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by adamrezich 621 days ago
Interesting anecdote about a work of fiction, but what does it have to do with anything?
2 comments

The comment is referring back to "not compensating for anything". Choosing to keep a balding head and not caring what other people think is a power move when having a full head of hair becomes trivial.
It's kind of entertaining that both are vanity.
It seems pretty clearly related to the post it is a reply to.
Drawing a moral equivalency to some random event in some random contemporary work of fiction as a means of moralizing isn't some kind of awesome megadunk “own” or anything—it's actually pretty lame.
Why do you think it was attempting to be anything of the sort?
Guy 1 jokes about how he's so confident in himself he drives a minivan.

Person 2 says "ha that reminds me of a character in a story".

It's two people joking in a subthread.