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      9 hours ago

      Oh my god, yes. Your best victory is the victory of succeeding at something and moving the fuck on with your life if you can. People are shitty. Our environment is shitty. It is what it is. Keep trucking. I am a product of my environment, but I can control some of it. In my opinion, chasing your goals, time and distance is a solution for all social ills. Well maybe not all but I mean shit you gotta try

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      We don’t know that was why they denied it, this could be shadenfreud (sp?) because they would be denied regardless.

      At least I choose to believe that, because I can’t imagine being petty enough to do that.

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        I assume that was the case because it isn’t really a human decision anymore. Whether a mortgage application is accepted or denied is based on the decision of a computer, the human just informs you the computer’s decision.

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        Usually, one feels Schadenfreude when something bad ‘just’ happens to somebody else, like Karma, but not due to ones own actions.

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          Not really. The best example of Schadenfreude (imo) is when you follow a sports team (probably not too many of you here on Lemmy), whenever the rival team loses you feel Schadenfreude. There doesn’t have to be any kind of ‘just-ness’ to it, actually if the rival team losses unjustly (played better, but were unlucky) the Schadenfreude is actually greater.

          Of course there are times when something bad finally happens to someone that deserves it and you feel joy from it, but I wouldn’t call that Schadenfreude, more like ‘Vergeltungsfreude’.

          While ‘Schadenfreude’ literally translates to the joy of damage, ‘Vergeltungsfreude’ would translate to the joy of retribution. Source: my German ass

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
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      This type of thing is the nominal purpose of credit scores, I believe. (Whether they’re implemented effectively is another story…)

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        They didn’t say that’s why they rejected them. Maybe they’d be rejected either way, they just got to be happy about it.

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      18 hours ago

      Right? “Made me cry on a school trip” (for reasons that I’m sure we’re totally out of line on the teacher’s part and omitted just for brevity’s sake)

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          14 hours ago

          Dawn, imagine being so ugly that there is no career path that is in line with your personality available.

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            I’m thinking about the teachers I had in school and trying to work out what they would be doing if they couldn’t have been teachers.

            Some of them definitely would have worked in HR. Being the teacher was their access to a world of petty vindictiveness where they were absolute rulers and could do whatever they wanted.

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              several of the teachers at my school were retired lawyers or other professionals. Most were there with masters and by choice. (Public school, for the record). Not everyone’s district pays them so little