Naming things after people frequently backfires. The person later turns out to be politically divisive, or a nazi, or a rapist, or a pedophile, or some other awful thing.
I’m so tired of seeing “XYZ memorial highway” signs everywhere. And schools should just stick to naming themselves after the region (north/south/east/west), or going by PS numbers. It’s all just asking for trouble and a waste of taxpayer money.
See the perfect example: Star Trek Discovery namedropping Musk in-between the Wright brothers and Zephram Cochrane (in-universe inventor of the warp drive), and even having a high school named after him.
This, mind you, happened right before his “pedo guy” comments - the episode aired in early October 2017, whereas Musk made the comment on 15 July 2018. So within a year Musk managed to kill off the respect of a large chunk of nerds just by letting his inner Nazi appear for a moment.
In my mind, I rewrote the episode’s script. Essentially, Elon laid himself down feet first in front of a steam roller, after giving away everything he owned to fund Universal Healthcare.
So, they named a local elementary school after him, as it was literally the very least they could do after he was squeezed out like a tube of toothpaste.
It’s fascinating to think that if Elon hadn’t spent so much time hanging around with former sexpats such that the word Thailand meant paedophile tourism to him, America could have a functioning democracy right now.
Nah, the issue is much deeper rooted. fElonia has been a white supremacist moron for a VERY long time.
When he sold his first company, Zip2, to Compaq, the latter said that the code was practically unusable.
Later on, he funded the formation of the original X dot com, an online bank, where he fired all other founders within the first half year due to “creative differences”, basically stole their work, and within a year they merged with Peter Thiel’s PayPal/Confinity. A few months later Musk got ousted as CEO because of mismanagement. Go figure.
Half his ventures since have been abject and utter failures, which would’ve ruined anyone else financially, but because he’s got his rich emerald mine owner daddy, he always had a nice little trust fund to fall back on.
And his views also go back to his father, who was a fervent supporter of the Apartheid state, and is essentially a white supremacist (also an elitist piece of shit). Don’t even get me started about mummy dearest, to whom muskie had to run just so he didn’t have to fight Zuckerberg…
At SpaceX there literally used to be a “Musk management department”, solely tasked with giving the imbecile random tasks that don’t affect mission critical stuff, and making sure he’s not saying absolutely moronic BS in interviews.
He’s basically stuck on the mental and emotional level of a 13yo teen who just hit puberty, combined with that Cybertruck shaped body, more gender affirming care than your average post-op trans person, and a botched micropenis he can’t even use. Him going full on alt-right wasn’t a question of if, but when.
At SpaceX there literally used to be a “Musk management department”, solely tasked with giving the imbecile random tasks that don’t affect mission critical stuff, and making sure he’s not saying absolutely moronic BS in interviews.
Kinda still is that way. Just that through graft he scammed NASA into giving that “Musk management department” billions of dollars to build 11 massive rockets which have all failed. But they do a lot of spin to claim half of them were successful.
The SpaceX that operates from Cape Canaveral still continues to do successful launches though. Now that Musk has burned through all of the money he scammed from NASA we’ll have to see if he starts pulling money from the wing of SpaceX that can actually launch things into space his stupid “Starship” project.
I’m happy to use it to memorialize someone who is long dead (like, at least a century; long enough that we can be pretty sure what kind of person they were in life), or to mark a notable feature or plant or animal in the region. Even an institution (College Park, Museum Way, High School Rd). Not everything has to be purely functional. And if the local government has to pay for the signs to be printed anyway…
Do you realize how many public schools, military bases, and other crap had to be renamed a few years ago because they were named after Confederates? All that signage and letterhead doesn’t just pay for itself.
“I’m happy to use it to memorialize someone who is long dead (like, at least a century; long enough that we can be pretty sure what kind of person they were in life)”
Demonstrates why this is still a bad idea with example. Proceeds to get downvoted. 🤷♂️
We knew about them while they were still walking the earth. That was a willful choice, and the change represented a change in values.
Yes, signage costs money. But it also has to be replaced from time to time anyway. I don’t think there are any schools changing their name annually; they probably print new signs up memorializing tournament wins often enough that they can just get it added to an existing print run.
Naming things after people frequently backfires. The person later turns out to be politically divisive, or a nazi, or a rapist, or a pedophile, or some other awful thing.
