• rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    For limited people, maybe.

    88 is:

    1. important for people born in 1988

    2. amateur radio romantic message (apparently older than Nazis, don’t ask me how I know, but it has to do with being used in that, and not HH, meaning in one Nazi song ; felt strange for me, until I’ve just read that it was a telegraph thing before radio)

    3. two eternity symbols turned (not those wheely ones)

    4. as people have mentioned, common as a lucky number in certain parts of the globe

    5. people can also be born on 8 August

    6. had that number on some item memorable for him (I had 72 in plenty of my nicknames, I can promise you it’s not about 72 virgins or 72 names of god and I’m not Muslim, I just had a yellow t-shirt with that number when I was a kid).

    The funny part is that points #2 and #4 are probably known to him, tech company and all.

    • davel@lemmy.ml
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      8 hours ago

      Why are you so knowledgeable of plausible deniabilities for a Nazi symbology?