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Whatever rationalization you need to keep responding -- it's all yours Cauch!

The guy who initially accused me of being creepy all of a sudden understands that there's an entertainment component to how I communicate.

You ask me what my goal is. The question is, for someone who keeps saying they don't care -- what is yours?

The good old Cauchenator needs somewhere he can release his anger.

You mention that tried fooling me so that I can think I've won. I apologized to you. Someone who has even the slightest desire of winning doesn't apologize bubs.

Good ole, Cauch. If we ever run into each other, that'll be in an interesting discussion. We're not that far from each other.

This conversation won't change the fact that you like this. Bitter people like having a vehicle they can't get their toxicity out on. That is why you can't help yourself and you continue.

At this point, every single one of your responses is just a reflection of you, not me.

You keep saying you don't care. But you can't help yourself from responding to me every single time.

You do care, Cauch. You care because the toxicity in your bones that you refuse to let go of needs an online enemy you can't direct your toxicity towards.

The point stands: Cauch responds, Cauch cares!

I'm not considering that you're a rotten person. I'm telling you that as a matter of fact. You're not able to see it and I understand that. One day you're young and full of life; the next, you're a middle-aged man that is bitter.

I wouldn't expect someone who finds themselves in that state to pick up on it.

You mentioned the caricature that it reminds you of. That is a reflection of something that is taking place inside you and baggage that you bring into an interaction that doesn't merit it. If you can't discern that, that is not something I, or anyone else, can help you with.

You mentioned that I wanted compassion from you. The fact that you're so comfortable making that assumption says a lot about the intellectual integrity you have and the lack of honesty you bring to discussions in your life. Nobody was expecting compassion. However, I emphasize once again and my point remains: how you respond to someone's genuine apology speaks volumes about you.

I know that reflection in the mirror is one you will try to deny and rationalize away, but it's one you should reflect on and, who knows, maybe even use as moment in your life that catapults you into change.

You pointed out, almost in "gotcha" fashion that I admit I have been shitty with people -- I have. 100%. The difference between you and I is not that I have been shitty and you haven't. It's that I still have something inside me that compels to own my shitiness and change. You don't. You're comfortable in your rotteness.

You'll block my username only when the truth of my words hurts too much. Otherwise, being the rotten person you are, you will continue to enjoy the back and forth because you get off on the rage.

Anyways, I'm about to go workout and enjoy my day. I am releasing you Cauch!

Damn, you really do have issues. Welp, I tried. Seek help my man.

I personally don't care how you respond to my apology; I don't say that defiantly. I just believe that I should own any toxicity I spewed unnecessarily.

But how you respond to someone's genuine apology speaks volumes about how rotten you have become as a person. And I say that in a factual manner; not in any retaliatory way. You are a truly rotten person.

If you have any, I truly feel sorry for your spouse and any children.

Anyways Cauch, best of luck, bud. May your spirit one day be free from the anger and bitterness that oozes from your being.

We're in too deep to let go of each other now, Cauch. Stalking? No. I'd say, unsolicited following.

On a serious note, I was reflecting the other day and recognize I need to do better with how I address people online. I genuinely apologize for my part in our nasty interaction. It's something I've struggled with, but I will do better.

Why are you always so mad, Cauch? I'm worried about you, Cauch.

Says I'm trying to save face; proceeds to call me "good little boy".

Says he doesn't care; proceeds to get triggered by my comments.

Can't properly capitalize, but takes time to use a semi-colon.

Boy, you really know how to prioritize.

As your stepfather, I am disappointed cauch. I'm going to have to ask you to move out of the basement.

Bubbah, my words are to make a point to you: I don't care what you have to say. If I cared, I would give you more thoughtful responses. I didn't -- and that's why. I find how invested you are in this entertaining at this point.

....But not more entertaining than your mom.

You are obsessed with Musk and you know that. Stop lying to yourself.

And no, four paragraphs aren't too much much for me to follow. Your mom writes a lot more than that to me every day and I have no problem there.

