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/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/martxel93 Feb 22 '25

What have the Romans ever done for us?

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u/littlelordgenius Feb 22 '25

The aqueduct.

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u/Noblesseux Feb 22 '25

Just to be clear here: Rome in fact did not create aqueducts, they're just associated with them because they had a bunch of them that survived in good enough condition for people to document them.

Aqueducts arrived spontaneously in quite a few places because as it turns out: as a species that needs water to live, we tend to treat figuring out how to move it around as a priority. There are examples of aqueducts in places like Crete that go back to like hundreds of years before the Romans, examples in India, examples in South America, etc.

Rome's biggest skill in a lot of ways is that they would see a good idea and go "wait why aren't WE doing that?" and find ways to incorporate it into their strategy.

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u/Actual-Departure-843 12d ago

"Rome's biggest skill in a lot of ways is that they would see a good idea and go "wait why aren't WE doing that?"

A lot like Marc Zuckerberg then!

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u/Noblesseux 12d ago

Except for the part where they were *good* at it.