Southeastern Alaska State Technical College of the Blind and Deaf

American college football term for a small, barely heard of college who is matched up against one of the top teams in FBS and has an exactly 0% chance of beating them.

Also can be used as a derogative term for any random college nobody knows.

Shortened form of the college is “SEASTCB&D” (Pronounced: “CEASED-kuh-band”) if you’re too lazy to say 17 syllables.

Mike: “We’ll need Alabama to lose a game soon if we’re gonna have any shot at winning the division. Who are they playing against this weekend?”

Jeff: *google search* … “Something called Southeastern Alaska State Technical College of the Blind and Deaf”.

Mike: “What’s the point spread? 222.5?”

Jeff: “Maybe if Bama puts in the waterboys, but I guess I’ll be rooting for the… *checks phone*… Abominable Snowmen… out of mere desperation.”

Mike: “Looks like we’re on the SEASTCB&D-wagon this Saturday at noon!”

Jeff: “This will totally be worth three hours of my weekend!”

by K. C. Austin August 13, 2022

blind quote

A blind quote is an estimate of the cost or service when no, or limited research is done to pin point a more accurate amount or timeline. This is less through than a standard estimate where time is available and given to narrow down a more likely cost or timeframe.

I pushed the guy at the repair shop to tell me some amount for my brake repair. He gave me a blind quote, but said this is his best guess without seeing it, and thus not official.

by mil-town-414 September 8, 2022

sugar-blindness

A temporary state in which sweet food or drink items cause a person to find savory or otherwise less sweet food or drinks less sweet or appealing, when they would otherwise think that it is sweet.

*Drinks very sweet coffee, then eats some jelly toast* “This toast isn’t very good… I’m probably sugar-blind from my coffee.”
“I’ve got sugar-blindness from that donut I ate before supper.”

by Narf1107 September 10, 2022

Fallacy Blind Spot

The universal human glitch where you can spot a logical fallacy in your opponent's argument from a mile away but remain completely oblivious to the identical or even more egregious fallacies riddling your own. It's the cognitive equivalent of having flawless 20/20 vision for other people's dirt but wearing smudge-covered goggles when looking at your own. This blind spot turns every debate into a one-sided game of "Gotcha!" where you're always the catcher, never the caught, because your brain helpfully files your own reasoning under "Common Sense" instead of "Needs Inspection."

Example: "He spent the whole call-out thread meticulously dissecting someone's ad hominem attacks, while his entire opening post was a textbook straw man. Classic fallacy blind spot. He's a fallacy hawk when hunting others, but a fallacy ostrich when it comes to his own writing, with his head buried deep in the sand of self-righteousness."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Science Blind Spot

The selective reverence for the authority of science while ignoring its process and limitations, especially when they're inconvenient. This manifests as treating settled science as an infallible dogma not to be questioned (blind scientism) or, conversely, dismissing robust scientific consensus in one area (like climate science) while uncritically accepting it in another (like aeronautics). It's using "science" as a stamp of approval or a cudgel, not as a method for inquiry.

Example: "He had a major science blind spot. He'd quote nutrition studies to justify his juice cleanse with religious fervor, but dismiss decades of climatology as 'just models' because accepting it would mean questioning his libertarian worldview. Science was his priest when it preached what he liked, and a liar when it didn't."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Bias Blind Spot

The ingrained inability to perceive the influence of your own cognitive biases on your judgments, while being acutely aware of how biases distort everyone else's thinking. You understand that confirmation bias makes your uncle's news feed a conspiracy theory echo chamber, but you'd never entertain the idea that your own curated feed creates a progressive or libertarian echo chamber just as potent. Your biases are "critical thinking"; other people's biases are "brainwashing."

Example: "She could write a dissertation on the availability bias skewing public fear of plane crashes, but couldn't see how the same bias made her irrationally terrified of moving to a new city after binge-watching crime dramas. Her bias blind spot was so total, she diagnosed cognitive distortions in others as a hobby while living in a glass house of her own."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Logic Blind Spot

A specific failure to apply the same rigorous logical standards to your own foundational beliefs or sacred assumptions that you demand be applied to challenging ideas. You can deconstruct an opponent's position with syllogistic precision, but the core axioms of your own worldview—your political ideology, religious faith, or personal philosophy—exist in a protected, logic-free zone where they are accepted as "self-evident" or "beyond mere logic."

Example: "The philosopher could dissect the logical inconsistencies of utilitarianism for hours. But ask him to logically justify his core belief in absolute free will, and he'd retreat into murky appeals to 'conscious experience.' That was his logic blind spot: a dazzling searchlight turned outward, and a cozy, uncritical candle burning for his own foundations."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026