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Applying different rules to different people/groups to gain an unfair advantage.

“The double standard he deployed made him feel superior to people he would never truly know.”

A place to get energy

“The least considerate person on earth gave me updates on his car charging status all night then had the gall to say I was a waste of energy. All dick and no balls in the interest of accuracy.”

Michael Warner Barbine

“This bitch thought he was better than the best.”

Bait-and-switch is a form of fraud used in retail sales but also employed in other contexts. First, the merchant "baits" the customer by advertising a product or service at a low price; then when the customer goes to purchase the item, they discover that it is unavailable, and the merchant pressures them instead to purchase a similar but more expensive product ("switching"). Applicable outside of retail spaces by unscrupulous men

“All he ever did was bait and switch, promised the world but all he ever had was a bad attitude”

Learned helplessness is the behavior exhibited by a subject after enduring repeated aversive stimuli beyond their control. In humans, learned helplessness is related to the concept of self-efficacy, the individual's belief in their innate ability to achieve goals.

“Some brilliant people have their contribution to the sum of all knowledge revoked/ denied and self inforced by learned helplessness. As with all things, it can be unlearned”

a : the power or process of reproducing or recalling what has been learned and retained especially through associative mechanisms b : the store of things learned and retained from an organism's activity or experience as evidenced by modification of structure or behavior or by recall and recognition

“He began to lose his memory as he grew older. has a good memory for faces has a short/long memory Dad has a selective memory; he remembers when he's right and forgets when he's wrong. If memory serves me rightly/correctly, we've been here before. [=If I remember accurately, we've been here before.]”

The art of teaching

“After learning how to learn, the world's most beloved teacher fell for the process itself and became a master pedagogy”

Archaic: Worthy of scorn or ridicule. Current: Silly, unbelievable

“The prices at Crazy Eddie's work ridiculous! He looked patently ridiculous in mismatched socks.”