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by stuaxo 47 days ago
Can the title be fixed ?

AIDS is an acronym, and an aid is someone who helps.
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pimlottc 47 days ago
An /aide/ is someone who helps by offering aid
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rkomorn 47 days ago
Off topic but this was the entire joke behind a South Park episode.
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khelavastr 47 days ago
Yeah, this title is counterfactual
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kstrauser 46 days ago
Not really. It’s a typo, but no one here is reasonably seeing HIV in the title and thinking this means some other kind of AIDS.
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