‘Blackballed from the subset of the industry where his résumé is relevant’ sounds plausible to me.

I took it more as: Yeah, that probably happened.

You stop where the acronym gets so unwieldy that it falls out of usage. (I think the trailing ‘+’ is there to prevent that, and to include everyone not represented by a letter.)

It won’t ever stop changing though. It’s a peculiarity of language called the ‘euphemism treadmill.’ Usage disfavours certain terms when…

Suggestion algorithms are insidious because they work very progressively. Contrived example: astrology -> crystals -> vitamins -> vax skepticism -> QAnon.

My mom still brings it up among family and in polite company. (Even has beef with ‘woke’ now.) I try not to argue individual facts, tell her she’s wrong, and change the subject.

I guess we’ll see. Let’s compare notes in 5 years. I’ll send you $10USD in BTC if I’m wrong.

Oh right, thanks for pointing that out. I was too focused on country/federal, and below, but even the WHO’s guidance differs from the NHS’ on this.

Thank you for sharing that with me. That must have been difficult to deal with. I understand that you mean well, and appreciate your input. My situation is just significantly different from yours. (See my reply to myself further down-thread if you feel so inclined and want to be bummed out.)

No. This is how mixed up she is. She doesn’t vote for the Tories, and though she agrees with them on some of their socially conservative policies, she fully understands that the Tory fringe is full of lunatics.

Tell that to the AMA, CMA, and the dozens of other professional associations whose job it is to evaluate the evidence.

Most of Canadian land is still unceded, or under (mostly violated) treaties. That’s our original sin, and we’re working our way through it, as I’m sure you know (TRC, treaty-based lawsuits, etc...)

No I supported my friend converting to Catholicism, as clearly stated. I just don’t fuck with anyone who’s anti-queer (and a bunch of other stuff). That includes my Muslim friends (all cool).

My take on it is that the oppressed focus on vocabulary and nomenclature because it’s relatively easy to control, and they have very little control over much more critical aspects of what makes them oppressed.

I got a few comments about being able to cut my mom out of my life. I’m combining my replies in this post, since it all boils down to this:

I get what you’re saying. I’m just using the Canadian formulation, which is likely irrelevant to you, but of critical importance where I live.

That’s not what happened, but since you’re out of the greys: An NHS-affiliated medical association performed a meta-analysis of the existing data, but used stricter criteria than other policy makers, which led to a great deal of research data being excluded from their analysis.

So they came to a different conclusion…

Thank you. I fortunately lucked out with most of my family. My mom had over 10 siblings (including one who was a Catholic priest), and almost everyone was very... uh... fruitful, so I literally have hundreds of cousins.

I have no skin in this game, in terms of her work. I watched the first movie in a theatre, at a company event, and thought it was fine for kids. (I was out of the target demo by that point.) I never read the books.

The elevator pitch does sound good to me, though I worry that Coppola may have become bogged down in the details by trying to cram too much in there.

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