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~tetris

Jee-zus. How're ya doing? And do you know what caused it? What were you doing at the time? I hope you're relaxing a bit and are recovering okay.

As for communication: I guess we're all ships in the night passing each other with confusing signalling equipment, but roughly getting the message across: "Hi / don't crash into me please"

>  it was a textural nightmare
> garner trust

there was a time when I first joined this forum where I genuinely thought you were a bot, because I wasn't used to the way you communicated and thought: "this is word salad". It was only after a few other exchanges, and you explicitly telling me you were not a bot, did I begin to wrap my head around the way you explained things.

I think intent/trust is a big part of it. Once you know what someone is intending to say, and you trust their experience in the topic, you kind of gloss over how they say it - where how they say it is more of a characteristic of their speech than a measure of the merit of their words.

> Am I really to the point where I don't trust anyone save my wife, dad, and siblings?

Maybe. I'm getting there too. How long do we have until the bots find this place, the mod(s) get overwhelmed with the seemingly coherent requests from new users? Do we close the garden gates and profile any newcomers like bored NIMBYs? Probably we'll have to.

Anyway, I hope you're doing better now healthwise

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

> Jee-zus. How're ya doing? And do you
> know what caused it? What were you
> doing at the time? I hope you're
> relaxing a bit and are recovering
> okay.

I'm somewhat educatedly guessing I spun out at the intersection of age, stress, bodily intake stupidity, and repeatedly dwelling on thought patterns that tend to spiral downwardly.

I was sleeping at the time of overt manifestation - wife heard me making odd slurping-ish sounds from another room....

> As for communication: I guess we're
> all ships in the night passing each
> other with confusing signalling
> equipment, but roughly getting the
> message across: "Hi / don't crash
> into me please"

Reminds me of a somewhat fun interaction in a doctor's office waiting area.

My wife and I were there with, oh, maybe seven or eight other adults. In walks a mother and young (2.5? 3?) daughter, who soon enough begins dancing about rather joyfully. Not long into her routine, some older codger breaks into verbiage directed her way, but loud enough for the entire room: "Don't worry little girl... you'll soon enough be a zombie like the rest of us...."

Well... I can rarely let something like that go (I suffer from tending to want to be the weirdest in a given room..), so I engaged him ala "Huh? What?", which drew a bit of a sermon out of him about how nobody ever talks any more, but just stares at their "fucking phones". :-)

Well... of course I'd been staring at mine too, although merely to play a game of "spider solitaire"... but we talked about that for a while, mostly him pontificating from blatant self-righteousness. Eventually my name was called, and my wife and I got up, headed for the door to the building innards, and just before disappearing therein I turned to him and said, "Hey! You wanna borrow my phone while I'm in there? <wink> <wink>"

The rest of the room fell apart in laughter. :-)

> there was a time when I first joined
> this forum where I genuinely thought
> you were a bot, because I wasn't
> used to the way you communicated and
> thought: "this is word salad". It was
> only after a few other exchanges,
> and you explicitly telling me you
> were not a bot, did I begin to wrap
> my head around the way you explained
> things.

I'm not sure whether to take the bot comparison as a compliment, or reason to seek mental health counseling. :-)

> Anyway, I hope you're doing better
> now healthwise

Thanks. Much better. No tests revealed anything of significance thus far.