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Re:Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free by gizmo on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @06:51PM (#22252112)
Social commitments are called that because they are exactly that: commitments. You promised to your friends you'll show so you just show. If you never flake you don't have to waste precious brain cycles agonizing on whether to cancel.

Do you want to be a flake and do you want others to think of you as a flake? If not, just keep your social commitments. Pretty basic stuff.

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Re:Bail – Get out of your plans, guilt free by retsibsi on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @09:55PM (#22253073)
Which is the point of this app, right? You don't want to let down your friend, so you're not going to cancel in the normal way; but in the case where the commitment no longer really suits either of you, it would be nice to take a night off, rather than both show up because you think it matters to the other person.
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