ZeroCool

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[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 8 points 4 days ago

I should hope so! The school deserves it. Multiple people would have had to drop the ball for this to happen. It’s just baffling because they were clearly making some sort of effort to help her. I can’t believe nobody bothered to even ask if her mother had been informed.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Downvoting because of the blue checkmark.

Sorry for being so pedantic, but I don’t want to support Twitter’s pay-for-engagement system, or anything about Twitter at all, even indirectly through a screenshot.

Downvoting because of asinine slacktivism. It’s a screenshot posted in a community that’s almost entirely screenshots of tweets. Get a grip.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 62 points 4 days ago (5 children)

School officials knew Carranza was being severely bullied and sent her for multiple weekly counseling sessions. However, the officials reportedly never notified the child's mother, who says she only found out about the abuse after her daughter's hospitalization.

How in the hell did nobody bother to tell her mother about the bullying? And how did she even get weekly counseling sessions without parental permission? I don’t have kids, so I guess I just don’t understand how schools are run these days, let alone in a shithole like Texas, but this story just sounds bizarre.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 83 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

I miss when tech entrepreneurs just wanted to get rich and retire young instead of becoming real life James Bond villains. Tom Anderson got a generation to learn HTML, got Rupert Murdoch to hand over $580mil for a social network that'd be dead within a few years, then had the decency to peace out and travel the world enjoying his photography hobby. No evil schemes. No fascism. Just pretty pictures.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Wanna know how I know you didn't read that? Because it doesn't disagree with me. Coca Cola popularized the modern depiction of Santa Claus.

One might therefore fairly grant Coca-Cola some credit for cementing the modern image of Santa Claus in the public consciousness, as in an era before the advent of television, before color motion pictures became common, and before the widespread use of color in newspapers, Coca-Cola's magazine advertisements, billboards, and point-of-sale store displays were for many Americans their primary exposure to the modern Santa Claus image. But at best what Coca-Cola popularized was an image they borrowed, not one they created.

Notice how I didn't say they created it, nor did I say they invented it? I said they popularized it.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 33 points 1 week ago

Well, at least eggs are.... more expensive than ever.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Secondly, I did Google it. And according to that, around 500AD Valentines day was originally established to honor the Saint

Yes. So your claim that Christmas has been "celebrated for hundreds (or even thousands) of years before coke existed. Valentine's Day wasn’t." is incorrect. We're done here.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tell you what, how about you go google “The Feast of St. Valentine” and then we’ll pick this conversation back up. Sound good?

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

There's a clear difference between the longstanding traditions behind Christmas/Yule and the capitalism-driven Valentine's Day sales event. And we all know it.

Yes, like jolly old Santa Claus dressed up in his red and white suit as popularized by... Coca Cola in the ‘30s. You’re right, Christmas is totally different than Valentine’s Day.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Edit: As many are trying to point out,

Just to be clear, by “many” you mean two. Two people replied to you… now it’s three.

 
 
 
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