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> but western culture is very hesitant to say "sorry" This is very wrong. Eastern/Asian culture with its obsession with saving face is the culture where saying sorry is anathema.
Just don’t generalise about massive groups of people? “Eastern” and “western” culture are not monoblocs.
Always be kind, and say it’s your fault. If you don’t do it for the sake of the person you are asking for help, do it because it works better. That’s the most practical advice [0] ever given by Hans Rosling [1], the Fact master himself: > In fact, I have the secret to how to get the best help immediately from any customer service, like the phone company or the bank or anything. I have the best line, it always works.…
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> she walked all over me > It wasn’t her fault Sir, I don't know you at all, but coming from personal experience, if you often get walked over, maybe it's time to stop taking shape of a door mat. Maybe it _was_ her fault, and you deserve better.
> maybe it's time to stop taking shape of a door mat I'm sorry, I know this is a serious discussion, but this made me laugh. I need to use this in the future.
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You ever read something and it's just like... yeah, I'm absolutely done with interacting with this userbase forever? Yeah
I'm curious why you say that? I'm taking it as my comment makes you not want to interact with HN?
Just too much discordanism seemed to surface all at once and it was exhausting.
I know this is 'hacker' news but I always perceived that to mean 'hacker' as in the hacker ethos, not the pejorative 'yeah break shit lol' type of hacker. Sometimes it seems to be all the latter.
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I'm curious why you say that? I'm taking it as my comment makes you not want to interact with HN?
It was more what I perceived as a weirdly gleeful insincerity in your comment combined with a _lot_ of similarly weirdly gleeful insincerity in the big comment thread about the SMTP smuggling attack, which had a lot of 'GRRRREEEEAATT WORK BY THESE GUYS' type of comments Just too much discordanism seemed to surface all at once and it was exhausting. I know this is 'hacker' news but I always perceived that to mean 'hac…