• P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    puts either a Nazi dogwhistle or an unoriginal yet personally identifying mark in their username

    88 is a number, which in a username, often denotes the birth year of the individual.

    Can we stop usurping two-digit numbers and pretending they have magical meanings? Otherwise, we’re going to just have to throw out the whole Arabic numerical system, because every combination now has some other special meaning.