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Re:Men, where have you gone? Please come back by carabiner on Friday June 20, 2025 @06:54PM (#44332862)
I actually totally agree and was going to post this until I saw your comment. The writing is strikingly ChatGPT style. So many commas, weird phrase lists (especially with 3 items):

> No shrinking. No waiting. No apologizing.

> slowness, curiosity, accountability

> Avoidance. Exhaustion. Disrepair.

> It wasn’t intimacy. It wasn’t mutuality. It was access to simulation.

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Re:Men, where have you gone? Please come back by liquidki on Saturday June 21, 2025 @04:30AM (#44335757)
To be sure, this is also taught in writing workshops, speaking workshops, comedy and improv as well, the rule of three:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)

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Re:Men, where have you gone? Please come back by carabiner on Saturday June 21, 2025 @05:11PM (#44340751)
Yes and chatgpt is incredibly heavy handed with it. This is not how most NYT articles are written.
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