stand alone complex

When collective consciousness manifests itself in a series of seemingly related actions by unrelated individuals without actual collusion taking place between them.

The term was popularized by use in Japanese cyberpunk Anime Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2001), also recently (2020) used by the Tim Poole in his cesored interview with Alex Jones.

Jone: Just look at the most powerful people in the world (who are tax exempt) saying "We're going to shut the economy down to help poor people" - the UN's own reports admit that lock-downs already starved 2m people to death, it will kill 200+ million if it goes on for a year. They're bringing it back. So it kills dozens of times more than died of supposed COVID (we're not denying that COVID is a real thing, that it kills people), it's that the lock-down is meant to economically compromise us, put us into debt and consolidate power and control.
Pool: To what extent is this a grand conspiracy or stand alone complex? Are you familiar with the term "stand alone complex"?
Jones: Yes
Pool: Is it possible that Amazon is totally in favor of this, lobbies in favor of it because they realize - when you lock down the economy - people have to go to Amazon, people have to go to Walmart.
Jones: Sure, are they taking advantage of the crisis or create the crisis.

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Achtung

The dynamite of firecrackers, strongest type of celebratory petard on the market. It's engineered by Germans to be as obnoxiously loud and powerful as legally allowed. Often exported to other EU states with no local instructions of any kind. The actual word 'Achtung' means 'Warning' in German, however it's often mistaken to be a brand name.

I threw an achtung into my neighbor's toilet and it hit the ceiling.

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tooler

A person overly reliant on their tools. Someone applying learned formulas rather than actually understanding their craft.

I should have hired a graphic designer not a Photoshop tooler.

APU

A type of low-end processor used in shit tier hardware like consoles and low-end laptops. It's the processor equivalent of a room in student apartments where your bathroom is also your kitchen - see bitchen. It's not something you find in high end real estate.
An APU is the computer's main processor living together with the graphic co-processor on one die, sharing the same resources. This is done as a cost saving measure. Console peasants will often come up with ridiculous alternative reasons why this is done as a way of coping with the fact that their platform is inferior to PC.

Person 1. My 2013 laptop has an APU in it. It's the same processor as the one in Playstation 4.
Person 2. Man that's OLD console tier hardware.

SSD

Solid State Drive. Something console peasants can only dream of at present. Something standard on PC for the past 5 years. Someone marveling at the speed with which games load like a peasant would marvel at seeing running water in someone's house.

A hard drive built out of chips similar to RAM or USB sticks with no mechanical parts. In contrast old computers and consoles use mechanical drives with spinning discs inside. The single best upgrade for your old PC.

In December 2020 console peasants will get SSDs with their PS5s.