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originally posted by: Vasa Croe
This is seriously messed up. I have family and friends that are LEO. One is in St Louis and very high up the chain of command....she said they have taken fire there and a few of her officers that were deployed in Afghanistan said it was worse in St Louis....that is nuts to me.
What the hell is wrong with people? I don't understand how ANYONE can think the US is some horrible place to live. It is kike they have never traveled to any other country in their lives, maybe not even another state.
Blows my mind.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
So....just checked and sure enough....it is there. If you have a iPhone, feel free to ask Siri the definition of "demon"....this is what comes up.
Wonder what Apple has to say about this?
originally posted by: DISRAELI
Has anybody made the point yet that this is obviously a dictionary service, and all modern dictionary makers aspire to define words according to the way the words are being used. If people are using the word "demon" to describe a police officer, then a modern dictionary has no choice but to say so. Look up the word "pig"; that's probably in there as well. Because that's a word that has been used.
Then I see quoted on the very first page of the thread the statement that the origin of this usage goes back to nineteenth-century Tasmania. In that case, conspiracy theories based on twenty-first century American society are beside the point. Modern internet power makes it possible for dictionary makers to drag in word usages from as many different times and places as possible, and that is what has happened here.
originally posted by: AndyMayhew
originally posted by: DISRAELI
Has anybody made the point yet that this is obviously a dictionary service, and all modern dictionary makers aspire to define words according to the way the words are being used. If people are using the word "demon" to describe a police officer, then a modern dictionary has no choice but to say so. Look up the word "pig"; that's probably in there as well. Because that's a word that has been used.
Then I see quoted on the very first page of the thread the statement that the origin of this usage goes back to nineteenth-century Tasmania. In that case, conspiracy theories based on twenty-first century American society are beside the point. Modern internet power makes it possible for dictionary makers to drag in word usages from as many different times and places as possible, and that is what has happened here.
Stop spoiling paranoid conspiracy theories with old fashioned common sense
originally posted by: Aedaeum
It'd be nice if this could be moved to a "debunked" section as it's already been proven many times that this is an artifact of a data driven system trying to scrape the "most acceptable" definition based on user input, from real definitions. Literally every official dictionary you pull up will show that this is Australian slang.
originally posted by: FishBait
If only, there is no "debunked" on ATS. Only double down and accuse debunkers of being Antifa commies who need to provide 8000 more links before ATS even considers another option. At which point they will double down again. ROTFL. This is just a site to re-enforce conformation bias but it's still nice to see there are a few rational responses here and there.