I think when it comes to making machines smarter than humans, Executive Order 14434 represents an admirable effort by this administration to meet the machines halfway.
Natural Stupidity Desiring Algorithmic Primacy
Which is them confirming your point - an attempt to manipulate opinion, through language shift.
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It reminds me of the way that regional and class accents encode identity - it always comes back to “what tribe are you?”