“Wild”

Just tired of seeing it.

You mean on a CONTINUAL basis !!!

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.

“Optics”

Optics is the study of light or the instruments involved in manipulating it.

It does not work as a stand in for “perception”.

Saying “they are worried about the optics” is like saying “they are just worried about the camera” when you mean “they are worried about how it looks”.

It’s (yet another) dumb FOX fluff word that people have taken to use because they think it sounds smart and fancy. It’s not, it’s fucking dumb.

Edit: btw, it follows the pattern of other words imposed on the American psyche by FOX in the same vein as “slant”, “bias”, “spin” and “partisan”, all of which had their heyday until people caught on, and another one was needed for projecting the idea that truth is negotiable and that all sides and opinions are “equally valid” and a matter of opinion and motivated by personal agendas. I have been trying to make people aware of this for decades, it’s an impossible battle, it’s been an outspoken strategy of FOX and the Republicans for decades, and it makes me sick seeing how well it works and how easily it penetrates public discourse.

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

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

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.

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.

It’s over

diabolical

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.