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You know what's funny? People wouldn't download the official app after they banned 3rd party app so they decided to force open /r/place for a 3rd time and make it available on the official app but they fucked up somewhere and their official app cannot open and operate properly the canvas of /r/place.

More and more people are realizing the importance of third party app now. Good job, you fucking idiot /u/spez! You did it! I'm sure that IPO is coming real soon now KEK.

Oh, also, fun fact. You cannot access it via old.reddit.com. They want to push users away from that too so they force you to use their new retard-friendly UI filled with ads.

That's when I gave up trying to see the canvas myself. Thanks for the screenshot, OP
- Don't say/write retard, dude. Not cool.
  
  words are just words. i might ask, is your timing retarded? and you might say yes. and i would tell you to turn your distributor. haha. this is fucking retarded.
  
  Bad take. You wouldn't say the n-word if you were white too. It's the same thing. Or using a term for someone's sexuality as a swear word.
  
  Let me guess. You are also against the word "obese?" Is that offensive to you? Both are medical terms.
  
  "Retard" is not a medical term. We use the term developmentally delayed. "Retard" is a slur. Don't use this word
  
  "Retarded" is a medical term, though. You must be young.
  
  I'm a nurse in my mid-40s. We absolutely DO NOT use the term "retarded" in the medical field anymore. We use the term developmentally delayed. "Retarded" is considered a slur
  
  You must be offensive and dated
  
  The problem is using that word as a slur and grouping very kind people that just happen to be born with an illness with that kind of idiot.
  
  The term itself isn't offensive - misusing it is
- You likely grew up using the word, but the r-slur IS a slur. Please remove it. Reddit administration are fucking dumbasses, morons, idiots, but not the r-slur.
  
  Not necessarily in opposition. But I find it funny that the words you chose are all still words used in a medical sense before the new millennium, with similar ableist connotations - just ones further removed by time.
  
  Dumb meaning mute, as in "deaf, dumb and blind", and with moron and idiot meaning "mild" to "profound" intellectual disability respectively. Similar words like "imbecile" or "cretin" held similar connotations. All of which the r-word was once adopted to get around, until it was picked up by the public in the same way,
  
  The Wikipedia rabbit hole led me to the "euphemism treadmill", which in turn led me to the "List of disability-related terms with negative connotations", many of which replaced each other in "formal" usage at different points in time.
  
  Again, not against trying to avoid hurting people. It's just that trying to get ahead of this sort of thing is amusingly circular when viewed in the abstract.
  
  What exactly are you trying to say when you say "dumbass" or "moron" or "idiot"? You obviously can't mean "mentally deficient" in any measurable sense, certainly not a "low IQ". You must therefore mean something like "foolish" or "stupid", acting unwisely or impulsively, or without reason. But is that how you're using them? Is that how they're used generally?
  
  Thats what gets me about society/people in general. Everybody plays a little game to look good etc.. But once you step back and look at it objectively it all looks like a bunch of madmen trying to convince each other this is bad or this other thing is good and vice versa.
  
  But if we stay on the topic of "swears" the easiest way to combat that isn't to ban a word. You just give power to that word by making it a worse thing to say.
  
  Instead: own that word. I'm autistic for example. Back when i was in school that was an insult i heard regularly. Now i own that word, yes i am autistic but thats not good or bad thats just a fact. The same way people took the word nerd. I'm a nerd too. I like weird complicated and sometimes useless computer stuff. But thats who i am no need to hide it or be ashamed of it.
  
  (this doesn't work for everything obviously but most insults just show that the insultee has nothing but namecalling in their pocket. take that away and they crumble beneath their own insignificance)
  
  Preach
- Oh, also, fun fact. You cannot access it via old.reddit.com. They want to push users away from that too so they force you to use their new retard-friendly UI filled with ads.
  
  Oh.
  
  The day they force me off old.reddit, is the day I stop occasionally lurking around on my second monitor. As of now, I'm active here, consciously here, and occasionally grabbing news from communities that have not migrated on PC.
  
  Imagine making your UI worse with every iteration.
- That’s when I gave up trying to see the canvas myself. Thanks for the screenshot, OP'
  
  You're welcome, @Puppy@kbin.social

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