I will never forget when my tourist ass was bumbling through O’Hare on my way to my gate and this dark haired woman who I have dubbed the Executive Raven went blasting past me in a pencil skirt and 3-inch heels with her little rolly suitcase clacking behind her and I thought, “damn.”
Then I got to my gate and she was already there waiting for her own flight, she’d whipped out a laptop and an earpiece and appeared to be running the entire world so that it wouldn’t collapse in the three hours that she would be on the plane.
You meet a lot of these people in airports. I think me and the OOP don’t meet a lot of them, otherwise.
I’m still a little sad that both solarpunk and beehaw just straight up didn’t respond to my essays back when there weren’t that many lemmy instances yet.
They had a bug where if you were denied it was supposed to send a notification with a link allowing you to elaborate, but those notices didn't go out. Then, when you've applied but gotten stuck in the unapproved state, your user account exists but is disabled, this you can't make a new account with that same name. Sort of a sucky situation all around.
The problem is, is that if you engage with anyone outside of the internet, they have no fucking idea what you’re talking about when you call it “X”.
It’s so fucking stupid of a name. Even worse than Facebook changing to Meta.
You can ask people to call it “X” all day, every day, but you can’t just change the name of your brand/product to a single letter, that people use every day for other things, and expect it to work out for you.
In defense of Zuckerberg – and there’s something I never thought I’d say – they changed the name of the company so that they could introduce new brands. They were not dumb enough to rebrand the successful products. It’s just now Facebook by Meta.
Facebook the product is still Facebook. The only name that changed was that of the company that owns Facebook, which makes sense as that holding company also runs other products like Instagram.
Google made a similar move in 2015 when it created Alphabet to hold the non Google parts of Google.
In both cases the renaming was on the coorporate side. They made no effort to loose the old trademark, and continue to operate under it today.
The only high profile case that comes to mind that is simmilar to Twitter is when Comcast rebranded itself as Xfinity in 2010. In that case, it worked because: A) Comcasts reputation was way worse than Twitters and B) people don’t have that much of an option anyway. In the otherhand, the rebranding failed in the sense that everyone still knows them as Comcast.
I think they DID buy xfinity, then used the name because they were done wiping their ass with “comcast”. I only say this because I distinctly remember having both xfinity and comcast showing up as internet options on some old house listings.
xfinity wasn’t an acquisition, it was just comcast rebranding trying to separate itself from the stank of comcast. It did occur during a time of acquisitions of other cable networks, but that’s been true of comcast for 15ish years. both domains still work for customers.
Largely true but as a small aside, Google is still a company (within Alphabet). Alphabet is purely a corporate structure, and all branding still has Google on it. Whereas Facebook is now only a product, Meta is the company brand with its own logo and products named directly after it (like Meta Quest).
An imbecile narcissist. He probably thought he could literally take over the mindshare of “x”. Megalomania seems like his brand, though, so no surprises there.
Considering that they think they need to punish “dicks”, are a dick themselves in the process and then refuse to accept that they’re themselves a dick is literally cognitive dissonance but you can give those hotlines a call if you want ig
Also re-read what I wrote without your own paraphrasing, I chose my words. A dick is not an asshole and if you don’t know the difference here’s the closest thing I’ve got to crayons to explain it to you.
I’m not gonna talk to a child who can’t keep up with the conversation. The grand majority of people would lump an asshole and a dick in the same group, regardless of your pedantics.
You arguing about this proves my point lmao. I’m done talking about this you obviously need to use those crayons yourself. Maybe less tv and more grass touching and you’d have an easier time with knowing general consensus on things like “iM nOt an aSShOlE I’m a DiCk”
See, here’s how I know you’re a pussy: I stated my position on how I don’t mind interacting with assholes because I’m a dick to stupid, ignorant, disingenuous people (like you), and you got offended. How much of a little whiney bitch do you have to be to get so uppity about someone saying they’re OK with being abrasive to assholes? If you really have a problem with it go hug a fascist after I hurt their feelings.
The next time you’re having a teary because someone on the Internet upset you with their words (like I have without even trying) remember that there’s people like me who don’t get offended by the incompetence and wilful ignorance of braindead troglodytes with a below 6th grade reading comprehension because you don’t have opinions of value to get offended by.
You want to talk about keeping up with the conversation? I started the conversation dumbass, it’s my topic we’re conversing over, you’re the idiot who hasn’t gleaned an iota of knowledge from it because instead of asking questions and being inquisitive you got offended and had a cry.
Didn’t tackle any of points ✅ Went for the “you’re weak” card ✅ Obviously doesn’t think they have to communicate clearly with people and that everyone who doesn’t understand therefore must be an idiot ✅
You’re the one who’s triggered because I called you out for still being a dick despite it being for your own purposes and goals and then try to play it off like it’s somehow for the greater good.
I’m not a pussy you’re just a hot head. Good luck out there I wish you the best.
Just because you’re too stupid to comprehend doesn’t mean I’m not communicating clearly, you’ve taken every opportunity to act like a disingenuous fuckwit because your sad that mean people can be mean. Boo hoo. And you’ve been crying about it ever since.
Talk about not tackling any of the points, if self awareness was a disease you’d be the healthiest person alive.
I’m just fine, but thanks for caring. Feel free to hit me up the next time you feel offended by an Internet bully and I’ll come be mean to them for you.
Fun fact: Transparent electronics are a thing because prisons require radios, TV, etc to be able to be seen inside and companies later realised they looked cool.
I thought they’d also test the moulds with clear plastic so it was obvious if there were internal defects due to things like poor flow into part of the mould
If you don’t like it, scroll by, not everyone is a lefty. Nor is it an excuse for you to insult someone just because you don’t agree with their opinion.
I swear, for a party that preaches tolerance, y’all have none.
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