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yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago

“good guy” “bad guy” actually means more like “redeemable” “irredeemable”

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7/26/2022

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• about 3 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

“good guy” “bad guy” actually means more like “redeemable” “irredeemabl *to you*

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9/4/2022

yatharth in asheville@AskYatharth• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

https://t.co/TeGU0v8AEh

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2/8/2023

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Replying to @AskYatharth

@AskYatharth footnoting some riffs on wretchedness, or irredeemability https://t.co/7wdHx453wp

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 3 years ago

@Noahpinion this rhymes with a broader pattern of the wretchedness of man. its hard to be a gracious loser, those who cultivate the skills to do it often become winners, so losers as a cohort (in any context) become more and more wretched and miserable. ppl despise them for it, gets worse

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1/24/2023

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@AskYatharth https://t.co/xEsQxBWMqd

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 3 years ago

plaintext literacy is probably top 5 underdiscussed life skills in the smartphone age. those of us who are good at it seem blessed by the gods while those who are bad at it seem wretched and forsaken https://t.co/5KSUoWhnld

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1/24/2023

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@AskYatharth https://t.co/BfEHvBmxGp

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Visa’s Secular Field-Guide On How To Not Be Wretched and Be Blessed Instead, is a joke frame that’s been dogging me

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1/24/2023

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@AskYatharth https://t.co/qIP77eSA7h

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

it is not frodo's job to *save* gollum the tender paradox is always... that insisting on that heroic rescue would perpetuate that problem, because it reemphasizes the frame that gollum is wretched, unbearable, and in *some* sense must be destroyed

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1/24/2023

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@AskYatharth https://t.co/7XeSqYDl3E

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

here’s an interesting “used in a sentence” example by YourDictionary, describing an evil and greedy corporate leader – presumably rich! – a wretch. I agree with this. It’s not about your bank balance, it’s about the state of your soul, how tormented you are deep inside https://t.co/5SBIZraqNT

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1/24/2023