Please no, I'm already annoyed by this damn fad of naming the 'phenomenon of the week'. I can't really point my finger on why (so it's probably irrational) but it has always irked me.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2023
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To me, it infantilises a potentially devastating phenomena
We’ll run out of names pretty quick
Hurricane names are periodically reused. These can be too.
There are a lot of executives at oil companies.