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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Following your logic Lake Michigan should be renamed Lake America. There’s a bunch of lakes up there, do they all get renamed Lake of America? Seems confusing!

    Here’s a list of all the gulfs in the Americas:

    North America

    1. Gulf of Mexico
    2. Gulf of Alaska
    3. Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes)
    4. Gulf of St. Lawrence
    5. Gulf of Honduras
    6. Gulf of Panama
    7. Gulf of Tehuantepec

    Central and South America

    1. Gulf of Darien (Colombia and Panama)
    2. Gulf of Venezuela
    3. Gulf of Guayaquil (Ecuador)

    Following your logic, they’re all badly named because that’s just named after the region they’re in, not the content.


  • Feels like these were barely a thing for a month before mp3 players took off.

    I remember people talking about how small media storage was getting

    Records - > Tapes - > CDs

    People thought they’d eventually all the pill sized but still contain exactly one album or one movie.

    We never thought ‘what if I could fit every album I own on one Disc?’

    I remember showing my iPod to my uncle who had a hige music collection and telling him that his whole wall of albums could fit on this white rectangle and then some. He was impressed but didn’t see much value until he thought about driving in the car.