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Re:Am I Introverted, or Just Rude? on Saturday September 24, 2016 @09:45PM (#12573483)
And you sound like you're not a very fun person to be around, solely because you put someone down based on one comment and want to be self-righteous about social skills. Let me guess, you recently "overcame" social anxiety? Get some perpective. It's not gone forever.

I don't think there's anything suspect about being bored by many conversations. Maybe lots of people are boring to him. Not everyone shares interests.

Re:Loneliness will be the next great moneyspinner on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @09:02AM (#12539157)
People already pay strippers just to talk to them
Re:Ask HN: Why do you really hate ads? on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @08:29AM (#12538944)
They are an assault on my visual field. I'd just rather not see them. And I don't like what they stand for. I'm aware that a lot of thought goes into their design, though often it doesn't seem like it. I guess all they have to be is eyecatching, which is what makes them particularly annoying.

Yes I know Nike exists already, thanks very much. I'll choose my alcohol when it's in front of me, thanks very much. I'll search for products when I actually need something, thanks very much. No, your attractive models will not make me buy your products, thanks very much.

If areas of the brain could have any purpose, why are the same purposes allocated to the same areas in each person? This doesn't make any sense to me. Of course, brains aren't totally uniform, but the fact that you can say "x area is used for y activity in general" seems pretty absurd. Or maybe there is a particular, most efficient arrangement of departments. But surely this can't be achieved in every individual. I wish studies didn't try to be as general sometimes - the anomalies are more interesting.