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[–] rainwall@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Pump and Slam are both very active verbs. You cant do either passivly.

"Slows, halts or winds down" would be better, milder actions if thats what youre looking for.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think it's more the positive nature of "pump" that annoys me in this context.

People pumping stocks make them go up, not down.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pumping something tends to be postivie, yeah. Pump up the jams, pump up tires, etc.

Stopping spending on pointless AI is pretty postive, so maybe thats why the writer chose it?