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      It helps establish a motive for the killer, which is very important in a court of law. Knowing why someone did something affects sentencing, for example.

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      I know it’s absurd. Even if I had proof of something illegal, I have zero authority to do anything about it. I’m just venting because I’m annoyed, and I’m sick of Musk’s constant bullshit.

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          Here’s a fun read for you: functional illiteracy. It’s the phenomenon whereby a person is capable of “reading”, as in sounding out words, but functionally incapable of extracting meaning from them beyond the painfully obvious.

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            I have the opposite happen to me with Chinese, like I know 危高电压 means “danger high electric pressure (voltage)”, but have no idea how to sound it out. Dysfunctional literacy? 😄

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              Haha, I think that’s usually just called “learning a language from books”. My magyar (Hungarian) suffers from a similar issue.