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Phrase ‘US kill line’ sparks debate on American ordinary people’s economic fragility and social safety nets on Chinese social media (www.globaltimes.cn)
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[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah execution threshold is what’s familiar to me, but also that may be some residual WoW in my brain

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago

"Execution threshold" is just a synonym for "kill line". To execute is to kill. A threshold is a line. The words basically mean the same thing. This is just ambiguity in translation. It happens a lot. What can be expressed with two different words in one language with only subtle differences in meaning, another language may only have one single word for and not make that kind of distinction.