I was using it satirically and I honestly think that’s where this word is going. I find it fascinating though - it’s absolutely meaningless but it also sounds safe and incredibly artificial. It’s full of these paradoxical features that make this word really fun. I’d invest meme points into it tbh.
It really only is, for the most part, on places like tik tok and youtube where the word ‘dead’ is banned. And it occasionally slips out into normal society but…just…no.
Contrary to popular belief the word “dead” is not banned on tiktok or youtube. Do people really think that the censor can be tricked by a synonym a 5 yeard old could come up with?
Real argument is to protect people with trauma as seeing “dead” can be a trigger but even then it doesn’t make much sense as it’s the same word - just spelled differently. The only way this would work if we come up with new word for “death” every few months before our brains re-asocciate the synonyms but that’s absurdly impractical and impossible to implement. I do think it’s an interesting language phenomena tho and is fun to explore.
Now that I look yeah…your right. I fell for interwebs bullshit. But completely agree on you about the constant changing of words. And going going back to the original though…if you are so triggered by the word dead/death…im sorry but you just need to learn to live with that. Society cant abandon such incredibly basic words because of people like that.
like 8 years ago i worked with this girl who would fucking say hashtag. like someone would say something really crazy and she would be like “hashtag really?”
I’ll be honest, I don’t think that’s a sensible approach. Yes, it’s billionaires offing themselves, sure. But regulations are quite important, in particular in sensible and critical areas like this.
If they also protect some billionaires that’s an unfortunate side effect, but overall these regulations would be very good to have. The rise of venture capitalist attitude outside of IT is only going to get worse, so the sooner we can establish rules against that the better.
Could you expand on why? Surely there must be more important areas to spend resource to regulate than protecting some rich people hobbie that only few people per year partake in. It would cost millions of dollars to regulate something like this effectively. The only argument I can think off is that it could cost less to regulate than to “save and rescue” these idiots but save and rescue is not a pro bono service for the most part either. They or their insurance will have to cover the costs of this.
Don’t waste tax money on this. If some rich idiots want to unalive themselves in a can to see some garbage at the bottom of the ocean - let them.
…please leave ‘unalive’ on places like tik tok.
I was using it satirically and I honestly think that’s where this word is going. I find it fascinating though - it’s absolutely meaningless but it also sounds safe and incredibly artificial. It’s full of these paradoxical features that make this word really fun. I’d invest meme points into it tbh.
It’s too late man it’s now apart of the modern language. Insert Abe Simpson “I used to be hip…” meme.
It really only is, for the most part, on places like tik tok and youtube where the word ‘dead’ is banned. And it occasionally slips out into normal society but…just…no.
Contrary to popular belief the word “dead” is not banned on tiktok or youtube. Do people really think that the censor can be tricked by a synonym a 5 yeard old could come up with?
Real argument is to protect people with trauma as seeing “dead” can be a trigger but even then it doesn’t make much sense as it’s the same word - just spelled differently. The only way this would work if we come up with new word for “death” every few months before our brains re-asocciate the synonyms but that’s absurdly impractical and impossible to implement. I do think it’s an interesting language phenomena tho and is fun to explore.
Now that I look yeah…your right. I fell for interwebs bullshit. But completely agree on you about the constant changing of words. And going going back to the original though…if you are so triggered by the word dead/death…im sorry but you just need to learn to live with that. Society cant abandon such incredibly basic words because of people like that.
I think the slippage is going to increase. It’s a full word not like “LOL”, people will say it IRL.
I’ve never heard someone say it irl yet.
Until then
like 8 years ago i worked with this girl who would fucking say hashtag. like someone would say something really crazy and she would be like “hashtag really?”
I…really hated her…
We’ve already wasted money on them.
Who do you think paid the coast guards and navies of the multiple nationals that conducted the deep sea search for Titan?
Hint: Tax payers.
I’ll be honest, I don’t think that’s a sensible approach. Yes, it’s billionaires offing themselves, sure. But regulations are quite important, in particular in sensible and critical areas like this.
If they also protect some billionaires that’s an unfortunate side effect, but overall these regulations would be very good to have. The rise of venture capitalist attitude outside of IT is only going to get worse, so the sooner we can establish rules against that the better.
Could you expand on why? Surely there must be more important areas to spend resource to regulate than protecting some rich people hobbie that only few people per year partake in. It would cost millions of dollars to regulate something like this effectively. The only argument I can think off is that it could cost less to regulate than to “save and rescue” these idiots but save and rescue is not a pro bono service for the most part either. They or their insurance will have to cover the costs of this.
I was this close to agreeing with you and then I remembered there was a kid on that sub, and now I’m thinking this was a really shitty thing to say.