if you text message someone and then block their number immediately afterwards, can you unblock them in a couple days and see any messages they sent you in the interim?

I'm kinda being pressed into contacting an abusive parent and I'd like the ability to control the resulting anxiety

Learned helplessness is an actual concept in clinical psychology

You're late. I need you to give me another 0.125 coin

We mostly talk about our personal lives and media

It's an easy mistake to make. It happened twice in this thread!

play classical music for her

I love left shark

Well... if we're being generous I didn't really go through the list of things he did. I kinda figured "CEO of CIA" would cut it. Their argument doesn't really suffer from having more examples thrown at it because he's always "part of a larger system." I would have to have a whole abstract argument about ethics and participation.

Oh I'm sorry I didn't read your first comment carefully; we're talking about HW. But honestly I think that makes your point twice as valid.

Yeah they and I were both learning to read around that time

I covered my name in red and theirs in black if it wasn't clear.

I care very much for this person and I consciously don't really confront or challenge them (they have enough stress generally) about politics despite they describing themselves as 'anti-capitalist' and having literally every brainworm you'd expect from someone who just reached the level of consciousness to say something like that. Stg a couple years ago they said something like "I'm starting to think cops aren't generally good"

Anyway this is a vent post.

The time of year all the other instances that can't out post us get their revenge by out 'waiting for the timer to let them paint a pixel'-ing us