Dessertification
Dessertification by KennyLing January 23, 2017
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dessertification
(1) The process by which relatively healthy menu items evolve into, or become outnumbered by, versions with more sugar, fat and empty calories. The dessertification process leads to menu items calorically indistinguishable from dessert even as they continue to be presented as not-dessert.
(2) The phenomenon of traditionally dry cocktail names being applied to sweet variations to appeal to drinkers who like the *idea* of e.g. a Rat Packer's martini but prefer chocolate to gin and skewered gummy bears to olives.
(2) The phenomenon of traditionally dry cocktail names being applied to sweet variations to appeal to drinkers who like the *idea* of e.g. a Rat Packer's martini but prefer chocolate to gin and skewered gummy bears to olives.
When I started at Starbuck's most of my customers took a black Pike, maybe with maybe milk or sugar. Then it was cappuccino with a little squirt of caramel on top. Now, thanks to dessertification, 90% of our sales are mocha Frappuccinos in a sugar-rimmed cup, with vanilla-bean whip and maraschino syrup drizzle on top, with more calories than lunch.
dessertification by anonymous June 4, 2025
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vagina desertificationifier
The male equivalent of a Bonerkill; a male who causes the complete and utter eradication of any positive sexual feelings in a woman's vagina, causing the inside of the vagina to become drier, or in extreme cases, become on par with a desert in terms of (lack of) humidity.
"Hey, you hear about that new guy?"
"Yeah, I've seen him before, I wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, he's a total vagina desertificationifier.
"Yeah, I've seen him before, I wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, he's a total vagina desertificationifier.
vagina desertificationifier by AKADarkie March 8, 2011
desertification
Creation of expanding deserts by human activity. Normally by human wanton destruction, mismanagement, industrialization, development, clearing out forest areas. Climate change without investment in water projects that would help bring ecological stability.
Human activities without regard to Earth ecological balance is causing the desertification of the planet.
desertification by 1OldGeek April 16, 2016
dedesertification
1. The restorative process by which a degraded cultural, institutional, or discursive environment regains the capacity for generative meaning, competence, and trust after collapse caused by extractive feedback loops.
2. In sabachtan gnosticism theological and polymorphousmythology epistemic usage, a post-act of degorgonification in which petrified discourse becomes speakable again through disciplined indirection, constraint-preserving symbolism, and restored correspondence between claims and demonstrated capacities.
3. By extension, a methodological reversal of cyberpunk conditions of enclosure, scarcity, and legitimacy theater into solarpunk conditions of regeneration, shared competence, and durable survivability.
2. In sabachtan gnosticism theological and polymorphousmythology epistemic usage, a post-act of degorgonification in which petrified discourse becomes speakable again through disciplined indirection, constraint-preserving symbolism, and restored correspondence between claims and demonstrated capacities.
3. By extension, a methodological reversal of cyberpunk conditions of enclosure, scarcity, and legitimacy theater into solarpunk conditions of regeneration, shared competence, and durable survivability.
ah wow i remember this place as being so rundown cyberpunk, but after degorgonification post gorgonwars, dedesertification really helped to bring out the solarpunkisms of this place.
dedesertification by cyberphunkisms December 22, 2025
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)