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Comment by moistly

I suppose one can “brag” about most anything. Seems to me, though, that a brag about “owning” an arbitrary sequence of bytes is pretty damn empty.

Overcome a challenge that presses your personal limitations? Worthy of a brag: you took up the task, persevered, and conquered.

Open your wallet to purchase something? I just don’t see that there’s any legitimate boasting to be had there: any damn fool with the same money could do it. There is no challenge, there is no accomplishment, there is nothing to be proud of at all. It’s such empty bragging.

IMO people who brag about owning things have deep personal insecurities and would be better off putting the money spent towards therapy.

parent moistly 5 years ago

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