r/technology • u/NowThatsMalarkey • Feb 21 '25

Social Media Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover didn’t make people like him, study shows

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/mark-zuckerbergs-makeover-didnt-make-people-like-him-study-shows/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANAZlr-hGuhX1KqqPjBTkTce5FHYoTfozy456eW6cuu8YldzC5rpGfIlP07_a0jXdYc_eaaM6DrAXHX5G8e2xGc5SpbfTOxsJAwxR81w_TBGJlcjoLsVnZ8PWO1lNJgWgzm3MMz0BHDbCl-W5ehgrTueoJBD4LubB0aUd2ecJ39Y
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u/Toiretachi Feb 21 '25

But he wears a gold chain!

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '25

Plus all his RAD Roman dictator quotes on his shirt!

It's SO COOL simping for 2000 year old dictators!!!

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u/Noblesseux Feb 22 '25 edited Feb 23 '25

It is REALLY fucking weird how obsessed with the Romans these guys are while often knowing absolutely nothing about Rome. They think about Rome like it's some perfect civilization when it literally was in turmoil like every couple months for most of its history.

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u/Addahn Feb 22 '25

All the elites think they’re going to be Caesar, when in actuality they’re more likely to be Pompey, or Lepidus in the best-case scenario

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u/dv666 Feb 22 '25

All the elites think they’re going to be Caesar,

He got stabbed 30 times.

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u/churchofcrust Feb 22 '25

Why should Caesar get to stomp around like a giant, while the rest of us try not to get smushed under his big feet? What’s so great about Caesar? Hm? Brutus is just as cute as Caesar. Brutus is just as smart as Caesar. People totally like Brutus just as much as they like Caesar. And when did it become okay for one person to be the boss of everybody, huh? Because that’s not what Rome is about. We should totally just stab Caesar!

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u/bk_guy3 Feb 22 '25

Didn’t expect Gretchen Wieners to show up in this discussion, but here we are.

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u/Sparrowbuck Feb 22 '25

Marcus Aurelius’ nepo baby successor.

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u/Noblesseux Feb 22 '25

I think this is kind of part of the problem, yes. A lot of these people seem to not realize that that Rome was basically plagued with political infighting, civil wars, etc. A lot of the political class was like constantly getting killed, exiled, and so on because they were just constantly in one form of power struggle or another.

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u/jolle2001 Feb 23 '25

Personally I hope for them to be Crassus