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- Comment on McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr. 1 week ago:
McConnell has been “pushing back” on Trump since 2016. You can see how good he is at it
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
To this point, not being direct and being overly concerned with what other people think could even be directly driving OP’s issue
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- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
My grandfather was a landlord back in the 80s-90s. He owned several small homes and duplexes in a big city, and he did all the maintenance and upkeep on them himself. I saw him work his ass off, how would his tenants paying him rent not be compensating him for his labor?
- Comment on feral naming 2 weeks ago:
Their family name is Armadillidae (arm-a-dill-a-dee) which also just sounds silly
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 2 weeks ago:
The ability and willingness to laugh at yourself is evidence of self-awareness and intelligence.
Completely missing the point, and thinking someone laughing at themselves is instead “complaining” or “whining,” is evidence of a lack of self-awareness and intelligence.
- Comment on to those of you not very talkative / introverted, how do you survive the constant pressure and misunderstandings from coworkers and future employers to open up, talk more? 2 weeks ago:
I had a conversation with management and they told me I don’t open up, which is fair and true and told me to be more empathetic with my coworkers.
Except that I can’t and I don’t care about most of them. As said, I just want to work and go home. I consider most of them childish, gossipy and immature. Of course I didn’t tell management this.
It seems possible to me you’ve missed the message delivered by your supervisor. You plainly state here that you despise your coworkers and your supervisor is saying you need to approach your coworkers with more empathy. To me, that sounds not like you’re just trying to keep to yourself, but that you’re probably acting like an asshole somehow in giving the cold shoulder to everyone.
I think you’re really struggling with “black and white” thinking here, to think that you would have to debate yourself and pretend to have a bright and bubbly disposition in order to be pleasant and respectful toward your coworkers. You don’t have to be mean and disdainful in order to maintain your personal boundaries at work. Your supervisor might have been on to something, because developing empathy with your coworkers can help you let go of your disdain for them and will probably help you function more effectively in your role.
I worked in healthcare a long time, and the field is certainly dominated by extroverts, but I’ve known plenty introverts in all hospital roles who got along just fine. Healthcare is not a job you can do by yourself. You are always going to have to function as part of a team. If you hate other people so much that you’re just going to move from job to job hating everyone you work with, and you feel like you have no other option than to do this, maybe consider speaking with a therapist to try to develop new ways of relating to the world instead of just being miserable.
- Comment on SHINY 2 weeks ago:
Evolution can only build off what came before, and in this case, all the parts were already there, they just needed to be fine tuned. Beetles across the world manipulate wavelengths of light to iridesce using variable reflective layers of chitin
- Comment on SHINY 2 weeks ago:
So sad all the Beatles were killed
- Comment on SHINY 2 weeks ago:
They have a reflective silver metallic appearance which is achieved through thin film interference within layers of chitin. These layers of the chitin coating are chirped (in layers of differing thicknesses), forming a complex multilayer as each layer decreases in depth; as the thickness changes, so too does the optical path-length. Each chirped layer is tuned to a different wavelength of light. The multilayer found on C. limbata reflects close to 97% of light across the visible wavelength range.
Nature is insane
- Comment on Cooking advice 3 weeks ago:
I’ve heard they’re best when cooked from frozen
- Comment on I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas? 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like your question is not actually about what to get him for Christmas, but instead about how to cope with the situation and maintain a relationship with your son
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 4 weeks ago:
The main driver of the “I’ll never be able to buy a house” narrative are mortgage interest rates, which are transient. When rates go back down, people will suddenly be able to afford many more options. But yeah, every now and then I look at how much house I could buy in Michigan…
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 4 weeks ago:
I was thinking Ohio, but sure
- Comment on So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence. 4 weeks ago:
Have you tried looking for a home somewhere undesirable
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Second time I got to post this today, unfortunately because it’s almost ceased being satire.
- Comment on 53% Of Americans Approve Of Trump’s 2nd Term Plans: Pew Research 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what percent of that 53% know anything at all about his actual plans lmao
This statistic is meaningless. Let’s see how public opinion stands after the awful people he’s surrounded himself with start doing things.
Another reminder that Lemmy is an echo chamber
And yet here you are
- Comment on Colorado to Pay $1.5 Million to Christian Web Designer After Losing Supreme Court Case 4 weeks ago:
Colorado is paying her attorney’s fees, not her.
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 4 weeks ago:
Mortgage interest rates are very high at the moment, and many people “feel” like that’s never going to change, but it very likely will, significantly increasing what they’ll be able to afford. Home prices in my city have been falling for a couple years since they went out of control bonkers during the pandemic, and I don’t think they’ve hit bottom yet.
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 4 weeks ago:
Check out much of the Midwest. Check out Detroit.
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 4 weeks ago:
I have a battery powered mower and utility has done a pretty good job of incorporating renewables into their mix
- Comment on They're called leaves for a reason. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t view this as a “pick up the leaves or not” false choice. I leave the leaves in some areas and mow over/pick them up in others. They’re literally free mulch and compost
- Comment on Frog's Gift 4 weeks ago:
It’s an even more fundamental conservative tactic. What they do is find a single example of something they think they can easily deride and hold it up as representative of that entire thing. Think welfare, immigration, criminal justice, reproductive rights, gender identity, and much more. Right wing media is full of single cases they beat into their viewerships’ minds while ignoring all other cases
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 weeks ago:
It’s never this cut and dry in real life though. People often misinterpret others’ actions as flirting when they’re just being friendly. For some people, a woman smiling and making eye contact is flirting. It’s not on the person who’s being friendly “to make it extremely clear from the get go” that they aren’t interested in going out with you.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand his coworker 5 weeks ago:
A lot of
womenpeople just liketheattentionthey get from being attractive. - Comment on Whelp 1 month ago:
What about either source isn’t neutral? I don’t think you’re approaching this in good faith
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- Comment on Whelp 1 month ago:
If you think solving climate change requires a shower dt to renewable energy and don’t see the difference between US Democratic and Republican Admins, you’re not approaching this from a place of rationality
- Comment on Whelp 1 month ago:
I think this post is about climate change, which is absolutely a global problem
- Comment on In a Record, All but Two U.S. States Are in Drought | Little rain has fallen since Hurricane Helene dropped huge amounts across the Southeast. 1 month ago:
This was the worst October ever here in Texas. The high was above 90 almost every day, and not a single drop of rain for the entire month, when it’s usually our fall rainy season.