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[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reading the article with the letter X in place of Twitter makes me feel like I am reading a pre-generated article with someone forgetting to replace the placeholder with the brand name.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meta, x alphabet... All these renamings and they all suck donkey balls. Not one cool name. And all 3 have gotten SIGNIFICANTLY worse.

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, they'd fit pretty good to the dystopia you'll be / you're already living in. Don't tell me the acronyms of GAFAM (Google (Alphabet), Apple, Facebook (Meta), Amazon and Microsoft ) and FAANG ( Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google ) don't sound like some end-of-world ushering big corps à la umbrella corporation.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

MAMAA (Meta Alphabet Microsoft Amazon Apple) also fits our cyberpunk dystopia quite well.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're two companies short of MAMA-MIA

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Intel and we just need Qualcomm to change their name.

If you switch Meta and Microsoft, and Alphabet and Apple, you almost have it sorted by market cap.

[–] electrorocket@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All restaurants are Taco Bell.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not in my timeline, they're not!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

LOL! That seems like a natural evolution of Carl's Jr's weird, male oriented marketing.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's from the movie Idiocracy, for those unaware. Their slogan used to be "Don't bother me, I'm eating!"

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, I started that movie, but I never finished it. I really should watch it again. Although I guess I can just read the news for the prequel.

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

embedded tweets just look like they have a close button now