re: List the ways people you know have made their lives more complicated just to prove a point

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I don't know how to tell you this but you just proved he's right.

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Not to derail the conversation, but what happens when he wants to file for social security or sign up for Medicare?

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cut myself off from some toxic relationships just to prove I didn't need them.

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not saying anything about this other than how do you even develop said relationships?

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RoadToLIsPaviad

Ok I'll play along.

I'm a white male so fascism doesn't complicate my life, and I still owned the libs.

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GurleyGirl

Yea, like the fascist Democrat administrations that use government agencies, an aligned MSM and liberal tech companies to go after their political opponents?

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Like shooting fish in a barrel for El Gaucho!

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Anything with politics and family.

There's no positive of trying to rub political wins into family members faces. Or vice versa, lashing out at family members because of political losses.

Family should transcend politics.

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social media has destroyed family relationships

you can argue whether or not it was intentional, but the fact remains

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People, especially on TigerDroppings, often lack the ability for negative self-introspection, point out on flaws, so you're likely going to get very few honest answers here. That includes me too.

Ask someone else this question about you and hear their answer. They're likely to be more honest than oneself.

In software, I see people going to heroic levels of effort to allow things to be able to be "changed without a developer" in the future. It's typically stuff like color schemes and text content, but people also tend to get reeeeally cute and make these configurable "platforms" instead of just asking for what they immediately need. They ask for what they need "plus a way to do it in slightly different ways [read "totally different ways"] for future customers." None of this stuff ends up getting used, and the overall system ends up being at least twice as costly and complex as it would have been otherwise.

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Hmmm reminds me of how we just had an election where people voted for literally fascism just to “own the libs”

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I read this and was like .......



Then I saw who wrote it and I was .......

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1.) People who waist their time dating a damaged/incompetent person just because they're "hot."

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Walk in their shoes… dating someone not hot would be even more a waste of time

I ran a small business with a union work force in an industry and an area that is almost entirely non-union in part to prove it could be done profitably. I succeeded and sold that business at a profit and also made a damned good living for 14 years. Not only did I prove it was possible but other companies with union contracts are now in control of about 60% of the market share - there was 0% in the early 90s. Had I been a greedy fricker who was only interested in me earning a living I would have made much more but I made plenty and so did the people who worked for me. I was not, to put it mildly, popular with the Chamber crowd LOL....they were literally bent completely out of shape that I paid my employees 190% of the local average in the industry not counting benefits and managed to compete for 14 years. Most of those businesses failed in the mid 2000s because the only management technique they possessed was to pay their employees as little as possible.