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Few expected that computing would lead to a career, though. The idea was, mostly, to use the women before they married. Astronomer L. J. Comrie wrote a 1944 Mathematical Gazette article entitled “Careers for Girls,” in which he declared that female computers were useful “in the years before they (or many of them) graduate to married life and become experts with the housekeeping accounts!”

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/history-human-computers-180972202/

Allegedly, women used to do tedious math calculations before electronic computers

This is the offending thread: https://nitter.poast.org/Slatzism/status/1822257006608011373#m

The Olympics are supposed to elevate a nation and its people. Deservedly considered the worst Olympics ever, France looks like perverted, filthy cheapskates. So the French get to pay for the privilege of their moron nanny-state rendering them a global laughingstock.

That means 21 times she failed to prevent pregnancy.

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oops wrong orcs. Whatever still applies.

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