Everyone can be manipulated
Once you understand that YOU can be it becomes a lil easier to avoid
People who say they can't be manipulated or have never been manipulated are being dishonest to themselves and are the people who do get manipulated and manipulated very easily
@Coctaanatis: Thank you. Ronald Reagan.
@Iceman_Bob: That's blar.
2/2: ...food from their children's mouths. I mean I get the whole "I want to get paid as much as I can" thing. I am that way my own self, but if you're going to freelance, you can't really credibly fuss about refusing work that pays more than the same work you do for less for someone else.
I put the door in myself. It just took a day longer, and I cronched an index finger and stubbed TF out of a pinky toe. But the dude's still angry and complaining to folks in town about it.
1/2: Tradespeople who charge for individual jobs on their own what general contractors overcharge for the same work crack me up.
GC charges nearly $750 in labor for a front door replacement, not including the pre-hung door and all, and pays the tradespeople $150.
Tradespeople charge $750 or maybe $500 to do the same job they otherwise get paid $150 for, and they get indignant and shirty when you don't go above $300 for the job. Then when they opt not to do the work, they say you're stealing...
@awnaves: The Bald Bitch just wants to get roughed up by cute boy and get pad millions of dollars (that will go towards his legal fees, bribe attempts, and his gender-affirming care).
@maybeimaleo: Yep.
@WDEFAustenOnek: We've been having the hefty gusts since yesterday here at the edge of the mountains in western NC, gusts between 30 and 50 MPH. Downed trees in town knocked out power for four hours yesternight. Gusts are only up to 40 MPH today, as per the weather station at the radio station down the block.
: the not entirely untold but certainly not widely known story of the final scene of "Blackadder"
: I've been paying attention to this topic, i.e., JWST, Dark Matter, MOND, and The Problem, for about a year.
54 year-old autistic human. Father of three. Grandfather of one. Movie production Yoda. Screenwriter. Nerdfaceperson.