[people having trouble separating them] does maybe enhance my sense that the whole community is desperately lacking in nate!courage, if so many people have such trouble distinguishing between “try naming your real worry” and “try being brazen/rude”. (tho ofc part of the phenomenon is me being bad at anticipating reader confusions; the illusion of transparency continues to be a doozy.)
I wish Nate had optimized his post more for being clear about which of these things he was talking about!
yeah, I left off this part but Nate also said