Posted on 10/28/2021 11:42:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yeah, name change solves all their problems with people.
People will now think of it as “METAstatic”. A cancer that spreads.
Meta = above human.
Remember a German guy who talked like that...
meta adjective
\ ˈme-tə \
Definition of meta (Entry 1 of 3)
1informal : showing or suggesting an explicit awareness of itself or oneself as a member of its category : cleverly self-referential
“The Bar?” she said. “I know the place. Been meaning to drop by. Love the name. Very meta.”
— Gillian Flynn
The meta gift of the year: a picture of a lamp that actually lights up. Designer Finn Magee’s trompe l’oeil is printed on plastic, embedded with electronics, and equipped with a cord and switch.
— Karissa Bell et al.
A new comedy about fantasy football, which follows a group of armchair quarterbacks as they try to tackle life. How meta would it be if people started betting on what was going to happen on the show?
— TV Guide
Leave it to Larry to contort public desire for a Seinfeld reunion into a meta plot that chronicles his not-necessarily-noble struggle to pull off a Seinfeld reunion.
— Dan Snierson
2 informal : concerning or providing information about members of its own category
… Slate, a Web zine published by Microsoft that devotes much of its content to what [editor Michael] Kinsley calls “meta news”—news about the news.
— Rick Marin et al.
Given that the coverage of any one search engine is limited, the simplest means of improving the coverage of Web search engines is to combine the results of multiple engines, as is done with meta search engines such as MetaCrawler (www.metacrawler.com).
— Steve Lawrence
meta- prefix
variants: or met-
Definition of meta- (Entry 2 of 3)
1a: occurring later than or in succession to : after
metestrus
b: situated behind or beyond
metencephalon
metacarpus
c: later or more highly organized or specialized form of
metaxylem
2: change : transformation
metaplasia
3[metaphysics] : more comprehensive : transcending
metapsychological
—usually used with the name of a discipline to designate a new but related discipline designed to deal critically with the original one
metamathematics
4a: involving substitution at or characterized by two positions in the benzene ring that are separated by one carbon atom
meta-xylene
b: derived from by loss of water
metaphosphoric acid
Meta geographical name
Me·ta | \ ˈmā-tä \
Definition of Meta (Entry 3 of 3)
river over 620 miles (995 kilometers) long in northeastern Colombia flowing into the Orinoco River on the Venezuela–Colombia boundary
First Known Use of meta
Adjective
1988, in the meaning defined at sense 1
History and Etymology for meta
Adjective
independent use of META-
Prefix
New Latin & Medieval Latin, from Latin or Greek; Latin, from Greek, among, with, after, from meta among, with, after; akin to Old English mid, mith with, Old High German mit
Not sure if I’m the only one who got it, but well played!
Yawn….garbage no matter the name…
And evil google change to alphabet, Facebook to Meta, Maybe Democrats will change to socialist next?
Meta, as in metastatic.
Not sure I would have chosen that name since it brings to mind a vile, spreading, cancerous growth.
meh.
Meta Stable
Almost as fun as Face Plant
Considering how Facebook spies on, and misuses private data, of its users through metadata mining, this seems like a strange choice of names...
Myspace 2.0.
meh tah........................
appropriate name for a company that sweeps up every piece of metadata on each user and then sells it to the DNC and China.
facebook has a ‘metta world peace’ moment.
the ron artest of social media.
Was “The Borg” taken?
i thought the same...
great minds and all that.
hehehe
Meta? Really, who came up with that “gem”?
Suckerberg most likely....................
With all the Boomers on FB it should be called Meta(mucil). Bad da bing!
iit will use metaprograms will control you
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