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notable memoji schneid

monkeysphere (comic n.): a unit of 150 humans. After Dunbar's number , a hypothesised upper limit of meaningful relationships. white monkey (ex-pat pej. n.): Caucasian employed in China for nonproductive, status reasons: e.g. to wear a suit and sit around an office looking exportsy; to pretend to play live music, to sit in cool bars (...) therapeutic index (medical n.): the lethal dose divided by the effective dose. For opioids it's only about 6:1, hence the trouble. spoonie (internet n.): someone with a chronic illness. From not having enough spoons (energy, mental health) to deal with something. chiller (US n.): notably cool person. azn (US slang adj.): Asian. Particularly online, or in Asian-American punk or hiphop. Dymaxion (BS proper n.): Buckminster Fuller's buzzword for his style / metier: DYnamic, MAXimum, and tensION. Actually a really good choice, because it's goofy, neologistic, impractical: ...