Unrelated to your point: Placing the word “that” or “which” between the two "you"s can make that less clunky

Related: I was mostly talking about your point of spheres of influence. 0.001% of people have more wealth (re: power) than the bottom 50% of people. I almost certainly fall in that half, as do half of humanity. If we all got together, we could draw and quarte that 0.001%. But the systems put in place with all that wealth make it impossible

Let me sum it up: People are doing bad shit. The people that aren’t are actively enabling said people to do bad shit. There is nothing you can do about it.

So yeah, I’ve got better shit to do

I like to think of this particular example as a sort of reminder that we need to be specific on what grounds we are arguing. Colloquially, and for the sake of practicality, the straw has two holes. You would one hole or the other is in the drink, or clogged. But topologically, yes, there is only one hole.

If youre worried about a story thats hard to read, dont be. This is a beautiful article, and Im better for having read it

“turn to mush on the ground”

This is some next level terminally online brain fungus.