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		goatlover on Feb 4, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging ... The fact that people don't realize the same word can have multiple meanings and not just the meaning it had in some previous century is amazing to me.

stanleykm on Feb 4, 2025 [–]

well look if people wanted to be able to use the words master and slave all over the place they should have thought about it earlier and not had masters and slaves to start with. i dont know what to tell you.

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