The thing is - on the whole accurate but exaggerated portrayals can become hurtful stereotypes. Many of the reasons a particular portrayal may ring true is because a vast portion of the audience may know people that are exactly like that taken to an extreme.

In the end it’s really about us, the audience anyway.  If we won’t buy something they won’t make it.  If we will, everything in it can be AI generated.  Sort of why every business has an ethical slippery slope when you come right down to it.

You still have to have a bunch of other trades go along with that.

It’s the same energy that gets people to say “people should leave Texas” despite the 45% of there that believe the same things they do.

I’ll be honest - I’ve just come to the conclusion that everyone’s making decisions and backfilling the logic later.  It seems obvious in cases where regulators have bowed up recently to Microsoft only to have to back down when they couldn’t prove they were providing consistent logic.

Bingo - “the middle” has been death in American commerce for almost 30 years now (90's-2020's).

Whatever Cultural Capital is - Microsoft as a company has the opposite of it.  I freely admit I bought mine because I couldn’t get a PS5.  I eventually did mind you, but that’s how they got my business in the first place.

Well there is a constitutional remedy -

Honestly I’m not sure (as a card carrying member of team noone) the online rabble has anything to do with it anymore.

The key is in the phrasing “do not deserve to be in the same category as Harvey Weinstein.” Harvey was a serial rapist who abused his authority to enable it.

I still think it would be funny to just cast Don Cheadle again.

If a company can do a through background check on on an employee prior to providing elevated access, I’m pretty sure Disney of all companies could fund a pretty thorough check on a guy they anticipate being the lynchpin of several billion in movie revenue. You don’t have to ask him a thing.  There are companies and…

From a technical perspective, you may be absolutely right. And if Musk (and I’m not saying he is) is actually serious about tracking abuse then he’ll see the results in the resulting data.

Oddly enough, yes I do use Twitter. But I’m one of maybe a reduced number of people who is fairly minimal in my footprint and consciously avoid the areas where people fight all the time because in my estimation they enjoy doing it and I get nothing out of it.

This is the correct takeaway.

Not a Musk person mind you, but I suspect for many the issue is deadnaming and misgendering may be a component of abuse, but may be more microaggression than anything. Some people may have known a person a long time with another name for example. Or someone has declared they are transgender but not everyone knows and…

I think to your point, the fact that’s it’s been fashionable to bash Metallica’s new stuff long enough for it to have had kids really messes with things. It’s sort of meant that musical discussion has always been married to the idea of “the later stuff” is bad, it just depends on you when that “later stuff” was. …

Gorilla has apparently seen Dunkey’s review it seems.

And their replacement:

I think once someone has killed all their heroes, it’s probably just best to keep in mind Hollywood is inherently a huge social power construct.