The highlight for me is coming up with some weird pseudoscience justification for why it’s okay to hit your kids.

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      Ow yeah I’m joking here. But it was really weird that they tried to name the asteroid Ultima Thule (and it is also odd that this controversy isn’t on the wikipage).

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      @gerikson The name predates the white nationalist band by *several centuries*. Per wiki: “In classical and medieval literature, ultima Thule (Latin “farthest Thule”) acquired a metaphorical meaning of any distant place located beyond the “borders of the known world”.”

      I suspect they renamed the KBO Arrokoth precisely to avoid the unfortunate recent connotations of the name.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule

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        Oh I am aware of the term’s history[1], but just like the humble swastika some stuff can become tainted (although I believe that Ultima Thule the band is only locally infamous here in Sweden). I do know that if someone presented themselves as Ultima Thule I’d do a spit-take, but so would I if I was presented by someone named Titan Invictus.

        Arrokoth is a fucking metal name tho.

        [1] pretty sure the first I heard of it was in one of Evan S Connell’s great collection of essays.