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  • quindraco@lemm.eetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs "female" offensive?
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    9 months ago

    Female as an adjective is inoffensive everywhere, but you will run into problems in some contexts because its definition is currently in flux and different people will mean different things by it.

    Female as a noun has the same changing definition deal, and also some online misogynists use it as a pejorative. It isn’t one, but they use it as one. As a corollary, some others on the internet have chosen to be offended by the term.




  • quindraco@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlFedposting
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    1 year ago

    The article you linked doesn’t say what you claim it says. It discusses a 25moh car hitting a pedestrian, which is wildly different from a true 25mph impact in general, because most pedestrians will try to dodge.


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    1 year ago

    Humans can’t survive being hit by a car at 25 mph.

    The primary purpose of most speed limits is tax revenue, which is why most speed limits are not based on safety evidence. The local authorities just tweak the limits to maximize profits.






  • quindraco@lemm.eetoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerican Tornado Hunters
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    1 year ago

    OP, never post xkcd or smbc without including the alt-text (and for smbc, the votey).

    The Fujita Scale was replaced by the Enhanced Fujita Scale in 2007, but I think ‘EF-5’ sounds stupid, so I vote we just use the new measurements for assigning numbers but still call them ‘F-whatever’.