yes! in general, sensations associated with comfort (warm, soft, good textures, comfort foods, fireplaces, soft rain while being indoors, the presence of safe people, certain kinds of sunlight (through a window, onto something soft you can lie on and let it warm you), being indoors in general, etc) lower target stress and sensations which require being-tolerated or alertness raise it.
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introducing: target stress
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i model it as being really easy for most people to learn to read lowercase things which have sufficient paragraph breaks but if this is not the case i would stop doing that in mediums when people arent used to it
i think it’s positive sum to exist-in-a-state which supports people using more explorative grammatical styles, because language is pretty constraining for expression for a lot of people and pushing them to optimize their language use helps a lot
this has the downside that poeple need to be capable of parsing different grammatical styles, but as far as i can tell on platforms where this is widespread literally everyone manages to do this because it’s much easier than parsing different writing styles (which is necessary for anything involving a large number of people writing things)
if i put two spaces after the ends of sentences would that help you, oliver? like this. to make sentences more clearly delineated. (edit: i think they get removed automatically, is there a way i can make that not happen)
why do trivial inconveniences matter?
meta note: formatting processing models as a conversing explorer-explainer pair may be useful for you as well. ymmv.
Without disagreeing with any specific logical statement you have made, I call bullshit on this. You have quoted a short segment such that technically what you’re saying is not false, but you’re drawing a broader equivalence & request for social credit around “not wanting to be in factions” which is not valid in context of the fact that you are blatantly participating in a faction and doing factional protocols. People are usually on board with the idea of it being better to just talk rather than do politics, and I acknowledge & appreciate the sense in which you want to want to not do politics, but there is a game here which you are playing in and I wish you would own up to that.
capital letters to denote sentence-start seem less useful to me than capital letters to denote a certain type of emphasis
also, it is a matter of principle that i should… check that people are paying enough attention to be willing to interact with atypical grammar
jeremybentham’sstolen head, whoever you are, i love you too