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I was referring to the Pangolin, which I had never heard of until 10 months ago. Mascot was probably the wrong word, but I don’t know what else to call the nami

I was referring to the Pangolin, which I had never heard of until 10 months ago. Mascot was probably the wrong word, but I don’t know what else to call the naming trend of “use an animal name that starts with the letter we want”.

dddw 6y ago
Penguin? Most people will run Linux on it anyway
- Uehreka 6y ago
  Oh believe me, you won’t be confusing a pangolin for a penguin anytime soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin
- naoru 6y ago
  That's not very precise of you.
eps 6y ago
First time I hear about a pangolin-Covid connection too. As far as the animal angle of the Covid goes the only thing that I can think of, with effort, is the mink, because of Dutch culling them in bulk in recent weeks. Nothing else. Edit - looked it up. Ah, so that's about the Chinese market trading exotic wild animals that was the ground zero of the outbreak. Never remembered that it had pangolins in the mix and I doubt that very many people do.
- ido 6y ago
  I thought it was a bat? Never heard of a pangolin wrt to covid either.
- ChrisArchitect 6y ago
  pangolin unheard of until pandemic for sure but made it into household enough to be a starring feature in the South Park pandemic episode I noticed
headmelted 6y ago
Yes but if you buy one of these, install Ubuntu 12.04, and set your wallpaper to some of these lovely creatures then you can look at pangolins on Pangolin on your Pangolin. And isn't that what life's really all about in the end?
NikolaeVarius 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVt5EZNAqLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVt5EZNAqLU South Park did it. Probably NSFW