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Nocebo

Nocebo is the scientific term for the creation of a negative expectation that results in reducing or negating the value of a treatment.
There was a high nocebo effect created by the fact that the drug has an extremely high risk for a combination of severe side effects including severe brain damage, impotancy, kidney failure, uncontrolable spasms, suicide, farting, diarrhea, serility, genetic mutations, birth defects, uncontrolable anger, sleep walking naked in front of large groups of people, cancerous lesions on the skin, ridecule from friends, quarantine and issolation for 6 months, etc.
by mlhiss March 30, 2008
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blocklist

A blocklist is being used to replace blacklist, In the computer and tech industry . Blocklist refers to a directory of specific elements that are blocked, e,g email addresses, IP addresses or URLs.
Some in tech are promoting blocklist over blacklist because it is more descriptive and understandable.
by mlhiss July 7, 2020
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C-19 Death Panel

The public decision making body that that is unofficial and largely invisible that decides strategies that spread or stop the spread of C-19 and specially who gets treated for C-19 and who does not. The C-19 Death Panels can be comprised of different types of people in all levels of gov and private sector but not limited to public heath or medical experts. In some cases it is politicians and some cases business owners or religious leaders.

C-19 Death Panel decisions range from Politicians and Public Health Agencies deciding on strategies to prevent the spread of C-19, Public Health Agencies and Medical Administrators planning (or lack there of) to assure medical people do (or don't) have proper PPE, medical equipment, hospital capacity to heal patients or to protect even to protect patients with our without it from C-19. And there are some on the panels that make individual decisions on which medical people get adequate PPE (to protect them and/or patients), who gets tests and tested, and who gets treated for C-19, especially when there is limited capacity for prevention or care.
Criteria used by the C-19 Death Panels can be well thought out and based on data and analysis by public heath and medical professions or made on the fly by politicians or their advisers that are trained in financial and economics and whatever else they think is relevant.
The greatest innovation of the C-19 Death Panel is that it not only makes decisions on who gets treatment like other medical death panels but it is largely responsible for who and how a person gets exposed to the disease that can kill the future patient. In a lot of cases there is more than one C-19 Death Panel acting, often with completely different logic and counter strategies. Some prioritizing the economy over your grand parents and some your grand parents over the economy.

It should be noted that the C-19 Death Panels can develop strategies that create enough people with the C-19 illness to overwhelm not only everyone's medical care and medical insurance rates.
by mlhiss April 6, 2020
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Allowlist

An allowlist is a directory of specific elements that are allowed, e.g. email addresses, IP addresses or URLs etc.

An allowlist has the same meaning as a whitelist in computer and tech industry.
Allowlist like block list are much more intuitive and descriptive than whitelist and blacklist and don't have subliminal racist associations- blacklist = block and whitelist = allow.
by mlhiss July 7, 2020
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climate-industrial complex

The green energy and conservation industry which promotes alternative energy sources and conservation measures to combat global climate change.
A climate-industrial complex is needed to combat global climate change, especially with politicians only listening to the lobbies and multi-national corporations.
by mlhiss January 9, 2020
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boogozer

An affectionate nickname for a person who is kind and loving but has a dominating and controling personality.

Bulldozer.
Boogozer

A guy who comes back to his home town after being gone for 10 years and stumbles on what used to be a beautiful and undeveloped beach that has recently been covered with tacky development and private property signs:
"The things you see without your boogozer."
by mlhiss March 30, 2008
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utils

An economic measure of the "units of happiness".
The economist would always ask a specific set of questions to figure out the potential utils of a potential love interest. He was hoping for a 10 but, at best, but quickly learned he could get a more positive response from a low scoring woman whose utils increased when he acted pleasant and fun.
by mlhiss December 20, 2019
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