• DogWater@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Reminds me of the 4chan green text about playing Xbox and having to drink mountain dew or something idr it exactly

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      21 hours ago

      and that was, in turn, based on a patent filed by mcdonalds for smart tvs to show ads you had to interact with. “say ‘mcdonalds’ to continue watching”.

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          14 hours ago

          idk if that was technically part of it but the pictures in the application definitely had a person jump up and scream the name.

          actually I’ll go look it up

          Edit: huh, it’s not a mcdonalds patent at all, it’s filed by sony: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en

          but the picture definitely says mcdonalds

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            13 hours ago

            I was in a company town hall meeting where the C-level executives were making announcements and circle jerking each other with compliments on their success. At one point, the CEO was remarking how innovative they were pivoting the software from a standalone to a SaaS. Truly enlightened times to have such visionaries…