corroded

I know you meant that sarcastically, but isn't that exactly what's happening here?

The last I read, de minimis still applied. I didn't know until now that was done with.

As an avid collector of vinyl records: FUCK! I've got no problem sending $50 to a European artist who's selling a limited run of records out of their living room. Hell, if it's an artist I really like, I'll spend $70. I'm not about to spend $70 and the artist get half of it.

Spending ludicrous amounts of cash of 12-inch pieces of plastic is totally fine with me, but I want my money going to the artist who's making the music I love, not a government I voted against.

I honestly don't remember ever having this kind of slang when I was a kid. If anything, our slang was borrowed from previous generations. ("Dude, that's cool.") I'm an old millennial, and I speak the same as Gen X and Boomers, it feels like. I never remember my parents asking "what the hell are you saying?"

Am I just forgetting? Is there a late-90s, early-00s equivalent that I've just purged from memory?

Improve your what and do what? I have no idea what that means.

I think age of code plays a big part. 2 years ago: Yeah, I could do better, but it's workable. 15 years ago: Delete everything and just start from scratch.