Everyone knows Republicans in the US aren’t held accountable for what they said in plain English.

Trump is unaccountable, that’s apparently his identity. It doesn’t matter if he did say or didn’t say anything.

I’d call what you’re doing “cooking”.

I’d call what she’s doing “not cooking”.

This is certainly one of the best ideas here. I second this, wholeheartedly!

“They fucked up”. Means they did something really bad.

Not really an accurate definition. Without accuracy, mistakes will be made.

So wait - why don’t we dump our garbage into active volcanoes though? (I’m imagining an assembly line to the fires of Mt. Doom)

Ukraine has been an enthusiastic adopter of Starlink after Elon Musk responded to Russia’s invasion by shipping antennas valued at over $80 million to the country

For some reason, I’m reminded of the Trojan Horse.

This is true and I’ve seen it. However, I still think that it’s possible someone above didn’t want to acknowledge that they were a bad read of character. That’s how it felt in the situation I saw firsthand anyway.

If you have been troubled, be troubled no more.

So shall it be done.

I’d say, based on most of the answers here, that the reasons behind the sports scenario (people who are spectators) and the reasons behind the video game scenario (personal failure) are very different.

Apples to oranges.

If something’s rate of hype is too fast for my internal meter, I will become immediately skeptical of the trend/show/etc. and not care about it, solely because everyone is caring about it too much and too fast.

Wait are you being literal right now? Like, actually??

I tried to find the advert but I see this on YouTube a lot - an Adobe AI ad which depicts, without shame, AI writing out a newsletter/promo for a business owner’s new product (cookies or ice cream or something), showing the owner putting no effort into their personal product and a customer happily consuming because they were attracted by the thoughtless promo.

How are producers/consumers okay with everything being so mediocre??