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Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds (arstechnica.com)
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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You're wrong.

Catatonic syndrome was a diagnosis first used by a German psychiatrist in the 1800's. Before that it was described by ancient Greeks.

It's a category (also a word that has nothing to do with cats) of major depression and schizophrenia.

[–] Verat@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Scruffing a cat poisons it into a coma?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's what the conversation was initially about. My mistake.

The rest of my comment stands.