there is one (1) to handle habitually manipulative people and that is getting the fuck away
if you aren’t extracting yourself no you are not handling it
Once when I was a teen I was looking at a stripper forum bc I was bored and one girl was like “Richard Ramirez has proposed to me and I am accepting” and all the others were like “please stop being an unbelievable dumbass” and this is kind of like that
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I am looking for the syntax textbook I used as an undergrad. I think the cover was beige and it was enormous and boring. does that sound familiar to anyone
Big boring beige
I think the title involved a specific theory? But I don’t know any syntax theories
This is a particular metamoral stance about what constitutes “acceptable” grounds for pushing a strong judgment, treated as an objective fact 😜😜
They felt too many participants were choosing the “unacceptable” justification so they “solved” this by more firmly baking their metamoral position into the study questions 😜😜😜😜
Grading isn’t fun but easily the worst thing about the end of the term is hearing people talk about their baffling students who almost certainly have uncontrolled ADHD
Not starting a task bc of dysfunctional executive control from the inside feels like... just not doing it! It’s not like beep beep neurological problem, you... just do not do the thing you absolutely need to do, while telling yourself you’re about to, and about to, and about to
I didn’t talk to any of my professors when this was happening to me, because I (probably correctly) felt like I would have to explain myself, and I literally had nothing to say. Was I supposed to go in like “I have not finished the paper, because I just am not working on it”
remember in the 90s when the big evangelical thing was making sure kids were ready to die in school shootings for god, didn’t see things going downhill from there
Today Gorbie slither/dove under a tree grate and recovered an ancient salami
One of these
my poor brother in law was alone with her and he had a problem bc he is not so familiar with dogs and she was under a grate and particularly wanted to keep her salami
When u think of Democrats as offering a worldview through which people will try to understand their lives, it’s not good
people are disenfranchised and disaffected and “we live in a meritocracy except for bias against women and people of color” doesn’t even attempt to give everyone a framework for the fact that their life prospects don’t look great anymore ?? what r u supposed to do with that
a little more context, from Pierre Bourdieu’s Language and Symbolic Power