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Re:Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life by neuralkoi on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:36PM (#46296251)
It's not just you. I've read this person's stuff before. Every sentence comes off as if they are presenting the results of a major epiphany.

You can write things which sound pretty. It's the equivalent of wordy sugar. It's much harder to to write things you've learned from life experience or thought deeply about.

Subject your beliefs to the Socratic method. If they've survived your own criticism to the fullest extent and can be validated by your own lived experience, then maybe they've got an inkling of truth and they're worth writing about.

Re:Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life by ghostie_plz on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @08:35PM (#46297183)
I agree with the general sentiment of your comment, but not this:

> then maybe they've got an inkling of truth and they're worth writing about.

Ideas don't have to be infallible to be worth writing about. It's a slippery slope to not writing at all.

Re:Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life by tessierashpool9 on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @03:53AM (#46299671)
"inkling of truth" != "infallible"

#strawmanning

Re:Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life by velcrovan on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @10:24PM (#46297890)
Robin Sloan has called this “ventilated prose”, a phrase I love. (I seem to recall “aerated prose” having also been deployed)

See, e.g., the end of https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/platform-reality/

Re:Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life by JKCalhoun on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @10:58PM (#46298074)
Rarified prose…