and convince them to sell. And the thing is? The CFO of Hasbro is a Paypal guy. It’s in his corporate bio, even. It’s why they hired him, or so they say. He knows and hates musk.
7/7 Could he try to make a deal for the D&D IP? Yes, possibly he could. Again, I don’t see Hasbro going for it at anything like a price he could afford. He’s too thirsty, they know what he’s like, and the IP is worth more to them as finance ghouls to sit on and license out – just look at BG3 licensing.
people will say “early medieval” and be talking about shit from the high middle ages. people will say “medieval” and be talking about the early modern era. people will say “the early modern era” and literally mean 1952
people will say “ancient” in reference to something that happened in 1250 AD
people will say “Renaissance paintings” and then show some random french painting from 1770
people will say “I can’t believe it’s not butter” when they can in fact believe it is not butter
I want to destroy this post with a flame thrower
Imo the worst is how people will say ‘ancient’ about 16th century Mesoamerica….
Please take a moment to read this. A Canadian company wants to build a sulfide copper mine near Lake Superior, which holds 21% of the world’s freshwater. The mine would produce 98.5% toxic waste, stored in a dam just two miles from the lake. The dam can only withstand a 1-in-100-year storm, but the area has had two 1-in-1,000-year storms in the past decade. If it breaks, toxic water could flood the lake. Copper sulfide mines in the U.S. have consistently contaminated nearby water sources, and this mine could hurt local communities with lower employment, income, and property values. The company wants $50 million in taxpayer funding to move forward. The Michigan Senate is about to vote, if they don’t get the funding they can’t build it.
Sign this petition if you want to prevent this disaster by searching “Protect the Porkies, Protect Lake Superior— Stop the Copperwood Mine!” at change.org.
Crowds of families, tourists and local folks paused on that sunny Saturday in September, watching the group curiously as it passed. Was this a protest or a celebration, they wondered.
It was neither. It was ceremony, a walking prayer of gratitude and acknowledgement of the essential role clean water plays in life on the planet. Such a message would seem to offer a universal spiritual appeal. But deep in the Upper Peninsula’s mining country where generations of European immigrants have depended on digging copper and iron ore from the earth for more than a century, such a prayer had a whiff of blasphemy.
“This goes all the way back to the 19th century with fur trading, timber, iron and copper mining; if there’s any environmental fallout the folks who ran the operation aren’t around to pay for the cleanup,” said Tom Grotewohl, a resident of Wakefield Township and founder of Protect the Porkies, a nonprofit organization opposing the mines that draws its name from the Porcupine Mountains, known as the Porkies, in the Upper Peninsula.
“Mining is a false tradition,” Grotewohl told ICT. “A tradition is something that everyone can benefit from and share equally.”
The Copperwood Mine Project is emblematic of a global struggle to address climate change and support the clean energy industry without further damaging the environment and treading on Indigenous rights. The demand for energy transition minerals such as copper, lithium, cobalt and nickel disproportionately affects Indigenous peoples and lands.
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