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  • Sounds like an automatic thing, so any nicknames or euphemisms that catch on would just get added to the list.

    That said, it all depends where you want to fall on the respectful/rude spectrum. I’d go with rude: “The most unpopular President in at least 150 years” is both accurate and specific to Trump. “The owner of xAI, the world’s leading distributor of CSAM and NCII” for Musk. Longer descriptive statements are harder to auto-block without catching a lot of false positives.
















  • The classic “five senses” works well enough for the basic understanding of how we interact with the world, but doesn’t actually hold up under much scrutiny. You can apparently get up to 12 depending on how you want to define things.

    https://www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom/how-many-senses-do-we-have

    The idea of five classical senses dates back at least to Aristotle, himself a rather classy guy. In De Anima (Of the Soul) he argues that, for every sense, there is a sense organ.

    Let’s tweak Aristotle’s definition of what a sense is just a bit. Instead of a sense organ, each separate sense really only requires a different kind of sensory receptor. In the skin alone, there are at least four different kinds of sensory receptors: those for touch, temperature, pain, and proprioception (or body awareness).