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Logic: can we stay on topic

Emotion: this is the topic

Impulse: what if we just changed our name and moved somewhere with low expectations

Ethics: other people live there

Impulse: ruined immediately

Music: 🎧 (voice note: 0:41)

Logic: summary

Music: no

3am Thoughts: is anyone else scared that we're wasting something that doesn't renew

Impulse: like time

Emotion: or kindness

Logic: or sleep

Impulse: or a sandwich we were emotionally invested in

Ethics: can we not joke every time something matters

Impulse: i joke because it matters

Emotion: i don't want to be efficient i want to be understood

Logic: those are not mutually exclusive

Emotion: they are when someone's holding a clipboard

Music: what if the answer isn't an answer what if it's a tempo

Logic: that's not helpful

3am Thoughts: what if we're only overwhelmed because we're paying attention

Ethics: that doesn't make it wrong

Impulse: it does in marking schemes

System: multiple inputs detected

Logic: please don't start

Emotion: too late

System: Impulse has left the chat.

Emotion: that wasn't funny

Music: statistically it was

3am Thoughts: they'll be back

System: Impulse joined using a new account.

Impulse: hi sorry

Ethics: you didn't apologise

Impulse: i did. spiritually.

Logic: that's worse

Impulse: wow ok

Emotion: can someone just say it's okay to be like this

System: seen by everyone

System: notifications silenced

— Lilith