agamemnonymous
@agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Priority seating indeed. 17 hours ago:
That’s definitely midgnant
- Comment on These shipping tape things 2 days ago:
Am you brainwashed for wearing clothes in public?
- Comment on Hmmm... 2 days ago:
Fish looks like he does not approve of those two weirdos edging in on his domain
- Comment on These shipping tape things 2 days ago:
Is it brainwashing, or adapting to circumvent actual censorship? People say “unalive” because “kill” will hide your content from the algorithm, if it doesn’t remove it entirely.
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 1 week ago:
Exposure therapy. I worked as a server for years specifically to build the social skills I lacked. People want to chit-chat about mundane nonsense, that’s the norm. We’re the unusual ones for not being interested. It’s trite, pointless, and boring. But most people like it, and don’t like people who can’t at least fake it.
Being able to make small talk is socially as important as basic hygiene. No one wants to associate with someone who looks and smells like they crawled out of a storm drain, and no one wants to associate with someone who ignores or belittles their attempts at small talk.
Purely socially, I say let the boring people filter themselves out of your life. Professionally, you need to have rapport with your coworkers, you are part of a team. If you’re going to work in a field with an implicit social element, you are going to have to learn to navigate that social element. Otherwise you’re going to continue to have these conflicts.
That means finding at least a subset of typical conversational topics to engage with in a friendly way. That means masking with some degree of warmth and compassion. That means refreshing the issue from everyone else being banal, to you being unable to integrate with banal people. That’s most people.
It’ll be weird, and you’ll feel fake or inefficient, but unless you want to shift careers to one with minimal interaction with other people, it’s a skill you are going to need to cultivate if you want any kind of success or progression. That’s just the way it is. Adapt or perish.
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 1 week ago:
Eh, A cups on a Pixar mom are better than the best breasts in the world on a stick figure. They’re just kinda… there? Sure they look nice, but they don’t really summon a force in me.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 1 week ago:
I’ve been on a few cruises in my life, and my favorite part is always going out to the darkest party of the deck in the middle of the night when the ships out in open waters, to just lie there and look at the stars.
- Comment on Discuss: 1 week ago:
What goes hup must come puh.
- Comment on Piss Post 2 weeks ago:
Your body took a screenshot
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 2 weeks ago:
Focus on what you can change. Try not to let what you can’t bring you down too much.
- Comment on akshully it's "epheboiatrist" 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 2 weeks ago:
At least he’s tried to make critical thinking techniques more well known and accessible. That’s more interesting to me than, I dunno, some linguistics PhD’s fantasy slop.
It was an enjoyable read, and your strawman characterization isn’t really accurate at all, except when lampooning one of Rowling’s poorly written characters. Most of the book was Harry facing the consequences of smugly oversimplifying conflicts.
- Comment on Idibiks Oiho 2 weeks ago:
Frequently, if not usually, renovating sufficiently old buildings is more expensive and difficult than new construction. Building codes and safety standards change a lot over the years.
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 2 weeks ago:
Eh, did you finish it? That’s certainly how it starts, but that’s not really where it winds up.
- Comment on Cheesefull 2 weeks ago:
That’ll be $9.95
- Comment on Cheesefull 2 weeks ago:
It’s almost certainly just cheese with a little sodium citrate. It’s what helps keep melted cheese from splitting.
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 2 weeks ago:
OP specified that, due to mental haze in their 20s related to their health issues, they mentally feel closer to 20.
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 2 weeks ago:
There’s a pretty decent audiobook in YouTube if you’re into that
- Comment on Anon has learned enough 2 weeks ago:
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality? I think it clocks in at like half the length of the entire original series.
- Comment on Shaming Crayfish 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t do it with anybody younger than my daughter, not little kids, gotta be big
- Comment on Exclusive leak from the secret files 3 weeks ago:
Every time I see Africa rotated ~90° counterclockwise, the first few bars of the Jurassic Park theme play in my head
- Comment on The struggle 3 weeks ago:
Fake for internet points. If it was real, the rug would be all scrunched up around the fingertips.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
I like weird music, this is the first I’m hearing them.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for this gift
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 3 weeks ago:
There are about 2000 working hours a year if you’re full time, so $700 works out to 35¢ an hour. If your union only gets you a 50¢/hr raise, it parts for itself.
- Comment on How much of a persons body is needed to survive? 3 weeks ago:
It certainly looks nervous
- Comment on Sifl & Olly - United States of Whatever 3 weeks ago:
Yeah whatever
- Comment on I would also like some drain bamage 3 weeks ago:
More like Sister Sage
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 3 weeks ago:
I lived just outside Nashville for a couple years as a kid. If there are two landmarks I remember, they’re the Batman building and the sign for Jack’s BBQ
