pwnicholson
@pwnicholson@lemmy.world
Marketer. Photographer. Husband & dad. Lego, Minecraft, & Preds hockey fan. Movie buff, but pls #NoSpoilers!
Also @pwnicholson@mastodon.online Also @pwnicholson@pixelfed.social Also @pwnicholson.bsky.social Used to be @pwnicholson on IG, FB, TW, etc
- Comment on How do I actually find a job that isn't retail? 1 week ago:
What are your interests and skills? Like someone else said, who you know matters more than anything else, but depending on what your interests and skills are, you can go out of your way to connect with people in that space.
And get used to finding ways of talking about yourself as a good fit for that kind of job. Brag on yourself.
Also, volunteering is a great way to build up a resume of skills in areas where you have no prior experience. There are jobs at food banks, homeless shelters, etc., but there are also often places like art museums and zoos that need volunteers. Basically, any non-profit you can think of probably runs largely on volunteers. Sometimes it’s in a warehouse or doing trash cleanup, but often they’re in office tasks like filing, misc office work, answering customer service emails, etc., that would be a great stepping stone to getting paid to do those things somewhere.
- Comment on What was the first thing or video or music or whatever that was so called "pirated" from the internet? How did it happen and was the end user happy? 1 week ago:
You’re actually kinda right. My understanding is the very first jpg image was an unlicensed scan of a playboy centerfold (cropped to exclude the nudity). It was copied and redistributed all over the place, before the internet even existed and it wasn’t licensed, but was copyrighted.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 2 weeks ago:
I think boot (you could also say bonnet/hood, lift/elevator, etc), pants, and knob all do have the same meaning between US and UK, they just have additional slang meanings, but those slang meanings are based on their real meanings.
Chips and Biscuit are better examples of having truly different meaning IMO.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 weeks ago:
That’s basically what Amazon did. They did it even worse: they sold many things below cost. They ran their entire business burning cash for a long time (surviving off money raised from investors and later from going public and selling stock), driving other book stores out of business. Once they had enough market share and less competition, they negotiated tougher deals with punishers for lower costs and raised their prices to be at least a little profitable (they still sell some things loss-leader and many things at cost).
- Comment on Do rich people get addicted to drugs? 5 weeks ago:
I grew up a middle class kid in the rich suburbs. That’s so realistic and common it’s practically cliche.
The only realistic part is the rich parents not making the kid out when it really came down to it. You don’t hear about it more because Rich parents get their kids out of drug issues and DUIs like the rest of us run errands on a Tuesday night.
- Comment on What to do with an old iPhone that I no longer use? 1 month ago:
Backmarket will buy it from you and resell it. Just bought an iPhone 13 for my 16 year old. Lots of life left in “old” devices
- Comment on Is "depress" ever used in this context? 3 months ago:
Sure. Absolutely correct for pressing down on a button or something similar
For other stuff, it’s not common, but I think it’s technically correct.
Depending on what it is, “compress” might be a better term than “depress”, though.
- Comment on I ditched Netflix Premium for 4K Blu-ray, and I might never go back 3 months ago:
Agreed. But the comparison was 4k vs 4k
- Comment on I ditched Netflix Premium for 4K Blu-ray, and I might never go back 3 months ago:
Yeah, aside from the fact that a lot of content is only available on streaming platforms, it’s hardly a comparison budget wise. Even with regular Blu-ready discs, but especially for 4k UHDs, for the equivalent of Netflix premium you can buy maybe 10-12 discs a year, tops. And that’s if you’re not terribly picky. Some of the better titles are $35-40+. I guess if you only watch one movie a month on Netflix it’s equivalent, but that’s not how most people use the service.
I’m a big proponent of physical media. I don’t like the takeover of renting media and over-compressed streaming.
But it’s not like they’re even close to equivalents.
- Comment on Introverts of our era spend their time on their computers, but what did introverts do before? Like when literacy rates were lower (pre-1950s)? Or before the printing press? 5 months ago:
Spending the day working in a field, in a factory, etc you don’t do a lot of socializing.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 5 months ago:
Some of the DVD/Blu-ray versions of “GalaxyQuest” have the entire movie dubbed into the weird screeching alien language as a quirky bonus feature.
- Comment on US flight attendants push to be paid when planes aren’t in the air: ‘Most of our passengers have no idea’ 7 months ago:
Do we only pay servers if they’re waiting tables?
