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[–] [email protected] 93 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Calling it Greenland was always a branding exercise.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Vance in Las Vegas " Where the fuck are all the meadows?!?"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL what Las Vegas means. But apparently, there was originally some meadows there?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Las Vegas was lush and green when it was settled. As more people arrived, the spring water that kept it that way dried up

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

That would require learning a piece of a language other than English …. He’d be an illegal immigrant, hardened criminal, gang member. That mascara is a sure sign of Tren de Aragua membership

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

I like to think of it more that the old Norse had a good sense of humor.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Well the guy was banished from Iceland IIRC, so he had a good reason to hype up this new found land.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 weeks ago

No, no, the newfound land is a scooch southwest

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nobody wants to go to Newfoundland I assure you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I was taught in public school that they called it Iceland to keep the British away and Greenland because if that was Greenland Iceland must really suck. 🇬🇱 🇮🇸