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WHYLEE1991

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About WHYLEE1991

i love challenging nerds with stupid opinions, that's kind of it! love ya'll and wish most of you weren't incredibly disassociated from actual life but regardless...there are some fun opinions here and smart people here worth talking to.

I don't remember how computers work if I'm being honest. (I'm okay with that unless it would help me pay my mortgage or somethin')

Recent public activity

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    Comment #41249263

    I've worked at call centers and contact centers whatever the hell you wanna call them places for 15+ years. have you legit never heard the term phone tree before? I'm on the east c…

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    Comment #40342720

    gotta pop in bucket of blood or man with the x-ray eyes or hell even the trip! QUITE depressing.

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    Comment #40068410

    As someone who almost never plays video games but owns several CRTS for the sake of media I can attest to the fact that at least some of us purely own CRT's for their picture quali…

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    Comment #39991172

    More so I just don't get why people need to please you or this guy with our interests? All sorts of peoples lives seem maybe not FUN to me because they don't have the same risk tol…

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    Comment #39894333

    I think we overstate how interesting people are in general. Maybe those people would've just been boring and consumed media in ways you don't seem to approve of sober otherwise?

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    Comment #39480100

    do you get google points for using google translate or something I'm not aware of?

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    Comment #38176381

    better than her jumping straight to 8 and being completely lost on the plot

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    Comment #37521462

    What if someone breaks into my house or I leave the door open for slightly too long? are both of these concepts THAT alien to you? lol.

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    Comment #37508811

    Sure, but I've definitely never met one who was angry about their government pay, paid college, or allmost fully government sponosered healthcare, they're angry about HOW these thi…

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    Comment #37496793

    I can't imagine arguing or thinking seriously that the majority of computers exist even "effectively" to only hurt us in some way. By computer did you actually mean some sort of an…

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    Comment #37174454

    depends on the transience I guess of the people that goto them, when I was homeless at least and went to places like this in a large city many of the people were drug addicts from …

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    Comment #36693346

    so straightforward that it makes you realize how comically bad some people here in the comment section are at understanding even broad strokes kinda implications about their and ot…

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    Comment #36666191

    yeah this site has WAY more in common with 4chan's political leanings than say...the comment section of like metafilter or something.

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    Comment #36533645

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    Comment #36478729

    at the same time many here seem to think "not understanding a system" can involve totally good faith arguments like "sticking your head in the sand" and "putting a blindfold and ea…

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    Comment #36355517

    or it's just a fun stand in for "mentally unwell racist person"

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    Comment #35009369

    you really nailed it on the head, In way less of a way I made somewhat of a similar switch (not at all similar in the level of helping the world) from working at a huge national he…

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    Comment #34818279

    opiates definitely arent though.

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    Comment #33958624

    just curious, how old are you that you think current youth have no memories of playing outside? what an amusing and out of touch statement, have you been outside in the past decade…

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    Comment #33409222

    if only they weren't right 95% of the time. Anyone they know that uses alternative web platforms uses them for those exact reasons, and they're generally pretty correct in that ass…

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    Comment #33190747

    lol yeah the guy up there who uses the example of a worker now needing to make "two cars" is very short-sighted and kinda misses the point overall, I can't think of an industry tha…

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    Comment #33181473

    This is the one of the oddest things I've read all day. you should feel a certain disconnect during these conversations, and it's odd to think of media as something that people don…

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    Comment #33162360

    climbing a mountain might be completely unmemorable for one person and going to a party could be that thing to others. I do not know anyone who ever brings up their friend who clim…

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    Comment #32996724

    Have you guys ever thought that maybe you just aren't able to perceive the differences in modern speech and vocab because you choose not to? Maybe viewing the past the way you are …

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    Comment #32828434

    in what respect is Instagram a dating app for women or anyone? Because it's a social media site primarily used by younger-ish people? by that metric any site that features young pe…