A-side
I more concretely discovered today that I have a specific brainworm that, when faced with particular flavors of bad-faith takes online, insists that I focus on figuring out how to change the mind of a total rando with this sort of take, because otherwise I would be Letting The Hate Win.
this causes me a lot of stress and time-wasting because shit's hard and I know that like, in reality, I would either refuse to engage someone like this or I would attempt to make myself extremely tiny and just sort of mumble along to anything until I can duck around a corner
in conclusion this sucks! don't do it! it sucks almost as much as knowing there are a bunch of people online who have been brain poisoned into having harmful takes that I can't change, instead of brain poisoned into thinking that they need to buy a big pile of yurucamp movie shimarin goods
B-side
my off-peak commuter pass gives me free train rides between my home and my work stations approximately 22 hours a day, with the 2 excluded hours being morning rush hours. it's a good deal to save 10% on legally not being able to ride the train when it sucks the most ass (without paying money anyway)
I often use my commuter pass to go in one exit of a train station and out the other for convenience purposes, which normally costs a nominal fee
Anyway so this morning I thought I'd cut through the station a bit early to grab some food from the other side and you can see what funny outcome this is leading to