minus-squareTrashcan@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What's stopping people who lash out at the world from going after corporations?linkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoWell… It used to be called “going postal” because of the frequent mass shootings in postal offices by postal workers… Why that changed I can’t tell you. On a slightly funny(?) note, postal the game was created where you are in fact going postal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_(video_game) Apparently there is a plot line that is not about shooting postal workers, so who knows. linkfedilink
minus-squareTrashcan@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•Academic languagelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-28 months agoFor anybody like myself who doesn’t know enough ancient greek… Lithos means rock… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithobraking linkfedilink
Well… It used to be called “going postal” because of the frequent mass shootings in postal offices by postal workers…
Why that changed I can’t tell you.
On a slightly funny(?) note, postal the game was created where you are in fact going postal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_(video_game)
Apparently there is a plot line that is not about shooting postal workers, so who knows.