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One of these days I need to make a bot that scans FOSS repos for this kind of little pink nonsense behavior.

The insecurity of wanting to call a place "country name, province of different country name" should alone be mocked. Imagine, "Ukraine, province of Russia," or "India, colony of The United Kingdom." Absurd on its face.





It's just information warfare, sign of the times.

Every little thing counts, even if it's just changing names in an open source app like that.


The problem with this is that, for some folks, its not absurd or nonsense because that is not considered a "country name" to them. It is considered a province name. So the inverse (calling a province a country) is considered absurd/nonsense.

> is not considered a "country name" to them. It is considered a province name.

Some people think calling the earth a globe is absurd. Those people are wrong. Is there any particular reason I should entertain their, hm, "opinion?"




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