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WHYLEE1991
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WHYLEE1991
2y ago
I've worked at call centers and contact centers whatever the hell you wanna call them places for 15+ years. have you legit never heard the term phone tree before? I'm on the east coast in case its a regional thing, that's lik
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WHYLEE1991
2y ago
gotta pop in bucket of blood or man with the x-ray eyes or hell even the trip! QUITE depressing.
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WHYLEE1991
2y ago
As someone who almost never plays video games but owns several CRTS for the sake of media I can attest to the fact that at least some of us purely own CRT's for their picture quality, or in my case the fact that I think pre 2000's
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WHYLEE1991
2y ago
More so I just don't get why people need to please you or this guy with our interests? All sorts of peoples lives seem maybe not FUN to me because they don't have the same risk tolerance as me as an example but I don't think
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WHYLEE1991
2y ago
I think we overstate how interesting people are in general. Maybe those people would've just been boring and consumed media in ways you don't seem to approve of sober otherwise?
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
do you get google points for using google translate or something I'm not aware of?
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
better than her jumping straight to 8 and being completely lost on the plot
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
What if someone breaks into my house or I leave the door open for slightly too long? are both of these concepts THAT alien to you? lol.
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
Sure, but I've definitely never met one who was angry about their government pay, paid college, or allmost fully government sponosered healthcare, they're angry about HOW these things are enacted more than anything else for the mo
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
I can't imagine arguing or thinking seriously that the majority of computers exist even "effectively" to only hurt us in some way. By computer did you actually mean some sort of antique ball torture device? I won't argue
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
depends on the transience I guess of the people that goto them, when I was homeless at least and went to places like this in a large city many of the people were drug addicts from smaller towns or literal hobos who were there for the sake o
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
so straightforward that it makes you realize how comically bad some people here in the comment section are at understanding even broad strokes kinda implications about their and others actions.
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
yeah this site has WAY more in common with 4chan's political leanings than say...the comment section of like metafilter or something.
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
at the same time many here seem to think "not understanding a system" can involve totally good faith arguments like "sticking your head in the sand" and "putting a blindfold and earplugs in and saying LALALALALALALA
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WHYLEE1991
3y ago
or it's just a fun stand in for "mentally unwell racist person"
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4y ago
you really nailed it on the head, In way less of a way I made somewhat of a similar switch (not at all similar in the level of helping the world) from working at a huge national health/property insurance company (the literal devil) and
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WHYLEE1991
4y ago
opiates definitely arent though.
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WHYLEE1991
4y ago
just curious, how old are you that you think current youth have no memories of playing outside? what an amusing and out of touch statement, have you been outside in the past decade? Maybe not in a populated area because I see kids playing o
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4y ago
if only they weren't right 95% of the time. Anyone they know that uses alternative web platforms uses them for those exact reasons, and they're generally pretty correct in that assumption, who else would be motivated to use them t
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4y ago
lol yeah the guy up there who uses the example of a worker now needing to make "two cars" is very short-sighted and kinda misses the point overall, I can't think of an industry that is a better example of human beings regular
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4y ago
This is the one of the oddest things I've read all day. you should feel a certain disconnect during these conversations, and it's odd to think of media as something that people don't relate over and use to bond. People will o
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4y ago
climbing a mountain might be completely unmemorable for one person and going to a party could be that thing to others. I do not know anyone who ever brings up their friend who climbed a mountain (and I know a handful of people who do) but I
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4y ago
Have you guys ever thought that maybe you just aren't able to perceive the differences in modern speech and vocab because you choose not to? Maybe viewing the past the way you are kinda leads itself to not enjoying the modern world to
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WHYLEE1991
4y ago
in what respect is Instagram a dating app for women or anyone? Because it's a social media site primarily used by younger-ish people? by that metric any site that features young people is just an over-glorified dating platform. (not to