The term for this is "the euphemism treadmill". Basically every word we have for someone being unintelligent was at one point a medical term and for 100s or 1000s of years human beings have been making the same lame joke with whatever the current word is. We can get mad at people for doing it, but history shows it's guaranteed to happen anyway.
McScience
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See I'm in software dev and I am constantly getting recruiter calls asking me for in-office work. I'm the guy saying "you literally cannot pay me enough to go back in an office"... but I'd gladly take 2/3 or maybe even 1/2 my current pay for a 4-day, 32 hour work week.
Personally? It's because I'm doing dev for a shitty old Linux version with an ancient set of packages. The particular distro has almost no dev tooling so I really can't use it as my OS most of the time, so I use a modern relative.
My actual builds wind up being done via docker containers but I've got a bastardized "close enough" set of packages I use for local builds just to test what I'm working on immediately.
Cringe. Recently learned that "the youths" have basically morphed the phrase into just meaning "anything bad". Like, that word was so useful though to specifically mean "something that someone does which flies in the face of social norms to which they are oblivious, but which makes onlookers uncomfortable". That word condensed a damn paragraph and I want it back