In real world conversations, we share a rich context of opinions, and our statements express a vector based on that context. On Twitter, every sentence may be read as a vector that starts from zero, ending up in opinion hell. I keep forgetting that and lose friends over it.
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Replying to @Plinz
They were not friends in the first place if they can't stand that you have a different opinion.
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can an amplitude of your mood swings they can tolerate be a good measure of friendship? perhaps an integral of their tolerance over the range of said amplitude?
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actually no, then the one who does not give a fuck about you will be assigned 'best friend' status.
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I see friendship more as a measure of the things people have in common, with a greater weight assigned to rare/private things. A single disagreement on e.g. world politics would be a tiny percentage of these common things/values/culture and would not matter.
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For me it depends on the degree of mutual trust in being able to support each others systems of meaning.
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I totally trust you will abuse the language when you can.
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I don't see how I can parse this statement in a useful way.
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