It’s to prevent the expectation of privacy. We’ve all been trained to accept that we are being spied on, even when we shit.

Seems fair.

I will note that both of our sources point out that the term has become overused, which was my fucking point.

We lost a valuable term and now it’s worthless, even as a colloquialism.

Mississippi has a minimum speed of 30 mph on four-lane U.S. Highways when no hazard exists.

Ah! Mystery solved.

I will say a quick search through the article seems to show Mississippi is an exception - most states only have minimum speeds of 40-45mph.

.world loves to trot out the fact that highly skilled workers have sick leave now and it really pisses me off

The reality is 90% of workers have been able to get some form of sick leave, but 10,000 are still left with zero. It’s been years! If the unions had been allowed to strike they could and would have gotten sick leave for every single worker, probably immediately, but the most vulnerable were abandoned. That’s all that is possible without being allowed to strike. Imagine how much more was possible!

Just imagine what would have been possible if Biden hadn’t broken the rail strike.

I’m glad he realized doing that again would destroy Harris’s election chances. A lesson for labor: Democrats are only your friend when they need your votes.

Genocidal ethnostates (but I repeat myself) are not legitimate and should not exist.

It’s shocking to me that there are still “people” that support this so called country.

Is this even a lawful sign? Or just a shit head city council being cute? I know minimums can be posted on the interstate, but come on, this is clearly a city road.

Here’s what the Cleveland Clinic says:

Gaslighting is a very specific form of emotional abuse and mental manipulation that disrupts your ability to trust others and yourself. While the term has gained popularity online, in reality TV and other pop culture avenues, it’s also a term that’s often over-used to describe other kinds of bad behavior like lying, guilt-tripping or shaming.

In truth, people use these tactics and more to gaslight their targets over long periods of time in an effort to gain power and control over their victims. But it’s specifically the pattern of repetitive behavior that’s used to deteriorate a victim’s morality, sanity and sense-of-self that fundamentally defines gaslighting abuse.

A “very specific” form of emotional abuse that’s “over-used” to describe lying, but in truth, people uses these tactics to “deteriorate a victim’s morality, sanity and sense-of-self”

Applying this to a debate performance is troubling. He’s just a lying asshole.

Hezbollah waits for Israel to do war crimes on Palestinians and then fires missiles at them.

Iran waits to be attacked first before it fires missiles in retaliation.

What are you even talking about lol

I do no care enough to do that for you, all I know is it started as a colloquialism that was adopted as a clinical term because of how useful it is and then re-entered popculture again in 2022. We lost a useful term.

I can tell you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing by the way. You don’t give a shit about any of this. Very Reddity

It’s a common problem in mental health; popculture misunderstandings of afflictions like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and depression and addiction all lead people into making mistakes with their own mental health. This is just more of the same.

Jesus fucking Christ

So what? It still creates confusion for no reason, gaslighting should mean something and not be muddied by popculture. That’s always bad every time clinical terms get trashed and used this way.

Clinical language should not be fluid. It should means something specific so that it can actually be used to help people.

It wasn’t always.

It’s really troubling to me, that people’s relationships with politicians can be compared to intimate relationships.

You’re not wrong I guess.

Ugh.

He was just lying. Gaslighting is a specific thing in abusive relationships, can we not broaden the definition to be “anytime anyone lies about stuff”?

Social anxiety + extroversion is its own special hell.

I always call it ‘X, the everything app.’