Antivaxers have gotten quite…creative in their euphemisms for vaccine/vaccination, in an apparent effort to avoid attracting negative attention from social media hosts for their lies, or just out of paranoia.
Common substitutes for vaccine are YKW, 
and 
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Ah, the dot-com bubble: a heady time when otherwise smart people were somehow thinking that businesses no longer needed to show a profit to increase in value.
I don’t think that works at all.
For one thing, it seems to carry some of the connotation of “surprise party”, which is often considered favorable. For another, some people are repeatedly raped in situations in which it doesn’t come as a surprise to them at all.
“Forced sex” would work. (Not all force is physical.)
That was the original meaning of the phrase, as a joke implying that one should enjoy it.
I’m not sure if plain surprise sex was a meme before surprise buttsex:
Perhaps like virtual reality did? I was involved in that industry in the 1990s and it didn’t go anywhere, though the display and computing technology was less advanced than today. And today, Meta has put billions ($36 billion according to one site) into developing virtual reality without really seeing a return on investment.
Doesn’t seem like something that should be used by people concerned about giving offense.
Gift link to New York Time article about the overturning of the 2009 murder conviction of Arvel Marshall. During the trial, he repeated asked his attorney, prosecutors and the judge for the surveillance videos that he felt would prove his innocence. They first denied that video existed and then denied his request. After being jailed for sixteen years (the conviction was for 25 years to life), he was finally released and the video did, in fact, show the murderer was not him.
Not sure if this should instead have been posted in the evil MFers thread; neither really fits and there isn’t one for the criminally negligent.
I don’t disagree, it isn’t what I would have chosen.
Here, maybe?
Gives the long-gone, unlamented grapist a whole new meaning.
Wonder if it’s possible to confiscate his Charger and crush it into a cube while he watches.
I guess my point was a simple one. The internet (or dot-com) economic bubble burst, but the internet matured and has become ubiquitous. I don’t know that there is an economic AI bubble, except to the extent that commerce is latching onto it (or sometimes just the name of it) as a big New Thing. But I expect it will mature and also become ubiquitous, and everything will change again. I don’t see any prospect of it going away, either by atrophy or just by bursting.
As mentioned, it is used to bypass censorship filters, not to be more sensitive.
That makes me think of the people who go to the ER to have objects removed from their ass, and claim that they “fell on them”.
For the last time, I tripped. Really!
Ah. I got confused because the discussion started with euphemisms being used by a museum. Admittedly it was a different euphemism.
Outside of a small, local museum there is a machine that was used over 100 years ago to process salmon. Each machine replaced many Chinese workers. The sign at the machine didn’t say what the machine’s nickname was, but only that it was a ‘racial slur’. (Someone at the event we were attending was older, and had lived in the area all his life. I heard him telling someone that the nickname was ‘Iron C___k’.
In some sort of Xcretion, Elno Musk lists a bunch of movies in which “you sided with the resistance” but when it comes to real life (e.g., the current US election), you fail to do that.
Naturally, that suggests that he thinks he is part of “the resistance”, which is not an easy pill to get down (not sure what color). And, of course, he had to post it on a thread started by a Ukrainian journalist.
It seems like he is running an experiment to see how far out of touch a person can be and still be breathing.
He’s welcome to join those guys on the Space Station.
I thought he wanted to go to Mars. How much would we all each have to chip in to get him to Mars?
I, for one, don’t particularly care if he gets to Mars, as long as he gets off this planet long enough to start the journey.