The American Psychological Association tags “gaslighting” as a “colloquialism”.

Lalo Schifrin and Morricone would like a word with you.

Sad story but pretty shoddy “journalism”. The damnation of Stanford may be well deserved but it’s not really the writer’s job to deliver it. It calls everything else into question.

Scientifically, I think that’s (sorta) true:
“Individuals with the lowest mental age level (less than three years) were identified as idiots; imbeciles had a mental age of three to seven years, and morons had a mental age of seven to ten years”

Yeah, there you go. Irrational name-calling.

This is not a real thing. Gaslighting, ghosting, cuffing, and amateur diagnoses of “narcissism” are trite pseudo-phenomena that used to exist only on the gaudy, shaming covers of COSMOPOLITAN magazine. Thanks to the interwebs, such tropes are ubiquitous and given longer tails than they deserve. Cosmo has a long…

Yeah, that whole curt and smug thing pops up about a millisecond before the angry accusations and finger pointing. “They” have weaponized prescriptive high school English teacher cliches.

Meh, I don’t know if it’s arduous but it’s not intuitive. 

I was thinking more along the lines of a hammer. But you do you.

The “they/them” pronoun thing is always going to be weird. Mangling plurality and possessive usage is awkward and counter-intuitive. “Ms.” is just barely in the lexicon and it’s been around for more than a century.

“...an additional mix at the streamer and another mix, so to speak, by the viewer’s device...”

The audio is not getting remixed, it’s getting compressed and decompressed by a hardware device and sent through a bunch of random gear in someone’s living room.

Freedom of speech is not a problem in search of a solution. The type of online discourse that segments everything into left/right is lazy and irrational. Looking at things rationally and addressing concrete issues is the solution. Filter out the noises on the fringes yourself.

You are not wrong. However, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton are the only significant places in their respective counties that Trump lost. Trump rallies in the “Wilkes-Barre” arena were technically in Wilkes-Barre Township - as opposed to Wilkes-Barre City - a different municipality. That said, if you venture a mile or two…

Elon Musk is a blowhard, but if you think he’s an incompetent moron just say so. Never trust a hippie who makes a living working for big media.

Excepting music that didn’t make the final cut, most extras don’t incur additional costs. Apple and the Criterion app have provided director’s commentaries but the practice seems to be waning in streaming. When DVD was king, a cult film could release a “special edition” at a premium price without a lot of added…

I will admit to the occasional Dominos splurge, but to me, pizza almost always means a local joint. I think it’s one category that has not been squashed by chains.

I actually like some of Subway’s non-sub things. It’s been a while since I worked close enough to drop a few dimes there on a regular basis but they had some kind of egg/flatbread thing that I thought was quite tasty and a great value. Subway is very non-exciting, but it’s really one of the few fast food options where…

I think ‘taters are pulled from the ground in a fairly early stage and left in silos for a few months to ripen.

Scranton (and nearby Wilkes-Barre) have decent (small) downtowns and a fairly large college population. Decent jobs are basically non-existent locally. Some neighbrhoods are pretty dreary but the area is slightly less MAGA and ultra-white than most of northeast PA. But you would be hard pressed to find an apartment…

Rogan and Musk are the creepy neighbors you always pretended didn’t exist. They have always been there beating their kids and smoking meth. But you ignored them because it was easier. You let them thrive.