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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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