Elizabeth Wardotter

Also, by the way, I've rarely seen unruly kids at places like Applebees either. I've only ever seen them at those kinds of places, but rarely even there. All these people claiming to encounter unruly hellions everywhere they go -- where exactly are you spending your time?

Be honest. Delete one thing from earth if you can.

School days last all day for a really uncomfortable reason no one wants to talk about; most parents view "public school" as basically being government daycare & so it needs to cover a full work day, even if the opportunity cost is a complete waste for most kids

If there is one thing the last week taught me, it's that drama-content-creators need to be cut out, as much as possible, from the media diet of people who actually care about developing ideas and community. I admit to indulging in this content myself because it's cathartic to see them go after bad actors like Inuendo Studios, James Lindsay, or Vaush. However, the mode of attack is fundamentally degenerate. I realized this last week when I saw drama-streamer Chud-logic take the piss out of CounterPoints over his recent divorce. As is no secret, I very much dislike Conterpoints and have thought that his positions were shit from the get-go. But there's something fundamentally dishonorable about kicking a man while he's down for personal events in his life, even if he is broadcasting those events to the world. I don't want to defeat Counterpoints because he had a horrific divorce. I want to defeat Counterpoints by getting him to accept my BETTER ideas. But such is not the case for drama streamers; they would rather have people embarrass themselves because that is part of their business model. In the case of Chud logic making fun of Counterpoints, I could never forget the time in 2020 when we took an out-of-context clip someone made of me from a private Discord call to imply that I said the opposite of what I meant. No corrections, clarifications, or retractions were good enough because drama was the only objective these people cared about. Such is the way of drama-streamers; they don't care about ideas or beliefs, they just care about generating scandal. If asked, "What do you actually believe?" almost none of these guys could answer. They are pure "view from nowhere" people. They want dialogue not to advance an idea but to keep you talking until you make a mistake, then they superimpose the most uncharitable interpretation on that mistake imaginable, just so they have their scandal to talk about. Once more, it feels good to bring this process to bear against degenerate bad actors. But it's impossible not to notice that the process is as degenerate as the worst of their targets. It feeds into the very mechanisms that put entertainment above truth.

You can rip a child out of a mothers womb limb by limb but you can’t move a birds nest

"When you are angry with someone, the way to find peace is to pray for that person and ask God to reward him or her for making you suffer." - St. Thérèse of Lisieux

I’m not competing for men who watch porn. I’m not part of their dating pool bc I am inaccessible to them. I am inaccessible to them because I do not date men who watch porn. If I entered a relationship w a porn watcher under false pretenses, I would exit as soon as I’m aware.