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andygroundwater on Nov 15, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Steps Towards Happiness (2015)

This advice is all well and good, but what happens to your state of internal bliss when one of you a-hole neighbors deliberately brings their dog to do its business on your front lawn. No amount to karmic happiness will stop you from wanting just retribution.

yakshaving_jgt on Nov 15, 2021 [–]

Pieter was a friend of mine, and he certainly wasn’t conflict averse. If something bothered him, he would do something about it.

He used to bring a Nerf gun to conferences just to shoot down people’s drones because he found them annoying.

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