georgeorwell

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by georgeorwell 14y ago
People congregate around narcissists. The more epic the narcissism, the more epic the congregation. And it goes in the other direction too: epic congregation implies epic narcissism. It pisses me off too, but I guess this is just life.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Yeah, fair enough, I've struggled with the same fear. I want to stay alive as long as possible too.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Death is completely painless non-existence. Absolutely nothing to fear about it.
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
A large percentage of writings on the internet are motivated by unhealthy narcissism. Well, why don't we just replace "writings on the internet" with "things people do"?
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by georgeorwell 14y ago
Definitely a Fredudian typo, Freudian would have been "Good fuck".
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by georgeorwell 15y ago
> This is not homophobia, it's just comedy. Stop it! You guys are killing me!
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by georgeorwell 15y ago
It's fine, I'm not offended. The thing is it's very clearly not a meritocracy. There was a comment recently about how Linus got about $1M out of his RedHat shares, and how this seems totally unfair next to someone like Zuckerberg or even
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by georgeorwell 15y ago
This was obviously a throwaway account, but nevertheless I just thought I would say that if you want to find out where your ego is too strongly invested, you need only look as far as those areas of your life where you are unable to laugh at
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by georgeorwell 15y ago
"Their crime is thinking..." Can somebody help me to issue a DMCA notice?