It would also be nice if the terms weren’t a mixture of real clinical terms and colloquialisms (e.g. gaslighting: see https://dictionary.apa.org/gaslight). Also if the links were all to reputable clinical sources.

I visited friends on Cape Cod last summer. (Lucky me!) We’d taken two cars to the beach, and we forgot something in the car I didn’t ride in.

The Charger comments and links told a great story. Shoulda been.

Law and Order was always at its best when you could turn off your brain and pretend that the show took place in a fantasy universe where police and prosecutors weren’t inherently shit.

I haven’t come across the crosstabs (breaking down Trump support by different demographic factors) but in general Trump voters have tended to be married, older, less than college-educated, and living outside urban areas.

It’s a restomod if you don’t care that the “resto-” and the “-mod” are both not done.

Most people, I think, don’t pay attention to inflation. My parents still sometimes talk about the cars that you could buy in the 1960s for $4,000 to $6,000—including the Ford Mustang, C2 Corvette, Jaguar E-Type, and so forth. They somehow seem not to remember that the median household income back then was in the…

And who writes these terrible headlines?

“...GOP Members flaunting health and safety mandates...”

“Move fast, break things,” for example, is more appealing to investors than to customers.

“Wait a minute,” he told the deputies. “I forgot--I don’t own a car.”

What a wonderful article. Thank you. One paragraph in, I knew I would be reading to the end:

Unless you are personally asked by someone, you should just NEVER (EVER, and I mean fucking EVER) comment on: their body, their relationship, their hair, their clothes ... basically anything.

I don’t need a vaccine. I have guns.

In the U.S. at least, I think government organizations often use “elderly” to mean old enough to be retired or receive Medicare, e.g.,

This is a longstanding argument in the field of artificial intelligence. In the 1960s Joe Weizenbaum developed ELIZA, a pattern-matching system that was essentially the first chatbot. Its best-known patterns reflected a Rogerian psychotherapy session. Ken Colby hit upon the idea of providing ELIZA to psychiatric…

Fast food is made to be addictive so I’d say keeping them from forming a bad habit is fine.

Thanks. That’s new to me, an excellent observation.

Thanks for the Slate link. I take it back—he’s not as smart as I thought. (And he’s certainly not as smart as he thinks.)

I’ve read a number of Manjoo’s pieces over the years, and he’s a smart guy. Like a lot of tech writers, though, he has fundamental blind spots when it comes to the human side of interactive technology. Also, this is just so facile: