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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.
Me frantically going through all my Maths papers to replace the equal sign with “Is Equivalent to”
I presume you used base ten, which is dangerously non-binary.
but equivalent and equal are different right?
in comp sci “is the same thing as” (equal) and “amounts to the same thing as” (equivalent) are very different concepts
(also when talking “DEI”-type use [god i hate that i hate phrasing it like that]: equality is not wanted: we don’t want the same as in most cases; we want amounts to the same as taking in different circumstances)