While I certainly don't consider this a pet peeve or anything I do kind of think it's funny how these exact sorts of segues happen on podcasts and, indeed, in organic conversations with other people, yet when it happens on twitter it's perceived as inherently chaotic https://twitter.com/autogynamelia/status/1322295518605701120

Like everybody in this conversation has known each other in some capacity for about one to three years, maybe longer in some cases

So there's an awareness of what each other generally thinks, there's much more context associated with what people say, we can debate ideas faster

I think there's a tendency to compare this kind of thing to, like, a reddit thread that starts out with a picture of a kitten with yarn and ends with 900 comments about people angrily debating the death penalty

But that's a fundamentally different phenomenon, it's trollbait