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            "content_html": "<p>The World Economic Forum is “committed to improving the state of the world”.<\/p>\n<p>That’s right. <i>State of the world<\/i> means <i>world state<\/i> — world government.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "The World Economic Forum is “committed to improving the state of the world”",
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            "title": "Call it Bricks",
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            "summary": "BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) will have 6 other countries join next year",
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            "title": "There is no homosexuality",
            "content_html": "<p>Only sodomy.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Only sodomy",
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            "title": "Kukicha",
            "content_html": "<p>Kukicha is a good tea.<\/p>\n<p>Its name is especially fun to say. Kukicha!<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Kukicha is a good tea",
            "date_published": "2023-04-30T15:20:02+02:00",
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            "summary": "Zelensky, Fetterman, Guido, and Trump",
            "date_published": "2023-03-31T16:01:59+02:00",
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            "title": "Bus route naming",
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            "summary": "Bus routes should be named logically, so they can be easily memorised",
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            "title": "The 19th Covid",
            "content_html": "<p>Kellyanne Conway recently mentioned that Covid-19 was the 19th Covid. This gaffe was caused by poor naming: the disease should have been called Covid-2019.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-video\">\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6c-nG_ECzr4?enablejsapi=1\" allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n",
            "summary": "Kellyanne Conway recently mentioned that Covid-19 was the 19th Covid. This gaffe was caused by poor naming",
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            "content_html": "<p>The world doesn’t need any social distancing. In fact, we should narrow social gaps in a world that is being divided by cults pretending to be good causes.<\/p>\n<p>Standing four and a half metres from the next person in line should be called <i>physical<\/i> distancing.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "The world doesn’t need any social distancing. In fact, we should narrow social gaps in a world that is being divided by cults pretending to be good causes",
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            "content_html": "<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"e2-text-table\">\n<tr>\n<td><b>Acronym or abbreviation<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Full meaning<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AliExpress<\/td>\n<td>Alibaba Express<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Amtrak<\/td>\n<td>American track<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gerrymandering<\/td>\n<td>Gerry salamandering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grade A Under A<\/td>\n<td>Grade A. Underachiever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HBO<\/td>\n<td>Home Box Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HQ<\/td>\n<td>Hype Quiz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Instagram<\/td>\n<td>Instant telegram<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pac-Man<\/td>\n<td>Program and control Man<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PCalc<\/td>\n<td>Programmer’s calculator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pixelmator<\/td>\n<td>Pixel + mater (to mate)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Qualcomm<\/td>\n<td>Quality communications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Skype<\/td>\n<td>Sky peer-to-peer → Skyper → Skype<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tanzania<\/td>\n<td>Tanganyika & Zanzibar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Uniqlo<\/td>\n<td>Unique clothing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Velcro<\/td>\n<td>Velours crochet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Verizon<\/td>\n<td>Veritas horizon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Walmart<\/td>\n<td>Walton-mart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yandex<\/td>\n<td>Yet another indexer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The more you know.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "AliExpress, gerrymandering, HBO, Pac-Man, and so on",
            "date_published": "2019-06-23T15:45:47+02:00",
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            "title": "Nursultan",
            "content_html": "<p>What are all these people talking about? Nursultan is a great name for Kazakhstan’s capital. People named places after their founders for ages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Washington,<\/li>\n<li>Vladimir,<\/li>\n<li>Saudi Arabia,<\/li>\n<li>Rome,<\/li>\n<li>Liechtenstein.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>P. S. Nursultan, Aisultan and all similar names rock.<\/p>\n",
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            "content_html": "<p>What are all these people talking about? Abcde is a great name! Yes, it’s hard to get its pronunciation at first, but <a href=\"https:\/\/iteroni.com\/watch?v=A8zWWp0akUU\">English isn’t phonetically consistent<\/a>, so it’s no big deal.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Abcde is a great name!",
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            "content_html": "<p>A review of a person’s name who is friends with my friends.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e2-text-picture\">\n<img src=\"https:\/\/robert.uber.space\/blog\/pictures\/Screenshot-2018-10-07-at-15.21.png\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1635\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>Çårlø Mãrçölîñï. What a mess! This name can’t be true. Let alone most of the diacritics on these letters are from different languages, some of them are used without necessity.<\/p>\n<p><b>Çårlø.<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Ç.<\/i> A <i>c<\/i> that sounds like <i>s<\/i> in Catalan, French, Friulian, Occitan, Manx. Used in loanwords in English, Basque, Spanish, and Dutch. Similar to the <i>x<\/i> in Mexico being pronounced <i>h<\/i> in Spanish. Nothing bad so far.<br \/>\n<i>Å.<\/i> Similar to <i>a<\/i> in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, North Frisian, Walloon, Chamorro, Lule Sami, Skolt Sami, Southern Sami, and Greenlandic.<br \/>\nOops! There’s no point to go further with the first name, as these two letters don’t simultaneously exist in any language.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mãrçölîñï.<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Ã.<\/i> An interesting vowel used in Portuguese, Guaraní, Kashubian, Taa, Aromarian, and Vietnamese. Each uses it differently.<br \/>\nWith <i>ç<\/i> already reviewed this last name is doomed.<\/p>\n<p>I know that this name has been stained with diacritics for the fun of a “cool” handle. Nevertheless, it is important how internauts will call you in real life, Sarlœ Marsöligni.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "A review of a person’s name who is friends with my friends",
            "date_published": "2018-10-07T15:25:44+02:00",
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            "content_html": "<p>Companies, fix your device names! When a first-time customer sees your phone offerings, he has no idea what to pick because it is impossible to find out when something was released without doing research.<\/p>\n<p>Here’s a bad example: Watch Series 3, iPhone SE, iPhone 8, iPhone 8+, iPhone X, iPad mini 4, iPad (5th gen), iPad Pro 10.5, iPad Pro 12.9, iOS 11, macOS High Sierra. Ugh!<\/p>\n<p>Apple always strives for the perfect, but as more and more models of products are released, some customers can’t keep up.<\/p>\n<p>Here’s the right way to do it: Watch 2017, iPhone mini 2017, iPhone 2017, iPhone Plus 2017, iPhone X (no need for a year until next year), iPad mini 2017, iPad 2017, iPad Pro 10.5 2017, iPad Pro 12.9 2017, iOS 2017, macOS 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to contact me for naming advice (for anything, from devices to train stations).<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "Companies, fix your device names! When a first-time customer sees your phone offerings, he has no idea what to pick because it is impossible to find out when something was released without doing research",
            "date_published": "2017-10-03T11:28:30+02:00",
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