Someone who looks really attractive on the outside, but acts in a toxic, careless, or immature way
She seemed perfect at first, but once I got to know her, I realized she was intraseptic... beautiful on the outside but full of drama and bad decisions.
A critical approach that examines the infrastructure underlying skepticism—the institutions, technologies, social networks, and cultural norms that enable certain forms of doubt while suppressing others. Infraskepticism asks: Who gets to be a skeptic? What platforms amplify some skeptical voices while marginalizing others? How does the education system shape what counts as “healthy” doubt versus “conspiracy”? It reveals that skepticism is not a pure, neutral posture but is embedded in material and social conditions that determine whose doubts are taken seriously.
Example: “Her infraskepticism showed that online ‘skeptic’ communities weren’t equally open to all—they had their own funding sources, hierarchies, and gatekeepers, often excluding marginalized voices while calling themselves rational.”
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flexcash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.