• PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I bought this humorous time travel t-shirt for all my nephews and nieces. It has a bunch of scientific formulas and methods just in case you get caught back in time. It’s a genuine risk! With that shirt there is enough for you to be a wizard or a heretic. Just use caution as to whom you share the knowledge with.

    Edit: Someone posted a link to the image on the shirt.

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        4 days ago

        Hey, I grew up in that era too, so I get habits are hard to break, but going forward, please don’t use that term on here. We’re trying to move past that kind of language.

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            4 days ago

            idiot works, but I’ve become fond of dum-dum over the last year;

            it seems more cutesy, but somehow manages to be even more insulting without the usual negative associations…at least i don’t know of any ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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            4 days ago

            Idiot or moron would be fine.

            It’s only the r-term specifically that’s verboten. It’s been used extensively in recent times as a term of genuine abuse towards legitimately developmentally disabled (or sometimes just neurodiverse) folks.

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              3 days ago

              Euphemism treadmills are silly. Moron and idiot are just as bad. Retard was invented because people were using moron as a slur.