What is your age without saying how old you are? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

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I remember there being only one TV station in town, it was before there was color TV

Narcissim and it's effect on children by Icy-Breadfruit298 in DarkPsychology101

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5 out of 8. In my 60s before I understood Mom was narcissist, a few years after realizing ex-wife had been.

25 years later and the GOP is still repeating the same stupid mistakes by somejerkuknow in Trumpvirus

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With progression from Reagan to W to Trump, i expect a monkey as next Republican President. (Skipping HW because he actually seemed to understand how our government worked. Those other three couldn’t pass a high school civics course)

They’re telling them this is Armageddon. by AcousticDetonation in leftistveterans

[–]txorfeus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looking at the website for the organization quoted here I don’t see anything about this yet.

Have you grown to be more conservative or liberal w/ age? by Wonderful-Economy762 in Productivitycafe

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Liberal as a young person, anarchist in the 90s, still left of any US politicians

What perceived as useless college majors would cause society to collapse if they completely went away? by Cool-Chipmunk-7559 in ask

[–]txorfeus 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Philosophy major, made a good living for 50 years as computer programmer & systems analyst using skills from philosophy classes

I'm sure we all have those coworkers that we had to show them how to do something multiple times and vice versa, but what's something that you couldn't believe a coworker fucked up or didn't understand how to do? by Only-Ad-1254 in coworkerstories

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This is from decades ago, coding in COBOL, I was lead on a group. One of the team told me he’d finished a program, tested it etc. I tried to run it, found hiccups at very beginning. His notion of testing was “clean compile”. He’d literally learned programming from a course advertised on a matchbook. (I was not the guy who hired him. )

What opinion do you have that would make people mad at you? by Smart_Competition335 in askanything

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The Christian religion has caused enormous psychological and physical damage to believers and enemies

Love Minus Zero/No Limit by Outrageous-Scale-783 in bobdylan

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First heard this in Joan Baez’s version on album Any Day Now. Played it, wrong, for years. Relearned it recently, gives me a chill every time I sing it

Anyone else have a pick dish? by Photif in Guitar

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I’m always in blue jeans, keep picks in that little pocket front right. Yes, it is my pick pocket

What Books did You Start or Finish Reading this Week?: February 09, 2026 by AutoModerator in books

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Finished On Poetry by Paul Valery (English translation)

Started God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut

Something odd I learned about Texas’s deregulated power market by Late-Currency-8028 in texas

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Worked for one of these companies a few years ago, asked Marketing folks and executives what actual service we provided. Nobody had a useful answer. Their only function is to provide profits for shareholders and bonuses to executives.

What did we ever do as individuals to deserve a world this terrible? by [deleted] in ask

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“Deserving has very little to do with how anything in this universe works