Kind of offensive to sewers
this post was submitted on 27 Nov 2023
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Huge fan of Hidalgo with her leadership on transforming Paris to a sustainable city. Nice to see someone taking climate change seriously.
And they know a thing or two about sewers in Paris!
How long will we continue to get news stories whenever a minor entity leaves X (formerly Twitter)?
As long as no minor or major public figures are remaining for leaving Twitterix.
Xitter
It's about 13 months past time
Right? I mean, i'll take the win, absolutely, but c'mon. Anybody still on Xitter - stop. Just stop.
It's like this for a long time
"citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals." That was my experience on Twitter before I quit it. "gigantic global sewer”--accurate
The nickname "Xitter" is much more accurate now lol.
Pronounced as in Xí Jìnpíng?
that's the most French exit ever. I love it.
where all my Franks at? ou est tout mes francs
I live like 30km from the French border and before 1957 I would have been French and then not and the French again and then not again. Does that count?
We all know cultures don't follow maps. Culturally, are you essentially French?
We use a lot of French loanwords in our dialect like trottoir, chaise longue, parapluie. It's generally more a connection to Alsace than to France itself. Food-wise, it's more a mix of French and German but leaning more towards German.
What about efficiency of industry? Humour? Willingness to overthrow a bad government? Quality of local bread? Cheese? Sausages? Wine? Beer? Opinion of Roman culture (is it the pinnacle of greatness or were they just a bunch of losers that died in your forests that one time plus the other times?).
Je parle à peine français. Je suis désolé, je suis américain et je n'ai pas la capacité de pratiquer mon français.
Je soutiens le maire Hidalgo
C'est pas mal ça.
It's hugelly different.
You see, physical faeces are something people produce and have to excrete, as a side-effect of feeding not because they want to, and they have to eat to stay alive. Whilst there are some ways to reduce the amount of faeces produced, they're generally unhealthy, so people have no safe choice other than producing said physical feaces and can't really hold them in for long before there's a burst intestine, which can be deadly, hence have no choice than to excrete it.
So sewages dispose of, let's call it, unavoidable shit.
Mental faeces, on the other hand, do not at at all need to be produced, and even if produced need not be excreted. Further, unlike physical faeces, they are not produced as a side effect of feeding and rather are generally produced as a side effect of exposure to other people's excreted mental faeces.
X, unlike sewages, does not dispose of mental faeces, rather it both incentivies people to excrete their mental faeces instead of keeping them in and displays them prominetly for others to see which in turn increases the production of mental faeces in other people.
So X is almost the very opposite of sewages: the latter dispose of the kind of shit that's an unavoidable side effect of being alive whilst the former incentivises the excretion of and increases the exposure to the kind of shit that would otherwise exist only in the minds of a minority of people, plus in doing so increases the production of that kind of shit in previously unaffected humans - in other words, sewages reduce exposure to and harm from physical shit whilst X not only increases exposure to and the harm from mental shit, it even increases production of it.
Twitter+ X = Xitter.
Pronounced as "shitter"
Works well, since "tweets" have been rebranded as "X-crement"
I will still call them twats
That's the userbase.
Ha! Thank you
gigantic global sewer
Come to the Fediverse, it's not that gigantic lol
BUT IT'S OUR SEWER
Besides, we have pizza and ninja turtles
The global town ~~square~~ latrine.
Someone should tell her about the fediverse
That leaves Reddit as a decommissioned sewage treatment plant turned into a bum fight squat haven.
truer words were never spoken
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has announced she is quitting X, formerly Twitter, calling it a “gigantic global sewer” that is “destroying our democracies” by spreading abuse and misinformation.
“I have made the decision to leave Twitter,” Hidalgo wrote in lengthy posts in English and French on Monday, citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.
“Twitter, far from being the groundbreaking medium that initially made information accessible to the greatest possible number of people, has in recent years become an impressive tool for destroying our democracies,” she added.
Hidalgo’s campaign to transform Paris into a cycling capital has earned her scorn and praise on social media over the years, with some users criticising the seemingly endless work and visually unappealing worksites under the #SaccageParis (WreckParis) hashtag.
“This medium has become a gigantic global sewer, and we should continue to wade into it?” said the Socialist politician, whose failed bid for the French presidency garnered 1.7% of the vote in 2022.
More recently, Hidalgo has come under fire for a trip to the French island of Tahiti, purportedly to view a 2024 Olympics surfing site, but that opponents said did not fall under her remit and during which she visited her daughter who lives there.
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Twitter with Tweetdeck was a wonderful means of following the news using the List feature. It still works if you use lists but without Tweetdeck it isn't as useful.
That said, I barely even use the app anymore. I used to be able to only see what I wanted to see, now Elon is forcing right wing propaganda on everyone.
It always was. Wonder why certain people are just now seeing it? Hmm.
Why don't you just say what you are implying?
since you seem to know what i am writing about better than I do, why don't you just enlighten us all?