• Detective'@slrpnk.net
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    8 months ago

    Yeah I get that, but surely other words could have been used instead? Might just be being old…

    • rglullis@communick.newsOP
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      8 months ago

      I hesitated a bit before setting them up, but to be honest I couldn’t find any other term to express the idea of “something made to provide a visually appealing simulacrum of a topic without requiring any actual interest/ability in doing the real thing”.

      • neptune@dmv.social
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        8 months ago

        Pictures. Memes. Anarchy.

        There’s a few ways communities have signaled that the rules don’t require a thesis for every post.