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1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Nov-2018 16:58:23 EST deutrino

   tfw your friend gets a brand new car (as in first model year brand new, as well as "lose 25% off the lot" brand new) for a bunch of marketing reasons when they could have had a better car for a lot less money.

   it's like when people tell me they bought a computer at Best Buy followed immediately with "I thought about calling you first, but"

   I guess still have trouble letting go of having my advice valued as the engineer friend, even though it's often annoying to be the engineer friend.

   1. deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Sunday, 25-Nov-2018 17:04:57 EST deutrino

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      With my re-exposure to poverty I cannot help but see all of these decisions middle-and-up class people make as colossal wastes of money when so many, including loved ones of mine and me myself, are in such dire straits that finding $100 on the ground would substantially ease our lives for a little while. So then I sometimes get cranky.

      I think this means there are flaws both in my viewpoint, and in the actions making me cranky, tbh.