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@cremieuxrecueil Early version - only balls.
I heard the Roman's weren't very smart....
🤣

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@PotterWorldUK So - what does that make me?
read and watched the first 5 books / movies?

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@MattPinner_

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@MiStormChasers I love that I can make out Vandercook!!

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@engineers_feed An interesting thought exercise. If we think of it differently:
"What lessons-learned would you give up?"

Challenger lessons didn't seem to help Columbia.
but
Titanic gave us better life boat requirements saving thousands. I wouldn't give that up.

So I'd say "A"

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And a new rear camera mount. What do you think? #jk

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Better?

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still cleaning.

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@messedupfoods my kid doesn't like chicken strips or ketchup.
pls pray

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@ojessie__ final fantasy 1

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@ThatEricAlper pumping gas first and then paying inside with cash

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@batuhanppn 711

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yeah..im turning it off now.

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looking at berry washing bowls on etsy.
so many AI generated images.
so many stupid people
like, don't you know what you're selling?

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@AlexaBliz_ 1,111

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@phresh_arrow woot!

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starting jonah with the family tonight.

apparently if you're given something to say and you don't, it will rock the boat.

chapter 1

let's go.

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Once, funny.
Twice, maybe.
Three, too many.

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@kchau am I dating myself if I say:
"Go go gadget arms!" ?

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I have to admit, I’m enjoying watching some of my friends suddenly discover their deep, almost sacred reverence for historic names now that Donald Trump has renamed Lake Ontario “Lake America.”

Where was this passionate defense of tradition when we spent the last decade playing cultural Mad Libs with names?

The Cleveland Indians became the Guardians.

The Washington Redskins became the Commanders.

Aunt Jemima was evicted from the breakfast table and replaced by Pearl Milling Company.

Uncle Ben got demoted to Ben’s Original.

The Native American woman disappeared from Land O’Lakes butter.

Eskimo Pie became Edy’s Pie.

The Dixie Chicks became The Chicks.

Lady Antebellum became Lady A.

Universities and real-estate professionals started replacing “master bedroom” with “primary bedroom.”

Computer programmers began retiring “master/slave” terminology.

Schools, streets, statues and buildings bearing the names of historical figures were renamed by the hundreds.

Then there were the military bases.

Fort Bragg became Fort Liberty.

Fort Hood became Fort Cavazos.

Fort Benning became Fort Moore.

Fort Polk became Fort Johnson.

Fort Lee became Fort Gregg-Adams.

Fort Gordon became Fort Eisenhower.

Fort Rucker became Fort Novosel.

Fort Pickett became Fort Barfoot.

Fort A.P. Hill became Fort Walker.

We even watched Mount McKinley become Denali.

Meanwhile, our vocabulary got its own remodeling job. “Mothers” sometimes became birthing people, “pregnant women” became pregnant people, and “breastfeeding” acquired the alternative chestfeeding in some institutional language.

And Columbus Day? Plenty of cities, states and institutions decided Indigenous Peoples’ Day was preferable.

For years the message was: Names matter. Words matter. Language evolves. Old names can be changed when society decides another name better reflects its values. If you're offended by the change, get over it.

Okay.

Apparently there was an asterisk:

This principle remains valid until Donald Trump names something.

Suddenly the people who spent a decade redecorating the dictionary have chained themselves to the furniture.

Personally, I think Lake America is mostly political theater, and pretty funny political theater at that. Canada is perfectly free to keep calling it Lake Ontario. Nobody is confiscating their maps.

But after watching everything from pancake syrup to Army installations get renamed in the name of cultural sensitivity, I simply cannot work up the appropriate level of outrage over a lake.

So to my friends who are losing sleep over Lake America, I offer the same compassionate advice conservatives received during the Great Renaming:

Language changes. Names evolve. Try to keep up. 😎