Cliff's Glizzy Spot

After taking a leak, the spot left on your boxers or briefs.

If you see cliff's Glizzy Spot, you'll need to bleach the laundry.

by Puzzlehead4950 January 30, 2026

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

Rationality Blind Spot

The failure to recognize when your own commitment to being "rational" has itself become an irrational, identity-driven posture. It's the inability to see that your hyper-rational, emotion-dismissing approach might be blinding you to important factors like empathy, ethics, or social context, and that this inflexibility is itself a form of bias. You're so busy looking for emotional bias in others, you don't see the cold, calculating bias in yourself.

Example: "He proposed solving the budget deficit by auctioning off national parks, citing pure economic rationality. When people called it heartless, he accused them of emotional thinking. His rationality blind spot prevented him from seeing that his model completely ignored the non-monetary value of heritage, ecology, and public well-being—a massive irrational omission."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Argument Blind Spot

The specific inability to perceive the weaknesses, missing premises, or emotional core of your own argument. You experience it as a solid, seamless edifice, while viewing opposing arguments as fragile houses of cards. This blind spot makes you confused and angry when others aren't instantly persuaded, because to you, your case seems invulnerable. You've literally never seen its flaws.

Example: "He couldn't understand why no one was convinced by his argument. His argument blind spot hid the fact his entire case rested on a single, uncited statistic he'd heard on a podcast, and that his tone was dripping with condescension. He saw a steel trap of logic; everyone else saw a wet paper bag of arrogance."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026