Only if the affected users know about the existence of lemmy, and many of them likely do not. If you happen to still be using reddit, you should use it to shill lemmy, hopefully in a diversity of subreddits so that lemmy doesn't become any more of an echo chamber than it already is.

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.

https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109572674700288958

Capitalization is also wrong. The school district needs to quit its job as a school district.

It's such a tragedy that the Earth had to be a sphere. I mean, I know it was inevitable. But come on, universe. A sphere? Really? You had to have known about Gauss's Theorema Egregium, yet you chose sphere. Now we're all fighting over who gets to be squished or enlarged and in what directions.

With Prodigy Internet, you get on, you get the information you need, and you go do something with it.

Did they get that burrito from the Upside Down?

My local Microcenter has posters of notable computer pioneers up high in the back where you can see them from anywhere in the store. Each poster has the person's name as well as a description of something they're most known for. Bill Gates is there as well as Ken Thompson, Robert Kahn, Robert Metcalfe, Grace Hopper, Richard Stallman, etc. I always thought that was a nice touch. Even though it's like the nerdiest of all stores, I suspect 90% of customers are probably Windows normies and just need a computer for work or to play games and wouldn't recognize any of them with the exception of Gates. Even I don't recognize some of the names, like Kahn (co-invented TCP/IP) and Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet).

Every community on the internet full of computer nerds suffers this problem. It's not exclusive to here.

Did we all live the same childhood?

It's sort of remarkable that you can enter at New York Harbor and come out at New Orleans without ever leaving the water or touching the Atlantic.

I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the room at Google where the discussions are being had as to what to label the lake. If I'm to be charitable, I'd assume they've renamed it because they're consistently following an internal rule which says they use geographic names from the GNIS, which was updated by the executive order, and they haven't yet decided whether they should make an exception in this case. Every nonsensical rename in the GNIS weakens its credibility as an accurate database. I'm sure the debates are interesting. We don't actually know if this is Google "bending the knee" or sticking with the rename for some other more technical reason.