3. TiL Steve Jobs was fabulously rich, but was a frugal and wanton miserly man

TiL Steve Jobs was fabulously rich, but was a frugal and wanton miserly man

Uneducated sarcasm? It was a question. Believe it or not but people know other people. I know it’s crazy. What’s even more crazier is the internet. This bring a more diverse network just a chat away. You could be talking with someone who knows or works with movie stars, musicians, athletes and so on. So asking if the person commenting if they know someone personally is not as far fetched or sarcastic as one would think. Some even say Elon musk uses Reddit. That’s crazy in itself that you could be talking with someone like that and never know it. In the end don’t assume emotion from a comment. It’s makes you sound dumb like in this case. Text is a hard medium for emotion. You don’t have any facial expression to read from. You just have words and your own emotions to pull from.

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