• David GerardOPA
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    810 months ago

    I tend to think of looking into the typical awful.systems topic areas as sewer diving

    • @swlabr
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      810 months ago

      In that sense, as with sewer diving, there’s a sweet spot of anosmia.

      • David GerardOPA
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        710 months ago

        I don’t think there’s an elegant Greek-derived word for “hey, look at what I just stepped in”

        • @swlabr
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          710 months ago

          Perhaps not, but maybe “zemblanity”, a word I found by searching “serendipity but bad”:

          Zemblanity is the opposite of serendipity, meaning that it is an unlucky or unwanted, but predictable, event. Although it might be difficult to imagine someone behaving in a manner that could be predicted to cause harm, zemblanity can occur as a result of complex human and organizational factors.

          Per ness labs, which the only context I have for it is that it isn’t a dictionary.

    • @froztbyte
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      710 months ago

      excuse me good sir, that’s under the department of societal maintenance

      (no I don’t really think that pompously of it but at least the tracking and awareness side of it is not all that far removed either)