• evranch@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Starship launch tomorrow though, wouldn’t want to miss out on hype because of something titled “Elon Musk’s Starship Rocket” etc… I’m a big space nerd and while Elon is a dork this rocket will be a massive leap for everything space related if it works out.

    Fuck X/Twitter though, sick of hearing about it for sure. I’ve heard rumours that SpaceX only does as well as they do because they have Shotwell running the show and they have Elon wranglers to keep him away from anything important…

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      1 year ago

      Thanks for sharing. Feel free to blame Musk. He’s the one who renamed it to X, which is impossible to filter out.

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        1 year ago

        You could filter out Twitter and realistically filter out a large chunk of them. Shit’s usually referred to “X, formerly known as Twitter…” in most posts I see.

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          1 year ago

          Could just make a lemmy-wide rule to always deadname it in post titles. But good luck with that since people still won’t put it all in enoughmuskspam.

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            1 year ago

            I got the exact same reply from someone last week, not exactly a discussion starter. So I was curious and sure enough it’s the same guy!

            However you did edit in some context here and indeed that’s the problem with trying to filter out a single letter keyword… Though I doubt Elon had the sense to do it intentionally.

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              1 year ago

              I also quote Bartles & Jaymes on occasion.

              edit: the funny part here is that I haven’t said “Thanks for sharing” that much, it’s fairly new. And I don’t remember usernames, so the fact you’ve gotten it twice already is special.

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                1 year ago

                Right? Maybe you’ve been inspired to do so by my rambling comment style. Which itself may be inspired by the fact that I’m drinking beer in the bath.