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Appreciate your chiming in. I always squirm a little at jokes that imply that therapy is useless. Even if they're funny, it's a difficult topic and it's sad to think it's reinforcing that mindset for someone who actually needs help.

So true. I bet it happens a lot. I got my degree in English with an eye towards becoming an editor. Now I work with CRMs.

I like it when I'm remembered because it means that I was worth remembering.

Always boggled me to see people trying to post long write-ups on complicated topics on Twitter of all places.

We had an agitator trying to shout over the crowds at ours, and someone had brought out really loud bell and just started going to town until they left.

I'm still kind of surprised we haven't seen a similar model for gamers/streamers yet.

I worked at a call center for a while, and it wasn't common to need people to sleep, but during a particularly nasty snow storm, the CEO was trying to get people to sleep over at the office so they could wake up and take on extra shifts. (Not great, but we did answer for a lot of healthcare offices. Not really an excuse, but context.)

Always wondered why some of the CSRs at the call center would get chewed out more than others despite being polite and respectful and I think you just made me understand that it was because they sounded false. They had a very obvious "customer service" voice. The ones who didn't tended to just sound like normal folk having a good day. (That's the secret sauce, they usually weren't having a good day, but they sounded like they were in on some joke with you, that joke being 'ahh talking to people, am I right?')

I also firmly believe it's to crush the idea that the majority of people don't like what's happening. Feels like standard censorship to me. If you look around, and it feels like everyone is against you, you have much incentive to speak up. Nobody wants to stand alone. Reddit is such a huge platform for discussion--they want to use that power to shape what is 'normal'.

Ayy same age, got a stuffed whale and a stuffed kitty!

Big Al's Big Gay Ranch was already taken unfortunately.

Who's out here defending an ad?