elephantium

Fair point, but something about the tautology of the phrase has always grated on me :\

You just reminded me of this

Those who champion "brutal honesty" are more interested in the brutality than the honest

I use this, and I struggle a little to disengage when the person I ask interprets it as "help me figure out how to solve this" when they don't actually have the "short answer".

life isn't fair

It's not as pithy, but I think "Just because you didn't get your way, doesn't mean it's unfair" would be a better sentiment for adults to tell children.

Or "I don't fucking care what happened, I just don't want to hear you whine about it". Hardly an acceptable way to talk to children, but I think it's what adults in my life meant when I was a child.

"it is what it is"

If it weren't what it is, well, it wouldn't be anything at all, would it?

Thanks :D

I came here to ask the same thing!

Interesting metaphor. I've never really gotten that idea -- I've never seen the connection demonstrated between the "big stuff" and seemingly innocuous things like 'main' vs. 'master'.

Also, a lot of this feels misplaced. IMO, the root problem is one of attitude where the minorities are viewed as less-human, not deserving of equal treatment or equal rights. Change will happen as those attitudes shift. I haven't seen a connection demonstrated between those attitudes and...well, pretty much any terminology issue that's come up in recent memory.

Yeah, I can't really explain it. Seems kinda silly, doesn't it?

just another way of staying ignorant and insensitive to those events.

I don't really see how that follows. Would you mind elaborating?

I'm a dev, and I'm the opposite. At my work, we use main over master. I thought it was a little silly when we first switched, but now I'm used to it. It's an arbitrary label anyway -- could easily use trunk/branch from SVN or release/develop or any number of other labels to keep track of code.

Hell, we got a new dev on the team a month or two ago, and he tends to name things 'feat/do-the-thing' instead of 'feature/make-it-go'.

It's not as big a deal as people online make it out to be.

Bypass the whole debate, adopt SVN's 'trunk/branch' terms.