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0 pointscrazygringo4mo ago0 comments

> There's power there, but it isn't anti-gravity.

That's why it's metaphor. "Operation Warp Speed" also delivered vaccines quickly, but not faster than the speed of light.

The list of company and product names that are based on a metaphor that is very obviously exaggerated is endless. Google doesn't index a googol number of pages either.

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bflesch4mo ago

I feel it's a bit ignorant of you to double down on your argument and compare a cloned product release by some macbook swinging google engineers with vaccination, which actually positively impacted many human lives.

crazygringoOP4mo ago

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?

brazukadev4mo 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?

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