Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Weirdos @lemmy.world · 2 months agoWeirdo's weirdo team doesn't understand that two places can have the same name.www.usatoday.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1163arrow-down1external-linkWeirdo's weirdo team doesn't understand that two places can have the same name.www.usatoday.comFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Weirdos @lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square17fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-22 months agoTo be fair, it isn’t a terrible idea to merge entities that have the same name, regardless of context or consequence. Georgia: Georgia (country), Georgia (US State), and South Georgia (the UK overseas island territory) Washington: Washington State and Washington DC Carolina: North and South Carolina Dakota: North and South Dakota Virginia: Virginia and West Virginia For funsies let’s do it with companies as well Delta Airlines and Delta Faucet (the plumbing supplies company) Dominos Pizza and Domino Sugar United Airlines and United Van Lines X (Twitter) and X.org, provided that X.org takes full ownership away from Elon Just mash them all together!
To be fair, it isn’t a terrible idea to merge entities that have the same name, regardless of context or consequence.
Georgia: Georgia (country), Georgia (US State), and South Georgia (the UK overseas island territory)
Washington: Washington State and Washington DC
Carolina: North and South Carolina
Dakota: North and South Dakota
Virginia: Virginia and West Virginia
For funsies let’s do it with companies as well
Delta Airlines and Delta Faucet (the plumbing supplies company)
Dominos Pizza and Domino Sugar
United Airlines and United Van Lines
X (Twitter) and X.org, provided that X.org takes full ownership away from Elon
Just mash them all together!