There's been some campaigns to change certain terms in computing, and I think some of them actually make some sense, but one that's always irritated me is the campaign to rename 'master' in version control software, because it relies on etymological nonsense, i.e. assuming that 'master' must necessarily refer to a relationship which also contains a 'slave', when this is not the case in this instance

@evelyn The most annoying thing about this discourse to me is that what you are saying is absolutely true, but at the same time `main` is _so much better_ as a branch name.

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