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What does "used to be in close proximity to a friend" mean? I mean your comment is pretty detailed, down to the formatting of Excel documents and the internal workings of the regulators. People have conversations with friends, but rarely to this degree of detail, kind of makes it sound like you're just making shit up. Or, that you yourself are the "friend."

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I’ve had plenty of conversations like this with friends over a beer or coffee, incredulously diving into some bizarre aspect of their work or life!

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However I haven't. So I call shenanigans!

If the internet is good for one thing, it's for producing entirely trustworthy and accurate tales based on what a random poster's "friend once told me a while back".

This isn't the only reason someone might go into detail, but there's something called "infodumping". It's when autistic people like myself socialize by describing something we're interested in in depth. Some people have autistic friends.

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