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I kind of like it, without sincere emotions something was missing (like when a horse is gelded).

Castrated, if you're trying way too hard (and not well) to avoid getting called on that overly emotive metaphor: a capon is a gelded rooster.

We’re playing chicken with the whole economy, and the marginally effective regulatory regime has been completely gelded.

Twitter is another co-opted tech company whose libertarian minded leadership has long been gelded by institutional power.

The only reason it's happening is that the regulators have been gelded and there is no reason not to.

It gelded our friendship because they hoarded all the negative stuff in their life.

A gelded oxen is much calmer and easier to work with than a bull.

It can only be bridged by a reverse wealth transfer that's been accumulating since the anti-trust laws were weakened and unions gelded.

A few bulls are left for breeding, the rest are gelded.

In my haphazard experience, the networks that block access to UDP port 53 are more than likely to have gelded broken name servers that e.g.

Ever tried ploughing a field with oxen that haven't been gelded?

FYI my rooster fucks his hens, the bull covers his coos, and well, my horses are gelded so there’s that… you might just be farming wrong.

> the humorless gelded wunderkinds who will undoubtedly smear the “accuracy” of this article on Hacker News.