When someone disagrees with you online and demands you prove your point to their satisfaction by writing a complete and logically sound defense including citations, you can save a lot of time by not doing that.
Bro, I’ve known you for twelve seconds and enjoyed none of them, I’m not taking homework assignments from you.
This got a lot of responses from people pointing out that evidence is a key part of intellectual inquiry, discourse, and debate. That being able to support your beliefs is a key critical thinking skill. Which is 100% true.
Except that you don’t actually have to participate in intellectual discourse any time some fucko on the Internet tells you to.
There’s a vast difference between “this is an important thing to be able to do,” and “this is a thing that you must be continuously available to perform in public for any stranger who asks.”
it’s easier to say “im tired” than “im so sad and lonely i feel like there’s a weight in my chest and my body is so heavy i have no energy emotionally, physically or mentally to even move from my bed”
I just discovered a facet of the new-xkit addon that I have not seen talked about.
Guys, the blacklist feature works on your inbox.
I had some friends send me asks with a randomly selected word:
And then added the word I’d picked (turnip) to my blacklist, and voila. It follows the same rules and logic as anything else you blacklist.
From there, you can use the xkit mass edit feature to delete all the messages in your inbox that contain your blacklisted words WITHOUT having to read them, which means you can clear them out without triggering yourself; or you can pick one message to deal with while you block whoever sent you anon hate.
MY ANGEL @trisscar368 COMING THROUGH WITH KNOWLEDGE
I’m not sure the mass editing final step will work for burnouts like me who have 5,000 messages in our inboxes, but this is still great!
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