definitions

It’s easy to know if something is art. If you can’t tire of looking at it, then it’s art.

Natasha is “Ah, Satan” backwards.

Kunlangeta (Inuit): a person whose mind knows what to do but does not do it.

Stallman's Law: While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance or change in technology is an opening for them to further restrict or mistreat its users.

Brandolini’s law (also known as the Bullshit Asymmetry Principle): the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

Sayre's law: In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.

In economics, the tragedy of the commons is the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one’s self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to the group’s long-term best interests.

pentheraphobia - n. fear of one’s mother-in-law

Democracy is characterised by three key items:

• institutions and processes that allow citizens to effectively express their political preferences and to combine these preferences into a package of alternatives from which they can choose,
• institutional constraints on the executive and
• guaranteed civil rights and liberties for all citizens of the state.