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It would have to have a 'use' to qualify as anything else. It takes longer to ask it to do anything than it does to just do it yourself. Plus they want you to call it up by their retard brand name, 'hey, gemini' or 'okay, google' is cringey AF.
I cant wait until you get dumb siri for free but it only tells time and the paid version cost 25 a month but it also sets alarms.
Downvoted for casual use of a slur.
If you're talking about retard, what would you prefer i use and how long until that word becomes a slur? You know it wasn't long ago retard was the polite term, and mongoloid before that. It doesn't matter what word you use, if the meaning has negative connotations, some asshole like you decides to take their turn at policing speech to the benifit of nobody.
In any case, I think you're you're wasting your time.
Fuck off, retard was never polite. I was there, the term was retarded mental development. Then assholes like you took the use of retard by doctors as permission to use it as an insult. Implying that it is something bad that makes a person be less valuable. It was pieces of shit that thought the same as you who turned it into an insult and made it so the medical world had to change terms, again. You are the only waste of time around here.
Copy/paste from wikipedia
Retard was previously used as a medical term. The verb "to retard" means 'to delay or hold back', and so "retard" became known as a medical term in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to describe children with intellectual disabilities, or retarded mental development.[5] For context, until the 1960s, the terms moron, idiot, cretin, and imbecile were all genuine, non-offensive terms used, including by psychiatrists, to refer to people with ment
I'll take that before I take your 'I was there' bs, you were there after that you imbecile.
It became a slur back when I was a child in the 90s because people used it as a general perjorative. Doesn't help that it once innocently described a vulnerable minority. When cunts like you decided to use it as a slur, they tied said vulnerable minority to the concept of "this thing is bad" and harmed that community.
I'm not policing your speech. I'm calling you a cunt for using a decidedly shitty term that's been shitty for decades.
Great, well I dont buy any of your arguments as genuine as they might seem, i think you just like feeling superior. So enjoy knowing i dont care.
Never thought you would. The comment wasn't really for you.
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