garbage humanitarian

Noun - Someone who is trying to save the world by donating to charity and reducing their plastic use with a reusable water bottle, but still buys McDonald’s or Fast Food and an occasional item or two from Amazon or Walmart.

Evangeline was fully aware she’s being a garbage humanitarian, but the guilt is not enough to keep her from snacking on her favorite Chicken Filet Nuggies, waffle chips and Poly Sauce in the employee parking lot of the Non-Profit Corporation where she works. I’m no bigot or homophobe! I’m just HUNGRY! No one will really know. Who cares.

by Ang Dax May 10, 2024

Neo-human

A neo-human is a person that looks athletic and/or strong but is in reality weak and/or unathletic.
A neo-human can also be a person that looks fat and/or weak that is in reality strong and/or athletic.

Marcus: That guy looks like he super strong.
Mancus: He is weak.
Marcus: How come?
Mancus. He is a neo-human.

by the one and only youghurt male May 24, 2024

TikTok human beings

Human beans who use TikTok to survive and who spend all day dancing and lip-singing for their TikTok videos.

Guys, she's one of TikTok human beings. She spent her whole day uploading videos. She survives by doing it.

by nopeakaphamminhteky1 June 10, 2024

Mechanical Human Sciences

A mechanistic paradigm for understanding individual human beings, viewing the person as a biological machine whose components (genes, neurotransmitters, cognitive modules) can be isolated, studied, and repaired independently. It is the philosophy behind much of biomedicine and behavioral psychology: identify the broken part, fix or replace it, restore normal function. This approach has achieved astonishing successes (antibiotics, joint replacements) but struggles with conditions where the "machine" metaphor breaks down.

Mechanical Human Sciences Example: Testosterone replacement therapy for low libido is Mechanical Human Science. The logic is straightforward: identify a deficient hormone, supplement it, restore function. This works beautifully when the system is truly a simple input-output machine. It fails when the "deficiency" is caused by stress, relationship conflict, or depression—states that are not mechanical failures but adaptive responses the machine metaphor cannot comprehend.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Complex Human Sciences

The study of individual humans as complex adaptive systems in their own right, characterized by non-linear development, multi-causality, and sensitive dependence on initial conditions. It rejects simple medical models (one gene → one disease; one trauma → one disorder) in favor of viewing a person as an integrated network of biological, psychological, and social subsystems, all interacting. Health and illness, in this view, are emergent states of the whole person-system.

Complex Human Sciences Example: Depression is not, Complex Human Science insists, simply a "chemical imbalance" that a pill can correct. It is an emergent state of a complex system: genetic vulnerabilities, childhood attachment patterns, current life stressors, sleep quality, nutrition, inflammation, and meaning-making narratives. Two individuals with identical serotonin levels may have radically different mood states because their systems are configured differently. Treatment must address the system, not just the lab value.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Dynamic Human Sciences

The study of individual human beings as changing, developing, and adaptive systems over time. It rejects snapshot models of personality or ability, focusing instead on trajectories: how a child's language capacity reorganizes itself at critical periods, how an athlete's skill degrades with age and rebounds with training, how trauma reshapes neural architecture. Dynamic Human Sciences view a person not as a fixed entity, but as a process.

Dynamic Human Sciences *Example: Longitudinal studies of cognitive decline in aging are the domain of Dynamic Human Science. Researchers don't just compare 70-year-olds to 30-year-olds; they follow the same individuals for decades, measuring how processing speed, memory, and executive function wax and wane with health, lifestyle, and intervention. The person is not a data point; they are a trajectory.*

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Applied Human Sciences

The translation of knowledge from psychology, physiology, and anthropology into interventions that improve individual human functioning, health, and well-being. This is the scientific backbone of clinical psychology, physical therapy, occupational health, sports science, and human factors. It takes what we know about how humans operate—physically and mentally—and builds protocols, therapies, and training programs to fix, enhance, or accommodate them.

Applied Human Sciences Example: A physical therapist uses Applied Human Science daily. They don't just stretch a patient's hamstring; they apply biomechanical principles to correct gait, motor learning theory to retrain movement patterns, and pain psychology to manage fear-avoidance. Their treatment plan is not guesswork; it's engineering the human musculoskeletal system based on peer-reviewed evidence about how it works and heals.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026