context: How to respond when a gay friend comes out of the closet
Be civil regardless of your beliefs.
Not everyone shares the same beliefs and it's possible that you may have reservations about homosexuality. While you have every right to maintain any set of beliefs you wish, don't hold your friend to the standard of your belief system.
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next sentence for the context: Even if you don't understand, try to appreciate the fear and stress involved in coming out to you. Your friend is still your friend, regardless of your feelings about homosexuality.

context: A man wearing a black shirt holds an exercise ball over another man wearing a light blue shirt performs sit-ups on an inclined bench. the man wearing the black shirt
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next sentence for the context: drops the ball on the floor and crouches down and high fives the man performing the sit-ups.

context: How to talk to people
Talk to a new person.
Sometimes the hardest part of talking to people is figuring out how to start the conversation. This can be particularly intimidating when you want to talk to someone that you have not previously met.
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next sentence for the context: To strike up a conversation with a new person, try to find some common ground. For example, if you are waiting in line at your neighborhood coffee shop, you could say to the person in front of you, " what's good here? I've never tried any of their specialty drinks.

context: How to use a proxy
Understand the basic concepts of a proxy.
A proxy is a server that you connect to that allows you to get " outside " of your network. You connect to a proxy and route your traffic through it, so that your ip is masked and traffic appears to be coming from the proxy server.
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Know the different types of proxies. There are several types of proxies that you will run into as you research proxies.