Yes, actually. In the USA anyway. They’re paid very low wages and that’s a very common form of wage theft that goes unchecked and unreported: restaurants required servers to do pre-shift work at their normal sub-minimum-wage pay with no hope of making tips during that time. It’s illegal but happens all the time
- Comment on Why is land/sky so cleanly split between mammals/birds? 8 months ago:
Lots of great answers already, but one interesting thing that seems to be like it would keep more mammals from evolving to fly:
extra weight of the young during gestation.
Egg-laying birds get to breed but don’t carry around that extra weight for nearly as long or as heavy. That’s got to be a huge evolutionary advantage, right?
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 8 months ago:
Eh, you’re probably right, but I also know a lot of people from various Houston burbs and they all lean right/MAGA, so I’ve got some observational bias going on too
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 8 months ago:
Houston is as well considering it’s massive but full of mostly sprawled suburbs and tons of oil people or friends/relatives of oil people.
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 8 months ago:
It is in the context of a guy singing. The next line is something like “if it was a dog that had howled thus, he’d have shot him”
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 8 months ago:
“Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hail souls from mens’ bodies?” – Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
(Guitar/lute strings used to be made from sheep gut, for anyone confused)
- Comment on Anon loves The Lord of the Rings 9 months ago:
Half-life.
- Comment on I just saw that Mick Jagger is attending Jeff Bezos's wedding when did he sell out? 9 months ago:
The guys who came along years later and were (more) openly about drugs and sex (instead of semi-covertly about it)
- Comment on I just saw that Mick Jagger is attending Jeff Bezos's wedding when did he sell out? 9 months ago:
The Rolling Stones were always the spoiled rich kids pretending to be tough. The Beatles were poor kids pretending to be posh. There are whole books written about that dynamic.
- Comment on Knight Rider (4K) - 22nd July. 9 months ago:
I’ll really be curious to see what this is like. So many shows with modest budgets did NOT do makeup and set design with anything like 4k or HD in mind. Or even VHS. They were made for lo-res 80s broadcast TV. I know some of the Star Trek remasters are pretty awful about that.
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Producers Have A Genius Plan To Keep The Show Alive (Kind Of) 10 months ago:
That would be hilarious. Wolf Hall but technically in the Star Trek universe. 10 normal episodes per season, but once it twice a time traveler randomly shows up.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
That’s an argument against an executive branch of government, not an argument against a constitutional monarchy.
You could have (and many countries do) a parliamentary system like you describe without having a monarch figurehead.
The question I think OP is asking is: why have the monarch figurehead.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 year ago:
Titanic was a hit, but in retrospect, horribly overrated and IMHO absolutely cliche, disrespectful, sacrilegious garbage.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 year ago:
Ah, I’ve even seen that one! Good call
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 year ago:
Agree he had a very high hit rate, and personal life aside, I enjoy most of his movies.
But MI:2 and MI:3 are mediocre at best, and Knight and Day and Rock of Ages were massive flops (I haven’t seen either, but i they look horrible). Cocktail earned him a razzie nomination.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 year ago:
Saving Private Ryan is at least “very good” if not one of the greatest war movies of all time.
And The Burbs is classic 80s screwball comedy simmered to perfection (even if it isn’t a 'high art ’ genre)
- Comment on Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal? 1 year ago:
Ah yes. “If you’re rich, nothing is illegal, there’s just a fee”
That’s definitely a thing, but something different.
- Comment on Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal? 1 year ago:
I don’t think you get what I was saying. I’m not debating the definition of the word “fee.”
I’m saying that in most states in the USA, there’s often a fee for many things that can get gotten completely for free if you prove your income is low enough.
So I guess you could say you “pay a fee” of the extra time and hassle to prove your low income. But for something like a state ID, for instance, you can get one absolutely free (no money paid) if your income is low enough.
- Comment on Why did/do sites such as the pyramids in Egypt or the Roman colosseum end up in an abandoned state, only to be "rediscovered" later? 1 year ago:
One small point to correct/adjust is the idea that these sites were “ignored.”
The pyramids have been a tourist attraction for thousands of years. The Romans talked about visiting them. I’m guessing there was never a time when they weren’t of interest to people in the area. Same for something like the Colosseum, Parthenon, or Pantheon. They might not have always prioritized preservation, but they certainly didn’t forget they existed.