Chornobayivka

A Groundhog day situation for the Russian army in Ukraine. Named after an airport near Kherson, where the Russians constantly put their aircraft, and Ukraininans constantly destroyed them. Similar to definition of insanity - making the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.

The Russian military command has fallen into another Chornobayivka at Avdiivka.

by j637man February 03, 2024

quettabyte

An enormeous quantity of data represented by the largest SI prefix announced in 2022 to prevent proliferation of unofficial extensions, amounting to a quintillion bytes in the long system or nonillion bytes in the short system or 1*10^30 bytes in scientific notation.

There is about 5 quettabytes of porn on the Internet.

by j637man February 03, 2024

strotorway

Portmanteau of "street" (or "stroad") and "motorway". A strotorway is a multi-lane urban freeway oficially designated as a motorway (that is no mopeds), which, like a non-motor stroad, has too many tightly spaced exits, onramps, offramps, and interchanges. This leads to excessively many lane changes, making a strotorway more dangerous than a motorroad, just like a stroad. Strotorway placement in close vicinity of downtown, if not right in the middle, creates abnormal levels of noise and pollution, and creates an obstacle for vehicles not allowed on them. The speed limit, whatever it may be, is vehemently disobeyed, moreso than on a stroad, with the exception of slow trucks. Traffic jams are very common on strotorways, to the extent that it may actually be faster to bike, although unlike on stroads, traffic jams on strotorway are typically moving at faster than walking pace. Strotorways are often ringroads or parts of originally planned ring roads, however a particular city may be pursuing a different urban freeway system topology. In hindsight, strotoways are seen as a planning mistake, absence of planning, or a relic of olden times. Just like with stroads, the solution is to either turn strotorways into proper motorroads, or streets.

Jižní spojka in Prague is a prime example of a strotorway, whereas Magistrála is a stroad. A100 in Berlin is also a strotorway, whereas A10 around Berlin isn't quite a strotorway. M25 around London has some strotorway qualities, particularly many lanes and traffic jams. As for the USA, most intra-city Interstates are basically strotorways.

by j637man February 03, 2024

Kosovo-Sarajevo-Sharia

Kosaraju-Sharir's algorithm for finding strongly connected components of a directed graph when you are tired and sleepy at a university lecture, hear this for the 1st time, and have been listening too much to Yugoslav war Turbofolk songs.

Teacher: We are gonna find the strongly connected components of this directed graph using Kosaraju-Sharir's algorithm.
My brain: Kosovo-Sarajevo-Sharia what?

by j637man February 03, 2024

onionization

The process of satirical news of yore becoming real and ever more relevant. Derived from the name of a famous satirical news outlet The Onion.

I can see a high degree of onionization in current geopolitical affairs. This article has onionized. This will definitely be onionizing in a few years when an event happens again.

by j637man February 03, 2024

TSNFKAT

𝕏, The Social Network Formerly Known As Twitter, before being purchased by Elongated Muskrat, in reference to Ƭ̵̬̊, TAFKAP, The Artist Formerly Known As Prince.

Find me on X, you know, TSNFKAT.

by j637man February 03, 2024

Gazloon

Gaza strip with reference to it's high population density and ghetto-like character, after Kowloon Walled City.

The Israeli blockade has made the Gazloon even more dilapidated.

by j637man February 03, 2024