Zwuzelmaus
@Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
- Comment on those of you with good skills to defuse a tense situation at the workplace, what advice can you give me? 12 hours ago:
My questions to you people with good social skills: does it really help to simply stay next to my colleague, letting her do the talking while I do nothing but looking at the karen in the eye?
Simple answer: Yes.
Bonus answer: If you do even more than that, just a little, you have made a friend, for serious.
Situations like this trigger my fight or flight response.
This trigger is your personal issue. I am sure the coworker also had to deal with their own personal issues.
Both contribute nothing to your question.
- Comment on How the hell are there already shirts, hats and even jerseys made for the winning teams of some championships? 19 hours ago:
Imagine the cost of making each piece is only 1% of the sales price.
Why not prepare 2 different ones, or 16 different ones?
- Comment on Why doesn't anybody get notified about warrants for their arrest? 2 days ago:
chances that they’d run. But, that’s all the more reason to add another charge
What charge?
- Comment on I landed in another toxic workplace after quitting a previous one. What would you do in this scenario? (Open to all suggestions) 2 days ago:
avoid the toll on my own health
Make this a goal. Independent from other (work) goal.
Respond differently when people start getting toxic. Do sometimes not respond at all, but turn around and walk away.
Read about “resilience”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Palantir.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
It is not self-explaining at all. I would not say that it is hard, but you need someone who shows and explains the basics.
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 4 days ago:
It’s the vitamins. These tiny black things that crawl on top of the fruits…
- Comment on [serious] when was the last time Donald Trump went swimming, has he ever swam? 5 days ago:
I can easily imagine a pool by that mini palace in Florida.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 6 days ago:
The fascist times throughout Europe. It was at a different time in each country.
Before, there weren’t what we would call democracies. Later, people learned to get along with people who voted for other parties.
- Comment on does the quality of downloaded youtube video increase after being downloaded? 1 week ago:
Yes of course!
Like fruits ripen. Some do so later, after being picked from the tree.
/s
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I do not care what you are.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It seems that way when I have asked myself, during reading, how could any sane human (that means, true artists are exempt) ever produce such a text, and after the third or fourth time, approximately, that I have asked this without a good answer, I finally come to that conclusion.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Troll with AI texts
- Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments? 1 week ago:
I studied these ideas at university
I have learned the stuff at university, too. But what they gave us there was good teaching, after several decades of practising their teaching.
When I read the original papers, much later, they were quite a bit harder. Especially some of the thought experiments.
- Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments? 1 week ago:
Read it for real, try it out. Then you’ll know.
- Comment on What is a good source to read about thought experiments? 1 week ago:
Some of the best though experiments of all times (so far):
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 2 weeks ago:
my boss comes back and says the lady was upset with me and my behaviour, because I had not greeted her as she entered the store
I’m sure she also went to the subway driver with the same complaint after she entered the train…
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 3 weeks ago:
When I need too much of the shampoo :)
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 3 weeks ago:
very easy to confirm.
Of course it is easy, when 1 billion people would readily help you with confirming the right truth.
/s
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 3 weeks ago:
Instructions how to build a nuclear bomb.
They have been so very illegal during the very first years of the internet that the scanning of content by police and 3 letter agencies was invented especially because of that.
Then many people made fun of the fact, for example by putting fake hints into the footers of their e-mails or forum posts, and maybe this was the beginning of all memes.
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 3 weeks ago:
Read Xi’s promotion history.
Do not believe everything that you read, especially if it is history of very powerful persons.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It means better get your distance, fast as possible.
- Comment on how are you able to care more about your job itself than the people at your job? 3 weeks ago:
smart guys who avoid drama have this ability I lack: to do their job, even if it means working more than an established, well connected lazy group of people.
Getting smart cannot be done in 1 step.
You need to go 2 steps in their right order:
Smart guys do their 30 minute pause and then keep working, even if the lazier ones have longer pauses.
Your step 1:
Once every day, exactly once, you must yell at them while they sit around extending their pause. Be loud enough so that at least 10 of the patients can hear it and understand it. Call them lazy etc. Be specific enough so that you feel better after saying it aloud.
Your step 2:
After practising step 1 for a while, you will get smarter.
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 4 weeks ago:
The cheapest way is this:
Just tell your mom, when the press comes asking, the very first thing she says should be: “It was an assassination!”
- Comment on Were both parties cheated on? 4 weeks ago:
It’s cheating, yes, but it’s also childish behaviour. I tend to guess 30/70 even.
All of them have yet to do some growing up.
- Comment on does the new employee eventually stop being the one given the most tasks? 4 weeks ago:
Then one possible solution for you is to just get over it.
- Comment on does the new employee eventually stop being the one given the most tasks? 4 weeks ago:
they get to enjoy a one hour pause while I do a 30 minute one.
Is that all?
The whole post about that problem, and as soon as the pause problem is solved, then your life is good again?
Just trying to confirm.
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 5 weeks ago:
Tonies
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 5 weeks ago:
As soon as they settled down and thought, now they have got something to loose.
- Comment on Are there "headhunters" that work *for* you? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but.
They can do certain things for you, like giving advice, or help you to brush up your resume.
But most of them don’t go all the way for you, because that’s not their business model: they make most of their money from “the other side”.