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pleasurable reality

A reality one can choose to live in in which one expects to and does experience a lot of pleasure continually or continuously.
There are basically two worlds people live in or choose to live in, the world of pleasure and the world of pain. The first is the pleasurable reality.
by but for December 24, 2017
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Legally Happy

When an individual feels happy doing something legal.
Knowing that playing music after 11:00 P.M. would be make him illegally happy, the teenage boy raised the volume of the music he was listening to and was legally happy knowing that from 7:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. the police, enforcing the laws, allowed anyone to play music below 8 decibels.
by but for October 20, 2017
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Consumer Self-Isolation

To get consumers to go buy things,

via the media,
corporations make individuals feel

so superior to most people

they feel disgusted of others

and stop interacting with them.
The glorification of movie stars, and the innate—it seems—cognitive bias that makes everyone think they're better than almost everyone else, help induce "consumer self-isolation".
by but for February 23, 2020
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perceptual distortion

When an individual perceives a person, place, or thing, or him or herself in a way that is different than the way most other people perceive it.
When he got to his 60s, the many failures he suffered in his life distorted how he perceived his surroundings, individuals, and many other things. That is called perceptual distortion.
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error-impossibilitator

A mechanism which structurally, physically, or electronically blocks human beings from committing an error.
Walls, locks, and barbed-wire are examples of a structural error-impossibilitator. And the way Web pages are programmed to not allow a user to proceed to the next step until the user types their password, for example, is an example of an electronic error-impossibilitator. Condoms and other pregnancy-prevention devices are also error-impossibilitators. However, some error-impossibilitators are not fool-proof. Parents, teachers, mentors, coaches, personal trainers, security guards or bouncers are not error-impossibilitators because—unless they stand in someone's way—they can only help others prevent errors. Error-impossibilitators are of two types, those that can be circumvented, such as by cutting a barbed wire, and those which cannot be circumvented, such as the wall President Trump offered to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. Note that very few error-impossibilitators are 100% reliable because if someone wants to, they can, for example, dig a tunnel under a wall, as people have done to get to the other side.
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Spaceless Writing

Writing each word starting with a capital letter, not leaving a space between words, and capitalizing the article "a" and starting the following word with a lower-case letter.
The sentence Spot Tricks wrote and which moved him to propose "Spaceless Writing" to UrbanDictionary.com's editors was: "SpacesBetweenWords—AndWordsAndPunctuationMarks—AreUnnecessary." In spaceless writing (SW), the article "a" is capitalized and all the letters of the word following it are written in lower-case. Spaceless Writing saves space, time, energy, and money. It's the best writing style to use on "Twitter".
by but for January 10, 2019
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100% attraction

The way a person feels when they see and/or hear and/or touch someone who they realize they feel 100% attracted to.
Though I even felt sexually attracted to a woman I met at work last Friday, it was not a 100% attraction. That type makes one feel as if a magnet is pulling you.
by but for June 2, 2018
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