Yes, the term is hanging in there (and could do so indefinitely) even though Google stopped giving decent results several years ago.
It had the vibe of something someone really wanted to "be a meme" and therefore it was flogged extremely aggressively. But, you know, there was beans. God, so fucking hilarious. Especially the millionth one, that was the best of the lot.
Still unironically better than the jeans shit that followed shortly after, though.
So this might make me seem surly, my excuse is that I watched "rage comics" get run into the ground over on Reddit, along with that hideous narwhal bullshit, and cringe like that sticks with you.
kbin.run although the missing instance blocking is really starting to get on my tits.
Cue "Green Demon Challenge"
Who'd'a thunk a bunch of angry (self-styled-)commie trolls who got punted off Reddit and decided to make their own, with Marxist blackjack and Marxister hookers, would eventually deteriorate into this shit.
Industrial strength cognitive dissonance, the only thing involving cognition they're good at at all.
That's fair: abstraction. The technical wrongness of "orbiting electrons" as in the whichever-model serves a purpose: the truth is hairy, and more importantly not practically relevant if you're calculating sliding boxes around planes and that sort of thing.
On the other hand, "10% of the brain" and similar nuggets of common "wisdom" are just flat-out wrong, often stupidly so. There's very little use in that.
Close range.
Not natively, as it's an extremely niche concern. If you're on a normal browser, you can get uBlock origin and make a custom rule.
.... no, I don't think I will.
amio
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I agree... to a certain degree. I don't think every sort of gatekeeping makes you an asshole, but this... does apply, unfortunately.
The specific reason for my take here is that people dismiss things they don't understand all the damn time, especially if it's an "invisible" affliction. Implicitly and sometimes without even realizing it has happened.
It is impossible for people to understand major depression, "significant" ADHD, etc if they haven't experienced it themselves, and most people just haven't, and therefore can't. While that is true, the brain is only too eager to pattern match, which is where you get into "major depression is like when I felt slightly sad once and could just focus on something else" and "ADHD is just like when I didn't particularly feel like doing that one thing, but then it took almost no additional effort to do it anyway and it made me feel better afterwards". If you try to map those experiences onto people with, bluntly speaking, any kind of actual problem at all, you will think the problem is much simpler than it realistically is to anyone actually affected - and not even realize it is happening.
Some people can get closer to actual understanding through (near) connections who both suffer obviously enough and are talkative enough about it - but this is rare and it fucking shows.
In short, it is intellectual laziness proper, in a form that you very definitely can do something about. As opposed to just saying "you and you with your definitive respective neurodevelopmental differences from the average, you should be able to tackle any consequence arising from it with straight up aplomb". Which, in case it wasn't obvious, I'm not a huge fan of.