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The name seems a little insensitive.
by sillywabbit 8mo ago
The name seems a little insensitive.
- mikenew 8mo agoThe side effect of trying to enforce this kind of sensitivity is that you make certain things taboo to talk about. And this is a good example of something that should be easy for someone to talk or even joke about because it makes dipping into that conversation much easier.
- sillywabbit 8mo agoHow about Rogue-like Linux?
- notfed 8mo agoIs there a name for this? I think about this all the time. I've always had a theory that some offensive words may actually be persisting longer solely because we essentially calcify their definitions and never allow them to evolve into new less offensive meanings.
- swader999 8mo agoThis is well researched. See the Werther Effect. Casual, trivial, glamorized, or humorous framing behaves like contagion exposure.
- rootusrootus 8mo agoThe Werther Effect seems to be all about media reporting? All the reputable sources I could easily find suggest that talking about suicide casually does not inspire it.
- janwillemb 8mo agoDouglas Crockford nearly got cancelled because he qualified JavaScript as "promiscuous". People not knowing what the word means plus having a sense of urgency about sensitivity can be a dangerous combination.
- throwaway613746 8mo ago[dead]
- Slash65 8mo agoThe world is cold and insensitive the majority of the time
- sillywabbit 8mo agoMaybe you could strive to be better than that.
- noumenon1111 8mo agoMaybe he does. Have you asked him?
- webdevver 8mo ago"Unalive GNU/Linux"
- protocolture 8mo agoI was honestly hoping it was a linux distro prepacked with euthanasia instructions tbh. But this is still good and funny.