Essentially I think you're right, we are amusing ourselves. The point is that we seem to be built to do that - we come with a nice set of compulsions that give us happy feelings when we do certain things, and if those feelings are an illusion so what? They feel real.
I srsly doubt that the Pillsbury box design is still under patent, because it's been used in hundreds or even thousands of products I've opened over a span of decades - for example, pretty much every breakfast cereal box works that way. Two main flaps, two little tabs under them at the ends. The store-brand box is something I've never even seen before. Could be that it's designed to be opened along one side, with the "front" of the box opening as a lid. Then the structure would actually make sense. I dunno, next time I make pie I'll have a closer look.
Not gonna go back and search for "AI" but when I read the thread hours ago there were multiple back and forth comments criticizing/defending use of ChatGPT (which is what I meant by "AI" in this case), and this was not at all the point of OP's post.
No, I said I don't think the word "master" is inherently offensive - after all, my wife has a master's degree. But to answer OP's question, I've switched to "main" as my git branch because that seems to be the new convention.
Pillsbury pie crusts - the kind that come rolled up, 2 in a box, come in a very standard box with the typical two big flaps at the end, one glued over the other, with two little side flaps inside. Safeway store brand pie crusts seem identical but have a slightly more complicated box. One flap peels open easily but the other flap is sort of latched into the little side tabs with little slots, making it hard to peel open. You have to rip the corners apart. It's totally unnecessary. The simpler Pillsbury box works fine.
Until just now my low-stakes conspiracy theory was that the store brand box was deliberately designed to create the disadvantage of being a slight pain in the ass to open. I figured Safeway pie crusts, like most store-brand products, are made by a major manufacturer - probably Pillsbury - and that Pillsbury probably made them under the condition that the package be harder to open, to create a tangible difference between the products.
However, when I started typing this I casually googled and found that Safeway buys their OEM pie crusts from Albertsons. This blows my conspiracy theory but now I wonder even more why the box design is so stupid.
I personally don't think the word "master" should be considered offensive - my wife has a master's degree in deaf education - but I've switched to "main" because that seems to be the convention now and it really doesn't have to be an issue.
Yes, something that's like something else is also literally like it, because literally emphasizes that it's really true. But "I literally died laughing" is wrong unless you're actually dead.
In high school my friend's lawyer dad once had a client named Harry Organ. Sounds like a match made in heaven!