The first time I heard the phrase 'nothing burger' was from the mouth of Eric Trump. It's possibly time to upgrade your vocabularly. I mean, Eric is a verified idiot and I can't help but think of you as being one by association. Apologies if that is in inaccurate.
Your point being? The use of 'Nothing burger' has been around since the mid 1950s and it is not something that because a Trump family member starts using it, they're immediately associated with creating the word and who ever uses it agrees with them. [0]
This is the problem with erroneous guilt by associations just because someone you may not like used the phrase.
Your point doesn't hold any weight though? I've heard the phrase lots of times from various people.
What if I said "I've only heard the word Americanism from Stalin". You wouldn't care and I'd be silly to expect you to take any feedback from me saying so.
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I'm sure the venn diagram of what he says and what I say overlap a lot as far as vocabulary so I think I'll keep using nothing-burger where appropriate. I'm not going to let Trumpian influence ruin my zest for life. Words are just tools.
On the contrary, I would argue the urge to move beyond conventional language norms is what gave us Shakespeare and his numerous additions to the language.
I can taste the zest for life by moving beyond the boundaries of Trumpian idiots.
It's like seeing a nothingburger and fries on your plate telling the Maitre d to take it away and serve us a wonderful new dish.
Hey Dang you got this guy calling people idiots by association and ranting about left wing conspiracies. No flagging on him, but the people responding get flagged. I guess this behavior is ok because he’s ideologically aligned with you?
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I don't mind AI killing off anything and everything, as long it goes hand in hand with producing the means for those whose jobs are killed off to survive and thrive.
I want my warm, sunny hill where I can discuss philosophy if I so choose with some bread wine, after which I'll play old arcade games and then work on a classic car, after which I'll make love to my wife.
Can you ask chatGPT if it can arrange for that, please?
The point is your opinion is concordant with every other poster in this thread, aka hivemind. Note that there is no nuanced discussion on this topic, everybody has already arrived at their conclusion. Nobody is asking whether some people are fine with touchscreens in cars and why that might be the case.
> The point is your opinion is concordant with every other poster in this thread, aka hivemind
By this logic isn't everyone who is pro-touchscreens also a hivemind?
> Nobody is asking whether some people are fine with touchscreens in cars and why that might be the case.
Many people are demonstrably bad drivers who are over-confident in their ability and down-play the risk of distractions. When drunk driving was made illegal, people were furious and insisted they were fine to drive drunk and that it was perfectly safe: https://youtu.be/W_tqQYmgMQg
Touchscreens, while convenient and extensible, are demonstrably inferior to static physical controls for saftey-critical contexts.
OMG sorry this is so relevant ... we've just been dealing with a client with SAP software that is supposed to automate on-boarding suppliers/customers.
It takes 2 people client side to hand hold third-parties through the labyrynth, and 1 person at the third party to desperately go back and forth to those 2 people to check if everything is ok and to answer questions about why things aren't progressing.
Literal facepalm.
Have had the same experience with two other clients recently. What is going on with SAP?
