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[–] hedge@beehaw.org 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

"Sick" as in "slick?" "Good?" (Going to add "clueless oldster" to the description on my BH profile page).

Along the lines of a "Fediverse Amazon", @petrescatraian@libranet.de told me about flohmarkt, which does look interesting. One of its instances can be viewed here.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One note on "sick" being slang for "good": that particular slang started in the 80s, and some of the younger generation consider it to be old person slang.

[–] hedge@beehaw.org 5 points 1 week ago

So I'm even older than I thought?! 😱

[–] sag@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago

Sick mean cool or awesome. I guess