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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 16 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

A friend in high school had a middle name of "J"

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[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Back in the 90’s I worked for a guy whose first name is “H”.

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 3 points 15 hours ago
[–] Oka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I'm skeptical. This could be true, or AI generated nonsense. It does link to a source, but I can't verify the source.

[–] gon@lemm.ee 18 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This is the reference. It's a dotgov.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair to the person above, that's actually the source given for how Truman wrote his own name, not for the S not standing for anything. The reference for that is number 8, which is a book rather than a website. That said, the one you linked does back up the S not standing for anything anyway

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 10 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

That she chose it herself and is responsible for a lot of unicode's emojis says to me that she was this close to being Jennifer 🙏 Lee or similar

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago

I had no idea about the emoji thing until I read that. I just know her as an author.

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You can’t trust a historian’s biography or his official museum‽ Don’t trust TechSpot’s exaggerated headlines.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

“I do my own research” is a short walk away from “I trust only my own sources”

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

In case you were referring to me, how was my comment any of that?

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

not you, the person you were commenting about.

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