• Lad
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    Urban Dictionary has helped me with so many words over the years.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        1911 months ago

        Possibly misapplied from hot carl “a cheap red wine enema, usually involving Carlo Rossi Merlot”.

        w-what

        • Mike
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          Maybe you’ve heard of boofing? There’s a supreme court justice who I hear was a big fan in college…

  • @RGB3x3
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    If street knowledge is a must, you can suck on Deez Nuts

  • deweydecibel
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    Urban dictionary only works when the people using the terms go there to define them and upvoted the definitions.

    And young people nowadays don’t do anything online if it isn’t an app.

    • kase
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      Tbf I thought urban dictionary had an app

    • Deebster
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      I keep seeing stupid, seemingly very person-specific definitions get the votes, stuff like “John: a really sexy, clever boy that all the girls want to be with”

    • @Duamerthrax
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      711 months ago

      This is a buzzfeed comic, so the source for most of their content.

    • @[email protected]
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      I dunno but it’s cartoon better have a little tin cup and be begging - they are aggressive AF with trying to get donations. In general, but especially if you ever give them money.

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        They sorta have to be aggressive because it’s damn near impossible to get people to pay for online services nowadays. Everybody expects to get everything for free, but also nobody wants to see ads (for a good reason too, mind you.)

        • @[email protected]
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          Yeah, I wish they would push a different model. I think the charity model is likely unsustainable long term. Quality contributions to the information should buy you some access and perhaps everyone gets access to some basic info on entries but more in depth data requires a micropayment perhaps.

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            It would get infested with bots writing articles and other bots upvoting the quality status. The people with resources to do that wouldn’t have any interest in telling the truth.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            211 months ago

            Unfortunately that’d probably kill it ded; like I said, people are really loath to pay for online services.

          • @[email protected]
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            111 months ago

            PAYWALL WIKIPEDIA?!

            How dare you sir!

            They take heat for fundraising like they’re on the edge although they have full coffers. Hopefully it’s sustainable!

  • @sunbytes
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    1011 months ago

    And then…

    There’s the Profanisaurus.

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  • @[email protected]
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    711 months ago

    Especially considering urban dictionary consists almost entirely of shock humor and isn’t really a good resource for you know, actually understanding people.