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Also got to love the linguistic coincidence of Crabs and Cancer and how tech companies grow ever larger (monopolistic) to the detriment of their host (the great
by miltonlost 1y ago
Also got to love the linguistic coincidence of Crabs and Cancer and how tech companies grow ever larger (monopolistic) to the detriment of their host (the greater economy/humanity)
- Ygg2 1y agoIt's not a coincidence. Cancer means crab, because the earliest known physicians saw tumors and thought they looked like crabs.
- jounker 1y agoIt’s not a linguistic coincidence. The disease is named after the animal.
- bee_rider 1y agoThe coincidence is that all animals evolve in a crab-shaped direction (as the meme goes), and all tech companies evolve in a cancer-shaped direction. That these two “inevitable endpoint things” would happen to be linguistically closely related was unlikely.