And Three Fingers!

A critic, like a guide, is there to help you see things you might not have known to look for on your own. A good guide points out a vista you might have missed and lets you pursue new memories there. A bad one points out a vista because they want you to see where they lost their virginity.

One of my favorites.

Might be one of my favorite things you've done

How do you even find this stuff?!

I saw her getting a peppermint milkshake with your archenemy just this morning. Their noses touched

"Adults reading YA is reading" is one of those things where like, yeah, it's true, but it's also been an aggressively if not militantly mainstream position for at least a decade and needs much less defending than "Can we sometimes talk about books for grownups"

So using LLMs in publishing, for instance, is "inevitable," the mysterious workings of fate, not a decision made by people. That we might make actual decisions, and in doing so reject some arguments as incorrect or immoral, is inconceivable to debate culture; debates aren't supposed to end.

Without coming to conclusions, valuing evidence and truth, public argument can't shape the choices we collectively make as a society. But one crucial unconscious assumption of debate culture is a denial that policy is a decision: people don't make policy, policy just happens to us like weather.

"He knew that he would never be a poet"