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by Latty 805 days ago
I don't think past mistakes mean we shouldn't demand reasonable names for things.

If you want to use an arbitrary name, use one, if you pick a descriptive name and don't do as described, it's just false advertising.

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And yet nobody cares that lottery products have names that imply winning, prizes, pots of gold, etc even though almost nobody wins statistically.

Again, I just think that marketing is marketing and everyone knows that. Everyone knows that a trash bag isn’t indestructible and that a paper towel can’t absorb a tsunami.