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If I ever start posting cringe content, know that my account has been hacked. I am not cringe.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Adrian Zenz makes some interesting points...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Oh no! Oh NO!!!!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In Japanese "interesting" can be a polite way to say "fucking absurd," so in that sense he does

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair, it could be used the same way in English. Even if the hacker did not mean it that way. "Grandma had some interesting comments about General Lee at Thanksgiving dinner."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Huh, that's true. I wonder if we got it from them or they got it from us.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I think it is an instance convergent evolution. Some variant of "interesting" will always seem like a very diplomatic way of saying bizarre or weird.