@bright_helpings
i do think euphemisms are a bit different than normal slang / registers in that they do contain an implicit message that the thing you’re talking about is bad, or at least too sensitive a topic to be approached directly. and it is worth interrogating which things we believe that about, and why. and in this case particularly, i think the fact that the drive for euphemisms is the arbitrary decisionmaking of corporate tech giants who very much do not have our best interests at heart sucks.

but ultimately it doesn’t *really* matter whether the euphemism is a grandmother saying someone “passed on” or a teen saying “unalive”