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I saw a quote online that a lover had convinced their lover that ‘They want me to do only that which I want to do.’ An interesting sentiment, which the OP celebrated. But, if true, and taken explicitly, it might mean: “Act as though our relationship...

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Editing one’s speech, thought, language or behavior… has become ‘activist-fashionable’ in our time. While there are a few features of this that have some degree of merit, ‘calling out’ behavior is easily captured and weaponized for...

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“Dad?” “Yes son.” “Have you ever chased a rainbow?” ” Well… yeah, once, when I was little.” “It’s just like happiness, dad.” “It is?” “Yep. The more you chase it? … The...

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A long time ago I was dead, and said to myself: That memory you have isn’t actually yours. It’s the necessity Of a special animal that doesn’t exist, and all the animals that do Are its shadow.

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“Because social media absorbs the motivations with which we might otherwise actually form social units that seek and enact change… and exchange that momentum for virtue signalling, and various other kinds of signalling.” — why aren’t we...