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Sharing an article from the Internet while bypassing a paywall.
If you are a member and receive an interesting article, but your friend cannot read it because they are not a member, what do you do? You copy the article “by hand”, put it back together nicely and send it to the friend. This is a lateral copy.
If you are a member and receive an interesting article, but your friend cannot read it because they are not a member, what do you do? You copy the article “by hand”, put it back together nicely and send it to the friend. This is a lateral copy.
Another great article that J. will be interested in. But the link is useless to him: he's not a member. I'll have to make him a lateral copy again.
by ThePhysopher September 25, 2025
Get the Lateral Copy mug.when you like drinking alcohol per se but regard a teaspoon of whisky as the right dose to draw the pleasure of drinking. The tablespoon is then at the boundary to alcoholism.
My wife and me, we are microalcoholics. It is our philosophy to enjoy whisky etc. but because alcohol with wine at lunch and dinner is accumulating through the day, we restrict to the enjoyable minimum. This gives the pleasure of nice drinks plus the good feeling of self-mastery.
See also zen-alcoholic
See also zen-alcoholic
by ThePhysopher February 18, 2019
Get the microalcoholic mug.The reluctance to make decisions
Making decisions is always a task. But it is an unpleasant task for many people. The term "menuphobia" describes this aversion to having to choose between several alternatives.
Making decisions is always a task. But it is an unpleasant task for many people. The term "menuphobia" describes this aversion to having to choose between several alternatives.
I hate long lists of choices in restaurants. My wife always makes the better choice and I have to watch her. I already have real menuphobia.
There is so much great food to choose from on the cruise that I can't make up my mind. But I still can't be happy because of my menuphobia.
There is so much great food to choose from on the cruise that I can't make up my mind. But I still can't be happy because of my menuphobia.
by ThePhysopher June 17, 2024
Get the menuphobia mug.Acronym for Felt IQ - the degree how one feels himself or herself intelligent. The self-felt IQ level in one's own assessment .
President Trump's FIQ is about 200.
She should have more self confidence - her FIQ is 30 points below her real IQ.
She should have more self confidence - her FIQ is 30 points below her real IQ.
by ThePhysopher March 28, 2018
Get the FIQ mug.In the novel of Simone de Beauvoir, Fosca is a man who is the only one who cannot die. However, he becomes unhappy because all his friends die and leave him. The Fosca effect is therefore the feeling of an old person when he or she outlives their friends and the other people around them also disappear. It is a mixture of melancholy, pride and the guilt of still being alive.
Why is your father so sad? It's the Fosca effect, another one of his school friends has died.
I really must write my memoirs. It's probably the Fosca effect: if I don't do it, who else will?
The Fosca effect is quite natural when you get very old.
I really must write my memoirs. It's probably the Fosca effect: if I don't do it, who else will?
The Fosca effect is quite natural when you get very old.
by ThePhysopher June 16, 2025
Get the Fosca effect mug.Hypercapitalism is the brusque and blunt way in which today's super billionaires exercise their power. Examples include Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
The purchase of Twitter through Elon Musk was a typical act of hypercapitalism. This is power through a gigantic amount of money.
by ThePhysopher November 21, 2022
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Cp. to a Zero Penis Relationship (ZPR) and a Single Penis Relationship (SPR)
Cp. to a Zero Penis Relationship (ZPR) and a Single Penis Relationship (SPR)
by ThePhysopher October 2, 2016
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