fuck fuck fuck, cohost just spontaneously exploded when I was three or four kilobytes into a big heavy topic spun off of the one single sentence in here that I overtly disagree with (and importantly, citing agreement with another more important bit). had started the concluding paragraph, even. FUCK.
well. guess this goes in a persistent tab for a bit, because I still feel the need to write that, but god damn it I don't have the energy to start over right now.