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The kind that exclusively blows the most overtly authoritarian dick in the world

That’s respectable and not the wrong way to handle it by any means, but after a certain age, and if you have a particularly intrusive career, it can be really hard to make new friends and have it get past loose acquaintances. I’m definitely experiencing that myself, but thankfully I’m still close to my old friends, just much farther away, geographically. (Also not OP btw.)

I don’t trust lifetime anything. That lasts as long as it’s profitable.