And what do third parties not associated with Musk say?

Musk has a history of “saying” things, and presenting mundane advancements that have already been achieved as things he invented.

There are people like my younger brother who believe that Musk is a pure genius, likes Bezos a lot, and is entirely sold on the idea that billionaire philanthropy is somehow a good and positive thing for regular people.

Battle for Wesnoth and 0 A.D. are also pretty decent FOSS games.

Larian are good developers. BG3 is a finished game with more potential and replayability that anything else. Let these guys cook.

Yeah, me too. I’ve never even read the webcomic. Can we please just forget about it already?

Oh by fucking gods. It’s loss. People are STILL posting loss. And here I was thinking this was a chemistry meme.

Well, I dunno. I’m pretty sure any hot take is still quite a bit colder than the wildfires currently raging over there.

I’ll only get worried if that child can out-Hutt the Jabba.

What is this esoteric talk about “energy”?

Last I checked most of the biggest corpos are still run by men from the last generations, with current generations still waiting around for them to die off and take their places. So the only thing Zuckerberg could be talking about is the soulless DEI tokenism corpos do to get public brownie points.

Star Trek for the technology and exploration (both of space and the human condition). Star Wars because WOW that dude just moved that shit with his FREAKIN’ MIND!

Track pads, and the trigger buttons are LMB/RMB. I’ve set those controls up on my Deck for Civ6 and it’s honestly very comfy to sit on the couch playing civ on the deck.

Windows has 100% support for Windows. I mean, yeah?

I don’t see Windows supporting Linux programs. Or Apple programs.

It’s a bad argument.

Computers.

We have them around us every day. We carry them in our pockets every day. Our lives and all of society relies on them. People have been growing up with them, and can’t imagine a life without them.

So imagine my distress at how everyone is so incredibly tech illiterate.

No you’re not, or you would be enforcing Richard Dawkins’ definition. So far nothing you’ve said disproves that definition of memes in relation to how they present themselves in Internet culture.

Do not conflate your personal opinion with enforcing an objective definition.

That definition is not in line with your opinion. Textbook fallacy here. XD

Nowhere on the definition you just posted does it say a meme is required to be funny in order to fit the definition of a meme. It says that a meme is usually humorous, and not even as a central element to the main body of the definition.

You’re very strongly and deliberately glossing that part over.

But speaking of definitions:

Merian Webster:

1. an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video) or genre of items that is spread widely online especially through social media.

2. an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture

Cambridge Dictionary:

a cultural feature or a type of behaviour that is passed from one generation to another, without the influence of genes

American Heritage:

1. A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

2. Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.

3. A self-propagating unit of cultural evolution having a resemblance to the gene (the unit of genetics).

I can keep going with Britannica, and Wikipedia itself, and Word.com, but these are all the top results of a simple search.

Then your personal take is in conflict with the definition of a meme.

I mean… If you say so. But I guess you’ve never seen any political memes that dunk on the opposition, or “so relatable” memes, or memes with encouraging themes…

Memes are not supposed to be funny. Them being funny has just become a side effect if memes.

So, the way a geographical feature gets named, or renamed, is if the rest of the world recognises it as such.

Sometimes a name change of a feature, or the annexation of a region, gets internationally recognised not because everyone agrees to it, but everyone wants to stay on diplomatic good terms.

There’s a similar situation going on with the Persian Gulf/Arabic Gulf.

I don’t know, but toddlers tend to make more sense…