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New vocabulary from China (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 day ago by Parzivus@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Are you enjoying the garbage time of history? xigma-male

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[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago

well it sure has been garbage for me

[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

I remember when things were kind of always getting better and cooler in the US, ended maybe a decade ago. Nowadays everything is kind of just rotten but painted gold, with every ideological used car salesman blasting 24/7 about how amazing everything is.

[-] miz@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.