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Definitions by Solid Mantis

Putinesque 

There is something Putinesque about Anthony Fauci, that must be why he will still be in power until about 2036.
Putinesque by Solid Mantis January 22, 2021
One of the things people are skeptical about with astrology is hearing about things like a rat standing on the back of an ox while playing a flute to win a race. Though some scientist asshole with too much time on his/her hands would likely try and train a rat to play a flute, just to prove it wasn't impossible, to be an asshole, or for who knows what military purpose they might try and get a scientist to do something like that the reality is a guy working in the sewer isn't going to come across a rat playing a flute every day. If rats were really such winners, why would they spend so much of their time in the sewer in the first place?
Astrology seems like another thing people created to categorize and control other people rather than help them understand who they and people around them really are, kind of like god, the devil, angels, demons, and everything else in religion. Calling it a pseudoscience implies that science itself isn't another way to control people by giving them answers that sound good (and that real science is somehow more responsible because it sounds more responsible), instead of leaving them with questions about the world around them. There's a lot of bullshit that goes with any/all of it.
Astrology by Solid Mantis January 22, 2021

Class sociopath 

You think he/she is just a clown based on what you see on the surface, but underneath the facade, he/she is a calculating sociopath. That was why his/her peers voted him/her class sociopath.
Class sociopath by Solid Mantis January 22, 2021

Most likely to become a drug addict 

Something realistic you don't see in a high school yearbook, even if it would help people prepare for reality. A few other ones you don't see are most likely to become a transvestite, most likely to commit suicide, most likely to become a gunman or mass murderer, and most likely to take money from classmates (legally or illegally).
He/she was voted Most likely to become a drug addict by his/her peers in high school.

Land bridge

Scientists came up with an explanation for why (Americas) Indians and Asians both had mostly straight dark hair, a land bridge. A few hundred years before they came up with the land bridge, they didn't even know that the New World existed, and they already have an explanation for something like that. At one time, humans were all one people from the same place (before the continents became different continents), in that sense, (Americas) Indians and Asians come from the same place. Otherwise, there's not much connection.
Sure, at one time the land might have stretched out between two different lands like dough before the sea washed it away, but there's also a lot of other things that could have happened. The land bridge is just one attempt to explain it, which is why science is meant to be taken with a grain of salt (even science related to the coronavirus).
Land bridge by Solid Mantis January 22, 2021
What is widely believed and what is true are often not the same thing.
Movies and the media mislead a lot of people from what is true into what is widely believed or assumed territory.
True by Solid Mantis January 21, 2021

Lacrosse 

Anything that keeps somebody who plays lacrosse from going out and playing lacrosse again must not be all bad, even a false rape accusation. At some point these kids were going to have to get a job anyway.
Just about anything has to be healthier than lacrosse, even if it's dangerous. Lacrosse is as bad for people as anything.
Lacrosse by Solid Mantis January 21, 2021