Social Media Patronizing: When you see someone in person and they say “I love your content” but they never actually comment on or “like” your posts or other content (depending on how the platform works) because they feel they’re better than, and don’t want the actual association.
That is social media patronizing.
That is social media patronizing.
Social Media Patronizing: Hey Mike, haven’t seen you in a while… omg, I LOVE following you on LinkedIn (but you know this person has NEVER engaged with you, not even a “like”).
This is a very condescending response from the person you haven’t seen in a while and claims they love to follow your content.
This is a very condescending response from the person you haven’t seen in a while and claims they love to follow your content.
by Ricardo Rico December 31, 2021
Get the Social Media Patronizing mug.South Park Pathology refers to an attitude characterized by a deliberate display of apathy or disdain for caring about something, stemming from the belief that showing enthusiasm or concern is uncool or cringe. This mindset is often presented as a way of being "above" the act of caring, and it was popularized by the animated television show South Park. The term is particularly associated with millennials and serves as a critique of "poser" culture: if it is considered uncool to care deeply about something, then, paradoxically, it becomes "cool" to appear disinterested or dismissive.
John is embarrassed to tell people he plays Yu-Gi-Oh! because of South Park Pathology, fearing they might think it's cringe to care about a card game.
John is considered "based" because he shares his interests authentically and passionately, even though others with South Park Pathology tell him he's cringe for caring too much.
John is considered "based" because he shares his interests authentically and passionately, even though others with South Park Pathology tell him he's cringe for caring too much.
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Get the South Park Pathology mug.The decades-long quest to create the world's most important industrial materials without drilling holes in the ground or tapping trees. Petroleum synthesis (from coal, natural gas, or biomass) is real and practiced at scale—Fischer-Tropsch plants turn gas into liquid fuels, especially where oil is expensive and gas is cheap. Rubber synthesis is even more successful: most rubber today is synthetic, made from petroleum. The frontier is making these processes cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient, and eventually making them from renewable sources. The dream is a world where transportation fuels come from air and water, where tires are made from plants, and where the petroleum age ends not because we ran out of oil but because we found something better.
Synthesis of Petroleum, Rubber and Related Materials Example: "The plant synthesized diesel from natural gas, producing fuel that burned cleaner than oil-derived diesel. It worked perfectly, at scale, for decades. Environmentalists hated it because natural gas. Oil companies hated it because competition. The plant didn't care; it just made fuel. Synthesis had won, quietly, without anyone noticing."
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