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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
when i started paying attention to this i was shocked at how often i was suppressing laughter. there are so many times it feels like laughing would make me look insane basically (on the street and stuff but even around housemates). sometimes i let it out anyway and it feels great
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Shreyas
@HelloShreyas
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The "humor cliff": The average four-year-old child laughs 300 times a day. By contrast, it takes more than two months for the average 40-year-old adult to laugh that many times.
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faun
@makoConstruct
well.. I've noticed I've started laughing reflexively whenever someone says something I think is silly and I hope it doesn't come across as mean, but I sort of can't see how it wouldn't..
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@makoConstruct
I guess when we respect or care about someone it should not be funny to us when they are wrong. But uh... maybe nobody can actually live up to that level of respect, people are making idiotic blunders all of the time and there isn't time in life to be narcissism-enabling about it
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@makoConstruct
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@QiaochuYuan
A thing is funny iff it can be corrected by being laughed at.. I suppose sometimes that is the case, hmm. Maybe what's changed for me is I've started to have stronger friends. Friends who can call each other dumbasses and not get sad or angry
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@makoConstruct
For a lot of people, they think they're not supposed to make mistakes that simple, so admitting that they have threatens them