No. And when I worked with customers I’d tell them so. If they argued I would tell them that is fine. They may not be right but they are the one who decides the transaction. If they want to buy a thing after I said otherwise- do so, but either I won’t take it back, or I’ll hit them with a HUGE stocking fee. Because I am right. I’m a professional- that is why I am here. You came to me for a service, to fix a problem. If you knew what you needed to fix it- you wouldn’t be talking to me. On this one subject at least- I know more about it than you. It’s not an insult. It’s my job to. My career is based on knowing more about this than you. So if you want me to use that knowledge and experience to help you, I will do so. If you want to tell me what you want and pay me to do it, I will do that too- but you’re going to pay and I’m not giving your money back when you are wrong and I was right, because “the customer gets what they asked for and paid for.” That’s the slogan.

Well... if Exon Mobile, Ford, or Microsoft we’re demonetized, I’m pretty sure more people might notice and you’d hear more about it than if a guy printing T-shirt’s out of a van did. Think about the “housing crunch.” When and if any one of those people lost their homes to unfair or illegal practices- no one outside their social circles really gave a crap did they? It wasn’t until it was an epedemic endangering the American economy and threatening millions more that people started to connect the dots. And guess what the answer was? Sweeping reforms to a system that is by its nature predatory and unsustainable to ensure that Americans could afford their homes? No. A bunch of laws saying that banks just can take lend you money to buy that ridiculously over priced house unless you are ridiculously wealthy.

Huh. That is lazy. Like- ever notice in movies how all the soldiers in a military carry mostly the same gear and wear pretty much the same uniforms? In real life what are the odds that two people who are heroes would both be in the military, both go through basic training, both fall down, both wear hats, both wear uniforms and the sunglasses? How often do you EVER see people in the military wear sunglasses? And the costumes? They both have costumes as heroes? Lazy. I bet they probably both had to saltire superior officers and even both eat food! Like come on. Be more original. She shouldn’t even have been a person. They should make her exist as a blob of color that speaks using quantum vibrations and thinks in 6th dimensional terms- that would have taken writing skills and been original. Hack writers.

Yeah- but If her doctor refused to treat her when she shut down unless they let him surgically graft a 5 billion dollar third un functioning leg to her, that doctor would likely be stripped of their position and jailed. Of course- I doubt the others doctors and any public people watching would just stand there and argue I’ve which doctor “won” the argument- more likely a complete review and assessment of the suitability of all involved and a system that allows such things to happen would occur.

It’s not that hard. Think of it like this: most people who live in these cities like them. What don’t they like? It’s likely one or a combination of: Too crowded, don’t like the way people are, too expensive, changing from how it was when they liked it to something else.
So they find a place that is cheaper, less crowded, where people don’t behave in the same ways as the ones they don’t like in their city. They find a place with “potential” that just “needs a few things...” and they move there and begin to change it (and it tends to begin to change as more people like them come- in an exponential cycle) to suit their tastes. It sucks doesn’t it? That’s that whole “gentrification” thing that people in urban environments have been taking about for decades. Where that little space you’ve built home and community starts filling up with people who have the money, power, and numbers to start pushing out you and yours and transforming your home into theirs- a place you can’t or don’t...

You’re entitled not to care about anything you want. However- regardless of wether one wants to see Opportunity as “alive” or not- it was an important scientific mission that was still providing one of our only sources of data from the surface of Mars, and an incredible fest of human engineering that it lasted as long as it did when it was only projected for a short term mission. Not caring about its shut down is like not caring that the Hubble or SETI shut down. We don’t have to care of Alien life we’re doscovered tomorrow- a great deal of people might consider one ignorant for not caring about such a thing of course. It’s unlikely that Opportunity was part of your daily life or really had much effect on it- but it was a symbolic and actual hope and aid for humanities future amd the future of technology and exploration. So to not care at all, to be even a little upset at the news that a historic mission may have ended might be seen as more ignorant than cool.

Shoulda spent less time practicing your fortnite dances and more time practicing your guard Timmy.... Now imma show you how we did things in Quake times.

Karma is an odd thing. Most people who believe in Karma seem to believe that people can also be instruments of Karma- didn’t get that job? Karma. But... a human being made the call- so obviously humans play a part in Karma. So who is to say that bully wasn’t somehow your Karma? I can’t figure out what I did as a child to deserve some of what came my way from the universe- so I could t be Latin for anything I’d done in this life. So either reincarnation plays a part and perhaps that’s Karma from a past life, or if Karma is real perhaps it doesn’t follow linear time and one can pay for things before they’ve done them, or have good things yet to come balanced by bad things happeneing now? Who knows. I don’t hold against people the way they acted as children, or 10,20,30+ years ago so much because people can change. And speaking of Karma- when someone bullies you it means they can. You’re in a position of weakness and they aren’t. They look down on you- usually because they are flawed...

The villain usually wins in real life, that’s why movies are escapist fantasies. Very few movies set in a modern setting wouldn’t end with a hero who wasn’t in jail, or lost everything. Pretty much any movie involving or corrupt corporation or massive conspiracy reallly ends with the whistleblower hero in jail for treason or something similar, dead, or buried in a drawn out legal battle that everyone guilty walks away from but destroys their career, marriage, finances, and life. If you want to see a movie where the bad guy wins- start watching documentaries. Although there are lots of more mainstream movies where we can argue the bad guys win or they actually do win- or where the hero really IS the bad guy if we think about it- but largely movies are fantasies people use to escape reality and to project the problems they have or see in the world into a fantasy world where good deeds and intentions triumph over all, without the tedious red tape and consequences or boring slog.

There are two sides to every story. But that’s not the be all and end all. This person says they had terrible food. BUT- the restaurant says it’s that’s just retaliation by the complainer! BUT- how do we know the complainer isn’t telling the truth and the restaraunt didn’t have terrible food, and not is trying to discredit their review in retaliation? Context would help us figure it put. But often we get these things without context, or can’t be bothered to verify facts.