Standard Deviation

In Finance, a higher standard deviation means the returns are more spread out, but a lower standard deviation means the returns are more consistent or stable.

"Last year, Stock A had a standard deviation of 10%, which means its price fluctuated by about 10% from the average return"

by Willow Terry January 27, 2025

News Dilation

refers to the phenomenon where information spreads slowly, unevenly, or fails to reach certain individuals or groups in a timely manner. It highlights the delay or gap in the flow of information, often leading to situations where some people are "out of the loop."

"The news about the earthquake took days to reach us—classic news dilation."
"Don’t blame me for not knowing about the party; I got news dilated again."

by Someguyinthealleyway March 21, 2025

Jessica-deprivation

When you are gone from your baby for so long that you might die.

IM GONNA DIE FROM JESSICA-DEPRIVATION

by Klue2234 November 4, 2025

media new money depletion

when your daily and weekly newspapers don’t have an hour’s worth of reading material on business ideas.

The media new money depletion kept most people from being wealthy.

by Coop Dupe June 16, 2018

SDR (Sleep Deprivation Retardation)

Juan Wick’s state of Retardation caused by the lack of sleep & carrying around a massive shlong.

“Juan is acting retarded again, his shlong is massive too so he must have SDR (Sleep Deprivation Retardation). That happens from lack of sleep and carrying a massive shooing.”

by SwiftFPS December 1, 2023

Fallacy of Absolute Deprivation (also "Communism Killed Millions" Fallacy)

A form of fallacy that cites the absolute number of deaths attributed to communist regimes—typically the Soviet Union, China, or Cambodia—as an argument against any form of socialism or communist thought, while ignoring context, comparative analysis, or the question of what those numbers actually mean. The fallacy works by presenting large numbers as self-evident condemnation, as if the scale alone settled the matter. It ignores that all modern states have killed millions—colonialism, capitalism, imperialism, democracy—and that the question is not whether atrocities occurred but what caused them, whether they were inherent to the system or contingent, and what the alternatives were. The Fallacy of Absolute Deprivation is beloved of cold warriors and those who prefer moral simplicity to historical complexity. It reduces genocide to a statistic and uses that statistic to foreclose thought.

Fallacy of Absolute Deprivation (also "Communism Killed Millions" Fallacy) Example: "He ended every discussion of socialism with the same numbers: 'Stalin killed millions. Mao killed millions. Pol Pot killed millions.' The Fallacy of Absolute Deprivation meant he never had to engage with arguments about healthcare, wages, or working conditions. The numbers did all his work for him—never mind context, never mind comparison, never mind that capitalism had killed its millions too. Absolute numbers, absolutely weaponized."

by Dumu The Void February 20, 2026

Fallacy of Isolated Deprivation (also "Communism Killed Millions" Fallacy)

A fallacy that isolates the deaths attributed to communist regimes from their historical context, treating them as if they occurred in a vacuum rather than amid civil war, foreign intervention, industrialization, and the collapse of old orders. The fallacy presents communist atrocities as sui generis, uniquely evil, while ignoring that comparable or greater suffering occurred under colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism—often at the same times, in the same places, by the same actors. Isolating deprivation allows the fallacy-user to condemn one system while absolving others, to treat communism as uniquely murderous while forgetting the millions killed by Western powers. It's history as selective memory, atrocity as political weapon.

Fallacy of Isolated Deprivation (also "Communism Killed Millions" Fallacy) Example: "He listed the deaths under Mao without mentioning that they occurred during a brutal civil war, after decades of foreign occupation, amid the most rapid industrialization in history. The Fallacy of Isolated Deprivation had stripped away all context, leaving only numbers—numbers that could be used to condemn, never to understand. His listeners were left with horror without history, which is exactly what he wanted."

by Dumu The Void February 20, 2026