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Always make sure everyone in the group is acknowledged.

For example, say you run into some friends while you're out in public, but they have with them their roommate who you've barely met. In this case, don't just ignore the roommate in favor of only acknowledging and speaking to your friends, make sure you acknowledge and greet the roommate too, even if it's just a smile or even just a polite nod.

Humans are by our nature a communal species, and as a result tend to be pretty affected by feeling ignored or excluded. Even if you're not ignoring them on purpose, you just feel awkward acknowledging someone you barely know, try to consider how you might feel if you were totally brushed off and ignored by someone who is acknowledging everyone else but you.

Even if you personally don't think you'd personally be hurt by being brushed off by your roommates' friend, know that your feelings aren't universal and plenty of people would feel bad about feeling ignored, especially if they're someone who has a history of being excluded by their peers.

This doesn't apply to people you are trying to avoid because they make you feel uncomfortable or even unsafe, safety comes first before good manners. But if they're not someone who you think is a risk to your safety and/or someone who makes you uncomfortable, it won't hurt you to politely acknowledge them.

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the bar for the nyt is so fucking low at this point but somehow they keep burrowing beneath it. "although she moved to the US as a toddler" "no american officials attended" NO AMERICAN OFFICIALS HAVE CONTACTED HER FAMILY. they've been asking for some acknowledgment a fucking phone call for a WEEK since she was killed and somehow the fact that biden and harris and the american government have deemed her life and her death to have no value to them, that gets propped up by The Paper Of Record as evidence that she was in fact not really an american and thus it's a self-proving tautology that it must be true

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ok fine maybe community notes was a good idea

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dozens of elected officials and very powerful people with large platforms engaging in ACTUAL blood libel against haitians like the type of shit that precedes a lynching while everyone pretends criticizing israel is blood libel is making me feel completely insane. and a white christian zionist just shot a jewish pro palestine protestor this week while every american university effectively outlaws academic freedom in order to protect jewish students but ok

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every time i try my luck and check on how twitter's doing i see at least 20 accounts like this and sigh with exasperation and crawl back into my dingy cave on here like a wounded stray dog

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my (cis) brother is using my old license to buy wine and it has the gender marker F on there. so whenever he gets asked he just says “oh i’m trans”. its literally worked every single time.