I feel like this describes me a lot but I also feel like it gives me a broad and eclectic knowledgebase that my employment has nothing to do with and has no mutual relevance to
No, not a bad thing. Makes for a good pub trivia teammate.
Only a negative if it keeps a person from being able to focus on their job. But that’s beyond just being a dilettante, that’s unmanaged ADHD or something.
They’d have to spend their lives explaining their parents are dumb or weird, then eventually they would either grow to like it or they would go by a nickname that didn’t draw as much attention.
Not me, had some friends from India and got to see them see their first snow in real life. It was actually more interesting to go snow coat, hat, gloves shopping. Hearing them talk about what thought would be the most important features of winter gear was interesting. For example, I would pay a lot of attention to the quality and function of the zipper, as that has often been the first failure point for me. The one boy just did not want poofiness and got the thinnest, flattest coat he could find. The other wanted a coat with some American baseball team on it, any team, didn’t matter which so long as it was baseball.
I would go back to 2010 and tell myself, “buy Bitcoin, sell on Dec 17, 2017, buy after it drops and sell again on April 14, 2021. If you still need money after that, reevaluate your life”.
Same as I’ve been doing since he won last time. Stay in my more liberal home state, extend understanding to friends and relatives who live in conservative states, extend invitations to the few who might need to move to keep themselves safe. Keep donating and volunteering with the organizations I’ve been supporting.
I have a friend who is thinking about seeking asylum in the US. I have encouraged her to weigh her other options; there are other countries where she has friends and family that might be more welcoming to her. If Trump gets elected, I’m not sure she’ll even have a viable path to the US.
This is just removing the previous Pope’s cronies. There’s nothing in the article to make me think the Pope is putting in systemic fixes to prevent his own cronies from worming their way into positions from which they can abuse their power.
I would expect any pope or leader to remove those around him who are loyal to someone else.
Hot yoga. Indoor climbing. Both if you can. Activity + heat + big, bright open space that tricks your brain into thinking you’re getting outdoor sunlight.
Weird. My DNA test didn’t tell me I am X% white, Y% black, Z% Native American. It told me my DNA was a majority match for people that hailed from regions A, B, and C.
Are you sure you know how ancestry DNA tests work?
The grocery stores in my area are also full of video cameras. If I wanted to go full-privacy, I would have to wear a mask to foil facial recognition, gloves, and generic clothes that I change out of after I leave so I can’t be tied to videos showing my face elsewhere.
Then how do I get to the grocery store? Drive into the store parking lot with my license plates hanging out in the wind? Lol, no.
I love bridges. If I see a cool looking bridge, I want to cross it, especially if it goes somewhere that I’m not familiar with. Same with stairs outdoors. They feel like an adventure to me.
Stone paths. I was hiking in a large state park recently and came on a stretch of path that a seriously skilled stonemason built. It was beautiful. I stood there for ten minutes looking at how perfectly they matched the stones together.
USB switch. I have a desk with work laptop to the left, personal laptop to the right. My keyboard, mouse, and camera feed into the switch, then the switch into each laptop. With a press of a button, I can switch all my peripherals from one laptop to the other without unplugging/plugging USB connections
Letterboxd, small indie theaters, several universities near me have indie film series open to the public.
Film festivals. We’ll plan date nights or weekend trips around indie film festivals within a few hours drive. Once you start going to those, you start meeting people and getting on mailing lists and before you know it you will want fewer recommendations.
Based on experience with stores in my area currently? Groceries. Incorrect and forgotten items, incorrect prices, wilted produce, nearly thawed frozen foods, swapping significantly more expensive alternatives despite my checking the “do not substitute” option.
“When you are acquainted with a woman…” assumes everyone here is a man. Extending the question to, “women, how do men greet you or how do you greet men” would have solicited a whole new set of perspectives.
And not specifying where they are / what their culture is shows OP also tends to assume everyone has similar background to them too.
The area where there are always open camping sites in that one national park because no one wants to sleep under the high voltage lines and get cancer.
What is the punchline you see in American media about Indian food?
