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There are 8 billion people in the world naming things all the time. Naming conflicts are essentially inevitable if we treat everything as belonging to the same global namespace.


This is a pretty shallow take. The significance of two things sharing a name isn't that it happens at all, it's the expected cross-contamination between the two concepts in the subjective experience of the reader. "Michael" is a perfectly good first name, but if your last name is "Bolton" then maybe you should think about other names for your child. Then again if you live in a culture where most people haven't much awareness of American music from the 80s then it won't matter.

For clarity, I don't give a fig what this guy called his website, but I think it's interesting that it happens to collide with a term well known in a small part of the world. You might care that some people have a negative association with it, but there are plenty of reasons not to too. It's just a fun coincidence imho.


Agreed. It's inevitable that groups are going to want to bond around some artifact such as clothing, a tattoo, or other mutilation ritual.




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