had to look that up

Retarded differential equations (RDEs) are differential equations having retarded arguments.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037704270...

And quantum physics has degenerate energy levels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_energy_levels

Large planes tell pilots vocally to “retard” when landing…

Which can be amusing if you don't know what's going on, it suddenly sounds like the autopilot is pissed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmbzKsqKQoI

And for those who would like to change this, any change to a pilot's routine has a chance of being the thing that pushes an incident over the edge into a crash. Would it be worth it?

I would predict that the same people who say we should defund the police (the ones that mean it literally), and say that "being on time", "work before play", and "be polite" is part of the white oppressive culture[1], and needs to be dismantled, would also argue that flying, and the methodology of the NTSB (and foreign equivalents) that has reduced airline accidents of the decades, is also part of the structural racism of white dominant culture.

I'm not saying this is a large set of people. But it looks like some of them have power at github.

I guess if you're doing software for the airline industry you cannot use github.

Well, honestly I wouldn't use github for anything if money depended on it, because of their record of "firing" customers who don't toe the line on their exact politics.

[1] I'm quoting training material that even passed HR review in corporate education DEI here. It's not hyperbole.