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by perching_aix 348 days ago
> See how that felt? That's the effectiveness of telling someone on the internet you want them to behave differently. It's really pointless.

I mean, I think this was pretty alright? I appreciate the advice too, and even generally agree with it. This was just my extremely poor attempt at deescalation, because I thought it might work out nevertheless.