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> "Identity theft" is a term coined by banks to try to make it sound like random people should have to deal with the fallout of the banks' bad identity verifica
by throwaway2037 2y ago
> "Identity theft" is a term coined by banks to try to make it sound like random people should have to deal with the fallout of the banks' bad identity verification practices.
Wow, great point. I admit: I have been tricked by financial institutions to believe this term! Another (US military) term that is similarly misleading to me: "surgical strike". If they blow up the bus stop in your neighborhood with a cruise missile fired from 300km away... well, you won't ever feel safe in that neighborhood again... so the strike is certainly less than "surgical".
- AndrewDavis 2y agoClassic Mitchell and Webb skit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
- dani__german 2y agosurgical in this sense means only blowing up the bus stop instead of leveling 6 blocks with a MOAB. Your feelings about safety are supposed to be negatively affected by a bomb. Whether that bomb is a precise or strategic bomb is immaterial.
- hedora 2y agoIn places like Gaza, "surgical strike" often means "only" blowing up the support pillar of an occupied multi-story apartment complex in the middle of the night.
- dani__german 1y agoWhether we believe the lies of the Israeli government is also not quite related to the topic of Surgical vs Strategic Bombing. Clearly Gaza has been subject to the latter though.