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> No. It is not amazing. This is a natural and expected progression of bioengineering technology, and rather easily understood.

You must be a blast at parties.




That hypothesis is likely untestable. I would either have to be invited to a party, or host a party attended by more than one person.

"Amazing" has become the generic "doubleplusgood" adjective of popular culture. Since I believe that words mean things, when someone uses "amazing" descriptively, I could give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume that they are also saying that they are overwhelmed, and incapable of fully comprehending the complexities in the thing described. I could also pessimistically assume that they are using "amazing" because it has become an increasingly common adjective in all audio and video broadcasts, and they simply don't care to use the vastness of English vocabulary to express themselves with precision or conciseness.

Either way, I feel like I can call people out on using "amazing" with the sort of smugness that can only be found in a random guy on the Internet.

Engineered tissue implants are not amazing. They are marvelous, spectacular, exciting, wondrous, phenomenal, stupendous, unusual, glorious, groundbreaking, and noteworthy, to be certain. But they lack the quality of essential, impenetrable mystery that I feel is necessary to warrant the use of the word "amazing".

Mostly, I'm tired of hearing and seeing the same damned word over and over again, from people who apparently are not aware that it does not convey unconditional positive emotion so much as relative superiority over the one doing the describing. As such, if you think everything is amazing, you are describing yourself as having a severe cognitive defect.

This issue irritates me enough that I am willing to burn karma on it. Don't even get me started on the people who use "journey" to describe something that involved neither literal travel nor a spiritual or ideological transformation.




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