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What on earth do you consider the common thread between those two names?

Both are "evil". (edit: I am not the poster you replied to)

But in this case the thinking went probably like

phishing -> fishing -> bad fish

The common thread I'm seeing is "something you shouldn't aspire to be". That is, no one should want to be a candiru fish, nor a palantir.

@AlexBlechman

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11:49 PM · 8 nov 2021