Just wait until you hear what planes call out during landing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ3PA6N0QXQ

Mental retardation hasn’t been a widely recognized medical condition for at least 30 years. They started scrubbing the term out of diagnostic criteria in the 90s and I think the last one to use it was officially retired in the 00s.

Yeah back in the 90s it was still in use in some diagnostic criteria, even though it was already considered dated then. These days I don’t think it’s used in a medical capacity anywhere anymore.

I don’t think it’s solely a you problem as many people do consider the term too offensive to use, but it is one of those words the jury is divided on, with just as many people using it nonchalantly. I expect over time it’ll be no different from moron or idiot.

My thoughts exactly.

I don’t understand how people think it’s such a big deal anyway. I mean, it’s functionally the same thing as calling someone a moron or an idiot or an imbecile, yet I don’t know anyone who has any problem with those words. All are obsolete medical terms for intellectually disabled people, used in modern parlance to insult someone’s intellect.

https://x.com/gnostrils/status/2039561643844415724

why’d you erase the first line of the second name

Good way to ensure that whatever regime rises from the ashes will be even more backwards than the last.

There’s a lot of blatant LLM bots on Reddit these days so I think it’s a good thing they’re doing this. It’s also only a matter of time before those same bots start landing on Lemmy, even more so than they already have.

This is the kind of article that would get you banned from lemmy.ml. I should know, I was banned for pretty much this exact thing.