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Want more friends? A better social life? Be like my 85-year-old buddy Gerry (theguardian.com)
7 points by ctack 253 days ago
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> The evidence is overwhelming; the debate is long over.

This assumes everyone is the same. The detachment philosophy of the Buddhist/ Epictetus/Stoics emerged for a reason. It has lasted in one form or another for thousands of years - https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181/lecture-8

Horses for courses.

Certainly brightened my day. “Bro, do you even friend?”