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reproductive act

Sex is the reproductive act.
Calling the reproductive act "sex" leads young people to engage in sexual intercourse mostly oblivious to the main possible consequence—creating a new life.
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Thought Mapping

Maps the sequence thoughts were thought by an individual or group and indicates by means of lines which thoughts are connected, and which thought triggered which thought.
Thought Mapping is different than Mind Mapping.
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humanly perfect

The maximum level of perfection human beings are able to attain in situations which they must react spontaneously.
Though using science, art, talent, and the countless mechanical and technological marvels human beings have invented allow them to easily produce products which are often up to 100% perfect, human beings sometimes make a wrong decision, commit an error, or make a mistake, and those things limit human perfection to being "humanly perfect," inherently inconsistent, and not 100% reliable . Thus a few notches below mathematical, scientific, mechanical, or technological perfection.

To reduce or prevent the imperfect actions humans inevitably commit—often at unpredictable times, humans use various procedures, mechanisms, and technological devices to impossibilitate, prevent, or minimize errors.

The second most effective way is to stop a human being from committing an error is by passing a law and sanctioning those who break them. And the most effective way is by physically or electronically blocking a human being from executing a specific action at a specific time or in a specific way.
by but for November 20, 2017
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Perfect Shitter

An individual who eats foods he knows from experience digest easily and facilitate taking a perfect shit every day minutes after getting up in the morning.
Knowing how beneficial for her health it is to take a perfect shit each day, following her brother's advice for the first time in her life, Yvonne stopped eating bowel movement inhibiting foods—such as bread, rice, or pasta which is not whole wheat, dairy products and cow or chicken carcasses—and is becoming a perfect shitter.
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change point

The moment and location when something changed.
The change point was when she read the email informing her the college had decided to hire her.
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next line hyphen

A method to differentiate a dash placed at the end of a line to indicate that a word has been separated into two parts because it did not fit on a line, from a hyphen inserted between two or more words, such as "hands-on", "brother-in-law", or "state-of-the-art".
It is best to differentiate a dash placed at the end of a line to indicate that a word has been separated into two parts because it did not fit on a line, from a hyphen in a compound word such as "hands-on".

A "compound word" is comprised of two or more words and has a hyphen between each word.

If a line ends in "able-" and the next line says "bodied", readers automatically interpret "able", followed by "body", to mean "ablebodied". Most people do not remember that the correct way to write "ablebodied" is with a hyphen (able-bodied). I call this method to differentiate dashes from hyphens the "next line hyphen".

If the last word on a line of text says "for-", and the first word of the next line says "profit", the logical way to interpret the dash is as being a dash, though in reality, the writer means “for-profit”, not “forprofit”.
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uglyist

A human being who is biased against those he or she considers ugly.
"Three people I saw in the city I just relocated to, look ugly", is an uglyist statement.
by but for September 24, 2018
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