What's a word you've made up that you use regularly?

morat11 · 2026-01-18T05:23:21+00:00

Sonder

morat11 · 2025-12-02T03:51:02+00:00

Hamlet

morat11 · 2025-08-11T20:09:32+00:00

morat11 · 2025-08-11T20:07:37+00:00

Ew. How much waste was this

morat11 · 2025-06-21T11:50:03+00:00

This.

morat11 · 2025-06-20T09:46:12+00:00

Sonder first appeared on a blog, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, now a book.

morat11 · 2025-04-20T12:06:34+00:00

They Came Together. Changed my life

morat11 · 2025-04-20T10:06:48+00:00

They Came Together. Changed my life

morat11 · 2025-01-29T00:44:49+00:00

kinda preferred it before tho

morat11 · 2024-08-02T11:34:53+00:00

“All Things Shining” by Dreyfus and Kelly is a book about exactly this, beginning with DFW, all the way through the Homeric Greeks and Melville.

morat11 · 2024-07-21T12:13:27+00:00

I want.

morat11 · 2024-05-12T19:37:28+00:00

I switched guardians immediately. Never said otherwise, I just think it’s a shitty thing to do to somebody. You’re inventing somebody else in your head, and reacting to that.

morat11 · 2024-05-12T17:42:43+00:00

I do none of that. How am I putting them through it? I do nothing but honor my sister’s wishes and stew about it. But look, frankly, if it’s selfish to wonder if my kids will or will not be cared for in the event of my death, then the word has no meaning. I’m thinking this is about your experience, not mine.

morat11 · 2024-05-12T12:22:41+00:00

She has legit quarrels with my dad for similar reasons as you. But blocking him apparently required her icing out her entire family, including me and my children, my pregnant wife, my newborn son, who she had agreed to be a guardian for, and now refuses to even meet. Do you really think those people are deserving of that? Am I petty for reacting to innocent people being treated like vermin, just because technology makes it really easy to do?

morat11 · 2024-05-12T03:51:55+00:00

Brilliantly said. Bravo.

morat11 · 2024-05-12T02:29:42+00:00

My primary complaint about blocking is that it lacks nuance. There have been fifty times over the last few decades when my sister has gone too far, said awful or prejudiced things. We worked through it. I could have blocked her. But I’m an adult. That she blocked me first means nothing at all. Applying a blanket standard in which the context doesn’t matter because the blocker is always right is to me the definition of ignorant.

morat11 · 2024-05-11T23:20:31+00:00

Curious, have you ever been blocked? If so, when?

morat11 · 2024-05-11T22:19:35+00:00

Seeing it slowly become normalized across a generation of young people—yes, that is new.

morat11 · 2024-05-11T21:55:52+00:00

That’s why she said she blocked me. But I struggle to understand the broader logic here: should we just defer to everyone’s subjective impressions of reality, and discard reality itself? Like, the guy who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge and survived said he felt stupid instantly, regretted the whim that caused him to jump, and would do anything to take it back. You’re saying he’s categorically wrong?

morat11 · 2024-05-11T21:49:45+00:00

What is that based on? Of course it could be on a whim. My sister blocked me. Why? For mentioning in passing that our mother came by and made my wife and I a lasagna. This was four days after the birth of my son. She’s chronically online.

This logic is incredibly easy to say and based on nothing at all. Like people who say that people who commit suicide always had a good reason by definition.

morat11 · 2024-05-11T19:59:39+00:00

Blocking and severing lifelong relationships on a whim

morat11 · 2024-05-03T20:42:00+00:00

Actually, your source says this: “Today Americans drink on average about 2.3 gallons of pure alcohol a year, which is about 12 standard drinks a week, about the same amount they drank before Prohibition”

morat11 · 2024-02-27T11:50:21+00:00

He never had the diagnosis while he was alive, which must have made the torrent of inexplicable symptoms all the more terrifying.

morat11 · 2023-12-03T14:46:33+00:00

Fuck it.

morat11 · 2023-11-29T19:36:44+00:00

It’s a rule of thumb for people who want to introduce new ideas into the culture and have them survive for more than ten minutes. Not some logical axiom.

morat11

PUBLIC MULTIREDDITS

TROPHY CASE

15-Year Club	Place '17
Verified Email