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  • Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?

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  • Bullet points. If you don't have a rapport spell things out paragraph style and then finish the email off with something like this...

    So considering the above I'd like to get your opinion on these points:

    1. Do you think the widget should be blue or orange?
    2. Given the expected market impact do we want to bring in PR for our e-widget announcement?

  • Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?

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  • OP's last paragraph contains three question marks and essentially one question - the first is their actual question with the following two being escalating statements. If you threw this into a work email with five other questions some people's brains would seize up and just refuse to answer more than one question because they're not certain if there are six or eight genuine questions.

    In life and especially a professional setting we're interacting with people in the top 1% of communication skills... and the bottom 25%.

  • Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?

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  • Considering your wording in the last paragraph, I'm going to guess that your writing style is frequently overwhelming. Making sure that questions are clearly isolated (I'd suggest using numeric lists or bullet points) makes it clear what response you're expecting.

    Additionally, if you're asking several difficult questions, it's likely that people will lose the thread partway through.

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • I don't always namespace but when I do I fully qualify.

  • Elon Musk says he wants 'zero' tariffs between the US and Europe

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  • Will the US comply with EU regulation?

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • Yeah \r gang4lyfe

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • I'm on side \PHP_EOL

  • i somsone who isn’t dyslexic lexic?

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  • With our powers united we will summon Captain Planet!

  • The Senate confirms Trump’s anti-abortion pick to lead the FDA

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  • To be fair to two of those people with something i learned as a Vermonter there is no idiot like a New Hampshire idiot.

  • Americans walked from door to door and failed to find a family Vance's wife could visit before cancelled visit in Nuuk, according to Danish TV2

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  • Ah, you mean imported Hákarl from Iceland?

  • Americans walked from door to door and failed to find a family Vance's wife could visit before cancelled visit in Nuuk, according to Danish TV2

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  • You mean Greenlanders don't want to invite a fucker that's trying to colonize them in for a spot of tea? Color me surprised.

    Maybe they could try bribing homeless people with food again?

  • Why Titles Are Written Like This?

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  • How to Respond to a Question on Title Capitalization: A Brief Commentary

    It isn't normal to capitalize every first letter... it's normal to capitalize nearly every first letter.

  • MAGA melts down as judge who ruled against Trump is assigned leaked war plans lawsuit

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  • George HW Bush: notable woke radical.

  • Was Donald Trump ever cool?

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  • I think it's a great idea not to idolize strangers. You say you liked Elon but folks in tech have always known he's a piece of shit and some of his oldest "friends" (i.e. Thiel) fucking loathe him.

    Wealth, generally, fucks people up so it's good to avoid the wealthy and famous as a default rule...

    Why not appreciate people around you, friends, family, your mail folk - these people are much more impactful on your life and their kindnesses in your times of need have the potential to be life saving.

  • Brazil Supreme Court panel orders ex-President Bolsonaro to stand trial over alleged coup plan

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  • Is Bolsonaro still hiding out in Florida or did he return to Brazil?

  • US House Speaker Johnson says Congress can 'eliminate' district courts

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  • The majority of Americans didn't vote to keep Trump out of office.

  • Luigi Mangione Wants a Laptop in Jail So He Can Review '15,000 Pages' of Evidence

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  • It's likely they've done something like enter every email he ever received into evidence just to fuck with the defense.

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    Florida lawmakers may loosen child labor laws to fill jobs left by undocumented immigrants

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  • Sure, Yale boy - I'm certain you really had to struggle to feed your family in your teens.

  • Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later?

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  • The pyramids mostly take care of themselves - most of the Roman sites were destroyed because people needed stone, and its easier to get pre-quarried stuff than dig it out of the ground yourself.

    Our reverence of past architecture is a pretty modern trend - and the amount of work it'd take to keep repainting and gilting these ancient buildings is unreasonable if they aren't useful.

    The materials being repurposed is pretty awesome though, it sucks to lose old buildings but being able to reconstruct where stones from a given ended up going and them receiving care and maintenance in their new homes is better than the material being outright destroyed... and it helps weave history into our everyday lives.

    One interesting debate you can follow right now (ish, it's mostly been settled) is the repatriation of totem polls that were stolen from Haida and Coastal Salish peoples... there was a debate about trying to preserve them in museums or returning them to the tribes where they'll serve their purpose and weather away to nothing. A takeaway from this discussion is that, if you have nothing else, it's not a bad idea to try and preserve items so that future people can appreciate them... but there are also active totem carvers alive and passing on the knowledge today - it's better to provide funding to keep the artform alive.

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