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Lots of words are meaningless the way certain people use them.

Personally, I don’t care. If the most popular use of a term is nonsensical, I use next most popular meaning that has some sensical usage.

I don’t buy this whole “you can’t use the words ‘racist’ or ‘cloud’ because they’re so overused as to be meaningless” thing. Words are (briefly) overused all the time. And then they’re not, and we can carry on using them according to their original purpose.



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