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Most of the examples you gave are compound words, or made through suffixes and who knows, maybe my Russian teacher told a lie!
It certainly seems your Russian teacher wasn't fond of schnitzel nor seltzer.
The key point here that was hard to find is that they and others had a username containing Clyde set already, and now can't update anything else about their profile because their username has come to be considered invalid. That's pretty poor judgement to not even communicate this to affected users
If you use a + sign in your email, some services accept it at sign up but not later on, when users try to update it.
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You can be pretty confident without a comprehensive database. If you're unsure about a name then don't pick that one. And people that are dead won't be inconvenienced, so you can ignore them.
People (and lawyers) might get annoyed if you called your bot Avici, even though he is dead and won’t personally be inconvenienced by it.
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Complaining doesn’t make a Karen. Entitlement does.
Where's the simple line that gets crossed? If I ask for a refund but am refused, am I being "entitled" when I push it? There are some obvious examples of both ends of the spectrum, but a lot of less obvious ones in the middle. I worry these memes encourage timid people not to even ask for what they are legitimately entitled to, for fear of ending up on some Reddit channel.
If I had to try I'd say it's when you have a problem and you try to resolve it in a way that gets you the most personal benefit and hormone rush instead of just getting the problem solved in an efficient manner, that's Karen behavior. Like if you order a sandwich with no tomatoes and it comes with tomatoes on it; if you call over the waiter, describe the problem in a normal tone of voice without assigning blame, and ask for a replacement, that's fine. If you use a tone of voice loud enough that other tables can hear, blame the server or cook or even take the tomatoes personally as if "ignoring" your request was a personal attack, launch into a diatribe bout how you could have bene killed if you were allergic to tomatoes, demand not only a replacement sandwich but a free side or even your whole order for free, etc, that's Karen behavior; those sorts of actions are getting you free stuff and serotonin bumps but they're causing undue stress on the staff and other people around you, who are human and have their own limitations in terms of stress and mental health, what they can do in terms of the law or dealing with their managers, etc - and they're certainly not solving the original problem (you want a sandwich without tomatoes) any faster.
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I feel bad for all the Alexas and the few Siris out there that have had their names hijacked my a couple of the biggest companies on the planet.
Alexa is not such an uncommon name. They should team up and sue, being designated as the obedient servant for the benefit of someone else's brand is a non-negligible annoyance. Ignore people who say 'tis' not that serious,' they're the sort of people who never care about anything until it happens to them.