not my problem

A phrase indicating that one doesn’t care about someone’s problem, and feels no responsibility to help fix it. Often used to disguise the fact that while it’s not your problem, it *is* your *fault*.

example 1 (disguising fault):
“Your slanderous article has ruined my good name! I demand that you retract it.”
“Not my problem.”

example 2 (not one’s fault):
Right as I was leaving the building after quitting my sysadmin job, I heard the servers go down again. I didn’t turn back. It was not my problem any more.

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problem saturation

Anything the media/government uses to blow out of proportion and strike fear into people.

Also see:
Swine Flu, Anthrax, Mad Cow, Cuba, Marijuana, Sars, Terrorism, Global Warming, Fuel crisis, etc. etc.

Hey James, did you hear about the swine flu epidemic that's going around? I feel pretty sick I think I might have it.

Dude, that's a typical effect of problem saturation. You're fine.

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604 problem

Problems, particularly business ethics problems, that originate in the 604 area code of British Columbia, Canada but that taint the reputation of the entire province.

We have never witnessed shadow flipping here; it is uniquely a 604 problem.

problem solving

the process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues.

im problem solving, leave me alone

problem solved

when you solve a problem

"the murderer can't kill you if you are the murderer"
"problem solved"

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Pseudoscience Problem

The pseudoscience problem is a logical and pragmatic problem that understands the category of "pseudoscience" as a vague and bad category for analisys, since it can have a confuse using and even having inconsistent using majority of times, such as the neoatheist and materialist use of the term "pseudoscience" that might refer to everything that is not scientific and even to religious, spiritual, occult, supernatural, philosophical, cultural, social, political and economical themes.

"The pseudoscience problem shows how pseudoscience concept might be really inconsistent and problematic sometimes, mainly when used by neoatheists and materialists... We might need get into a new classification for scientific and non-scientific categories and even, maybe, counter neoatheism and materialism inside science, for avoid problems such as the pseudoscience problem."

"The pseudoscience problem is a good way to understand why we should be pragmatic and relativist inside scientific and non-scientific issues, mainly if it is about evidences, since we have evidences of all kinds, not just scientific evidences, it is even useful for show the cult to scientific/objective evidences might be countered inside science and the formulation of new ways to search for evidences and even adopt epistemological anarchism for openly scientific and non-scientific themes, since the scientific method might have its own problems such as pseudoscience concept."

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Madara Problem

Sometimes called "Yhwach Problem" (after the second most famous case) Madara Problem is one of the most difficult writing conundrums: this one in particularly refers to a scenario in which a writer creates a character so monstrously overpowered and indestructible that nothing in the writer's universe is capable of killing the said character, and the writer is forced to either nerf the character to the point of destructibility (often defeating the character's original purpose) or killing them by an asspull.

Named after Madara Uchiha, a character from manga Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto. Reportedly, Kishimoto at one point admitted that even he himself didn't have any way of killing Madara, and had to resort to an asspull.
Alternatively named after Yhwach, a character from manga Bleach by Tite Kubo. Starting of as a high tier character, Yhwach was made nigh-omnipotent and immortal near the end of the manga, the combination of this and a tight schedule forcing Kubo to resort to a combination of nerf and an asspull to finally finish this monster off.

Ben: "Say, Jerry: this Dante character of yours is great, but he feels too OP. How does one kill him?"
Jerry: "I... I don't really know. I don't think anyone can. I don't think even I can."
Ben: "But you wrote him!"
Jerry: "..."
Ben: "Sounds to me like you have a Madara Problem on your hands."

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