Green humor

A type of humor characterised by its exclusionary nature. The punchline of a green humor joke is that you have a vague idea of what it might be about, but the specifics of it are incomprehensible and impossible to decipher. A good green humor joke is incomprehensible to even the teller of the joke. You can find this type of humor on r/coaxedintoasnafu or r/smugideologyman.

Green Humorist: "OKAY BLUES, TRY REPLACING THE 'SC' IN 'SCREEN' WITH 'G'. THEN WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR TAX DOLLARS."
Victim of "Joke": "Wait, what's the punchline here? It sounds vaguely political, but what does this have to do with anything?"
Green Humorist: "IDK. EVER HEARD OF GREEN HUMOUR BUDDY"

by I hate reddit sometimes January 27, 2025

Himmler Hummer

The preferred name for Tesla Cyber trucks

Check out the crypto-bro in his Himmler Hummer. 5 bucks says he's listening to a Joe Rogan podcast right now

by WerdVomit411 January 28, 2025

The humanzee (sometimes chuman, manpanzee or chumanzee) is a hypothetical hybrid of chimpanzee and human, thus a form of human–animal hybrid: The First Juvenile Release 《¤》...{Homo-Juliensis}.

What I call homo-sapiens who are addicted to perianal abscesses.

Person 1: Are you addicted to perianal abscesses?
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: The humanzee (sometimes chuman, manpanzee or chumanzee) is a hypothetical hybrid of chimpanzee and human, thus a form of human–animal hybrid: The First Juvenile Release 《¤》...{Homo-Juliensis}.

by LeSouffleDeVersailles February 1, 2025

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