With no less than three citations.

Well said. Fuck.

Age verification requirements.

She’s 22, but still.

That you tell everyone to go look at and find themselves as a way for hand waving away your weak and sensational claims.

You’ve outlined it in your post. Your conversation is about how you want more than a platonic friendship and if she doesn’t, you are developing feelings and for your own sake cannot continue to hang out.

Whether you could still be her friend via text or on a other level is also up to you, do you need a clean break or can you just “take a break” and reach back out to her when you’re ready or whatever?

What a garbage take.

Yeah. They used pseudoscience to trick someone into confessing. Just as lie detectors aren’t admissible in court it doesn’t prevent them from being used as a means of coercion.