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There are different kinds of casual settings. In my social circle, if you criticized someone for calling a magazine a clip, you would be instantly made fun of f
by delecti 3y ago
There are different kinds of casual settings. In my social circle, if you criticized someone for calling a magazine a clip, you would be instantly made fun of for being such a pedantic nuisance. A clearly left-leaning media outlet like this is likely targeting an audience more like my social circle than ones who would be pedantic about silencer/suppressor or clip/magazine.
A lack of precision is only really a problem when it would cause confusion. In the context of the article, nobody is confused about what they mean by "silencer". A good example of this is that, even while complaining about calling them "silencers" rather than suppressors, the top comment still didn't have any confusion about what was being discussed.
- alexb_ 3y ago> In the context of the article, nobody is confused about what they mean by "silencer". People are confused as to believing the idea that any device which makes a gun silent exists.
- delecti 3y agoBut that distinction isn't relevant to the discussion of instagram ads.
- Humboldtsnee 3y agoEven my most gun averse friends don't think a silencer makes a gun silent.
- stickfigure 3y agoApparently none of your friends work in Hollywood.
- Humboldtsnee 3y agoSure, movies portray suppressors as incredible magic devices, but everyone I know thinks this is fiction.
- mrguyorama 3y agoMovies haven't done things bad out of ignorance for many decades. It's always a sound engineer or a director saying "no people expect a movie gun to do X nowadays" Movie hackers don't work like that because nobody involved knows how computers work, even NCIS had dedicated Computer Consultants for that kind of stuff, but real "hacking" is boring AF, and most people are willing to put that kind of "reality" aside for a better narrative.
- joshmanders 3y agoI live in rural Iowa where everyone has guns and if someone "well ackshully it's called a suppressor/magazine not a silencer/clip" you would be ridiculed by everyone for being a pedantic clown.