Self-discounted

Having the feeling of someone breaking inside of your house

And you can’t defend yourself because you’re too aware and scared.

Oh no I feel self-discounted

by GHXSTRXDER October 8, 2023

Potato Discount

When adding a product worth less than $2.99 makes your overall Amazon order cheaper.
Amazon has a $25 minimum for free overnight shipping — otherwise you have to pay $2.99 to get it shipped overnight. So if your subtotal is $22.01 - $24.99, you can add something cheap (such as a single potato) to push your cart over the limit and get it all for less than you'd have to pay with the overnight shipping fee.

I needed my order fast and didn’t want to pay $2.99 for overnight shipping, so I added a $0.69 potato to my cart. That Potato Discount saved me $2.56!

by Ghost Crow September 9, 2024

Donut Discount

The act of aggressively negotiating a lower price despite being fully able (and willing) to pay full price — purely for the thrill of the deal.

Synonyms: deal gremlin, bargain flex, coupon warrior, The Nickel Squeeze, Deal Dopamine

The neighbor girl only charging $1 for lemonade, but I talked her down to .25 and went full Donut Discount — just to unlock a NEW Achievement: Tiny Tyrant & Lemonade Legend

Usage note: Not about saving money — it’s about winning and mastering your ability.

by Jagreasey February 15, 2026

Imposed Discourse

The forcible limitation of what can be said, thought, or discussed—through censorship, punishment, threat, or structural exclusion. Imposed Discourse doesn't just shape opinions; it shapes the very terms of debate, the questions that can be asked, the frameworks that can be used. Certain topics are forbidden. Certain questions cannot be raised. Certain frameworks are simply unavailable because anyone who used them would face consequences. Imposed Discourse is power drawing the boundaries of speech, then pretending those boundaries are natural.

"You can discuss labor conditions, sure. But if you mention unionizing, security escorts you out. That's Imposed Discourse: the boundaries of acceptable speech drawn by power, enforced by threat. You can say anything—as long as it's within the lines they drew when you weren't looking."

by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026

Manufactured Discourse

The subtle shaping of what can be said, thought, and discussed through control of language, media, education, and cultural production—without direct coercion. Manufactured Discourse doesn't forbid certain topics; it makes them unthinkable, unsayable, ridiculous. It floods the available channels with certain framings, certain vocabularies, certain assumptions, until alternatives seem naive, extreme, or crazy. People don't refrain from questioning because they're afraid; they refrain because the questions never occur to them, or occur framed as obviously wrong. Manufactured Discourse is power that doesn't need to censor because it's already shaped what anyone would want to say.

"Decades of advertising, media, and education have made 'consumers' feel like a natural identity. That's Manufactured Discourse: the language of markets applied to everything, until citizenship itself becomes customer service. No one forbade other frameworks—they were just never made available."

by Dumu The Void February 24, 2026

Autistic discount

The discounts and rewards you get to take advantage of because you need to read the menu ahead and see pictures to make your decision and you hate speaking to people more than necessary so you exclusively order food through mobile apps.

How do you always have rewards and gift cards for every restaurant we go to? "I get the autistic discount."

by Freckle Newt February 17, 2025

The discourse

You don't actually engage in discourse Kyle.

Hym "Saying you don't want me to be a part of the discourse is like saying you don't want me to come hunt unicorns with you. You don't actually engage in any discourse. And I bring this up because I was watching Piers the other day and he had this guy on. And Piers asked what we do about the economy and the guy's response was 'What I preach is taxing billionaires. We used to tax them more and the narrative was it was the golden age of America.' And that is what I mean. You preach the thing you preach and Gayve Jewbin doesn't even engage with it. And apparently SOMEONE DOES. And why would you not? You're getting way more out of ME than you are literally any other person on the planet by, like, several orders of magnitude. I'm like Superman squeezing a lump of coal into a diamond. I'm literally doing that while I could have been saving your kids. I could have been killing them too I guess. And the FUNNY PART... Is that you were an obstacle to the former and NOT THE LATTER! You'd think it would be the other way around! Like, the problem isn't the AI creating geniuses here and MY PROBLEM is that you are an obstacle to my rights being upheld. I'm like a Katojen over here. I am literally one of the Saarebas from Dragon Age."

by Hym Iam February 26, 2025