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It’s a predictable problem. Make up a new and fashionable term and it will bite you in the end. See: euphemism treadmill. It has everything to do with the specifics of ‘site’, ‘reliability’, ‘engineer’ and all the technical and social stuff Rachel talks about but on another level it is about the style of discourse, see ‘non’, ‘fungible’, ‘token’.


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