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 # Cringe
 
-- [[virtue signaling]] can be cringey. It's worth it overall, I say, because in the end it promotes increases in [[public utility]].
-- [[pull]] [[on cringe]]
+- [[pull]] [[on cringe]] [[cringes]]
+- [[cringey things]] can be worth it overall, I say, when in the end they promote increases in [[public utility]].
 
 https://twitter.com/flancian/status/1334825462200197121
 
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+# cringes
+
+- [[pull]] [[cringe]]
+- a [[list]].
+    - [[virtue signaling]] can be cringey. 
+    - [[earnestsness]] can be cringey.
+