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    Chevrolet got a reaction from greenhorn in What the F is wrong with people?   
    It's human nature. Whether you like it or not, you appreciate something about this person and want to help. You're a good person, mind you, but I've been in your situation and you have to rip the bandaid off and cut contact until the person has settled in life. Unless you think she'll harm herself, distance the two of you for awhile.
     
    I've absolutely been there; thinking that I've met some amazing girl and my life is going to crumble apart when/if she leaves. I'd become controlling and manipulative. I, too, suffer from anxiety due to being raised by a crazy narcissistic mother. I'm in my twenties and male, she's in her thirties and is a woman, and that is an important difference.
     
    As a woman, she is biologically and socially programmed at her age to want kids due to the complications that arise as she gets older and wants to try for kids. This often results in forced, unhappy relationships because the two people got married on the sole basis that kids were on the agenda and it had to be done SOON. My parents did this, got divorced, and have been for the majority of my life. There isn't a healthy dynamic to it no matter how you look at it.
     
    She needs to learn to be happy on her own. It's a broken record old saying, but it's absolutely true. Once you become codependent on your partner to sustain your well-being, you're beyond help if something happens to them. The right person will come along if she continues to live her life, even if she doesn't believe it. I'm a guy. I didn't believe that stuff because I've always felt that the guy has to carry the entire burden of courting a relationship along. But here I am with a fantastic girl that walked into my life at a rather complex time for both of us. Was I happier alone? Absolutely not. But does she complement my life well and make me want to be a better person for her? Absolutely. 
     
    Your friend's mentality is an absolute mental drag for everybody involved. Somebody has to hit her with a bag of bricks (metaphorically, please) if she wants to find what she's looking for.
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    Chevrolet got a reaction from Giganthrax in What the F is wrong with people?   
    It's human nature. Whether you like it or not, you appreciate something about this person and want to help. You're a good person, mind you, but I've been in your situation and you have to rip the bandaid off and cut contact until the person has settled in life. Unless you think she'll harm herself, distance the two of you for awhile.
     
    I've absolutely been there; thinking that I've met some amazing girl and my life is going to crumble apart when/if she leaves. I'd become controlling and manipulative. I, too, suffer from anxiety due to being raised by a crazy narcissistic mother. I'm in my twenties and male, she's in her thirties and is a woman, and that is an important difference.
     
    As a woman, she is biologically and socially programmed at her age to want kids due to the complications that arise as she gets older and wants to try for kids. This often results in forced, unhappy relationships because the two people got married on the sole basis that kids were on the agenda and it had to be done SOON. My parents did this, got divorced, and have been for the majority of my life. There isn't a healthy dynamic to it no matter how you look at it.
     
    She needs to learn to be happy on her own. It's a broken record old saying, but it's absolutely true. Once you become codependent on your partner to sustain your well-being, you're beyond help if something happens to them. The right person will come along if she continues to live her life, even if she doesn't believe it. I'm a guy. I didn't believe that stuff because I've always felt that the guy has to carry the entire burden of courting a relationship along. But here I am with a fantastic girl that walked into my life at a rather complex time for both of us. Was I happier alone? Absolutely not. But does she complement my life well and make me want to be a better person for her? Absolutely. 
     
    Your friend's mentality is an absolute mental drag for everybody involved. Somebody has to hit her with a bag of bricks (metaphorically, please) if she wants to find what she's looking for.
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    Chevrolet reacted to dalekphalm in Google's Internal Culture and HR dysfunction, comply or GTFO   
    I got about a third of the way through that "Post" - and, well? Yes, they should 100% have policies against hate speech. Take the example of the employee who was "warned" about his own comments in support of Jordan Peterson's views against transgenders and transgender pronouns? Yeah - if Transgender people work at Google, and you're posting stuff on the internal boards about how you don't approve of their existence or the way they choose to call themselves (Calling themselves a Woman, when they were born male, for example) - yeah... no shit you're going to get in trouble for that.
     
    Free speech is great - but when your speech starts to affect the life of another employee, that's not okay. That wouldn't fly in many companies. Nor should it.
     
    On the flip side, if people are making comments about how they think all conservatives are scum sucking evil people who should be killed? Yes, you also have the right to report that to your superiors.
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    Chevrolet reacted to Yoinkerman in Google's Internal Culture and HR dysfunction, comply or GTFO   
    Work isn't a place for your unoriginal opinion on life.  You're there to work
     
    Edit: they are literally paying you so they can tell you what to do
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    Chevrolet reacted to Ibanez343 in What the F is wrong with people?   
    One the best pieces of advice I've ever received regarding relationships is "You have to be happy on your own before you can be happy in a relationship".  Co-dependency can be a lifelong burden if never properly dealt with, and even if it is it can easily come back in to play later on in a relationship.  I know you didn't ask for advice or what to tell her it's just what came to my mind reading the story.  
     
    Hope your rant cleared your mind a bit, I feel your pain as the "nice guy" all the girls would complain to about their poor choices regarding relationships ?
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    Chevrolet reacted to PorkishPig in This is for Linus   
    I love your post, but unfortunately the LTT forums are generally not used to directly communicate with LTT staff. You're better off tweeting LinusTech on twitter for a better chance of receiving a response.
     
    @LinusTech
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    Chevrolet reacted to Mira Yurizaki in Why is ATX more Common/Mainstream than mATX?   
    I'd argue the ATX form factor being common is true only for the DIY market. I've found many system builders, at least "mainstream" ones like Dell, HP, etc., use mATX form factors.
     
    And the only reason why I think ATX is popular is likely because of the value proposition. People think if you're paying $150 for a board, you may as well get as much stuff as possible on it.
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    Chevrolet got a reaction from Jtalk4456 in Possible Improvements to Tesla   
    I work for GM, so pardon if I have any bias, but I think the long-term goal is for Tesla to essentially become USB to cars; that is the charging plug that they use in their cars, which is faster and better in every way than the standard one on our Volts and Bolts, Nissan's Leaf, the plug-in Prius, etc. They'd just make a fortune off selling the supercharger female end to manufacturers of cars so that their extremely strong infrastructure charging network can be used universally. They might still make cars, but don't plan on Tesla doing that 50 years from now.
     
    We sell lots of Bolts on our lot. However, I don't think you should buy any sort of electric car bar a Tesla due to what I stated above. If you own a Bolt, you draw a 150 mile radius around your house - that's as far as you're gonna get with your car. If you own a Tesla, you can drive you and four other people from LA to NYC and only stop to see scenery you'd actually want to see and meet other cool Tesla people, only adding maybe 15 hours (number I randomly came up with) as opposed to the 2 or 3 hundred hours you'd have to add for a coast-to-coast trip in a Leaf or Bolt. 
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    Chevrolet got a reaction from SkilledRebuilds in Do you use the Dark Theme?   
    I use dark theme on every single thing I can bar text editors.
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    Chevrolet reacted to Trik'Stari in Possible Improvements to Tesla   
    I actually disagree with their suggestions entirely.
     
    Tesla is still a new car company in the grand scheme of things, relatively speaking. I'd say now would be a bad time to start cheaping out on the manufacturing process just for the sake of saving a few dollars here and there. They're making a quality product and selling it at a fairly appropriate price. That can go a long ways towards building a solid customer base.
     
    I know this, I have zero interest in getting an EV. But if I did? It would be a Tesla. Nothing from the other manufacturers would interest me.
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    Chevrolet reacted to BuckGup in Possible Improvements to Tesla   
    Video is blocked yo
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