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Herbicide 

Herbicide
her bi cide

Verb: To withdraw permanently from smoking marijuana, often cold turkey.

Noun: An unspecified incentive that inspires one to stop smoking weed.
Dude 1: Yo what happened to Nick? He looks noticeably more fresh and natty than ever

Dude 2: I heard he finally herbicided

Dude 1: Ah, that explains it.

2010s Culture 

One cannot talk about the culture of 2010 without dividing the decade in half.

The first five years were pretty damn good. Pop culture was at its peak during this time, characterized by sensational music videos like gangnam style and the harlem shake, and pop artist icons such as Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, and Katy Perry. During this time period, EDM (primarily dubstep, electro and big room house) had become the new standard of pop music, slowly replacing rock-influenced pop music of the 2000s. Internet meme culture was becoming more and more mainstream, characterized by troll memes, rage comics, impact font image macros, and—by late 2014—finally evolving into the more familiar dank meme culture (shrek, mlg montage parodies). Other memorable cultural phenomenons around this time include Kony 2012, the "end of the world" on Dec 21 2012, and the ALS ice bucket challenge. This was also the time where smartphones and tablets were on the rise, laying the foundation to today's smartphone-driven society. Overall the first half of this decade was pretty cool and entertaining, lighthearted even, and did not disappoint.
The second half, however, is where everything went downhill. Not even starting with the apocalyptic election of Donald Trump, pop culture in general began devolving into a cesspit of mediocrity, where the entire industry seems to have shifted to a more methodical approach, relying more on generic yet effective formulas than ever before. This was the time when fidget spinners and dabbing were actually a thing, and when ASMR, mukbang, and slime videos started becoming all the rage. It is also in this second half of the decade where politics and social justice became a large area of concern (and contempt) to the public eye, which led to the widespread use of terms such as 'SJW', 'snowflake', alt-right', and 'liberal cuck'. Memes have also devolved, relying heavily on shallow humour, cringe, making innocent things look vile, and absurdity. Pretty much the second half of this decade is just a more shallower, convoluted, and depressing version of the first half.

Other notable cultural trends of the second half include, but are not limited to: fidget spinners

Person 1: Man, I miss 2010s culture, back when we had rage comics and back when filthyfrank was still active
Person 2: So I guess the 2010s must be your favourite decade

person 1: Well yes, but actually no.

Praiseworthy

A brave soul such as someone who stands up to the alt-right community, toxic masculinity and incels in the modern era.

Such praiseworthy individuals are becoming more and more rarer in this increasingly contentious society.
Ben shapiro isn't praiseworthy, especially since he supports the incels 🤢🤮

Consolidation 

In psychology, (memory) consolidation is the process where the unconscious mind tries to transform recently learned experiences into long-term memories, thereby 'consolidating' them. Ways of triggering consolidation include writing/recording stuff down (e.g. journal or diary), the utilization of schemata, and getting a good night's sleep.
Jim failed to consolidate his memories of what he learned in his course because he rarely took notes. He also pulled an all-nighter to study for his final tomorrow, but consolidation didn't occur because he didn't get good sleep.

Rule 319 

Rule 319 states that:

a) everything and anything is bound to be connected or affected by the coronavirus in some way.

b) for every community of a specific topic/interest on the internet, there will eventually be discussions pertaining to the coronavirus.
Dude 1: Yo if you search literally anything and put "coronavirus" at the end, there's gonna be at least something related to it.
Dude 2: LOL holy shit ur right, I just searched pornhub and coronavirus and there's actually news about that
Dude 1: Rule 319 man
What your old man would used to do to you whenever you were misbehaving.
Me, when I was 8 years old: *reaches for a lighter*

Pa: Boy, if I see you play with that lighter yer gonna get a good caning later

Olive Garden 

Just a casual American restaurant chain for the commoners. Serves typical Americanized Italian dishes made by unskilled college students who are just learning how to cook. Food is decent at best, as one would expect. Most often the place where a typical guy would ask a girl out to, as well as a freshman's first job.

Comparable to the Canadian restaurant chains "Swiss Chalet" and "East Side Marios".
Guy 1: Just got my first job at Olive Garden!
Guy 2: Nice!