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an interesting thing about a class of conversation we have around here is talking in vague veiled allusions- and at best somehow this can sometimes help people with a completely different problem than the one we had in mind, at worst it leads to tedious tangled misunderstandings
huge part of navigating this well is to accept the lossy nature of contextless comms in plaintext. like, it’s really not fruitful to get mad at each other for misunderstanding contextless strings of text. that any understanding happens *at all* is remarkable
a lot of surfing is about falling off your board into the sea whether or not you enjoy the process kinda has a lot to do with whether you can laugh and enjoy the falling, with the conviction that you can get back on and try again. even a perfect surf ends when the wave does