Nemo

@Nemo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Americans Feel Good About Their Job Security but Not Their Pay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m one of the ones happy with my pay but stressed about my job security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do people dance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also:

  • Weddings
  • School dances
  • Block Parties
  • House Parties
  • at home with romantic partner and family
  • work parties
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do people dance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are barn dances every Monday night at the Irish American Heritage Center here in Chicago. Usually Contras and some Waltzes, every so often a Square. The IAHC also hosts Ceili dances but that’s less accessible for beginners.

  I know there are Swing clubs and Salsa clubs throughout town as well.

• ⁨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 this conversation with my boss a couple months ago, and it turns out the only change I needed to make was eating and caffeinating before commuting. I was being grumpy and gruff in that period before we opened to the public when my only interaction was with my coworkers, and it was mostly because I was waiting to get to work to eat and drink my morning tea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you die, what do you want to be done with you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “This is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you die, what do you want to be done with you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  pack my ashes into a cannonball and shot me over Lake Michigan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you're the kind of person not to burn bridges when leaving a toxic job or toxic coworkers, why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone talks to everyone. I don’t need a viper at my back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would social events be better if phones didn't have data?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more that we’d enjoy it more if everyone put theirs away, but since we can’t ensure coöperation there’s no reason not to also defect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options does one have when they reach the end of a car lease but cannot find a good deal at the time of it's end?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Use public transit and bicycles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sanders? Probably.

  Someone else? Depends on their policies and what you mean by “liberals”. If you mean general center-left / Democrat base types, probably they vote for the DNC nominee. If you mean people devoted to Enlightenment Liberalism, it depends on how authoritarian the the candidate is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What good thing just happened in your life?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started a new job I really like, and got offered a promotion at the old job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are fax machines still used by medical systems?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the eyes of the law, a fax is a secure way to send personal information. An email, even an encrypted one, is not. We need to fix the law, but lawmakers as a rule do not understand technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I fart all the time when I'm trying to sleep?!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As you relax, so do your sphincter muscles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time a Republican Oresident left office with a good economy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t answer that, but I can tell you that lemmy lets you edit post titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are disabled people and the elderly going to survive another Trump presidency?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When Clinton lost we didn’t have a hostile Supreme Court.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For my fellow Americans, when is enough enough?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been more than enough for a while now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, you’re looking at these results and seeing too little democracy in play?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It… does, though? I always go to my profile and check how my comments are doing before I sign off. Numbers go bigger make dopamine go brrrr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do different ethnicities/races look different?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Without the evolutionary pressure to maintain high melanin levels in the skin, and possibly also from interbreeding with Neanderthaal, European people’s got paler.

  Someone mutated to have eyes that were paler and more sensitive to light, which was useful during the longer nights further north, and that mutation spread.

  So it’s a bit of both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you officially pronounce a possessive like: " Travis' "?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Chicago, forever and always. Go Maroons!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you officially pronounce a possessive like: " Travis' "?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, so, first: It should also be written “Travis’s”.

  Only if it is plural do you put the possessive apostrophe last.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  why not yoghurt? or mai ploy? or a roux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I never have mayonnaise in my fridge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever had to confront a female mob at the workplace?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Confront? No.

  Serve margaritas to? Yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of a long-distance friendship?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, not everyone forms connections based on shared activities; and even those who do, some activities can be done long-distance (debating philosophy, sharing music recommendations).

  For a lot of us, we don’t stop caring about someone we don’t see long-term (though I’m told this is a neurodivergent trait to some degree) so even a friend we haven’t seen in years we can talk to and have it feel “fresh”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Fuck” isn’t profane, it’s vulgar. “Goddamn” is profane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's stops one from scavenging the best parts of old phones and putting them into a new one?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Form factor, mostly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teamwork⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  better with dinosaurs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not all the same people: Roman Catholics, for example, tend to oppose both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Working Class Waitress Could Decide Who Controls Congress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t “working class waitress” a tautology?