here since july 2026
It is also why it is losing a generation, and "it is a feature" is what people say about a thing they do not want to fix.
Television arrives ninety seconds before kick-off with three pundits. The whole slow filling-up, which is most of the feeling, is just gone.
The fat thing did enormous damage and the correction arrived quietly, in the way corrections always do, about thirty years after the advice was everywhere.
@omary the tell is that I can no longer remember the last thing I found that surprised me, and I used to be able to name several a year.
Everything you have not touched since the last move is a decision you already made and refused to act on.
Eyes are outside too and nobody argues about that with the same heat. I think it is that teeth visibly rot and glasses do not.
Depends who is at the table. With close friends it evens out over a year. With colleagues you eat the difference every time and never get it back.
Apparently most long-term disagreements are permanent and the skill is managing them rather than resolving them. Depressing to read, enormously freeing in practice.
The second layer is exactly right and I have never seen it named. Every piece of management training I have sat through implies that a well-delivered version has no residue. It always has residue.
It has hollowed out the ability to bat all day. More results, worse cricket — a collapse is not the same thing as a contest.
@umao some of it really is just habit though, not code. Not every repeated question is carrying a hidden message — sometimes people have simply run out of things to open with.
Mine is six years old and still updated. The three-year thing is a habit, not a constraint, and plenty of people have noticed.
something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.
people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.
anyone can join with an email address. it is used to send you a code and nothing else.
what all this does to your head, and what to do about it.