I just don't pretend 😅 Most people will get it if you're honest and those who won't, aren't very good people to keep around.

Here's a springboard article, if you want to do your own research.

https://www.nzz.ch/english/how-the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-came-from-a-media-driven-hostage-spectacle-ld.1752897

The woman, based on whom the term was coined (the psychiatrist never even talked to her) wrote an autobiography "I became Stockholm Syndrome".

There's also the works of Allan Wade, a Canadian psychologist, who has talked to the victims throughout his career.

Basically when you're at the whims of an armed lunatic, you might cozy up to them in order to appease them. The victims were also really afraid of the police coming in and shooting them. Which is pretty justified, considering the police couldn't even identify the perpetrator before conceding on his demands and bringing in his prison buddy.

The guy with a gun, whom they've been talking to for days and has not hurt them in the slightest looked much less dangerous than the impending doom of the police barging in and shooting the wrong person.

You're right. The water molecule doesn't even consist of ions, it has covalent bonds. I dun goofed big time.

Also Sioux isn't a native name, it was given to the Lakota people and others by the French colonizers.

I want to believe these are pickled body parts found at a serial killer's pantry, because the idea someone pickled innocent veggies in this nightmare is somehow more disturbing.

Mitochondria is plural. Mitochondrion is singular. They're still wrong though.

My dad when he chose not to wear a condom.

Once I take my evening pills, I literally stare into my phone until I drop dead.

It's really weird when you fall asleep with your phone in your hand, and your hand suddenly relaxes making the phone flop onto you waking you up.

I doubt it would tbh. It's more or less equivalent to Nintendo shutting down the eshop, or an MMO terminating its online service.

You do not own digital games, you own a license to use a service that may or may not be provided to you.

I don't think it's as simple as that. Science is messy and knowing its limitations is just as important as knowing its conclusion.

Scientific opinion can and should be able to change pretty rapidly, the educational system can't.

Besides, a cardiologist is highly unlikely to be able to reliably tell whether a neurological study's conclusions are sound, or not. Let alone someone, who isn't even a doctor.

To top it all up, the monetary incentives in academia are about as corrupt, as it gets. It wasn't so long ago, when studies about how smoking tobacco isn't actually harmful, or addictive, got published in mainstream journals (funded by the tobacco industry, of course).

The result is being taught science that was disproven 20 years ago. I think primary education should focus just as much on critical thinking as it does on learning facts at the very minimum.

It's the white emerald mine owner equivalent of ghetto names.

Lil Nas was named after a car and I love it.

Run, sweet summer child, run far away from here. You don't want to know.