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Re:Bits of advice I wish I had known by agumonkey on Thursday April 28, 2022 @09:38PM (#31200389)
I'm not sure I understand Joni Mitchell's law (beside a naive "when up, things can only go down")
Re:Bits of advice I wish I had known by dalmo3 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @09:49PM (#31200460)
I read "come to harm" as "get harmed" instead of "do harm".

In simpler terms: what's good for some is bad for others.

Re:Bits of advice I wish I had known by tuatoru on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:18PM (#31200634)
Yes, the idiom "come to X" does mean "be acted on by X". Common usages "come to harm", "come to Jesus", "come to his/her/your/my senses" ( = rational thought).
Re:Bits of advice I wish I had known by dalmo3 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @10:42PM (#31200791)
It's especially confusing in this case, where the previous sentence refers to a place.

"I come to the beach to relax, but others come to party."

Re:Bits of advice I wish I had known by toufka on Thursday April 28, 2022 @09:46PM (#31200434)
“Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot”