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[–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Eh, I see what you mean but I think in this culture and point in time, it's useful for human well-being to see them as separate things. Like I said, conflating them is a sleight of hand. Because the reality is that you can book 1h for a meeting and then be totally mentally absent from it. People think that you're committed in the meeting, you're giving it your time as can be measured. You are not actually giving your time to the meeting but due to being physically present, you're also not using your time (and attention) freely on what you really want to. So you're doing a sleight of hand possibly on yourself and people observing you in the meeting.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    The sleight of hand is being committed by you and your work-culture problem

    Tbh this sounds like a kinda personal issue you have with work and working too much or having a shitty job or something and it’s somehow morphing into a linguistic dispute instead when it shouldn’t be

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I wrote very broadly (on purpose). Never defined the nature of the meeting. What your mind says about me has little to do with my life.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    You’re the one who wrote a paragraph about how work meetings suck lol

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You wrote an entire paragraph literally describing work meetings being a waste of time and somehow don’t even realize it?

    I think i now understand why the phrase was so confusing to you

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Quite frankly it's somewhat disturbing that you take a fairly neutral description of an unspecified event as "writing an entire paragraph about how work meetings suck". You are overlaying a hell of a thought framework of your own onto the text I wrote and then telling me I'm the one with a problem. Ironic really, since you started off saying the world is illiterate.

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