Meta Platforms. X Corp. tell me those aren’t straight from a strangely prescient cyberpunk classic

  • Alex@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s like whoever is offering up these names and convincing them to use them is trying to tell consumers and workers something in the countries they work and operate. That a rental service is literally named Hertz is pretty on the nose even without all the movie culture references.

    • Koboldschadenfroh@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I don’t get it. Because it “hurts” when you have an accident? Hertz is a normal German name, like Heinrich Hertz, for example. And I just read up, the guy who bought the original car rental company from another guy in the early 1900s was John D. Hertz. Whose birth name was Sándor Herz, and his family came from Austria-Hungary. Herz means heart in German.