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I think about POSIX threads, but C is a formative part of my brain.

Does anyone else have a general dislike of companies trademarking such generic, common words? It feels very tacky to try to associate themselves with everyday nouns and adjectives in an attempt to place their product in our brains at every opportunity. Might as well block the windows of my house with a giant billboard.

Yes. Trademarking is dumb in general. It's a power tool for the elites.

Apparently this is the title of a movie about nuclear war.

An exceptionally harrowing one, yep. Content related to it is the first few results if I search for "threads" on Youtube (down a few results, videos mocking Facebook's "Threads" start getting mixed in)

Viewable here (consider using the torrent):

https://archive.org/details/threads_202007

It makes me think about all-devouring alien monstrosities that need to be burned with fire.

It also plays a role in a popular series of SF novels by Anne McCaffrey.

Makes me think of knitted jumpers.

Made me think of Dragonriders of Pern.

I think clothing. Nice threads bro.