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Cake day: 2023年8月3日

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  • That’s the euphemism treadmill I’m talking about. Idiot, moron, and imbecile were all terms used to describe conditions scientifically. They all became insults and were replaced by various degrees of “retardation,” which as you mentioned does come from root words meaning slow or delayed. When that similarly became an insult, special needs was coined. Then that became an insult and now the preferred term is intellectual disability. That one seems sterile enough but we’ll see.











  • I appreciate a bureaucratic fuck up as much as the next guy, but when the hard math is 300 armed dudes outside and 1 armed dude shooting kids in a school for the entire runtime of Shrek, I have no benefit of the doubt left to give. Maybe if it was a dog with a gun they would’ve shot it 30 seconds after arriving on scene.