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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I realllly did not appreciate the degree to which people just lie about other people on the internet and it's just... taken as fact? For example: I often joke about throwing insane parties; I sometimes have joked about playing drug roulette, where ppl get a random drug 1/
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@Aella_Girl
- e.g. MDMA, shrooms, alcohol, adderall. I speculated on how we could possibly pull this off. It would be hard to disguise what drug you're taking, especially if drugs hit at different times? How do you disguise taste? It's not a feasible party at all. 2/
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@Aella_Girl
And somehow the rumor has spread that I *definitely have* thrown drug roulette parties? Like, there's people online who are confidently claiming that this is a thing I do, despite me going "no, I have not done this." I don't understand the incentives here. 3/
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@Aella_Girl
Like A) I would definitely be down to throw a drug roulette party if you could figure out how to get everyone high at the same time (and basic safety stuff like low doses, make sure everyone consents to the drug options), it's just logistically super difficult!
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@Aella_Girl
and B) I am regularly open about way more insane shit I do. Weird orgies, naked mask parties, I have helped host parties where people did psychedelics, parties that fuck with rules for behavioral norms, etc. - why would I be secretly trying to cover this up?
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@Aella_Girl
Most of the time when I see ppl blatantly claiming untrue things about me, I'm confused because they don't align with my own incentives at all. Like if you were me, it just wouldn't *make sense* to do the thing you're claiming I secretly did. They're obvs not thinking it through.
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@Aella_Girl
So idk what's going on. I don't know if the strong claims are coming from people who are quite mentally unstable, and thus legitimately are experiencing some reality in which they hallucinated I did something insane? These are the hardest to understand.
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@Aella_Girl
Most other claims come from people who are dramatically misrepresenting/downplaying/exaggerating an actual true thing that happened, and that's a level of delusion that I find to be much more predictable.
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@NanoHydraulic
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@Aella_Girl
Most gossip is of the "people are saying" epistemology. Embellishing a tale draws attention to the person telling it, which makes them feel important. Aella theorized about a party easily morphs into Aella planned one, which morphs into Aella threw one.
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SidewaysKoyote
@sidewayskoyote
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@Aella_Girl
people don't care about YOUR incentives, only THEIR incentives/importances. For many people, who you are and what you do is literally only what serves their purposes or reality. whether or not you do or think any of these things has no bearing
Dopamine Milkshake Society
@LucasKCabrera
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@Aella_Girl
Sometimes you're like a placid techo-noir sex shop monk. Other times you spit out these tweets that hit like, I dunno, you put your showerhead on the wrong setting and got an unexpected hard waterblast to the titties. It's like a reminder that you're still essentially female.
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🏴Arashk
@isthisuniquenow
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@Aella_Girl
In some sense there's no "actual true thing". There's only the perception of what happened at said party, whether one was there or not. Now, how much distance from the actual truth would one tolerate? Can that even be measured? When does it become "dramatic"?
Danny Darko
@DanTarK666
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@Aella_Girl
To be honest, as long as everyone is consenting and has previously taken the drugs before I don’t see the issue and it sounds like a laugh, I just stopped caring what people say about me, “yeah I do love Satan and murder babies, why not?” 😂
Aaron Graves
@aarongraves
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@Aella_Girl
my best explanation is that everyone is lying / wrong that much about everything but we only notice it when people are making shit up about us / our area of expertise
Robbier
@Raybungle
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@Aella_Girl
We aren't lingering on dog turds or toilet wall tantrums - some literary standard is indicated. It's known as Dunbar's Donger. Whoever can't hear you schwaffle isn't worth listening to.
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@NightCoffee365
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@Aella_Girl
I’ve learned a hard lesson recently: the truth actually has little bearing on what people choose to believe. The “rational actor” is about as real as Bigfoot or Nessie, to the point where, if you are solidly rational, you are left confused.
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