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Journal Journal: Life


Life wouldn't seem so hard if we didn't expect it to be so easy.

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Journal Journal: Interesting Fact 1

People are 33% more likely to believe a statement when it's put into statistics.
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Journal Journal: RIAA & MPAA = Authoritarian

Authoritarian
1 : of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority
2 : of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people

Thesaurus Entries:

Synonyms:
dictatorial, authoritative, dictative, doctrinaire, dogmatic, magisterial, totalitarian, total, totalistic

Related Words:
heavy-handed, high-handed, oppressive, strict, stringent, fascistic, nazi, patriarchal

Antonyms (Anti-Authoritarian):
Libertarian, Anarchistic, Democratic

Which words do you want to be associated with?
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Journal Journal: Hackers are...

...the little kids that hook your VCR up for you.
...the teenagers that help you recover the files you accidentally deleted.
...the adults you work with that fix your computer in 5 seconds, not 5 days.
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Journal Journal: Laws

Abuse of the laws made to help can only hurt the people the laws were originally meant to protect.
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Journal Journal: Threads...

The delicate balance of our blessed lives hangs by a thread which marks the line between the things we could have done, and the things we have done.

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