The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, was a proposed trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States signed on 4 February 2016.

After the US president Donald Trump withdrew the US signature from TPP in January 2017, the agreement could not be ratified as required and did not enter into force. The remaining countries negotiated a new trade agreement called Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, which incorporates most of the provisions of the TPP and which entered into force on 30 December 2018.

Mediocrity culture is the glorification that it's okay not to succeed or do well (ie contenting one's self with being or average or settling with a certificate of participation)

Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility. Popular media often tells the story of the determined individual who pursues their dreams and beats the odds.

for the purposes of this debate, “casualty of nihilism” (think Nietzsche!) refers to the activity of thinking about and acquainting self with meaninglessness and impending death. This is different with suicide ideation (which is usually a desire to die), but instead a process of philosophically understanding and delving into the nature of dying.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, was a proposed trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States signed on 4 February 2016.

After the US president Donald Trump withdrew the US signature from TPP in January 2017, the agreement could not be ratified as required and did not enter into force. The remaining countries negotiated a new trade agreement called Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, which incorporates most of the provisions of the TPP and which entered into force on 30 December 2018.

Loot boxes/gacha are luck-based in-game purchases that are a mainstay of many popular free-to-play online games. They are usually expensive and grant purchasing players several months of advantage in the game, before progressively powerful items are made available.

EU laws require that games publish the actual rates of acquiring items in the lootboxes; usually the most desired items have a 1-3% chance of being acquired.

A "master" is the jargon used to refer to the underlying rights to a song. Literally, the "master recording" is the original version from which everything else stems. A CD, a stream on Spotify, an appearance on a movie soundtrack, being released publicly at all — all of those are licensed by the holder of the master rights. This also means that the holder of the master has control over the financial gains from the recordings as well. Usually the record label owns the masters of their artists; but in exchange for signing over the master rights to their recordings, artists are often given an advance and a royalty percentage from all profits made off the music.