In case you wonder why I think what I do is different…well, I don’t know for sure but I think it has something to do with a secondary step where that unknown word goes in my memory & my understanding of it gets refined with repeated encounters. Whereas three-cueing seems like tabula rasa every time

Yeah, we’ve got open enrollment this week and I keep staring at the plans trying to decide if I want to switch, but they’re all just expensive options with similar amounts of bad. It’s like “pick your poison”

To do that we’re gonna need better Democrats than the ones we’ve got. Hence the replacing of them.

maintain that there's a chunk of reflexive defense and rationalization of dem behavior that is not out of fandom but out of fear, wanting, needing, something badly to hang faith on. an extremely understandable urge.

but to actually deal with the problem, you need to accept that it is there, first.