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Turns out people really, really, REALLY don't like to be forced to change their decades old thinking, vocabulary and definitions of words when they feel its eit

Turns out people really, really, REALLY don't like to be forced to change their decades old thinking, vocabulary and definitions of words when they feel its either pointless busy work, propagation of an ideology they do not support or a straight up attempt at mind control.

TrappedInCorner 11mo ago
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- curtisblaine 11mo ago
  They e-mail your HR lady if you say anything against them.
StopDisinfo910 11mo ago
You could have stopped at average people don't like to change. It being justified or not as very little impact on the reception. It applies equally to this than to systemd, wayland or Rust - but Rust is now trendy so people will bandwagon in their appreciation to look cool and in - to quote other topics regularly discussed on HN. I fear that the most interesting thing about how these changes are received by the HN community is what it says about the HN community itself.
- the_absurdist 11mo ago
  They could have expressed themselves in a way that aligns with your sensibilities, but they exercised their freedom of expression. I personally found that additional detail to be very valuable, because it conveyed disdain without triggering justification for people like you to censor the comment completely.
  - StopDisinfo910 11mo ago
    I have no interest in censoring the comment (what?). That’s nearly as far fetched as people calling renaming branches brain washing and propaganda. It’s a rhetorical flourish pointing that in my opinion most people here are actually change averse, a trend which I personally notice more and more here. I have no sensibilities. I am neither American nor interested in American politics. I am however deeply convinced that people having strong opinions about the names of branches have issues. An opinion I apply equally to people strongly advocating for the change and to people strongly against the change.
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TrappedInCorner 11mo ago

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curtisblaine 11mo ago
They e-mail your HR lady if you say anything against them.

StopDisinfo910 11mo ago

You could have stopped at average people don't like to change. It being justified or not as very little impact on the reception. It applies equally to this than to systemd, wayland or Rust - but Rust is now trendy so people will bandwagon in their appreciation to look cool and in - to quote other topics regularly discussed on HN. I fear that the most interesting thing about how these changes are received by the HN community is what it says about the HN community itself.

the_absurdist 11mo ago
They could have expressed themselves in a way that aligns with your sensibilities, but they exercised their freedom of expression. I personally found that additional detail to be very valuable, because it conveyed disdain without triggering justification for people like you to censor the comment completely.
- StopDisinfo910 11mo ago
  I have no interest in censoring the comment (what?). That’s nearly as far fetched as people calling renaming branches brain washing and propaganda. It’s a rhetorical flourish pointing that in my opinion most people here are actually change averse, a trend which I personally notice more and more here. I have no sensibilities. I am neither American nor interested in American politics. I am however deeply convinced that people having strong opinions about the names of branches have issues. An opinion I apply equally to people strongly advocating for the change and to people strongly against the change.
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