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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait until you find out about Greenland and Iceland!

[–] ElBarto@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

or New York

new york (2) final.docx

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

new york (2) final.docx

Lol. I would need several extra hands to count the number of times I've had people email me documents with filenames like Copy of new york (2) REVISED-final(1).docx

if you need some extra fingers, you can just ask AI to generate some for you ;-)

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Give Greenland is mostly ice I'm actually curious to know where it's name comes from

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Supposedly, its and Iceland's discoverers named them thus to trick potential future conquerors into going for the wrong one.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago