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Canadian detox

The art of drilling a hole in a Canadian maple tree and using maple syrup as lube to fuck it.
Me: “Hey Ben I heard you broke your phone on Tuesday”
Ben: “Yeah but I’m on my Canadian detox era and I’ve never felt better”
by AbandonedPenguin November 30, 2024
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Isolation Detention

A type of school detention that is much worse than regular detention. I have gotten this before, so let me explain what it's like. This only exists in certain schools btw.

Isolation Detention is basically like being locked in a small room with nothing but a chair or desk. The walls are completely white, but the floor would usually be tiled or carpet. You'd basically be locked in there until the principal says you can leave. It's dead silent, and you only hear the school board talking outside (depends on where the room is located) and yourself breathing. The room feels like solitary confinement, and the only way you could get this punishment is committing theft on school property or something similar.
I got isolation detention for stealing 3 computers and a girl's phone. You don't want to end up like me.
by Communism Is Life December 2, 2024
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layout-detailization

A term used when a person needs to add more details to a layout.
Can you do some more layout-detailization and show me it later?
by Jopianos December 7, 2024
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The Detweiler

The act of a man getting pantsed and his uncircumcised cock flops out, hitting anyone in a 5 foot radius and giving them every sexual disease
"Yo did you see Colin in class? He got The Detweiler"
by okay2008 January 22, 2026
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Cognitive Determinism

The theory that our thoughts, beliefs, and even our conscious reasoning processes are determined by prior causes—our genetics, upbringing, culture, and past experiences—that shape our cognitive frameworks. You think what you think because of your cognitive programming; "changing your mind" is just the output of a deterministic process of new inputs interacting with old programming.
Example: You encounter a persuasive political argument. Cognitive determinism would say whether you find it convincing isn't a free evaluation of pure reason, but is predetermined by your existing ideological schema, the trust you have in the speaker (based on past experiences), and your social group's norms. Your "rational conclusion" was the only possible output given your cognitive starting conditions. Advertising works on this principle, aiming to deterministically rewire cognitive associations (Coca-Cola = happiness).
by Abzugal January 24, 2026
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Cognitive Determinism

The strong, hardcore version of Cognitive Realism. It asserts that our cognitive structures don't just influence but fundamentally determine and limit the boundaries of our possible experience. What we call "reality" is an inescapable projection of our neural wiring; we cannot perceive, conceive of, or even imagine anything outside the categories our brains provide. It's not that we see the world through a tinted window; it's that we are the window, and everything we see is a property of the glass.
Example: "Trying to imagine a truly new color is the prison of Cognitive Determinism. My brain's visual system is built from combinations of red, green, and blue photoreceptors. Every color I can experience or dream of is just a mix of those. A 'new' color outside that RGB triangle is cognitively impossible for me. My reality isn't just shaped by my senses; its entire color palette is predetermined by them."
by Abzunammu February 2, 2026
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Orbital Deterrents

Weapons systems or military platforms stationed in space, designed to prevent hostile actions by an adversary through the threat of overwhelming, rapid, and inescapable retaliation from orbit. This is the ultimate high ground, where a platform could hold kinetic bombardment rods ("Rods from God"), lasers, or surveillance systems. The deterrent power comes from the inability of terrestrial defenses to reliably stop an attack that begins outside the atmosphere and has mere minutes to impact.
Example: In the novel Seveneves, the "Cloud Ark" and its defenders become a de facto Orbital Deterrent against Earth-based aggression. The theoretical system of tungsten telephone-pole-sized rods dropped from orbit to strike with the force of a nuclear weapon—without fallout—is a classic sci-fi example of a terrifyingly clean, fast, and unstoppable deterrent. Orbital Deterrents
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 3, 2026
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