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 Different types of activity generate more or less of this kind of entropy. [[Conference call]]s — especially [[all-hands conference call]]s — generate dangerously high levels.
-Can be cured with alcohol - but there is a curious paradox, as overdoing that (which, on a [[conference call]], is tremendously tempting) can lead to total collapse through the [[inebriation event horizon]] into a black hole of soul-crushing despair.
+Can be cured with alcohol, but there is a curious paradox, as overdoing the sauce (which, on a [[conference call]], can be tremendously tempting) can itself lead to total collapse through the [[inebriation event horizon]] into a black hole of soul-crushing despair.
-So it's either crushing your soul into an infinitesimal point of space-time, or regressing to a bland, tepid, state of maximum possible ennui.
+So it’s either crushing your soul into an infinitesimal point of space-time, or regressing to a sunless, tepid expanse, having infinite extension in every direction except the one you want to go in, of maximum possible [[ennui]].
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