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asdfman123 on May 17, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Beware offers of “help” with your projects

> he didn't want to help, he wanted to stroke his own ego by fixing (or as the case may be, fucking up) some other idiot's project

Maybe that’s just the way he approaches problems. Not necessarily helpful to you, maybe legitimately annoying, but why assume the worst?

RajT88 on May 17, 2023 [–]

I don't think he was intentionally trying to fuck up my project.

But that surely would have been the result, had I taken his advice verbatim.

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