the.com/unresponsiveness
The silence that answers your question louder than words ever could.
means The state of failing to react, reply, or engage — a person, system, or body that just won't answer back.
from Built from 'respond,' which traces to Latin respondere — 're-' (back) plus 'spondere' (to pledge or promise). To respond was originally to make a return pledge, like answering a vow with a vow. Add 'un-' and '-ness' and you get the noun for that pledge withheld: no answering vow comes back at all, just the dial tone of absence.
- double duty
- means both ignoring you and medically unconscious
- design flaw
- apps freeze it, relationships weaponize it
- the tell
- read receipts made it impossible to fake absence