For the same reason I still called Alphabet - Google, and Meta - Facebook. I refuse to let large corporations just try and shake off their shitty past with a name change.
Having fallen in love with Carmen Miranda before reading La United Fruit Company stilllll sucks.
Also add Blackwater to this list. Warcrimes and looting by American plutocratic mercenaries and now their name is not obviously pronounceable. They did an amazingly good [bad for everyone but them] rename.
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For the same reason I still called Alphabet - Google, and Meta - Facebook. I refuse to let large corporations just try and shake off their shitty past with a name change.
Adding Xfinity - Comcast to this list
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Having fallen in love with Carmen Miranda before reading La United Fruit Company stilllll sucks.
Also add Blackwater to this list. Warcrimes and looting by American plutocratic mercenaries and now their name is not obviously pronounceable. They did an amazingly good [bad for everyone but them] rename.
They’ve changed names so many times I guess you missed that it was already there:
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
Is there a makemesuffer community (with more than 0 posts)? Because that’s where this belongs. Jesus Christ.
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Are you a knight who says Nee?
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I so very much appreciate your use of née
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Kinda shocked that the most hated company on Lemmy (Nеstlé) hasn’t tried their luck at this game yet
I guess Nestlé isn’t hated enough by the general public yet. We need to step up our game.
I honestly think ‘X’ has more stink on it than ‘Twitter’ which is why I’ve been happy to start referring to it as ‘X’.
I don’t think continuing to call it ‘Twitter’ hurts Elon one bit.
No, but it makes us feel like we’re contributing to the conversation.
Didn’t the Alphabet rebranding happen because boomer investors were confused about which Google stock to invest in?
Which Google stocks are there?
These are worth a fortune:
GOOG and GOOGL
don’t ask me the difference, I didn’t understand in my two minutes on Wikipedia, but I’m sure there’s an article that could explain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc.