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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
this confuses me a lot and it's not how i use the word at all. it feels a little bad to say this but in many ways i currently feel like i have zero "friends," in the sense of "people i hang out with regularly" which is what "friend" meant to me in high school and college
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mechanical monk
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americans throw the word "friend" around like a bean bag they'll spend one evening at some meetup and be like "i made 3 new friends"
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
pretty sure i've complained about this on twitter before and i'll probably keep complaining about it but it's fucked up that the quality of my social life peaked in college and i've never gone back to that peak for longer than 2 weeks at a time
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By revealed preference, people don't value new friendships very much. They make friends in schools, colleges and offices because they are forced to spend a lot of time around the same people, so they might as well befriend them.
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