Onomatopoeia

@Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The various stages of cooking experience⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Even cooking I’d disagree.

  I have 300+ recipes and many of them get a tweak every time I make them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or glass with wire mesh in it - security glass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to buy a laundry mat building under 100k?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re waking these questions here, you’ve got a long way to go.

  I suggest finding some “running a small business” materials at your local library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black coffee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never once had a problem with “coffee, black”. Doing more would require extra work, you’re telling me someone went out of their way to put a little cream on your coffee?

  At most you were perhaps given the wrong order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this “sits out too long”? Haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Apple has always designed things for people who want to do things without having to be a technologist. For which I will always credit them, massively.

  2. Apple has always designed things to work together seamlessly. Again, massive kudos, even though I condemn their usijgbthis yonlock people in.

  Then there’s Job’s cult of personality, marketing Apple as for people who are better than the plebes.

  I’ve never been a fan of Apple as a company, but I’ve always given massive credit for the good ideas behind making things that just work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s overly simplistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't urban/suburban streets and roads use a center storm channel?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a civil engineer, but the most fundamental thing I can think of is heavy rain would sooner cause road flooding with a central low spot, while have two sides of drainage provides double the drainage, plus any overcapacity will first flood a sidewalk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Upvoted, but it’s “fewer” in this case (countable)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does “privelege” have to do with it?

  In ts just simple ignorance on your part - you didn’t realize what’s commonplace to you isn’t commonplace to someone outside the US, nothing more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every fucking time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your phone is about to stop being yours.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And Libeage., which runs on a lot of phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep your shit organized?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, just STOP.

  Needed to be said. Take your time to recover - this other stuff can wait. You can spend time considering stuff, thinking about how to better manage your space and time, but don’t try to do anything right now.

  I know, that’s hard to do (I’m a hypocrite about this, for sure) but it’s tough advice we all need (myself the most).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep your shit organized?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly with that small of a space you may want to re-evaluate how much you can do.

  This has been a lifelong struggle for me too, I always have more crap/projects going than space will really allow.

  It can be incredibly hard to be honest with ourselves about this.

  A few tears ago I started containerizing stuff (Sterilite makes a great variety of containers, they’re translucent and strong, and not cheap - get them at walmart). They get a label with a date so I know when I initially boxed things up.

  Using containers really Bella organize, makes moving easier, and… forces me to evaluate “is this thing container-worthy?”, because containers ain’t free.

  I’ve sent a lot of stuff to the charity shop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we reach to having 18 required for voting in elections?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "Fourth-grade level

  Haha (sorry, that was too easy)

  Yea, it requires an educated populace - even at 18 I had no fucking clue who to vote for, and I knew it at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You should read up on diabetes.

  Big meals are probably the worst way to eat - the body stores although extra calories as fat.

  Quite the opposite of your supposition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that sitcoms on TV today are horribly unfunny? Compared to older ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Little has changed really, I find most sitcoms are just “meh”, kind of like they’ve always been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hannibal was right 🔥⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was a joke?

  Wasn’t the least bit funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to New York City⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my city I never (and I mean never - people just don’t do it here, they even avoid getting caught intending up yurn lane stuff) see people drive in bike lanes, so this seems like a NY City asshole kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So guess what boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “hart hat”

  “Big bolt”

  Haha, awesome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Impact and risk.

  Farther up the chain your decisions have broader impact, good or bad. Those kinds decisions have more value than decisions that have a much narrower range of effect.

  As what my industry calls an SME(subject matter expert), at most my decisions effect one or two systems at a time, while a leadership decision impacts 10 or 100 (or more) people’s focus/direction. This includes the risks - so their decisions have a much broader scope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to scoff at the idea of “leaders” until I experienced good leadership and learned the difference between lead and manage.

  I suspect a lot of people here think they mean the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leadership takes effort and focus.

  Having worked in orgs where everyone is expected to lead at different times, I can tell you that leading takes effort and focus - that’s effort and focus that’s not spent on your area of expertise.

  Good leaders spend all their effort on making a team work better - no different than a good coach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We often are.

  I’ve had great leaders, and they really can be a force multiplier, by allowing experts to focus on their area of expertise.

  Good leaders promote cohesiveness and keep a team pointed in the right direction - much like a team coach. They focus on strategy and smoothing the rough edges between players.

  Until you’ve experienced this it’s hard to see - and I say this as a rough-edged expert who’s experienced both excellent and mediocre leaders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also it’s important to clarify that leadership and management are different things.

  Good leaders keep a team working together, motivated, going in the right direction, good management ensures a team prioritizes the tasks involved in going that direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You still need leadership in any system.

  Eve your argument “seize the means of production” only happens with leadership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is leadership valued so much over expertise?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Expertise takes effort to train/learn, but we know how to do it.

  Leadership is much more difficult to teach, some would go so far as to say you can’t really teach it - it’s either innate in somone or they learned it through life.

  As a very technical person who values expertise, even I recognize that leadership is more valuable because good leadership is rare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most comedians have different drinks to drink? Most have water, Ricky usually has beer, some have whiskey and such. I get the lights make them thirst. But why not all water or something?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you like coke, and I like pepsi, or vice-versa?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most comedians have different drinks to drink? Most have water, Ricky usually has beer, some have whiskey and such. I get the lights make them thirst. But why not all water or something?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly.

  Ron White has a Scotch and a cigar - it’s part of his persona (and who knows I’d it was really scotch or just colored water?)

  Robin Williams always had just water on stage.

  Eddie Murphy talked for 1-2 hours with nothing, in a leather suit under 1970’s halogen lights

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever purchased or rented TV shows on Prime Video by season?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tented a movie for $2.99, knowing it was an ephemeral purchase. I look at it like going to the movies but for a lot less.

  If I were to “buy” a season, it would be so I could rip the stream and save it.

  I do have a couple subscriptions through Amazon, as distasteful as it is. But I’m also building my own video collection and get my own copies of stuff as much as I can.

  My local libraries have an astounding array of fairly new stuff and classics, in addition to good media from The Great Courses, and books on CD. So I check them out and rip them, converting video to much smaller MKV files since what’s on DVD isn’t high resolution anyway.

  I also download stuff from YouTube that I find interesting (Technology Connections, Animagrafs) and financially support those creators.