• Cellery@quokk.au
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    1 day ago

    Are you Hawaiian, or are you being offended for a group of people who have not expressed being offended?

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      1 day ago

      yes hawaiian

      no im not that offended but i am genuinely curious

      maybe if it was a palantir level evil company i’d be genuinely pissed

      also this is like naming your company Jesus or Moses

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        I think you’ll find naming things after mythological beings is incredibly popular globally.

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          and yet even the non religious find it in bad taste

          calling your company Jesus in a small southern town would get you dirty looks at best

          still surprised palantir has not caused a law suit

          hell calling anything Mohhamed would start violence in many places

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            19 hours ago

            I run Jesus in a cluster in my homelabs. Overall good software suite, but kind of resource intensive. Highly recommend a judus instance as well to help watch and kill Jesus instances before they cause an OOM.

            But overall best Wine in K8s suite out there /s

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            People should stop getting so offended over a simple name. I’ve seen lots of “Jesus” in USA small business names. Especially in the Southwest, haha.

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              14 hours ago

              how about we just dont use random names from other cultures, completely separate from their actual meaning

              i mean its not that big a deal to me but it is kinda lazy

              again the palantir example would be rage baiting though

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                9 hours ago

                Well, I agree that they shouldn’t use this name. That’s not even a mermaid right? I have no problem with them using a Hawaiian mermaid name for a markdown mermaid app.

                I don’t agree with the name usage. Mustang is a Horse, isn’t should t be used outside of the equestrian scene? What about the white gods, I bet you’re fine using those.

                Pick your favorite:

                Nike, Hermes, Apollo, Zeus, Athena, Ares, Artemis, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Atlas, Titan, Triton, Eros, Helios, Hyperion, Pegasus, Pandora, Dionysus, Aphrodite, Hercules, Mercury, Achilles, Morpheus, Nemesis, Iris, Selene, Demeter, Prometheus, Kronos, Gaia, Pan, Echo, Nyx, Orion, Phoenix, Ajax, Argus, Olympus, Perseus, Medusa

                There’s an Orion web browser…. I’ll bet you’ve got some words for them.

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                  3 hours ago

                  no it is a goddess as opposed to a mythical creature

                  closer to the greek gods yea but far as i know no one practices that religion, regardless those are pretty lazy names as well