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ravenstine
on June 28, 2018
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Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook ...
> (the now defunct) Steve Jobs
That's one way to refer to a dead guy.
yellowapple
on June 28, 2018
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This is my new favorite euphemism for death. "Deceased" just sounds boring. "Defunct" has a certain weight to it.
jmmcd
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How about "obsolete"? "Deprecated"? "No longer supported on this hardware"?
yellowapple
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Nah, those all imply that he's still alive but prone to malfunction at any time.
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Buffalo Bill's defunct
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47244/buffalo-bill-s
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That's one way to refer to a dead guy.