[Libre-soc-dev] paul

[rhkramer at gmail.com]

Luke,

You're a smart guy, and I can't imagine the difficulties you have when people 
make statements instead of asking questions, but, is there any chance that you 
could (either mentally or explicitly) rephrase their statements as questions 
and then deal with them.

I've seen you rephrase at least some statements as questions.

Maybe it would be a two (or more step process) -- when you receive an email 
from them:

   1) Stop reading when you see a statement, take a deep breath and a break

   2) When you're ready, go back to that email and rewrite each statement as a 
quesion

   3) Stop, take a deep breath and a break

   4) Now go back to the rewritten email and deal with the questons

I know you'd like the world to adjust to you (I know I would like the world to 
adjust to me), but sometimes that doesn't lead to any progress, and, for the 
sake of progressing, you have to do more to adjust to the world.

   5) When you respond to that revised email, mention that you had to rephrase 
the statements as questions, and those are what you are responding to

I hope you can get some resolution.

Oops, I just realized that almost everything I wrote here is a statement (and, 
imperative at that).  Sorry!

On Monday, August 18, 2025 07:45:46 AM lkcl via Libre-soc-dev wrote:
> once again, as you have consistently done, you have not asked questions,
> you have yet again caused me distress by forcing me into the position of
> explaining that what you want to do is of no value and could or has done
> significant harm.

-- 
rhk

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references.

If someone has already responded to a question, decide whether any response 
you add will be helpful or not ...

A picture is worth a thousand words.  A video (or "audio"): not so much -- 
divide by 10 for each minute of video (or audio) or create a transcript and 
edit it to 10% of the original.  (Remember Cicero who did not have enough time 
to write a short missive.)

A speaker who uses ahhs, ums, or such may have a real physical or mental 
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preparing in advance and thinking before speaking. (That speaker might have 
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A radio (or TV) station which broadcasts speakers with high pitched voices (or 
very low pitched / gravelly voices) (which older people might not be able to 
hear properly) disrespects its listeners.   Likewise if it broadcasts 
extraneous or disturbing sounds (like gunfire or crying), or broadcasts 
speakers using their native language (with or without an overdubbed 
translation).

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A person who writes a sig this long probably has issues and disrespects (and 
offends) a large number of readers. ;-)
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