Hi, my name is not convexer and this is my garbage site. I created this site
because I wanted a place where I could be my full & terrible self without
worrying too hard about making a positive impression.
Topics of interest include personal shit, gender politics, regular politics,
and the modern workplace. I don’t really proofread my posts, so let me know if
I say anything that’s just wrong.
“If I have peed farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
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Not clicking that
Yesterday two copies of an episode called “Why Dating Sucks for Men” of the Vox
podcast Explain It to Me dropped in my podcast feed. Two copies because they
also put it in the weekend feed for Today, Explained, which is their daily
news podcast.
I’m not clicking that.
That topic is a known infohazard for me. Listening would only make me stressed
out and resentful over a problem I don’t even have because I’m not single. But
I have experienced enough frustration over the topic in life to know all the
arguments and refutations and counter-refutations: there’s no value to me in
listening. And yet, that clickbait title …
