HalfSalesman
@HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
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- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 7 hours ago:
Most millennials graduated shortly after the housing crisis of 2008. Its a major reason so many of us are unusually much much poorer than the average Gen Xer (who are only somewhat poorer compared to Boomers).
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 8 hours ago:
The conversation continuing is fun. If I say something that makes them uncomfortable that tends to end the conversation. Depending on how extreme/strange the belief might even open some hostility.
That said, I agree with your sentiment anyway. Its probably worth the risk just to avoid the more “sad but safe” questions like work, weather, etc.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 8 hours ago:
Yeah, I’m the opposite. The handful of times I’ve asked when desperate for a conversation, the results were at best mixed for the conversation and most times I feel worse.
If they’re ‘above’ me that just results in me feeling small. If they’re below me it makes me feel uncomfortable or even rude, even if it was just a question. The only time it works out is if they’re roughly “on par” with me and that’s only like a third of the time the case. Not great odds.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 9 hours ago:
Say something shocking, open up about an out-of-left field belief you hold.
I’ve done that before and even in “oddball” places and its a bit of a dice roll on how positive of an effect it’ll have on the conversation. But then I have a lot of… extreme views.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 9 hours ago:
Its a flawed yet broadly applicable conversation starter that is statistically less depressing than talking about the weather (climate change) or politics these days.
There are better options, but its not typically about cynical “How useful are you?” probing unless its like a business coded social event.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 9 hours ago:
I feel like that’d be a reason to not ask. But I suppose it depends on the person.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 9 hours ago:
On one hand, I get it. I don’t really want to talk about work either. But on the other hand I can’t entirely blame some people if they work a lot that might be something that’s been floating around in their head or they’re just curious.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games is facing a complaint in the EU that uses nonsense logic to accuse the movement's founder of failing to disclose financial contributions he never made: 'It's not paranoia if they re 9 hours ago:
This is just someone in the industry trying to buy time and throw gunk in the works of the initiative. Unless they are aggressively retarded they knew this challenge would fail, they just want to buy time.
- Comment on Anon is rude at work 3 days ago:
I’m torn, most of the time I’d agree and I do befriend co-workers myself most of the time. But I do kind of resent the fact that often people at work often come to dislike you if you aren’t spending time with them during breaks/lunch.
Thing is, I know why: gossip/shit-talking about you is easier when you aren’t around. I know co-workers will start shit talking other employees (or even the manager in a personal way rather than general work complaint way) and even when I myself dislike the co-worker/manager they’re shit-talking myself I tend to soft-defend them because of the discomfort over talking shit about other people.
- Comment on *Record scratch* freeze frame 1 week ago:
Imagine being scooped up by that thing, never even likely knowing previously what being that high up in the air meant. Being in awe of what you are seeing as you are carried to your doom, only to be horrifically and painfully eaten alive.
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 week ago:
I’ve never sent a dick pic and I don’t know if my anxiety/insecurity would allow me to send one even if it was requested.
I can’t fathom just anonymously sending one without being asked for it.
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 week ago:
I want my foreskin back.
- Comment on Dik Piks 1 week ago:
I say this as someone who loves sluts: Slut is technically a slur.
- Comment on What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon describes experience 2 weeks ago:
Similar story of my own: Had a middle school computer teacher who told us to use “File -> Open URL” on Internet Explorer/Netscape (can’t remember which) which opened a prompt window with a text field to enter in a URL. And I pointed out that you can just use the address bar and do the same thing and she angrily told me that I had to do it the proper way. While I thought she wasn’t looking, I used the address bar anyway. She apparently had been trying to spy if I disobeyed, caught me, and told me that I failed the assignment (I did not even know I was being graded).
Another different computer teacher at my high school I had seemed to more or less admit she had no idea what she was doing (she originally taught a different subject, she seemed legitimately nervous/insecure about losing her job) though she tried by just reading the text book to us verbatim for a few days. Eventually, she gave up and the students just taught each other computer stuff in her class, then when they ran out of things to teach each other they just played Age of Empires all class and the she let us.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like Asmon but my understanding is he supports SKG. Am I wrong?
Also I saw a clip of SomeOrdinaryGamers, which indicated that he tempered his support with a dash of (wrong) both-sides-ism. But it was only a clip.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 3 weeks ago:
In my experience, when a man complains about their ‘men’ problems to anyone online they’re given the treatment grueling_spool is describing by both men and women.
But in more “insulated” face to face conversations its pretty varied/mixed. I suspect this is mostly an “all to all” online conversation effect. There are people who are absolutely ruthless online towards men complaining about problems men specifically face and they will find complaining men and mock them.