AssignmentPay to [email protected]English • 6 months agoIn the end, I created a new maillemmy.worldmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1978
arrow-up1978imageIn the end, I created a new maillemmy.worldAssignmentPay to [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish28•edit-26 months agoThe suggestions for email addresses if yours was already taken used to include what you entered plus the last two digits of your birth year. I wonder how many people born in 1988 followed that advice and now deeply regret it.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish17•6 months agoPretty sure just yesterday I saw a Lemmy comment bemoaning that 88 had been co-opted for exactly this reason.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•6 months agothis was already a thing way before emails became a thing
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpoxlinkfedilinkEnglish4•6 months agoWait what are all you talking about? 88 just means shit like hugs and kisses or good luck. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•6 months agoThe link you gave provides you with the answer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_neo-Nazism
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpoxlinkfedilinkEnglish8•6 months agoLet’s not let neonazis take culturally common shit like the okay sign, thumbs up, or literal numbers please.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•6 months agoLet’s seize these concepts back, comrades! We will redistribute them back to the people!
The suggestions for email addresses if yours was already taken used to include what you entered plus the last two digits of your birth year. I wonder how many people born in 1988 followed that advice and now deeply regret it.
Pretty sure just yesterday I saw a Lemmy comment bemoaning that 88 had been co-opted for exactly this reason.
this was already a thing way before emails became a thing
Wait what are all you talking about? 88 just means shit like hugs and kisses or good luck.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)
The link you gave provides you with the answer. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_(number)#In_neo-Nazism
Let’s not let neonazis take culturally common shit like the okay sign, thumbs up, or literal numbers please.
Let’s seize these concepts back, comrades! We will redistribute them back to the people!
“Cultural significance” > “in Neo-nazism”