I’m so tired of seeing “XYZ memorial highway” signs everywhere. And schools should just stick to naming themselves after the region (north/south/east/west), or going by PS numbers. It’s all just asking for trouble and a waste of taxpayer money.
See the perfect example: Star Trek Discovery namedropping Musk in-between the Wright brothers and Zephram Cochrane (in-universe inventor of the warp drive), and even having a high school named after him.
This, mind you, happened right before his “pedo guy” comments - the episode aired in early October 2017, whereas Musk made the comment on 15 July 2018. So within a year Musk managed to kill off the respect of a large chunk of nerds just by letting his inner Nazi appear for a moment.
In my mind, I rewrote the episode’s script. Essentially, Elon laid himself down feet first in front of a steam roller, after giving away everything he owned to fund Universal Healthcare.
So, they named a local elementary school after him, as it was literally the very least they could do after he was squeezed out like a tube of toothpaste.
It’s fascinating to think that if Elon hadn’t spent so much time hanging around with former sexpats such that the word Thailand meant paedophile tourism to him, America could have a functioning democracy right now.
Nah, the issue is much deeper rooted. fElonia has been a white supremacist moron for a VERY long time.
When he sold his first company, Zip2, to Compaq, the latter said that the code was practically unusable.
Later on, he funded the formation of the original X dot com, an online bank, where he fired all other founders within the first half year due to “creative differences”, basically stole their work, and within a year they merged with Peter Thiel’s PayPal/Confinity. A few months later Musk got ousted as CEO because of mismanagement. Go figure.
Half his ventures since have been abject and utter failures, which would’ve ruined anyone else financially, but because he’s got his rich emerald mine owner daddy, he always had a nice little trust fund to fall back on.
And his views also go back to his father, who was a fervent supporter of the Apartheid state, and is essentially a white supremacist (also an elitist piece of shit). Don’t even get me started about mummy dearest, to whom muskie had to run just so he didn’t have to fight Zuckerberg…
At SpaceX there literally used to be a “Musk management department”, solely tasked with giving the imbecile random tasks that don’t affect mission critical stuff, and making sure he’s not saying absolutely moronic BS in interviews.
He’s basically stuck on the mental and emotional level of a 13yo teen who just hit puberty, combined with that Cybertruck shaped body, more gender affirming care than your average post-op trans person, and a botched micropenis he can’t even use. Him going full on alt-right wasn’t a question of if, but when.
Kinda still is that way. Just that through graft he scammed NASA into giving that “Musk management department” billions of dollars to build 11 massive rockets which have all failed. But they do a lot of spin to claim half of them were successful.
The SpaceX that operates from Cape Canaveral still continues to do successful launches though. Now that Musk has burned through all of the money he scammed from NASA we’ll have to see if he starts pulling money from the wing of SpaceX that can actually launch things into space his stupid “Starship” project.
I’m happy to use it to memorialize someone who is long dead (like, at least a century; long enough that we can be pretty sure what kind of person they were in life), or to mark a notable feature or plant or animal in the region. Even an institution (College Park, Museum Way, High School Rd). Not everything has to be purely functional. And if the local government has to pay for the signs to be printed anyway…
Do you realize how many public schools, military bases, and other crap had to be renamed a few years ago because they were named after Confederates? All that signage and letterhead doesn’t just pay for itself.
Ah yes, Stalin elementary school, right down the street from Pol Pot high school, next door to Idi Amin College.
Maybe they shouldn’t have named places after enemies of state in the first place.
“I’m happy to use it to memorialize someone who is long dead (like, at least a century; long enough that we can be pretty sure what kind of person they were in life)”
Demonstrates why this is still a bad idea with example. Proceeds to get downvoted. 🤷♂️
We knew about them while they were still walking the earth. That was a willful choice, and the change represented a change in values.
Yes, signage costs money. But it also has to be replaced from time to time anyway. I don’t think there are any schools changing their name annually; they probably print new signs up memorializing tournament wins often enough that they can just get it added to an existing print run.
Why even give them names that arbitrary/ we should just use Longitude/latitude or similar for everything.
“Which high school did you go to?”
“Oh, good ol’ 40.6146° N –74.4112° W”
Plainfield High?