This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
It's buried deep in the article, but they seem to recommend:
the LEAP method. Developed by Xavier Amador, it stands for Listen Empathize Agree Partner, and is meant to help better communicate with people who don’t realize they’re mentally ill or are refusing treatment.
They link to https://namiga.org/resources/about-mental-illness/leap-assist-someone-accept-help/ which unhelpfully tells me my IP is blocked by CloudFlare because accessing that link is considered an "attack"
Super useful! It's also how to deprogram cultists and a likely approach to MAGA/AfD brained people.
Probably because they got slashdotted
Try the Archive.org mirror
What does slash dotted mean?
It's the old-school term for the "Reddit hug of death". In other words, huge popular site links to tiny unpopular site, and tiny unpopular site is overwhelmed by extreme levels of traffic it never expected to see and is completely unprepared for, server hosting it melts into a puddle of goo and website becomes inaccessible. (Realistically, server hosting it goes to 100% CPU or memory or both and the website just crashes and doesn't restart or only functions intermittently and extremely slowly)
Server admin, seeing their server turning to a puddle of molten goo, decides to quickly throw emergency barricades in front of it to try to block enough of the traffic that the server can continue to function, often in vain.
Slashdot.org was the precursor to Reddit for old techies. It still kind of is, but it's a shadow of what it once was.
What does slash dotted mean?
Old term from the dawn of time. Slashdot is quite possibly the largest tech forum in history. It was fairly common for small sites to get mentioned or promoted on slashdot, only for the overwhelming traffic to crash whatever it was that was being discussed. A mass surge in traffic that causes a website to fail became known as being Slashdotted.
