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Comment · 4 years ago
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/karen/

> Karen is a pejorative slang term for an obnoxious, angry, entitled, and often racist middle-aged white woman who uses her privilege to get her way or police other people’s behaviors.

There are actual people with this name, and even if it was not racial, is it really okay to use pejoratives and denigrating terms, especially if that terms happen to be a quite common name in some parts of the world, like Denmark and Norway.

Comment · 4 years ago
> MS stack will be high quality

As someone who has used the MS stack, I have yet to witness anything I would call high quality.

Comment · 4 years ago
If you are unclear on what the word means:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Karen#Etymology_1

> (slang, originally African-American Vernacular, derogatory) A middle-aged white woman exhibiting a sense of entitlement or white privilege.

And if you are unclear what a racial slur is:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slur

> An insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group.

Comment · 4 years ago
But the puzzle was not asking about quantum ranks, so no, that would also be a false.
Comment · 4 years ago
It is lying, so kind of, I mean it is not exactly cheating because it does not solve the puzzle as it is not solveable, contrary to the false headline, but it is cheating in that lying to claim that it is a solution. Maybe some manner of fraud?

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