Meta-Reason

The application of reasoning to evaluate and improve our reasoning processes themselves. It's about identifying cognitive biases (like confirmation bias), understanding the limits of heuristics, and choosing the right reasoning tool for the problem. It's what you use when you realize your own argument is getting emotional, so you deliberately step back to assess the evidence more coldly. It's rationality's quality control department.

Example: "He was losing the debate, so he engaged meta-reason: 'Hold on, I'm getting defensive because my identity is tied to this view. Let me steel-man my opponent's argument instead.' He still lost, but he lost with intellectual integrity, which is its own weird nerd victory."

Meta-Reason by Abzugal January 30, 2026

Metareason

Reason about reason—the systematic examination of what reason is, how it operates, what it can achieve, and what its limits are. Metareason asks foundational questions: What is reason? How does it differ from other cognitive capacities? How do we reason well? What are the pathologies of reason? How does reason relate to emotion, intuition, and embodiment? How do social contexts shape reasoning? What can reason not do? It also examines the history of reason—how concepts of reason have changed across cultures and epochs, how different traditions have understood reasoning differently, how reason has been mobilized for both liberation and domination. Metareason is reason turning back on itself, seeking to understand its own nature, its own powers, and its own limits—the ultimate act of reflective thought.

Example: "His metareason work traced how the Enlightenment's celebration of reason led to both liberation (from tradition, from authority) and new forms of domination (colonialism justified by 'rationality,' expertise used to exclude). Reason reflecting on itself reveals both its gifts and its shadows."

Metareason by Dumu The Void March 16, 2026

Breadhead 

Someone who is addicted to obtaining money and building wealth. A money addict and fanatic. Breadheads often work more than one full-time job, and some even participate in illicit activities to "obtain the bread".

A breadhead is like a crackhead, but for money instead of crack.

Breadhead by 🅱️ U S 3 4 8 March 30, 2022

Stink lines

As seen in illustrations or cartoons: Wavy, vertical lines rising above a person, place or thing. Denotes a foul odor.

"You didn't put enough stink lines on your picture of the teacher."

Stink lines by Athene Airheart March 14, 2004

schmegegge 

Yiddish slang word meaning bullshit, baloney, hogwash, nonsense, crock of shit or hot air.

I don't buy the schmegegge about Morty sleeping with Moira.
His version of the story was pure schmegegge.
The whole schmegegge was made up to get Liz a little bit of attention.

schmegegge by budsbabe February 1, 2008

eye bleach 

Looking or experiencing something nice after witnessing something horrid like a disgusting gif or a disturbing video. Typically used as eye bleach are nice images of whatever makes the disturbed person happy.

"Bleach my eyes! Why is that woman's face ripped off!?"
*Looks up images of puppies and kittens.*
"That's good eye bleach."

eye bleach by Rini2012 November 29, 2016

Stroad

Noun. Portmanteau of "street" and "road": it describes a street, er, road, built for high speed, but with multiple access points. Excessive width is a common feature. A common feature in suburbia, especially along commercial strips. Unsafe at any speed, their extreme width and straightness paradoxically induces speeding. Somewhat more neutral than synonymous traffic sewer.

Did you see what the traffic engineers want to do to our street? They're going to turn it into a total stroad!

Stroad by hammersklavier February 21, 2012