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hike_me t1_jb5ddn6 wrote

Reply to comment by IamSauerKraut in Mass. man to buy house in Maine after winning $4M scratch ticket prize by DrMcMeow

Dude, you’re wrong. $4 million is the jackpot if you take the annuity. It’s 2.6 million if you take the lump sum, which you still need to pay taxes on.

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HeadyBeersBrah t1_jb5hmtb wrote

Ha, he went with option 4 -- Abusing the suicide prevention report feature. Trying to report them, but it's not going through. If anyone else can report them that'd be grand.

Loser.

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hike_me t1_jb5pfgq wrote

Lol. They just can’t admit they’re wrong!

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HeadyBeersBrah t1_jb5s9st wrote

It's a symptom of the internet, we don't talk to each other like people and when confronted even in the gentlest of ways with an opposing viewpoint or correction to a false claim it goes directly to insults and doubling down on the original claim almost 100% of the time. Where is the shame in saying"okay, I didn't know that, my bad"?

I bet he deletes the comments eventually, seems like they at least realize they are wrong now.

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HeadyBeersBrah t1_jb5e432 wrote

It's always fun to see how people will respond when told they are wrong about something.

Will they double and triple down and continue to be a jerk? Will they register what they've been told as new information and verify for themselves, then say oh my bad? Delete the comment? It's almost always the first option.

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