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There are multiple people now who I interact with professionals (that is to say, who do this for money) in a position of authority over me. Authority, in that they have knowledge in fields where I am not very knowledgeable, and that if I want things related to that field it's easiest to go through them. Not authority, in that the penalty for not interacting with these people is pretty minimal - I'd have to go without something that's nice but not vital until I found a new such person.

They're in different fields from each other, but they all probably would have a lot to say about the way I live. In a while, it's probably ethical for me to be friends with some of them, but not others. It's probably ethical to be friends with at least one now, actually, but complicated. They're all deeply weird people in a way I think I tend to get along with.

It's not really a problem, but it is weird.

( ongoing pandemic, positive life changes that have already happened but by contrast with things i hated, food )

to talk around the indirect subject: current events are a lot.

some friends in a discord were talking about them, as indirectly, saying: it's hard to focus on work when this is going on. they were, not harshly but laconically, directed to another channel. the subject carried on in that other channel, but with different participants and a very different mood.

as an aside, i have that channel muted; the tenor the conversation tends to take in there is somewhat difficult for me to engage with. i don't think anyone there is wrong to talk the way they talk; at the same time, it's difficult for me.

eta, a day later: i was wrong (misread the situation); the redirection to another channel was meant for one and only one person; the people who'd been talking about "current events make it hard to focus on work" were not being redirected.