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  • Certainly trademark research would have...oh, right, It's Elon. He just decided to do it.

  • As said, Ronald disappeared a while ago for other reasons, but along with that McD became more of a "modern" look and got away from catering to the family at a kid's level. They still changed successfully. My point was that Musk would throw everything out and do something totally not designed to bring people to eat there, and then blame everyone but himself. His most successful work seems to be when he lets other run the show, and his real problems started when he forgot that and tried to be front and center on everything without anyone filtering his ideas and verbal thoughts. Elon Musk a decade back would now have a different image had he just hired and listened to a good PR person.

  • The logo has been very successful in branding the company, as well as the companion verb "tweet". I think a company has reached peak when its name or something connected is used as an action verb. If he had taken over McDs he'd be tossing out the arches and even Big Mac with claims that they are the problem.

    Twitter may have not been in great shape financially when he took over, but at least it had somewhat of an image. Musk is the contractor you called to fix a leak in the roof, and he burns the house down. He fixed the leak alright.

  • That's how language models work. It's grouped into AI as is so many things, but it's not AGI. It could open the doors to AGI as a component, but isn't actually thinking about its answers. And those probabilities are driven by training reinforcement which includes the bias of giving an answer the human will receive well. Of course it's going to "lie" or make up things if that improves the acceptance of the answer given.

  • Night sky had the Milky Way. Same place now, can probably only see a hundred stars total.

  • Must have posted via UDP and wasn't sure it made it the first time.

  • This is true. But if this is this year's Place event, that's a sad turnout, regardless of what's being done there. Nothing like the original, not that anyone expected it would be. Dare to say this will be the last Place on Reddit.

  • I'm not a big fan either of the drive-by link posts. Most places I've been subscribed to elsewhere usually had a rule to make some effort in including a summary or opinion and not a blank text field.

  • Realizing you may not know something isn't a bad thing, it's a step to understanding. The people who think they know it all regardless of the evidence presented are the problem ones.

  • Can't recapture the magic of the first /r/place. That was something else. Move on.

  • Reforestation is more of a solution for biodiversity loss than climate change, although the mistake that can be made is a quick fix of just one or a few species of trees, which are not going to succeed in the long term. It seems reproducing nature is a lot, lot harder than destroying it was.

  • That may have been my intro video to him. Can't go wrong with any topic, no matter how trivial it may sound. You will come back afterwards saying, wow, never knew that.

  • It's been compared to email. There are many different clients and ways to send and receive email, and they are all compatible with the core text. It's not perfect, some places still don't see others, but the concept is that everyone can share a base communication and connect to each other using different methods and styles.

  • I find it funny that no one in Meta involved with the upcoming new social media had ever heard of the movie when the name was suggested.

  • The evidence for dark matter is purely observational. From the background radiation signature to galactic collisions and rotation curves. We haven't got a single solid theory on what it is yet, but it's definitely there and was crucial in matter formation in the early universe.

  • I see it in your profile via Kbin, and when I click on the beehaw link I see the posts (not logged in of course).

  • Even doing this for a month now I still forget that a lot and treat posts like Reddit posts. Being a Kbin user, I have to constantly stop myself from replying to questions about Lemmy and app suggestions for features that I already have thanks to script mods. And that's even with mods that highlight the post isn't from Kbin!

  • Starting up is always hard. Short of copying over a subreddit to a declared official new home (which did happen for a few), you have to build up from nothing. I think it's come a long way in only the last few weeks. I've already seen a post complimenting the response time and answers from a Lemmy community when the Reddit posts went ignored, and also I've seen one community owner realize that the other communities of similar names are doing much better and decide to close up. Another group decided the best solution was not to try and pull in other communities, but act as a general discussion that also served to link up the many specific niche communities distributed throughout Lemmy and Kbin. Lastly the attacks on .world and .ml serve as a reminder of the benefits of having duplicity. What if one of those had been a long-time established home of a community with millions of posts and got wiped from such a thing?

    This is evolution in action, what works best will prevail, and part of that will be redundancy and adaptive ability.