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take a thirty

Take a thirty is a term used by others in Tennessee which means they’re going to take a shit 💩💩💩
Person 1: Aye, I’m gonna go take a thirty I’ll be back.
Person 2: Alright.
by MagicPizzaRoll522 May 31, 2018
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Zero Pants Thirty

The time that you must appear dressed and presentable on a company Zoom call. Te time you have to brush your hair and put on real clothes, not pajamas.
I have a customer update at 7 AM. Zero Pants Thirty is early today.
by SnowPatrol October 19, 2021
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shoot the thirty

to fight someone it said that it is going to take you thirty minutes to fight him
I'ma shoot the thirty with these gangs or they kick my ass
by y.east on tha track June 26, 2021
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ninja-thirty

The time when you look at a clock and realize that a large portion of time disappeared. It is NEVER 'ninja o'clock', because by the time you've realized the time, it's at least a half-hour after you expected.
Friend 1: "Dude, what the hell happened to the day? I had that interview for that job."

Friend 2: "Ninja-thirty happened, son... remember that 'I'm only going to play a couple games' Madden marathon we just had?"
by Agent 14 December 16, 2009
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nate-silver-thirty

(noun)

parameters and/or random noise added to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes

(verb)
to add spurious adjustable parameters and/or random noise to a predictive model to enable the model to appear to include a wider variety of outcomes than the fundamental mechanism of the model actually includes
to artificially inflate your estimate of a very unlikely event occurring to ~30% with no justification within your model, simply so you can cover your ass should the unlikely event occur, all while retaining the option to claim that you predicted, with better than 2/3rd probability, that the unlikely event would not occur.
“After realizing her model to predict economic growth didn’t include enough details, and was therefore predicting too narrow a range of possible outcomes, she nate-silver-thirty (ed) her model to get a more satisfactory appearing distribution of outcomes.”
by stats_definer August 28, 2020
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