Good to know, thank you! Yet more reasons to avoid it

I think the point is that to you, it’s just semantics. But, to use your example, given that some people have started intentionally using “female” in place of “woman” as an (arguably) subtle way to exclude trans women, it suddenly becomes more than semantics to both trans and anti-trans populations. That’s what Smotherlove is saying about “dog whistle” language only being transparent to the perpetrator and the victim.

So from your/my perspective (admittedly assuming you’re neither trans nor anti-trans), it’s largely a case of “a few rotten apples ruining it for the rest of the bunch.” What should just be a semantic difference has been coopted and intentionally weaponized by some, so all of us have to be conscious of whether or not we’re making that worse.

It’s also not a new phenomenon. Many epithets start as PC terms and then become offensive based on how a specific group starts to use them, notably, almost every one-time PC terms for Black Americans and people of color. Unfortunately, it’s basically the reason that, for at least 100 years, (responsible) individuals/media have had to change terms for many marginalized peoples every 10-20 years, with many other examples, like “Oriental” and the terms that predate it, and plenty of others.

It tended to be that Native Americans would do it in or after battle/fighting an enemy. But in response, colonists, particularly those “settling” the West, started offering standing rewards for every Native Americans scalp people could collect. Many white colonists then ended up scalping every Native Americans they could find, regardless of enmity, and even scalping others as well, such as railroad workers, in order to pass off their scalps as those of Native Americans. All to say that, yes, much like many things, scalping was a tradition of another culture that colonists adopted and took much further.

Ireland must have really upped their Air and Space Forces

And their response is literally “you farted!”

Important that the headline notes both adults AND Republicans support it

This is a political community, not solely a news one. It’s for political commentary and reporting. Especially when it comes to politics, everyone should be reading the source anyway (obviously) and even finding alternate sources to corroborate and test bias etc. It feels ridiculous to say that someone can’t add their political comments to a post in the politics community

Accurate on all counts.

What if you have all of them (minus pods)?

Could have cut the headline before “to ‘forever chemicals’…”

A very good point

If only quotes, evidence, and objective reporting had any hope of getting through to his supporters…

Nah just gonna laugh at this specific reaction a little bit.

I’m 99.99% with you on the sentiment, right up to particularly egregious (and not culturally or ethnically significant) haircuts. On that one, I may continue to do like only half of this woman’s hair, and throw a little shade.

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And seem to be real sensitive about it.

Lol alright. Gimme your worst.

I get where you’re coming from, but an intentional, statement haircut that you could easily change feels like it’s ok to make a statement about, while I never would about someone’s weight, height, etc.

If I posted a picture of myself and the hair was what people roasted me for, I’d be happy lol.

Yahoo was a massive failed effort, but it hardly even compares to that haircut.

I experienced very similar challenges moving from Spain to the US, from being locked out of apps and unable to update anything through Google’s app store to being unable to make purchases on PayPal and in Amazon, since everything on my phone/in my account was linked to another region.

The issue is that I don’t think this is a “bug” in a cashless system, I think it is a “feature” that serves big banks, big data, and software providers. If you want to set up a new life or change your online behavior by necessity, with a cashless system you are forced to give companies everything they could ever want to track you and everything they need to link your history in one country to your new accounts in another. If they didn’t have 60 different ways to force you into creating these accounts and going through them to make minor changes, people could travel and purchase freely without their banks or apps ever knowing where they live permanently or if their financial situations have changed. But now, you have to directly give them that info to use your own money and apps. And they have no incentive to make it convenient.