The stereotype of Indian cuisine is that it sometimes has really strong flavor, sometimes a strong smell to match. Those are not bad things.
I don’t have any overall negative associations with Indian food. There are certainly dishes that don’t appeal to me, but if anyone wanted to go to an Indian restaurant for dinner, I would say “yes, please”.
Edit: I see some comments about “spicy diarrhea” jokes. I see those as a function of people not acclimated to spicy food, not that the spicy food itself is bad. I’m impressed by people who can eat full spicy level Indian food. I would be on a toilet for a day if I ate fully spicy level; that’s my problem, not the fault of Indian cuisine overall.
I was up for confirmation, when allegedly the Holy Spirit enters you and you start a more adult phase relationship with God. Post-ceremony, the prep class teacher asked all of us newly confirmed kids if we had felt the holy Spirit enter us. Every single kid but me said yes. It was obvious to me that they were being influenced by each other and the encouragement of the teacher and the specialness of the ceremony. Realizing I didn’t want to be carried away by the wave of group fuzzies was the start of my drifting from the church.
And then the firm end to it all was when I left home and got away from the network of religious friends and family I grew up around and really saw how the church treats gay people and women and children.
I have his stuff in my feed all the time and I don’t know why. Never watched it. Never watched pimple poppers or car detailers or pulling the film off new electronics or any of that content designed to give a rush from cleaning some gross or dirty things up.
I assumed it was a Russian user spreading misinformation. Maybe the weak grasp on English is an AI thing instead of non-native speaker thing in this case. It got me.
Well, the sources are satisfying in that they disprove a lot of what you’re saying. Venezuela was declined once while most of the time observers were sent. And you were unable to find sources for Russia at all.
I’ve only used Yubikey when work mandated them for a while. Didn’t last long until they moved to a push-to-phone-app system instead. It was fine, just irritating to carry around one more physical thing.
And I prefer a smartphone based app in personal life. I use Authy, keeping my backup codes in several safe locations and separate from where I keep password vault backups.
There’s probably some super duper FOSS alt to Authy but I haven’t spent the time to look for it.
The Passion of the Christ. I was very confused that people thought it was a good film. And in my specific case, confused about why my school thought it was a good idea to take a bunch of minors to see a very gory R-rated film. That was the most violent movie I had seen up to that point. The whole experience was surreal, and not in a good way.
Seems pointless and inconvenient for me as they usually seem to be poor quality, and can you really listen to music in the shower, and are you showering long enough to benefit from it?...
Body wash and long hair shampoo plus conditioner takes me 10 minutes, full shaving routine takes me another 10. Yes, I listen to music through a bluetooth speaker. Yes, the quality is what one would expect from an inexpensive speaker the size of a soda can.
No, I don’t blare music when people are sleeping.
I benefit from it as much as I do from listening to music at any other time? It’s entertainment.
Boost. I used Boost for Reddit, so this app for Lemmy feels very familiar.
I like how few taps it takes to switch accounts. I like how I can set my default feed and sort and it sticks where some other lemmy apps I tried frequently reset to a trending feed, gross.
I like the feature that allows me to apply a custom tag to users that only I can see. I use it to keep an eye on potential trolls. If I have a person tagged as “MAGA troll”, I know not to engage with them but to grab the popcorn and enjoy the ride.
Start thinking about those around me having the most bizarre sex I can think of. If they are going to invade my privacy, I’m going to make them regret it.
When they try minor defendants in the USA as “adults,” aren’t they saying the kids aren’t what the seem to be, that they aren’t actually their chronological age? “Young at heart,” an “old soul,” saying the same thing....
What is age confusion? And at what age can one expect to think that murdering multiple children and adults is ok?
So far I’ve gone from baby all the way to middle age without ever thinking I should murder multiple people. I would even go so far as to say the vast majority of people make it through all ages without murdering.
I despise jokes about how much a person hates the opposite gender and their spouse specifically.
It’s not a good self-deprecating joke, it’s just sad. Get a divorce or break up already. You don’t have to be trapped in a miserable relationship. And if you hate the opposite gender so much, consider whether you might be queer.
