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This advice won't be for everyone, but: anytime you're tempted to say "I was traumatized by X", try reframing this in your internal dialogue as "After X, my brain incorrectly learned that Y".

I have to admit, for a brief moment i thought he was correctly expressing displeasure at twitter.

@EY
This is of course a dangerous sort of tweet, but I predict that including variables into it will keep out the worst of the online riff-raff - the would-be bullies will correctly predict that their audiences' eyes would glaze over on reading a QT with variables.

Fool! This bully (is it weird to speak in the third person ?) thinks using variables here makes it MORE sneer worthy, especially since this appear to be a general advice, but i would struggle to think of a single instance in my life where it's been applicable.

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Scene: Yud, a middle aged man, walks around in a forest. epistemic status: no knowledge of bear traps.

Yud steps in a bear trap. His shin bones break, blood begins geysering out from his leg, and he howls in pain.

Yud, gritting teeth: “I have attained correct knowledge about bear traps. My biases are now less wrong. Thusly, this is not trauma!”

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You're in a forest, walking along in the leaves, when all of a sudden you look down...

You look down and see Yud, Swlabr. he's crawling toward you...

Yud lays on its back, his leg bleeding in the hot sun, struggling to get a bear trap of his leg, but he can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

You're correcting his usage of the word trauma! Why is that, Swlabr?

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