‘Slop’ - Commonly used to describe AI and is a common criticism of things people deem lacking in quality in entertainment mediums.

‘Slams’ - Commonly used in headlines to describe how critical someone’s views are towards another.

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      It’s such a Boomer word. It’s like what robots would be called in a 50s sci-fi novel. And it has nothing to do with the software it’s being applied to.

      To me it just screams “I’m trying to be clever, but I’m actually demonstrating that i have no idea what I’m talking about”.

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    Idk if this is just me but at my job everyone says “Correct” in this really weird way that pisses me off in a way I can’t explain. Clients, workers, everyone and it’s like, the same tonality consistently, nobody’s ever like “uh huh” or “yeah” they say Correct" now, do they think it makes them sound smart or something?!

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    21 hours ago

    “Drop” or “dropped” to mean something’s been released/made public/announced/appeared pretty much anywhere. I know it’s not new. But over the last few years people have been saying it for everything. New thread just dropped. I just dropped my first album. That sort of thing, but for EVERYTHING.

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    23 hours ago

    Any violent or aggressive hyperbolic verb in all caps. “person DESTROYS argument for frobination”, “Unpopular politician WRECKED by simple argument (not demonstrated in this article)”

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    2 days ago

    Unprecedented. I cannot recall a single time that word was used in the past five years to describe a situation or event that was without precedent.

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    So and so “breaks their silence” on a topic. What an overdramatic way to say someone made a statement about said topic. It makes it sound like people have been waiting for a prolonged period for them to say something and they’ve been inexplicably silent. On Monday morning, I saw a headline saying the Reiner family were breaking their silence on their parents murder. IT HADN’T YET BEEN 24 HOURS! HOW SOON SHOULD THEY HAVE SAID SOMETHING? someone responds to a situation as soon as could possibly be expected and headlines call it “breaking their silence”.

    I’ve also seen headlines that say so and so “breaks their silence” on things nobody was asking for their thoughts on. Oh, someone hasn’t commented on every little thing that happens? They must have been holding something back.

    FreshParsnip breaks her silence on this annoying headline trend. It was so weird she wasn’t saying anything until now!

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      I saw one where someone “broke their silence on attack on their house.” Their house had been egged with no evidence that they were specifically targeted for any specific reason.

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    ‘Slop’ is fine, it’s short and to the point and describes something for which we don’t quite have another word yet (in the context of AI) and which definitely needs to enter the public consciousness.

    Agree on ‘Slams’ though.

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    Woke, it’s an American bullshit word that means whatever the speaker criticizes. It’s a shame that it got exported to other parts of the world.

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      It started as “I understand and acknowledge that our society has systemic inequality and I would like to change that”. Perfectly reasonable way of stating it succinctly. As in, “I woke up” to this fact.

      Right-wing lunatics stole the term and make it “anything I don’t like”.

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        I know exactly when that became rampant. 2016, basically the year where society had a huge meltdown in the USA.

        Right-wing people stole ‘Woke’ and associated it with SJWs and along with ‘snowflake’ too. To them, being ‘Woke’ meant that you’re aware of their bullshit and the bullshit being forced by the right-wing politics about how incredibly backwards they want to take the country into. Like by allowing racism again, xenophobia and whatnot. So, anything that worked against that, then you’re suddenly ‘Woke’ to them. ‘Snowflake’ is what they called you when you have feelings and emotions, whereas they are the ones trying to be tough and were told to pull things by the bootstraps all their life.

        Ironic how the tables turned on that one where these right-winged people are going into sandwich shops trying to be intimidating with their military cosplay outfits. They clung onto that shit like their security blanket and if you take it away, then they’re the ones crying up rivers over it.

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    Hack. When used to describe anything that some idiot realized was possible. For example, “I just discovered this amazing hack to save on my grocery bills. I buy garlic and potatoes then bury them in my yard. Six months later, I have more garlic and potatoes! Epic!!”

    STFU

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    Trump… as a non American, I would love to return to a world where don’t hear anything about their government…

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      From the US and I’m right there with you in spirit. So fucking sick of that pedo sucking the life out of our country, fucking over our old allies and being a shit talking unconscionable fuckwit. If his decisions didn’t directly affect my day to day existence I’d like nothing more than to take a year long media hiatus.

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    I’ve been sick of ‘unprecedented’ for a long time. It isn’t supposed to mean just ‘shocking’.

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    Articles containing “here’s what we know”, “what you need to know”, etc in the title or headline. These “writers” should be court ordered to never post anything on the internet again.