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Yep, and it’s always done as a civil case so that the cops only have to demonstrate that it’s slightly more likely than not in order to keep the stuff. The costs of defending your property are high enough that it is usually not worth it unless the thing is irreplaceable.

Once the term became popularized, it fell out of use by the psychological community, as it was used more commonly as an insult than as a psychological term.

Any term for something that is likely to be a target of scorn or mockery has this problem unless it’s so bloodless, detached and clinical that it is effectively only usable as medical jargon and barely has any meaning outside that context. George Carlin once did a bit on this.

Related is how therapy language seems to increasingly be seeping into literally everything.

The cause of the cultural behavior usually has a purpose though.

Yeah, but not necessarily one that is still relevant or even ever actually worked towards whatever goal there originally was. Cultural inertia is like that.

So it probably at some point had a purpose, but that purpose (whatever it was) might or might not apply any more or even be total nonsense.

Except it’s almost certainly technically possible. Like I can guarantee you that human level intelligence is possible in a volume of less than 2L of hardware and running on just a few W of power. The idea that human level intelligence cannot be exceeded without needing to match those space, power, or materials restrictions is kind of absurd.

We’re not deleting the old copies. You’ll always be able to go and rewatch the original versions of these works.

…yet. Remember, you’ll own nothing and be happy with it. Or else.

I still find it amusing that the first time Amazon stripped people of a book they had purchased and remotely instructed all Kindle devices to delete already downloaded copies was a version of 1984. Couldn’t have been more fitting if they tried.

Obligatory Tim Minchin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

Covering parking lots has the benefit of also protecting parked vehicles from sunlight and weather, meaning your car isn’t blazing hot when you return to it and you can unload any purchases in peace.

Why would installing panels over a parking lot be many times more expensive than installing them in any other open, flat area? Is it having to bury the power lines?

Yeah, but then you’ve got the weirdos who don’t feel that way unless it’s a white character being cast differently and the other weirdos who think it’s only acceptable when it’s a white character being cast differently.

Fair enough.

Cue obligatory Christian Woman by Type O Negative.