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Big Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would have (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

As long as we get coporate songs like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6HTR0BiFehA

Again

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had forgotten about that.

And it was good that way.

If I don't have that song out of my head by tomorrow, I'll stalk your account, find out your irl id, and send you muffins with raisins.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No please anything but the raisins

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

My favorite shirt ever:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=6HTR0BiFehA

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Good!

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

Do these also count: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-QThIoXfks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRVoJnxjpFg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=j-QThIoXfks

https://piped.video/watch?v=HRVoJnxjpFg

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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

God, that last one was brilliant. It gave me a flashback.

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

Holy shizz I forgot about that song. thanks for the rememory

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

You mean like this?

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

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/tfycVnRiGic?si=K3pav8U5MaoAGRpg

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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

Sigh they dont make coporate propaganda like they used too.

But yes that