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A social class of the creative technical elite and technophiles who thrive on driving broad adoption of internet, computer, and mobile technologies forward for the betterment of society and the free flow of information in a variety of cultural contexts. The technogentsia are often technical anarchists, eager to tear down old technical paradigms and replace them with new concepts in the name of progress.
Silicon Valley culture is largely driven by the technogentsia, whose relentless drive to push technology forward in social and political contexts has given rise to social media, crowd-sourcing, and widespread interactivity between devices and users.
Rule 16 states that there are no females on the internet - specifically in role-playing games and chat rooms.
Expanded Rule 16 states that:
a) All internet men are men
b) All internet women are really men
b) All internet children are policemen
Player 1: Did you check out Rocket Dog' profile? She is so hot, so I PM'd her and she is sexy cool!
Player 2: Dude, remember Rule 16. She's really a 40 yo dude in his living in his mom's basement!
Player 1: No! She's real and she likes me!
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DeCal is a student-run democratic education program at the University of California, Berkeley. Students create and facilitate their own classes on a variety of (often unorthodox) subjects
Student 1: Cool, did you see there is a DECal for Starcraft this semester?
Student 2: I already signed up for "Human Sexuality as Represented by Sex in the City" DECal
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Blob Boredom Disease.
A term used in the online game AstroEmpires reflecting the boredom associated with a recent strategy of collecting all fleets into a huge multi-billion fleet mass in a single location to keep them safe form attack - and doing nothing with them for weeks or months.
"If I don't make an attack soon I may die of BBD!"
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A choice between two (or more) unbearably bad options, also know as a Sophie's Choice. "Hob" is Old English for the Devil, so literally it's the Devil's Choice.
Not to be confused with a Hobson's choice, which is a false choice between option that are essentially the same.
If Trump is not impeached, he will say in Office. If he is removed form Office Pence becomes President and any semblance of s socially just society will be under attack. It's a bit of a Hob's Choice.
Derogatory term used by male athletes to describe the overly muscular legs of certain female athletes.
The Cal Women's Volleyball Players are so hot, except for #X - she's got charging rhino legs.
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The summer of 2009, when right wing protests over Health Care Reform turned nasty and hateful
Ironic, 40 years ago Bob was in San Francisco for the Summer of Love. Now he's at his Congressman's Town Hall Meeting as part of the Summer of Hate protests.
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