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diff --git a/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md b/content/drafts/i-tell-myself-to-let-the-story-end-or-a-hill-of-validity-in-defense-of-meaning.md
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@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@ Status: draft
 > And I say  
 > Ooh, how'm I gonna get over you?  
 > I'll be alright, just not tonight  
-> But someday  
-> Hey, ooh I wish you'd want me to stay  
+> But someday, hey, ooh I wish you'd want me to stay  
 > I'll be alright, just not tonight  
 > But someday—_
 >

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diff --git a/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt b/notes/i-tell-myself-notes.txt
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@@ -526,3 +526,8 @@ Robot cult leaders:
 > "Those who are savvy in high-corruption equilibria maintain the delusion that high corruption is common knowledge, to justify expropriating those who naively don't play along, by narratizing them as already knowing and therefore intentionally attacking people, rather than being lied to and confused."
 
 Steve said it's funny that Ziz and I are ragequitting over opposite things, and I couldn't help but want to phrase it as "She thinks our institutions are transphobic; I don't think they're transphobic enough"
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+"I guess an "only delusional people get to self-actualize" equilibrium is better than "no one gets to self-actualize, because the general public wouldn't allow it if they knew the truth" if those _really were_ the only two options
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+> Katie quoting my comment: "Folks, I'm not sure it's feasible to have an intellectually-honest real-name public conversation about the etiology of MtF. If no one is willing to mention some of the key relevant facts, maybe it's less misleading to just say nothing.\"  01/15/2017
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