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BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display (consumerrights.wiki)
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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's crazy that few days ago I learned what BMW stands for and now I see it everywhere.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

it's called the Baader Meinhof effect or frequency illusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion?wprov=sfla1

[–] some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I thought it was Bavarian Motor Works or something? Logo was a propeller? No? This is what I’ve always known it to be.

[–] elvith@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Correct. It's Bayrische Motoren Werke which translates to Bavarian Motor Factories or maybe Bavarian Motor Workshops.

The German Werk has several meanings:

  1. The process of work/the work itself needed to finish a specific task.
  2. A specific action. E.g. used to imply someone did $thing
  3. A specific thing that was produced by someone (e.g. a piece of art) or even someone's lifeworks as a whole.
  4. A factory or industrial complex BUT ALSO depending on context the workers on said factory/complex.
[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 19 hours ago
  1. Kraftwerk if you want old German techno
[–] mbp@slrpnk.net 1 points 23 hours ago

Blessed info

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 hours ago

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, is the proper name, but sometimes people anglicized it to Bavarian Motor Works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW