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Fun fact: back in the early 2010's Verizon Wireless started a new mobile payment option where you had the option to get an accompanying debit card for your account with the name of the app on it.
The mobile payment system name was ISIS.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0072516/#storyline
lol, why would two people downvote this perfectly relevant link?
This website leans anti-Amazon. You shouldn't be surprised to catch a couple downvotes when posting a link to an Amazon website.
I guess, but people post actual links to things purchasable on Amazon without getting downvoted on significantly more anti capitalist servers than sh.itjust.works all the time. It was also +2/-2 at the time I commented, so it seemed like more of a trend.
That said, check out their profile, their comments rarely register and are heavily downvoted all over the place. I suspect the user has some history and people look for reasons to downvote. It doesn’t matter, but it feels catty and isolating, so I wanted to say something in support.
Feels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INilAY6aJTc
Isis was a major Egyptian goddess. It shouldn't be super surprising that things had that name before the Islamic State co-opted it.
Bob Dylan has a (great) song called "Isis"
When I was younger I always called my multiplayer guilds and factions Eye of Isis / Isis Eye. I am afraid doing that now would me considered "political" :(
one of my friends had a dog named Isis around that time. also the fictional spy agency from the tv show Archer was called ISIS, which was written out of the show at the start of the fifth season, earlier ones have them running around saying "we're ISIS agents" all the time. it was a totally normal thing until it suddenly wasn't
Back in the day, Avid (the company that makes professional software like media composer and pro tools) sold a NAS system called ISIS (Infinitely Scalable Intelligent Storage). The studio I worked at had a different system, but the head of post production still called it “the ISIS” because he got used to calling the network storage that.
Was the system good or had it other false promises? Infinitely sounds very unprofessional for me.
What happens when we used all the resources on our planet to scale the NAS? Did they have the technology back than, to harvest other planets or even other star systems? So many questions…
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