I was just thinking about my password manager and use of 2FA. If I lost my phone or what if I get in some accident and have amnesia and cannot remember my master password. What would I do?...
I keep my vault password in fireproof containers in two separate off-site locations. And I use BitWarden, which has an emergency access process. I would assume many other vaults do too.
2FA backups are also stored in locations separate from where I have the vault password.
I also backup my vault a few times a year and keep those encrypted in another digital location.
I was going to go on a first date when the guy asked me to sign an NDA. He was attempting to be a content creator on YouTube, tiktok, etc., and thought he needed to start “protecting his reputation”. I declined the date.
I didn’t even read the whole thing, TBH. It’s been a while, I’ll have to see if I still have access via the link he sent me. That’s even more blatantly sleezy than I was thinking. If he actually managed to build any sort of following, they might be interested to see what he attempts to put in his NDAs.
Gross. Well today is a “losing hope in humanity” kind of day.
Taylor Swift started out around the same time as the Hannah Montana show, so not that one.
Taylor Swift and her team have too much business savvy to follow a 00s Disney show as a template, so not number two.
Trying to cram real life people and things into “jungian archetypes” is reductionist and the online, self-taught philosophist bro’s version of astrology.
People have recognized that species changed over time since the BC era. There are records of such from the Latin/Greek area and the Islamic area and Chinese area. Two dudes didn’t magically come up with evolution from scratch at the same time.
I was issued a monitor in the early days of COVID when they were sending us home to work. We already had laptops. They had literally pallettes of monitors, people were just grabbing one or two. Tracking was through the honor system, writing name and number taken on a piece of paper.
Now they’re having us go back into the office ~3 days a week and want us to return the monitors. Lol, no.
New people who don’t know wtf they are doing because we don’t have structured training and our written documentation is piss poor and we’re overall bad at helping them. Some new college grad botched a multi-million dollar program and come to find out, they weren’t getting any meaningful mentoring or guidance.
The thought is we will be better at seeing these sorts of gaps earlier if we’re having real conversations, not just the routine PowerPoint presentations sanitized to show all is good.
Could a team train and mentor via virtual interaction only? Sure. Can this particular team? Nope.
Would love to know what you guys think and your reasoning for it. I’m starting to see a lot of Apple Watches/Fitbits/Galaxy Watches in my area compared to more traditional timepieces.
I don’t care to have anything on my wrist. But I want to start tracking steps, especially over winter, to prompt myself into enough daily activity. So I’m going to try a ~$50 fitness tracker on my wrist and see how that goes. If I can get past the annoyance at having something on my wrist, I may shop around for a full smartwatch, or more likely wait for the next gen or two. I am deeply unimpressed with the size and battery life of the flagship smartwatches right now.
Instead of one community becoming completely dominant on a topic, there’s another one close on its heels should anything happen to the first.
And if I subscribe to both, who cares which a particular post comes from? Just scroll down the feed, read a post if it looks interesting, ignore if it doesn’t. Which community it originates from doesn’t matter.
I wonder if the people who push for one community per topic across all the Fediverse are just extreme tidiness types who get a kick out of seeing everything in orderly little boxes. Trying to Marie Kondo a decentralized internet forum, that way lies madness.
A man went on a misogynistic tirade and punched me.
He wanted some thing we were out of stock of. Then he wanted some other thing for free because we were out of stock of the first and I told him I could give a discount but not free. He got increasingly mad. I offered to have the store call him when we got the thing in stock, referred him to another store where they did have it in stock, offered coupons, nothing deescalated him. Lots of screaming, calling me bitch, cunt, whore, etc. He reached over the counter to punch me, which fortunately took a lot of power out of the punch and gave me enough time to shift so he hit my arms instead of my face (mostly).
I hit the panic button early on but the response was a couple min too late.
He was arrested and pled guilty without me having to talk in court, so that was nice.
Are dilettantes always a bad thing?
I feel like this describes me a lot but I also feel like it gives me a broad and eclectic knowledgebase that my employment has nothing to do with and has no mutual relevance to
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Theoretically, what if I named my child with a foreign but otherwise normal names
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Do you have a story about when you saw snow for the first time? (kbin.social)
Care to share it with us?
