• LegionEris@lemmy.world
    39·
    1 year ago

    Fuck Elon Musk, but this is one of Jim’s worst moments in that show. If someone comes back from an extended therapy program with a set of tools and techniques they are using to solidify and remind themselves of the changes they have made to themselves and their lives, and one of them is as simple as asking you to use the other half of their legal name as their short form moniker, you have to be a an asshole not to do so. So yeah, call Musky’s new sinking ship whatever you want, but don’t be Jim Halpert about it, because Drew never crossed the line in anger again. /rantover

    • Ghoti_@lemmy.world
      35·
      1 year ago

      Jim is a dick in most of the office

      He thinks he’s better than everyone he works with and really only treats people decently when he wants something

    • LegionEris@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      I posted a whole rant about this before I saw your comment. Suffice to say, I entirely agree. It’s one of his worst moments. What an asshole.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    If you want Musk to fail, use the name that has less brand recognition and lower brand trust.

    The Twitter brand was literally the most valuable part of that company. When people hear “X” they are MUCH more inclined to either

    • not recognize the brand name
    • focus on the fact that the product has changed significantly (for the worse)

    Call it X.

    • FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
      12·
      1 year ago

      You forgot option #3: Think it’s some porn site.

      I never used twitter but when I saw some site named X my first thoughts were “Why is a porn site suddenly so popular?”

  • dolle@feddit.dk
    12·
    1 year ago

    I’m going to call it “eggs”. A tweet is now an “egg” and tweeting is “egging”.

  • Beefalo@midwest.socialEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been calling it Xitter, sounds like zitter. Gotta call it something, not the dumb thing he made up.

  • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    So I have a younger, semi-autistic relative that wants to be called “Kalcifer.” To be it seemed absolutely stupid, and I refused, but I was nice about it. But I’ve heard of other people wanting the same thing. Can someone explain this to a Millennial please?

    • Wereduck
      9·
      1 year ago

      Why not call someone what they want to be called? It ain’t new. Just like it’s polite to ask someone “can I call you x” or “do you prefer x or y” when you start to call someone a nickname or more personal name, someone can ask to be called x, and it’s polite to do so. Names are arbitrary things, but at the same time often deeply meaningful to people.

      • bpm@lemmy.ml
        8·
        1 year ago

        Calcifer is the fire demon from Howl’s Moving Castle - I’d guess it’s a reference to that?

    • LegionEris@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      I’m a millennial and changed my name. I don’t know why your relative wants to be called something new. There are thousands of possible reasons. You could ask them directly. If they’re autistic, there’s a very good chance they’ll be happy to tell you their thought process in direct and concrete terms. You could also attempt to compromise by calling them “Cal” which is a more normal name. Denying them without understanding is pretty much the worst move >_>

    • Franzia
      3·
      1 year ago

      They might be trans and this is their first foray into explaining how they want to identify. Autism and gender issue have a huge co-diagnosis.

    • Nowyn@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      They played too much WoW.

      No, but seriously, calling people whatever they like is OK. As another Millenial, at least in my corner, we all had some kind of nicks and they came to real life. I have a lot of friends who still go by their nicknames from decades ago. I also changed my own name a little and am currently almost exclusively known by that name. I don’t go around telling people why but my name is connected to trauma quite strongly. I can even go further in my family history to have an example of how people have been doing that always. My grandma was called by two names. She moved to the city and decided to go by another name. I was a little bit confused as a kid when my great-aunt called and asked her by a name I had never heard before. I might understand not calling someone something offensive, but Kalcifer is quite mild. In the end, it doesn’t hurt anyone and is a tool for building your identity.