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Re:SPAC Man Begins by mellosouls on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:17PM (#23945811)
It's worse than that, it's a nasty insult for disabled people from "spastic" (also used: "spaz" which may be familiar to US readers and is much more derogatory in the UK).

It's got terrible connotations in the UK.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic

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Re:SPAC Man Begins by microcolonel on Friday July 24, 2020 @08:40PM (#23945927)
I mean, we have git so I think we'll survive.
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Re:SPAC Man Begins by mellosouls on Saturday July 25, 2020 @04:24AM (#23947615)
"Git" is not even remotely close to the nastiness of the words here.
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Re:SPAC Man Begins by stonogo on Friday July 24, 2020 @11:49PM (#23946724)
Yeah, whatabouting a bad decision is definitely a reason to give up on preventing other bad decisions.
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