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The best kind of friends are those that right out calls me idiot when they see I'm doing something idiotic. It's liberating, because we both know that the harsh tone is not due to my whole being being defined as a idiot, but that specific thing I did was indeed stupid and he/she cared enough about me to tell me straight out...

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If your friend is acting like an idiot, you pull them aside and tell them so. You don't yell "_SABE_, SHUT THE FUCK UP" in front of the whole world. You can be a good friend without resorting to acting like the asshole that is Linus Torvalds.

There's a difference between "You are an idiot." and "What you did was stupid".

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