guidance

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by guidance 7y ago
> 'If I thought most Americans were unhappy these days, my reaction to seeing this poll would be to question how my intuition went so wrong, not to look for ways the might be biased.' Your comment reminds me of this anecdote: &
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by guidance 7y ago
> 'I agree with you that the poll is probably poorly measured.' In point of fact, it's a blatant lie. Not a shred of truth to it. 90% of Americans happy with their lives? LOL. "Step away from the crack pipe." Peo
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by guidance 7y ago
But those people are in fact related. If you could test their genetics, you could prove it. They have different variations on the same face that some successful ancestor of theirs once had long ago, which was conveyed to them in their own g
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by guidance 7y ago
Good post bro. +1
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by guidance 7y ago
I simply have a low tolerance for "just putting up with things." The things people are out there tolerating in their lives just staggers the mind. Like junk mail, to name another easy example. I complained about all the junk mail
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by guidance 7y ago
> 'People here need to assume good faith in the absence of some objective reason not to. Merely disliking what someone else says doesn't come close to an objective reason.' All this sounds good in theory, yet here I am on
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by guidance 7y ago
Ha. Yeah, they always come up with some Real Plausible Explanation for the things that they do, and the naive types always buy it. Here's the reality: the electronic voting systems are being put in place because they are so easily ha
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by guidance 7y ago
> 'I wont hire anyone who drives a motorcycle' > 'it sends a real signal to steer clear.' I'm sure the feeling is mutual. Or at least I hope that it is.
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by guidance 7y ago
Dude, please step away from the crack pipe. You are a Nazi. Plain and simple. I know it's not nice to hear such a thing, but it's true. Someone should have mentioned this to you long ago. There could have been much pain and hurt
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by guidance 7y ago
In point of fact, there was nothing at all "naughty" about their comment in the first place. It was just a comment. A comment that the Nazi mods of this place, in their Naziism, didn't like. For the record, this is my second
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by guidance 7y ago
DuckDuckGo isn't an anonymous search engine. It's owned by the same people who own Google. And Microsoft. And Intel. And Facebook. etc....etc. Likewise, what firmware is running on that phone's baseband chip? Your plans aren&
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by guidance 7y ago
> "If you have friends that like you enough to chase you around to try and make plans, that's awesome. I'm thrilled for you and I'd have to imagine you're an awesome person." Tons of assumptions packed into
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by guidance 7y ago
> 'It's not intolerant to state that you do not believe in somebody else's religion.' Stating that you are, quote, "seeking its demise", is the very definition of intolerance. > 'Nothing above is eve
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by guidance 7y ago
But in the example given, it wasn't the boyfriend who was always borrowing his girlfriend's phone to call his mom; it was his mom calling to contact him . Probably because she's also yet another one of those types who Just C
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by guidance 7y ago
My comment fits perfectly well into the discussion, and into the subthread, up to and including said 'condescension'--which literally radiates from many of the 'cell phone junkie' types.
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by guidance 7y ago
> 'But it's not what they own, it's what they impose on others.' But I haven't imposed anything on anyone. It's society--or rather, a certain loud, vocal, and extremely selfish segment of society--which is
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by guidance 7y ago
> 'The cost of communication is near zero' You mean the 'cost of interrupting other people while they are in the middle of living their lives' is near zero. On the other side of the coin, the cost of being constantly
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by guidance 7y ago
I wanted to reply to a comment you made on another post, a couple weeks back. Sorry for the thread hijack, but I think you need some advice, and this topic is much more worth commenting on that this latest fake virus scare: > It's n