The tendency to search for alternatives only until one is found that meets some mininmum standard of sufficiency
A manager looking for a new site for a new plant, for example, may select the first site she finds that meets basic requirements for transportation, utilities,and price even though further search might yield a better location.hence the term satisficing
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You enter a public bathroom, do your business, flush and then wash your hands (all proper protocol). The question is how do you get out without touching the door handle (etc.) thus making your Saniscape.
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Humor originally created by Satan. 1. An act almost always only funny for the one doing it. 2. Taking satisfaction from someone else pain. Usually the first signs of a serial killer.
Stan: "Why did you pull my chair out from under me?"
George: "Ha Ha, suck it motha fucka."
Stan: "That wasn't funny, Thats sadistic humor!"
George: "I am going to papercut you until you die and then collect your fingernails."
George: "Ha Ha, suck it motha fucka."
Stan: "That wasn't funny, Thats sadistic humor!"
George: "I am going to papercut you until you die and then collect your fingernails."
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Get the salisa mug.'Sanist' means assuming that only the allegedly sane have any rights, and that they can ride roughshod over the rights of anyone without 100% mental health e.g. in law, because they are the power group in the right. Cf racist,where the rights of people are diminshed according to their race, ageist, where the dignity and rights of older people are diminished, and sexist, where the dignity and rights of the weaker sex (usually women) are diminished.
Sanist language is used by the power group against the minority.
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Sanist language is used by the power group against the minority.
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"axe wielding schizophrenics"
That remark is sanist in that you are diminishing a group of disabled people with a harmful and inaccurate stereotype.
That remark is sanist in that you are diminishing a group of disabled people with a harmful and inaccurate stereotype.
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