Euphemisms are meaningless once the connotation settle in. No person alive in the modern civilization can heart the term “concentration camp” and think “oh, this is not so bad then”.

No, because words have meaning. People also died in the original concentration camps - they were still distinct from the extermination camps.

I’d expect Israel to see the decline at 2024. For Russia I’d expect it to be at 2022. By 2025 these countries probably didn’t see a decline simply because they started from a low baseline.

People died in concentration camps too - they are still distinct from death camps. There may be death camps in the near future, but there aren’t yet.

Concentration camps are bad enough as is, and calling facilities like Alligator Alcatraz concentration camps has the advantage that it’s the truth - they check all the boxes in the concentration camp definition checklist. If you make stuff up for dramatic effect your argument is no longer factually correct - which means it can be disputed using facts.

Reading the article to see what ridiculous name he’s going to give it.

“The America Party”?

TBH, pretty tame in Musk standards. At least it’s pronounceable.

You can’t get a good view of the bombing of Tel Aviv all the way from Iran.

Monkey is for MoonScript

N is for Node.js

O is for Objective-C

P is for Pascal

Q is for QBasic

R is for R

S is for Swift

T is for TypeScript

U is for …

Any condition? Okay. My condition is that the ownership transfer will be done purely by NFT.

Fix it now, or you go to jail

Why are you listening to doctors?

But… you said…

Good thing they lost the elections then, right?

Time travelers already tried and failed. It’s a fixed point in time.

My condolences

Certainly not for running an LLM on all your files to figure out which ads to show you in the start menu. Why would you even imply something like that?

Why are you asking? Are you trying to prematurely optimize these apps?

I want to forget SVN

Hard drive was made by Tesla

Communism is just socialism-flavored fascism.

Why would do you want to get your apartments involved? The chickens are for you, not for your tenants. Just build the coop at your mansion’s backyard.

Hot take: forcing children to pledge allegiance should be more concerning than the exact posture they are ordered to make while doing so.