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Old 16 July 2018, 10:46 AM   #61
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People, especially famous people, will do about anything for followers. Because followers generally equates to amount of social influence amongst those that measure that kind of thing. So for a lot of people more followers equals more money in endorsements and sponsorship.

Messed up world we live in when your high school age daughter looks at Kylie Jenner being a billionaire and says to my wife and I “where did I go wrong?” She is a straight A student that is never in trouble and has tons of friends.


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Yeah, after checking a few sites that came up in google that’s what I thought. Frigging screwed up world we live in that’s for sure.
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Old 16 July 2018, 12:54 PM   #62
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Drive old car, leave cell phone at home and still get tracked by speed cameras and license plate camera readers.
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Old 16 July 2018, 01:07 PM   #63
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Well done. F em.
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Old 16 July 2018, 01:45 PM   #64
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I did that for a year with Allstate... did not save me a penny.. I put 4K miles a year on my car and was hoping for a discount due to minimal use, compared to most.

I did not care about the big brother factor... I am the most uninteresting man in the world, by far
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