Formerly @ZeroCool@feddit.ch

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Cake day: December 29th, 2023

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  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.nettoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldI miss myspace
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    19 hours ago

    I miss when tech entrepreneurs just wanted to get rich and retire young instead of becoming real life James Bond villains. Tom Anderson got a generation to learn HTML, got Rupert Murdoch to hand over $580mil for a social network that’d be dead within a few years, then had the decency to peace out and travel the world enjoying his photography hobby. No evil schemes. No fascism. Just pretty pictures.


  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldValentine's Day
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    5 days ago

    Wanna know how I know you didn’t read that? Because it doesn’t disagree with me. Coca Cola popularized the modern depiction of Santa Claus.

    One might therefore fairly grant Coca-Cola some credit for cementing the modern image of Santa Claus in the public consciousness, as in an era before the advent of television, before color motion pictures became common, and before the widespread use of color in newspapers, Coca-Cola’s magazine advertisements, billboards, and point-of-sale store displays were for many Americans their primary exposure to the modern Santa Claus image. But at best what Coca-Cola popularized was an image they borrowed, not one they created.

    Notice how I didn’t say they created it, nor did I say they invented it? I said they popularized it.



  • Secondly, I did Google it. And according to that, around 500AD Valentines day was originally established to honor the Saint

    Yes. So your claim that Christmas has been “celebrated for hundreds (or even thousands) of years before coke existed. Valentine’s Day wasn’t.” is incorrect. We’re done here.





  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOPtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldValentine's Day
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    There’s a clear difference between the longstanding traditions behind Christmas/Yule and the capitalism-driven Valentine’s Day sales event. And we all know it.

    Yes, like jolly old Santa Claus dressed up in his red and white suit as popularized by… Coca Cola in the ‘30s. You’re right, Christmas is totally different than Valentine’s Day.