If you could travel back in time and utter a single sentence to someone, when would you choose to go and whom would you address?
Vatican approves blessings for same-sex couples in landmark ruling (www.reuters.com)
Americans, what are your plans if Trump wins in 2024?
Can someone knowledgeable explain what's going on at the Vatican? Trump-loyal Catholic leaders are being defanged. Diversity and acceptance are being promoted. (www.msn.com)
I don’t know what’s going on with the pedophiles, but I hope the same reform....
What are the best ways that you beat the winter blues that really help?
Can someone answer a nagging question i have about CRT?
Edit: this question has been answered now. Thank you to everyone who took the time to help me understand....
Hypothetical scenario: I am an advertiser and I want your personal data. How much cold hard cash would I have to offer you for you to willingly give it to me?
As an adult, what seemingly childish things do you get excited about?
I love bridges. If I see a cool looking bridge, I want to cross it, especially if it goes somewhere that I’m not familiar with. Same with stairs outdoors. They feel like an adventure to me.
What's something you bought under $25 on Amazon that is a life changer and why?
Which sources do you follow to learn of new indie/small movies?
Sources as in sites, blogs, people, columns, etc....
What are some things you simply won't order online?
It's exam season for many. What's your go-to study playlist?
Songs, playlists, genres are all welcome.
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What do you call this place? (lemmy.world)
Electric Valley? Wire Canyon? Zap Way?
Indian Food is praised worldwide and celebrated in countries like the UK and Germany. Americans, why do all your comedy shows rag on Indian food?
Former religious lemmings, what made you quit religion or stop being a believer?
Mostly trying to relate.
What's something that has fascinated you recently?
Would anyone here know why we refuse to send international observers to some countries ?
I’ve seen it for Venezuela and Syria, but i’m sure i could find this for quite a lot of other countries....
What is your experience with security USB sticks (such as Nitro- or Yubikeys)?
What movie(s) did you see in the theater where the crowd applauded at the end?
Does anyone actually use bathroom bluetooth speakers?
Seems pointless and inconvenient for me as they usually seem to be poor quality, and can you really listen to music in the shower, and are you showering long enough to benefit from it?...
How many tabs do you have open? (lemmy.sdf.org)
And remember… it’s not a race!
You wake up in a world where everyone has the ability to read minds, except for you. How would you handle your interactions with others?
Should there should be a new term, "age fluid" or "trans-age? I was reading the CNN article from 3/30/23 about the Nashville shooter and it seemed to imply that age confusion may have been a factor. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
When they try minor defendants in the USA as “adults,” aren’t they saying the kids aren’t what the seem to be, that they aren’t actually their chronological age? “Young at heart,” an “old soul,” saying the same thing....
What is the least amusing joke you're aware of?
What are your emergency plans for your password manager?
I was just thinking about my password manager and use of 2FA. If I lost my phone or what if I get in some accident and have amnesia and cannot remember my master password. What would I do?...
What is the weirdest thing you were under an NDA for?
Do you think Taylor Swift's life inspired the Hanna Montana show, or the show gave Taylor Swift a template to follow, or is it a Jungian archetype that inevitably occurred because history was ready? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Have you ever done something for yourself on your (job) company's infrastructure?
Like hosted a website or a server for your personal needs, or taken a smartphone given to you for work or something like that.
Do you prefer to wear a smartwatch or a regular watch?
Would love to know what you guys think and your reasoning for it. I’m starting to see a lot of Apple Watches/Fitbits/Galaxy Watches in my area compared to more traditional timepieces.
Forgive me, but… (lemmy.ml)
It’s my hope to see unity and cohesion is the Lemmy-verse. Looks like [email protected] has over 39k subscribers....
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For those who work with the public: What was the worst situation that occurred between you and a customer?
wasn't there supposed to be a buddy comedy with Lupita nyongo and Rihanna, directed by Ava Du vernay? where is it??
Remember that time when someone posted that on Twitter, and those people chimed in being like “I’m down”?...