I still get super upset when all the hobbits are so distraught after Gandalf falls. 'get them up'
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I'm unnaturally good at flat pack furniture assembly. And I know how pathetic a brag that is, given it's a set of instructions and equipment. But everyone I know complains about it. I genuinely like it.
I set out all the materials and count them against the inventory to make sure they're all there. Then I follow the instructions.
Whenever I've helped someone else do it, they start trying to figure out what attaches to what in the abstract, they tear open bags of bolts as they go and grab the one that looks right only to realise later that it's 2mm shorter than the one they're meant to use.
I don't get it. It's a recipe with all the ingredients provided. Prep the ingredients, cook following instructions.
My partner, who falls into the category of just trying to guess things, is pretty much banned from assisting me until there's a bit where another human is necessary. But even then I'll make do using leverage from furniture if I can.
And that's my super long comment about how I'm good at something that's remarkably easy, because it's designed to be easy, but everyone wants to make it hard and then fight about it.
Also, here's a great song with a relevant clip:
The rule of the community is you must post before you leave after viewing something. It's obviously not anything policed.
Someone started showing their adherence to this rule by putting the word 'rule' in their post title. People continued this trend, sometimes using a play on words related to the post itself, making crap portmanteaus etc. they're usually not very cryptic.
I'm so over this. So exasperated by it. Every company in a scramble to the bottom. Meanwhile my country's reporting a downturn in FOOD spending because people are fucking poor.
We're being bombarded with ads at every turn, having our data sold off, stolen, or repurposed for LLMs... Meanwhile the customer experience gets worse and worse.
I work in digital ux and honestly, I just want to unplug and go live in a cave.
Australia is rabies free so this isn't quite accurate, but we do have some similar diseases. Bats being the source.
He looks like Huell from breaking bad
God I'd forgotten about him
Could be?
Mate it was a long shot that took 10 sec of my time to post. Figured it didn't hurt to ask.
Simultaneously looked at other sources, because, obviously.
Anonymity of Lemmy was what i wanted most as opposed to both those sites which take a DNA swab everytime you click on something.
Typically when there are layoffs, there are still people employed there who know what's going on.
The number of people is less an issue than the reasoning, and what areas they're cutting etc.
The smaller nature of Lemmy means people are less likely to write flippant dismissals as part of a rabid pack. Or at least it was.
It's usually a pretty courteous place and I'm sorry if I didn't come across that way myself.
But 99pc of posts here are about something I've never heard of - Linux and program languages, tonnes of jargon and acronyms. I don't jump in and ask what something is and follow up with 'why is this (thing that has no impact on me, as I've just discovered by googling the thing) newsworthy?'
I mean obviously it's newsworthy to me. I thought given how small the place is, that maybe one or two people might respond - people who knew - and everyone else would shrug and scroll past.
You're being very Reddit about it.
Now you've ruined their weekend plans
Also I'm just giggling at the kind advice you've given just in case anyone was considering snorkeling in a vat of human excrement.