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Sharlintoday at 1:10 PM11 repliesview on HN

I think I'm going to puke if I see one more "It's not X. It's Y." phrase or the word "load-bearing" used metaphorically.


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HarHarVeryFunnytoday at 2:24 PM

I guess the good news may be that if/when there is a major pricing correction, that many of the people using free or $20/mo subscriptions to generate social media commentary may balk at the real cost and go back to writing it themselves.

One can at least hope.

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the_gipsytoday at 1:59 PM

It's not metaphorical. It's load-bearing.

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captn3m0today at 3:37 PM

X is the adjective framing.

cpetersotoday at 2:08 PM

Or describing something as “the unlock”.

knollimartoday at 2:08 PM

load bearing has snuck into my vocabulary, but I work with construction workers so it's slightly more intuitive I guess? :/

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chandureddyvaritoday at 3:04 PM

or the word 'canonical'

baal80spamtoday at 1:14 PM

Managers in my org love using it in "their" Slack messages.

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cboldtoday at 1:49 PM

It is not human language. It's AI slop!

d1ltoday at 1:56 PM

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