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People usually keep their phone near them. Even when they sleep. So if you know where the phone is via tracking, then you know where the owner of the phone is. And ultimately where the owner of the phone sleeps.
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> The boy offers to give the man his pistol but the man tells him to keep it. That indicates the man is not trying to trick him. Yes and the nice cannibal they killed offered to give them food and shelter. Remember how…
> One moment I was perfectly awake, and the next moment I was hearing the sounds of people talking around me and I groggily became aware of my doctor getting me to acknowledge him. Yep. I remember the nurse telling me…
> My problem with your reasoning is that it relies on a literal interpretation of the words spoken in the book. What? Now you are just desperately grasping at straws. > The father says that "there are no other kids his…
>It is not. I think it is. I gave my reasons in another comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326924 > If he was one of the cannibals, he could have just shot him and got it over with In the book, the…
> From what I recall, it's not stated that the family who takes in the boy are cannibals. It isn't explicitly stated, but it is heavily implied. I gave my reasons to another comment.…
> It felt to me that the family that takes in the boy are not bad people. What family? You really believe the man and woman who took in the boy had a "family"? A world where boy's own mother abandoned him and his father…
> It's true this is done for literary effect, but it does make it harder to read. What literary effect? I didn't even notice there were punctuation issues until I read the guy's comment. Maybe since it was basically a…
> I have read the book, and it is about sticking to your morals no matter how evil the world will become. What morals? They stole other peoples stuff. They abandoned the poor people in the basement to die at the hands…
I'm sure if it mattered you would have pointed out the difference.
> I obviously can't argue further as I haven't read it. You should. It's the best of its kind in my opinion. > I will remark that different people will react to the same material variously uplifted or beaten-down, and…
> But the love between the father and his son persists to the very end. So what? Of course the love between a father and son persists. It's only natural. But that's not the point of the book. The book is about finding…
> It was, I'm told, a very good book that I noped out of about ten pages in. That's strange. The book grabs your attention from the get go. It starts strong. Stays strong. Ends strong. > I made it that far before…
> I haven't read it myself, but I've seen many report that it was uplifting to them. Uplifting? There was nothing uplifting about The Road. It's a world without hope. From the description of the forests, seas, societies…
> Second, get off your drugs. SSRIs and benzos and other psychotropic medications have serious side effects that will cause you to have suicidal and homicidal ideations. But aren't therapists the one peddling these…
> and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. Exactly. Reddit holds all the cards. Time after time, no great migration after a "revolt". > Even r/nba committed to an indefinite timeframe at arguably the…
> In the end I'd say the US's broken legislative system has forced the fed to make some really tough decisions. But don't the fed and congress serve the same master? Congress is 'broken' for a reason. > The board of the…
> Russia is waging a war of conquest So then the liberal democracies were against the US when we invaded iraq? Are they against the occupation of germany, japan, korea, italy, etc? Or is it not conquest when we do it? >…
The truth hurts. An influential and prominent bureaucrat once said america has no friends or enemies, just interests. Think about it. Isn't it more insulting to call countries you firebombed and nuked "friends and…
And horror stories like berenice by the great edgar allan poe.
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People usually keep their phone near them. Even when they sleep. So if you know where the phone is via tracking, then you know where the owner of the phone is. And ultimately where the owner of the phone sleeps.
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> The boy offers to give the man his pistol but the man tells him to keep it. That indicates the man is not trying to trick him. Yes and the nice cannibal they killed offered to give them food and shelter. Remember how…
> One moment I was perfectly awake, and the next moment I was hearing the sounds of people talking around me and I groggily became aware of my doctor getting me to acknowledge him. Yep. I remember the nurse telling me…
> My problem with your reasoning is that it relies on a literal interpretation of the words spoken in the book. What? Now you are just desperately grasping at straws. > The father says that "there are no other kids his…
>It is not. I think it is. I gave my reasons in another comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36326924 > If he was one of the cannibals, he could have just shot him and got it over with In the book, the…
> From what I recall, it's not stated that the family who takes in the boy are cannibals. It isn't explicitly stated, but it is heavily implied. I gave my reasons to another comment.…
> It felt to me that the family that takes in the boy are not bad people. What family? You really believe the man and woman who took in the boy had a "family"? A world where boy's own mother abandoned him and his father…
> It's true this is done for literary effect, but it does make it harder to read. What literary effect? I didn't even notice there were punctuation issues until I read the guy's comment. Maybe since it was basically a…
> I have read the book, and it is about sticking to your morals no matter how evil the world will become. What morals? They stole other peoples stuff. They abandoned the poor people in the basement to die at the hands…
I'm sure if it mattered you would have pointed out the difference.
> I obviously can't argue further as I haven't read it. You should. It's the best of its kind in my opinion. > I will remark that different people will react to the same material variously uplifted or beaten-down, and…
> But the love between the father and his son persists to the very end. So what? Of course the love between a father and son persists. It's only natural. But that's not the point of the book. The book is about finding…
> It was, I'm told, a very good book that I noped out of about ten pages in. That's strange. The book grabs your attention from the get go. It starts strong. Stays strong. Ends strong. > I made it that far before…
> I haven't read it myself, but I've seen many report that it was uplifting to them. Uplifting? There was nothing uplifting about The Road. It's a world without hope. From the description of the forests, seas, societies…
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> Second, get off your drugs. SSRIs and benzos and other psychotropic medications have serious side effects that will cause you to have suicidal and homicidal ideations. But aren't therapists the one peddling these…
> and like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well. Exactly. Reddit holds all the cards. Time after time, no great migration after a "revolt". > Even r/nba committed to an indefinite timeframe at arguably the…
> In the end I'd say the US's broken legislative system has forced the fed to make some really tough decisions. But don't the fed and congress serve the same master? Congress is 'broken' for a reason. > The board of the…
> Russia is waging a war of conquest So then the liberal democracies were against the US when we invaded iraq? Are they against the occupation of germany, japan, korea, italy, etc? Or is it not conquest when we do it? >…
The truth hurts. An influential and prominent bureaucrat once said america has no friends or enemies, just interests. Think about it. Isn't it more insulting to call countries you firebombed and nuked "friends and…
And horror stories like berenice by the great edgar allan poe.