Nah, nobody is crying, buddy. But thank you for investing your time in me and giving me four paragraphs :)

> I realise it's not ego confirming to be told you're wrong but you could really see it as an opportunity to learn.

It is a fact that you have no idea whether you know more than me, but you affirm it with no foundation because you have no integrity.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the elephant telling someone else their ears are big.

Unfortunately, your parents didn't really put that much time into you and it shows.

The fact that you are telling me (someone you don't know) "...you know far less than I do" and "You don't know what's historically accurate" and all the other "you don't know"s, tells everyone everything they need to know about who they're speaking to.

Thank you for confirming my suspicions!

> I don't really care for Musk

I'm laughing so hard right now. You resoundingly do care about Musk; you're obsessed with him.

Second, who said anything about me alleging that "they depicted a roman army that was no entirely Rome-inhabitant looking"? Those are your words not mine, and if anyone is looking for the king of strawman arguments, we have a winner with you.

Rome was a very ethnically diverse place, including the demographics of its slaves, contrary to America's slaves.

The only thing I said was that they recast the Gladiator as black, not being true to the original MOVIE character. If you didn't understand that, the solution is not to put words in people's mouth. The solution is to work on your reading comprehension.

More times than I can count, bubba. And if you can't differentiate between a producer making a movie in English because its main audience is English speaking and producing a movie that is either: (1) accurate historically; or (2) true to its original story -- than I can't help you, bud.

I disagree, Solid Fuel.

> Like seriously, how do you even put your shoes on without strangling yourself?

Because I'm not you: a grown man who is 45+ years old and never matured; never learned to emotionally self regulate; and has a constant chip on his shoulder, to the point that you use the very limited profile space to tell the world that you don't care about whatever crypto coin they're into. Do you not see yourself? Do you not see the perpetual bitterness and rage that emanates from your person? That is who you are, Solid Fuel. That is what you are.

Insults is all you have to cope with the cold hard reality of what I am confronting you with: a mirror.

Bud, it's "narcissist". And all one has to be to love what one sees in the mirror is grateful and confident in who one is. I completely understand how that would be foreign to you.

I'm done with companies whose only goal is maximization of profit via manipulative, engineered outcomes.

Modernity, ladies and gentlemen.

Still nah :)

Nah

I say this in all seriousness: are you that ideologically brainwashed that you think Americans can't talk about Gaza whenever we like? Haha. Bud, stop living vicariously through headlines, touch grass, and understand that the headlines your wonderful algorithm is feeding is not real life....."WTF?"

Your last paragraph is a bit incoherent, so I don't know exactly how to respond, but no, I am not demanding the killing of Jewish people nor the killing of any Palestinian.

I can always tell when someone is off the rails in ideology because the picture they paint is so detached from reality that it doesn't hold under the most minor scrutiny.

That someone is you.

If you're not going to give reliable sources and at least point to a couple specific examples, then your comment means nothing.

"in fact Europeans are significantly more informed on this", "US free speech seems to be performative".

And then there's the, "Are you casting a spell?". You really think you did something there lol.

Sources. Examples. Otherwise, you're just someone who can string together complete sentences and break up concepts into paragraphs for easy reading.

I understand everyone has different beliefs, and personally, I fall extremely short of what I should be, but I just took some time to pray for you and your procedure. I really hope the root cause is fully resolved.

Me: I'm tired of this, grandpa... Microsoft: Well that's too damn bad!

Same thing with Alexa. I ask what is the weather outside. She gives me the current weather, what tomorrow looks like, and asks me if I would like an hour by hour breakdown or a full forecast for next week (or something like that).

So then I have to stop her mid-sentence and say, "Alexa, stop." Only for her to misunderstand what I said and say, "Now playing 'On the Rocks' by [artist name]."

I'm in the process of going as analog as I can.

This was so spot on I felt like standing up and yelling, "Yes! Exactly!"

I like it.

I 100% believe you! We're planning on doing a custom build for our next home, and I'm going to budget for solar. Like you said, it's gotten so much easier these days and I think that we don't take advantage of this because it requires budgeting/saving and because paying a monthly bill can be so much easier in the short-term. But I'm 100% going to do this.