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Here’s one I just made up in like 5s. I’m a genius. It means everything getting fraught and tense, like a 7 billion person Mexican standoff, where a few are Good, a few are Bad, but most are just Ugly.
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The Great Fraughtening
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This one is tough but I’ll go with a “dropaliasing” as in “I dropaliased the quarter and couldn’t find it” Based on aliasing effects
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when you drop something on the floor, and you feel like you know exactly where it would be based on the sound, but it actually ended up like 6 feet away from that spot
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Feels like rebirth covers this, but perhaps balrogged, after how the balrog fight resurrected Gandalf from grey to white
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The process of changing the narrative of your identity. For example from an ambitious professional to a free spirited musician. Or a Mormon to a progressive. Reinventing personal brand exists, but it feels too corporate and externally focused. Identity rewrite?
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Please contact one of our sales representatives for enterprise wholesale pricing for large naming orders 😰
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I've been collecting definitions that are waiting for words. twitter.com/notionparallax
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Hmm. I’m thinking magnesium sacrificial protection of iron etc. Sacrificial crackpottery?
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Tactic of founding a ludicrous conspiracy theory to inoculate against a related idea. Eg: -Space alien ufo narrative hides military R&D details -Pizzagate protects Gaetz or Epstein network -“5G causes COVID” softens insistence on retaining local copies of data
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Virtue Band-aiding
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When someone is effusive about a relatively ineffective "band-aid" for a problem, which requires ~zero behavioral change . . . in lieu of a more comprehensive solution that would require at least some change but which would also be more effective, sustainable, cheaper, etc.
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Holmeside, after Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ... “I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” The left side is the figside. The middle is communism. See planplusonline.com/simplicity-sid
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the right side of the midwit meme = the upper-right quadrant of a 2x2 not sure how to name this, but thought you should know
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That’s all folks, thank you for coming to my INA. These cromulent Twitter events embiggen the soul of the feed.
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Ok I’ll do one encore This is a false circuit, like a false start but a complete circle
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Going to a room to perform a task, getting distracted by something, then returning from the room having forgotten the task and not performed it
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