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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 18:48:22 -0800
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On 2024-12-02 11:16, badgolferman wrote:
> *Hemidactylus* wrote:
> 
>> badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Alan Browne wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'll check in again ... June?  TBD.
>>>>
>>>> Be well, happy and safe going into the New Year, all!
>>>
>>> Announcing you are leaving a group is much like announcing you have
>>> killfiled someone.  It's a weak attempt to exercise some power over
>>> others.
>>>
>> Pointing it out that way makes you much worse. I see Alan as
>> performing a cathartic mic drop. Who cares what you think of it you
>> silly little person.
> 
> 
> You're right!  It doesn't matter what I think of it.  For that matter I
> don't care that he left.  What matters is his display of superiority.
> 
> "Elvis has left the building."  "I have arrived at the party."  "Look
> at me now."
> 
> They're all the same.  Ego driven forms of pride.

What Hemidactylus just said.