ilinamorato
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- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 23 hours ago:
That presumes a lot more brand awareness than I think the average person has. Like I said above
Most people aren’t scrolling Reddit or Twitter or especially Lemmy all the time; they Google a question
—in this case, I think, “best electric car” or “electric car consumer reports” or something—
and when they get the answer they think “oh, I’ve heard of a Tesla, my buddy Jeff has one” and so they go ask Jeff whether he likes it or not.
Admittedly this is just my gut reaction. But there’s no really good way to test it out. “Tesla” is a tricky search term to nail down on Google Trends, since it could refer to the company or the inventor and has the confound of being searched a lot by people who are terminally online, for one reason or another. Unfortunately there’s no way to select “only normies” in the viewer.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 1 day ago:
I just popped open an incognito window and searched “best electric cars” and got ten results: all of which mentioned Tesla, and only one of which mentioned Musk. And that mention was “say what you will about…,” which is fairly noncommittal about who he is or what he does. Most people aren’t scrolling Reddit or Twitter or especially Lemmy all the time; they Google a question, and when they get the answer they think “oh, I’ve heard of a Tesla, my buddy Jeff has one” and so they go ask Jeff whether he likes it or not.
Now, in 2024, his name is probably far more recognizable. But five years ago, especially before he bought Twitter? If they did see his name, it would probably have brought associations of rockets if anything.
Or look at the Google Trends results for his name. There’s a spike in May 2020 (when his baby with Grimes was born), a slight bump in 2021 when he was on SNL, and a huge spike in 2022 when he was forced to buy Twitter. Aside from that, the interest in Tesla has always been much higher than the interest in Musk, and people have been less curious about him than about Taylor Swift (for instance).
People just don’t care about the CEOs of most companies they buy stuff from.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 2 days ago:
“Rarely?” This is anecdotally very false, and I don’t think I’m that much of an outlier. Do you have stats on that?
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 2 days ago:
Five years ago the average person didn’t even know his name, or care. Honestly, even today the average person doesn’t know who he is. My mom barely does. But those people still buy cars, and some of them still buy electric cars.
- Comment on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died 4 days ago:
Right, there are a lot of possible names to blame for Epstein for sure. Like I said, it’s a theory that’s largely considered to be baseless. The Clintons have a lot of faults, but I haven’t seen any indication that they’re into assassinations.
- Comment on sweet dreams 5 days ago:
Ok thank you, that makes me feel a lot better to know that at least you intended the reference.
- Comment on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died 5 days ago:
That’s the biggest hole in the theory for me. If they’re willing to disappear people, there are a lot of people they seem to have missed.
There’s a sort of counter theory that says that the Clintons themselves started the conspiracy theory as a way of putting all Clinton dissent under the heading of a conspiracy, and honestly I find that much more believable.
- Comment on blast me off, fam 5 days ago:
If you’re heavier than 150lbs, the chance is even higher than that!
- Comment on blast me off, fam 5 days ago:
Definitely seems like the easiest one on the list, but I’m pretty sure you’d vomit before you got very far past a dozen.
Also the LD50 of 100 is for someone who’s 150lbs. That’s fairly light for an adult who’s capable of eating a lot of cupcakes.
- Comment on sweet dreams 5 days ago:
The galaxy is in Orion’s belt.
- Comment on sweet dreams 5 days ago:
There are SO MANY Men In Black references in this thread and NOBODY is pointing them out and it is driving me CRAZY
- Comment on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died 5 days ago:
There’s a conspiracy theory (not entirely without merit, but generally assumed to be baseless) that people with negative information about the Clintons end up dead suspiciously. Epstein was one such person, under this theory.
- Comment on No one has predicted the end of the world in a while. 1 week ago:
No, it was usually the rapture.
- Comment on No one has predicted the end of the world in a while. 1 week ago:
I was in the path of totality. Which was amazing, but there were a LOT of people crowing about “something” happening during/after the Eclipse.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 2 weeks ago:
A decent chunk of these are “how would you even?” and a few others are “you’re doing it right now.”
- Comment on fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know what OP noticed in particular, but I immediately saw the interface collating other posts with the same URL as super helpful in making the Fediverse feel more contiguous.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
“Huh…ok…let me think, I know I used to remember how to do this…”
“What? I taught you last week.”
“Yeah, but that was fifteen years ago. I’ve been traveling the world for the past decade.”
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 3 weeks ago:
They are also that, as I understand it. That’s how the training data is represented, and how the neurons receive their weights. This is just leaning on the scale after the model is already trained.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 3 weeks ago:
I love it. There’s so much depth there.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 3 weeks ago:
They at least did the courtesy of deleting the Windows UI, though.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 3 weeks ago:
There was an episode of Star Trek about this.
- Comment on Putin Orders Russian Tech Companies To Somehow Make Competitive Game Console In 3 Months 3 weeks ago:
“Expensive as a cast iron bridge” is a great saying. Is that something I’ve just never heard before, or did you coin the phrase?
- Comment on Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers 3 weeks ago:
They’re all interns at this point, right?
- Comment on Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers 3 weeks ago:
They’re just serving code directly from GitHub at this point.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 3 weeks ago:
Wait.
Pirate Bay.
Pirate Ba(b)y?
Pirate Babe Eat?
I think you’re on to something!
- Comment on What are your complaints about Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. If you’re subscribed to both, it should roll up posts with the same URL from similar communities (how does it know? Good question) into the same comment thread.
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 4 weeks ago:
An exec being able to do that without being questioned is not healthy. OP’s point stands.
- Comment on lamp 1 month ago:
Oh that makes so much sense. I completely forgot it about metamorphosis.
- Comment on lamp 1 month ago:
So…ok, I’m missing something, then. How does the population get energy into the system, then? They don’t photosynthesize, somebody has to eat SOMEthing at SOME point, or they won’t have any energy at all for…activities.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
You’re welcome!