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21 Post author: Apprentice 06 January 2014 12:16AM

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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 06 January 2014 04:16:15AM 14 points [-]

Most of the problems described in this post seem to be things that are not really practical to do anything about, but this caught my eye:

tl;dr: If you just typed in all honesty “I like eugenics”, even if I enjoy your posts about economics, congratulations, you freak me out and I really, really don’t know why I’m still reading your blog.

Really we need to stop using the word "eugenics." In the real world it really isn't smart to keep insisting on the "official" definition of a word decades after it acquired negative connotations for actually pretty good reasons.

Comment author: Manfred 06 January 2014 06:31:52AM 22 points [-]

My desire to hang onto familiar words reminds me of a joke.

"I'm a great communicator, people just keep misunderstanding me."