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Mark Zuckerberg legally changes name to ‘Elon’ (newsthump.com)

submitted 5 months ago by ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Elon is an anagram of Nero, once you see that the R and the L are next to each other on the dvorak keyboard. And Nero can be represented as 666, which is the number of the beast.

Coincidence? I think not 🤨

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As a Dvorak user I feel compelled to believe this.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've always wondered, how do dvorak users reproduce/replicate?

[–] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I was propogandized into learning it as a teenager.

[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh, I thought you would be vat-grown. Bummer.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

L and R also are known to be mixed a lot in what we call "Engrish", maybe it was meant to be a warning the whole time