have these people not heard of monero?

I'm curious as to how it was adopted by countries for which English is not the primary language. I remember being surprised when I heard Parisians using it regularly in their speech.

For one, it's an easy pick for someone with a cosmopolitan spirit. Then there's also a lot of gadgets or software that come with the untranslated "ok" which serves as a pushing base for all but the most aware and opposed to the adoption of foreign words.

>Then there's also a lot of gadgets or software that come with the untranslated "ok"

The word has been used a long time before gadgets and software became common here in Sweden. I would guess it comes from films and tv-programs.

Have heard somewhere else this was widely spread in WWII era or thereabouts since it was good for radio communications and there were many USians around

I heard it got picked up from US soldiers during WW-II.

oldie but goodie.

Pffff, anyone who doesn't measure things on a scale of 8747-41947 is a troglodyte.

Ol Ed will kill kittens like nothin. I've seen him do it. He learned it from Napoleon.

an excellent lesson in humility.

I couldn't help but think of a drug user's eagerness to attach deeper meaning to seemingly unimportant events while under the effects of heightened dopamine levels.

I think this ties in closely with the dopamine hypothesis of Schizophrenia and Amphetamine being the chemical model for said disease.

Only by a small portion of the psychiatric community. The vast majority believe that the causation runs the opposite direction, that it's self-medication. This has been discussed for years for just about every serious mental illness, in fact. There's no real consensus either way, but most mental health professionals I know agree with this.

(I grew up in a house of mental health professionals, so I've had no dearth of opinions on the matter, to say the least.)

Yet another problem that can be reduced to the chicken V egg dilemma.

That was nice of him to give them an offer they couldn't refuse.