scientific delirium madness

shirley jackson casually asking the pharmacist how much arsenic would be necessary to kill a family

Round One: Hottest 80s Musician Tournament

disclaimer: hi i am copying most of my propaganda from the last time there was a poll sort of like this BUT i am adding some extra additions under a cut bc incidentally i didn't include anything from the actual 80s before lmao. but rest assured i can confirm that he has consistently been adorable for many years including and exceeding the 80s <3

Should I remain friends with someone who I've been friends with for years still even though they mentally drain me along with making me feel anxiety even though they really didn't do anything wrong, it's just it feels like the friendship has gone down hill over the years sadly...? (Part of me would like to try to work things out but I'm more on the die of wanting to "be free" though,I just feel we have nothing in common really anymore and it feels like neither of us want this friendship as much as we used to. I've talked to them lots of times on how I feel but it just seems like that really doesn't do much and that we're better off separate.) 🥀

Not that anyone asked me (they never do!) but it's super fine to move people into a "commemorative friendship" status where you love them but your time together just fades away... I first got this concept several years back from the book Big Friendship:

it's very frustrating seeing otherwise well-structured posts about media literacy and critical thinking bookended with statements about "nowadays", "nobody has literacy anymore", "this generation is so anti-intellectual", and the like, unquestioningly falling into better past fallacies.