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dang on May 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Coming Food Catastrophe

It doesn't take much googling to answer that.

Edit: look you guys, We're not Bowdlers and have never been interested in language policing but I wouldn't have thought this was a borderline case.

tptacek on May 20, 2022 [–]

It's not a borderline case. People have trouble with the distinction between a judgement about a word overall, and a judgement about what a word will do to an HN thread. Also, people just like to gripe.

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