Just some lighter news to break up the doom a bit

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    1 year ago

    She was hoping the nanny state would prevent this and she’d waste someone’s time. Instead she just wasted her own.

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      1 year ago

      and showed that there is an issue with overseeing this particular area by the government and that is also part of the job of a journalist to point out problems like that.

      Also they can easily change the name because the government agreed to the oversight and will try to improve. So win/win

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      "What we were trying to find out was what the registrar names a baby if the parents don’t come up with an acceptable name, because that’s what actually happens if parents don’t lodge a name that’s acceptable,” she told Langdon.
      "So we thought, well, we’re in the perfect position to find out … we’ll lodge a name that’s so outrageous that it couldn’t possibly be accepted.”
      Drysdale said she had been assured all applications were screened by humans and the chance the name would make it through would be incredibly low.