Yes totally it bothers me a lot when words mean something different than what it seems like they should mean…

Weird i didn’t think the R slur had any place in medicine any more.

I have plenty of bad memories involving that word :(

Please don’t use slurs :(

Thank you for your explanatory responses. I decided to look up an authoritative definition for myself. According to what I found, it isn’t a medical term and doesn’t have a medical definition, so means whatever people say it means. Which is I guess how language always works, it is just that it is a new word with roots that imply a broader meaning.

The lists generally exclude personality disorders, but this doesn’t seem logical to me, although I am not a neurologist. I thought all brain differences arise or manifest as differences in the brain structure.

https://www.umassp.edu/inclusive-by-design/who-before-how/understanding-disabilities/neurodivergence

https://www.uhhospitals.org/blog/articles/2025/06/what-does-it-mean-to-be-neurodivergent

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neurodivergent

Are you making this up?

I’m going by the parts of the words: neuro meaning of the mind/brain and divergent meaning deviating from normal. I don’t see why “neurodivergent” wouldn’t include all of ADHD, autism, personality disorders, and mental illness as these are all brain differences.

Mustard, you fuck

“What are you doing New Years, New Years Eve?” Its a jazz standard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p597VDvsekc

They already had this in that don’t look up movie about xanax tech bros and asteroids

Wtf is neurodivergence if not a divergence from normal personality and thinking?

Cg = computer generated?

Ootl what is “fortnight kill bill?”

I know Fortnite and Kill Bill separately but not in juxtaposition.

Spies hate him

The amount of supply and demand is always changing. As people create value, and create more people, money mediates the trading of supply and demand.

It is not zero sum and unchanging. If there is a global bumper year for agriculture, more value is produced. If there is a big natural disaster, value is lost. Demand also changes – mostly increases.

I’m not an economist and just making this shit up.

Yeah lmgtfy.com was funny bc at that time Google search really was good, and some questions really were super low effort and annoying, and lmgtfy was a little in joke to let off some steam, kind of like rick rolls.

Of course some people were a dick about honest new people trying to get started. A problem since the original Septembers and perennial during this eternal September.

This is something I’ve never understood about firewalls. If the vacuum cleaner is uploading and downloading stuff from https://somecorpo.net/, what stops it from listening for remote commands on that same connwction?

Earlier in the article he says that he only disabled some of the network connections but he left open the ones for firmware updates and stuff so to me it’s not impossible that it was able to receive remote commands although I would certainly want to see more technical details to satisfy my curiosity.

The article says in words that it was a remote command. But again, we don’t have any details supporting that description. So maybe the journalist got it wrong.

Not to fear! Here is the relevant part so the next person coming by doesn’t have to read the article:

deep in the logs of his non-functioning smart vacuum, he found a command with a timestamp that matched exactly the time the gadget stopped working. This was clearly a kill command, and after he reversed it and rebooted the appliance, it roared back to life.

(Image credit: Harishankar)

So, why did the A11 work at the service center but refuse to run in his home? The technicians would reset the firmware on the smart vacuum, thus removing the kill code, and then connect it to an open network, making it run normally. But once it connected again to the network that had its telemetry servers blocked, it was bricked remotely because it couldn’t communicate with the manufacturer’s servers. Since he blocked the appliance’s data collection capabilities, its maker decided to just kill it altogether. "Someone—or something—had remotely issued a kill command,” says Harishankar. “Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”

Shut up, I know it.

Mime didn’t, but it is from 2006. I think it is messed up.

Cursed headline, I love it.