I use simple names for coffee. Friends do the same. Something easy to hear and understand like Jay, Fay, Lee, etc. They never ask for spelling or ask you to repeat it and it’s easy to hear when crowded.

Imagine this… It’s -10C outside, 4am so the solar batteries have drained and the heating stopped an hour ago. The winter duvet is amazing, but the bathroom is a tiled floor. By the time you’re done peeing, even the socks are starting to get cool. You rush back into bed, carefully not slashing the warm duvet with your diamond nipples.

On general social media? It’s gonna be 99.999% of the time and will be still when “intellectual disability” becomes taboo… Literally how the term ‘euphemism treadmill’ came about.

Yeah, and both changed because, as medical science and discovery improved, the terminology became too vague and inappropriate compared to more accurate terms that better described the various conditions discovered. Just like how “falling ill” used to be all we had to describe things we knew nothing about like cancer, autoimmune disease, aggressive viruses or bacterias, etc.

That’s why these two words in mental context could only be used as a slur, since they’re entirely redundant in medicine now.

Perhaps read first. If you had, you’d see I’ve already indirectly raised your points for you before. So I don’t know who your argument is aimed it. But, sure, call me ignorant and agree with me.

The discussion is about not striking out a word because of ignorance of anything but a slur.

To use your own example, we don’t refer to “colored” as “the C word”, so I don’t know you even brought it up. We don’t villianise words because sometimes ignorant people use them as a slur. Even the dictionary addresses this.

Still is a medical term, for example, a retarded dose is one where the drug is released at a slowed pace.

Same usage as retarded timing in engines by delaying the spark. Then there’s all the chemical retarders for delaying reactions, like in mixing concrete or epoxy.

If you know music, you know ritard on tempo control.

If you get offended by “the R word” don’t ever become a pilot because the cockpit will exclaim “Retard! Retard! Retard!” on landing when you’ve neglected the throttle and it needs to be shortened.

Because of exactly what it means, it’s super common and useful. Ignorant people’s minds just go straight to a slur, probably because they used to use it as one.

Hmm… You’re right. That’s a big job and I’m only paid to do it.

Okay, let’s blame the 3D printer people.

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The R word is a word used all the time. Just because you only know it as a neurological slur, doesn’t mean we censor it for your sake

But, yes, it was used as a slur specific to neurology in this case, arguably. So, “Learn what the word ‘retard’ means, you morons.” would’ve been a more appropriate response, apparently…

Edit: Sorry, so many typos. I’ve had a couple scotches. Need a scotch retardant. WATER!!!

Don’t forget Suuuupeeer Intelligence by Vibe

Mere mortals exceed these planes!

Yes, exceed… Such is this magic.

I don’t mind if people are dumb, slow, whatever. It’s out of my control so, meh. But when I’m put into risk I give a fuck.

My biggest hate is people just stopping or crawling on a road as they think of want they want to do next. Because so often there’s some other idiot on their phone that could be behind me that hasn’t noticed the idiot in front of me has slowed down to 20kph for their situational ponderings.

Feels like more and more these days I’m looking into the rearview mirror anxiously saying, “Oh my god, MOVE.”

abandoned because its unmaintainable

Exactly this. It’s hard enough maintaining my own code. It can take a good 15 mins or so to familiarise myself with something I haven’t worked on in a short while. Seeing code that isn’t mine is very challenging. Not the code itself, but the methods and structures used by the other person. All that has to be done before hunting bugs and adjusting features. Then of course there’s the things you don’t know about that can be easily missed.

An AI would need to thoroughly know the code and detailed context on the decisions behind it all, every session, in order to be able to maintain it with vibe, because the vibe coder won’t know any of this.

Uh, yeah! Mine too. All the pirate stuff has been my damned appliances. I delete the files immediately, of course. I wouldn’t even steal a car, let alone a movie.

Imagine being one of the kids and seeing this is how your gift was done.

But at least you’re in daddy’s Top 5 of that 14.

Is half of that RAM backup for when the first 32 dies or does he actually do something needing 64?

What about bullets?

I’m a nature freak. Continental North America is filled with beautiful places and regions. Alas, the “USA” part makes it extremely undesirable.

They get elected

Yeah, to me that’s normal. But if I think about it, it’s been more 50/50. Of course none of this starts happening for anyone in the relationship until around end of month three, aka. the honeymoon phase is over and you’re no longer dating each other’s PR reps.

The relationship has started when someone has let out a fart on the couch and it wasn’t socially weird, like it would’ve been hour three into date 1.

I’d do that if all my illustrator money wasn’t going on rent and if I wasn’t renting.