What characteristic words/phrases lead you to label people as more likely than not to be boring time-wasters?
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yeah I hate that tautology. I itch to respond, "that's why you're paid the big bucks, explain on what and how!"
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my urge is to respond "yes yess, everything depends on everything else. Now just tell me something interesting and stop being a pedant"
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Engineer version, "Well, it's a tradeoff" (graph the damn pareto, or pick a point as a leap of faith, or shut the fuck up)

