• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    This is a bit of a tangent, I know but fuck does this irk me…

    ballistic

    I don’t think you know what this word means. You use words like these in every fucking news header now, and not one of them was warranted.

    Fuck your clickbait titles, can all of you journalists PLEASE become real journalists again and start covering actual news that you present to us with actual real headlines instead of this made up clickbait slop?

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      11 hours ago

      Not sure if it’s a colloquialism but “going ballistic” where I live means being really angry.

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          It’s how “slam” can mean “to say something negative” and yet everyone complains about it too. I don’t have a strong opinion on how valid complaints on either use are, but I see them as comparable.