‘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.
In germany “Fachkräftemangel” “lack of professional workers”. Ha! Id the job market is so bad and you’re looking for workers, then why laying off a lot and not hiring? What actually “is missing” is slave workers for the CEOs. 30 years experience but only 8€/hour pay and no vacation days
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.
“left” and “right” in the context of social or political discussions.
Instantly know it’s an intellectual kindergartener speaking.
On the Slop part – I wonder if the people that go around making inaccurate accusations about things being AI know how absolutely ridiculous it makes them sound. It’s at the point where it’s so absurd that I have to wonder if it’s part of some kind of triple reverse sabotage effort to discredit the people who actually do take great offense to any kind of use of generative AI.
Tankie
‘POV’ - then proceeds to present something that isn’t a first person perspective.
Oh, and “positive anymore”. That’s such a bastardization. It makes me cry.
It’s over
I’m with you on “slam” and any other pseudo-violent verb to make an otherwise milquetoast headline more attention-grabbing.
What really gets me is when it is applied to the mildest of vocal objections by some politician. Like, it’s not even clever wordplay, just dissent. None of this is worthy of the same vocabulary one would use to describe a WWE match, but here we are.
Sometimes, the news is kind of dull, and that’s okay.
diabolical
“Last Christmas I gave you my heart”
based on a true story of an accident victim who signed his organ donor card just before christmas.
I’m more annoyed by the posts and comments about being annoyed by words like “slammed.” Sure, you might have a large vocabulary and get bored by the same language used ad infinitum; but keep in mind that more than half of people are illiterate and those are the people the media tries hardest to talk to.
Problematic - it’s just so lazy. Makes me doubt whether the speaker has any coherent reason for why they don’t like the given thing. Might as well say ‘yucky’. It’s the kind of word one uses when assuming everyone already agrees with you, and if they don’t, well then they they’re probably problematic too. /rant
British newspaper articles that start with
“Backlash against” followed by something the government has suggested doing.
And when you read the article, they have a quote from a single person saying it’ll hurt their business or something.
God am I tired of seeing backlash in that exact context. “City decides to help local residents but backlash mounts”. Then exactly that, some old guy who hates change being upset
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.
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”.
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.
‘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.
