Fair points, I’m sold

The chili stuit for reference is golden

This is an incredibly consistent AI image if that’s true, can you read the language or know something that I’d have missed?

I’d be willing to wager these people also exhibit telltale signs of anti-social personality disorders. Who woulda thunk, that anti-social people would be antithetical to society?

I have suffered from tinnitus my entire life (swimmers ear) and never received anything beyond ‘That sucks, good luck!’. I’m a man.

What you’re saying is a real thing that happens, it is in no way relevant to this conversation.

I don’t think that it’s been proven that reading makes you more empathetic, I think that there has been a correlation established between those who exhibit empathy and enjoying fiction (or at least narratives where you adopt another perspective).

I think it would be almost impossible to prove that reading improves empathy, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the part of your brain responsible for empathy gets a workout when reading fiction.

Or being a Tesla owner and therefore not caring about democracy

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Because they really feel they’re right, and that’s what matters — right?

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It’s more along the lines of the comma is too weak for the pause. Likewise, there are places where the em dash is too strong for the pause.

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Amusingly enough, one use case for em dashes is a pause where a comma would be too weak — refuting your assertion.

Also, you used a hyphen.

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Great example of ‘say the same thing enough times, eventually someone will believe you’. I this case, ‘gubmint don’t work’.

It literally says this in the article

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I see what you’re saying, and I do recognize the logic in it — for someone that wants to change. I’ve known too many addicts that are perfectly fine with taking those positive affirmations and turning right back around and doing the exact same shit they’ve always done.

I guess my question is: what separates positive affirmations from enabling when the addict has no interest in change?

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