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It was also the name of the mind-erasing company in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind. That is a much better way to learn that particular word than this content-free meth-binge of an essay.

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"meth-binge"?

I feel like it's possible you have not known very many people on actual meth.

Yes, I have known more alcoholics, heroin addicts, coke freaks, and all-around pill-poppers. I wonder if you think, my perhaps inapt essay-as-a-meth-binge-objectified metaphor aside, whether the essay was worth the length, because I am of the opinion that it was full of baseless speculation in a mode approaching paranoia.

Eh, I'm not really the target audience, being neither a (this decade) user of Apple's platforms nor a developer for same. Still, I thought it was interesting enough to justify the read. I'm interested in how problems like this play out in the broader sense, and (some) modes approaching paranoia have shown themselves to have predictive utility in recent decades.

Go take a look at the stims subreddit if you want to read an actual meth binge.

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