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0 pointscrazygringo5mo ago0 comments

Are you for real? When someone disagrees, it's not "ignorance" or "doubling down". It's just legitimate disagreement. There's nothing I'm ignorant of here, so please don't throw around insults like that.

I just continue to stand by the fact that naming products using exaggerated metaphor is standard practice. The idea that it is "shameful" or "ignorant" seems absurd. I think it's OK not to take it too seriously. Nobody is going to be confused and walk off of a cliff or something because the product is named "antigravity"...

Do you get upset that the Milky Way candy bar doesn't actually contain a galaxy within? Or that the Chicago Bulls aren't as strong as actual bulls?

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brazukadev5mo ago

so your point is that you are policing what people think is shameful or ignorant? Is it too much to not think too high of a VSCode fork?

Geez, people are still this impressed by big tech?

crazygringoOP5mo ago

Since when did disagreeing become policing? But yes, if someone calls me ignorant without any justification, I'm going to disagree. And if you think that's "policing", I'm sorry but you seem to be the ignorant one here around the meaning of that word.

"Geez," it's just a name. Is it too much to not get worked up over a perfectly innocent and fun name?

brazukadev5mo ago

Perfectly innocent and fun name, coming from Google? Are you for real? That's one of the craziest things I've read in this forum, someone still thinking Google is an innocent startup with a "Don't be evil" motto.

crazygringoOP5mo ago

You think the name is evil...? Sorry, but that's one of the craziest things I've read in this forum.

We're not talking about monopolistic business strategy here or anything. We're talking about a product name. So yeah, I think the name is perfectly innocent and fun. I cannot understand the level of conspiratorial thinking that must be involved to think "antigravity" is some kind of offensive choice. Bizarre.

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brazukadev5mo ago

so your point is that you are policing what people think is shameful or ignorant? Is it too much to not think too high of a VSCode fork?

Geez, people are still this impressed by big tech?

crazygringoOP5mo ago

"Geez," it's just a name. Is it too much to not get worked up over a perfectly innocent and fun name?

brazukadev5mo ago

crazygringoOP5mo ago

You think the name is evil...? Sorry, but that's one of the craziest things I've read in this forum.

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