Mars Attacks! was very poorly marketed. I remember the commercials for it seeming tame and asking my parents to take me to the theater to see it and it fucked me up for a few good weeks. We didn’t even stay to the end, but I had nightmares about it that very same night.

I don’t have anything to add, I just want to say this is a phenomenal question, lol.

I want someone to drink mead out of my skull after I die and absorb my power. This is my fondest wish.

Social media is probably a very poorly or very narrowly defined term. Either they called out Facebook, Reddit, Snapchat, etc by name or they gave some broad description of social media that could apply to everything from Facebook all the way down to somebody’s Vbulletin forum and this will be unenforceable for the vast majority of websites. Compliance is likely voluntary for the little fish in social media. I imagine that they aren’t even aware that Lemmy exists.

This is the only word I know of whose meaning can be redefined by majority consensus.

Case in point, my workplace wanted a bi-weekly committee meeting for our team to work on stuff over a zoom call. I asked what days these meetings would be held and they all agreed “Just Thursdays”. When I tried to argue that a bi-weekly meeting necessarily means that there must be two distinct dates per week, they all agreed that bi-weekly obviously means every other Thursday and that I didn’t understand what the word bi-weekly meant 😒

Hearing this word for the first time in the GoT audiobooks was a real surprise to say the least.

I liked the quote from Dr. Hibbert on the Simpsons:

“You know what they say, whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger!”

“Oh ho ho ho, no… It’s made you weak as a kitten!”