• Stamets@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    As someone who lives in the Greater Toronto Area, a place with a city called Scarborough in it, I was extremely confused and extremely terrified for way longer than I needed to be.

    No idea there was a shoal out there called Scarborough as well.

    That being said, I can’t say I’m surprised Chinas reaction here is to salt the earth they can’t have.

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      9 months ago

      I was similarly pretty confused here that it was referring to the little seaside town in Yorkshire, which I assume all these other Scarboroughs (that I too had never heard of) are named after.

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        9 months ago

        I genuinely thought your first picture would be Scarborough, ON based on the thumbnail. Your second picture is not Scarborough, ON. This is Scarborough, ON:

        Note: you can see the core from your second image in the distance on the left.