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Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren't straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dude "X corp" totally sounds dystopian lmfao

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The meta rebranding made my skin craw. The X rebranding is dumb on Elon Musk's part. However you make a good point.

I believe Apple got its name from the biblical term of the forbidden fruit. Microsoft has a megacorp sounding name. Will Amazon rename itself to something dystopian?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

AFAIK Microsoft came from the Neuromancer novel. A microsoft is a tool in the book.

Could be wrong though, but I feel Ike that book was written before Microsoft was a company.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I find it amusing how nobody noticed when Valve changed their name to Valve Corporation ages ago, and people keep referring to it as Valve Software.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you think about it, all sorts of fucked up things that are happening now have been portrayed as a bad thing in past media: Virtual words, virtual-fuckin' land (not 100% sure this one is real, still really hoping its not), misuse of AI, smart houses, where everything is controlled by a remote (which relies on electricity / wi-fi), even stuff like alexa, which is listening to every word you say, at your home...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Theranos sounded like a superhero villain. I guess it kind of was?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

When I think about the fact that Facebook thought it was a good idea to name their online VR platform “the metaverse“ it still breaks my brain a little bit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty much. Welcome to the fucking future I guess. There's no flying cars and green cities and happiness or bloody universal healthcare, instead we have corpos trying to turn us into their consumer slaves and governments turning authoritarian. Just do what you're told and buy more. Don't ask questions don't think just browse TikTok, improve your social credit score, and imprint more ads into your psyche until WW3.

We're walking into hell with our eyes wide open fuck me it hurts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

or bloody universal healthcare

I guess it depends on where you live. It's not true of the whole world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Murica. Yeehaw.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Don't forget the conglomerate names:

Microsoft-Activision-Blizzard

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I used to call it ActiBlizz. What am I supposed to do now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

MS ActiBlizz sounds like the next addition to MS Office but they already renamed it to "Microsoft 365"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Microsoft Excel

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Well, there was a bit of a stir when it was decided that since corporations are people, they could technically run for president. But President Walt Disney-Pepsi-Comcast has done wonders for the economy... given that it's... now the economy"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Don't blame me I voted for Tim Apple

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Omni consumer products.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Wayland-Yutani

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't forget Truth Social. Straight out of ministry of truth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Especially when their main selling point is that they don't do fact checking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

And Taco Bell already exists so there's that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Normal people reading dystopian fiction: “wow, the author really portrayed well the downfall of humanity if we were to go down the wrong path”

Billionaires reading dystopian fiction: “hey, you know what…”

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I always thought this for the financial market: Standard & Poor

Moody

The Fed (as in, the past tense of feed)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

fannie mae and freddie mac have this distinct dystopyian taste to me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Those names were always parodying the names of actual corporations. I'm pretty sure Weyland Yutani is basically supposed to be like Lockheed Mitsubishi

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You want a trip down “is this a cyberpunk dystopia company” name, go check out the data brokers on the data broker registries in Vermont and California.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Acxiom, Experian, TransUnion, Oracle Data Cloud, CoreLogic, Axle, Equifax, Foursquare Labs, Inc., OnAudience, Nielsen, ... ... ... ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

California itself has about 517

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Now we just need companies to have their own militaries and then for someone to nuke one of their towers. We'd have the whole nine yards.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Amazon is a standing military or armed navy away from beating the all-time high score.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I could absolutely see a not-too-distant future where competitors of megacorps have their assets attacked by the government’s military.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He burned down half the city just to prove he was right and burned the other half just for fun.

Cyberpunk

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Waiting for Weyland-Yutani...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

building better worlds

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I still think it's hilarious that Facebook renamed to Meta, and anything they did with the "metaverse" was a huge failure. It's like they didn't learn their lesson from Second Life.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm still waiting for the cool neon signs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Nah, we got cheaper and brighter LED lights blasting 24/7 and annoying everyone trying to sleep instead. Neon signs are retro now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The lady eating a cherry is burned into my brain. In the Blade Runner point-n-click game she would appear every time you'd fly out from the marketplace, because it was a prerendered cutscene.

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